Sentences with phrase «redemptive work»

It is this message of the finished redemptive work of Christ which we call God's story and which is the absolute unchanging element in Scripture.

That total redemptive work which encompasses Our Lady's preservation and our own restoration from sin is paid for in the coinage of His own flesh and blood, which He inherits from His Mother and which is now stamped with the sign of the cross, the wounds of suffering love.

Paragraphs 5 and 6 are formed by a beautiful combination of scriptural texts that are a description of God's redemptive work as culminating in the paschal mystery.

Rather, it sees modernity as but one developing moment within a larger struggle of love, the central drama of Christ's redemptive work made real among his people and in the world.

But what love may do and will do, what creative and redemptive work lies ahead, can only be known partially in the history of love until the «end».

He quotes W. D. Davies to the effect that Paul's understanding of God's redemptive work in Jesus Christ is «a-territorial.»

Christian hope which gathers up all particular human hopes and yet is deeper than they is founded upon the fact of the present creative and redemptive working of God in human life.

Christian hope for human society is based on the fact of God's creative and redemptive working which is woven through the whole fabric of life.

The Letter to the Colossians speaks of Christ's redemptive work as «having canceled the bond which stood against us with its legal demands; this he set aside, nailing it to the cross.

If you are not talking to the dying about the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and His redemptive work on the cross, if you can not confess that you are a sinner and that you NEED Jesus, you WILL BE CAST INTO THE OUTER DARKNESS loved ones.

Similarly, mistranslation of the greek and quoting out of historical, cultural and topical context has turned Paul into a misogynist when in fact he, like his Messiah, were revolutionary in their teachings, establishing in the church God's original design for man (including the restoration of gender equality and proper relations) which was restored through the redemptive work of the cross.

While it is true that salvation is an experience one can have in this life, the bible clearly points to a progression of the work of salvation in this life, toward the consummation of the redemptive work upon the coming of Christ our Lord.

While it's important for all of us to be engaged in the difficult, redemptive work of racial reconciliation, some people have made it their day job.

SDAs also believe in Ellen G. White, the founder of SDAs, as a true prophet of God, even though many of her «prophecies» failed to come true, and that Jesus entered a second phase of His redemptive work on October 22, 1844, as «prophesied» by Hiram Edson.

If you are in the midst of suffering, if you find your faith withering, if you are questioning whether God is at work — or even present — as you wait for something in your life to become beautiful, this book will be a welcome reminder that God never stops his redemptive work... and that there is a time for everything under heaven.

It was also realized that the membership of the CNI is in the grip of conservatism and fundamentalism and lacks the theological perspective of God's redemptive work in action HERE AND NOW.

On the other hand, because we are — in ways often hidden from our eyes — «preparing the way of the Lord,» the routine, often exhausting, seemingly mundane donkey - fetching details of our service are gathered into the great arc of Jesus» redemptive work in the world.

Through His grace, this allows them to partake as they are able in the divine life and thus also partake in the redemptive work of Christ.

I believe that the redemptive work of Jesus was so powerful that when He died on the cross and rose again from the dead, everything in heaven and on earth was swept up in His wake, was drawn after His lead, and was pulled onward and inward toward Him.

This chapter is not written with the view that Christianity answers every question raised in Judaism, or to prove that the Christian way of understanding God's redemptive work is superior to that of Judaism.

And He calls us to be a part of his loving, healing, creative and redemptive work in the world.

We have said that the Hebrew faith does not come to a clear resolution of the question of how the suffering either of God or the Servant enters into the redemptive work of love.

The New Testament makes the clear affirmation that it is through the suffering of Jesus that the way has been opened for the redemptive work of love.

And all of God's redemptive work is at the same time creative.

I have to let the redemptive work of Jesus show up in my interactions as a signpost pointing to the power of the Gospel.

We sought God together, looking and listening for how He was speaking to us about joining His redemptive work.

Nothing less than the whole is the field of God's redemptive work.

This standpoint represents the sharpest possible challenge to the liberal theology with its affirmation that the natural processes are the locus of God's redemptive work; and that the meaning of life is organically involved in the emergence of orders of value in history.

I point to his use of the word «come» with the sense of «willfully take action» by placing our faith and trust in the redemptive work of Christ.

There is, we do know, a redemptive work of God through which past evil, while it remains evil, can enter into the creation of present good by qualifying our moral sensitivity, and deepening our valuation of life.

«49He has already despoiled the principalities and powers in the victory of the cross yet he remains the embattled Christ, contending with all things which stand in the way of God's fulfillment of His redemptive work.50 Professor John Knox summarizes the Biblical view of our human situation after Christ has entered our history in the life and death of Jesus:

This does mean, I admit, that Dillon — through the redemptive work of COACH — might have a marginal place for Riggins nobility.)

Our need to be comfortable is at odds with the redemptive work our Comforter God is calling us to.

As reiterated in the 1990 encyclical Redemptoris Missio and the 2000 instruction from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Dominus Iesus, the teaching is that everyone who is saved is saved through the redemptive work of Christ, whether or not they have ever heard of Christ.

We shall then be ready to consider the positive implications of this theological perspective in which the creative and the redemptive work of God are affirmed together, for Christian ethics, for Christian politics, and for the life of the spirit when the Christian commitment becomes a way of meeting both life and death.

Christian hope which gathers up all particular human hopes and yet is deeper than any is founded upon the fact of the present creative and redemptive working of God in human life.

We must examine the roots of this perplexity, and show why its solution lies in an interpretation of the creative and redemptive work of God which is other than that of either liberalism or neo-orthodoxy.