Sentences with phrase «of my adopted sons»

He also married women much older than him, he was ordered by God to marry the wife of adopted son Zaid ra.

Hence Paul, though in Judaism he had learned to call God Father, felt that because of Christ he could approach the Father in the spirit of an adopted son, not of a slave (Romans 8:15 - 17).

Even though I wasn't in their lives yet, two of my adopted sons were born significantly prematurely and I dealt with the consequences of their fragile start.

Akande said he has reasons to believe that all is not well with the President when he didn't see him last weekend at the wedding of his adopted son in Kaduna.

It's a very pleasant romantic comedy in which Woody discovers that the mother of his adopted son is a prostitute played by Mira Sorvino.

WHAT: When their family reunites for the weekend to celebrate the wedding of adopted son Alejandro (Ben Barnes), long - divorced couple Don (Robert De Niro) and Ellie (Diane Keaton) must pretend to still be married for the sake of Alejandro's ultraconservative biological mother, despite the fact that Don has since shacked up with Ellie's best friend, Bebe (Susan Sarandon).

In 1929, at the age of 70, Yamauchi retired, leaving his company in the charge of his adopted son - in - law Sekiryo Kaneda (who changed his name to Sekiryo Yamauchi).

Elizabeth and her husband have two beautiful daughters, and are currently in the process of adopting their son from China.

John D Pace, CRCM, Treasurer, is the parent of an adopted son with several mental health diagnoses, including (ARND) Alcohol - Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder.

I am in the process of adopting my son's little sister (who I only found out about a couple of months ago).

We'll also be sending 20 % of the proceeds to the Wooldridge family, who is also in the process of adopting their son from the same orphanage.

As the mother of an adopted son from Korea (who is now 16 years old: 0)....

Not exact matches

Oddo's father adopted the same mentality for the family business — each of his three sons needed their own company as part of the larger business.

Loki is the, for lack of a better word, emo adopted son of Odin and Thor's brother.

McDormand and her husband Joel Coen (of Coen Brothers fame), adopted their own son Pedro from Paraguay in 1995 when he was six months old.

«We know how important this is, but it doesn't help a lot of families,» said Brady, the father of two adopted sons.

He sent His son to die in our place so that through Him we might be adopted into the family of God.

God is not a tyrant, or spoilsport, but a loving Father, who adopts us as His OWN sons and daughters, that we might dwell with him and share in the inheritance of Jesus Christ.

When he married, I found his wife overwhelmingly attractive, so I disowned my adopted son, and he agreed to become no son of mine.

«I adopted the son of a friend and raised him as my own beloved child.

The way I always understood it was that if you take God's grace and love as a license to sin, then you might not be a son or daughter, you have deceived yourself in to thinking that you are one of his adopted children.

Though Israel began with the position of being the adopted son, they lost it through disobedience and rebellion.

Or sometimes, a father who had multiple children would adopt one of his younger children as his heir, thereby displacing the oldest son as the heir.

They have one adopted son and are in the process of adopting three more children.

When the Baptist was killed by Herod II, Jesus — in the Jewish tradition of the day — married Mary and adopted John son of John.

The promise of founding a great nation might have seemed odd to a childless man, and so Abram maximized his prospects by taking not only his barren wife Sarai but also his nephew Lot, the son of his deceased brother Haran, whom Abram had in effect adopted.

Under the guidance of the clergy and a group of radical agitators, bands of men were established, and they adopted the name «Sons of Liberty.»

But it is a person who is called the adopted son of Abba Father, the one who lives a Christ like life.

An interesting point to take is that Saturnalia, the god of the sun, was their god for Christmas celebration, and later turned «Worship the sun'to «worship the son», which would have occurred after they adopted Catholicism, and wanted to keep the traditions of their old religion by making parallels to the Bible (at least it sounds reasonable)

Applying this to the doctrine of the Trinity, Jüngel suggests that the Father, Son, and Spirit enhance their previously existing relationship to one another through the decision to give of themselves to their rational creatures: the Father through the gift of his Son to us, the Son through freely allowing himself to be given as such a gift, the Spirit in virtue of his activity as mediator, not just between the Father and the Son, but now likewise between the Father and his adopted sons and daughters (GGW 446 - 53, 505 - 14).

He only sees two kind of people: His sons and daughters, adopted by Him through repentance and applying the shed blood of His Son, and those who are NOT His.

This implies an «adoptionist Christology» — that is, that Jesus was a mortal man who after his faithful obedience to the cross was then designated (adopted) Son of God.

Instead of being engulfed by hatred and revengeful thoughts, however, Son forgave the shooter, petitioned for his release from the death penalty, and adopted him as his sSon forgave the shooter, petitioned for his release from the death penalty, and adopted him as his sonson.

Many people look at this term «to be adopted as his sons» and ask «But don't we become children of God when we are born again?

In our words and in our living witness we must proclaim him as Messiah, the one for whom and in whom all things find their meaning and purpose; as Saviour and Redeemer, whose mission is to unite and reconcile wayward humanity with our heavenly Father; as the Son in whom each one of us is adopted as a child of our heavenly Father and heir with him to the communion of the Blessed Trinity.

But if the father didn't like the oldest son, and he liked a younger son of his wife, or even a son of one of the slave women, the father could adopt one of his own sons as his heir, thereby disinheriting the eldest son.

[2] Rather, He predestined, He decided beforehand, not that some would receive eternal life and others be condemned to eternal death, but that those who placed faith in Jesus Christ would be adopted as God's sons — would be eternally secure, would make it finally to heaven, and would be conformed to the image of His Son.

It would be good to see it adopted at pro-life prayer - vigils and services «Begotten of His Love Divine / Before Creation's dawn / Let God's own Son our hearts incline / To cherish the unborn.»

And when you do a study of what it means to be adopted as his sons, we learn that it is a future event called glorification where we receive new bodies that are completely free of sin and all of sin's effects.

It was even a common practice for a father to adopt the son of some other family as his heir.

In God the Son made flesh, we are adopted as true children of God.

Her second husband, Errol Elshtain, whom she married in 1966, adopted the three girls and together they had a son of their own.

It's the same impulse that moved her and her husband to adopt Bobby, the son of her retarded daughter, Sheri.

This is the view that Jesus was a human being who, either at birth or at baptism, was chosen for the role of messiah, or «adopted» as God's Son.

In his Son and through him, he invites men to become, in the Holy Spirit, his adopted children and thus heirs of his blessed life.

As the adopted son of Joseph, he is a descendant of David and Abraham.

Ephesians again uses the exact formula of the Lord's own words: «Before the foundation of the world He chose us, chose us in Christ, that we should be holy and blameless before Him and to live through love in His presence; determining that we should become His adopted sons through Jesus Christ.»

This status as adopted sons of God conferred upon them all the power and privilege that came with being part of the divine family, which meant that the Caesars had the divine right to rule over the Roman Empire.

Mohan Seevaratnam, who adopted his son at two months old, told Premier how Christians should approach this issue of vulnerable children.

When a comet was later visible on July nights, Octavius, the adopted son and heir of Julius Caesar, promoted the idea that it was a sign that the divine Caesar was on his way to heaven.