Sentences with phrase «obedience to such»

Dealing with disobedient kids is a very common problem which most of the parents face these days and it becomes a very tough task to teach discipline and obedience to such kids.

The effective motive of obedience to such a command was the desire to be righteous rather than the concern for the other as another.

No, obedience to such laws are for peace and harmony in society and culture as we live life with other human beings.

Not exact matches

Second, there needs to be some mechanism, such as the cost - shared financing programs established by Tom Kent and Lester Pearson with the support of Tommy Douglas, to guarantee on - going federal investment conditional on provincial obedience to national principles around minimum standards.

These ideas are echoed in the «prosperity gospel» — characterized by the belief that God wants to bless His people, that He wants to give us tangible rewards such as riches and success and that we claim these rewards by exercising our faith in obedience.

Or is living in «reasonable» comfort under such conditions a cop - out, with the only faithful response being obedience to the radical claims of the Sermon on the Mount?

All of man's rebellion begins with the phrase, «I will do such and such,» whereas obedience to God begins with the phrase, «Thy will be done.»

This rules out the prayers of the churches of Christendom who have prayed in behalf of their particular nation during wartime, such as when German Catholic bishops issued a pastoral letter in September 1939 at the outbreak of WWII that said: «In this decisive hour we admonish our Catholic soldiers to do their duty in obedience to the Fuehrer (Hitler) and to be ready to sacrifice their whole individuality.

«nothing should be... done or said that would make them carry their yoke unwillingly: but rather prudence and charity... should be shown in such a way that slaves... should offer obedience to their masters.»

It forces recognition of the fact that Jesus» teaching did not center around such ideas as the infinite worth of personality, the cultivation of the inner life, the development of man toward an ideal; that Jesus spoke rather of the coming Kingdom of God, which was to be God's gift, not man's achievement, of man's decision for or against the Kingdom, and of the divine demand for obedience.

If you can not find another verse, and if you can't change the definition of «ONE», then you need to step into obedience and make sure that you never go to any other mediator, such as Mary, or any saint, or an Angel, in prayer.

In such a case, it is possible to live with a faithful recognition that reception of Holy Communion is not possible, and quiet humble obedience to God's plan.

This sort of god «lovable and understandable to women» may be unattractive to many men because he can not make absolute claims on us for worship, obedience, and authority, or if he makes such claims, we might be justified in challenging him and even charging the claim to his wicked or unfinished side.

I would further add that, similar to the self - preservation concerns of the dutiful Nazi executioners, the apologetics defending such atrocities is subject to a similar coercive context in that the choice of obedience or empathy is flanked by promises of reward and threats of punishment.

It does not give adequate attention to communitarian concerns, such as obedience to lawful authority.

Furthermore, it's hard to believe such obedience is anything but the product of coercion given it is flanked on one side by a promise of reward and on the other by a threat of punishment.

In such situations, we can be confident that when the world ignores or overlooks us, or in many cases, treats us badly for our obedience to God, God sees us and He will reward us in eternity.

The most loving thing a parent can do is to let its child go freely and in a timely manner, rather than to hang on, demanding obeisance, attention, obedience and such throughout that child's life.

A «theocentric Christology,» is to him desirable for it gives the rightful priority to God.23 The priority of the Mystery over particular manifestations may be identified with the priority of God over Jesus in Biblical theology where Christ appears functionally subservient to God through the unity of will, purpose and obedience.24 Such a Christ then becomes a model of Christian unity of will, purpose and obedience of God.

Such love is the first evidence of obedience to the Gospel, the necessary expression of our submission to Christ's Lordship, and a potent engine of world mission.»

«6 Such a God is the author, or the excuse for «the alien power of the moral imperative» which is «addressed to man from a beyond» and imprisons him «by an obedience to an external will or authority.

It may be that kerygmatic allusions to Jesus» humility, meekness, gentleness, love, forgiveness and obedience derive from historical memory of Jesus; but the «historical value» which such material may have is far from its kerygmatic meaning, which is more accurately stated by Bultmann, in language actually intended to state the significance of the pre-existence in the karygma: «That Jesus, the historical person, did this service for us, and that he did it not out of personal sympathy and loveableness, but rather by God acting in him, in that God established his love for us through Jesus dying for us sinners (Rom.

The child's obedience is not to be regarded as payment for benefits received from the parents; such an interpretation is ruled out by the unconditional nature of the parents» commitment.

The way was already being prepared by God when He called to selfless obedience men of Israel such as Moses, Elijah, Hosea and Jeremiah.

We also recognize that God often doesn't see fit to remove sinful desires but manifests his life by empowering obedience in spite of the retention of such desires.

If his declaration precluded the enthusiastic patriotism of the old Prussian «union of throne and altar» or the mindless nationalism of the pro-Nazi «German Christians,» it was nonetheless susceptible to interpretation along classical Lutheran lines, in which the secular ruler is entitled to obedience in everything except matters of faith, which may be interpreted in such a way that they take up very little space indeed.

