Sentences with phrase «power by believers»
When we treat it as divine, we encourage the quest for controlling power by believers.
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I know even some believers are offended by some of the things I write, but to them I'll simply say this: the Word of God is the most powerful thing that exists - both the written word and the Living word; and it's time to start believing God and to take hold of the ident.ity that He has given you and live and use that ident.ity Lance Wallnau calls it the «believers edge» which unfortunately only 8 % of the body of Christ ever gets into - that rare realm that individuals mature to the place where they have the power to co-create with God and bring the future into the present.
Like Luther, Lumen Gentium affirms the common priesthood of the faithful and grounds it in a shared participation of all believers in the one priesthood of Christ: «The baptized, by regeneration and the anointing of the Holy Spirit, are consecrated to be a spiritual house and a holy priesthood, in order that through all those works which are those of the Christian man they may offer spiritual sacrifices and proclaim the power of Him who has called them out of darkness into His marvelous light» (cf. 1 Peter 2:4 - 10).
Naming / defining is an exercise of power over others, so perhaps naming other persons made in the Divine image, with the potential to become godlike, by labeling them «believers» or «unbelievers» is a failure to see all people as God sees them, children of the one true God.
The simple truth is that the internet and social media has userped the power of the «church» to control the people, and people who once occupied pews now find it easier to find like minded believers (of all fathis and creeds) online and can be exposed to any theology they want by simply using Google.
Can Christian believers be grasped by the promise of the new age and the perils of the transition in such a way that leads them into a fresh experience of the gospel of Christ and the power of the Spirit?
Through Nietzsche's vision of Eternal Recurrence we can sense the ecstatic liberation occasioned by the collapse of the transcendence of Being, by the death of God — and we may witness a similar ecstasy in Rilke and Proust; and, from Nietzsche's portrait of Jesus, theology must learn of the power of an eschatological faith that can liberate the contemporary believer from the inescapable reality of history.
There are numerous avenues by which this idea is presented in church settings, but most often it revolves around the idea that we serve a powerful God, and God has dispensed some of that power upon all believers, but especially the leaders of the church by giving them wisdom, vision, and special spiritual gifts.
For instance, it speaks of the earth and heaven, Lord - men, Hell and heaven, 3 good deeds and by implication its opposite the bad deeds, righteous soul and by implication the unrighteous soul, at the judgment day4; Light - darkness, believers - unbelievers; 5 God - creation; 6 servant - master; 7 Good - evil.8 There also the repetitive emphasis on the otherness of God as in the notions of «the Lord of the Throne of Glory Supreme», 9 «Lord of the Throne of Honor; «10 emphasis on His power «Lord of Power; «11 His reach «The Lord of the two Easts and Two Wests, «12 and spower «Lord of Power; «11 His reach «The Lord of the two Easts and Two Wests, «12 and sPower; «11 His reach «The Lord of the two Easts and Two Wests, «12 and so on.
It is the same deliverance Paul taught in Romans, which is, from temporal (i.e. non-eternal) wrath for Jew and Gentile believers which deliverance is obtained not by walking by the power of indwelling sin, but by walking in the Spirit (Rom 8).
Sarah God forgives you for your actions if you confess it to God he does nt change he still loves you.It is hard but as a believer we must forgive those who hurt us not for there sake but for ours harbouring anger bitterness and unforgiveness causes us to get sick that is where i believe your mental illness is coming from.Those negative emotions have the power to destroy us if we let them.Only Jesus can help us to forgive when it hurts so deeply like you are experiencing tell him you cant do it and ask him to help you by his holy spirit so he can set you free and bring healing and restoration to your life brentnz.
The true believer is «a man determined to drag the supernatural back to life by the sheer power of wishing, or failing that, to vent his desolation on those around him — on reality itself for being such a cheat» (The New Nonsense [Simon & Schuster, 1974] p. 75).
If alcoholism is a sin, a believer can confess that sin, receive forgiveness, elect to turn from that sin, use the power of God in the effort, and end the sinful action by obeying God.
Some of us, who are believers, are very clear that we have been delivered by our Heavenly Father from the power of darkness, translated into the kingdom of His dear Son, and made known to us the riches of the glory of the mystery — which is Christ in you, the hope of glory (Colossians 1:13, 27).
The reply given by the Johannine Jesus appears at first to confirm this by saying, «If a man has faith in me, even though he die, he shall come to life», but then proceeds to add quite a new interpretation of the resurrection power of Christ in the words, «and no one who is alive and has faith shall ever die».13 C. H. Dodd concludes that «the «resurrection» of which Jesus has spoken is something which may take place before bodily death, and has for its result the possession of eternal life here and now... The evangelist agrees with popular Christianity that the believer will enter into eternal life at the general resurrection, but for him this is a truth of less importance than the fact that the believer already enjoys eternal life and the former is a consequence of the latter.»
«Although various principles are taught in the several Gospel - books, this makes no difference to the faith of believers, since by one governing Spirit in them all, the facts are declared concerning the Nativity, the Passion, the Resurrection, His converse with the disciples, and His two advents, the first which was in humility of aspect, according to the power of His royal Father, and the glorious one which is yet to come.»
Sanctification, however, requires a second baptism, which they contend should be sought fervently by believers and goes on in the power of the Spirit.
