Sentences with phrase «christian life day to day»

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Maybe one day Conservative Christians will stop persecuting Atheists and just let them live their lives as they like, just as they are happy to let the Conservative Christian worship God as he / she likes.

Anyone who claims to be a Christian should be doing this work every day of their lives.

Please, any Christian, honestly answer the following: The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.

A committed Christian, General Sir Richard Dannatt, describes the day he stopped fighting and surrendered his life to God.

christians laugh at other religions / mythologies but actually believe their zombie lord came back to life after 3 days of rotting in a cave.

It speaks candidly to the Christian amid the messiness of day - to - day life; it honestly addresses the difficulties of discipleship, while reminding us of our dignity as children of God.

1st of all I try to live my life according to God's word and Jesus's example, laying down worldly things every day and living a set apart life, as us all Christians are called to live.

And these incongruences are offensive both to Bloggers like this man who hope that faith will one day live up to itself and also to Christians who realize that forgiveness is the only path in an instance such as this.

... What has happened over time is that people were forced to believe in the one of the Abrahamic faiths through Holy wars, torture, Crusades and Inquisitions, and as people practiced this chosen people ideology, whether Christian, Catholic, Jew or Muslim, which was built on the principle of remaining segregated from the un-chosen, their faith urged them to remain segregated, where they lived and never to marry anyone outside their faith... and even in death there is a history of segregation which to this day continues, try having a non Jewish person buried in Jewish cemetery.

On World Mental Health Day, Robert Foster explains what its like to live with schizophrenia as a Christian More

day to day life of a muslim revolves around these beliefs and traditiopns.as far as christianity is concerned or a christian is concerned he or she is just a christian on traditions and stories told in man - made bible and their life does not revolve around any true beliefs or traditions and they do not take them seriously as well.

These 7 types of gospels truths will give Christians a firm foundation on which to purify their lives and become more like Jesus every day.

However, in many modern Christian circles, practicing Lent — through fasting or giving up certain items or activities in day - to - day life — has fallen out of favor.

Augustine of Hippo, arguably the most influential theologian to ever live and the theologian that a majority of modern Christian theology has been influenced by, did not hold to literal six - day creationism.

In those days I tried to think of myself as an atheist because I was pretty sure that the God Christians proclaimed loathed me for my sins — my laziness, my incompetence, my general lack of faith, and most of all my lack of love toward people in my life whom I knew I was supposed to love.

But this concern has led me also to try occasionally to deal directly with the meaning of a holistic faith for the practical day - by - day life of Christian churches.

That is to say, the Christian gospel, the kerygma or proclamation, indeed remains and must remain fixed as the message of the Church, the heart of its life and the meaning of its existence; but at the same time we must find ways in which we can both understand and declare that kerygma which will not smother it in an unimaginative biblicism, but which will be appropriate for our own day.

Personally i think those specific prayers are a distraction most of the times we pray these prayers because its what we think we need and often thats not the case.The better way is to just trust the holy spirit let him lead i think we miss the awesomeness of doing it Gods way its easy not difficult.The struggle is difficult when we are walking by the flesh and trying to do it our way.When i got to the point where i said to the God i am not going to do it my way anymore and i submit to you because know whats best for me.Change me and when i feel the wrong desires or temptation to walk by the flesh i just say Lord you know i am weak and i can not live a christian life without you help me.As soon as i do that it is effortless theres no struggle thats how we should grow.I am excited with what God is doing in my life he has opened his word i am seeing the fruit of his life impacting mine and i am changing day by day.I am walking by faith and not slipping back into my old desires i know what it means to be an overcomer sin does not have dominion over me anymore.In myself i can not boast because it is the power of God at work in my life and i give all the praise back to God.brentnz

Even if I were to equate attendance at Christian church and attendance at Jewish synagogue, I could not have followed Jesus» example had I lived in his day — because I am a woman.

Hebrews 12: 14, calls us as Christians to live in peace with the world, not I firmly believe that the «Day of Truth» though not intensional encourages bullying and physical confrontation and / or retaliation.

Writing about a quarter of a century after the death of Jesus, he says that the tradition passed on to him, presumably when he became a Christian some twenty years earlier, contained the following statements: «that Christ died; that he was buried; that he was raised to life on the third day; and that he appeared to Cephas and afterwards to the Twelve.

