God-pleasing

That runs in God-pleasing crimson rivers through the Bible right up through the book of Revelation when Jesus will come back and kill just about everyone left behind on earth including the "Incomplete Jews" (i.e. Jews who haven't "accepted Jesus") not to mention all Muslims, saving only a "remnant" unto Himself.

Frank Schaeffer: God vs. Women 2010

That runs in God-pleasing crimson rivers through the Bible right up through the book of Revelation when Jesus will come back and kill just about everyone left behind on earth including the "Incomplete Jews" (i.e. Jews who haven't "accepted Jesus") not to mention all Muslims, saving only a "remnant" unto Himself.

Frank Schaeffer: God vs. Women 2010

The more time I invest at the helm of a cross-cultural missions agency, the more time I spend studying Scripture, the more time I spend researching and planning and strategizing, and the more time I spend praying, the more convinced I am that the “business as mission” model will serve the Brazilian church and other emerging churches well in the 21st century, unleashing them for effective, holistic, God-pleasing frontier ministry.

Unleashing the Brazilian Evangelical Missionary Force through a Business as Mission model 2007

How then to best get back to some sort of Promised Land of rectitude and God-pleasing ways?

Frank Schaeffer: Changing the Failed Strategy of the Religious Right Into a Winning Formula That Helps Heal Our Country 2008

There is a vast difference between a flitting thought of lust that I do not later specifically recall and confess, and my deliberately committing adultery, knowing the injunction against adultery but, nevertheless, saying: My extramarital relationship is not sin; it is God-pleasing and good and beautiful.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Texas megachurch refuses to bury gay veteran: 2007

So forget about being a crowd pleaser, and concentrate, instead, on being a God-fearing, God-praising, God-pleasing man.

MAN DOES NOT LIVE BY SPORTS ALONE DR. DENNIS SWANBERG 2006

Augustine saw it as a conservation and renovation, a return to that God-given and God-pleasing state of man and order of society which in history has been con - stantly threatened by the city of man, but never wholly lost.

REFORMATION LEWIS W. SPITZ 1968

The observance of the thousand ceremonials which you decry, is to them not only a religious necessity, a God-pleasing work; it is more, it is a source of domestic happiness, a means of genuine enjoyment, a comfort and a solace.

Rabbi and Priest A Story Milton Goldsmith

Nevertheless faith must come first because without faith it is impossible to know what a God-pleasing deed is.

A Commentary on St. Paul���s Epistle to the Galatians 1483-1546 1939

Protected by the streams of divine teaching, thou didst come out as a river from another paradise, O God-pleasing (mentioned by name), giving drink unto the face of the earth and drowning the tares of wickedness.

The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints Anonymous 1899