Sentences with phrase «wideness in»

The wideness in the legs?

I'm indebted to Clark Pinnock and his excellent book A Wideness in God's Mercy for helping me see some of these familiar passages in a new light.

My two favorite books on the subject are Surprised by Hope and A Wideness in God's Mercy.

* Surprised by Hope by NT Wright Exclusion and Embrace by Miroslav Volf * One.Life (Chapter 12) by Scot McKnight * A Wideness in God's Mercy by Clark Pinnock The Last Word and the Word After That by Brian McLaren * The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis * The Second Vatican Council's Lumen Gentium * Evolving in Monkey Town (Chapters 6 - 15) by Rachel Held Evans Updated: Razing Hell by Sharon Baker

Clark Pinnock states, «It is not so much a question whether the unevangelized know Jesus as whether Jesus knows them... the issue God cares about is the direction of the heart, not the content of theology» (A Wideness in God's Mercy, p. 158).

But, as we sang today «There is a wideness in God's mercy.»

[57] Clark H. Pinnock, A Wideness in God's Mercy: The Finality of Jesus Christ in a World of Religions (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1992).

This is what the hymn writer F. W. Faber meant in «There's a Wideness in God's Mercy,» when he said:

When I don't know how to love my enemies — I'm still rather poor at it — Rich reminds me there's a wideness in God's mercy that I can not find in my own.

Not exact matches

Here we are in the realm of speculation, of course, but we can say this at least: no preacher who knows his business and who is aware of «the wideness of God's mercy» can dare to talk as if only those who have visibly and expressly professed Christian faith are the concern of a deity whose «nature and name» is Love, Thus the preaching of the ordained minister must necessarily err, if it errs at all, on the side of generosity and charity.

The major problem which confronts the churches is the wideness of the gulf between what is preached and done in the churches on Sunday and the interests and activities of laymen through the week.

And, we might add, the sign of Jonah is in Cornelius, the military officer of the Empire that killed Jesus, becoming the occasion for Peter and the early church, like so many reluctant Jonahs, to discover the wideness of God's mercy.

An Inverted Triangle body shape on the other hand looks best in bathing suit bottoms that have interest and create curves around the hips, to downplay the wideness of the shoulders.

the other rainboot brands I tried were actually worse in terms of heaviness and wideness.

We were initially staying with some friends for a couple of weeks until we found a new permanent place to live, and the first time I borrowed their car to go to Whole Foods, I was completely overwhelmed with the wideness of the roads and the number of cereal options in the store.