Sentences with phrase «only confess»

The inquiring spirit can in the end only confess his temerity:

As he thinks of man, the crown of God's creation, he can only confess that he is fearfully and wonderfully made.

You can only confess in person to a priest.

(When Macquarrie urged him to follow Tillich in using the philosophy of Being to reconstruct a purified theism, Bultmann could only confess: «I myself can not conceive of an ontological basis.»)

Problems of time and eternity, the changing and the changeless have their mysteries before which we can, like Augustine, only confess the limit of our sight.

That is why the Christian, even when he permits himself to use violence in what he considers the best of causes, can not either feel or say that he is justified: he can only confess that he is a sinner, submit to God's judgment, and hope for God's grace and forgiveness.

Is it really necessary for WTS professors to not only confess faith in Jesus Christ, but also commit to this creed?

They only confess - we were blind in our distrust of being, now we begin to see; we were aliens and alienated in a strange, empty world, now we begin sometimes to feel at home; we were in love with ourselves and all our little cities, now we are falling in love, we think, with being itself, with the city of God, the universal community of which God is the source and governor.

Where a «history» of liberation can be related, a prophetic «meaning» can be not only confessed but attested.

Melbourne not only confessed Jesus of Nazareth as the center of the royal reign of God, but it also stressed that as Christ's Kingdom, the royal reign of God begins on earth as the kingdom of the crucified, which places his disciples with him under the cross.18 He did not come to be served, but «to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.

That strategy memo is absolutely laughable and he only confessed because people were calling him out on it.

Not exact matches

At the White House's first United States of Women Summit in 2016, Buffett confessed that he only thought to put a woman on the Berkshire Hathaway board in 2003 — nearly 40 years after taking over the company — by the suggestion of his wife Susie.

It was only there that he finally confessed to doping.

Today we confess not only a conflict, but a long - standing bias: First, our corporate parent, Tribune Publishing, is a player in the news story that prompts us to once again scratch a chronic itch.

I take issue with the statement in the article that Evangelical Christians say that you can only attain salvation if you confess according to their tradition.

This, I think, will fall on deaf ears, figuratively speaking, but PsiCop, you nobody is going to force you to your knees, you will volunteer to do it, not only that you will volunteer to confess that Christ is Lord and God, maybe not in this life, but when you are resurrected to receive your just reward, I don't know what that willl be, I'll leave that up to God.

All who take part in the Communion ought to examine themselves before God and only if convinced that they have confessed their sins, participate in the Communion.,,,,, From what you said, it sounds like you have a bit of work to do before tomorrow.

So as Chirstians when we ask Mormons if they accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, that they believe Jesus died and rose again on the third day to take away our sins and they say yes, they are not saying that they believe by confessing this that they automatically will live in the mansion where God the Father and Jesus Christ are and when they acknowledge our faith they don't believe that we will automatically be there based only on the blood of Jesus alone either.

An example, and this is one of so many: I went to see the mother of a little girl that suffers from a brain tumor, only to find a «Christian women'there telling her that it is because of something SHE did (sins of the father...) and that she must confess all her sins, before God would even consider saving her little girl's life.

Just as the song begins to fit into a niche, it stops to breath, leaving nothing but the piano line and then some choir - y organ as the lyrics begin to confess, And here I stand a broken man / If I could I would raise my hands / I come before you humbly / If I could I'd be on my knees / Come lay down your head upon my chest / Feel my heart beat feel my unrest / If Jesus could only wash my feet / Then I'd get up strong and muscle on.

A church should really only have two choices: Either the one who is sinning «out laud» confesses their sin and «works it out», or they deny and must leave / step down.

The doctrine they confess does not matter, they use their religiuos beliefs only to gain votes, or not?

«The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints» is the full name of the church and yes, we do accept and confess Him as our Savior, the only way back to God.

I am nervous and uncomfortable on Ash Wednesday because I must confess publicly that I am a sinner; not only that, but I must stand within the faith community and witness while others confess the same.

Accepting Jesus in our hearts and confessing Him as our Lord and Savior is all there is to it... nobody is asking us to be who were are not, but to believe we can be the person God intended us to be if we allow him in our lives... He is the only one who can change our hearts...!!

Only our most over-zealous preached it but it was an unwritten expectation running through a lot of our theology: don't give in to the darkness, don't name it, don't give it power, don't acknowledge it, don't confess it, don't be sad, don't be mad, don't be despairing.

He even confessed that «I am only gradually working my way to the non-religious interpretation of Biblical concepts; the job is too big for me to finish just yet.

Only spirits that confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh are of God.

Only the notion of specifically Christian maturing and the special means appropriate to that end are finally of use to ministers as prophetic guides to maturing in the Christian life, since it is part of the confessing consciousness of the churches they lead that Christian faith and life are not the same as in any other religion.

