Sentences with phrase «than the gospel of»

The prospertiy gospel — sounds more like the American dream than the gospel of Jesus Christ does it not?

They ought to blast the sick behavior of clerics, they ought to blast the fact that they have lost their moral authority, because they are more concerned in advancing a Marxist agenda, rather than the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Two verses, Mark 14:28; 16:7, may be later even than the Gospel of Luke, though earlier than Matthew.

The true dilemma is with churches who preach the American dream rather than the gospel of Jesus.

No one in his right senses denies the authenticity of most of the letters, or epistles, included in the New Testament, and several of these are considerably earlier documents than the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

No book in all the world makes this clearer than the Gospel of John.

And if you think about it, a person has a more difficult time explaining romantic love, for instance, or beauty, or the Trinity, than the gospel of Jesus.

Not exact matches

This means that no matter how often your PR team is out there sharing the gospel or the CEO is on television, Inc. magazine or TechCrunch talking about your company, nothing is more effective than the voice of your employees.

Read Revelations and look this up * Spirit to be poured out on all flesh (Joel 2:28) * Universal apostasy (2 Thessalonians 2:1 - 4) * The watering down of the gospel, teaching the doctrines of man rather than those of God.

As part of my own continual searching, I find myself with more appreciation of the Gospel than I've had in years.

1st Timothy 3.7 Now, being disgraced for the Gospel's sake is totally different than falling out of favor amongst those to whom you are to be salt...

They obviously believe in the gospel according to feminism more than in the gospel of Christ.

But most of all, we should expect more from ourselves than to sink to the narrative of victimhood and vengeance while ignoring the Gospel that has the power to set us all free from the cycle of anger and oppression.

As one person said to me, «If we are serious about sharing the gospel around the world, shouldn't we be glad that we still have missionaries who pray rather than setting up a bureau of prayer inspectors!»

They move to San Francisco, become gay, and zealously preach the gospel of atheism whether people want to hear them or not... all the while thinking how much different and better than daddy they are.

In his acclaimed Narnia series, C.S. Lewis illustrated the Gospel as a magic deeper than the Deep Magic, from before the dawn of time.

In such a time, appeals to the spiritual greatness of the Russian nation may be an essential witness to the Gospel rather than a capitulation to the powers that be.

There are more contradictions in your bible including the gospels, than Bobby Henderson, could fit into the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the modern day equivalent to the jesus» myth.

The lay vocation, as understood by Evangelical Catholicism, is primarily one of evangelism: of the family, the workplace, and the neighborhood, and thus of culture, economics, and politics, bringing the gospel into all of those parts of the world to which the laity have greater access than those who are ordained.

Billy Graham has preached to tens of millions of people face - to - face, with some estimates saying more than two billion people in total have heard the Gospel through his minstry.

Despite the reliance on the gospel the directors state that the process of healing is much more than «praying the prayer» and seeking instant healing from all difficulties.

And in doing so, they'd gotten stuck inside what Polish philosopher Wojciech Chudy, an intellectual great - grandson of John Paul II, called the post-Kantian «trap of reflection»: thinking - about - thinking - about - thinking, rather than thinking about reality — in this case, the Gospel and its truths.

This series on «practical wisdom,» which coincides with the release of my newest book, Wide Awake, reminds me that for our community here in Los Angeles, the Gospel has become so much more than this.

Actually, «Aquahealer», we know that some of the gospels were in written form within no more than 20 years of the crucifixion and resurrection because they are MENTIONED in the writings of Jewish leaders who pronounced anathema upon anyone who so much as dared to READ THEM!

How come this Reverend talked about the Gospel of Christ rather than telling us how filthy America and the white man is like Reverend Wright always did?»

In this statement, the prologue to the Gospel of John, Gadamer discovered «an idea that is not Greek and does more justice [than Greek ideas] to the being of language.»

Even at 14, having grown up in the church you certainly know more about the gospel than someone not of the faith.

Some who speak from a Christian perspective still think that mildly socialist ideas such as anti - individualism, collectivist projects, income equality, and a vision of full state welfare benefits are closer to the mandate of the Gospel than are democratic capitalist institutions.

As Todd Brenneman argues in his recent book, Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism, sentimentality may be a defining characteristic of religious life for many Americans, and so most readers in the dominant Evangelical culture, outside a few hip and urban churches, are more likely to encounter the treacly poetry of Ruth Bell Graham than the spiritually searing work of R. S. Thomas or T. S. Eliot.

