Sentences with phrase «through human words»

Our understanding of the Spirit - illuminated Word must arise from the «mystery of the sovereign freedom of the substance,» the subject matter, which invites us through human words and the movement of the Spirit to «investigate the humanity of the word by which it is told.»

Best Metaphor: Jeff Clarke with «Embracing the Humanity of the Bible: Listening for the Divine through Human Words»

Not exact matches

Make it abundantly clear through words and actions that you are devoted to the community, and most likely you'll be amazed at the rash of new clients that will be willing to work with you because not only are they interested in your product, they like and respect you as a human being.

Leaders who are guided by faith, not fear, demonstrate through their actions, not mere words, what their core values are as a human being.

Sometimes, we tend to forget that putting words out through a computer can rob us of our human voices; one way to reclaim a jovial nature is to use emojis and emoticons.

Dr. Misner has written extensively about the unique form of marketing created through word of mouth referrals and Morgan brings an extensive background in psychology and organizational development to the intricate discussion of human success.

I've been able to accommodate faith and science, at least to a degree by Paul's words about our flawed human understanding and seeing through a glass darkly..

@ lionlylamb: per rightly dividing the word... the video below is what Paul was talking about (focusing on Christ), not philosophical abstractions... «See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.»

I do believe that the Word of GOD is alive through the Power of the HOLY SPIRIT inside our total human beings (Body, Soul, Spirit);

The word cyberspace in its roots thus well describes any space that is a field for human effects through environmental interaction.

And if God chooses to convict us through the words of another broken human, we can easily interpret conviction as being judgmental, behavior modification, rule - making, legalism or worst of all — shame.

It is right to acknowledge that this gap in the human experience of the Word Incarnate causes difficulty to some people, for it seems on the surface that this most vital area of personal relationship and responsibility is to some extent a room which Christ has not been through before us.

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.

Radiant Word, blazing Power, you who mould the manifold so as to breathe your life into it; I pray you, lay on us those your hands — powerful, considerate, omnipresent, those hands which do not (like our human hands) touch now here, now there, but which plunge into the depths and the totality, present and past, of things so as to reach us simultaneously through all that is most immense and most inward within us and around us.

That work of the Holy Spirit in guiding human authors to compose and record through their personalities God's selected message without error in the words of the original documents.

The imposition of Word upon king is sharply attested again in that brilliant scene immediately preceding the death of Ahab in the middle of the ninth century (I Kings 22) The Word through Micaiah works its radical historical effects, and another prophet is instrumental in the efficacious juxtaposition of divine life and will upon human events.

In other words, the earthly, matter - bound origin of human nature calls forth God's greatest act of loving care and humility — the Incarnation of God the Word through which humanity is united to Godhead in a union more intimate than with any other creature and gradually raised to immortality.

To those impatient political enthusiasts who talk loudly on how futile and impractical religion must always be, and who are bent on legislating human equality into existence, Kierkegaard offers a word of counsel, «Only that which is religious can with the assistance of eternity press the equality of men through to its ultimate conclusions: the reverent, genuine, unworldly, true, the only possible equality between men.

The human son, whom we know as Jesus, through the descent of the Word to our human level, is full of grace, even as God himself is, so that he is also the Truth itself, even as God is.

For evangelizing, in its essence, is taking the authentic Christian gospel (albeit with the limitations of human understanding) through word or deed to those who need it and are at least prepared enough to take a look at it.

Nonetheless, according to Paul, Abraham wrestled with his doubts, discounted his own experience, rejected skepticism, and clung to the promise of God: «No apistia, no suspicion, made him waver Thus, Abraham becomes the prototype of the community of faith, which interprets all human experience through trust in God's word.

As a physical object, the Bible is never only the word of God, but comes mediated through the human hands of publishers, translators, editors, and booksellers.

The early Christian thought considered these as inspirations of the Divine Word and Spirit that is present to all persons through human history.

It breaks through human life, human time, and into human history, and in doing so, it possesses and releases its own power, with or without the consent of the human instrument through whom the Word is proclaimed.

Young men and women today feel themselves challenged to identify themselves with the community and institution devoted to the service of God rather than with an ideal; the human need of which they are made aware is one that only the community can minister to; the words through which they hear the Word of God addressed to them are likely to be the words of the Church.

In some such fashion we can come to understand the Christian conviction that through Jesus Christ God is decisively present and at work, «representing» (in Schubert Ogden's admirable word) the possibility present in human nature as such, establishing a reconciliation of human existence with God's intention for it, and revealing the divine nature in human terms and with a singular intensity.

