Sentences with phrase «through love of self»

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Like many Internet professionals today, Alex is self taught and has evolved his expertise in digital marketing through his love of learning and experimentation.

During my college years, I was transformed from self - reliant agnostic to a committed disciple of Christ, much through the witness and love of the members of a «third - wave» charismatic fellowship.

It is only through the formation that comes from loving God with all our heart (worship) that we become capable of loving our neighbor as our self (justice).

For Griffiths, the Church is a place, through the sacraments and the works of mercy, for learning the practices of receptivity and gifting, and thereby of conformity to Christ's self - giving love.

Through relatable stories, practical ideas, and careful application of God's Word, Generous Love equips readers to break free from the shackles of self - absorption and discover how much sweeter life can be when we reach out to bless others with the unconditional love of ChrLove equips readers to break free from the shackles of self - absorption and discover how much sweeter life can be when we reach out to bless others with the unconditional love of Chrlove of Christ.

It takes an adult self - consciousness — the experience of an adult living and trying to believe but knowing doubt, trying to do the right thing but knowing failure, trying to be confident but sensing despair — to also know that there is a part of God that helps us through those obstacles, a part which is different from God's love or Christ's gift of salvation.

It might be well to consider whether this lack of positiveness does not perhaps explain the narrowness of his principles, which were doubtless rooted in a zeal for what is universally human, and in a discipline of self marked by the same divine jealousy as his discipline of others, a zeal and discipline through which he loved the divine.

Central to the ethos of this old civilization is the primacy of the spirit within man and his social regeneration and spiritual self - realization through service to and love for his fellowmen.

Even though our images of totally committed, self - sacrificing, lifelong love are invariably limited to our taste of that kind of love through our human parents, they are still the best images we have and about the best we can manage in thinking about God.

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.

For the Father communicates the fullness of Himself to the Son, who is the Divine Self - possession according to Wisdom; and the Holy Spirit, who is the Living Joy of the Divine Self - possession in Love, proceeds from the Father through the Son.

Time, history, and freedom make a difference because through them God reveals that he is a living God in man's future waiting for man's free return of self God wills to be a lover responding to man's free return of love.

«My kingship is not of this world,» says the Johannine Jesus (18:36)-- who also says of his followers, «they are not of the world» (17:14) Jesus» glorification comes through an act of self - sacrificing love.

But it is through the mutual self - giving in love that our humanity is established (whether in sex or beyond), rather than the abstract experience of pleasure or the fulfillment of a craving or felt need.

Yet the basic certainties stand sure; they concern the dynamic reality who is God, God's pervasive action in the world, God's self - manifestation through the whole range of creation, God's focal self - expression in Jesus Christ, the effecting of God's purpose through loving activity in the world and in human existence, and the assurance that our human life is not an end in itself but finds its fulfillment through reception into the divine life.

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.

For most Christians God is indeed a Self among selves, a supreme Consciousness to whom one prays, by whom one is loved, and through whom individuals and communities find the courage, often despite odds to the contrary, to seek the fullness of life.

To point to another's supposed sin, is a sin of ignorance, blind by distorted perception, that is other than the clear Self looking at the subject through unconditional love, what «one» should perceive this way is the suffering and / or needed help.

Nevertheless it is important to recognize that God's vision of the future of humanity is the Community of Persons in which persons have the highest sense of selfhood but are redeemed of self - centredness and therefore are also good and responsible; and the foretaste of it is the church, the community of people who know themselves to be forgiven by God through Christ and therefore forgiving one another and growing towards love which is the mark of perfection, as Col. 3 puts it.

It is through love and within love that we must look for the deepening of our deepest self, in the life - giving coming together of humankind.

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.

Gladden felt that this was still to be done primarily through the persuasion of individuals to the Christian point of view, but the results would mean a change in the structure of society — an overcoming of ruthless competition by enlightened self - love, co-operation, and sharing.