What would it look like for the church to lament both the abortion industrial complex and systematic racial injustice, to confess the sins of abortion and racism, and to offer, for recovering racists and post-abortive women the freedom offered only in the cross of Christ?

We have to confess that the truth of God's image bearers being dignified only by the fact that they bear His image is what is driving Black Lives Matter.

I am not sure, if Jesus Christ has always cured only on the condition that the person to be cured confessed his or her sins.

If you are saved and sin but do not confess your sin and repent at the time of your death, you will not enter the Kingdom of God because only those who are made righteous and are justified can enter (Mark 9:43, 45 - 45, 47, 1 John 1:9).

I must confess that I only know 3 atheists, one the husband of a niece who is unsocialable, a poor husband and father and an alcoholic.The other two are husband and wife, both raised by Christian parents.

Micheal God forgives your sin if you confess it to him we are are sinners and only Christ can cleanse us.The word says if we confess our sin he is righteous and just to forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.brentnz

The goal of ecumenism will only be reached when those on either side can look at the other and confess with the words of Adam that this at last is «bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh.»

Only then will one dare to confess everything and receive the full benefit of the sacrament.

The Ls feel they are being asked to make themselves content not only with a back seat but actually a whole other bus as our Utah activist confesses,

Lewontin confesses that the empirical epistemologist, who asserts that the only intelligible propositions regarding reality are those which are empirically verifiable, must still rely on a strictly unempirical, untestable, a priori prejudice.

Only then will one realize they are lost and need a Saviour at which point that person will do well to confess they are a sinner and ask Jesus to come in.

And i heard of a day of judgement when millions of Christians and babies will disappear and they have already started disappearing and will continue to and then the others will be left behind for 7 year tribulation period but what can i do i am not even ready i did not confess all my sins repented for a few but for most of them very little because i learnt about them just before a few days and as i told you before i am only 11 years old so what can i do please help me i don't want to die and be melted like this please help!

That the Lord is nigh, that the believer is standing at the end of time and history — is only a way of expressing the ultimacy and the certainty of the truth and reality which the Christian confesses in faith.

In his book, So - Called Christian, Jim Turner confesses to his own sins of pride, jealousy, and discord, and explain how he came to see that such behavior is not only damaging to himself and his relationships, but also to the church at large and the church's witness to the world.

Admit and confess to the numerous places where Christians have got it wrong, and state that the only real goal of following Jesus is love.

Tommy God has already forgiven you for your sin the moment you asked Jesus into your life and confessed him as Lord.From that point he paid for your sin in full past present future.It is not sin that stops us from being with the Lord so you are saved.The problem you are experiencing is the battle for your life in the here and now satan is out to destroy you and he knows our weaknesses.If you are honest there were already issues in your life that you struggled with and never got the victory over.So where do you go from here as i found myself in the same situation i was a christian but walking according to the flesh.God does nt change his mind he always loves us but because of our choices we distance ourselves from God.The issue is that we like sin thats our wicked hearts and to be fair we cant change our nature only Christ can do that our old nature must be crucified with Christ.The stumbling block is our pride we have to admit that we cant do it For me that was terribly difficult i was so independent thinking i could do anything but the truth was a made a real mess of things.I sense you are at a crossroads and are feeling desperate and confused.So as a brother in the Lord you need to confess your sin to God and tell him that you are weak -LCB- we all are -RCB- and that you cant do it in your strength -LCB- None of us can -RCB- but ask him to send the holy spirit to help you deal with the temptations and the sin that you struggle with and he will help you to change your life he will empower you as he did me.Rather than look at who you are look to Christ and walk in him and he will make you a new man and sin will not have dominion over you.Jesus came to set us free from bondage.Having once been a slave to sin i know what it is like to have been set free by the power of God and that is what Christ is offering you today.All it takes is a desire to change or repent and admit we cant do it and trust him to give you the strength to walk in him regards brentnz

Now, we confess our sins in response to the kindness of God who sent His only Son, Jesus to save us.

But Loveless is not the only Orlando - area pastor to confess an adulterous relationship lately.

We would only get relief if we laid him on an alter, at the feet of god and confessed our sins!

An Athanasius, inspired by a genuinely Christian monasticism, not only had a more (comparative to his times) wholesome understanding of human sexuality and marriage, as well as women s ministerial roles in the church, but also struggled (to the point of being expelled from his diocese five times by those supporting the imperium) for an orthodoxy which would confess the God revealed in Christ as a community of consubstantial Persons.

One of my clients who just turned 79 confessed to me (her insurance agent) that she was an atheist and was so glad to feel comfortable enough letting other people know how she felt because she said it had been nearly 50 years since she became an atheist but had only recently «come out» on Facebook.