Sentences with phrase «christian response to that call»

Purity is part of the Christian response to that call.

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Chaplaincy... Christian chaplaincy is not a job or career; it is a response to God's voice calling to us to be physical stand - in's.

You called me out as being disingenuous when I said «that as time goes on however, I'm finding things that are helping to disprove things previously held as fact among Christians», so I have provided you an example that not only wasn't it a disingenuous statement, but that I've done my homework, on both sides of the argument, and came up with something that no one has been able to give me a response with even either the slightest chance of being possible, or falling back to the old status qua of «mysterious ways» and «having faith».

It is an insult to Jesus Christ and to the very real persecution of his earliest followers for Christians in America to suggest that the health care decision calls for a violent, revolutionary - war - style response to the policies of the Obama administration.

This is how we Christians should live our lives: even though nonviolence is not necessarily the «most efficient or effective» response to violence, the fact is that «Jesus [is] calling us... not to return violence» with violence.

In November 2014, ʿĀṣim ʿAbd al - Mājid, a Gamāʿah Council member who signed the initiative, continued to threaten Egyptians, particularly Christians, in response to what he called an illegitimate coup.

Such centers routinely sponsor public lectures attacking Christian responses to same - sex attractions, calls to chastity, and attempts to seek therapy.

To rely upon activities or patterns of behavior outside the daily work of the scientist as means for expressing a Christian response to God's call would be to abandon the conviction of Reformed theology that any useful work done soberly and well can be a valid means of serving GoTo rely upon activities or patterns of behavior outside the daily work of the scientist as means for expressing a Christian response to God's call would be to abandon the conviction of Reformed theology that any useful work done soberly and well can be a valid means of serving Goto God's call would be to abandon the conviction of Reformed theology that any useful work done soberly and well can be a valid means of serving Goto abandon the conviction of Reformed theology that any useful work done soberly and well can be a valid means of serving God.

In response to a call to prayer issued by the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), churches worldwide prayed for the release of Leah Sharibu on Sunday.

The Reformers saw that the basis of moral responsibility and decision of the Christian does not lie in the elaboration of principles but in the concrete response of free men to the call of God, which is a call to action and service.

Rodriguez is in Houston this week preparing for a leading role in Saturday's Christian prayer, «The Response,» which organizers describe as «a call to prayer.»

I think the crux of understanding Christian nonviolence is to first relinquish the notion that it is some sort of theory that develops as a response to something called «violence.»

The Texas governor has called on both Christians and politicians to attend his religious gathering, dubbed «The Response,» in Houston this weekend.

Our calling as Christians is to bear witness to this reality, both by seeking to discern the print of God's life - giving action in the world, and by action in the world which proceeds out of our loving response to him.

«Evangelicals are divided between those who are willing to take up arms and those who view witness and non-retaliation as the responses to which the Bible calls Christians,» the report stated.

More especially, it has to do with the enterprise known as «de-mythologization», in relation to what the father of that enterprise calls existenzialinterpretation of the biblical material and most importantly of the material that has to do with the kerygma or the Christian gospel to which faith is a response.

In response to these questions Augustine developed a remarkable form of what I would cautiously call a Christian humanism.

And I guess with that 70 + pages of atheist comments we will see another 70 + pages of Christian responses many exhibiting this same «hatred» if that's what you want to call it.

Inherent in faithfulness to the One to whom worship in Jesus» name is a response is the call rigorously and critically to examine the truth of the Christian thing itself.

While Martin Buber has courageously called for a transformation of faith in response to the «eclipse» of God, Christian theology has chosen to remain silent about the theological import of the death of God.

(As CT previously noted, former president Duane Litfin signed a 2008 Christian response letter to a statement from 138 Muslim leaders calling for interfaith cooperation.

Fascism and communism can dare to ask, and can be fairly sure of receiving, from their followers today a response which Christianity now hardly dares to ask, because it can not longer be sure of its hold upon the people who call themselves Christians.

A second stage in the act of imagination called for has to do with our relations to those who are our ancestors and offspring in loving response to the God into whose death we Christians have been baptized.

In the story of Christ the cloud of mystery intimated in our boundary experiences and limit questions is given a personal face that summons us to a distinctive type of response that can be called the Christian life.

But if Milton was sincere in his Christian beliefs (and surely he was), and if he really felt called to give witness to his Puritan beliefs (as surely he did), then he must have wanted to provoke in his readers a response so powerful that it would transform their lives; and Fish can not have been amiss to point that out.

In 2008, former president Duane Litfin signed a Christian response letter to «A Common Word between Us and You,» a statement from 138 Muslim scholars and clerics calling for interfaith cooperation.

Schindler's contrary opinion, however, bears serious consideration: «My own view is that the habit of communication of the dominant culture, which knows no discreet activities that ought not to be fully exposed, and no mysteries that ought not to be fully unveiled, is precisely what needs to be called into question, by both the form and the content of an authentically Christian - human response.»

A lot of this, of course, may have been predetermined: Christian Jankowski called up some of the Veneto's dodgy cable channel tarot card readers to ask, in dodgy Italian, if his artwork would be a success, and then used their spookily accurate responses as the work.

In response, a group of 79 artists, curators, and arts workers — including artists Christian Boltanski and Oscar Murillo, curators Hans - Ulrich Obrist and Pablo Leon de la Barra, and Tate Modern director Frances Morris — published an open letter in Libération in support of Rodriguez and calling on France's Culture Minister, Françoise Nyssen, to look into the issue.