Sentences with phrase «of life passage»

Not exact matches

The policy intent of the LUF was given life in law in 2009 through the passage of the Alberta Land Stewardship Act, SA 2009, c A26.8 (ALSA).

After three months in crisis care, Katie moved into Rights of Passage, Covenant House's transitional living program.

After only a few months of working and saving, Matthew moved from our crisis shelter to Rights of Passage, Covenant House's transitional living program.

It's not the original intent of the passage, though again, it does seem reasonable to me that all of us should live with an awareness of how we might be placing unnecessary stumbling blocks in our brothers» and sisters» lives.

When we recognize our place in an immensity of light - years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual... The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.»

Reminds me of the passage that John Eldredge gives to the changes in his life... «Don't ask yourself what the world needs.

It is like saying there is not smoke with out fire, like sighting a droppings and trail of foot prints you would realize that a camel and passenger passed the desert then the seeing of the greatness of the mountains and passages through them, the seas great waves the skies it helps to realize the existence of super power «GOD» above all... any way it is like the verses written in the Quran «GOD «Allah speaking about how he had created earth to man by the mountains, seas and rain from skies which brings life to earth..

But I can not overlook one passage, which concerns me too, as an Israeli living near the fault - line of this «war of civilizations».

Pence gave a winsome defense of the sanctity of life, drawing on the scriptural passage in which God speaks of knowing us before we were formed in the womb.

It connotes the passage of time; the fleeting moments that make up our memories at the end of our lives; but most importantly, it conveys just how meaningless any gifts would be compared to the gift the Polziecs gave the Gerstens.

In «With Her» Milosz speaks of hearing a passage from Scripture during Mass at St. Mary Magdalen in Berkeley: «A reading this Sunday from the Book of Wisdom / About how God has not made death / And does not rejoice in the annihilation of the living.»

If we discovered a lost matriarchal society tomorrow, I think the proper interpretation of the passage for them would be to have wives be head of their husbands the way Christ is head of the church, because that is the situation (the not ideal situation of power and control and hierarchy and distinction) that they have to live with (at that moment).

Are you aware that the passage of Exodus 22:18 «Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live» was originally, in the Hebrew text» «Thou shalt not suffer a poisoner of wells to live».

The passage of a person from death to life is up to HIm, and until He does a supernatural work we should keep our pearls for those who God has already raised and bring the Gospel to those who have yet to make that passage.

Nor should it have been a surprise that the Court, having successfully claimed for itself the authority to write a «living Constitution» based on penumbras and emanations, should assume the roles of National Metaphysician and National Nanny (as it did in Casey, with its famous «mystery of life» passage and its hectoring injunction to a fractious populace to fall into line behind the Court's abortion jurisprudence).

But this passage is not talking about how to receive eternal life, but is instead talking about how God rescued us from our enslavement to the sin of death and showed us a new way of life in Jesus Christ.

The Gospel passage itself ends with the affirmation that John has written his Gospel «that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.»

The scriptures are rich with stories of new or renewed life, In the passages for this Sunday, we encounter several people who were «as good as dead» — one was dead — but with whom God was not yet finished.

Interestingly, the passage from Luke is also a favorite of charismatic Christians, those who emphasize the activity of the Holy Spirit in the lives of individuals.

«The passage of time hasn't changed the fact that abortion is a serious, lethal violation of fundamental human rights,» Congressman Smith told more than 600,000 people gathered in Washington DC for the 2014 March for Life.

In this passage, Paul takes his readers from the depths of sin in Ephesians 2:1 to the heights of God's righteous plan for our lives from before the foundations of the world in Ephesians 2:10.

When we judge that a man is «past his prime,» does that statement carry a larger significance about the way we understand the relative dignity of life's passages?

Even official publications like the Priest, Pastor and Leader of the Parish Community make no reference to priestly loving and the Directory on the Ministry and Life of Priests simply re-presents and comments briefly on the passages mentioned above from Presbyterorum ordinis and Pastores dabo vobis (cf. Directory on the Life and Ministry of Priest nn.

If I could leave you with one final passage of Scripture, my little sisters, here is it: «So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life — your sleeping, eating, going - to - work and walking - around life — and place it before God as an offering.

The Servant of God Pope John Paul II wrote a letter to the priests of the world, starting with a passage from St. John: «For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.»

But as important as it is to keep the original culture and audience of the epistles in mind, these passages can still speak to us today in powerful, life - changing ways.

Following on the idea that faith is meritorious, and therefore impossible for an unregenerate person to do, Calvinists nevertheless recognize that there are scores of passages all over the New Testament which call unbelievers to believe in Jesus for eternal life.

«At the center of biblical faith,» says Walter Brueggemann in a sermon on this passage, «is a command from God that curbs economic transactions by an act of communal sanity that restores everyone to proper place in the economy, because life in the community of faith does not consist of getting more but in sharing well.»

