Sentences with phrase «truth of the gospel»

The most we can do is believe certain truths of the gospel.

I think sometimes we (or at least I) have a hard time knowing exactly how to apply the simple truths of the gospel to every aspect of our lives.

In fact, it is quite likely that there are billions of people on earth today who believe certain truths of the gospel, and yet have not received eternal life.

When you say: «We, the Church, have not done a perfect job at getting exactly what â $ œthe truth of the gospel of Jesus Christâ $ really is,» that is not true.

That is one of the central truths of the Gospel message.

In this Year of Faith, Pope Benedict invited all of us to read and study the documents of Vatican II, so that we might become ever more convinced and convincing witnesses to the unchanging truth of the Gospel message.

What this means is that when Paul talks about blindness and the veil in 2 Corinthians 2 — 3, he is not talking primarily about how a person receives eternal life by faith in Jesus Christ, but about all the other truths of the gospel which are contained in the rest of Scripture, and which are centered on the person and work of Jesus Christ.

But this is why what I wrote in this post is one of the first truths of the Gospel to grasp hold of.

Chambers goes onto say that «for the rest of my life, I will proclaim nothing but the whole truth of the Gospel, one of grace, mercy and open invitation to all to enter into an inseverable relationship with almighty God.»

The core truths of the Gospel never change (Hebrews 13:8).

It's hard for me to know where God really wants me to stand with such strong opinions but I believe that it's not too late to reach out and condemn the pain that we've either caused them or tolerated but to also show them the life - changing truth of the Gospel and the power to grow and serve God.

Indeed, as post-modernity decomposes into ever more bizarre forms of irrationality, the cleansing, liberating truth of the gospel and the vision of life well lived found in the Beatitudes ought to be a compelling offer.

To the cultured despisers of religion and Biblical morality, we say we love you, but we will oppose you — and with our COGIC friends we will strive not so much to defeat you in a cultural and political struggle as to open your hearts and minds to the life - preserving and love - affirming truths of the Gospel that reason knows and faith confirms.

Each of these authors brings a fresh perspective to the old truths of the Gospel story.

It is in decline because in recent decades it has veered away from the hard Truths of the Gospel.

We will work to strengthen those aspects within the Church that affirm the time - honored truths of the Gospel.

We felt called to listen to John Henry Newman's teachings and so be inspired to be witnesses to the beauty of holiness in this land and to defend and proclaim the unchanging moral truths of the Gospel.

The community of God are the ones who can stop worrying about telling the truth, and start living the whole truth out — the glorious, gorgeous, lavish, wild, unfair, and love - filled truth of the Gospel.

Our evangelism must go beyond bridges to present the whole unvarnished truth of the Gospel (1 Corinthians 15:1 - 4).

In childhood they were taught the major truths of the gospel and saw them beautifully illumined in family life.

In 2 Corinthians 4:4, Paul is saying that people who do not want to see the glorious truth of the gospel will remain darkened in their mind because the god of this age is certainly not going to reveal it to them.

Until we begin to understand this, we will never see the beautiful truths of the gospel for what they are, and we will never be able to live within those truths as God desires.

But I do say that in our best judgments concerning scripture, we might be aware enough of our propensity to distort in the service of vested interests, anxiety, fear and hurt that we recognize that our best interpretation might be not only a vehicle for but also a block to and distortion of the crucified truth of the gospel.

The incredible truth of the gospel is that there is a king who can not be killed or usurped; and who offers the one thing that George RR Martin's fantasy denies us: salvation.

Any suggestion that such misdeeds occurred among the people of Israel but are not happening among Christians would bespeak a self - righteousness that suffocates the very truth of the gospel message.

The exposure of the illusion which fixed an early date for the Lord's advent, while it threw some minds back into the unwholesome ferment of apocalyptic speculation, gave to finer minds the occasion for grasping more firmly the substantive truths of the Gospel, and finding for them a more adequate expression.

Hardships, potential or real, are no justification for shrinking back from the hard - truths of Gospel faithfulness to Jesus.

Those nasty hard - liners are so hard - line and ultraconservative because this is a theological crisis in which the objective truth of the gospel is at stake.

The Pilgrim chose this particular phrase for he believed that these six words held the full truth of the Gospel message.

has involved mediating the abiding truths of the gospel and the particular issues of the present age.

The Galatians were advised by Paul about the fundamental truth of the Gospel in Baptism.

It is rather a convincingly joyful witness to the beauty and truth of the Gospel of Life.

Usually, we believe that creeds and confessions protect the gospel, defending it against heresy, keeping at bay those who teach a false gospel, and leading people toward central truths of gospel, such as God's holiness, our sinfulness, and the person and work of Jesus Christ.

The first truth of the gospel is that God loves every person in the world so much, that He would do absolutely anything for each one of us (John 3:16).

They may have believed some of the essential truths of the gospel, but they have not understood the central focus and point of the gospel, which is that as believers in Jesus, we must also follow Him into a life of love and service to others.

When we say we «believe the gospel» or «believe in Jesus» this is a shorthand way of saying that we believe certain truths of the gospel.

I will say however that I did not believe the truth (in fact I was a major enemy of God and opposed the truth of the gospel) concerning salvation until someone urged me to read the bible.

We also affirm that tradition, rightly understood as the proper reflection of biblical teaching, is the faithful transmission of the truth of the gospel from generation to generation through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Paul sees the mission of Christians to persuade other about the truth of the Gospel, not to shame for not believing.

This is necessary both in order to identify and reject heretical deviations from the truth of the gospel and also to provide sound instruction for passing on the faith intact to the rising generation.

For their part, the primates in Egypt showed a remarkable willingness to work together for the good of the communion, rejecting both the easy disunity of atomized purity and the false, surface - level harmony of smiles and happy feelings, determining instead to seek the unity in fellowship that comes only in the truth of the gospel and at the foot of the cross.