Sentences with phrase «rather than grace»

By shifting the seasons, the novel can be read differently, as a story of Grace with her child rather than Grace and her mother.

Prayer, Scripture reading, and the like became the ways I drew near to Jesus rather than the grace - filled resources to help me awaken to and appreciate what was already true of me IN Christ.

Since God is without sin, a sin - centered belief system will always be Law / man - centered rather than grace / God - centered.

A doctrine of Purgatory as punishment is certainly vulnerable to the charge of creating salvation by works rather than grace, and in my view the reformers were correct to reject it.

There is a Christian tradition appalled by the notion that punishment, rather than the grace - filled instruments of service, compassion, forgiveness and the sacraments, might be the means of creating obedience.

«Salvation» began to be taught as an extrinsic juridical transaction rather than an experiential internal transformation and Law rather than Grace [Unconditional kenotic Love] became the solution to coping with human evil in classical Protestantism.

Not exact matches

But rather than simply imploding, bowing out with gratitude and grace can help set the stage for future success.

The only saving grace of the situation is that everyone knows Trump is bullshitting, so we have a minor trade crisis on our hands rather than a major national security one.

Most patristic and medieval writers preferred to talk about miracles and miracle workers rather than charismatic gifts for a number of reasons such as the dominant gift list being Isaiah 11, not 1 Corinthians 12 and Jerome's translating charismata as «graces» (gratiae).

The effect of such radically transformative grace, according to the Augustinian tradition and the young Luther, is that the heart loves God above all things for His own sake; in Augustine's terms, we come to enjoy God and use created things for God's sake, rather than attempting to «use» God for the sake of created enjoyments.

That is largely the result of a soteriology that begins with Original Sin rather than Original Blessing [mankind created in the image of God with the potential for aquiring «godlikeness» over time through cooperation with Grace].

Used correctly, as a means of Grace rather than an object of faith, both Sacrament and Bible point beyond themselves to the Ultimate Reality of the Living God.

The emphasis is on regeneration more than justification, on the impartation of grace and virtue rather than its imputation.

This has resulted in a way of understanding Christian faith that maximizes the «forensic» rather than the actual impact of grace and tends to contrast faith and reason, faith and works, and so on.

In my experience all the focus on obedience and sacrifice tends to make our walk with Christ one of prideful personal accomplishment rather than humble gratefulness for the grace of the cross.

Responding with mercy and grace helps usher in reconciliation rather than stoking the fire.

Its sad that religion is the gospel of many churchs today rather than a real relationship with Christ based on his grace rather than works.Just as cains offering wasnt acceptable to the Lord its the same for churchs today the Lord is not pleased by our efforts he does nt need our efforts they do not build Gods kingdom nor do mans programmes..

Jeffes shows us how to address the subject, either one - to - one or as part of a larger group, in a way that will demonstrate God's grace rather than condemnation.

Lamenting that there was almost any amusement he would rather take up than dwelling on God he cried out «Give me grace, my Father to be utterly ashamed of my own reluctance.»

This new Kingdom is the Kingdom of God, a Kingdom built upon forgiveness and mercy, grace and generosity, love and kindness, rather than a kingdom built upon blame, victimization, persecution, and violence toward others for selfish gain.

can be nothing other than an effort at snake - oil seduction of flabby - bodied and flabby - minded people who think of God as a senile Grandfather, by whose indulgent grace they can pray their weight away rather than dieting and exercising.

I think God may have been purposely less than clear to make sure that our focus would stay on Him and His grace rather than on the law.

But this time, rather than Moses coming down from the Mountain with the law, this time, it was the Holy Spirit coming down with grace and power.

When we apply this position to Diem's original criticism of Käsemann, that the latter presented Jesus as only teaching general truths rather than the kerygma, it becomes clear that Diem has overlooked the crucial point: Käsemann went beyond the view that Jesus taught God's fatherhood and man's freedom, to the assertion that «God has drawn near man in grace and requirement,» and Jesus «brought and lived the freedom of the children of God».

It's obvious I'd rather fight for something I don't really want than to take what he gives — grace — that I need.

