Sentences with phrase «offered grace of god»

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Seems to me, if God really wanted to offer this thing called grace, he would not do it in the fashion of a drug dealer, so that you would run out in a few hours and desperately come back for more.

By grace and love, God offers a proxy to you, who lived a perfect life as a man, as our representative to repair the fall of Adam, and who endured the righteous wrath of God for you.

It is a free gift of God, offered by grace alone, through our faith alone.

And in his extraordinary presence as a companionable and forgiving narrator, Cheever offers a literary parable of God's own unstinted grace.

God has offered us salvation by His grace, and the rest of Ephesians 2:8 - 9 tell us how to receive this incredible gift of salvation, this regeneration, resurrection and reigning that comes from Jesus Christ.

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..

On her devotional website, Becky offers weekly encouragement for fellow imperfect women in need of God's outrageous grace.

We may easily give up on each other and believe ourselves incapable of the call to holiness; but God never ceases to call us and to offer us his grace, which is «the free and undeserved help that God gives to those who respond to his call» (CCC 1996).

The basic idea of a Non-Violent view of the atonement is that God did not want or need the death of Jesus in order to offer grace or forgiveness of sins.

But since Calvinists believe in limited atonement, that's not gonna work, so the NIV has, «For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people.»

None of us has a lifelong stockpile of grace, but we can look forward to God's faithfulness over a lifetime, offered to us one day at a time.

For me, my needs are met in the Church... being fed by the Sacraments I not only kept my Faith alive but it has flourished; it is by the grace of God and all I have to do is bask in his goodness offered freely to me.

According to Calvinists, when Jesus says that «unless one is born again, he can not see the kingdom of God,» this means that unbelievers are spiritually blind, and can not even see the offer of the kingdom of God, or see their need for grace and everything else that comes with the kingdom of God, unless and until they are born again.

The individual creation of the soul and the gift of grace which God offers to it illustrate the second, or supernatural way in which God is related to the world.

This would not have been news to Luther or Augustine, but it is nevertheless news that can throw us into despair if we don't cling to God's offer of forgiveness, redemption and grace.

All human beings, irrespective of their sexual inclinations or «orientation,» have an intrinsic dignity, are loved by God, are offered God's mercy and grace, and can lead lives of holiness.

Both can be combined only by saying that man is exposed to the influence of divine grace, which offers him communion with God, whether he accepts it or not.

Yet i was transformed by the grace of God offered to all people for there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ and in Christ there is neither jew nor gentile, slave or free, male or female, for all are one in christ.

If there is an absolute in the Christian faith, it is not what is demanded of Christians but what is offered to them, which is the gift of God's grace in and through Jesus Christ.

Craig thanks for commenting the issue i have is that we are saved by faith and by the grace of God both in the old and the new.Not by the blood sacrifices of animals i am not saying they are not important as they served an important role in the old testament.But even if cain had offered a lamb his sacrifice would still not have been accepted because it wasnt given in faith but by works his heart wasnt right so his offering wasnt accepted.

He does not want humans to give offerings in an attempt to manipulate or control Him into doing what humans want, or as a way of getting back into God's good graces.

That done, the churches can get back to their mission, offering God's forgiving and sustaining grace to all of us disordered and disorderly human beings who are subject to temptations beyond numbering, also in the realm of sexuality.

If we accept our life and the lessons it offers us without judgement (by the grace of God, if you like) there is no hate, only love, and a deep appreciation of the awesome wonder of everything that is.

When man responds affirmatively to God's offer of grace in Jesus Christ, he enters into the life of faith.

No facile resolutions of this dilemma are offered the hearer (reader) of the sermon, but the hearer is invited to go on struggling with the problem under the grace of God.

This affirmation of God's sovereignty and the principle of salvation by grace led to a series of criticisms against all worldly authorities that claimed to usurp the power of God, be it an authoritarian church, an infallible Bible or a mechanical sacrament that offered salvation in a simplistic way.

It is the tangible, historical manifestation of the grace in which God communicates himself as absolutely present, close and forgiving, of the grace which is at work everywhere, omits no one, offers God to each and gives to every reality in the world a secret purposeful orientation towards the intrinsic glory of God.

