Sentences with phrase «only real grace»

Could it be that if Jesus» cross is any indication, the only real grace is costly, hard - earned grace?

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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.

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.

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

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.

It's that living under law thing that kills us (the Spirit gives life but the letter kills), trying to live up to standards and rules, principles and guidelines, etc... The church these days has pretty much no idea what grace even is, and if you start talking about God's love, I mean his real love based only on Christ's merit, people call you a heretic.

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.

Thirdly, by owning the part they played in the abortion experience and learning to forgive, they are offered real hope that their wound can not only behealed but also be a tremendous grace.

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 only real saving grace of this game is its relatively decent story.

In the role of 11 - year - old, newly motherless Max, he is the saving grace of «Real Steel,» helping not only to bring out the humanity in Atom — Max just knows the bot has the circuitry of a champion — but sparking a flicker of life in Jackman, who's had a tough time getting his acting to outshine his muscle - flexing prowess and his model good looks (see the «X-Men» franchise for the first, celebrity fashion spreads for the rest).

Sigh... the only saving grace in this show is the lead actor, and even he tends to let overacting do the work for him... This show is about real life events, yet I can't help but get the feeling that I really couldn't give a crap about the fact that this stuff happened.

Money Monster, which debuted at Cannes this past week with Hollywood royalty in attendance when director Jodie Foster and stars George Clooney and Julia Roberts graced the red carpet, ended its three - day run with $ 14.6 M. Distributor Sony is banking that the film will have some staying power as it is the only real adult - demo drama in the marketplace for the coming weeks.

Even if these references hint at the sort of story that Midnight Special tells, what you won't see coming is the genuinely extraordinary coup de cinéma that Nichols pulls at the climax, about which I'll say only that, after years of brain - numbing visual bombast from Hollywood, here is a sequence that restores your faith in the capacity of special effects to achieve real grace, strangeness and beauty.

Martinez's Paul Martel's only real purpose is to provide the film the opportunity for its fantastically ambivalent finale — the saving grace of Unfaithful and one of the most mature and thoughtful endings of any movie we're likely to see from Hollywood this year.

-- The only real saving grace for Avon's the announcement of a $ 23.25 bid from Coty, just 1 week before McCoy was appointed.

Although Lane Bryant Credit Card users can earn a respectable 5 % rewards rate — or more, if they reach a higher Status level — the rewards of the card are its only real saving grace (and even those are limited by your status level).

The only real saving grace is the existence of the «really blue» color option, which helps bring some life to the Pixel's otherwise uninspired appearance.

Cars slowly moving on a single lane road in Hawaii, birds flying above Mount Vesuvius, waves slowly crashing on the shore in Lagos and even views of our Solar System, including real - time cloud cover and lighting of the Earth are only a part of what graces this splendid collection.

In Real Marriage, Pastor Mark Driscoll and his wife, Grace, share how they have struggled and how they have found healing through the power of the only reliable source: the Bible.