Sentences with phrase «of messages of»

God wanted you to get this story full of messages of his love out.

The reader who desires a brief summary of the messages of Amos, Hosea, Micah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Second Isaiah will find it in my Toward Understanding the Bible, pp. 67 - 74, or The Sources of Western Morality, pp. 120 - 40.

Thanks for all of your messages of support and prayers.

This sense of God's lovingkindness and protecting care is the background of the way their history is told, of the messages of their prophets, and of the great poetry of devotion that we find in the Psalms.

At this time, I find that many people are willing and wanting to hear some of the messages of Jesus.

One of the messages of Holy Week is that sooner or later every disciple will betray Jesus.

But if the effects of his messages of inspiration were tallied in gold, he did indeed pass him at the grandstand.

Within this state, Paul teaches, Christians «try to persuade others» of the message of the gospel of Jesus.

Luther's mistrust of the message of James» i.e., that faith without validating works is dead (James 2)» has been inherited by and continues to hamstring Luther's spiritual offspring, who wrongly juxtapose grace and law, mercy and justice, love and holiness, indeed, the ethical standards of the Old and New Testaments.

Like those above, the right panel basically reminds me of the message of Jesus to those who * thought * they were in regardless of their actions.

Where was the fullness of the message of redemption for all of modern life?

So what are your impressions of the message of The King Jesus Gospel?

Most of us would no doubt say that the gospel is, first of all, Jesus» own proclamation of the Kingdom of God, the terms of admission into it and the conditions of its coming; and then that it is, in the second place, the apostolic proclamation of this message of salvation, with the added emphasis and fresh meaning given to it by the resurrection of Jesus and the continuing work of the holy Spirit in the church.

If, as some persons maintain, Christianity was a total transformation of the message of Jesus — a doctrine about Jesus rather than Jesus» own teaching — then it is of paramount importance to see how and why this transformation took place, or rather, first of all, whether the theory of transformation is true.

Dodd established the fact that the «setting in life» of the parables is the eschatological proclamation of Jesus, and he achieved a presentation of the message of the parables.

It is Jesus» proclamation of the Kingdom of God and the apostolic proclamation of this message of salvation with the added emphasis and fresh meaning given to it by the resurrection of Jesus and the continuing work of the holy Spirit in the church.

From my point of view Steve — you have completly missed the point of the message of Christ?

And he went on to intimate, although he did not say outright, that at least one reason for this hesitation and weakness is that the persons to whom such preaching is addressed are in no condition, intellectually or spiritually, to get the point of the message of the neo-orthodox preacher.

The central feature of the message of Jesus is, then, the challenge of the forgiveness of sins and the offer of the possibility of a new kind of relationship with God and with one's fellow man.

From Brian: Liberation Theology is often criticized as reframing the gospel as a social / political agenda at the expense of the message of forgiveness of sins through Jesus.

Though you may perceive us a simpletons or pleasure seeking compromisers, in truth you appear to lack an understanding of the message of Jesus at the most fundamental of levels.

Secondly, TRUE Muslims may be offended or saddened by Dove Outreach Center's actions, but here is a more realistic summation of their perspective: Yes, the Quran is the final revelation of the message of God to Mankind.

I always attributed this disconnect to my general frustrations with modern evangelicalism — that it's been hijacked by the Republican Party, that it's in a perpetual state of defensiveness and «wartime» posturing, that it has closed itself off to science and independent thought, that it has lost sight of the message of Jesus regarding the Kingdom of God, that it has become commercialized and shallow — all the things we «emergers» like to write books and articles about.

The effectiveness of the message of Christ is thus lost.

As any rock critic knows, the very notion of analyzing the stuff is a direct violation of the message of the music itself.

A second type is historical (sometimes called higher) criticism, which aims to provide a better understanding of the message of the Bible by viewing its different books from the standpoint of the period when they were written and the social setting, historical circumstances, and climate of thought in those times.

Perhaps if one can see the close analogy between a psychoanalytic interpretation of society and Paul's theology of culture, a new way toward an understanding of the message of the apostle may emerge.

Now the same story is being repeated against the Seal of Prophets of God and the Words of the Message of God which was this Prophet only miracle that God has sent him with if compared with the line of Prophets and messengers that came before him..!

The ability of Christianity to expose itself to critique and engage in self - refutation is, these theologians argued, the highest and purest expression of its message of love and human freedom.

In The Seduction of the Spirit, Harvey Cox echoes something of the message of Ecclesiastes when he writes:

The preaching and catechesis in the churches would have to accentuate more the justice dimension of the message of Jesus.

Since Christ never supported any such teaching, you must be a believer in the pastor that taught you that, more than a believer of the message of Christ.

So many Red Necks (your word) are ignorant of the Message of Jesus as found in the Four Gospels.

As the soil determines the outcome of the harvest, reception or rejection of the message of the Kingdom is determined by the kind of reception accorded to the received message in the first place.

’42 But this existential meaning of the message of political theology clearly does not require the development, alongside political theology, of another, oriented to the individual.

Marxsen touches upon this issue in The Significance of the Message of the Resurrection for Faith in Jesus Christ, pp. 32, 42 - 4.

If not, how may we adapt the intent of the message of personal relationship in a way that reflects feminine experience?

Although, this reminds me of the message of july 13 «Back to the Basics», where the blogger suggests that pain and sufering may be required for growth.

Christianity initially seized the minds and souls of men and women because of its message of liberation: from fear, from hatred, from sin.

’11 To those who understood the «Christian» meaning of this prophecy (and such other passages as were so used), the cross of Jesus ceased to be an «offence» and became part of the message of Easter joy.

To summarize, to literalize the apocalyptic passages in the New Testament, is to run counter to all we know of astronomy and the world of space; they are tied in with the then - current Jewish eschatology and Persian dualism which saw evil in command of creation; as commonly accepted, they encourage passivity about the evils of the present world; they emphasize only one side of the message of Jesus to the exclusion of essential elements; they are grounded at least in part on a misconstruction of biblical poetry and drama.

That the reality of this new way was an integral part of the message of Jesus is superbly put by Karl Holl in his comment on the distinctive Christian notion that «God stands particularly close to the sinner.

The great champions of the Social Gospel application of the message of Jesus and the prophets to the industrial, social, and economic problems of America were men who looked at those problems with aesthetic sensitivity.

By putting off the Kingdom of God until «the future millennial reign of Christ» we have divorced most of the message of Jesus from the Gospel of Jesus.

This reminds me of the message of Amos and Micah and other «minor» prophets — God wants our lives, not our rituals.

These parables of judgment enunciate a very important aspect of the message of Jesus and of Christian faith as a whole — namely the reality of judgment as well as mercy in the nature of God and the nature of the kingdom.

The fate of the Baptist may also be in preparation for him — but a political misconstruction of the message of the Baptist seems to have been much more readily possible than of the Gospel of Jesus.

«1 What theologians have to show if they want to be heard is the biblical view that the world is unintelligible apart from Christ.2 The theological hang - up on the problem of the Jesus of history and the Christ of faith is irrelevant for the ordinary man whose goal is the understanding of the message of Christ and which task is theology's very purpose.

A large part of the message of Jesus was the challenging of both Pharisaic and Gentile ideas of sin by a higher law.

Yet their psychological training tends to accent self - acceptance and to minimize sin, and this makes for an approach which subordinates a basic aspect of the message of Jesus — his call to penitence.