Sentences with phrase «sake of the world»

Thus Evangelical Catholicism seeks to be a culture - forming counterculture for the sake of the world, its healing, and its conversion.

I certainly believe that, unless the world one day decides to abandon the abrahmic religions, for the sake of World peace the Jews should have a special place.

To twist Bonhoeffer on his ear, I'm becoming church for the sake of the world, aren't I, making up for the lost souls who waste their money on romance novels and self - help schlock?

For the Sake of the World (CD / DVD) Bethel Church — I pretty much downloaded this album for the sake of the song, This is Amazing Grace.

My answer is that I am strongly convinced that for our own sake and for the sake of the world, Jesus remains the one we are called to follow.

As far as I am personally concerned, Scripture has been given for the sake of this world in which I live, for it is this world which Christ came to redeem and where we pray to see God's kingdom come.

It is because of this conviction that I undertook the project I would like to share with you today, a project that draws together two quite unlikely conversation partners for the sake of a world that needs to be known and responded to.

The Christian himself can conceive no ideal of love higher than that of the Boddhisattva who renounces his own final blessedness for the sake of the world.

Bonhoeffer maintains that the Biblical understanding of God directs us to a powerless and suffering God who is with us and who calls us to share his suffering for the sake of the world.

What we need is an enveloping presence, one that surrounds us like a blanket, for if we fail in living into presence for the sake of the world, in some sense God also fails.

He acknowledged the president's influenced and prayed that Obama would «continue to leverage this influence for the sake of our nation and the sake of the world.»

There are two factors in it the unifying grace of the Spirit and the humble efforts of believers, who do not seek their own, but are united in faith, in adoration, and in love and service of Christ for the sake of the world.

For the sake of the world, God remained silent while Christ cried out to Him, nailed to a tree.

Don C. Richter is associate director of the Valparaiso Project on the Education and Formation of People in Faith and author of Mission Trips That Matter: Embodied Faith for the Sake of the World (Upper Room Books).

A 100 - million - dollar, biblically accurate wooden replica of Noah's ark can find its true value only by directing us to the wood of the Cross and the one who died on it for the sake of the world.

To bear fruit is to allow ourselves to be crushed for the sake of the world, and become wine in the chalice so that others may drink of it.

I also don't expect people to «act» like «good christians» but I do believe that God has called us for the sake of the world, and that we do have something to offer... not a pretence... yes reality and acceptance FOR ALL as they (and we) are... but is there more to being a christian than this?

We Christians must never be taken in by worldly attacks on humility — not only for our souls» sakes, but for the sake of the world itself.

Christians must never be taken in by worldly attacks on humility — not only for our souls» sakes, but for the sake of the world itself.

His notion is to give AIDS a covert helping hand at genocide — for the sake of the world at large, of course.

For the sake of the world's malnourished billions and its overtaxed soil, water and biota, we need to prove that the absolutists are wrong and that there really is a road between.

It's empty, bleak, and stately for long stretches as our core triumvirate of Ron (Rupert Grint), Hermione (Emma Watson), and Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) search a Tennysonian wilderness for some essential part of themselves valuable enough to offer up for the sake of the world.

For the sake of the world's poor, let's hope Pearson has as much success creating parental choice laws as they have creating new schools.

Hinako transforms into the magical Reflector form and protects the world from devastating forces for the sake of the world, and her own dream that she thought she had to give up on.

I just want to know how many that advocate strong change for the sake of the world hang their laundry.