Yet the Christian is not relying merely on a nineteen - hundred - year - old demonstration for his day - to - day inspiration and reinforcement, but on a living contemporary Spirit.

I guess that in a world where 1.3 billion people live on less than a dollar a day, nothing threatens Christian values more than a man who wants to take our tax breaks back.

Rodney Stark's The Rise of Christianity chronicles how early Christians lived out their faith in stark contrast to the morality of the day (I will highlight this in the last point).

He makes it very clear that God doesn't want him to preach a message of indoctrination, but a message of how a Christian should live their every day life.

With a number of fellow pastors who became lifelong friends, Rauschenbusch studied, read, talked, debated and plumbed the new social theories of the day, especially those of the non-Marxist socialists whom John C. Cort has recently traced in Christian Socialism (Orbis, 1988) The pastors wove these theories together with biblical themes to form» «Christian Sociology,» a hermeneutic of social history that allowed them to see the power of God's kingdom being actualized through the democratization of the economic system (see James T. Johnson, editor, The Bible in American Law, Politics and Rhetoric [Scholars Press, 1985]-RRB- They pledged themselves to new efforts to make the spirit of Christianity the core of social renewal at a time when agricultural - village life was breaking down and urban - cosmopolitan patterns were not yet fully formed.

The case is similar, as probably no one will really deny, in the domains of social policy, culture and education, in the attitude of Christians to thermo - nuclear and other modern weapons and in innumerable similar questions of public life at the present day.

And if you take the Christian life one day at a time, one step at a time, and go from one answered prayer request to another, from one time of Sunday fellowship to another, from one blessing of God to another, one good Christian friend to another, one prayer partner to another.

If the church's theology were informed more by biblical expectations of a redeemed creation and less by general religious longings for ecstatic experience and timeless truth, Christians would find themselves at the very least congenial toward those who, with a passionate «loyalty to things» and a «cosmic act of allegiance,» struggle to unpack the secrets of life on this planet and to work with it toward a new day.

The day is designed to enable Christians to thank and pay tribute to all who make our society a better place to live.

He did not, but those 2 Billion Christians who belong to 500 plus different denominations are conned each day of their lives to contribute to the church so the church stands.

But to treat the cultivation of correct opinions as the goal of intellectual life, as do so many Christian intellectuals these days, is a destructive mistake.

Yet we live in a day when celebrating «Christ's mass» is frowned upon by the secularists, who want to excise Jesus from the holiday, and surprisingly, by some Christians who want to exorcize Christmas from the calendar.

Heck, virtually every Christian I know, yourself included, believes the most childish of things that they would never contemplate swallowing in their day to day activities — dead men rising, mind reading sky gods, life after death, being under constant supervision for the purposes of reward or punishment in some magic postmortem kingdoms — heaven, hell, purgatory, limbo etc...

Corporate worship on the Lord's Day is central to the Christian life.

Stop using Bobs name to attack him, I have to restate that I am sorry for all the hurt I have caused and am in a spot in my life that I am really unhappy with my marriage and have to many hormones running through me right now to really make good judgments so I want publicly apologize to Bob and say that while I do nt believe in God as yet have started to read my Bible that I bought the other day and am considering becoming a Christian.

If, as we know, it is a central feature of all Christian theological ethics that God's future reaches backwards into the present and determines the shape of our moral lives, then what God restores at the end of days we are called in our time to care for and preserve.

Nor is that parallel nothing more than an interesting accident; I believe that it is a parallel so profound and so revealing that it gives us insight into the nature of the Eucharist as the chief piece of Christian worship while it also provides us with the clue as to how the gospel which is proclaimed can become the life - giving reality of the Christian tradition down the ages to the present day.

Looking at this side of the ambiguity, we see a church in which many first - world Christians of our day could feel comfortable and undisturbed: a church that lives without question or resistance in a state founded on violence and made prosperous by the exploitation of less fortunate nations; a church that accepts various perquisites from that state as its due; a church where changing jobs for the sake of peace and justice is seldom considered; a church that constantly speaks in the language of war; a church given to eloquent invective in its internal disputes and against outside opponents; a church quite sure that God will punish the wicked.

