Sentences with phrase «on redemptive»

The good thing is that while you are waiting, you will be accruing 18 % on the redemptive value of all the back taxes you have paid until the tax deed auction occurs.

With couples and families, Andrew focuses on the redemptive and healing qualities of appreciation, apology, forgiveness, and possibility.

My passion is journeying together with clients to uncover the underlying themes that color their unique personal story, identify the false narratives that have been thrown in their way, and fix our eyes on a redemptive and life - affirming path back to their truest self.»

After the Parade by Lori Ostlund (Scribner) This gentle midlife coming - of - age story follows a gay man after the collapse of a nearly 20 - year relationship who goes on a redemptive journey to his hometown.

It is now a group of trusted reviewers who are focused on redemptive fiction of the speculative ilk.

«Game Change» is patterned on redemptive Frank Capra and Preston Sturges archetypes (a dash of «Mrs. Palin Goes to Washington» and maybe quite a lot of «Hail, the Conquering Heroine» — minus the hero's moral torment over misrepresenting himself), even if the screwball energy is missing.

Don't miss Tuesday's Keynote on the redemptive power of a driving goal, and Wednesday's staff Forum discussion on the film's subjects, from their best aspects to their worst.

Interspersed with reflections on the redemptive power of creation, including a richly textured tribute to Vincent van Gogh (who is played by Martin Scorsese), Akira Kurosawa's Dreams is both a showcase for its maker's artistry at its most unbridled and a deeply personal lament for a world at the mercy of human ignorance.

It is doubtful if separate catechetical instructions with their heavy emphasis on redemptive processes can ever supply what is missing.

God goes on a redemptive bender, as it were.

11 Cone acknowledged that, in fact, his position is «in company with all the classic theologies of the Christian tradition,» though, of course, with a different point of departure: the plight of the oppressed.12 Biblically, he focused on the redemptive suffering of Jesus (coupled with his resurrection as a defeat of suffering) and expressed the eschatological point that God has in fact defeated the powers of evil even though we still encounter them and are called to fight against them, «becoming God's suffering servants in the world.»

Liberal theology has always tended to obscure the nature of sin; hence it has never adequately expressed the depth of our dependence on the redemptive work of God.

How important is it that it ends on a redemptive note?

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Yet, because they did not focus on the normal steps that lead up to an IPO, they are ill prepared for this singular redemptive path.

He pointed to a crucifix on his lap, explaining that forgiveness is a participation in the redemptive work of Christ.

A truely redemptive species with Truth on Planet Earth.

If you are not talking to the dying about the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and His redemptive work on the cross, if you can not confess that you are a sinner and that you NEED Jesus, you WILL BE CAST INTO THE OUTER DARKNESS loved ones.

While he allows that doctrinal debates about Christ and the Trinity are of only antiquarian interest, he comes out for what he calls a «redemptive process» in which good people do not give up on the goal of establishing the kingdom of God on earth.

Nevertheless, when I search my memories and other evidence, I find it difficult to discern any fundamental change in my theological perspective since 1959, when I published an article on «Redemptive Event and History.»

Such a severe penalty leaves room for God's grace and mercy (totally underserved) for those who believe in Jesus sacrificial death on the cross at Calvary and His redemptive resurrection.

God wants humanity to understand that nothing and nobody is beyond the scope of His redemptive purposes, and so by sending Jesus as the fulfillment of the most violent of religious texts, God not only revealed Himself by way of a stark contrast to that violence, but also showed how to reinterpret and understand those violent events in light of the self - sacrificial God dying on the cross for the sins of the whole world.

On the other hand, because we are — in ways often hidden from our eyes — «preparing the way of the Lord,» the routine, often exhausting, seemingly mundane donkey - fetching details of our service are gathered into the great arc of Jesus» redemptive work in the world.

Would you say that womanist perspectives on the Old Testament are more about finding the redemptive notes in what I often take to be an oppressive narrative for women, or is it more about reimagining the central messages and letting it speak fresh to a modern reader?

that the task of the proletariat corresponds to the world - historical mission of the chosen people, that the redemptive and universal function of the most degraded class is conceived on the religious pattern of Cross and Resurrection, that the ultimate transformation of the realm of freedom corresponds to the transformation of the civitas Terrena into a civitas Dei, and that the whole process of history as outlined in the Communist Manifesto corresponds to the general scheme of the Jewish - Christian interpretation of history as providential advance toward a final goal.

Show us, Lord, how to contemplate the Sphinx: without being beguiled into error; how to grasp the mystery hidden here on earth in the womb of death, not by refinements of human learning but in the simple concrete act of your redemptive immersion in matter.

The argument of this sermon was open to criticism on the ground that the preacher seemed to take for granted a highly debatable view of the redemptive value of human suffering; yet he was calling attention to something very important, namely, that if we quote Baxter's words as Professor Lampe has done, we must not forget that the scope of Christ's suffering is limited.

