| Throughout all dispensations, these have been the unchanging requirements for living in a covenant relationship with God. |
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| Both the lament of Jeremiah and the praise of the psalmist are important to God and integral to the worship life of God's people. |
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| Exclusive psalmodists claim that God nowhere authorizes uninspired hymns. The conclusion that uninspired hymns are forbidden follows naturally. |
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| Two North Yorkshire Radio journalists based in York have decided to jazz up the Sunday morning God slot. |
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| Another, evolution expert, Richard Dawkins, was invited to give listeners a taste of what they could expect from a God-less God slot. |
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| This year's prize, says our young narrator Vernon God Little, was won by a Godzilla pumpjack. |
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| It's possible to believe in psychics, homeopathy, God, dowsing, reincarnation and probably much else besides. |
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| A psychologically important attribute of religion is the emphasis given to the desire for unity, or to open one's heart to God. |
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| The market economy derisively tramples our identity in God and Christ, and for good reason. |
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| This pure faith erected a wall between our understanding of God and our understanding of nature, and in effect desacralized the natural world. |
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| The silence of the artist is like the silence of God, part of a desacralised world which I am terribly happy not to live in. |
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| Here the idea that God does not wish for any to perish speaks only of God's desiderative will, without comment on his decretive will. |
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| No, it was not others who destined him to be killed, even if he was sent by God. |
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| Because God has chosen and destined us, we have been called into an intimate relationship with him. |
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| Could the message here be that God controls all of our destinies and no one religion is better than another religion? |
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| Shriya is a firm believer in God and destiny and says she took up whatever came her way. |
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| Mark tells us at the beginning of his Gospel that it is about Jesus Christ, the Son of God. |
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| We get a hint of what that detachment might mean when we turn to the gospel reading, for Jesus, too, insists that the reign of God is at hand. |
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| That money could be spent on the poor and destitute without expecting any reward for it from God. |
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| My God, if we don't leap up to condemn it, the Dark Ages are here again and the Goths, Visigoths and Vandals will run riot. |
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| It is to his puny praise and pathetic shopping list of desires that God, the Creator of All, elects to listen to daily. |
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| God is manifested through a set of determinate legal commands that specify the right way to act in virtually all circumstances. |
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| The image of God in which man was created did not consist in an inclination and determination of the will to holiness. |
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| Such wider knowledge is firmer purchase on the worldly things and neighbors God has given us to honor and conserve. |
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| Not only does God give us wisdom and His grace, we are blessed with His qualities, which is to be Christ-like. |
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| They know that they stand accepted by God, forgiven and adopted into God's family, solely on the basis of God's free grace. |
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| It is faith in Jesus Christ, whose righteousness has been imputed to us by the free grace of God. |
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| Perseverance is an unmerited gift of grace, just as is also the initial turning of the will to God in faith and penitence. |
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| And we know at one level that there but for the grace of God, or fate, or elementary physics, we could all have been victims. |
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| Proprietors themselves, perhaps feeling that there but for the grace of God go they, discourage serious criticism of their rivals. |
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| The one person is there in whom God and man are one, without detriment to one or the other. |
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| Only when we give alms, fast, and pray with the spirit of Jesus and God's gracious presence do we please God. |
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| God is gracious to him who earns his living by his own labour and not by begging. |
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| In some cultures, developmentally challenged people are thought of as special messengers of God. |
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| We celebrate because through Jesus Christ we gain access to not just heaven, but to a purposeful and meaningful relationship with Almighty God. |
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| During festivals, devotees carrying offerings parade to the shore and worship the sea as God. |
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| This boy, a Syrian like his mother, was a devotee of the Sun God and was actually a priest of the god at Emesa, called Elagabalus. |
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| May God grant strength and will power to all his devotees to uphold and work on the line initiated by Gurudeva. |
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| They call it the wailing wall, but the only act of devotion on this west London street corner is to mammon not God. |
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| A prayer book which was offered symbolised our devotion and thanks to God for his goodness. |
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| We have lost this commitment to the delights of the Word of God, the joy of our devotion. |
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| Temple worship, rituals, sacraments as well as personal devotions create a communion with the devas and God. |
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| Not a single day passed that he didn't spend time in prayer and in private devotions with God. |
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| Here the story picks up as the tormented devourer of souls tries to escape his captor, the omnipresent octopus-like Elder God. |
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| I was most deeply moved by the way this lovable man prayed, so devout and so certain that God heard his prayer. |
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| When I was younger, despite I lacked all the ritualistic, religious stuff, I had still devoutly loved God. |
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| In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part. |
