Sentences with phrase «of real grace»

The most absurd, the most laughable, the most narrow forms of religious culture can nevertheless be — or so Keillor's voice is able to convince us — effective channels of real grace.

It is a sign to be exercised by hard faithfulness, by the proclamation of real grace to real sinners, not the redefinition of sin or any other humanly concocted good work.

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As the Grace Hopper Celebration approaches, it's a good time for the small group of leaders across the tech industry to pause and evaluate if they are doing enough (and doing it systematically) to effect real change.

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They are ones we should be aggressively pursuing with Christ in our hearts, so that the love and grace of Jesus being real and here on earth right now, can not be ignored by the people who may be on the fence with who Jesus is and IF he is, and especially not by the unbelievers who happen to walk through the doors.

I'm now on the journey toward real truth... glad to be shed of that legalistic cloak and now clothed instead in grace and love (although that's a difficult robe to wear at times, too).

Real courage is full of grace.

Then the true Emperor of the Universe totally wiped out this 7 - 10 split with real grace and dignity, man.

Yes, he can intellectually understand the concept of the Gospel, but it's the emotional distance that he feels from his own terrible past and grace found in Christ that provide the film's real tension.

Call me cheesy and all, but those songs have me on my knees grateful of His grace to me causing me to tell God how much my love for Him is real and not fake.

And as Cheever's confession to Hersey makes clear, the real stress lies more on the human choice between darkness and light than on the sovereignty of God's grace — the divine goodness which must redeem not only our grosser sins but our noblest aspirations as well.

justification brings forgiveness for Wesley, but the real point is the therapeutic work of grace in restoring the ability to love in regeneration and sanctification.

Its sad that religion is the gospel of many churchs today rather than a real relationship with Christ based on his grace rather than works.Just as cains offering wasnt acceptable to the Lord its the same for churchs today the Lord is not pleased by our efforts he does nt need our efforts they do not build Gods kingdom nor do mans programmes..

If God is violent, the cross make no sense, and there is no real basis for forgiveness, grace, or mercy because God has been «pain off» with the blood of Jesus.

Job thought he had a good case to argue before God but the heart of it is our hearts are deceitfully wicked no matter how good we have lived we are still sinners and certainly do not deserve the grace of God.In the book of Job there are some real jewels especially why we do suffer satans plan is to destroy us but Gods plan is to build our faith hope and love towards him in our time of suffering.brentnz

This chapter and the two that follow, on gratitude, trust, and justification, are attempts to make real for our situation aspects of the historic meaning of grace.

To find these real causes of the modern drift from the Church in Christendom we need to go much further back into the case history of the modern malaise than the more dramatic symptoms of the current year of grace or disgrace.

If you think this theology is merely cerebral, with no real - world implications, consider the case of Sovereign Grace Ministries.

Real Christians do nt have to sit on a soap box preaching about the fires of hell, because they try to live their lives in the grace of God, and hopefully show the peace and joy that can bring to others.

used as a motto in AA, «There, but for the Grace of God, go I.» This is not sentimentalism, but the essence of psychological insight and the basis for real Christian charity.

There is no real contradiction between the Holy Spirit as God himself and as his gift to us of guidance, grace, and power for every need.

Satan is a real entity it was satan that wanted to afflict Job and God allowed it why his issue was not that he struggled with sin he was morally a good man what he failed to see is the same problem we all struggle with.Is that our hearts are wicked we can not in our own strength be righteous as all have sinned and fall short of Gods ideal which is his son.Job realises his mistake and repents and God pours out more grace on Job by restoring what he lost.Satan has power but is not like God who is sovereign he rules all pricipalilitys and powers satan has to bow his knee to God and his son.

Come on get real samson old testement its in there wilful sin my definition is walking away from the Lord and doing opur own thing knowing what you should do but still do what you want to do.In the life of Samson WE SEE Gods forgiveness and the sacrifice is the same as today repentence we are saved by the grace of God if we turn from our own way.He was disobedient to his parents and to the Lord his heart was no different from ours wilfully disobedient he chose sin over the Lord all the time sleeping with prostites and lying with foreign woman going his own way and yet God saves him not only that he was Gods chosen instrument to deliver his people.The sad part is his term was only 20 years if he had walking in the ways of the Lord he should have had that ministry for 40 years that is the term of completion.We cut ourselves short when we choose sin over the Lord which is an idol by the way.We all have those areas in our lives that we keep to ourselves thats wilful they are our demons and our comforters.Until we surrender all to the Lord we can not be overcomers and will be influenced by satan like samson it is clear warning to us wilful sin or making sin an idol in our lives has consequences better to serve the Lord with all our hearts even though samson did nt for much of his life God still showed him his grace and faithfullness.You can also see wilful sin in the Life of David yet God saves him but not all were saved in the life of saul as he wouldnt listen to the Lord and kept walking according to his flesh.

