Sentences with phrase «of human brokenness»

Christian counseling for teens utilizes a two - pronged approach toward healing, encompassing both a spiritual core component and focusing on the symptoms of human brokenness.

However, it is «Protestant» in its profound declaration that Christianity can be proclaimed only in symbols of human brokenness, and in its awareness of the radical tension between nature and grace.

All shared the excruciating pain of human brokenness, the irrevocable fracture in a relationship that had once brought joy and fulfillment.

They had experienced the deepening darkness of human brokenness.

This could happen, Luther said, because of the realized mystery of sinners» participation in the cross of Jesus Christ, which was itself the participation of the self - revealing God in the cross of human brokenness, the «state of the art» of human living.

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If fallenness can be attributed to the arrival of white settlers, and the «creation» has its own integrity rather than intrinsic brokenness, redemption becomes a matter of human effort and re-education.

We all do things, big and small, that hurt our fellow human beings; and we are all in need of a savior to heal the brokenness from which this pain flows.

How does sin play into human brokenness and wrong ways of treating others?

A theologian who laments the brokenness of the world may be persuaded that, in the face of human bondage to sin, there is little point in engaging theology in the struggle toward the reign of God.

The capacity to speak, symbolized by the physical tongue, is the primary way through which we human beings express ourselves, and nothing reveals more deeply the biblical insight into the sinfulness and brokenness of human life than our verbal means of self - expression.

In this article, I would like to draw inspiration from the theology of the body to consider human brokenness in family life.

The death - of - God myth symbolically articulates, from within the Christian perspective which is my religious framework, my own inability any longer to affirm anything more in the way of grace and love than the human faces and voices and bodies around me, those persons with whom I enter into relationships of various kinds and intensities and patterns of communion and brokenness.

Most of his works of this time are searing representations of human lust, cruelty, pride and brokenness.

As in faith Israel sees the broken human community (both God - man, Gen. 3, and man - man, Gen. 4) in the Genesis myths, so in faith Israel surely sees the brokenness of her own community in Saul (God - man) and David (man - man) Of course, in Israel the king is never merely an individuaof her own community in Saul (God - man) and David (man - man) Of course, in Israel the king is never merely an individuaOf course, in Israel the king is never merely an individual.

Behind the cold, familiar (perhaps too familiar) statistics of emotional illness are the warm bodies and live souls of human beings suffering the hell of brokenness.

Out of the brokenness and despair which now grips this institution will burst a new University of Evansville more sensitive to human needs, more resolute in purpose than ever before.