Sentences with phrase «power of confession»

Nothing draws people closer like the power of confession and forgiveness.

Author William Paul Young knows about the power of confession.

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♦ Carl Trueman argues that confessions establish constitutional restraints on church power: «In an age when words, especially words that make truth claims, are always suspected of being part of some manipulative power game, it is perhaps counterintuitive to think of confessions as delimiting the power of the church.

Meanwhile, Eucharistic adoration throughout the night is always filled with young people offering up an unceasing litany ofRosaries, Chaplets of Divine Mercy, songs, and silent prayer, while any priest who sits down and puts on a stole to offer the Sacrament of Penance will quickly find a line of young people forming for confession and could easily spend several hours dispensing the healing power of Christ's sacramental grace to his children.

No, seeking to gain release (aphesis) from our sins through confession and repentance is about whether or not we gain freedom from the destructive power of sin in our lives which seeks to wreak havoc in our lives, our health, our marriages, our family, our finances, our jobs, and pretty much everything else.

This confession and repentance is for your own good, so that you can gain freedom and deliverance from the enslaving power of sin in your life.

Petition is there, penitence and confession, thanksgiving and praise, the experience of trustful serenity, the affirmation of confident faith, the enjoyment of divine companionship, the inward conquest over temptation and trouble, the rededication of the life to God, the triumphant consciousness of released power.

This is not to deny the rightness of either corporate confession of guilt in public worship or individual witness to the redeeming power of God.

We Presbyterians, who share so much — a confession of faith, a rich theological heritage, the advantages and the burdens of wealth and social power — could covenant to stay together, to labor with each other, in love, for justice and truth.

In the predella, or bottom border, it shows Martin Luther preaching Christ crucified to his Wittenberg congregation; in the triptych's left wing, Philipp Melanchthon baptizes an infant; in the right wing, Johann Bugenhagen exercises the power of the keys in confession; and in the center panel, Jesus feeds a morsel of bread to Judas (reception by the unworthy!)

Varela said the Roman Catholic Church «has conferred to all the priests legitimately approved to hear sacramental confessions, who are in the archdiocese of Madrid during August 15 to 22, the delegated power to remit during the sacrament of penance the excommunication... corresponding to the sin abortion, to the faithful who are truly sorry, imposing at the same time a convenient penance.»

The report stated it is not only societal power structures that can obscure the confession of Christ.

I quickly realized that an anemic understanding of sin leads to anemic confessions, robbing them of the power to transform the confessor and those hearing the confession.

Campbell saw that this act of confession has power to lead men toward a new communion with God.

It was, paradoxically, the experience of the absence of their God that drove Israel to the confession of his universal power and presence.

But its persuasive power came from the correspondence of its piety and practices (such as group confession) to traditions already present in those African communities.

Against every attempt to pick God out from the husk of the world, as one picks the kernel from a nut, against every effort to eject God from the cockpit of his world, the Christian church makes this confession of his living presence and his sovereign power.

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).

This confession, rooted in the ancient piety and worship of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church and nourished in the ecumenical movement, underlies an ethic of profound involvement in the struggle for social justice, profound realism about the powers of this world including those which possess the righteous, and a profound hope which is never satisfied by the achievements of this world.

The uncertainty as to the derivation of the name YHWH results in a total remarkable confession of faith: the God of the Hebrews, these particular «Apiru enslaved in Egypt, is the fathers» God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who is and will be, who causes to be, who manifests his power (blowing), who sustains all life.

For I wish him to keep his hands off confession and not make of it a compulsion or command, which he has not the power to do.

I think the power (of confession, of owning our humanness) lies in the honesty, the acceptance of «being heard», and then hearing similar stories.

Hearing this kind of heartfelt, honest confession from such a man is an amazing testament to the power of Positive Discipline.

An upcoming book, «The Confessions of Congressman X,» purports to be a tell - all from a current or recent member of Congress, detailing how money and power have corrupted the government and the people elected to serve.

The play's power lies in its insight into the thrill of public confession — and the complex intersection of politics and psychology in the media.

The confessions are the whole point, but when they finally come, they have all the power of a belch.

Structured around scripted, fictional conversations designed to look and sound like real - life therapy sessions, complete with hushed tones and teary confessions, the film attempts to co-opt the emotional power of real - life therapy without caring about what is actually being said.

In what can only be the automotive - journalist equivalent of outing myself, I have a confession that should come as a surprise to those who know me as a baby boomer who grew up with American V - 8 engines, entirely and unapologetically in love with the speed and power and torque and noise a V - 8 engine makes.

We tend to think of William Styron as a novelist — and rightly so, given the enduring power of such works at The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie's Choice.

Chapter 1: American Devolution: 9 One Nation, Indivisible — Listening In — Reining in the Presidents — Pattern of Deceit — Unilateral Actions Chapter 2: The Power of One: 38 The King and Yoo — Matter of Decree — The Case of the «Dirty Bomber» — Confessions by Waterboarding — Tortured Legislation Chapter 3: «What Can't He Do?»

Louise Bourgeois's work is powered by confessions, self - portraits, memories, fantasies of a restless being who is seeking through her sculpture a peace and an order which were missing throughout her childhood.

Using varied strategies and materials, each of the artists in this portion of «Unmonumental» exploits the formal and ideological power of juxtaposing found images to create everything from social and political commentaries to Surrealist fantasies and personal confessions.

(27) + The «at most» was a confession that the power of pollen studies was limited.

Given the nature of the present charges of corruption against these lawyers — and their confessions to misconduct — it seems unreasonable not to give the barreau (and other regulatory bodies) the power to suspend its members» licences, at least temporarily, while an investigation or criminal trial is underway.