Sentences with phrase «only means of grace»

He is the one sacrament, the only means of grace.

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Thus the deeper meaning of Jesus» message is: in accepting one's death there is life for others; in suffering, there is glory; in submitting to judgement, one finds grace; in accepting one's finitude resides the only transcendence.

It is only when one loves life and the earth so much that without them everything seems to be over that one may believe in the resurrection and a new world; it is only when one submits to God's law that one may speak of grace; and it is only when God's wrath and vengeance are hanging as grim realities over the heads of one's enemies that something of what it means to love and forgive them can touch our hearts.

And with no imagery available, other than that of supernaturalism, to suggest such nuances or sensitive ground for pointing toward dimensions of grace or spirit, Christian faith could mean for the modern consciousness only confidence in the resources of man's moral idealism.

Jeremy teaches: on the left hand column — «Grace Only» by means of mental thought and speech and calls that Faith.

If we reject the means by which God extends grace and mercy to us, and want to depend instead on the blood of bulls and goats, then there is no chance of forgiveness, but instead have only a «certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation» (Heb 10:27).

I only meant: if my teaching on grace doesn't raise the same sort of objections — is it the same thing Paul taught?

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 Church is not the only channel of God's grace, though understood in its full meaning it is the most important one.

The meaning of divine grace is truly known only to those who know that God is love, and that all that he does is done in love in fulfillment of his righteous purposes.

He said that the «Christian doctrine of grace stands in juxtaposition to the Christian doctrine of original sin and has meaning only if the latter is an accurate description of the actual facts of human experience.

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.

Just as it would be impossible to replace with definitions such words as» home,» or «light,» or «music,» or to make the meaning of such words clear to someone who had never himself experienced the realities to which they point, so it will always be impossible to replace with definitions such terms as «the grace of God in Christ,» «peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,» or the great story in which these phrases have their only possible context.

Jeremy have been asking the holy spirit for his help with this and in regards to the lame man that Jesus healed I do nt believe that sin was the issue for him just like the blind man was it his parents or did he sin the answer was neither but so that God would be glorified.What was the sin that may have been worse for him.The two situations are related of the woman caught in adultery the key words being go and sin no more only two references in the bible and will explain later the lame man we see at first his dependency on everyone else for his needs he cant do it he is in the best position to receive Gods grace but what does he do with it.Does he follow Jesus no we are told he goes to the temple and Jesus finds him now that he has his strength to do things on his own what his response to follow the way of the pharisees that is what is worse than his condition before so he is warned by go and sin no more.We get confused because we see the word sin but the giver of is speaking to him to go another way means death.Getting back to the two situations of the woman caught in adultery and the lame man here we see a picture of our hearts on the one our love for sin and on the other the desire to work out our salvation on our terms they are the two areas we have to submit to God.My experience was the self righteousness was the harder to deal with because it is linked in to our feelings of self worth and self confidence so we have to be broken so we are humble enough to realise that without God we can do nothing our flesh hates that so it is a struggle at first to change our way of thinking.brentnz

Justification by grace signifies God's unconditional, unmerited, radical acceptance of the whole person: God, the Cosmic Lover, graciously embraces not just a person's disembodied spirit but the whole fleshly self — the meanings of which theology is only beginning to explore.

They argue that, given the nature of things, there are only certain pathways to God and that the forms approved by their special group are the appropriate symbols for representing him and for providing the «means of grace» by which the divine life is mediated to man.

Understanding form itself as a means of grace challenges us to take another look at the sometimes forbidding wildness of the arts, to open the doors of our churches not only to obviously useful and «religious» art, but to unpredictable forms, forms that exist apart from any question of usefulness.

The pastor is forever dispensing the means of grace but only rarely receives them.

The penalty for sin is death as sinners we all deserve to die but God in his mercy and grace sent his only son to take our punishment on himself.Though his blood we are forgiven and cleansed from all unrighteousness.When Christ spoke the words it is finished the term he used was a legal one that means the cancelling of a debt that was owed Christ paid our debt in full through his blood and death on the cross.brentnz

These only mean what they mean because of God's grace.

This is an anthropocentric, moralistic approach which makes the grace of Christ and finally Christ Himself only the means for the law, for the commandments.

The only saving graces are Davis's stripped - down, mean - as - a-wildcat portrayal of the Uzi - toting Charly, and Jackson's engagingly ineffectual turn.

When Heigh and Souder bring a young girl on probation for an unspoken offense (Whatever it might have been, it means nothing to these two, who, despite what she might have done, only see a girl in need of help) named Anne (Chloë Grace Mortez)-- affectionately called «Little Anne» by Heigh, which ties into another missing girl dubbed «Little Debbie» by those who knew her — home, they find her mother Lucie (Sheryl Lee), a seemingly independent prostitute, entertaining clientele.

Time of Grace means a good deal to me since it is my only traditionally published novel, and it was published in Ireland in 2001, the year before my mother died suddenly — so she got to see me have a little success.

The only direct means of obtaining cash from your credit card, cash advances can become very costly, very quickly through a combination of high interest rates (the fees for which start accruing immediately — cash advances have no grace period) and hefty cash advance fees.