The God of Second ChancesWestminster John Knox Press, 2008 - 143 páginas |
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... born from above ” ( in Greek , anothen , which connotes both being born of God and being born again ) , then those details are worth a closer look . At his first birth , Nicodemus's parents did what a lot of parents unwittingly do ...
... born from above ” ( in Greek , anothen , which connotes both being born of God and being born again ) , then those details are worth a closer look . At his first birth , Nicodemus's parents did what a lot of parents unwittingly do ...
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... born again is to know our very essence, stripped of all the accou- trements that attach to us over time, and in knowing, to become what theologian Paul Tillich called “a new being.” It is to take heed of the words of the poet John ...
... born again is to know our very essence, stripped of all the accou- trements that attach to us over time, and in knowing, to become what theologian Paul Tillich called “a new being.” It is to take heed of the words of the poet John ...
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... born again, I believe he is telling him that he must reclaim his confession that he is first and foremost not a Pharisee or a governor or a scholar or a good Jew or a good man. He is not first a moral individual or a provider for his ...
... born again, I believe he is telling him that he must reclaim his confession that he is first and foremost not a Pharisee or a governor or a scholar or a good Jew or a good man. He is not first a moral individual or a provider for his ...
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... born again. I know that God walks with me. I know that I am God's. And I know as well that everything around me, seen and unseen, is also God's. I feel a profound sense of peace and gratitude, the way a newborn might feel such utter ...
... born again. I know that God walks with me. I know that I am God's. And I know as well that everything around me, seen and unseen, is also God's. I feel a profound sense of peace and gratitude, the way a newborn might feel such utter ...
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... born anew. This consciousness not only warms my heart but compels me to carry that warmth to whatever cold places God calls me to. My rebirth gives me both a deeply personal sense of intimacy with God and a profound commitment to social ...
... born anew. This consciousness not only warms my heart but compels me to carry that warmth to whatever cold places God calls me to. My rebirth gives me both a deeply personal sense of intimacy with God and a profound commitment to social ...
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Página 82 - And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death — even death on a cross.
Página 56 - The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and song, And he is become my salvation : This is my God, and I will praise him ; My father's God, and I will exalt him.
Página 49 - I embrace the common; I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds.
Página 41 - Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day.
Página 46 - The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them.
Página ix - The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Página 34 - And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him : and they wept.
Página 82 - For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Página 14 - Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, "whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches," by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, "Saints and angels and martyrs and holy men," and he would have meant the same thing.