Sentences with phrase «through faith and love»

Milltown Pride tells the story of a young man who dreams of playing professional baseball, his rise as a baseball star, his fall from grace, and the redemption he finds through faith and love.

Not exact matches

You begin to follow the Word of God and law therein out of your love and faith stemming from the Grace extended to you through Jesus.

'' For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height — to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

It takes more faith to believe in a universe evolving from nothing or from eternal matter than to believe in a loving Creator, existing outside the limit of time, who gave us this specially designed & tuned universe to explore and to learn about caring for one another even through the midst of difficult experiences.

One might expect that Benedict was working his way backward through the theological virtues, with the first encyclical on love, the second on hope, and a later on faith.

Erica Christensen is unbelievably good as Leslie, just capturing the nuance of someone who has got a strong center to her, who isn't going to be pushed over, stands up for herself, but loves her husband dearly and feels like through her Christian faith she is now going on this incredible adventure.

Through sacramental baptism and faith we enter Christ, and in Christ we can do works of righteousness and love despite our natural sinfulness which we have inherited from Adam.

They have love lives (sometimes not the kind that would keep evangelicals happy), they have outside interests and friends beyond the Church, and the majority seem to be wrestling and stumbling their way through a life of faith.

Scripture can and should be enjoyed just by reading it and hearing the stories of love and pain, or faith and doubt echo through your own soul.

And yet when we simply meet with friends for fun, and not help them live a life of faith, love and hope through Christ, we limit what they can do for God and others both for here and for eterniAnd yet when we simply meet with friends for fun, and not help them live a life of faith, love and hope through Christ, we limit what they can do for God and others both for here and for eterniand not help them live a life of faith, love and hope through Christ, we limit what they can do for God and others both for here and for eterniand hope through Christ, we limit what they can do for God and others both for here and for eterniand others both for here and for eterniand for eternity.

Let us be a group of people who want to listen in love and work out our salvation through faith together.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

I don't know how to raise them in the faith in any other way than this: God is good, God is Love, God is for you, never against you, and when you want to dance, darling, wave your flag and spin, let the wind of the Spirit move through you.

And the life that I now live in the flesh, I live through faith in the son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.&raqAnd the life that I now live in the flesh, I live through faith in the son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.&raqand gave himself for me.»

If saving faith is contingent upon belief only, then there would be no reason for the existence of verses that reference «the obedience of faith» (Rom 1:5; 16:26) and «faith working through love» (Gal 5:6).

The grace given to us in confirmation enables us to grow to Christian maturity»... so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.»

The «two in one flesh» that is achieved through the marriage act integrally ordered to progeny, will itself be ordered to the ministry of their education and formation (cf. Luke Gormally's article in Faith, Nov / Dec 2004, Marriage: The True Environment of Sexual Love).

St. Paul meant we should overcome our selfish old nature which is tightly connected with our body through faith in Jesus, and love God and our neighbour.

1) This is not a particularly hospitable place for agnostics 2) Nothing would crush my parents more than learning that their daughter has walked away from the faith 3) I have a book deal with a Christian publisher 4) I want to keep my Christian friends 5) My doubts come and go, so there's no reason to unnecessarily drag the people I love through my drama 6) If I fake it maybe I can convince myself that everything's okay

Through faith in our saviour we know our sins are forever hidden from God and we are fully reconciled to him and loved by him.

One of the things I love about Christianity is the physicality of sacraments like communion and baptism, the way we can taste, smell, hear, see, and feel the presence of God through these beautiful acts of remembrance and faith.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have power to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and breath and height and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

There was need of that long, heroic journey through the mystical dark night, and of an exceptional development of the theological virtues of faith, hope and love, before matter could become «diaphanous» to Pere Teilhard's eyes and could reveal to him within itself not only the hallowing stream which flows from the Incarnation and the Eucharist but also the radiant presence of Christ.

He uses sign - acts to establish and maintain relationships of love in and through the community of faith.

But we can say at least this: the essential meaning of the concept of the miraculous, as this has been used in traditional theology, is grounded in the keen awareness men have of the unexpected and unprecedented experiences and happenings, the novel and hence the unusually stimulating events or circumstances of life, through which men in every age have been aroused to faith in God and have been given a deepening conviction of his love and care.