And we will have our own critics who will tell us that this is naive and childish; that in real history it will always be given to some to live with death and to us, by the grace and calling of God, to live.

It's our embrace masquerading as a dance, our real marriage, accomplishing only loving as a picture of grace drawing near.

Just as when armies crash against each other, the victory is that of superior power, so also the victory of love and grace against the very real force of evil, is a victory of a real superior force.

For this reason, Paul understands man with all his strengths, weaknesses and temptations: «Human nature, the common nature of the whole race of Adam, spoke in him, acted in him, with an energetical presence, with a sort of bodily fullness, always under the sovereign command of divine grace, but losing none of its real freedom and power because of its subordination.

And those in need of a real Savior, need to make space to sit in real grace, because that's the only space God means for you to breathe.

The apparent implication was that grace is of little aid to man's struggles Niebuhr did not so limit the Cross, and he eventually repudiated this confusing terminology as inadequate to «describe the real sanctification that takes place in conversion when the soul turns from itself to God.

There are three reasons why no convincing assertion of a real «growth in grace» appears in this school:

Yang - Won Son (1902 - 1950), one of the great martyrs in Korea, made grace real.

There are jarring and unexpected moments of real heroism, as well as even (maybe) room for grace.

's Roots and Successes [Kihei, HI: Paradise Research Publications, 1997], pp. 252 - 53, 292 - 96; Dick B., The Golden Text of AA.: God, the Pioneers, and Real Spirituality [Kihei, HI: Paradise Research Publications, 2000], pp. 5 - 39; and Dick B., That Amazing Grace [Kihei: HI: Paradise Research Publications, 1996], pp. 35 - 36, 50 - 52).

Yet decisive moral victory over sin by the grace of God is real, with fruits manifest in the way one treats his neighbor as well as in reorientation of the soul toward God.

It's a real process of renewed innocence among spouses, the work of grace in their family.

If, on the plane of moral evil rather than physical or «natural» evil, one replies that with the real freedom of the free will goes the real power of personal sanctifying grace to sweeten and transform our personalities if we will allow Him, the rejoinder comes, «well, yes, but if He is almighty why does He not stop me from sinning and going to hell?»

Listening to both of their stories and holding them all gently with intention — and hopefully a bit of grace — has transformed me because it's made me realise that the right story is always the real story, God's overarching story that Love wins.

Thumbprint in the Clay: Divine Marks of Beauty, Order, and Grace by Luci Shaw:: This is one of Luci's prose offerings (I» m a huge fan of her poetry) and there are flashes of real intimacy in the essays, glimpses into her struggle and wrestle with God, her doubt and her wonderings.

But Catholic teaching considers that the grace of baptism really exists in us as a share in divine life, a real gift of God that changes us, that makes us new creatures reborn to a new life.

The only way to build peace and justice in our world - a world where goodness is at home and real love flourishes - is for all of us to live as faithfully as we can through the grace of Jesus Christ.

As I see it, Jesus did not die in order to bring us grace, but by dying rather than submitting to the devil (whether real or metaphorical), he led us to, and showed us, the grace of God.

im a real true beleiver in J.C. and no hypocrite by any means.i beleive that every person born is in dire need of the grace and mercy that the gospel of Jesus Christ offers.

This knowledge of love as grace is the real meaning of I Corinthians 13, which ought to be studied more often for the ethics of social action.

When really, the mature Christians (who are more aware of their sin then others and in turn need God's grace even more) instead of investing in making church to appear like their own lives will naturally appear to most because of their relationship with God is more... advanced... should invest in mentoring and loving those newer in their faith and being real and honest with them.

I will admit, that if a person can meet one of these people who is not so radicalized, and you can tell him or her about the saving Grace of God, and that their Allah is not the real God, it is possible to win them to Christ.

While there's still much learning to be done, I have found the light in teh grace of Jesus Go out and do real research if you're truly intersted in learning and gaining knowledge, posting stupid arguments on these boards accomplishes nothing and only shows people's willful ignorance.

The life of grace is the growing in beauty and real truth of being through this vital union and communion with Jesus Christ.

The REAL Church is the heart of man, receiving our LORD's HOLY SPIRIT, true acceptance of GOD's saving GRACE would mean turning away from false teachings, man's doctrines and traditions.

So much so that here it must be impossible to establish a real distinction of any kind between nature and grace.

Carol Real freedom comes from knowing and embracing who you are in the unqualified love and grace of the Father.