A court empowered to judge a statute's constitutionality by that court's own inference of the animus of the statute's sponsors is a court set free from any limitations on its power» its power, on the one hand, to strike down any law enacted with the political aid of believers, and its power, on the other hand, to move directly against churches and denominations that display a perceived animus in their teaching toward certain behavior.
In America today, we have very nearly reached the completion of a long process I can only describe as the systematic usurpation of ultimate political power by the American judiciary» a usurpation that compels evangelical Christians and, indeed, all believers to ask sobering questions about the....
Whatever form it takes, the abuse of power by a Christian leader, whether in a local church setting or by someone with an international platform enhanced by TV exposure, can have a deep and corrosive impact on the faith of individual believers.
During a speech, President Trump dubbed America is a «nation of believers», and said the country is «strengthened by the power of prayer».
By the power of Christ, the first - born of the new aeon, believers can live in the new aeon, even though its consummation awaits the end of time.
You hold the firmest convictions about Our Lord; believing him to be truly «of David's line in his manhood», yet Son of God by the divine will and power; truly born of a virgin; baptised by John «for his fulfilling of all righteousness»; and in the days of Pontius Pilate and Herod the Tetrarch truly pierced by nails in his human flesh (a fruit imparting life to us from his most blessed passion), so that by his resurrection he might set up a beacon for all time to call together his saints and believers, whether Jews or Gentiles, in the one bodyof his Church» (Smyrna I, 1 - 6).
It is this essentially sacramental character of the Scriptures — the special forms of the words and sentences which give them unique power to point beyond themselves to the sources of being from which untold possibilities spring — that explains what is meant by the statement that for the believer the Bible is the Word of God.
Believers, he argued, can prove the rationality or relevance of their religious tradition (or any tradition) only by skillfully using its internal grammar: «The reasonableness of a religion is largely a function of its assimilative powers, of its ability to provide an intelligible interpretation in its own terms of the varied situations and realities adherents encounter.»
Through the Word of God Incarnate in Jesus Christ, as that word is preached and heard, and with the clarifying and renewing power of the Holy Spirit at work in man, the believer begins to live by the promises of God.
Luther teached that a believer shall always live a life of righteousness by the power of his first baptism (mostly infant baptism) and if he has sinned again the believer shall exercise privat confession and return to his first baptism, but not try to get righteousness by good works (to say a rosary, to do a pilgrimage, buy indulgence and the like).
Yes of course have understood what you meant after all the country is a country of all Egyptians whether Muslim or Christian or Jewish if any... those all have suffered for 30 years in the hands of this dictatorship which cared less for the people of Egypt only was there a greed for their money beside the control of their life and destiny... but above all only people with true faith can achieve what they have achieved, as people with no faith have not that will and power within granted by God to his believers...
Thus a double subjectivity is bound up with the soteric use of Scripture: God the subject by the power of the Holy Spirit present in the believer's subjectivity of encounter.
My closing appeal is for believers to steward the gospel with excellence by showing the world the power of Christ through the solid interpersonal relationships of the ethnically, culturally, and generationally diverse Body He called to live on mission together.
No works done by the believer can redeem him before God; no priest has the power to forgive sins, and no indulgence bought can hold back the due punishment for sin.
Unhealthy dependence (on a religious leader, for instance) is a symbiotic (mutually parasitic) relationship in, which the «true believer» gains a neurotic sense of power by identifying with the leader.
He speaks of the meaning and nature of that faith by which the power of the events becomes effective in the believer.
As Todd Billings puts it, «The Bible is the instrument of the triune God to shape believers into the image of Christ, in word and deed, by the power of the Spirit, transforming a sinful and alienated people into children of a loving Father.»
There are many strong believers in the powers of Baltic Amber to soothe your baby during teething, and while there might not be a ton of scientific proof, mamas have been swearing by them for centuries.
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Roy, formerly a member of an extremist religious sect called The Ranch — leader «Brother Calvin» is played by Sam Shepard, imposing in his brace of scenes — is a «believer» from beginning to end, his faith in his son's powers (perhaps alien, perhaps messianic) never once wavering.
Now, I am a huge believer in distance learning and the power of online tools, but I deeply believe that by sending the message that real - time teachers are only needed as a luxurious plug - in and not a fundamental fixture of this next educational chapter, we are doing a disservice to our students and the quality of these growing programs.
A passionate believer in the power of public education, he is driven by a vision for the future that includes protecting the health of our students.
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As a believer in the power of habits, I am fascinated by technology's potential as a tool to support good habits.
A strong believer in the power of Art to revitalize communities and bring about social change; he is fascinated by playing with the porous boundaries between painting, video, sculpture, performance, and printmaking.
Barber is an outspoken critic of the current food production system and a strong believer in the power of cooking to counteract rampant food waste; but he also insists on the need for people to think about their overall diets in terms of waste, primarily by reducing meat consumption and prioritizing vegetables and grains.
While alarmists predict total loss of ice by 2030 (and earlier predictions have already failed), believers in the power of natural cycles expect Arctic sea ice to rebound by 2030.
Led by modular smartwatch maker BLOCKS, the Project OpenWatch offers smartwatch believers an alternative, one that is powered by Android as well.
Finally, but on a very important note, if you are a firm believer in the power of Bitcoin and in the price predictions by experts, then you should not be spooked by a price decline.
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