Having spent the last ten years wrestling through some tough questions related to faith, heaven, hell, and salvation, I really appreciate the personal way in which Bell frames the conversation, asking the very questions I was so afraid to ask all those years and proclaiming the same hope I only dared believe — that God doesn't give up on people, that he is ever - loving, ever - redeeming, ever pursuing.

The New Testament speaks and faith knows of an act of God through which man becomes capable of self - commitment, capable of faith and love, of his authentic life.

He is ever beyond our natural understanding, but knowledge of him is open to all through the gifts of faith, hope and love.

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that ye may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God.

But this can be done in love and knowing in faith that even we in our arguments possess that ultimate unity, through the Church, in what is the Church's real nature.

... When God saves people in this life by working through his Spirit to bring them to faith and by leading them to follow Jesus in discipleship, prayer, holiness, hope, and love, such people are designed... to be a sign and foretaste of what God wants to do for the entire cosmos.

Their upward climb to a sublime ethical monotheism and a Christian faith in redemption through the love of «the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,» gives evidence enough that in the Bible is the record of God's progressive self - disclosure.

Today we have plenty of cults, sects and false churches replacing practical love and righteousness in daily life (that would require the true faith) through ridiculous rituals (for example, the Muslims keep the 5 Pillars of Islam; that is enough to be a good Muslim, but they are not required to love all people independent from belief, nationality, etc.) The cults, sects and false churches make their members practicing a biased love.

When he warns, «Everyone who accepts circumcision is obliged to keep the whole Law» (5:3), he is speaking both literally to the Galatians and also typologically to us: If we insist on following the old customs required by those laws which have not yet been superseded by faith in Jesus Christ (that faith «which makes its power felt through love»), we will continue to be slaves, to be kept in our place, to be oppressed by those who have power through those laws to dominate us.

that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

It is given so that men and women who have come to faith through its teaching might learn to five in God's world on his terms, loving and honoring him in all that they do and seeking to make known to the world his law and gospel.

At the heart of the Christian faith is this great assurance: Although we have sinned terribly against him and our neighbors through our lovelessness, he still loves us and seeks to win us to salvation by that love.

He told us enough to build on, and a great call to faith and love, to dedication, to service and pure living in the midst of persistent evil, runs through all his teaching.

His heart is that each of us would be presented to the Father, through our fervent faith in Yahshuah, His Son, spotless, and blameless before Him in love.

Conscience, love, ideals, thoughts that «break through language and escape,» faiths and hopes that make us men indeed — not till the invisible so makes music in us are we completely fitted to this world.

Through faith in Jesus we become able to love God and our neighbour.

So Ephesians 1:15 says that the Ephesians have been glorifying God through their faith and through their love.

He encouraged experimentation with pastoral counseling which went beyond an exclusively supportive conception of counseling, because he believed that «within the Christian tradition in which we believe [is] the power of the Holy Spirit to regenerate people through merciful judgment and a loving challenge to grow through suffering into a stronger and deeper faith.»

Dear Muslim, become able to love everybody through faith in Jesus, deny your intrinsic hatred through faith in Jesus, and become a Christian today.

This is what we are to «believe in Jesus» for, that through faith in Him, we can get to a place where we fear God, and serve Him properly, and where we love our neighbors, and even ourselves God's way!

Through the loving nurture I received from that congregation, I confessed my personal faith in Jesus as Savior and Lord of my life.

Through Christian education the fellowship of believers (the church) seeks to help persons become aware of God's seeking love as shown especially in Jesus Christ and to respond in faith and love to the end that they may develop self - understanding, sell - acceptance, and self - fulfillment under God; increasingly identify themselves as sons of God and members of the Christian community; live as Christian disciples in all relations in human society; and abide in the Christian hope.

However irreproachably I lived as a monk, I felt myself in the presence of God to be a sinner with a most unquiet conscience... I did not love, indeed I hated this just God... I raged with a fierce and most agitated conscience and yet I continued to knock away at Paul in this place, thirsting ardently to know what he really meant... At last I began to understand the justice of God as that by which the just man lives by the gift of God, that is to say by faith... At this I felt myself to have been born again and to have entered through open gates into paradise itself.6

It is his disclosure of God's love, standing by man through all tragedy and despair, to which we give our witness in the faith that death can not hold or destroy what Jesus was and what he brought into human existence.

Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.»