We talked that day about growing up as Christians sort of the same way kids grow up — you'd never expect a five year old to act the same way as a twelve year old or as a twenty year old, but sometimes we expect our Christian lives to be quite static, and quite similar to one another.

The challenge by Christian critics of Hinduism — Radhakrishnan's own faith — impelled him at the time of his student - days at Madras to «make a study of Hinduism and find out what is living and what is dead in it.»

Rick i struggled for over 20 years as a christian in the end i said whats the point of struggling i feel powerless and useless so i gave in to sin that did nt work either but i was so sick of struggling and seeing the same results i became more miserable and even more powerless in my struggle with sin.I decided one day no more enough was enough i needed to get my life back in order.That was years ago and it was a process over 5 years that God dealt with all those things in my life that needed fixing most days i just said to him Lord i cant do this i just do nt have the strength and he said thats okay you cant do it anyway just trust me.So now now i l know what it means to be an overcomer in Christ sin does not have the victory over me anymore because Jesus is my strength in my weakness.I know i cant live a christian life in my strength but i certainly can with Christ in me he is my strength and in him i am an overcomer.If this is speaking to others just want to let you know that you to can be an overcomer you do nt have to struggle or battle with your walk or feel miserable because you give in to sin there is a better way.Just admit that you cant do it and ask for his help for the holy spirit is in you and he is the one who helps us in our weakness.regards brentnz

Here are 7 types of gospels truths will give Christians a firm foundation on which to purify their lives and become more like Jesus every day.

time for me to leave my country for 5 years study (medical field)... and while i am i that country (China) once i intercourse with a prostitute (i am really shamefull)... then after few times i found another girl in facebook (from my hometown only) then fall in love with her and that loves get stronger day by day (she is a christian) and i told her that im not virgin and i had this girlfriend and i did with prostitute so she forgives me and ask me to lie new life... but still i havent leave my e girl friend (i found difficult to leave her, i do nt love her much, but i do nt know how i love her in first place, she is much older than me), my ex gf came to suspects about my new relationship via facebooks post, comments, likes and all and sometimes i did told her that i have this new friend... as time passes by, she realised it and she do nt talk to me anymore till now... and last time i went home i met my new girl friend and we intercourse....

Nor will it be by minimizing the personal devotion of the faithful Christian believer who in the privacy of his chamber seeks to enter into communion with his God and there find strength to live throughout the days of his life as one whose will is conformed to the Will of the Father.

Rick the more i think about it we are to live as overcomers not strugglers since the day i decided to turn away from the sin that was controlling my life i never fell back into old sinful patterns not once, was i tempted many many times.The Lord will work in our lives one area at a time he needs us to give him full control so if an area is taking control we do need to hand it to him so he can change us.How do we do it immediately we say Lord you know i am weak but in you i am strong i leaned on him and overcame time and time again.We all have areas of weakness that we struggle in so do nt feel bad.Struggling is us trying to do it in our own strength before this process i was so stubborn i refused to let God help me i wanted to do it in my own strength and so it was a roller coaster ride in my christian walk if the day went well i was on a high if it did nt i would would be down.Not any more now when things do nt go to plan i still thank the Lord and when it goes well i thank the Lord.Because i know that all things work for good to those who love the Lord.The main area he is wanting is our hearts he wants all our heart not only some until we come to that place we will continue to struggle in our faith.The only reason to tell you this is not to boast because of what i have done in myself because i have nothing to boast about but if i did i would brag that Christ has empowered me by his holy spirit to be an overcomer just as he would want you to be.As Christians we are all called to be overcomers more than conquerers.Make a decision today to turn all your hearts to the Lord to acknowledge the areas you are holding onto that are controlling your flesh life hand them to the Lord and walk according to the spirit and not the flesh and he will give you the victory.That can be a reality starting today merry christmas everyone and may the new year be an exciting one as we put all our trust in Christ our Lord and savior.Brentnz

As I look back over my life, becoming a Christian is nothing compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Jesus on a day to day basis, sitting at His feet to learn from Him, and letting Him speak to me by His Spirit and through Scripture.

As a former Christian and now an atheist, I can say that my outlook on life has become dramatically more positive after I came to the realization that my days here are finite.

The christian culture permeates quite a bit of our day - to - day life in the US.

The well meaning Christians in my life at the time... explained to me that «god «just creates some for the day of distruction».