Sentences with phrase «time sinners»

We are at the very same time sinners and saints.

And this time the sinner will not be spared in the process.

Eric, I am not totally sure I understand the question but as Lutherans we say «simul justus et peccator», we are at the same time sinner and saint, and that fully and completely, each.

Not exact matches

That's assuming, of course, Jesus would want the position, which, despite his spending time with tax collectors and other sinners, he most certainly would not, since he preferred the powerless to the powerful.

The call to faith, to trust in Christ, and be fully a saint in the redemption he provides freely, is a true reality, and still I am sinner all the time, if not doing bad, then thinking bad... though I don't want to.

I've realized reality is most of the time our natural hatred for God as sinners comes through in our daily lives.

Baffled that Jesus would dare spend His time with common sinners — tax collectors!

Most of the time I go around thinking others are the sinners.

Sin and we are all sinners, deserves a penalty God has been paying for it from the time he created the universe, not us.

Confession time here: although I don't usually end up at places such as drunken parties, stripper bars and porn shops while hanging out with friends, since those activities and places hold little appeal for me, I know I need to stay away from certain «religious» people, those who seem to love only themselves and who seem hell - bent on being nasty to people they describe as «sinners», supposedly in the name of truth - telling.

Your holiest look down upon the sinners, your prayers are scripted, your music is pre-planned out, you adhere to a schedule and you meet at specific times on a specific day as if to say... «if we arrive at church at 9:30 Sunday morning, God will meet us in this place.»

I read several times in the comments here that we are ALL SINNERS.....

Quite to the contrary, there are numerous lines of evidence which prove that Jesus did, in fact, hang out with and befriend those whom the religious world at that time considered «sinners.»

At the same time, I am a sinner who finds all sorts of good reasons to NOT give, or to give meagerly.

Every time some «christian» tells me I am a sinner and going to hell, he is attacking me.

If you feel like God is telling you to leave, before doing that, there are always opportunities to, as you said, to do things like «personally loving our neighbors, hanging out with «sinners,» spending time with societal rejects, defending the cause of the weak, and a variety of other ways of living that look just like Jesus.»

As we look at the life of Jesus, we can not help but notice that He spent much time with those whom the religious and political leaders would not associate with because they judged «those sinners.»

It is understandable why the New York Times's Editorial Board would conclude that Christians view sinners as inferior — the tragic history of Christianity, even within our own country, offers many examples of Christians who have used sin as an excuse to dehumanize, discriminate, and hate others.

Instead, the church Jesus wants has everything to do with personally loving our neighbors, hanging out with «sinners,» spending time with societal rejects, defending the cause of the weak, and a variety of other ways of living that look just like Jesus.

I knew that I was a sinner, that I had denied Christ six times, and I knew that he loved me with agape love.

As a one time out - of - church sinner I heard the good news, believed, repented and followed Jesus in being immersed in water and experienced much, much more.

We are at one and the same time saints and sinners - that too was a major point of the Reformation.

Next time you are tempted to say you «love the sinner but hate the sin,» stop at «love.»

In the mean time, we have to put up with sinners blinded by sins of lust, lying, sloth.

That risk was to put the means and instruments of beatitude and salvation into human hands — which is to say, into the hands of sinners who would inevitably make a mess of things from time to time.

Job thought he had a good case to argue before God but the heart of it is our hearts are deceitfully wicked no matter how good we have lived we are still sinners and certainly do not deserve the grace of God.In the book of Job there are some real jewels especially why we do suffer satans plan is to destroy us but Gods plan is to build our faith hope and love towards him in our time of suffering.brentnz

In such a view, the protagonist's at times harsh reaction to various sinners, e.g., Filippo Argenti (canto VIII), Pope Nicholas III (canto XIX), Bocca degli Abati (canto XXXII), is not (even if it seems so to some contemporary readers) a sign of his falling into sinful attitudes himself, but proof of his righteous indignation as he learns to hate sin.

Until such time as you can show this god of yours exists, you can not claim I am a sinner.

According to a legalistic interpretation of the Mosaic Law (which Jesus Himself rejected time and time again), God's people needed to stay separate and distinct from the defiled and unclean «sinners» of this world, because eating with them and hanging out with them causes the defilement of the «pure.»

If so, it is time to stop abruptly and take notice whether one ought not rather to be saying, «God, be merciful to me a sinner.»

This is redemption, «For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly... God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us» (Romans 5:6,8).

a deep resignation to God's will, a surrender of ourselves, soul and body, to Him; hoping indeed, that we shall be saved, but fixing our eyes more earnestly on Him than on ourselves; that is, acting for His glory, seeking to please Him, devoting ourselves to Him in all manly obedience and strenuous good works; and, when we do look within, thinking of ourselves with a certain abhorrence and contempt as being sinners, mortifying our flesh, scourging our appetites, and composedly awaiting that time when, if we be worthy, we shall be stripped of our present selves, and new made in the kingdom of Christ.

Luther saw the wrath of God at work in the fact that we as sinners can not fulfill any of God's commands without at the same time entrapping ourselves in sin.

For a short period of time I bought into the «hate the sin but love the sinner», but... this wasn't a «choice».

I think so much harm is made over interpretation of words like «jealous» or «sinner» without consideration of the context to result in Christian community and worship being unattractive and even repulsive at times.

But before we discuss these parables, we must say something about the understanding of the forgiveness of sins among the Jews at the time of Jesus, and especially about the frequently recurring «tax collectors and sinners» in the gospel tradition.

I think it's ironic that the friends spent so much time offering advice and calling Job a sinner and then God said that their sins would be forgiven when Job requested it.

But Jesus didn't come the first time to kill all the sinners; He will do that when He comes again.

Then Dante goes on to say this: «The foremost sinner found that biting to be nothing, when matched against the clawing, for at times his back was stripped completely of its hide.»

... and all I had to offer was «I tell them all the time how they're evil and sinners and going to hell»...

Jesus's message, that God wants to be in relationship with sinners and directs his love towards them, has no parallel in its time.

The theological imperialism of the protesters — demanding that the statement say exactly what Lutherans have traditionally said about «faith alone,» law and gospel, simul iustus et peccator (at the same time justified and sinner), etc. — might give the impression that they represent hard - core orthodoxy.

I have a Sister who swears by «the sinner's prayer» but is beholding to «the secret» and her life has not been radically transformed, she still engages in sexual activity outside of the confines of marriage and feels this is natural... I would never be able to participate in this sordid activity now that i am truly saved for there was a time i myself was being deceived in much the same way as my Sister is now, I just couldn't bring myself to do these acts and further, would not place myself in such a predicament that I would..

I hear that «hate the sin, love the sinner» thing all the time too.

At the other extreme are those who advocate for saying the sinner's prayer, subscribing to a long list of beliefs / interpretations of Scripture, living certain ways and doing certain things (such as attending church so many times a week).

The gospel is a saving word to mortal sinners, addressed to us from outside us, by a God who offensively took flesh in one time, one place, and one man.

We are ALL sinners here and nothing will change that unitl the time comes for all of us to meet our maker.

I would think that, in the context of Paul's time of orthodox Judaism, being called a «sinner» would be an ultimate insult, but being called a «sinner» today does not carry much weight.

How many times have you heard the phrase «Love the sinner, hate the sin,» ridiculed?

In Paul's time, a sinner was the ultimate extreme of moral failure, maybe not unlike our use of the word «terrorist» today.