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| Much of Sufism seems to be focused on trying to raise up that higher self, the ecstatic experience in which you are in union with God. |
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| In such a church the believer cannot be edified, for the Word of God had been set aside. |
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| Note that the early church's priorities were to worship God and to edify the brethren. |
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| Is it implied that God is just the highest in a pyramid of arbitrary powers indifferent to justice? |
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| For the early Hebrews God was not in the objects of Nature themselves, hence the outlawing of idols and the construction of graven images. |
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| The Talmud states that people's prayers are not accepted unless they efface themselves before God. |
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| I'm also a big fan of Einstein, who said God does not play dice with the universe. |
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| His picture of God as a cosmic dickerer purposely makes God petty and foolish, so much so that we scornfully, angrily reject it. |
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| The book's success was so surprising to Stowe, she claimed that she did not write the book so much as take dictation from God. |
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| But I would caution that any Anglican province that comes into being on these shores must do so with an eye to the larger mission of God. |
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| In his strange digressive and allusive biography of Christ he presents him as the incarnation of the overwhelming mystery of God. |
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| Because this play focuses on everyone's relationship with God, human foibles aren't as grippingly dramatized as they might be. |
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| The dingbats who thought God's word had to be represented by some sculpture profaned the word of God. |
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| It is a sacred meal in which the minister consecrates the elements by asking God to set them apart from their normal and common uses. |
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| God in His infinite mercy gave us the entire month of Elul to repent, but we failed to take advantage of it. |
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| God shows no partiality to the rich or poor when it comes to obeying his moral directives. |
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| Although God Himself is absolutely unknowable and unnameable, the Tetragrammaton is His highest emanation in creation. |
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| Men were vainly attempting to worship angels as emanations from God in a step-ladder effort to reach God. |
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| These begin with shuddha maya, pure spiritual energy, the first evolutes, emanations or creations out of God. |
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| To do so is to disaffirm the universal fatherhood of God and the unity of His Torah. |
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| Among the different disciplines, disbelief in the existence of God was not correlated with any particular area of expertise. |
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| The ministry of the Discalced Carmelites flows from their life of prayer and is oriented toward leading others to intimacy with God. |
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| Yup, he was trying to convert all us shoppers to God under the guise of being a musician. |
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| I sometimes experienced an inner emptiness that I prayed God would help fill. |
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| Therefore, God endows each person with unique talents and attributes necessary for him to fulfill his task. |
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| This God endowed him with these gifts since he passed the test, and showed love. |
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| The cross of Jesus Christ reveals that the very heart of God is mercy and forgiveness. |
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| He could have saved himself, but he did not for it was through his death on the Cross that God was going to save the world. |
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| Sincere faith and fortitude in the will of God gave him the strength to carry his cross. |
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| It doesn't matter if you're shy or that you are a homebody, God will see to it that Mr. Right crosses your path in due time, says Rev. |
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| When he began his studies, he was a thoroughgoing Arminian, but in process of time, God used his doctoral studies for his conversion. |
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| Further, according to God MC, he writes down none of his lyrics, he just freestyles them all, and they stick. |
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| After all, isn't God said to be a being who has genuine free will and yet always chooses the good? |
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| We suffered cruelty and abandonment even as we continued to teach the world about a loving God. |
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| They're sort of fighting a battle for God, but a battle of prayer and ethics, and sort of moral crusades. |
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| His accomplishments belong outdoors in military feats as vassal of the King and crusader for God. |
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| He was not a common madman who thought he was God and established a cult dedicated to the veneration of himself. |
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| And if you will trust me as God Almighty, you can and you will be fruitful and multiply. |
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| And so because we are free to choose good or evil, we can say that God will allow us to seek blessedness or cursedness. |
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| God love her, she has this ladylike way of boiling things down to their essence while the rest of us are fuming and cussing. |
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| The decisive culture war of the 21st century is likely to be between the Darwinian fundamentalists and those who believe in God. |
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| Mary does what God tells her, because she had internalized all of the things that her fellow fundies had said over and over. |
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| So it's a futile effort to try to climb up to God, which is why he sent his son to be our savior. |
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| And with God as his ally, he can face the multitude of enemies and gainsayers who threaten him everywhere. |
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| Holy God of heaven and earth, we are humbled by your divine majesty, and cast about for the best words to honor you. |
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| You say the Quran speaks of the sun and moon and that God separated earth from heaven. |
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| You would be scared out of your mind, but there is nothing more important or more desirable than going before God, Creator of heaven and earth. |
