Sentences with phrase «christians like prayer»
I just love watching Christians like Prayer Troll (et al) and Chad violate rule after Biblical rule as they abuse atheists for violating Biblical rules.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/ Not exact matches
I'd like to add to that the idea that as a Christian we may be tempted to flee day to day problems by imagining that God will lift us out of it all, or prayer will make it go away.
It also grounds Christian hope, the prayer «how long O Lord» until that day when justice rolls down like mighty rivers.
Dr. Mark Laaser pioneered the Christian response to porn and sex addiction in the 1980s and chides counseling centers like Pure Life for what he says is their near - total reliance on prayer.
That coupled with what I observed in a lot of Christian believers, being ordinary people, sinners like I am, yet having faith in God and His redemptive Grace, I accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and personal Savior in a moment of clarity over a prayer.
-- like the Republican evangelicals who all think their church is the most Christian, the most right, the only ones going to heaven yet ignore the real teachings of Jesus by judging others, ignoring charity and the needs of their community, not understanding when the Lord's Prayer begins with «Our» Father — the «Our» is not just white people.
I think awfully difficult conversations like this in a forum that requires no transparency (how do we know any of us is who we are unless we practice some disclosure) and involves kids that will have access to this whole conversation, especially amongst Christians, ought to be marked by caution, prayer, discretion and deliberation.
If I simple left the room shouting complaints about the prayer, would that be OK with good Christians like SCOTUS and yourself?
This Christian prayer is like asking God to make you poor.
Even though this is Scripture, in our Christian culture, our desert prayer times are often met with well - meaning encouragement like, «Relationship with God isn't a feeling.»
How is it possible at a time like the present, when the whole world is at war, to sit down calmly and consider such a subject as the Earliest Gospel, to study the evangelic tradition at the stage in which it first took literary form, to discuss such fine points as the emergence of a particular theology in early Christianity or the transition from primitive Christian messianism to the normative doctrine of later creeds, confessions, hymns, and prayers?
I think that without a doubt that praying such prayers for oneself can be nothing less than a absolute positive for the Kingdom of Heaven and the Christ like servitude that Christians should have for their fellow man.
This nation whether we like it or not was built on judeo - christian values and that is a fact you can search out history Congress had prayer meetings and sought God for guidance every time they came together and they read the Bible together.
It seems to me that we are calling ourselves Christian when we pray the «sinner's prayer» and cry a lot, then go about our business like nothing has changed.
I go to Christian blogs and it's like a competi.tion who can post the longest, most cheesy prayer at the end of every remark.
Personally, the hardest part of being single is feeling like I don't have a partner in ministry — a built - in encourager, prayer partner and someone who is journeying with me in the mess that can be the Christian walk.
Psychosis / most psychiatric illnesses often arise in adolescence or in early adult life however 75 per cent of children with mental health disorders / issues do not get the help they need — I fell into that 75 per cent, I was misdiagnosed by a doctor and then the self - induced trance - like altered state of consciousness induced by intense / deep meditation and prayer coupled with the theology about how prayer and God work in a Christian's life (more on this below) just pushed me right over the edge.
I used to think that the only true Christians were «Bible - Believing Born - Again Evangelicals» like me, the kind of people who voted for Republicans, rejected evolution, walked the Romans Road, and prayed the Sinner's Prayer.
today I have a little downtrodden ministry called faith prayer ministry without any helped from any one.i like serving among non Christian because I was not theologian only bible school graduate.
Its funny you have no problem for a hate monger like Siraj Wahhaj to be at the DNC, but lo a christian prayer at RNC and you are up in arms about it.
Just like prayer is with Christians.
Christians use phrases like «born - again» and «sinner's prayer» simply to transmit concepts that can't otherwise be as readily communicated; they rarely do it as a kind of special handshake to see if someone is an insider.
You said «I would like to remind you that not everyone who calls themself Christian is trying to push school prayer, pro-life, discrimination against LGBTs or restrictions of public discourse on diverse points of view.»
@LinCa I would like to remind you that not everyone who calls themself Christian is trying to push school prayer, pro-life, discrimination against LGBTs or restrictions of public discourse on diverse points of view.
Prayer as a device for securing business success, prayer as a way of insuring that you will sell your customer, prayer as a method of getting mental security when the world is in hell, devices to find an easy peace of mind and the like, bear no relationship, so far as I can see, to authentic Christian pPrayer as a device for securing business success, prayer as a way of insuring that you will sell your customer, prayer as a method of getting mental security when the world is in hell, devices to find an easy peace of mind and the like, bear no relationship, so far as I can see, to authentic Christian pprayer as a way of insuring that you will sell your customer, prayer as a method of getting mental security when the world is in hell, devices to find an easy peace of mind and the like, bear no relationship, so far as I can see, to authentic Christian pprayer as a method of getting mental security when the world is in hell, devices to find an easy peace of mind and the like, bear no relationship, so far as I can see, to authentic Christian prayerprayer.
I should like to put this as strongly as I can, because, as it seems to me, some of the renewed interest in prayer and in the devotional and the spiritual life in our day has frequently led many good people far away from true Christian prayer.
The Creed stands for the total faith of a Christian as he responds to Christ; the Lord's Prayer for his worship and prayer; and the Ten Commandments, interpreted of course in the light of Jesus» summary of «The Law,» for the moral life which is also, like faith and worship, response to God as we meet and know Him in CPrayer for his worship and prayer; and the Ten Commandments, interpreted of course in the light of Jesus» summary of «The Law,» for the moral life which is also, like faith and worship, response to God as we meet and know Him in Cprayer; and the Ten Commandments, interpreted of course in the light of Jesus» summary of «The Law,» for the moral life which is also, like faith and worship, response to God as we meet and know Him in Christ.
