As Christians with an international perspective, we will offer the blessings of the Judeo - Christian moral order and the Gospel of Jesus Christ to women and men around the world.
I believe he is providing a prominent professional service to humanity free of charge, where he doesn't have to, out of belief in the «Sanctity of Human Life» and
as a Christian with a directive from the Lord Jesus Christ to do so.
I myself have read the bible cover to cover several times in my life and attempted to cross reference nearly every line in the 30 years I spent
as a Christian with a decade as a pastor.
In the next chapter we will look at some specific questions about what it means to live
as Christians with regard to possessions and the use of money.
A neighbor at First Thoughts has found occasion (someone was listening to Glenn Beck...) to issue yet another warning to any who might consider communing
as Christians with members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints.
Livingitout.com includes a series of short films in which participants speak about living
as Christians with same - sex attraction, chastity, finding identity...
Do you know that there is a group of people that do not call
themselves as Christian with the reference of that no where in the Bible Jesus (Peace be upon him) called himself as a Christian... and this group of people call themselves as a «Follower of Christ» and they also follows the verses talks about Jesus in Quran... just for your information...
We've probably all used our identity
as a Christian with the wrong motivations at some point — it's a good thing God's love doesn't depend on how good we are at following Him.
So the recommendations of Luther's Prelude on the Babylonian Captivity of the Church were being realised; if the officials of the Myth, the Christian bishops and priests, would not themselves reform the Church then secular officials would do it,
as Christians with the responsibility to act in society.
Not exact matches
With German leadership seen as crucial for a European Union grappling with governance reform and Britain's impending exit, FDP leader Christian Lindner's announcement that he was pulling out spooked investors and sent the euro falling in the morn
With German leadership seen
as crucial for a European Union grappling
with governance reform and Britain's impending exit, FDP leader Christian Lindner's announcement that he was pulling out spooked investors and sent the euro falling in the morn
with governance reform and Britain's impending exit, FDP leader
Christian Lindner's announcement that he was pulling out spooked investors and sent the euro falling in the morning.
Graham's relationships
with U.S. presidents also boosted his ministry and became a source of pride for conservative
Christians who were so often caricatured
as backward.
«Now it depends solely on your good sense and your way of life whether you die
as an ordinary musician, utterly forgotten by the world, or
as a famous kapellmeister, or whom posterity will read... whether, captured by some woman, you die bedded on straw in an attic full of starving children, or whether, after a
Christian life spent in contentment, honor, and renown, you leave this world
with your family well provided for and your name respected by all.»
Complicating matters further is Osteen's association
with the prosperity gospel movement, and the related «Word of Faith» movement popular in some evangelical circles, which teaches that believing
Christians can harness the power of prayerful speech: to reap material and financial rewards in this life
as well
as the next.
I have a new paper out (ungated here)
with Christian Catalini (or «Dan»
as we call him) that examines initial coin offerings (or ICOs).
If you ask Armando
Christian Perez — who you most likely know
as the musician, Pitbull — wealth has absolutely nothing to do
with money — it has only to do
with happiness.
But an expert in that market, Jeffrey
Christian of the CPM Group, acknowledged at the March 25 hearing of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission,
as he had acknowledged in an explanatory report published in 2000, that the London bullion market is actually a fractional - reserve gold banking system built on the presumption that most gold buyers will never take delivery of their metal but rather leave it on deposit
with the LBMA members from whom they bought it.
«The competition was fierce
as teams from each school brought forth their best and brightest, showcasing their skills
with a healthy dose of competitive spirit,» says
Christian Petersen, co-chair of the Developers» Den Alumni Organizing Committee and a Schulich MBA graduate from the Class of 2013.
In addition to the artworks, the Saxo Collection also features installations, objects and curiosities
with an extraordinary appearance or significance
as for instance «Catch Me Should I Fall», (2010) by Michael Elmgreen and Ingmar Dragset and
Christian Lemmerz» «Lady Die» (2003 - 04).
In many ways, Pence was on the same doomed trajectory
as the conservative -
Christian movement he'd long championed — once a political force to be reckoned
with, now a battered relic of the culture wars.
When Sparrow Records in Nashville caught wind of Kendall's little - talked - about faith, they decided to partner
with their mainstream big brother and sent her out
with big named
Christian acts such
as Third Day, Nichole Nordeman and Delirious.
There is a lot of material available, such
as: Positive Christianity (German: Positives Christentum) was a movement within Nazi Germany which blended ideas of racial purity
with Christian doctrine.
Nancy Writebol was working there
with Christian charity Serving in Mission (SIM)
as a hygienist when she had to be flown home to the US for treatment back in July.
I would never go so far (
as you did to me) and say you are not a
Christian, but in my mind you are in the same room along
with Pat, John, and Fishon.
The commonplace depiction of Jesus
as white led to indignant reactions,
with some African Americans and other
Christians claiming a «black Jesus» or some other Christ of their own ethnicity.
