Sentences with phrase «more than the gospels»

He himself does not accept it, any more than the gospels ascribed to Peter, Thomas, Matthias, and others, or the Acts of Andrew and John.

The repentance you require and make evidence of «true» faith, is nothing more than another gospel, and the Apostle Paul warns us about those in Galatians.

Not exact matches

This means that no matter how often your PR team is out there sharing the gospel or the CEO is on television, Inc. magazine or TechCrunch talking about your company, nothing is more effective than the voice of your employees.

As part of my own continual searching, I find myself with more appreciation of the Gospel than I've had in years.

The prospertiy gospel — sounds more like the American dream than the gospel of Jesus Christ does it not?

They obviously believe in the gospel according to feminism more than in the gospel of Christ.

If one focuses on hell as key in the gospel then it can bend one's final reactions to many things as more cold - blooded than warm.

But most of all, we should expect more from ourselves than to sink to the narrative of victimhood and vengeance while ignoring the Gospel that has the power to set us all free from the cycle of anger and oppression.

There are more contradictions in your bible including the gospels, than Bobby Henderson, could fit into the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the modern day equivalent to the jesus» myth.

Billy Graham has preached to tens of millions of people face - to - face, with some estimates saying more than two billion people in total have heard the Gospel through his minstry.

Despite the reliance on the gospel the directors state that the process of healing is much more than «praying the prayer» and seeking instant healing from all difficulties.

This series on «practical wisdom,» which coincides with the release of my newest book, Wide Awake, reminds me that for our community here in Los Angeles, the Gospel has become so much more than this.

Actually, «Aquahealer», we know that some of the gospels were in written form within no more than 20 years of the crucifixion and resurrection because they are MENTIONED in the writings of Jewish leaders who pronounced anathema upon anyone who so much as dared to READ THEM!

In this statement, the prologue to the Gospel of John, Gadamer discovered «an idea that is not Greek and does more justice [than Greek ideas] to the being of language.»

Even at 14, having grown up in the church you certainly know more about the gospel than someone not of the faith.

As Todd Brenneman argues in his recent book, Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism, sentimentality may be a defining characteristic of religious life for many Americans, and so most readers in the dominant Evangelical culture, outside a few hip and urban churches, are more likely to encounter the treacly poetry of Ruth Bell Graham than the spiritually searing work of R. S. Thomas or T. S. Eliot.

I do know that if I followed the guidelines of one liturgical commission, suggesting that I greet each penitent at the church doors with an open Gospel book and then lead a procession to a reconciliation room which looks more like an occasion of sin than a shrine for its absolution, the number of confessions in the middle of the metropolis where I serve would be severely reduced.

I, for one, was a person who used to think that the gospel was nothing more than «believe in Jesus for eternal life.»

The mass marketing of the Gospel isn't over, but it's going to be people driven more than market driven.

Background About two years ago, I published an article called The Gospel is More than «Faith Alone in Christ Alone» in the Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society.

Without the truths of the death and resurrection of Jesus, there is no gospel, but the gospel is way more than a message about justification and how to get eternal life.

So I ask, because I have never heard someone (you were around GES much more than I) who claimed that this statement under consideration, and this statement alone is the gospel.

The gospel is much broader and more far - reaching than that, involving truths and ideas which affect all areas of life.

There were more than four Gospel writing apostles too, but only four were chosen, and even those had to be edited for consistency.

Nevertheless, biblical prosperity (far more accurate term than «prosperity gospel») is with merit and present in the Scripture.

They ought to blast the sick behavior of clerics, they ought to blast the fact that they have lost their moral authority, because they are more concerned in advancing a Marxist agenda, rather than the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Jesus» original disciples likely never thought of him as anything more than a great rabbi, and some might have thought him a good rallying point for a revolt, they could have even whispered that he was anointed by God, but the idea of his being divine only seems to enter into the gospels around the time many Greek educated folks had converted, bringing their own views of what a «son of God» means into the faith.

Churches that aren't growing may still be faithful witnesses to the gospel, maybe even more faithful than others.

I argued that the gospel is way more than such a pared down message.

Lutheran theology's antinomian tendency makes it perhaps more vulnerable than the other Reformation traditions in spite of the countervailing forces of its sociology and its doctrinal tradition, although here and there an older methodology, which understands that the Gospel does not negate the commandments, lives side by side with neo-Lutheranism and makes possible at least a tentative no to the likes of the task force.

It is much more difficult to risk the self - interest of our family members, especially the ones who do not share our faith commitment, than it is to risk our own self - interest for the sake of the Gospel.

The Gospel is more than enough — of course it is!

The Lucan text is addressed to a more cultivated public than the other synoptic gospels; the Johannine Gospel, too, is a highly intellectual text, combining the spiritual, symbolic, and factual.

Two of my favorite books include Being White: Finding our Place in a Multi-Ethnic World by Paula Harris and Doug Schaupp, and More Than Equals: Racial Healing for the Sake of the Gospel by Spencer Perkins and Chris Rice.

During Epiphany, the whisper in Bethlehem becomes a shout heard round the world and no Gospel makes the announcement more clearly than Matthew.

D. Martyn Lloyd - Jones (1899 - 1981)[in an excerpt from Romans: The New Man, An Exposition of Chapter 6, Banner of Truth, 1972] said: There is no better test as to whether a man is really preaching the New Testament gospel of salvation than this, that some people might misunderstand it and misinterpret it to mean that it really amounts to this, that because you are saved by grace alone it does not matter at all what you do; you can go on sinning as much as you like because it will redound all the more to the glory of grace.

Since the gospel is about way more than just receiving eternal life but is also about how God's people are to live their lives in this world, then the goal of living out the gospel is not primarily to rescue people from hell so they can go to heaven when they die.

Or, as an old monk of Mount Athos once said to me, summing up what he believed he had learned from more than forty years of meditation on the gospels, «He is not what we would make him.»

A highly valid argument coming from a socialist; but today it is gospel truth for a great many Christians, indeed for the best and most serious Christians — those who think of Christianity as something more than words and kind sentiments.

I believe that your article, «The Gospel Is More Than «Faith Alone In Christ Alone,»» was excellent and it even helped me to «connect the dots» in some of my study on the subject.

There are differences among them also, but the Fourth Gospel differs from all three much more than they differ among themselves.

But it is wise to recall that the Christ of the gospels has always been — and will always remain — far more disturbing, uncanny, and scandalously contrary a figure than we usually like to admit.

Faith in the Gospel, i.e. the coming and death of Christ, glorifies God and expresses His worthiness more than the hollow hosannas of enthusiasms.

The upshot of the pope's remarks is that the death penalty is «per se contrary to the Gospel» and it was «dictated by a mentality more legalistic than Christian.»

I also agree that the gospel of Christ is so much more important than the second ammendment.

But the value of the book lies in the interpretation of Jesus» teaching as a whole, and this interpretation becomes more rather than less convincing if we ascribe to Jesus himself more of the Gospel content than Professor Bultmann is ready to do.

After all, Jesus spoke about the kingdom more than anything else in the gospels, so it obviously has huge importance.

He's supposed to have said a lot more than what we have in the gospels so why don't we have access to all that?

«Show them that your ways give more life than the ways of the world,» the supplication says, but to what extent do we labor that the ways of the gospel» the Beatitudes, to be more exact» are the path we lead our children toward?

There is, perhaps, no place at which these issues are more sharply raised than consideration of the gospel of the Resurrection.