Sentences with phrase «of gracious living»

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At a certain point in the gratitude practice, the essence of gracious living becomes inherent and abundant, so much so, that the only way to proceed is by sharing and giving back.

Not exact matches

For me as a Calvinist, that suggests that rather than spending a lot of time defending the doctrine of total depravity or of election I would do best to share my deeply felt sense of my own unworthiness, and to point people to the way in which I have experienced God's gracious workings in my life.

We value gracious flexibility, not only in terms of how we think, believe and live, but also in how we function as a community.

Al - Mulk In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful Blessed be He in Whose hands is Dominion: and He over all things Hath Power --(1) He Who created Death and Life, that He may try which of you is best in deed: and He is the Exalted in Might, Oft - Forgiving --(2) He Who created the seven heavens one above another; no want of proportion wilt thou see in the Creation of (Allah) Most Gracious.

The building of the local hospital, the ambulance that got me there before I died from blood loss, the image of God in the paramedics that made them give their lives to rescuing people they've never met, the wisdom of the surgeon, the intelligence and skill of the thousands of individuals whose discoveries have made operating theatres and anaesthesia possible — all of these are gracious gifts of a loving God, whose mercy enables healings to take place across the world that would, in any other generation, be considered quite miraculous.

Instead work hard at your job, take care of aging parents, volunteer at a soup kitchen, donate to charities and the poor and continue to follow the proper rules of living as gracious and good human beings.

Now that we know something of these other religious communities and their quality of the lives they engender, we can not suppose that a gracious God would punish their saints for failure to join the Christian church.

The biblical answer to this problem is to first of all recognize that we have the gracious and loving forgiveness of God, but then to admit to God that we have actually messed up our lives by failing to live according to His instructions, and then seeking to take steps and make changes which allow us to live according to God's will.

Finally, play can keep that gracious «ground - base of joy» alive in all of us, and so prepare us for, and help sustain us within, our ongoing life of faith.

It is rather that in the incarnation of the Word of God humanity has been taken into unity with God; human life has been sanctified; and a way has been opened for all men in every century and in all circumstances to enter into their right relationship to the Creator (the relationship of sons to their Father) through God's gracious approach to them in Christ and the response of trust and obedience which God in Christ evokes from them.

Instead work hard at your job, take care of aging parents, volunteer at a soup kitchen, donate to charities and the poor and continue to follow the proper rules of your religion or any good rules of living as gracious and good human beings

It is difficult to know how to categorize the suffering of these infants whose deaths come in the wake of God's gracious intervention of the life of Jesus.

This has all sorts of implications for how we think and act and live, yet is much more vulnerable, more gracious and grateful than what our religions generally deliver.

The scriptural witness of the prophecies should be enough as a basis for faith; Mary did not find the Lord through her quest for his body, but only through answering his personal call to her; she must not cling to his bodily presence, for his life is now on another plane, with the Father who is the Father of all those who follow Jesus because he is his Father who has raised him from the dead; Thomas is offered sight and touch, as a gracious concession to his lack of faith; but he does not believe because of this, but because the risen Lord addresses him; and the happiness of those who have faith without sight is greater.

Prayer for the Day: «O God, whose glory it is always to have mercy: Be gracious to all who have gone astray from your ways, and bring them again with penitent hearts and steadfast faith to embrace and hold fast the unchangeable truth of your Word, Jesus Christ your Son; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever.

In interviews neither party will address the other and each has moved on musically - Kowalczyk going solo and the other members of Live joining with two members of Candlebox to form The Gracious Few.

But for those who believe in God's gracious plan for their life — even in the midst of pain and confusion, there is always hope.

What the New Testament does do is to portray the gracious message of an open access to that same God whose depth of accepting love is seen on a cross and whose presence in the life of that crucified one is designed to call forth from us the same awe, reverence, and obedience to those rules of life through which we find the fullness of life, the depth of love, and the meaning of our own humanity.