I've been told, repeatedly, that if I don't like the Lord's Prayer (Jesus» prayer that starts with «Our Father») spoken at the end of our meeting, then go to another meeting; yet every AA meeting in the county also uses this offensive principles - breaking Christian pPrayer (Jesus» prayer that starts with «Our Father») spoken at the end of our meeting, then go to another meeting; yet every AA meeting in the county also uses this offensive principles - breaking Christian pprayer that starts with «Our Father») spoken at the end of our meeting, then go to another meeting; yet every AA meeting in the county also uses this offensive principles - breaking Christian prayerprayer.
Jefferson in his many words is todays paul by basically testifying to a lost society by preaching «The heart «that is what God wants not the shell which will rott away.I can stand with this truth until the day I die because I also have had disagreements in my church about this same topic.I dispise religion and encourage salvation which come from having a relationship with Jesus.Many may ask how do i have a relationship with him?by simply asking God through prayer, not what we know as pray but simply given up and telling God he win.That is what being righteous means saying «lord your're right and i will believe and obey that.Last i will like to thank jefferson for this clip, becuase for so long I have been feeling like todays churches in not like the first churches.They are stuck into their four cornered walls preaching to those who already obtain the word and people who already think they are perfect, but what about the weak and the sinners who we are suppose to love, go after, preach to, help and deliver the same way as Christ camed for the sinners so do we also be like him.Jefferson basically telling all us young people and old no matter who have suffered in the world, the church, or no matter what party or the past that there is hope and «God wants that person» not the sin but the person.Jefferson wants us to know that God can become personal with us and we do exist or can exist in the christian world not because we are perfect but because «he is perfect and he saw our broken spirits and rescued us!
Christians would be screaming and ranting if a pagan lead a prayer or a Muslim did, so there really is no difference when others get upset... common sense goes a long way when it comes to matters like this.
When I first went to India, however, like many Western Christians, I was used to verbal worship and prayer addressed to a transcendent God.
Prayer, in the Christian sense, presupposes a creation in which human activities, like every other event or occurrence, have consequences and make a difference.
How about something simple like God taking time out between watching football games and answering the prayers of the Christians on offense or the Christians on defense?
I swear to God I know mother cleaned it, but it looked exactly like it did the day I left,» Perry said at a May fundraising event for a Christian prayer rally he helped organize.
I don't know a single Christian that would pray a prayer like that, or think thoughts like that.
If we absolutely have to have a «national day of prayer,» since, presumably, people who want to pray do it all the time, how about taking turns organizing this thing so it doesn't seem like yet another right - wing Christian «America is a Christian Nation» scam?
I'm not sure how Christians manage to square something like «National Day of Prayer» with Jesus» words in Matthew 6:5 - 6:
A renewed global emphasis on prayer - especially for peace and reconciliation - as individuals and leaders recognize that personal spiritual peace in one's heart provides the only lasting foundation for physical peace among families, friends, neighbors - even nations — A. Larry Ross, Christian communications executive representing clients like Billy Graham and Rick Warren
Staying up there on the mountain with Jesus and those sacred sources was for Peter like attending some spiritual retreat for the modern Christian: the quiet time, the holy place, the aids to worship: stained glass windows, helpful spiritual directors, rich meditations, prayers and songs, celebrating with thanksgiving the gifts of forgiveness, acceptance and freedom.
But granted this, the ordinary believing Christian will find today that those who are with him in church will be, like him, concerned to grow in faith, to deepen their relationship with God, and to learn from public prayer ways in which their devotion, in private prayer and otherwise, may be given more reality.
Above all, public worship is the experience of sharing with our fellow - Christians in an action that is distinctively Christian and which, by our very presence there, is to become (like all prayer) an intentional, attentive, and conscious openness to the presence and action of God himself.
Basil Hume has written that the struggles of the Christian in prayer are a bit like that of a child trying to climb stairs, while his father waits at the top.
The interesting thing is that the prayer, like almost every Christian liturgical prayer, does not in fact presume to address God directly.
Too many Christians across the ages have read these verses with a satisfied feeling and a happy prayer, «God, I thank thee that I am not like other men» (Luke 18:11).
Christian prayer and practice is meant to properly calibrate the will and desires, so that, by relying on God, we become more like him, rather than being an eternal ignoramus.
Evangelicals can join with all Christians in a prayer like this: «And now we give you thanks, Heavenly Father, because in choosing the Blessed Virgin Mary to be the mother of your Son, you exalted the little ones and the lowly.
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Soon, as the God Squad, they're on the prayer meeting tent circuit and selling a Christian clothing line called Cross Dressing that includes «F - Satan» t - shirts and the like.
While serving as a dorm parent at the Black Forest Academy, a school in Germany for the children of international Christian workers and international business families who want a North American curriculum that incorporates a Christian worldview, Paterson began to think about prayer and what a prayer might look like if it had a physical shape.
Her video and photographic works in the exhibition deal with charismatic Christian prayer warriors; folktales concerning Kuru, an intelligent yet treacherous tortoise; karikpo (antelope) masquerade figures asserting playful gymnastic parkour - like performances around decommissioned pipelines or areas where pipelines once existed; and the color red, which represents birth in the artist's native Ogoniland and symbolizes her own rebirth there.