Sentences with phrase «sacrificial life»

Jesus, as the ultimate peacemaker, shows us that the life and work of peacemaking isn't some fairy tale euphoria, but the gritty, subversive and sacrificial life of faithfulness to a God and kingdom that lives by a different standard than the systems and powers of the world.

Only «over the long term,» Matthew Levering answers, and even then only with «bold Christian witness in leading sacrificial lives, lives of ecstatic love.»

The meaning and truth of God's self - revelation in Christ is known through identification with the incarnation, both in sacrificial living and in significant dying.

The one thing I do know is that when I have been intentional about living a self - sacrificial life like Christ, and explaining that to those around me, they tend to see the beauty of it and follow!

Most Buddhists acknowledge and respect the fact Jesus lived a self - sacrificial life and had compassion on those who were in spiritual need.

Here, for example, is what she said in her 1999 Christmas address: «I hope that, like me, you will be comforted by the example of Jesus of Nazareth who, often in circumstances of great adversity, managed to live an outgoing, unselfish and sacrificial life.

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

The healing work of Christ, which, building upon his forgiveness, is the necessary preparation for heaven, is enabled through his sacrificial life, death and resurrection.

When you skipped a meal or altered your social routine, you were trying to remember, if not always successfully, Jesus» sacrificial life and death.

Monasticism undoubtedly offers a way for some, but it is not the only way to the sacrificial life of love.

Christ's sacrificial life and death are too sacred to be so misrepresented.

``... We can wonder, «If I am to lead a sacrificial life, how can I eat, how can I clothe myself or have a house of my own?»

Sacrificial living.