Sentences with phrase «with sacrificial love»

How would your life be altered if you truly believed, from the beginning, that God loves you with a sacrificial love?

Most of what I had written was a hypothesis, a theory, about how to reconcile the violence of God in the Old Testament with the sacrificial love of Jesus in the New.

Not exact matches

This rigid concept of love fits with a world where no other vocation — no form of sacrificial, devoted love other than romantic sexual union — is acknowledged.

We pledge to stand with you, our Christian brothers and sisters of the historic Black church, and to work arm in arm with you in Christ - like self - sacrificial love to build in America a true culture of life and of family life.

As St Paul says in Ephesians 5, the more that the husband in his relationship with his wife reflects the sacrificial love of Christ for His bride the Church, and the more that the wife in her relationship with her husband reflects the self - giving love of the Church for her Bridegroom, the more they will be truly fulfilled and the more they will live up to what they are called to be.

Divine love is as glorious as a summer day high in the Alps; it is merciful and makes our sins, though they be as scarlet, vanish into insignificance, replacing them with his own action in us; it is, finally, self - sacrificial unto death, for it seeks not its own.

But Jesus» sacrificial death has given value to all suffering if it is accepted and offered in union with Him out of love for the Father, sincere sorrow for sins - our own and those of the whole world - and charity towards those who have caused it.

But I am a «slave» of His love as He «bought» me with His sacrificial death by paying the price for the redemption of my soul.

It truly will be the «highlights reel» from our life, so that all other believers can celebrate with us in the kind words we have spoken, the sacrificial love we have shown, the generosity we practiced.

This extreme self - sacrificial interpretation of neighbor love has often been coupled with those passages in Ephesians, Colossians and I Peter that seem to advise women to submit to the spiritual authority of their husbands.

This is because her life radiates beauty: through her hospitality to friends and strangers alike, through her joyful laugh, through her care of those in need, through her passion for education, through her love of framing things on film through the lens of a camera, through her ability to be patient with her doofus husband, through her genuine love for God, through her sacrificial generosity to those with less than we have, and even through her stubborn refusal to let me get away with any of my trademark snark.

Only «over the long term,» Matthew Levering answers, and even then only with «bold Christian witness in leading sacrificial lives, lives of ecstatic love.»

I just have never been satisfied with any of the proposals for how to reconcile the violence of God in the Old Testament with the self - sacrificial love of Jesus.

Might we love them with the sacrificial, unconditional love of Jesus.

As if to reiterate the sacrificial nature of the way in which the faithful are to «walk in love,» the writer warns of the forces of evil ready to deceive Christians with illusions about the fruits of sin.

My fancy 100,000 word answer turned out to be little more than a long way of saying, «I have no idea how to reconcile the violence of God in the Old Testament with the self - sacrificial love of Jesus Christ in the New while still maintaining a conservative view of inspiration and inerrancy.»

It includes both consciousness, or the embracing of suffering and the identifying with the needy of the world, and sacrificial love: the capacity to live with others in relationships of healing, sustaining, guidance and reconciliation, expressed in caring for the sick, the needy.

Is self - sacrifice an ultimate limit toward which the self may move, but which it can never quite reach, or is there a union of sacrificial love with the self's growth into its full stature which can be realized, though certainly only through grace?

Many differences in situation and opinion separated Jesus and Paul but with regard to the central ethical principle of whole - hearted reliance on the power and persuasiveness of sacrificial love, Paul, as the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians shows, understood Jesus very well.

«On this betrayal night Jesus still invites us to share bread and wine that we may be one with Him in sacrificial love».

It was clear to me even as a child that the people using that catchy little phrase knew absolutely nothing about what it really meant to love somebody with the «love of the Lord» which was an extremely selfless and sacrificial love.

It was filed under Bible, communication, loss, love, marriage, meltdown, soothing, tantrum, toddler, wisdom and was tagged with communication, discipline, gentle parenting, loss, sacrificial parenting, tantrum, toddler.

Finally, after biting my nails at the prospect of writing something about romance and my book, I realized that Valentine's Day started with St. Valentine, who was known for his healing miracles, his sacrificial love and faith.