The God of Second ChancesWestminster John Knox Press, 2008 - 143 páginas |
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Página ix
... sense bear this out . But he does endow us with both the opportunity and the wherewithal not only to endure life but to cor- rect our mistakes , overcome our challenges , repent our sins , and repair the damages they evince . To ...
... sense bear this out . But he does endow us with both the opportunity and the wherewithal not only to endure life but to cor- rect our mistakes , overcome our challenges , repent our sins , and repair the damages they evince . To ...
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... sense of alien- ation as the individuals within them . That alienation might come in the form of a family whose members have , through inattentiveness , lost their love of one another , or a church divided because one group's moral ...
... sense of alien- ation as the individuals within them . That alienation might come in the form of a family whose members have , through inattentiveness , lost their love of one another , or a church divided because one group's moral ...
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... sense- less , and upon hearing the news , Christians wept openly over the assault on this icon of theirs . Meanwhile people of no religious affil- iation wept too , over the assault on a frail treasure that is all of ours , a treasure ...
... sense- less , and upon hearing the news , Christians wept openly over the assault on this icon of theirs . Meanwhile people of no religious affil- iation wept too , over the assault on a frail treasure that is all of ours , a treasure ...
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... sense of the perfect , what Plato called the Beautiful , and that we aspire to it . But , wanting to transcend the God - given con- straints of our humanity , to “ play god ” ( “ I am the Christ ! ” Toth thun- dered ) , we fall away ...
... sense of the perfect , what Plato called the Beautiful , and that we aspire to it . But , wanting to transcend the God - given con- straints of our humanity , to “ play god ” ( “ I am the Christ ! ” Toth thun- dered ) , we fall away ...
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... sense of balance to our lives , a sense of gratitude to God for what we have and generosity to others for what they do not have . In Judaism the term is Tikkun Olam , which means “ repair the world . ” It is the notion that the world is ...
... sense of balance to our lives , a sense of gratitude to God for what we have and generosity to others for what they do not have . In Judaism the term is Tikkun Olam , which means “ repair the world . ” It is the notion that the world is ...
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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.