This is the stream of theology to which Comte, Nietzsche, and Mormon transhumanist Lincoln Cannon belong: We become more godlike through our own efforts of self - transcendence, rather than through humble prayer and petition and self - giving love.

Of course, it is true what Proverbs 27:6 says, that «Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiples kisses,» but this principle can often be reversed as well, in that friends often overlook our faults and failures because they love us (and maybe because they have the same issues), whereas enemies see through our self - righteous attitudes and hypocritical charades and are more willing to criticize and call us out for our many failures.

Youngsters need to know that sacrifice for what is right is the deepest form of love, and that, through Christ's self - offering, it will bear fruit.

He is real to those who understand his core message and he exists in the «effect» of that message when it is followed through with self sacrifice and love.

We can say that he believed himself to be the Messiah but with a fresh understanding of all that the term implied.6 Or we can say that he believed God had given him a unique vocation — to manifest and to establish the reign of God on earth through a ministry of service and self - giving love.

The love which is revealed in Christ is a love which seeks the fulfillment of all things in such a relationship to one another that what flows from the life of each enriches the life of all, and each participant in the whole life finds his own good realized through the giving of self to the life of the whole.

If the Augustinian lens through which sin is interpreted is that sin is too much love for self and not enough love for God or neighbor, then perhaps we need a more subtle analysis of the young men in the X chromosome study If scripture is light — that we love because God first loved us (1 John 4:19)-- then all of us, these young men included, need first to experience love before the capacity to love either self or neighbor can develop.

To face these facts, and to be willing to follow through to the end whatever may contribute to our self - knowledge is itself an act of love, for love casts out the fear of knowing the truth about ourselves.

What mattered to Jesus was his mission to speak to men in their sin and call them to repentance, to set before them the mercy and goodness of God, to heal men's sickness of body and soul through the power of God, to call all who would listen to love God supremely and their fellow men as their own selves.

«Of late years,» he observed, «wealth has made us greedy, and self - indulgence has brought us, through every form of sensual excess, to be, if I may put it, in love with death both individual and collective.&raquOf late years,» he observed, «wealth has made us greedy, and self - indulgence has brought us, through every form of sensual excess, to be, if I may put it, in love with death both individual and collective.&raquof sensual excess, to be, if I may put it, in love with death both individual and collective.»

Brock identified agape love with the wrong direction of classical (patriarchal) theism in championing «disinterested» love, «dispassionate» love that includes no dynamic interrelationship between Lover and beloved and leaves God utterly unaffected by the creaturely response to God's love.21 Erotic love, by contrast, «connotes intimacy through the subjective engagement of the whole self in a relationship.»

Tim i found it liberating to just do what the Lord wants you to do i work within his boundarys and yes i attend church and enjoy it.I love the people and i love hearing the word and worshipping the Lord even if others are still bound up with traditions thats not my walk thats theres.My focus is to do what the Lord wants me to do.There have been times i have said no to the pastor he does nt understand why i choose not to lead the worship.i query him as well regarding the idea that its not just performing a function because there is a need our hearts have to be in the right place so that the Lord can use us but he did nt understand where i was coming from and thats okay because of that i just said no until my heart is right i am better not being involved in leading.But i am happy to be an encouragement to others in the worship team i havent wanted to be the leader i have done that in the past.So my focus has been just the singing and being part of different worship teams i think the Lord has other plans as the groups i am in seem to be changing at the same time i am aware that i do nt to worry about change as the Lord knows whats best.I used to be quite comfortable leading the music but that was before when i was operating in my own self confidence and pride.The Lord did such a huge change in my life that i lost my self confidence and that is not a bad thing at all as my spiritual growth has been incredible.The big change was my identity moved from me and what i could do to knowing who i was in Christ and that he is my strength and confidence.Now i know that without him i can do nothing in fact i am dependent on his empowerment through his holy spirit all the time in everything.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music at another church i attend multiple churchs although i attend two regularly one has services in the morning and one has services in the evening so the two do nt really clash.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music its been two years since i did that and i was worried on how i would go.All i can say is that it went really well and because i stepped out in Faith the Lord really blessed the morning to the congregation.The difference is knowing that i serve the Lord with the gifts he has given me but my heart has to be right and when i do it in his way it builds up the body and it brings glory to him.May the Lord continue to show you what he wants you to do even though others may not understand your reasons i just want you to know that you do nt have to pull away completely just work within the boundarys that the Lord gives you and do nt feel pressured by others expectations to do anything that feel uncomfortable.Be involved just as you feel lead by the holy spirit even if it is in a very minor way take small steps.regards brentnz

