Sentences with phrase «with calls to repentance»

This has left us with a political rhetoric that is simplistic, dualistic, populist, and charged with calls to repentance.

Only when the requirement of obedience is wholly grasped can the thought of grace and of forgiveness be wholly understood; and the message of forgiveness then appears in its unity with the call to repentance.

We need only remember that eschatological expectation in itself is not necessarily associated with the call to repentance and with the preaching of the will of God.

This reluctance to call for conversion goes with a somewhat slanted reliance on the recent theology of Grace, which emphasises the gentleness and welcoming side of Grace, but neglects the theme of Jesus breaking in with a call to repentance, the theme of the Spirit as refining fire and rushing wind.

Not exact matches

So if Jesus was going to call the unrighteous to repentance, He needed to hang out with the unrighteous.

Ash Wednesday confronts us with our gross inadequacy when left to our own devices and calls us to the discipline of repentance.

When we experience Christ's individual call to repentance, which untangles our souls» barriers to giving and receiving his love, we become intimately acquainted with the comfort and love of God's call to our awkward and sinful hearts.

I don't care what anyone claims to believe, whether they can recite doctrine and verse, whether they hang with the right crowds, write the top - selling books, whether they can work up a quivering lip and an impassioned voice at the conference as they call us to repentance or wholeness in Christ or [fill in blank].

Consistently with this Jesus proclaims a call to decision and repentance.

In fact, all the prophets and Jesus himself would call for men to «make amends with God» through sincere repentance.

What God requires above all else for salvation is our acceptance of Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, our repentance for sin, our moral obedience to his call, and our willingness to try to love God and our neighbor with the full dedication of our lives.

How does it call that one with whom we disagree to repentance?

It appears that there is general though only implicit recognition of the fact that a call to the ministry includes at least these four elements (1) the call to be a Christian, which is variously described as the call to discipleship of Jesus Christ, to hearing and doing of the Word of God, to repentance and faith, et cetera; (2) the secret call, namely, that inner persuasion or experience whereby a person feels himself directly summoned or invited by God to take up the work of the ministry; (3) the providential call, which is that invitation and command to assume the work of the ministry which comes through the equipment of a person with the talents necessary for the exercise of the office and through the divine guidance of his life by all its circumstances; (4) the ecclesiastical call, that is, the summons and invitation extended to a man by some community or institution of the Church to engage in the work of the ministry.

If, on the other hand, being Christian continues to mean little more than being predictable middle - class liberals with a tinge of something called spirituality, then the few exceptional things that congregations occasionally manage to perform ethically will lack any foundation in repentance and faith.

Unlikely and eclectic prophets with cardboard signs using port - a-potties, perhaps, but their call to repentance isn't just for government or for the 1 % or a particular political persuasion — it's for us all.

It contents itself with applying retrospectively the radical rhetoric of the present, calling us to repentance for our criminal past.

White's «old - timey» sound reverberates with a call not only to repentance, but to conversion, on «Mercy is Calling You.»

The group called on the general assembly to confess «our continued sins of racism and failure to love brothers and sisters from minority cultures» and to recommit itself «to bear fruit in keeping with our repentance.»

Yet, I am troubled that no one seems to be willing to counsel Cardinal Law and others that repentance with some acts of penance is profoundly called for.

Expanding on Arendt's observations Shriver notes how Jesus began his ministry proclaiming the Rule of God, calling Twelve to be with him and sending them forth to be like the light of the world, the salt of the earth, and to join him in calling whole towns to repentance.

The most penetrating analysis of the human condition with the clearest call to repentance can be Interesting.

We have already seen how strong is the tradition associating the inauguration of his teaching career with this preacher of God's righteousness, this herald of God's approaching judgment, this voice calling Israel to repentance.

So he preached his call to God, his call to love and repentance and reconciliation, with courage and conviction and charisma.

It's no secret, unfortunately, that a lot of openly fundie groups hate the gays with a passion — so even well - meaning calls to repentance can sound too much like «Rev.» Phelps cackling that he hopes they burn.

What if His call to repentance and to change our minds about something how more to do with how we think about God Himself than how we think about «sin»?

Thus the call to conversion should begin with the repentance of those who do the calling, who issue the invitation.

The Church is sent into the world to call people and nations to repentance, to announce forgiveness of sin and a new beginning in relations with God and with neighbors through Jesus Christ.

But, make no mistake, The Lord Jesus Christ as THE BIBLE clearly details and depicts spent time with sinners to CALL THEM TO REPENTANCto CALL THEM TO REPENTANCTO REPENTANCE.

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Bonhoeffer's advice is practical: (1) don't argue about your sins with anyone but God; (2) remind the devil that Jesus called the sinners, not the righteous, to repentance.

Their primary function was the preaching of the gospel, the proclamation of the event in Palestine with which God was bringing history to a close, the bearing witness to the new creation in Christ, the calling of men to repentance; but this meant the establishing of churches, and implied the duty and authority of supervision.

I emailed Cuomo's press office this morning to ask if the administration had given though to the fact that these layoffs coincide with the start of what Jews call the «Days of Awe» or the «High Holy Days» — a 10 - day period of introspection and repentance that culminates with Yom Kippur.