Sentences with phrase «way at his baptism»

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The sheer unpredictability of city encounters makes it impossible to presume, as many churches do, that God's grace must be sequential — measured out at regular intervals in baptism, confirmation, communion, marriage, burial — and will happen to everyone at the prescribed time, in the same way.»

The way in which Mark interprets the earthly life of Jesus is messianic; Jesus became Messiah not at his resurrection but at his baptism.

But along the way I have moved from Jesus» baptism at John's hands to the start of a ministry that will lead to his death in Jerusalem.

At sacramental baptism your faith gets confirmed by God in a way, which can not be described by human words.

I usually begin by confessing that marking and honoring the date of my baptism hadn't really occurred to me until a quarter - century or so ago, when I began working with evangelical Protestants on pro-life and religious freedom issues and noted that some of them had an interesting way of introducing themselves at a meeting.

You discuss looking at burial rituals to consider new ways to present the symbolism of baptism, but regardless of how a society buries it's dead you will never find a society on earth that isn't familiar with the concept of drowning; thus death by water has a universal power not limited to any culture.

What if we recalled over and over again that at our baptism we «put on the Lord Jesus Christ,» and with that his way of pursuing threats and enemies with love and the offer of reconciliation?

But once we are freed from the obsession to baptize, to «save `, and our concern becomes the much wider concern of God to bring about God's Kingdom, the obvious relativization of baptism opens the way to understand the Church not as an Institution of Salvation, but as a movement of Jesus followers at the service of all God's people and God's creation.

Once we are freed from the obsession to baptize, to «save `, and our concern becomes the much wider concern of God to bring about God's Kingdom, the obvious relativization of baptism opens the way to understand the Church not as an Institution of Salvation, but as a movement of Jesus followers at the service of all God's people and God's creation.

The occasion of his baptism is so momentous that we are jolted all the way back to the first chapter of Genesis, as the separation of earth and sky that God established at creation is refigured.

Thus in 1829 John Henry Newman — still at that stage an Anglican — affirmed that Christians become entitled to the gift of the Holy Spirit «by belonging to the body of his Church; and we belong to his Church by being baptised into it».24 And more than a century later, Michael Ramsay, Archbishop of Canterbury in the 1960s — whose meeting with Paul VI in the 1960s was a central moment in the ecumenical movement of that era — took a generally Catholic approach to baptism, if expressed in a somewhat vague, «Anglican» way: «The life of a Christian is a continual response to the fact of his baptism; he continually learns that he has died and risen with Christ, and that his life is a part of the life of the one family.»

The Christian journey begins at baptism with the cleansing of the soul from sin, and is then strengthened and illuminated by Confirmation — and then the Christian way continues, nourished by the Eucharist and by the mercy of God given through the sacrament of reconciliation, through to the final encounter in death, assisted by the anointing of the sick.

The descent of the Spirit at his baptism can be so understood; but, as we have noted, the accounts differ in such ways that it is impossible to tell whether the Spirit was seen and the voice heard by Jesus alone or by the bystanders also.

She has given presentations about breastfeeding and led support groups in various settings, including a half way house for incarcerated mothers, a crisis pregnancy center, a school for Montessori teachers, and at her church as part of the class attended by expecting and new parents in preparation for the baptism of their baby.

It is often the way in the January course that the first couple of months of the course a baptism of fire, at least the guys doing the course get a good chance to see what they are aspiring too (double overhead monsters at Anchors....