To love is to discover and complete one's self in someone other than oneself; an act impossible of general realisation on earth so long as each man can see in his neighbor no more than a closed fragment following its own course through the world.

A new humanity has been created, the spiritual humanity of the age to come, to which even now one can belong (fully, in principle, and partially in actual fact), through faith in — that is, through personal trust and self - denying devotion to — the one who loved us and gave himself for us.

With regard to the evangelical insistence on the priority of evangelism, Thomas said that people are not isolated individuals but are social beings inextricably related to the structures of nature, history and cosmos through which they express the creativity of their freedom as well as the sin of self - love and self - righteousness.

Christ frees us from sin and death through the Holy Spirit when we follow His leading out of self - shaming and into His loving presence.

What those ancient Greeks (who also had some understanding of philosophy) regarded as a task for a whole lifetime, seeing that dexterity in doubting is not acquired in a few days or weeks, what the veteran combatant attained when he had preserved the equilibrium of doubt through all the pitfalls he encountered, who intrepidly denied the certainty of sense - perception and the certainty of the processes of thought, incorruptibly defied the apprehensions of self - love and the insinuations of sympathy — that is where everybody begins in our time.

There is a way to read the newspaper, become angry, be engaged, walk through this world with your eyes open and your heart a bit broken while still carrying the hope of Christ within us with love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self - control.

The way to an answer leads through the mystery of self - giving and the paradox of the Gospel as we try to understand the relation of the love of God to the human loves.

The relation of love to the intellect proceeds from three assumption: first, that faith transcends rational categories through God's self - revelation in Christ; second, that intellectual understanding is necessary for the guidance of human life; and third, that both seek the same object in God's being and His revealed truth — namely, that it is through agape with its consequent repentance, humility, and understanding of human limits that the intellect can appropriately function.

Is self - sacrifice an ultimate limit toward which the self may move, but which it can never quite reach, or is there a union of sacrificial love with the self's growth into its full stature which can be realized, though certainly only through grace?

A trust in the revelation of our relationship to an ultimate environment of unconditional love is capable of breaking through such situations and exposing the contexts in which self - deception flourishes.

It is precisely the gift and demand of this unbounded love that are decisively re-presented through Jesus; and to understand ourselves as we are thereby explicitly given and called to do is to actualize the one possibility of self - understanding that is properly called «Christian faith» (Ogden, 1982).

Cross Vision, teaches believers how to interpret the Old Testament's violent portraits of God through the lens of the cross and to thereby see how these portraits bear witness to the self - sacrificial, non-violent, enemy - embracing love of God revealed on Calvary.

This giving of one's self, which is the definition of conjugal love, must lead in its normal development to paternity or maternity in a spiritual sense, just as marriage does in a physical sense through procreation, rearing, and education of children.

The divine action need not be thought of as a matter of super-casuality behind the scenes through which everything happens; but as the continual divine self ~ communication, presenting to the creatures not only the good to which they may aspire, but also the support and recreative power of the sustaining and loving reality which is in the depths of all things.

D'Arcy does not carry through in his doctrine of God the radical suggestion of his own solution, that essential love in God's being involves a self - giving.

And so instead of theology being a set of - conceptual accommodations [to special interests] it looked to me as if theology should have a disciplining effect on the individual... to make belief in God, judgments and confidence in one's own self plausible through old - fashioned things like repentance, faith, hope, love.