 | Walter Brueggemann - 2004 - 324 pages
...my place, I adopt it, I do not yield, I acquiesce. That is really so; for 'all things work for the good for those who love God, who are called according to his plan.' Thus consent would have its 'poetic' root in hope, as decision in love and effort in the gift... | |
 | M. Craig Barnes - 2009 - 172 pages
...insight. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. (Proverbs 3=5) We know that all things work together for good for those who...are called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28) For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the LORD, plans for your welfare and not for harm,... | |
 | 1996 - 68 pages
...8:28 holds good here for both migrants themselves and those who are touched by their witness: "We know that all things work together for good for those who...love God, who are called according to his purpose." Loved by God, they are called to be good news, part of the ongoing mystery of redemption, contributing... | |
 | R. Lamon Brown - 1996 - 116 pages
...despair. But despair is emotional blasphemy in the face of God's plan for our lives. Paul wrote, We know that all things work together for good for those who...love God, who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son. (Rom 8:28-29)... | |
 | James B. Stenson - 2002 - 172 pages
...apostle St. Paul said words that apply to you as a Christian parent: "We know that all things work for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose" (Romans 8: 28). When you turn to God for his help in your family life, you can be confident he will never leave... | |
 | James B. Tubbs Jr. - 1995 - 230 pages
...what is injurious to human welfare, that every 'crucifixion' will issue in a glorious 'resurrection,' that all things work together for good for those who love God ([14], p. 316f.). Indeed, one does not, from a theocentric perspective, develop an "ideal moral theory"... | |
 | Michael S. Piazza - 1996 - 86 pages
...patience. So exactly what is it we are waiting for with patience? Well Romans 8:28 clears that up: We know that all things work together for good for those who love God.... Hope believes that ultimately God will work everything together for our good. Hope is both a noun and... | |
 | Daniel Howard-Snyder - 1996 - 388 pages
...persons, on the one hand, and the rest of creation, on the other hand. As part of his defense of the line that all things work together for good for those who love God, Aquinas says this: Whatever happens on earth, even if it is evil, turns out for the good of the whole... | |
 | I. John Hesselink - 1997 - 260 pages
...treatise on Eternal Predestination is Romans 8:28, particularly the latter part of the verse: "We know that all things work together for good for those who...love God, who are called according to his purpose" (emphasis added).21 Here we have an illustration of God's efficacious calling. This calling, as over... | |
 | Jean Clayton - 1997 - 132 pages
...will keep your going out and your coming in from this time on and forevermore. Psalm 121, NRSV We know that all things work together for good for those who...love God, who are called according to his purpose. For those whom God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that... | |
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