Sentences with phrase «suggested by baptism»

As we grow into the world as infants, the exigencies of our physical nature lead us further and further away from the purity of soul suggested by baptism, while habitual responses gain the upper hand over our wish to follow the prompting of our higher nature.

Not exact matches

I'd like to suggest to anyone who maybe bothered by this practice, as I am, that you put it in your will that It not be done on your behalf, and if it is done, that the the Momon church be held legally responsible to recant the baptism or be sued on the behalf of all those that have been so transgressed upon.

This suggests that by the end of the first century, when John's Gospel was written, both baptism as the external sign of regeneration and the Holy Spirit as its inner agency had become linked to the concept of the kingdom.

It may well be true that no church perfectly embodies all I have suggested (though, looking back at the article, I do not think I set the practical bar very high: decent liturgy shaped by theology, helpful catechisms, good preaching, baptism, Lord's Supper, a basic grasp of history etc.).

The report ends by suggesting that keeping up intimate contacts with each other would help lead the baptised and unbaptised «into the true repentance of Baptism» and adds, «The Spirit of God blows where it wills.

Copies of two paintings in the National Gallery are recorded: a full - sized version of Piero della Francesca's Baptism (a work possibly suggested by his teacher Tom Monnington, who greatly admired Piero della Francesca) and a portrait by Van Dyck.