It wasn't about holiness.
Not exact matches
Holiness isn't
about sticking to a list of rules.
We talk
about holiness in the Church, but we don't talk
about the fact that there's a reason God wants us to be holy.
As Gary Thomas shares in his pivotal book Sacred Marriage, relationships are
about your
holiness,
not your happiness.
Judy didn't say much
about it, but she read us William Carlos Williams and showed us the
holiness in a red wheel barrow, glazed with rain.
What
about the triumph of
holiness that is proud to say: «Look
not upon our sins, but on the faith of your Church»?
This article is
about the moral cowardice of the Christain clergy, who are willing to preach sermons
about the
holiness of Capitalism (which is
NOT in the Bible) but who will not mention helping the poor (which is all over the Bibl
NOT in the Bible) but who will
not mention helping the poor (which is all over the Bibl
not mention helping the poor (which is all over the Bible).
They
not only challenge the consensus of several decades but also suggest the historical conditioning of
Holiness theology, raise questions
about the varieties of theologies in the New Testament, and focus issues
about the historical and theological relationships between
Holiness and Pentecostal traditions.
John, I will
not be silent
about my god, his
holiness the flying spaghetti monster, who can be worshiped at http://www.venganza.org/, only be can help to heal addiction.
Or what
about God's
holiness which is the really frightening thing,
not so much his wrath but how absolutely apart God's nature is from mine.
19 Sept Prime Minister to Pope Benedict: You have offered a message
not just to the Catholic Church but to each and every one of us of every faith and none..., the searching questions that you, your
Holiness, have posed to us
about our society... have really challenged the whole country to sit up and think.
The subtitle is a bit misleading — it's
not really
about «homemaking» or «women's work» (both phrases can make me a bit nervous)-- it's really for men and women and it's
about knowing the role — and the
holiness — of the daily work in our lives.
I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks
about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal
holiness and
not on external
holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the Law into one of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».
If this type of lay life is possible and actually lived out in the world, what exactly is different
about religious life, and why would anyone choose it over a lay life equally, if
not more, open to the possibility of
holiness?
You know what orders we gave you, by the help of Jesus Christ: it is the will of God that you should be holy, that you should abstain from sexual immorality and learn, each of you, to keep his body in
holiness and honor...
not to overreach his fellow - Christian or to invade his rights...
About family affection (within the Christian «family», the Church, he means) it is
not necessary for me to write to you.
The author of the Ephesians is
not talking
about some future horizon so much as the actual and present means for edifying, for «building up» the Church; so that she can preach the fullness of Christ's message of salvation and so serve the
holiness of its members.
Bob, to clear up, no I do
not have a hot button, I was responding to another's post
about a
holiness code, which I think is a crock to keep from doing the will of YHWH, and His law of righteousness, is what I was giving my opinion on.
Thus says Yahweh God: It is
not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am
about to act [in redemption], but for the sake of my holy name... I will vindicate the
holiness of my great name... which you have profaned....
If the person you are talking to seems to believe that they don't need to believe in Jesus because they are good enough people on their own, you might want to present some of the preparation truths
about the
holiness of God and our own human sinfulness.
Balmer's ambivalence
about evangelicalism and his deep sympathy for those in its orbit who did
not fully fit into it was evident in the next room,
about a
holiness camp meeting in St. Petersburg, Florida.
«But people do
not have to share a religious faith or agree with religion on everything to see the benefit of asking the searching questions that you, your
Holiness, have posed to us
about our society and how we treat ourselves and each other.»