Yet the Church knows that it is sacrament and testimony, not for its own salvation, but for that of the world, that it serves the God of the Covenant (which is the Church) by permitting and confessing him to be greater than itself, so that the grace of which the Church is the enduring sign is victoriously offered by God even to those who have not yet found the visible Church and who nevertheless already, without realizing it, live by its Spirit, the Holy Spirit of the love and mercy of God.

The long history of man's seeking to offer himself to God, as is his bounden duty, is here fulfilled as the worshiper is brought into union with Christ and by Christ is offered to the Father, that through such self - commitment and dedication to God, the will of the Father may more perfectly be done and our own lives enriched by His Grace, so that «we may do all such good works as he has prepared for us to walk in»; and, in the end, dwell with Him in heavenly places.

Whereas the gospel of the Bible reveals a grace from God that offers people a limited time to repent and a promise of freedom from sin.

Not, of course, in the modernist sense that Christianity is only the full development of a natural religious need, but because God in his grace, in virtue of his universal salvific will, has already long since offered the reality of Christianity to those human beings, so that it is possible and probable that they have already accepted it without explicitly realizing this.

Or it may underscore the truth that the sacrifices we offer to God are acceptable only on the basis of grace, not human merit.

Though God pays for the guilt of personal relations and freely offers us full restoration to fellowship, we still have to pay for the consequences of our deeds in works of faith and love within the grace of God.

Paul dreamed that the delivery of this offering would lead the Jewish Christians to long for their Gentile brothers and sisters, to pray for them because of the surpassing grace of God that they could now see had been given to them (2 Cor.

Under the secret call of grace in which God offers himself, this freedom is always meant either for judgment or salvation, and only the Gospel says reliably where this leap of freedom leads: it encounters the God of forgiving grace, indeed it is made possible only by him.

Our historical transcendence depends on God's offer to communicate himself; for our spiritual transcendence is never merely natural but always surrounded and carried by a dynamic of grace that points towards God's nearness; in other words God is not only present as the horizon of our transcendence that ever refuses itself, but also offers himself as our direct possession in what we call deifying grace.

So, in the next chapter we shall examine what the Church is and what God through the Church offers and requires of us for our growth in grace.

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.

If the human mind, enlightened by the grace of God which is offered to every man, will lift its eyes a little from the earth, it will see the mighty consummation in the human nature of Christ of the whole process of living development through evolution.

Each of us has something to offer to God and God has only good — unrestrained love and unconditional grace — to constantly offer to each of us.

For what consolation does the Jewish prayer of penitence offer, except the grace of God who forgives sins?

Redemption applies to a man qua man, not qua priest, and it implies that God, who wills all men to be saved, offers the grace of repentance to all men, no matter how grievous their sins.

So when Jesus says that we must be born of Water and Spirit, and if you believe and are baptized you will be saved, I agree with you that in a strict sense God does the saving and we need only immerse (baptize) ourselves in the grace he offers us, I believe that the statement Jesus made about marriage to be applicable, «Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate» and echo Peter's rhetorical question, «Can anyone keep these people from being baptized with water?

It always includes: announcement of God's Kingdom and love through Jesus Christ, the offer of grace and forgiveness of sins, the invitation to repentance and faith in him, the summons to fellowship in God's church, the command to witness to God's saving words and deeds, the responsibility to participate in the struggle for justice and human dignity, the obligation to denounce all that hides human wholeness, and a commitment to risk life itself.

The church offers the possibility of transformation in light of the story of God's grace and the life and practices derived from that story.

It is a breath - taking perspective of which the fuller sense is of Mary, as «The Woman clothed with the sun», the fullness of grace, Mediatrix indeed of all graces, whose womb is the vessel of life, offered to God «to come upon thee» for the crowning of the Earth and mankind with the Universal King, Heir of the Age all things visible and invisible.

The character who immediately begins jeering at Shylock when Portia turns the tables on him, the character who offers Shylock only «A halter gratis» nothing else for God's sake» (emphasis added), is named Gratiano, which of course suggests grazia, the Italian word for «grace.»

And if I want them to pray, I must pray, and if I want them to know God as love and Abba, and I want them to know that He is very fond of each of them, and I want them to forgive and offer grace and second chances and love tougher, well, then, here we go, I'm about to live a better truth with my life.

Grace means the way in which God deals with our human condition, his active purpose for the creation, his power to redeem and save history from its bloody tragedy, his offer of eternal life.

John 6 invites us to live into a grace - filled inheritance, a timely calling because most of us tend to live on the edges of what God has to offer.