Sentences with phrase «redemptive work in»

As Christians, conservative, liberal, and everything in between, we all agree that the point of the Bible and the story it is trying to tell us is the story of God's redemptive work in the world in and through the person of Jesus.

Jennifer Ellison feels called by God to love broken people, help others understand the Bible, and equip leaders for God's redemptive work in the world.

We are freed to ask, «Will this decision allow me to participate more fully in God's redemptive work in this world?»

Knowing, doing and being in God's will begins with looking at our lives and asking, «Are there places where we see ourselves joining with God in his redemptive work in this world?»

What's really difficult is choosing to participate in God's will, and spend our lives joining God in His redemptive work in this world of ours that so desperately needs it.

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

What vision of God's creative and redemptive work in history emerges from this analysis?

When you form your children's imaginations, you are training them to see more than just what is there — to look at the world, nature, people, and even daily life with the same eyes of the heart that God gives us to see His redemptive work in eternity.

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.

Here is a basic timetable of God's major redemptive works in history, counting from the fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden.

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He pointed to a crucifix on his lap, explaining that forgiveness is a participation in the redemptive work of Christ.

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'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.

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.

Since the covenant between God and man culminates in the redemptive work of Christ, sacramentally re-presented in the Eucharist, there is a close reciprocity between marriage and theEucharist.

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.

If it is primarily applied to the first element, it is a positive, but not an exclusive statement, since the saving power and importance of the redemptive work of Christ (as the worship of God and the sanctification of man) affect man not only through their cultic presentation in the liturgy.

Mormon theology's emphasis on the family as the redemptive unit, its system of patriarchal blessing in which each individual's membership in the household of Ephraim or Mannaseh or Judah is solemnly intoned; and its «restored» priesthood all worked to strengthen the Hebraic connection.

Such views, however, not only invariably devalue the terrestrial, but what's worse is that in their very devaluation they fail to apprehend the magnitude and universal scope of God's redemptive and re-creative work in the incarnation, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, a truly cosmic work to which Scripture bears testimony.

As created beings, we and all humans are called to the work of co-creation with God in an ongoing generative and redemptive process.

I don't know enough about evangelical culture to speak for them en masse but I do know many evangelicals who work in slums, garbage dumps and to stop human trafficking to say that it's not always true that only the pretty things are redemptive.

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.

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.

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.

God's love is that creative and redemptive power which works unceasingly in all times and places to bring to fulfillment a universal community of free and loving beings.

God's grace is manifested not only in the forgiveness of our sins but is also creatively redemptive, the power that works in us to make us perfect in love.

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 keep our vision of God most nearly steady if we do not say that either His creative or His redemptive working is prior to the other in the disclosure He makes of Himself to us.

In our formulation of the Christian life we have to do justice both to the grace and to the growth, for whatever progress in the life of love is possible, it is always progress within the structure of man's relationship to the creative and redemptive working of GoIn our formulation of the Christian life we have to do justice both to the grace and to the growth, for whatever progress in the life of love is possible, it is always progress within the structure of man's relationship to the creative and redemptive working of Goin the life of love is possible, it is always progress within the structure of man's relationship to the creative and redemptive working of God.

The interaction between these broad grounds for hope that we find in the creation itself and the redemptive forces that have been released as the result of the, work of God in Christ is the heart of the matter.

When we say there is a creative and a redemptive work of God going on in human history what is the content of our words?

Marriage is a front row seat to see the redemptive work God is doing in your partner.

The significance of the kerygma, which proclaims the redemptive work of God in Christ, lies in its opening up in a universally relevant fashion the manner of God's dealing with the whole created order in carrying out his saving purpose.

And to speak in that fashion would be to say, with Dr. Paul Knitter of Xavier University in Cincinnati (one of the brilliant young Roman Catholic process theologians of our time), that we need to «recognize the possibility that other «saviours» have carried out... for other people» the redemptive work which as Christians we know in Jesus Christ.

The power of godly men is wrought through the redemptive work of Christ in our hearts and lives.

The central message of Christianity, that Jesus bore witness to God's redemptive work and to its sovereignty in the world, provides the basis for the new theological proposal, both materially and in regard to the way tradition is handled and handed on.

Process theologians believe that this revolution in our world view must be incorporated in Christian doctrine and that it brings us closer to the biblical view of the creative and redemptive working of God than theology has been since the first century.

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 says of his chapter on «Love in the New Testament» that it «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.

The working out of that redemptive suffering sets the direction for the rest of the novel, especially as it is dramatized in the Russian Monk chapter of the life of Father Zosima and then in the ministry of his disciple Alyosha.

Root feminine identity in the curse rather than the redemptive work of Christ and then make the argument that because the ancient Near Eastern woman of Proverbs 31 is not described as consulting with the elders, then all women everywhere for all of time are restricted to the realm of the home and therefore responsible for the laundry.

In the biblical view, by contrast, the natural world is no mere setting but part of the drama which is a single unified creative - redemptive work.

It is no accident that the early church used the Lenten period to prepare catechumens for baptism, in which those who are baptized appropriate for themselves the redemptive work of Christ's death and resurrection.

Our Lady's role in the Lord's redemptive work had been underlined by his study of the writings of the French St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort.

The question is what kind of redemptive work does Christ want to do in us.

Christianity is that movement within human history in which the efficacy of Israel's witness to God's creative and redemptive work has been mediated through Jesus and the apostolic witness to God's activity in him.

Largely absent from The Thanatos Syndrome is the redemptive humor of Percy's early work, in which he discerns that his own satirists need satirizing, that the gospel is not a divine stone flung angrily at the world, and that faith is God's comic gift rather than our own stern decision.

I will put my trust in the Lord only and his promises and his redemptive work.