The freely given and
unmerited love of God is proclaimed by speaking of the poor and their needs, their rights and dignity, their culture, and, above all, of the God who wants to place them at the center of the history of the church.3
Thus God takes away our sins, restores His image in our hearts, and grants us a new birth, another chance, through
the unmerited love of His Son and our Savior, Jesus Christ.
Thus God takes away our sins, restores His image in our hearts, and grants to us a new birth, another chance, through
the unmerited love of His Son and our Savior, Jesus Christ.
The parable, as we saw, appears to be entirely underground except for the cracks in the surface, the stretching of reality, which allows us to see the new and unfamiliar context for life,
unmerited love.
Only Christianity says God wants to offer
you unmerited love.
Not exact matches
I would say that real
love is learned from understanding forgiveness,
unmerited grace, and mercy.
The
love of God, shed abroad in our hearts by His
unmerited mercy, is the bedrock, the cornerstone of that work which makes us justified, righteous and ready for the very real new creation ahead — the hope that makes our days here (often scared with pain and trial) have meaning — that's the hope of our calling that allows (as Steve notes) us to live for each other.
Naturally suspicious of Hollywood's motives, he wrote to insist that God's action on the soul is the key to the novel, which, he said, «deals with what is theologically termed «the operation of grace,» that is to say, the
unmerited and unilateral act of
love by which God continually calls souls to himself.»
The overflowing and, on our part,
unmerited,
love of God forgives our sin even though we still stand under the divine judgment, and the
love of God for us enables us to
love our neighbor.
For Jews, too, salvation is an act of God's hesed, a word that the KJV obscurely translates «lovingkindness,» but which really means an unconditional act of
love, uncompelled and
unmerited.
IF there is an immanent God (much moreso if he is also
loving), then
unmerited suffering requires, nay DEMANDS an answer... something I have found Christianity very poor at providing.
The foundation of New Covenant forgiveness is God's
love and grace which is unearned and
unmerited.
But God, rich in
love and mercy, by free
unmerited favor quickened your life and set you in a safe place in the constant presence of Christ.
Who wouldn't find the story of
unmerited grace from an ever -
loving father, one who pursues the wayward and the faithful equally, to be comforting?
Unlike Shane Black, however, the
love the aspiring scribes here have for their lovingly over-written words is wholly
unmerited, as is the film's steamy on - set
love affair with itself and its ridiculously over-inflated sense of its own cleverness.