Sentences with word «sacrificial»

For the Christian community, the life of Christ is the focal expression of God's nature as sacrificial love.

It was only gradually that Christ's death as sacrificial victim came to be emphasized in Western theology as the most compelling proof of God's love.

Loney suggests that it may be that these folks were fortunate enough to have «rescuers» — individuals who reached out in sacrificial love and kept them from falling.

Archeologists have found altars, religious carvings, and the remains of sacrificial victims in some of these caves.

In ancient times, they used these sites for sacrificial offerings... and, they were believed to be entry points to the underworld — or the after - life.

In time, and with practice, we can stop looking around the office for sacrificial lambs and scapegoats, and follow Harry Truman's lead.

While being held, the couple apparently treated their captors with sacrificial love.

There may well be some electronic ministries that budget their income responsibly, but they are clearly overshadowed by those whose extravagant life styles are supported by sacrificial giving of people who fail to recognize the schemes of those asking for their donations.

But they who by sacrificial offering, charity, and austerity conquer the worlds, pass into the smoke (of the cremation - fire); from the smoke, into the night; from the night, into the half month of the waning moon; from the half month of the waning moon, into the six months during which the sun moves southwaid; from those months, into the world of the fathers; from the world of the fathers, into the moon.

The Vedic search for unity was combined in the Brahmanic period with a quest for the cosmic power associated with sacrificial ritual.

What about sacrificial altars?

«The reason why disciples must follow in the way of sacrificial living is that there is a coming judgement» (Hill, p. 265).

(3) It is all theory and nothing about response, living lives of sacrificial service for the kingdom, all of which form part of the early church's message (see Phil 2 again), but often sadly missing today.

Although the fear of black cats is not as wide - spread as it once was, some shelters still refuse to adopt black cats out in the month prior to Halloween in order to prevent their use as holiday «props» or, worse, as sacrificial animals during witchcraft or satanic rituals taking place around the holiday.

Jesus was the High Priest after the order of Melchizedek» — the High Priest who fulfilled and therefore abolished the whole sacrificial cult when he offered his own blood as a sacrifice in the heavenly sanctuary.

When it gets down to it, I doubt that Catholic parents will let their children become sacrificial lambs.

Throw on your spelunking gear because this month we're wading deep into a Central American cave the Maya used for sacrificial rites.

The Mayans made sacrificial offerings on its chest, including human blood and hearts.

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(And without Michael Bay anywhere in the production credits as sacrificial goat.)

But the first step should be to put so - called sacrificial anodes on bunker - fuel tanks.

Major myths are rooted in sacrificial violence, prescribe it, and shield us from awareness of our complicity in it.

To be sure, it may have been only a painted stick, a hideous idol, an altar red with sacrificial blood.

He is the one through whose sacrificial action God touches and renews this world.

For instance, steel, which is one of the key materials used in the construction of armour systems, can be partially replaced with sand as a cost - effective, environmentally friendly, and lightweight sacrificial layer, given its superior energy absorption performance.

With the price of literally all cryptos having been slaughtered like sacrificial lambs, do you place your beliefs in bitcoin or the heretics?

But even in individual and personal relations the ultimate level of sacrificial self - giving is not reached without an intermediate level of justice.

The cave system consists of a series of chambers, ending in a 300 by 50 meter Cathedral where sacrificial ceremonies once took place.

The Bible is somewhat similar, except that instead of turning out to be pathetic and sad, the story of Scripture reveals a loving and self - sacrificial God which looks in every way just like Jesus Christ.

My aim will be to show that, on the contrary, according to the Summa, the specifically sacrificial aspect depends on the ritual actions, the things done, and not on the Real Presence, the thing offered.

The life in the cosmos is saved and sustained through the messianic sacrificial spirit.

As Shawcross puts it, «she found, like her mother before her... an almost sacrificial quality at the heart of the service».

Haines and assistant curator Jackie von Treskow have written eloquently about how the exhibit's military setting «turns a spotlight on the often sacrificial role of soldiers [and] on the thin line between defense and attack» and the way in which the ocean directly below evokes images of «diaspora and displacement... lives adrift...»

Amazingly, some of the reservoirs at the Ceiba site still function, and the entire area is dotted with sacrificial remains and buried pottery fragments.

There is a notable lack of wailing sacrificial virgins, which I assumed were an important part of the process, but I'm no expert.

Well, Jim needs sacrificial radiator hoses.

Niebuhr does talk about sacrificial love as an ideal and also as a solvent in human affairs.

The cave system consists of a series of chambers, ending in a 300 by 50 meter cathedral where sacrificial ceremonies once took place.

God presented Christ as sacrificial atonement through His blood!

And this is the metaphor on which sacrificial atonement is based, btw.