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| Does God Himself not allow us Earth-born humans into His home, into His kingdom? |
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| May the peace we can all know in Christ be yours this Easter and may the feet of God always walk with you. |
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| She remembered the way he looked when she'd first met him-like a dark God, his ebony body tall and strong, hard and sweaty. |
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| The rituals shown were just three examples of the many ways we can worship and praise God for his gifts. |
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| Its purpose is to worship and praise God and not to be used as a tool to win the unsaved. |
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| I could feel myself blushing and silently praising God that it could not be seen. |
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| Overwhelmed by the Spirit, these Gentiles began praising God and even speaking in tongues. |
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| It should be followed, as the Prophet recommends, with praising God, and with a prayer by other people. |
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| Finally, Pentecost reminds us that each day is an opportunity to worship and praise God. |
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| Scripture exhorts us to praise God and we should keep this in mind when we approach this God in prayer. |
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| When they start their prayer, you may say a little prayer praising God and thanking Him for His grace. |
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| Every morning, before we pray for our needs, we express our praise and gratitude to God. |
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| On the spiritual plane we are to honour Almighty God with praise for His greatness and glory. |
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| Music is not necessary to win the lost but it is a form of worship and praise to God. |
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| It will entail habits of prayer, praise and a disciplined life lived for God. |
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| We were both raising our hands in praise and worship, shouting and singing to God. |
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| Im still working every hour God sends or as near as dammit, quite frankly I'm fed up of it. |
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| Thank God I haven't been in any major scrapes but I do tend to get to collect dents and scratches from minor prangs. |
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| God forbid the eccentrics should start eating the mushrooms because then the strangeness really gets out of hand. |
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| Surely a benign and forgiving God will allow me this foible, this eccentricity. |
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| The Faith is the way in which God saves souls from eternal damnation and to eternal happiness. |
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| Sincere prayer also furthers the glorification of God, the goal of all creation. |
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| God answers our prayers because by addressing them to Him we acknowledge His Lordship and power. |
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| Human beings are addressing God in prayers for help against the inducements of the devil. |
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| I take in shattered breaths, gathering all the strength I need, uttering a silent prayer to God. |
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| But prayerful meditation quietly assures me that mutual love in the context of a greater love for God can only be good. |
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| For John, mystical theology is a gift of grace by which a prayerful person stands before and has some kind of experience of the presence of God. |
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| The counselor must prayerfully consider how God may be at work in the counselee at this time in his life journey. |
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| It was you who reminded me of my obligation to God by putting the prayer mat in my bedroom that day. |
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| He preached a universal message, love of God and love of brother, which was beyond any sectarianism or selfishness. |
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| The church needs preachers who have unhurried communion with God, who radiate something of the glory of God. |
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| Pray regularly from the pulpit for God to raise up preachers and missionary church planters. |
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| Now there is the danger that when the people enjoy the plenty of the land they will forget God. |
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| It is precisely when we need the truth and power of this Word of God that it is hardest to believe it. |
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| As only God was considered to be perfect, nobody dared to throw the first stone. |
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| When will we wake up one day and say to ourselves that thank God we have gone past the dark ages? |
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| Leibniz's doctrine was too predestinarian even for Protestants, for it implied that God was the author of sin. |
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| It was said of the stonemasons who made those never-to-be-seen gargoyles that they carved for the eye of God. |
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| Because the great predestinating purpose of God is to conform us to the likeness of His Son. |
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| The first act of God to remedy the damage and danger, was to predestine an elect people to be restored to the image of his son. |
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| It is through grace, as Augustine explains, not merit, that God predestines his elect. |
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| For we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of ourselves. |
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| The day of the wedding dawned bright and clear, almost like God was smiling His blessing on the union. |
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| You will be facing God on the Day of Judgment, and He knows for certain your intentions and your secret thoughts. |
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| We had been in the presence of a man of God, a gentle giant, a man of strong conviction astride a gentle soul. |
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| It is a holy land, which means a place where God is uniquely present and available. |
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| Today we read of three different ways that God is present and available to God's people. |
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| This genderless God also represents a profound betrayal of the Torah narrative. |
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| But cloning proponents counter that not taking action to preserve or restore species is also playing God. |
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| His letters are also generally free of the standard evocations of God and his will. |