I do know that if I followed the guidelines of one liturgical commission, suggesting that I greet each penitent at the church doors with an open Gospel book and then lead a procession to a reconciliation room which looks more like an occasion of sin than a shrine for its absolution, the number of confessions in the middle of the metropolis where I serve would be severely reduced.

The mass marketing of the Gospel isn't over, but it's going to be people driven more than market driven.

He is using 2 different Greek works (heteros --RRB- and (allos) to show that the believers at Galatia are being led astray by those who are presenting a gospel of a «COMPLETELY different kind» — heteros, than what they had received.

Background About two years ago, I published an article called The Gospel is More than «Faith Alone in Christ Alone» in the Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society.

Without the truths of the death and resurrection of Jesus, there is no gospel, but the gospel is way more than a message about justification and how to get eternal life.

The gospel is much broader and more far - reaching than that, involving truths and ideas which affect all areas of life.

Rather than viewing conflict as the second greatest evil, conflict is an opportunity to grow and give the world something beautiful, a picture of the gospel, a picture of God.

Jesus» original disciples likely never thought of him as anything more than a great rabbi, and some might have thought him a good rallying point for a revolt, they could have even whispered that he was anointed by God, but the idea of his being divine only seems to enter into the gospels around the time many Greek educated folks had converted, bringing their own views of what a «son of God» means into the faith.

But in terms of priorities, focus, and direction, assumed evangelicalism begins to give gradually increasing energy to concerns other than the gospel and key evangelical distinctives, to gradually elevate secondary issues to a primary level, to be increasingly worried about how it is perceived by others and to allow itself to be increasingly influenced both in content and method by the prevailing culture of the day.

Its sad that religion is the gospel of many churchs today rather than a real relationship with Christ based on his grace rather than works.Just as cains offering wasnt acceptable to the Lord its the same for churchs today the Lord is not pleased by our efforts he does nt need our efforts they do not build Gods kingdom nor do mans programmes..

I want you to go further than we have gone, to be bolder than we have been, to be braver, to preach the Gospel of freedom and goodness and welcome to every corner of your influence.

Donald Trump had an encounter with the gospel of Jesus Christ and rather than propping him up, it made him uncomfortable... as tends to happen with anyone who is actually paying attention, myself included.

Hence, in order to understand the meaning of the gospel for a wider community than the first generation, these Fathers are our best source.

Lutheran theology's antinomian tendency makes it perhaps more vulnerable than the other Reformation traditions in spite of the countervailing forces of its sociology and its doctrinal tradition, although here and there an older methodology, which understands that the Gospel does not negate the commandments, lives side by side with neo-Lutheranism and makes possible at least a tentative no to the likes of the task force.

It is much more difficult to risk the self - interest of our family members, especially the ones who do not share our faith commitment, than it is to risk our own self - interest for the sake of the Gospel.

I suspect that advocates of religious patriarchy perpetuate the narrative of a «radical feminist agenda» because it is easier to dismiss calls for equality when they appear to come from the «outside» than when they come from a response to gospel itself.

The Gospel is more than enough — of course it is!

Wright criticizes Reformers for failing to stress «the great narrative of God, Israel, Jesus, and the world, coming forward into our own day and looking ahead to the eventual renewal of all things» so that their readings of the gospels «show little awareness of them as anything other than repositories of dominical teaching, concluding with the saving events of Good Friday and Easter but without integrating those events into the Kingdom - proclamation that preceded them.»

Two of my favorite books include Being White: Finding our Place in a Multi-Ethnic World by Paula Harris and Doug Schaupp, and More Than Equals: Racial Healing for the Sake of the Gospel by Spencer Perkins and Chris Rice.

D. Martyn Lloyd - Jones (1899 - 1981)[in an excerpt from Romans: The New Man, An Exposition of Chapter 6, Banner of Truth, 1972] said: There is no better test as to whether a man is really preaching the New Testament gospel of salvation than this, that some people might misunderstand it and misinterpret it to mean that it really amounts to this, that because you are saved by grace alone it does not matter at all what you do; you can go on sinning as much as you like because it will redound all the more to the glory of grace.

If we answer the question of «what is God like» with anything other than Jesus of Nazareth, we end with something less than the gospel.