What passages are there in Scripture which teach that a person must believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus in order to receive everlasting life?

and Ezekiel in one of his most splendid passages deliberately played on the word's double meaning as he pictured the spiritual resuscitation of his dead nation: «Thus saith the Lord Yahweh: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.»

John Calvin managed to invert the lesson of the passage almost entirely: The young ruler, he claimed, had asked an inept question, supposing that one could secure eternal life through works, and thus Christ's metaphor was meant as an illustration of the impossibility of anyone fulfilling the requirements of the law, and of the need therefore for a total reliance upon faith.

The passage from nomadic to agricultural life, and so out into the commercialized town life of Palestine, inevitably encouraged a growing individualism.

Though I have been a student of Scripture all my l life, I have always had difficulty with the violent passages in the Bible, and how to reconcile them with the loving portrait of Jesus in the Gospels.

Rites of passage arise around various transition points in the life cycle that, if unaddressed, may lead to crises for individuals and the group of which they are a part.

In many Pauline passages one suspects the influence of the world in which as a boy Saul of Tarsus had lived and through which Paul the Apostle traveled widely as a man.

Our interpretation of the statement that «Life is a passage from physical order to pure mental originality» (PR 164) is that the initiatives within the dominant nexus of occasions are canalized in the supportive nexus by way of threads of inheritance, so that personal mentality may combine originality of response with an adequate order upon which it depends.

bootyfunk your and idiot because that passage in mathew 10 its a parrable he is trying to get people to realize that God needs to be the most important thing your life because with him you would not be period so to say that Jesus Christ the son of God is promoting volience is ridiculous, it tares me up that people like you take bit's and peices of the bible and make sound like you want it to if your going to read the Christian hand book then read it all do nt take stuff out of contence just to suit your life style your truly and always be a devoute Christian

Thereby the living power of the transcendent and omnipotent Judge is transposed in human experience into the dead body of Satan, as Milton's passage through the death of selfhood unveils the ground of an isolated selfhood as that chasm separating the creature from the Creator, thus making possible the reversal or dissolution of natural virtue and self - righteousness in the immediate and present actualization of the self - annihilation of God.

When our conclusions regarding regarding troubling passages in the NT contradict the clear, positive statements out of the mouth of Jesus in John 3:16, 18, 5:24, and elsewhere, regarding eternal life being a simple matter of faith we need to keep seeking until our understanding of those passages agrees with that He said.

By relating what is written in the Song of Songs to other passages from the Old Testament, and especially to the words of Jesus in the Gospel of John, Gregory is able to interpret the phrase «living water» as life flowing from the divine Word of God like water to refresh the soul.

The moment of passage into the spiritual realm is not something that can be observed with research in the fields of physics and chemistry — although we can nevertheless discern, through experimental research, a series of very valuable signs of what is specifically human life.

If the FPCJG of Rom 8:29 - 30 is an unbreakable chain of salvation that occurs for ALL of God's covenant people, then the «calling» of that passage can not possibly be the explicit NT gospel call of I Corinthians 15:3 - 4, because clearly not ALL of God's elect were given the privilege of hearing and believing the explicit NT gospel call during their natural lives (Job 9:2, I Kings 14:13, Ephesians 3:5, Colossians 1:26, and Jeremiah 31:15 - 17 + Matthew 2:16 - 18).

Though Genesis 12:1 - 3 does not contain the words «elect» or «chosen,» this passage is often cited as a defense of God's Unconditional Election of some individuals for eternal life.

In the case of the two things you were told, it looks like someone quoted some poorly - misunderstood Bible passages at you, and then misapplied them to your life so that you lived in fear.

Even though we may revisit the different kinds of questions at different times in our lives, I see these stages as delineating different passages of my spiritual journey.

The entire passage reads, «In spite of the many kinds of love, which in Greek are designated as philia (friendship), eros (aspiration toward value), and epithymia (desire), in addition to agape, which is the creation of the Spirit, there is one point of identity in all these qualities of love, which justifies the translation of them all by «love»; and that identity is the «urge toward the reunion of the separated,» which is the inner dynamics of life.

Billions of Christians would reject that piece of Biblical law just as billions of Muslims are able to see the 50 peace - promoting passages of the Qur «an for every 1 violent one as indicative of their religious duties in life being peaceful ones.

«When we recognize our place in an immensity of light ‐ years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual.»

There is definitely a warning for all people who read this passage in Matthew about the unforgivable sin, and we must not simply say that because we do not live in the days of Jesus that people today can not commit the unforgivable sin.

Having been trained and taught in dispensational schools, and preaching / teaching that way for most of my ministerial life, I have a whole parade of passages going through my head....