Sentences with phrase «sacrificial love on»

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God is not a baby - killing deity, who seeks to exact revenge on His enemies for a crime many decades old, but is a self - sacrificial, enemy - loving God, who would rather die for His enemies than see His enemies die.

That is a good point about focusing on the big picture of God's sacrificial love.

In pouring himself out in the form of a servant, and in living his humanity as an offering up of everything to God in love, the shape of the eternal Son's life was already sacrificial in this special sense; and it was this absolute giving, as God and man, that was made complete on Golgotha.

«For Paul, Jesus» death on the cross is an act of loving, self - sacrificial obedience that becomes paradigmatic for the obedience of all who are in Christ.»

Jesus didn't teach on changing the world by taking over the government; He taught on changing the world by showing radical, sacrificial, merciful love (turning the other cheek, going the extra mile, giving everything we have to the poor and following Him and His ways).

91 So Niebuhr retained his emphasis on man's freedom, sin, sacrificial love, and God's grace, vindicating their meaning by an analysis of contemporary history and experience.

While Jesus did proclaim freedom from sin, He did not do so on the basis of the sacrificial system (or even His own sacrifice), but simply on the basis of God's limitless love, mercy, grace, and forgiveness.

This is because her life radiates beauty: through her hospitality to friends and strangers alike, through her joyful laugh, through her care of those in need, through her passion for education, through her love of framing things on film through the lens of a camera, through her ability to be patient with her doofus husband, through her genuine love for God, through her sacrificial generosity to those with less than we have, and even through her stubborn refusal to let me get away with any of my trademark snark.

The Law can support a stable society based on reciprocal altruism; but it can not transform self - interested moralism into self - sacrificial love.

In societies in which violence is rampant on the street and in the media, the nursing Virgin can perhaps communicate God's love to people in a way that a violent image, the image of one more sacrificial victim, can not.

The perfect expression of God's grace is the sacrificial love demonstrated by Christ on the Cross.

The Beatitudes reveal the attitudes, or character, needed to become a transformative presence in society and go far beyond the demands of the Decalogue which are based on self - interested moralism; not self - sacrificial love.

Cross Vision, teaches believers how to interpret the Old Testament's violent portraits of God through the lens of the cross and to thereby see how these portraits bear witness to the self - sacrificial, non-violent, enemy - embracing love of God revealed on Calvary.

Many differences in situation and opinion separated Jesus and Paul but with regard to the central ethical principle of whole - hearted reliance on the power and persuasiveness of sacrificial love, Paul, as the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians shows, understood Jesus very well.

«On this betrayal night Jesus still invites us to share bread and wine that we may be one with Him in sacrificial love».

Boyd says that out of self - sacrificial love, as seen in Jesus on the cross, God stooped or accommodated to human sin and failures.

Much of mimetic theory truly does view sin and satan as powers that have enthralled the world, and that through his non-violent self - sacrificial, non-accusatory love and forgiveness on the cross, Jesus truly defeated and exposed them.

Modeling God's sacrificial love in our parenting is reflected by making parenting choices based on our children's needs, not our convenience.

Trust me, even at your best, you will not have the patience and sacrificial love required to sustain a thriving marriage on your own.