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| He does not presume on it, as if deliverance from God is a matter of fate or inevitability. |
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| Abraham tries to prevail over God in the merit of having brought monotheism to the world. |
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| But Jesus proclaims the coming kingdom of God as prevenient grace to the poor and sinners. |
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| Similarly, the drive to topple God from his throne is closely bound up with the emergence of freedom as a key political value in Liberalism. |
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| Can we get men to behave decently to each other if they no longer believe in God? |
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| These will have to be removed or amended, and God help them if some newspaper gets a photo of someone prying one of those plaques off the wall. |
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| The priests and priestesses in Apollo's house of worship burnt incense and led the morning chant to honour the Sun God. |
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| Such preparations marked a building's dedication and consecration to the service of God. |
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| As you drew up in front of the palace, at a sign from the major domo, the band would play God Save the Nizam and God Save the King Emperor. |
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| The Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson, proclaims that Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, are God given rights. |
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| This is realized in the love of God, and the example and expiation of Christ as the mediator, and proclaimer of that love. |
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| It is a profanation of religion to declare oneself a terrorist in the name of God, to do violence to others in his name. |
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| On the basis of our repentance and profession of faith in Christ, God regards us as acceptable and pleasing in His sight. |
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| The wicked world pursue their evil cause boldly, but alas! the people of God shame their honourable cause and profession by their cowardice. |
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| Persecutors will seek to deflect us from the course God has set for our lives. |
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| Yes there was a God, and what an amazing sense of humor the Deity possessed! |
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| They believe that God exists, but do not have a specific belief about the nature of that deity. |
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| To disregard the sanctity of life is to play God, however one perceives the Deity. |
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| Since it is the nature of God to create, humanity's closest affinity to the Deity lies in its creativity. |
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| The key is that we look to God for salvation and deliverance, which may be in this world, but if not, then in the judgement to come. |
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| Afraid he had not sacrificed in the proscribed manner, he squeezed his eyes shut and called out a prayer to God for deliverance. |
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| Before his guests arrived on the scene, Abraham used prophecy as means to speak with God. |
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| We are to give glory to God through worship, serving others, and in the very way in which we live our lives. |
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| Adam and Eve were not only to glorify God in behavior, but they were to offer intelligent glory and praise to God. |
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| All right, so the credit and the glory and the praise always belong to God. |
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| Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! |
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| Liturgy exists for the glorification of God and, consequently, for the sanctification of the worshiping community. |
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| My passion and death are that definitive liturgy, that glorification of God which is the light and salvation of the world. |
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| It also implies faith in the Holy Spirit for the Holy Spirit is the power of God released among us by the glorification of Jesus. |
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| I was just trying to point out that those songs are not right and are in no way glorifying to God. |
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| We see this as a long-term commitment that will glorify God and bless the people. |
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| The songs that you are singing are not right and do not glorify God in any way. |
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| On that day the distance will be closed and the entire redeemed creation will gratefully praise and glorify God. |
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| And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them. |
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| There are positive aspects to his book, such as his emphasis on the need to glorify God in all that we do. |
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| Do you not see that everyone in the heavens and Earth glorifies God, as do the birds with their outspread wings? |
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| One is the attitude of excellence, you know, to seek to excel and glorify God with the gifts and talents and abilities that he has given us. |
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| But when we and they share a common love and awe for God, we augment the sanctity of the world in glorifying God among the multitudes of peoples. |
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| How exciting it is to use our spiritual gifts to glorify God and to grow to know the heart of a servant. |
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| First, art offers multiple, rich, and layered ways of speaking about and glorifying God, since art is unlimited in its range and expression. |
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| The purpose of marriage is to glorify God as is taught by creation, redemption and eschatology. |
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| Essentially, church leaders are asking what it costs to operate the ministry that can glorify God. |
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| Therefore a human action, good or evil, is not meritorious or demeritorious in the sight of God. |
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| Call it the demiurge cycle, after the Gnostic notion that our world is governed by a mad ersatz God. |
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| Kant demolished the rationalistic arguments of Anselm, Descartes, and others, for the existence of God. |
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| In the early Middle Ages popular superstition began to associate witchcraft with demonic possession and the rejection of God. |
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| In other words, evangelical Protestantism was a religion where every born-again child of God had the opportunity for a form of ministry. |
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| Although Marcion was not himself a Gnostic, like many Gnostics he believed that the God of Jesus was not the creator God of the Scriptures. |
