Sentences with phrase «of shalom»

The Christ as the Lamb of peace as well as the vision of Shalom in Isaiah 11 and Ezekiel 37 and Revelations 21 and 22 gives a powerful dynamics of peace in the ecumenical movement.

There are many promises of shalom in the Hebrew Bible, too many for us to examine them all.

So Yahweh, the giver of shalom, did one more thing.

I will make a covenant of shalom with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will bless them and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary among them forevermore.

The author focuses upon further promises of shalom in the earlier writings.

Jesus» extension of shalom beyond the borders of Israel was quiet and at times ambiguous, but the church heard the risen Lord say, «Go therefore and make disciples of all nations» (Matt.

But as expressions of the shalom for which we were created and to which we are to witness, these visions are what people of faith live out even when the world refuses such visions.

The very meaning of shalom suggests that there is no shalom without an effort.

Several aspects of the shalom of creation are particularly important for the issues involved in nuclear - age peacemaking.

It is also from the prophets that we receive the great gift of the visionary images of shalom toward which God is moving us: swords into plowshares, peaceable kingdoms, joy and peace such that the trees clap their hands, new covenants written on the heart.

Sadly, most of these passages have to do with betrayal by friends, which constitutes a terrible breach of shalom.

That seems to have been the basic understanding of the Hebrew people.5 They justified war as necessary to establish secure borders within which shalom could be nurtured and practiced, but the prophets dare to suggest an extension of shalom beyond the borders.

For other visions of the prince of shalom in Isaiah, see 32:1 - 8 and 33:17 22.8

It would be characterized by many of the marks of shalom with which we are familiar:

In effect, the vocation of faithful community is as witness to the possibilities of shalom in the world and to the source of such shalom possibilities in God.

Moments before the 40 - something stood, I had shared about the biblical concept of shalom.

David may not build the temple, for he is a man of war; Solomon shall build it, for he is a man of shalom (1 Chron.

Yet they know that Yahweh can also be the Withdrawer of shalom.

In the great poetic debate in Job, Eliphaz includes safety from wild animals as part of shalom.

A survey of all the occurrences of shalom bears him out.

The familiar agricultural description of shalom makes this vision earthy, material, far removed from «pie in the sky by and by.»

Liberation, return, safety, healing, cleansing, new hearts, justice, freedom from hunger, freedom from depredations by wild animals, rule by David — the whole picture of shalom is here.

How widely do the foundational principles of shalom apply?

It is to be a place of shalom where salvation flows through all aspects of life.

And I reminded myself that this is part of the work of resurrection, the making things right, the covenantal partnership of shalom, the work Jesus has invited us into alongside of him: these moments of quiet #MeToo far from social media and attention of celebrities, the ones uncelebrated and unacknowledged.

It is a refusal to participate in that nuclear idolatry that presumes to usurp the sovereignty of the God of shalom» (pp. 34 - 35) But does another idol lurk behind this call for peace?

In the midst of the reckoning unfolding in our culture, I want now to quietly say to those of us who are engaged in the work of shalom, we can miss our own hearts at times.

Most of our best - intentioned efforts seemed more like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic than like taking part in God's work of gradual bringing of Shalom.

Or I decide to save the world and so march into the social justice battles ready to establish a bit of shalom for someone else first.

In reflection on the promise in Revelation that on the day of shalom «there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away,» Wolterstorff writes: «I shall try to keep the wound from healing, in recognition of our living still in the old order of things.

Founders of new ventures or ministries are simply joining God in his renewal of all things, the realization of his Shalom.

For example, Isaiah's portrait of shalom is when people «beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.»

Cf. Jürgen Moltmann, The Church in the Power of the Spirit (New York: Harper & Row, 1977), pp. 269 - 270: «The weekly Sabbath is not merely ritual and symbol but an anticipation of the shalom, even if it is on the «exceptional day.»

The very root of shalom has to do with shalem, to pay.

We are people of shalom.

But God calls his / her people to be signs of Shalom, the vanguard of God's kingdom, a community of cultural change.

The character of that order was the harmony and wholeness of shalom.

As W. Sibley Towner of Union Theological Seminary in Virginia has stated, «Far from being an extraordinary ideal, shalom is the norm which is to be contrasted to the extraordinary out - of - orderness of warfare, disease, and the like» («Tribulations and Peace: The Fate of Shalom in Jewish Apocalyptic,» Horizons in Biblical Theology, vol.

A full understanding of shalom begins with creation.

In the Old Testament the opposite of shalom is not war but chaos.

In their indictment of war as waged in the time of the monarchy, the prophets charged that Israel had abandoned trust in Yahweh for the sake of trust in its own powers, and had abandoned Yahweh's goal of shalom for all in favor of the pursuit of prosperity and power for a few.

God's commitment is to the covenant of shalom without reservation or limits.

Maybe digital media could empower religious groups to become producers of shalom.

According to Hanson, the true antonym of shalom is chaos; war is an antonym because it is the quintessence of chaos.

«3 He goes on to point out three dimensions of shalom.

Jesus had championed the same instructions as the primary defense of shalom.

In the old tradition of shalom for Israel only, the apostles asked him, «Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?»