Sentences with phrase «sanctifying life»

Evangelical Catholicism celebrates the seven sacraments as divinely given means of sanctifying life.

Still, I have always hoped that God blessed him for this and enabled him to sanctify his life through his choice.

For without the atomized and celestial cosmologies there could not be any cellular cosmologies of sanctified living realms!

All man's efforts to redeem and sanctify life are declared meaningful by the resurrection.

There is still a divine imperative that beckons us forward, and the Holy Spirit goes with us to sanctify our living toward what ought to be an ever increasing holiness.

«We trust that long ago you began to weigh and ponder all this, and that you are fully determined, by the grace of God, to give yourselves wholly to his service and devote to him your best powers of mind and spirit, so that as you daily follow the rule and teaching of our Lord, with the heavenly assistance of his Holy Spirit, you may grow up into his likeness, and sanctify the lives of all with whom you have to do.»

if we do not honor God's name today sanctifying our lives, in the day of reckoning in court of God, we will not have words to defend our case.

I would say that evangelicals need a deeper conversion to the truth, which is central to the Wesleyan call to the sanctified life.

I can not let these questions go, for I remain convinced that any truthful account of Christian convictions requires a display of the sanctified life.

how ye ought to forsake and set aside, as much as ye may, all worldly cares and studies... to give yourselves wholly to this Office, whereunto it hath pleased God to call you... and draw all your cares and studies this way that so, by prayer for the assistance of the Holy Ghost, and by daily reading and weighing the Scriptures, ye may wax riper and stronger in your Ministry; and that ye may so endeavour yourselves... to sanctify the lives of you and yours, and to fashion them after the Rule and Doctrine of Christ, that ye may be wholesome and godly examples and patterns for the people to follow.1

Secondly, I believe that it is important to live a sanctified life, set apart for the Lord.

Not exact matches

Christians believe that a mortal person has an immortal soul, and that this immortal soul can be provided with a resurrected, «sanctified» (which effectively means purified, unblemished, and apparently lacking genitalia) body... the term Eternal Life tends to be used to describe the idea that a «True Believer» in Christ (a term open to many, many interpretations) will have their immortal soul implanted in that resurrected body and they will get to live for all time with Christ, apparently singing a lot and doing very little else.

If and when actual grace is given, it should lead to contrition, repentance, and a life lived in conformity to Christ — a life infused with agape, lived in sanctifying grace.

In this view, Christians were called to be priests to the world, purifying and sanctifying its everyday life from within.

That said, I have found the strongest peace in my own heart on my own eternally secure life to be the new birth and union with Christ (His life now my own life — indistinguishable), the present existence God views me in (sanctified, glorified, seated, etc) and simply that I am purchased and no longer my own.

Further, while some contend that the soul sanctifies biology, thus delineating the uniqueness of human life, the simple presence of the soul fails to engender life as the Christian faith understands it.

That Christ may enter deeply into us we need alternatively the work that dilates the heart and the sorrow that brings death to it, the life that enlarges a man in order that he may be sanctifiable and the death that diminishes him in order that he may be sanctified.

It is rather that in the incarnation of the Word of God humanity has been taken into unity with God; human life has been sanctified; and a way has been opened for all men in every century and in all circumstances to enter into their right relationship to the Creator (the relationship of sons to their Father) through God's gracious approach to them in Christ and the response of trust and obedience which God in Christ evokes from them.

For the life of each individual to be sanctified by that Word it is not necessary that there should have been a myriad separate incarnations.

Temple life sanctified the conquest's booty, proving with every libation Jewish love for Creation.

This is the life - long process of being sanctified, that is, of becoming more holy.

He will both sanctify them and keep them without blame in this new life in Christ.

Circumcision emphasizes, even as it also restricts and transcends, the natural and the generative, sanctifying them in the process: Under God's command, men willingly produce in their living and generational flesh the mark of their longing for God, of their desire for His benevolence and care.

Jesus has borne ours sins when he died for us on the cross, he lives in order to sanctify us through the Holy Spirit.

But by graciously giving us the Psalms, God has sanctified our human experience and drawn it into His own life in the Bible.

The Sabbath is meant as a time of rest from the world — a period of non-work and delight in which one's «useless» activity both fosters a recognition of the divine and sanctifies and refreshes ongoing life.