The example of Jesus and the instructions of Paul reveal the exact opposite: that the righteousness of God in our lives has a redemptive and reconciling effect on the world.

In his service as missionary and later as director of the World Council's Theological Education Fund, he had encountered and dissented from the notion that redemptive Christian norms and ideas transform culture by being imported into or imposed on it.

If I may make a slight adjustment in Webb's description of our beliefs, however, our Lord's redemptive suffering began in Gethsemane and was finished» climaxed, if you will» on Golgotha.

What I love most about the Word series is that it manages to capture some of the most beautiful, compelling, bizarre, troubling, violent, and redemptive images from the Bible in a way that, as we talked about on Monday, honors the Bible for what it is, not simply what we want it to be.

I believe that the redemptive work of Jesus was so powerful that when He died on the cross and rose again from the dead, everything in heaven and on earth was swept up in His wake, was drawn after His lead, and was pulled onward and inward toward Him.

Does this mesh with the Redemptive Power of Jesus Christ on the Cross and God's Nature and Teaching of «Love your Enemies, Bless those who curse you» etc etc?

Through the work primarily of feminist christians, I have been led to Sophia / Wisdom, to «Christa / community,» to Hagar the slave woman, to Jephthah's daughter and those who fight back on her behalf: images that are redemptive because they are dark, images of black or marginalized women, vilified, trivialized, rejected, silenced — and resisting their oppression and that of their sisters.

A perusal of the Church of the Brethren Web pages provides clear evidence that a commitment to pacifism is not limited to denominational headquarters: the 48 churches of the Northern Indiana District Conference have joined to urge «the use of nonviolent approaches and interventions» in response to the terror; the Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, Church of the Brethren has adopted a statement in which they «remain committed to walk in the Jesus way of nonviolent love, in which evil can only be overcome with redemptive acts of love»; a group of Brethren Volunteer Service Workers have issued a statement in which they «advocate the use of nonviolent means to settle disputes» and «stand opposed to the increased drive toward militarization»; on October 7 members of local Brethren churches (along with Mennonites and others) organized a peace rally at the state capitol in Harrisburg, «Sowing Seeds of Peace: Prayers and Petitions for Nonviolent Action,» which attracted over 300 people.

For Brown, if the United States could commit itself to refusing to imitate the «evil deeds» of the terrorists, if the U.S. would eschew the violence that has marked its post-World War II foreign policy, if the U.S. could abandon its «faith in redemptive violence,» if the U.S. could spend as much money on a peace academy as it does on the service academies... well, there would be some hope for a peaceful future.

Mormon theology's emphasis on the family as the redemptive unit, its system of patriarchal blessing in which each individual's membership in the household of Ephraim or Mannaseh or Judah is solemnly intoned; and its «restored» priesthood all worked to strengthen the Hebraic connection.

... While the Principle of Redemptive Withdrawal is focused on the abandonment Jesus experienced as he experienced the Father's judgment on the sin of the world, it is nevertheless grounded in the truth that the cross is the definitive expression of the self - giving, mutual indwelling agape - love that defines the triune God throughout eternity (p. 778).

Kraus's complaint about Hartshornean theology is that on this view «God would be compelled to perform successive redemptive acts» (p. 163) which would in turn be objectified back into the world.

For example, how do we see the creative and redemptive love of God through the perspective of the age - long development of the immense universe, only a speck of which we inhabit, and of the evolution of sentient and rational life on this earth through thousands and millions of years?

Is that something you're really seeking out for that last sort of redemptive note to leave the audiences on?

On the contrary, the bible is primarily an overarching story of God's redemptive plan for humanity.

In Taxi Driver, the camera even hangs on the awkward reactions of those around Travis Bickle as scene after scene of personal embarrassment leads to him to seek validation and purpose through redemptive violence.

One might have expected that the redemptive history school of biblical theology would have gone on to apply its linear, periodizing scheme to Christian experience.

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[On a related note, I just want to say that in the wake of this crazy Chick - fil - A debate, I've actually engaged in some relatively constructive, redemptive conversations, and I've been encouraged to see Christians challenging one another to raise the level of discourse.

Jesus went willingly to the cross, not because a blood sacrifice was necessary to pay the penalty for sin, but because going to the cross unmasked the scapegoat mechanism, revealed the violence inherent within the heart of men, exposed the myth of redemptive violence, and brought an end to the war that men had waged on God for centuries.

Pre-millennialism holds that the Second Coming of Christ will be followed by Christ's thousand - year reign on earth before the fulfillment of God's redemptive purpose in the new heaven and new earth.

This is not to exclude the redemptive act of God; but the church must keep eyes fixed steadfastly on the final goal, for in that goal is found the criterion for the message of the church to society.

When we say there is a creative and a redemptive work of God going on in human history what is the content of our words?

Though I do not wish to characterize the entirety of scripture to hang on these two verses, it is nevertheless an ample starting point to understand the plotline of God's redemptive plan.