Not exact matches
It begins at creation and tells the
story of Jesus
through the patriarchs, the prophets, the nativity and the
resurrection.
After all, we're part
of a
story that began with a virgin birth, traverses
through the
resurrection of a man who was God, travels
through His ascension back to heaven and concludes when He returns to Earth to reign as King.
The threat
of death and subsequent renewal or
resurrection, such as is portrayed in the
story of Esther, has been lived
through again and again.
In the variety
of motifs that run
through the
story, sign and glorification,
resurrection and life, belief and disbelief, thenarrative puts great emphasis on the love and compassion which Jesus had for Lazarus and his two sisters.
But when I looked at the Gospel for the day (John 20:19 - 31), it became very clear to me that here is a
story, a
story of Jesus» appearance to the disciples when they were in hiding after the
Resurrection... this was a real opportunity to say something about that
story and about the faith which is built around people who were fearful, were skeptical, and into the midst
of them, somehow, in a way that was ultimately moving, comes the presence
of Jesus
through locked doors and barriers
of skepticism, cynicism, and doubt, all
of these things that prevent ourselves from being God's people.
Marianne Sawicki is right when she states, «The first evangelists find that they can not bring anyone to the possibility
of resurrection through the mere telling
of a
story.»
The first, he says, is the fact that «the Christian
story promises the forgiveness
of sins — including homosexual acts — to anyone who will receive it
through Jesus» death and
resurrection.»
It is that feature
of the totality that Buddhists have been brought to perceive
through the
story of Amida's vow, and the feature
of the totality that Christians have come to recognize
through the
story of Jesus» life, death, and
resurrection that I am equating.
God gave proof, and it was
through the
resurrection of His Son, and the unfolding
story of historical redemptive history found in the Bible.
Thus I should say that if the
story of Jesus» life had been told just as it seemed — and in a sense was — at the time it was occurring, that
story would not have been adequately or truly told or that life was a part
of a supremely significant, a divine event, the event
through which God, the Creator and the Ruler
of all nature as well as the Lord
of history, was entering into man's life with new redemptive power; but that fact was not grasped clearly, if at all, till the event had reached its culmination in the
resurrection, the coming
of the Spirit, and the creation
of the community.
Perhaps the approach here is
through looking on God as operating within the framework
of man's freedom, and the
story of the crucifixion and
resurrection may lead to the discernment
of God's taking on himself the consequences
of man's suffering and sin.
I first heard about the class
through a friend, who entertained me with the
story of how Jessica Alba used the IDF platform to get in shape for her upcoming role in «Mechanic:
Resurrection.»
o New
Story Missions and Quests — Journey through new Hive - themed story missions and quests where you are tasked with stopping the resurrection of an ancient god,
Story Missions and Quests — Journey
through new Hive - themed
story missions and quests where you are tasked with stopping the resurrection of an ancient god,
story missions and quests where you are tasked with stopping the
resurrection of an ancient god, Crota
This is why the love that is the heartbeat
of the Christian
story — the Father's love for the Son and,
through the Son, for the world — is not simply a sentimental feeling or a distant, ethereal theological truth, but has been signed and sealed by the most audacious act
of true power in the history
of the world, the
resurrection of the Son from the dead.
Players will follow the fight
of the God Eaters against the aragami
through God Eater
Resurrection and then pick the
story up three years later in God Eater 2 Rage Burst.