Made to be Gracious

“For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory.” Psalm 84:11 KJV Made to be Graciou

The Lord will be Gracious

Our trials may be significant, but our passage today reminds us that we serve a God who will surely deliver us. Posting about quiet trust in our Savior from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world. http://inallthings.org/the-lord-will-be-gracious

Gracious: Modern living in post-independence Singapore

In the 1960s, Singapore began a rapid period of urbanisation, altering city and domestic sphere. In 1969, the concept of ‘gracious living’ was introduced to capture the ideal qualities of modern Singapore, but it remained ill-defined. This paper explores the dissemination of gracious living in 1969–75 through Singapore’s popular press. It shows how gracious living was adopted as a counterpart to modernity, transformed, embraced advertising, and came to be derided as empty materialism. Gracious living shows us an important ideological device in Singapore’s programs of nation building and modernisation, and this study attempts to account for the core principles underpinning its uses

Be Thou Exalted, Volume 8: Gracious Lord, Remember David: Instrumental

Band arrangement including parts for organ, baritone, horn, trumpet, flute, piccolo, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, saxophone, French horn, trombone, baritone tuba and timpani

Old Testament Election: God’s Exclusive Means of Bringing About Global Redemption

This thesis will seek to explore the doctrine of election as it appears in the Old Testament. It will attempt to provide a robust, biblical conception of the doctrine, shedding light on its nature and purpose, viewing the Bible as a singular story of God’s redemptive work. It will consider and assess election as God’s act of divine prerogative—being at times individual but primarily corporate. While inherently partial, effort will be taken to defend the doctrine against common objections this partiality draws. Rather, it will be shown that as the means by which He initiated His gracious plan of salvation, God’s elective acts were the means by which His character and ultimate plan of salvation was revealed to mankind

Sense, Sentiment and Civilization

How can the study of core texts contribute to a sense of common humanity, gracious diction,and leadership in a chaotic world? Aristotle\u27s Nicomachean Ethicsand Dante Alighieri\u27s Divine Comedy: Infernoexamine ideals of morality, friendship,and happiness in ways that still ring true. Aristotle\u27s Ethicsdeal primarily with the ideal of mhde/n a!gan—nothing in excess. Human passions and desires are to be tempered by reason; likewise, human rationality is made complete by proper desires and sentiments. Dante follows Aristotle\u27s ideas and brings them further, demonstrating that passion—or as he terms it, love—is a good thing so long as it is directed toward its appropriate object, and in proper measure. In both the Ethicsand TheDivine Comedy, true fellowship is found among the virtuous, who order their passions and sentiments according to what is good. Rationality and emotion are not to be divorced from one another. In order to develop a wise and gracious character—from which springs wise and gracious discourse—one must learn to love and value every good thing in its appropriate measure, and to approach every subject with a humble understanding of one\u27s own limitation

Grace Upon Grace: living Water

(Excerpt) Two months ago, on February 22, a Lutheran pastor and his wife, both faithful and fruitful servants of our Lord, began their personal celebration of the feast of victory for our God. They now chant with the saints and all the heavenly host. Worthy is Christ the Lamb who was slain, whose blood set us free to be people of God. It would only be just if the choir director had chosen that hymn of praise to be sung by the choir that day, because the two I speak of were the Rev. Herbert and Ruth Undemann. Pastor Undemann left at least two great monuments to his passion for his Lord, this Institute of Liturgical Studies and the Lutheran Book of Worship. They also left us memories of a gracious, cultured way of life controlled by an abiding love of the Church and her worship

Manners Place You Tops

How are your manners? Careless and happy-go-lucky? Or careful, tactful and gracious? The ability to put others at ease will bring upon you that compliment of compliments, I like to be with her. She never stumbles through an introduction, gets the jitters in a new situation, or embarrasses me by being conspicuous. She knows the score

GWU Professor Discusses Humble and Gracious Leadership of Nelson Mandela

He embodied the combined traits of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. He showed the world how to be humble and gracious. And he served as a prime example of leadership. WGWG: Reflections on Nelson Mandelahttps://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/gardner-webb-newscenter-archive/2506/thumbnail.jp

The Freedom of God

This paper addresses the exceedingly complex nature of God\u27s freedom through the defense of Friedrich Lohmann’s article, “God’s Freedom: Free to be Bound.” The role of God’s creation in his own freedom is explored as well as the idea of omnipotence, negative freedom, positive freedom, and gracious autonomy. This paper affirms the idea that God is simultaneously free and bound to his own creation; God’s own self-restriction leads to his eternal glory. God’s freedom to be bound is seen both in the Old Testament Scriptures as well as the New Testament. For example, God permanently tied himself to the world when Jesus was sent to God’s creation to bring salvation due to his gracious autonomy. Jesus brings forth an even more complex exploration of freedom due to him operating in both a human will and a divine will; Jesus’ free wills affirm the concept of God being free and yet tied to his creation