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| On the surface of the 1000 denars note there is a reproduction of an icon of the Mother of God. |
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| The denialist position within the government has put the fear of God into the medical establishment, who will do nothing to counter it. |
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| She sat silently in a corner and smirked at everyone praising God and gobbling about miracles. |
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| We can trust that everything that happens in our lives is under the providential care of God. |
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| Inside the bunker, people were shouting Lord, Jesus, God Almighty, Jehovah. |
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| He even went to the Middle East, with the explicit reason of bothering some God botherers. |
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| Its beliefs are based on a trinitarian God, which means continual community within the Godhead. |
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| We are here to help God, to do his work, to remedy his whole errors, to strive towards Godhead ourselves. |
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| Our greatest enemy is not a remnant of godless Communism, or Nazism, but a terrorist who believes that God is on his or her side. |
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| To that extent The Book Against God is not against God or the godly, although it offers no comfort to either. |
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| Therefore, first let each become godlike and each beautiful who cares to see God and Beauty. |
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| The questions won't change and the physicists will never discover the God particle. |
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| God bless our departed brother-in-arms, a risen rainbow warrior for peace and sustainable harmony. |
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| His Psalm 71 is instructive for he considers the very matter of evildoing, and in psalm after psalm his recourse is in prayer to God. |
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| This psalm blesses us with the promise that our lives have meaning and partake of the majesty of God. |
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| Like manna in the desert and the Eucharist, the psalm evokes the joyful knowing of God with our physical hunger. |
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| I acted as I saw fit and God will support me in the Day of Judgment. |
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| The credit, the praise, the glory, and the thanks always go to God. |
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| Thank God this was the day for our domestic goddess Inez to show up. |
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| Nature stood as symbolic of the character and glorification of God. |
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| He proposes that the pot may not criticize the potter, and that similarly humans may not object to God, who predestines some to salvation but rejects others. |
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| But for the good of all of mankind, the arrogance that God is partial to one particular grouping and hence they have a God-given right to be right is not right. |
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| Why would God give us freedom and free will if everything is predestined? |
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| They find him not as a dead Christ on a crucifix, but as a living Saviour, who is both willing and able to give them eternal life and peace with God. |
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| So Scotus claims that pure perfection can be predicated of God. |
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| From the Darwinian evolution to the New Age revolution, belief in God has changed, and so has the way we understand the nature and the purpose of humanity. |
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| By a unique, transcendent agreement between the persons of the Godhead, God sent and dealt with His Son in our nature as if He, and not us, had been rejected. |
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| God knows I must have looked a freak with my 30-inch wide culottes covering shoes with two inch high platforms, but that was nothing to the exposure today. |
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| God is revealing a powerful message to us all that we must not give up in times of darkness, because the dawn of a new beginning is just around the corner. |
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| At one point, she called a family meeting to discuss repeated requests for assistance, but before they gathered, she asked God to dictate the words she would use. |
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| God is primarily glorified not in what you do but what you are. |
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| Here is the most senior presbyter in the whole Anglican church, and he will be busy raising uncomfortable questions about the teaching of the Word of God. |
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| Those who dismiss God as a product of psychological conditioning or pre-scientific myth have not come to terms with the findings of modern science. |
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| For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. |
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| There's never an individual serving size or, God forbid, a fun size. |
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| The Synoptic Gospels are permeated with teaching about the kingdom of God. |
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| I may have liked God when I was three, as I testified on the study wall, but He certainly wouldn't be very fond of me when He found out what I'd done to His gaff in Acton. |
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| In many ways we have fallen into a similar pattern of disobedience, and need the gracious intervention of God to deliver us from spiritual and moral decay. |
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| In light of the Word of God does it not follow to reason that true godly music that worships and exalts the Lord Jesus Christ will be rejected by the world? |
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| Unlike the preservationists, we believe that it is our job to manage the animal kingdom with the natural predators that God has provided to keep populations in balance. |
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| He taught me to put God first in my life and to glorify his name. |
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| Looking back, I see the gracious hand of our sovereign God overruling my obstinate reluctance and giving me new desires that were not natural for me. |
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| The vast majority of Czechs do not believe there is a God at all. |
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| Great though he was, he didn't presume upon his equality with God. |
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| Is it pragmatically better to believe in God than not, insofar as theists, taken across all possible worlds, are on average better off than atheists? |
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| If you have believed, it is time to renew you faith and to rejoice that the kingdom of God has come and that you live under the gracious rule of Jesus. |
