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... the presence of the church in society has to do with the hope that it embodies and proclaims. In today's context of so many bad news, the church insists rebelliously in being a propagator of the good news of salvation and hope of God's kingdom. Against all evidence to the contrary, the church stubbornly announces the triumph of good over evil, the victory ... ...
... to meet him: "And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's kinsman, and that he was Rebekah's son; and she ran and told her father. When Laban heard the news about his sister's son Jacob, he ran to meet him" (Genesis 29:12-13). This urgency, and the retention of this urgency in repetitions of the motif, reveals the Hebrew ... all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth'" (Acts 1:8). Thus, the land has finally been explicitly replaced with a command to leave it in favor of spreading the news of God's Kingdom in heaven. In this way, the metaphysical land of God's Kingdom has rep...
... , placing these women securely within it.32 This then begs the question, why is Mary, "who was specifically given the first apostolic charge by Jesus himself to announce the news of his resurrection," not officially recognized as one of Jesus' apostles while Paul, who neither attended the Last Supper nor ever met Jesus during his life on earth, is ... ...
... on the cross, we enter the "proclaimed kingdom " where we are patiently waiting for His return. When Jesus went back to heaven, he commanded all Christians to spread the good news of God's salvation through Christ's death, and he explained that the delay in his return was to give everyone, Jews and Gentiles, a chance to hear his word and put their ... ...
... divine and saving faith, the grace of God is at work everywhere, ant that a fundamental act of saving faith reaches of every human being. The gospel message, with its good news of what God has actually done for us in Christ; add something that basically alters the structure of faith itself. Those theologians who treat faith simply as a transcendental experience of ... ...
... by books. This same responsibility is delegated to Christ's disciples when he died on the cross, and their duty was to "go into all the world and preach the good news of Christ" which is later written into the chapters of the Bible. Therefore, the association of Christianity and the Dark Age battles of good vs. evil are evident in the ... ...