The essence of the message is that in and through the Cross, where all human hope is silenced and all human dreams are vanquished, God speaks the Word of life in death.»

I served as a chaplain for many years and understood that my role was not to represent one faith but to re-present through my presence the compassion of all faiths and no faiths — in other words, human kindness for humankind.

Has the author considered that God, through the Holy Spirit is an active participant both in transmitting the integrity of His inspired Word throughout time, and to its illumination in the human heart that prayerfully seeks His Truth?

The fact that revelation was accomplished through the word attaches meaning and value to human language.

Contrary to this evidence of reality as seen, God continues to act toward human beings only through the word; that is, through proposal and discretion.

Our regular guide to the Word of God in the Sunday Liturgy 23RD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME: B 07.09.03 Mk 7, 31 - 37 Grace perfects through human nature.

In other words, the Incarnation of Jesus has transformed the entire human species and all of nature; it is a completely finished work, and this transformed nature enables us to contemplate the divine through «indirect thought.»

Quite specifically, since God creates and governs through his Word, and the human being is the image of God, called by God to subdue (govern) and have dominion (command), he can only do it by the same means; that is, the wWord, and the human being is the image of God, called by God to subdue (govern) and have dominion (command), he can only do it by the same means; that is, the wordword.

As God has spoken his word in diverse cultural situations, the church is confident that he will continue to speak through the Scriptures in a changing world and in every form of human culture.

In each case the fraction can disclose the basic human imaginative working that through millennia has given form to primal sound and matter to render it Word and Sacrament, melody, and cleansing.

They declared that Jesus was the expression, in such fashion that men could see it, of the Eternal God Himself, that he was and is the Logos, the Word, through whom God touches human life, that in him was life, and that that life is the light of men.

The fall of Adam and Eve, the covenants with Israel and its deliverance from bondage, its falling away and punishment through new sufferings, the speaking of the divine word through the prophets, the birth of Christ in human flesh, the life and death of Jesus, the experience of the resurrection, and the history of the Church, the expectation of the final events and the established reign of God in love and peace — all this is the Biblical understanding of what God has done, is doing, and will continue to do for the judgment and redemption of the world.

But as humans we must speak, and through the Word in Christ God spoke, so we continue in our idolatry because we have no other choice — we must speak and as people of faith we must speak about God.

Through the hypostatic union of God the Word with the human nature, men are given the highest possible destiny - beatific transformation as co-sharers of the infinite Godhead.

That does not mean that every translation is word - for - word accurate or «inspired», but simply that God protects the message of the Gospel through human hands.

For Tanner, what is decisive about Jesus is that, through the Word taking on human nature in the Incarnation, humanity is itself purified from sin» and given what, by nature, is beyond it: participation in the life of God.

In the words of an ancient prayer, it is the visible expression of «that wonderful and sacred mystery» which speaks to us and works on us, through the very imperfection, weakness, error, and even the sin of the empirical institution, to manifest in the world of time and space the abiding reality of God's operation in the event of Christ for human wholeness.

The Word becomes true myth in order to redeem all history through ongoing transformations of the human spirit.

There is also delicate analysis of how God works through decisions of humans whether or not they are responsive to God's word through the prophet.

Ordination to ministry sets people aside to be responsible for the care of the human spirit through Word and sacrament.

The Bible, they say, is God's word to humankind, but it's been mediated through human authors and therefore might contain some mistakes.

It always includes: announcement of God's Kingdom and love through Jesus Christ, the offer of grace and forgiveness of sins, the invitation to repentance and faith in him, the summons to fellowship in God's church, the command to witness to God's saving words and deeds, the responsibility to participate in the struggle for justice and human dignity, the obligation to denounce all that hides human wholeness, and a commitment to risk life itself.

In the process of that widening estrangement, Christianity has lost its understanding of the Jewishness of Jesus; has lost touch with the culture out of which the message of Jesus was spoken, thus bringing a Gentile definition to Jewish words; and has lost its sense of the immediacy of God's working through scandalous particulars in human history in order to affirm the universal goodness of his creation.

In other words, if God has divinely intervened within human affairs in order to «bless» Alabama running back Mark Ingram with a particularly good game on Saturday, what does that say about the family of refugees in Uganda who beg God for just enough food to get through the day... but to no avail?