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| If we do not thank God for God's blessing, then we become like ingrates, those who presume upon the goodness of those who give them gift after gift. |
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| I can't convince people there is a God and I really have no desire to, except in moments of arrogant presumption that somehow my knowledge is better than that of others. |
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| Would it be much better if I prayed genuinely to worship God? |
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| To glorify God or praise Him is to put one's request to Him, because He is aware of our needs and He responds to our glorification with grace and compassion. |
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| In that split second of my unleashing the wrath of God on this poor soul, she became covered with copious body hair, grew fangs and proceeded to turn into Mrs. Jekyll. |
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| I praise God that the people responsible have a heart for God's people. |
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| I will continue to praise my God under any authority, left or right. |
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| We praise God that our professors are giving their services freely. |
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| We humans are like the developing mind of this child of God, and our responsibility is to guide the developing Earth-child in respectful, caring ways. |
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| The profoundest form of atheism is not the one that involves strenuously denying the existence of God but the one that lets theistic ways of talking fall into desuetude. |
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| Jesus speaks of God as Father simply and directly, without any of the qualifying phrases which were often used to safeguard the transcendence of God. |
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| Since these words were spoken by God into an Edenic situation, before the Fall, it is especially hard to imagine any sort of destructive or ruthless implication to them. |
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| Stupid get! O my God, how you stick yourself I'll never know! |
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| There will be times when things are going so well that sadness seems like a dim memory, and then there will be those times when we long for God to intervene. |
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| One who resolves to give his life for God if called upon has the merit of an actual martyr, since God considers a good intention as an accomplished deed. |
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| God considers a good intention as though one had performed a good deed. |
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| A failing body did not dim his confidence in the promises of God. |
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| From the formality of the opening procession to the intimacy of Communion, God wants to fill our hearts and minds with his truth, his love, and his power. |
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| While flagship documentaries like Panorama are consigned to the God slot, light entertainment is hailed as having something educative and worthwhile to offer the audience. |
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| Grace lifts us, inspires us, frees us and emboldens us to serve God. |
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| Rather, let us stand firm in this evil day, clad in the whole armour of God, seeking to grow in our understanding and proclamation of the whole counsel of God. |
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| Historically, imperialism always comes to a sticky end, thank God. |
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| Any profanity or harm to the parent is as if we've profaned God. |
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| Gnosticism says that there is a good God, but that God is not responsible for the mess we endure, which is the creation of a demiurge or evil god. |
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| Sophia, divine wisdom, was the emanation of the that, by her very nature, desired to truly comprehend her Father, the unknowable One, the so-called Alien God. |
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| He muttered a quick prayer to God, asking him for forgiveness. |
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| As we walked through Katanea's ground zero, it looks like an act of God. |
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| A few minutes would be spent in prayerful meditation to express gratitude to the ultimate cosmic power, which we call God, for everything in life. |
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| As noted earlier, this name signifies kindness and compassion, as contrasted with the name Elohim, which refers to God as the harsh but just judge. |
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| Fasting, when it is done prayerfully and reflectively, can intensify one's focus on God and sharpen one's awareness of the needs of the poor and hungry. |
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| While we see gnosis and fulfilment of will, they see the blessings of God. |
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| And fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. |
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| And one of the early sermons I preached, I alluded to this light and how our faith is about light and the life and the love of God within the community. |
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| God forbid if any pushchairs or Zimmer frames attempted to get past us. |
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| Sikhism preaches a message of devotion and remembrance of God at all times, truthful living, equality of mankind, social justice and denounces superstitions and blind rituals. |
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| As I told you in the beginning, God shines effulgently in the universe. |
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| Perhaps this is because he believes so much in divine providence and God's redemption in Christ, and he refuses to believe that God is capricious. |
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| Not only would private prayer keep them from being puffed up by human praise, it would help them focus their hearts on God, removing them from the distractions of the world. |
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| At the same time, by the orderings of a sovereign, gracious God, some people who desire very much to marry may never find the person they regard as a suitable partner. |
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| The importance of provocative teaching from the pulpit is to remind and encourage persons of all ages to hear anew the call to discipleship which God issues. |
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| At the heart of our faith is an invitation to remember the past differently thanks to the gracious love of God manifested in the crucified and risen Christ. |
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| Above all, they bring most glory to God in our worship and service of Him. |
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| His self and his experience have been predetermined not by the predestinarian God he fervently worships but by those around him who continue to perceive him as enslavable. |
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