The biblical faith, with roots in revolutionary messianic hope which is itself rooted in the prophetism of ancient Israel / Judah, is even now, and daily, used to sanctify and perpetuate the life, culture, security, and privilege not now of imperialist Rome but of the imperialist United States.

In this book he argued that religion created a conscience which is quick to understand social need, that religious philanthropy gives charitably but without raising ultimate questions about the causes of social maladjustment, that religion «unifies individuals, stabilizes societies, creates social imagination and sanctifies social life; but it also perpetuates ancient evils, increases social inertia, creates illusions and preserves superstitions.

How, minister to royalty, who call The prophets troublers of the church, Disturbers of the Christian peace, meddlers In matters — so they say — irrelevant To life in faith and hope and love; for whom The double altar is imperative; Who seek to shape the deity in form That sanctifies the royal of the earth?

Instead, the most ordinary realms of life — what the ancients would have regarded as realms that have «an infrastructural relation» to the good life — can now be sanctified by a God - fearing spirit.

Those who experience the forgiveness of sins in Jesus Christ are sanctified and are also called to follow Christ in their daily life.

(26) She is therefore holy, though she has sinners in her bosom, because she herself has no other life but that of grace: it is by living by her life that her members are sanctified; it is by removing themselves from her life that they fall into sins and disorders that prevent the radiation of her sanctity.

All were dressed in widow's black, village women come on pilgrimage to the Places sanctified by Christ's birth, life and death.

It is clear in the history of Catholicism that its moral teaching embodies and sanctifies the relative social and cultural values of those civilizations in which the Church was formed and in which it has lived.

And, worse still, some of the «sanctified» are hard to live with!

The graveside prayer, the Kaddish, says «May God's great name be exalted and sanctified in the world which will be renewed, and where God will revive the dead and raise them to eternal life.»

His teachings on the subject combined the spiritual athleticism of William Law's Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, the Moravian emphasis on felt assurance of salvation (which Wesley extended to include sanctification), and the Puritan insistence onminute examination of conscience coupled with sanctified action in all spheres of lLife, the Moravian emphasis on felt assurance of salvation (which Wesley extended to include sanctification), and the Puritan insistence onminute examination of conscience coupled with sanctified action in all spheres of lifelife.

He has lived a righteous life; he has kept himself sanctified, clean, righteous.

That glorious treasure which was just as old as faith in Abraham's heart, many, many years older than Isaac, the fruit of Abraham's life, sanctified by prayers, matured in conflict — the blessing upon Abraham's lips, this fruit was now to be plucked prematurely and remain without significance.

Bread and wine, for example, become the Body and Blood of Christ, just as baptismal water effects or actualizes the new life of sanctifying grace in the believer.

Up to now, spouses who really sought to live their conjugal relationship as God wished, to sanctify themselves in and through their marriage, received little orientation from the teaching of the Church, aside from the idea that a certain abstinence is a recommendable means not just of family planning but of positive growth in married sanctity.

Everyone agrees that it is right, moral and proper to sanctify, protect and value «life.»

There can be only one reason and that is because many of us have been conditioned by years of misguided church teaching to look upon gay and lesbian individuals as morally inferior, unworthy and therefore undeserving of that which we uphold as good and sanctified in our lives.

But in the sanctified imagination of Grünewald, he is called back from the dead to make one last appearance in salvation history with the same message he had once delivered during his life on earth.

God The Father and God The Son and God The Holy Ghost are HOLY, SANCTIFIED and commands that HIS SERVANTS be HOLY, SANCTIFIED and SEPARATE, we go into The World to Preach His Gospel, but we are NOT to be «of the world» Meaning, we are not to follow WORLDLY STANDARDS in our lives, but apply HIS MOST HOLY STANDARDS to our lives.

It is my judgment that the theme of presence must be critically addressed, because a presumed, uncritical presence functions to legitimate and sanctify much that is false and destructive in our common life.

«For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the UNCLEAN, sanctifies for the PURIFYING of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, CLEANSE your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?»

This is illustrated by Paul in Ephesians 5, Christ's life and sacrifice serves to cleanse and sanctify His bride the church.

It gives spouses the grace to love each other with the love with which Christ has loved his Church; the grace of the sacrament thus perfects the human love of the spouses, strengthens their indissoluble unity and sanctifies them on the way to eternal life.»

Rather, they contend, the Anglican way of discerning truth is by means of communion itself, through the unity of a Scripture - immersed and sanctified people whose lives are shaped by the Church's ancient eucharistic worship and prayer.