And at the end of the day, the vast majority of them would attribute their salvation to God's grace rather than anything they had done to earn salvation.

One thing I found really encouraging about Wesley's story is that most of the pastors and professors in his life appear to have responded to his coming out with grace and kindness rather than condemnation.

In short, the sacraments have come to depend on human agency — our ability to remember God — rather than on what God out of his grace does.

If God acted and covenanted with Israel with grace and steadfast love in the events of exodus and Zion; if, in order to purify rather than to punish Israel, he put her through the furnace; 4 what and when is the end of all this?

There is perhaps also more emphasis on what Christians might through the grace of Christ become, rather than on the legacy of past sin, whether inherited or original or actual sin.

The problem with those holding the traditional Free Grace position is not that they confuse the «who» with the «how» but that they arrive at their view from the Scripture rather than philosophy and man - made paradigms.

That is this lack of clarity and certainty which does not really help but bring us back to ourselves and our experiences and deeds rather than trust in the proclamation of grace.

That this more than human graciousness seeks a world order based on love and grace rather than force and fear is not characteristic of traditional Buddhism, but it does not violate any basic Buddhist insight.

That requires meaningful worship, worship in which people sense God's presence and grace - filled activity Similarly, rather than just supplying good food in the fellowship hall, one must provide meaningful opportunities for building and practicing Christian fellowship.

Human spirituality, when it is not infused with Grace, is disordered, fear - driven rather than love - inspired.

As I think about stories that are centered on people like Mark Driscoll I have to keep repeating this mantra to myself: gift more grace rather than justify more judgment.

For it is premised on the conviction — fictionally adumbrated rather than overtly stated — that the God who sits in his heavens and laughs our folly to scorn is first and finally the God of grace who, in Jesus Christ, humorously accepts and thus transforms our sin into the occasion for his mercy.

The fact that you define this as a tragedy rather than emphasize the criminal aspects of the circumstances convinces me that you come from a place of grace, not law.

In Christian Echoes National Ministry, Inc. v. U.S., the Tenth Circuit Court addressed what the Walz decision had sidestepped, and held that «tax exemption is a privilege, a matter of grace rather than a right.»

Rather than being afraid of God, thank Him for His love, grace, and forgiveness in your life.

Her saving grace there, as in Out of the Deep I Cry, is her ability to create a story both intensely human and delightfully unpredictable, with events flowing naturally from collisions of character rather than the exigencies of plot.

Rather than a God who was supposedly behind everything bad that happened (dishing out punishment, judgment or whatever you want to call it), we find the God who loves, the God who freely gives grace and fellowship with himself.

The word about sin is the penultimate rather than the ultimate word of the gospel, which witnesses to the power of God, in both judgment and mercy, to provide by grace the resources we can not provide for ourselves.

For instance those of us that struggle with self hatred would rather punish ourselves and others than accept God «s grace.

It is not that the theses of traditional theology regarding Adam's elevation to grace, his Paradise, his knowledge and so on, are to be unmasked and diagnosed as at the most anthropomorphisms or dreams of a golden age in which mankind expressed in vivid form a longed - for future rather than a past that had once existed and was lost?

Such behavior lends grace to a person, and in a sense it serves as a mantle of honor to redeem his own dishonor, but these benefits are incidental and derivative rather than the primary objectives of conduct.

When you see a young woman, addicted to drugs, living on the street, selling her body for the next hit, though you should judge her actions as wrong, be merciful and say, «There, but for the grace of God, go I.» Such an attitude will enable you to help her rather than condemn her.

Grace Fellowships primary relationship to the new monastic communities is its effort to give the church prominence in its theology, rather than the state.

The radical opposition of Grace to nature in classical Protestantism has resulted in a Western civilization that despises our humanity and ignores our responsibility to practice stewardship rather than exploit our natural resources.

If I do accept myself, seeing myself as I am rather than as I wish I was, I will see things that I will weep over, but acknowledge my helplessness, give up on the holiness project and gratefully depend on grace — I am less likely to do the things I wish were different.