Beyond a question, this was the ideal cherished by a considerable group in Israel — such subservience for them was a mark of piety; it was obedience to the will of God.

Since the degree to which God's aims are incarnated depends upon the quality of creaturely response, it is not surprising that some process thinkers such as Norman Pittenger, Peter Hamilton, and Ronald Williams have taken Jesus» total obedience to God as the clue to the specialness of the Christ - event.27 This criterion, however, is entirely too general to describe the specific characteristics which ought to pertain to the Christ.

Such a concept is opaque, for it does not cohere with any exercise of «freedom» as we know it on earth, nor with that inner sense of joy in obedience to God as «loved Person» which we sense when we obey the voice of conscience.

And the dynamics of this delight will not bear too much scrutiny in terms of the truth of the gospel, the obedience to Christ, and other such properly elevated rubrics.

Here and there it may be, we can catch a glimpse of the wonderful order in nature, the regularity of the stars, scattered over the wide spaces of the universe yet obedient to one law; the order to be found even in the microscopic world, as also within visible things concerning which science has given such amazing information in recent years; the order in the construction of a flower or of an animal, from the flea to the whale, a noteworthy obedience to law even in the life of man.

One is entitled to use words such as absolute or complete in connection with trust and obedience in the teaching of Jesus.

Does this refer simply to families, such as something you might get from James Dobson at Focus on the Family, or it is figurative language for how John will call the children of Israel back into faithful obedience to God, in the same manner as their forefathers (cf. 1:16)?

The Bible, then, is united by its insistence that the decisive events of the past must be told in such a way that God addresses the reader and summons him to obedience within the community.

Similarly, while the mainstream Enlightenment (which privileged order, good behaviour and obedience) frequently sought harsh remedies for beggars, runaway slaves and other undesirables, Catholic religious houses could provide beacons of mercy and refuge, and moralists such as St Alphonsus Ligori sought to develop a theology which did real justice to the complexities of human life.

Such acts must be always be subject to the test of obedience, which is why Barmen exhorts its readers to «try the spirits whether they are of God.»

Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virg = inia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.

Whitehead's God does not claim obedience as the highest relational value of man to himself, nor does he claim passive worship to be such.

Yet such fulfillment could come only through obedience to the God whose moral demands had undergirded it at its best, not through the petty legalism into which it had fallen.

There are other indicators of religion as well, such as the desire to keep God happy with us through our obedience and the pressure to live by a set of rules and standards that keep us in good standing with others in our religious group.

Miracle accounts in general were not intended simply to relate the specifics of what happened, but to make it clear that God was at work here, intervening in worldly affairs in a special way, such that we should respond with faith and obedience.

It still needs to be explained why such ideas are not found with Jesus and why, on the contrary, with him the demand for obedience goes hand in hand with the proclaiming of the future age.

Obligation to obedience depended no longer upon content but upon formal authority; not what was commanded determined the will of the person acting, but the fact that such and such was commanded.

He sought after false accusations and unjust reprimands as opportunities of humility; and such was his obedience that, when a room - mate, having no more paper, asked him for a sheet, he did not feel free to give it to him without first obtaining the permission of the superior, who, as such, stood in the place of God, and transmitted his orders.

Such persons of God inspire me to follow after them, but they also impress upon me that the way of Christ is a discipline — of prayer, of regular worship and study of the Scriptures, of constant willing after obedience to God.

The use of such expressions as «a private matter» and «between God and me» suggests that his Catholicism, however sincere, has been considerably attenuated by Canada's civil religion, which, following Jean - Jacques Rousseau's, will brook no dissent, particularly from those whose faith entails obedience to something beyond the socially - sanctioned quest for autonomy.

It is easy to see how satanically attractive such teaching could be; and it is easy to see how those who propagated it would take to themselves a conscious superiority, contemptuous of those who still allowed themselves to be shackled and constricted by obedience to the moral law or to any other kind of law.

Believing in God, believing God loves creation and believing that there is no way that an individual such as myself is central or necessary is a good basis for obedience to most Christian religious beliefs.

In a society where the «magnificent» discovery of and «obedience to the truth» of the physical realm is so influential it is crucial that we have the means to interpret it non-reductively and in such a manner that it points to the non-physical, spiritual realities of divine and human mind, thatis God and the soul.

This book differs from Two Thousand Kisses a Day, Whispers Through Time, and The Gentle Parent: Positive, Practical, Effective Discipline in that it takes a Christian approach to parenting as L.R. takes on big names in the Christian child - training sect such as Dr. James Dobson, Tedd Tripp, Gary Ezzo, and Michael Pearl, breaking down their doctrine and reexamining such issues as spanking, instant obedience, submission, free will, and more in light of the original Hebrew and Greek texts of the scriptures.