Insofar
as that support includes advocacy in Washington, D.C. for institutions of
Christian higher education, we believe our association
with the CCCU significantly weakens our collective voice for our distinctive mission, at a time when we are under increasing scrutiny.
I also remember singing «Onward
Christian Soldiers, marching
as to war,
with the cross of Jesus, going on before, Christ the Royal Master, leads against the foe — forward into to battle, see his banners glow...»
-- Secondly, no one disputes his a «ssertions about human s «exuality, and the rights of everyone to their own, (although his former, and many
Christian sects, including many in his present one, DO exactly that
with respect to anyone other than what they define
as «straight»).
As with all things in the
Christian journey, there is no one formula to solve all our problems.
We all struggle
with something, and it's hard enough
as it is to be a loyal
Christian and follow a path of lifelong righteousness.
They feel Christianity isn't being given the same respect
as other faiths, that the media, the way laws are interpreted, the general hesitancy of businesses and public bodies to constructively engage
with them
as Christians is pushing them to the edge of society.
As Christians, what are we supposed to do
with this tension?
As for
Christians, there were a number who did advocate things like wanting atheists prosecuted or saying he (one poster) would run them over
with his car.
For the past few years,
Christians have been forced to deal
with worldly, non-Christian tablets, subjugated to the misguided ways of such wayward e-readers
as Apple's iPad or the Kindle...
The First Vatican Council included language like (the Pope) «is the true vicar of Christ and head of the whole Church and faith, and teacher of all
Christians; and that to him was handed down in blessed Peter, by our Lord Jesus Christ, full power to...» This transfer of power depends on the Roman Church's understanding of the Office of the Keys which I do not agree
with, but their statements make it clear that the Pope's authority
as the Roman Church understands it is derived from Christ's.
«
Christian activists in the GOP» summarizes everything that is wrong
with our country and why we are destined for failure
as a democratic nation.
If
Christians are wrong, they will only rot in the grave
as unbelievers do; but if
Christians are right, they will live forever in a painless, righteous world
with eternal bodies, while unbelievers suffer forever in torture.
I'm a
Christian, and it really ticks me off when I hear someone trying to use Jesus
as a reason why he would disagree
with something that someone else believes is wrong.
But if you look at the bible and how
christians use it by picking out what parts they agree
with and dismissing the horror of it
as «cultural of the times» it says to me that their sense of right and wrong is more evolved than the book they claim is the final authority of right and wrong.
In a sermon called «Unleashed
as a Family - Raising and Releasing the Next Gen of Kingdom Builders» at the Chinese Missions Convention, the
Christian author said: «A few weeks ago I was in Brazil and I was having lunch
with a pastor out there.
If it is right to judge Islam
as a whole on the basis of the barbarism of jihadi groups, how should we explain — and encourage — the actions of Kurdish Muslims and many other Muslims who are standing up to the jihadists and paying
with their lives to protect
Christian and Yazidi minorities in Iraq?
Largely I would echo what Christine has already said about the way in which we feel accepted within our community, but if you'll bear
with me for a little bit, I'd like to attempt to explain to Trey in particular what I see
as the difference between this type of acceptance and the attitude of the many
Christians who view homosexuality
as sinful such
as what you have encountered
with your sister.
Many refer to the
Christian life
as a «relationship
with Jesus.»
I am a
Christian who attends a Pentecostal church, but I'm pretty liberal in my views
as well and don't always agree
with my fellow
Christians about certain heavier topics.
As a
Christian scholar of Islam, I offer a short list of questions that require frank discussion
with Muslims.
The answer is simple, they aren't — it is the white, more Aryan featured Jews in this country who have labeled themselves
as «Neocons» who have merged
with the 15 % Ethnic German Majority in this country to lead the Genocide against the Iraqi people in the name of land (Palestine), Oil, and ostensibly protecting the Holy land of Israel (this last one is where the Neocon Jews really did some great salesmanship in selling this argument to the dumb
Christian Americans who said, Yep!
I would have the urge to open it
as fast
as possible, but knowing my
christian friends» inability to acknowledge or at this point even understand what truth is, I would first arrange a live PayPerView event
with thousands of recording devices and
as many people
as possible to witness the opening.
As a
Christian it is my belief that in order to show Christ risen we must embrace everyone and in order to do that we must be able to reach people where they are, and to not have a crisis of Faith in your walk
with God is a lie.
As, islamist extremists do
with their own faithful infidels,
christians now can't wait to do the same within their own congregation to protect the pure
christians from the infected ones.
Either way, I invite you to read a Bible (or re-acquaint yourself
with yours), perhaps speak to another
Christian who comes across to you
as more authentic, and most of all, speak to God, ask Him to answer your questions and be open to what you can learn.
And not go deeper in new ways of praying, but actually return to old historic practices that are rooted in our historic
Christian contemplative tradition and my sense here, in the Sacred Enneagram is that
as we come to terms
with what our type is, that actually gives us a clue of what it looks like to nurture a deep, contemplative spirituality.