By conveying unconditional acceptance and empathy, the therapist provides the reassurance for the client that enables her or him to see the past, no matter how debilitating, as meaningful — leading to the present and the possibility
of newness of life — and a future pregnant with potentialities that otherwise might not have been envisioned.
This fact is written on every page of the Bible, and the Bible's great theme is God's loving concern for his sinning people and his gracious forgiveness of those who in penitence will turn to him
for newness of life.
If Christ died to this world, so have the members of His body; if He has risen
into newness of life, so have they (Rom.
Thenceforth, the church functions as the «leading shoot» of humanity, to use Teilhard s phrase, anticipating and promoting that unity with Christ and the resulting
newness of life which are God's will for all humanity.
Man is thus redeemed; the possibility of reconciliation has been opened to him; God through the sacrifice of his own Son has freed his creation from bondage and
offers newness of life to mankind.
What about those of us who in one way or another have been made «partakers of the divine nature» through Christ and have in him
found newness of life, security and joy in living, and the conviction that we are given worth or value through our intimate association with him?
This means that the same God who gave us life in the beginning
gives newness of life through Christ and builds us up in it through the Holy Spirit.
The good news of Jesus is not a mathematical equation, it is a
radical newness of life busting at the seems with the love and grace and truth of God.
By conveying unconditional acceptance and empathy, the therapist provides the reassurance for the client that enables her / him to see the past, no matter how debilitating, as meaningful, leading to the present and the possibility
of newness of life, and a future pregnant with potentialities that otherwise might not have been envisioned.
In this event they now saw the act of God inaugurating the «new covenant», through which His people entered
into newness of life.
The prayer of confession leads on to petition for cleansing and renewal, and a sense of God's forgiving mercy
brings newness of life and deeper commitment to his service.
Witness it: dying to the old life, raised in
the newness of life.
Yes, our flesh may still die, but this is a good thing, so that it can rise again to
newness of life in a glorified and perfect body.
a turning away from sin and walking / living in
a newness of life with a hevenly hope to be with god and see him one day.
It is not simply that we shall walk with him in
newness of life and be united with him in his resurrection (Rom.
We are those who have been baptized into the death of Christ so that we might walk in
the newness of life defined by his resurrection.
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, we went under together, and came out, laughing, in
another newness of life.
We are given a foretaste of that resurrection authority in this reading, a preview of
the newness of life that awaits the church of the risen Lord.
But real obedience, new risks for the name of Christ - that's part of the «
newness of life» the Bible calls us to (Romans 6:4).
It is also central to the practice of baptism by immersion — «buried with Him by baptism unto death, raised to walk in
newness of life.»
May we walk in
newness of Life.
«Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so that we might walk in
newness of life» (Rom.
To walk in
newness of life is to accept the call to warfare against this oppression.
They are strange new words given to us as means to make a strange new response appropriate to the strange new situation to which we have been opened: Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father that we might walk in
newness of life.
And the first matter for study is the meaning of resurrection in the case of the Lord in whom Christians find both the decisive disclosure of God and also the empowering from God which they say has brought to them «
newness of life».
Have mercy upon us, have mercy upon us, most merciful Father; for thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ's sake, forgive us all that is past; and grant that we may ever hereafter serve and please thee in
newness of life, to the honor and glory of thy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in
newness of life.
Paul could speak of Christians as being «buried therefore with [Christ] by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in
newness of life» (Rom.
In dying to the Law, and rising into
newness of life, Christ had made the decisive transition, on behalf of the whole people of God.
Those who are to be baptized into his death must learn to «walk in
newness of life» (Rom.
«Therefore we were buried with him through baptism into death so that even as Christ was resurrected from the dead through the glory of the Father, so let us walk in
the newness of life.»
In his account of baptism Paul asserts that we are buried with Christ in his death, and raised with him to
newness of life (Rom.
Phrases with «newness of life»