We may prepare for our next section, then, by affirming that, for Christian faith, by the prevenient Action of God a human life was taken and made into the instrument for the gracious divine operation; in more traditional idiom, the eternal Word, Self - Expression of very God, was clothed with a true humanity, crowning the rest of God's work in and for God's human children.

The content of revelation is a promise which, because it has never yet been completely fulfilled, can never be fixed or finished, but remains incalculable and to some extent mysteriously incomprehensible And the reception of this revelation means that we experience a gracious, extravagant, and surprising future dawning at the frontiers of our own lives here and now.

You swear you're never going to forget what it's like «in the trenches» with small children when you're in the midst of it but then you get just a few years out of that intense season of life and then a toddler shows up and you're all, «Oh, good gracious, I forgot how busy this season is!»

God speaks of his people living lives of gracious and generous giving, of prudent and wise decisions (something never very popular in our culture), our time and money and love, our lives, a sowing towards life.

These qualities and conditions, which constitute the materials and contexts with which and in which the exemplifications of relational power must fulfill their ambiguous destinies, run the gamut from triumphant breakthroughs to crippling regressions, from life - restoring laughter to life - denying despair, from the beauty of the gracious heart to the debasing cruelty of the small mind and smaller soul.

Instead work hard at your job, take care of aging parents, volunteer at a soup kitchen, donate to charities and the poor and continue to follow the commandments of your religion or any good rules of living as gracious and good human beings.

The very heart of the gospel is that the life and death of Jesus reveal the unconditional, gracious love of God.

I have found the vast majority of Jewish people I have engaged with over my life to be amazing and gracious people.

However, when such a reality moves from individual and community life to a nation as a whole, a number of engagements of the USA in the world arena are not perceived as benevolent and gracious.

Because of these acts we know him to be real, accessible, and infinitely gracious, and in that knowledge we find the promise of both the coming of his kingdom and the ultimate fulfillment of our own lives: «Through the tender mercy of our God, the dayspring from on high hath visited us, to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.»

They were living transcripts of how a gracious God dealt and deals with his erring and unfaithful children.

At the heart of this difficult doctrine is the proclamation that our lives and our deaths are in God's hand; we are loved of God not by our own merit but by God's gracious initiative toward us We need not spend our lives in good works in order to be saved but only in grateful response to being so loved.

It is gracious and true to give dignity to each other, to love each other through the mundane details of a life.

The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) regrets the ruling but «calls on evangelicals to be gracious and compassionate to those who do not share their views on marriage and to also advocate for liberty for all who desire to live out their faith.»

Christ is «being formed in us» as we enter fully into our humanity through the gracious action of God, who has broken through our old and estranged ways and established the foundations of the new life.

Learning to live a sober life, in a dignified and gracious way, was a gift I learned from the folks in AA (regardless of their spiritual or religious or agnostic / atheist bent).

O Lord Chief of the gods Who alone art exalted on earth and in Heaven,... O Merciful Gracious Father in Whose hands rests the life of the whole world, O Lord, Thy divinity is full of awe, like the far - off Heaven and the broad ocean O Creator of the land... begetter of gods and men who dost build dwellings and establish offerings... O mighty Leader whose deep inner being no god understands... O Father, begetter of all things, who lookest upon all living things... Who is exalted in Heaven?

Again, since Jesus was unmarried and was executed while still a young man, we are provided with no divine exemplar for the good marriage, for the successful coping with the problems of middle age, or for the gracious acceptance of the closing phases of earthly life.

But we can probably move toward a more gracious stance than we currently live, and seek to reveal some of God's grace to this world.

The survival of the church as the people of God depends on its incarnation of a gracious, living and forgiving God.

This means that no pastoral care can be complete which does not assume a form including a call to renewed discipleship to those capable of actively witnessing to the Kingdom of God in their own lives, as well as a call to affirm respectfully the incapacitated as themselves signs of God's gracious presence and identification with those deemed hopeless in the world's sight.