Sentences with phrase «christians talking about their faith»

«Unchurched folks are not being overwhelmed by Christians talking about their faith,» said McConnell.

Even if he has to make some people uncomfortable while doing so, he's on a mission to change the way Christians talk about faith and justice.

For now, though, Borg and others are also focusing on changing how Christians talk about their faith.

Not exact matches

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.

I listen to how they talk about matters of faith, religion, what they watch on their favorite religious tv programs, often listening as well to their radios playing their favored «Christian music» radio stations in the background, what are in the lyrics.

I do think that maintaining the normativity of Scripture entails giving it a higher priority than worship, if we are talking about our means of knowing the shape the Christian faith ought to take in the world, even if our primary encounter with Scripture is within the context of worship.

Dr Brown talks about why ther is trouble in a christians life and how to overcome through prayer and faith in the LOrd in heaven.

They laugh at Christians with scorn for our «hope» and «faith» and talk about how no one needs a savior because we're all basically good... also based on no evidence.

At last, somebody of Christian faith talking about helping people and trying to explain the good, rather than trying to spread hatred.

I have found that when we speak as if we know what we are talking about, regarding Christian faith in any regard at all, we are in effect saying «thus saith the Lord».

I talk about how the evangelical obsession with sex can make Christian living seem like little more than sticking to a list of rules, and how millennials long for faith communities in which they are safe asking tough questions and wrestling with doubt.

In Christian circles, people talk about «The Faith» as if it is something very much outside of you - like somehow, belief just descends on you and it resides in your heart like an immovable stone.

The truth is — whether we're talking about a movie with casual attitudes about sex, a song that uses profane language or a talking head who belittles Christian faith — there is no easy answer to that question.

Jeremy Lin, whose parents are from Taiwan and who talks openly about his Christian faith, has become a symbol of that trend.

But Vine is certainly happy to talk about it to me, and admits that, despite growing up in a strongly Christian background, his adult relationship with faith was an on - off affair for a long time.

«Obama has repeatedly talked about his Christian faith, and his relationship with his controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright...» — reading comprehension is not a big thing with Republicans its seems

Brother John: When Jesus talked about God's church, He was not speaking of a physical place rather, the people of Christian faith who made up the body and Christ was the head of His church.

Nobody stops Christians from talking about their faith.»

Christians who wish to speak «the language of the people» — and thus talk a lot about what makes up «the Christian lifestyle» — often assume that they can return to their own familiar «religious» language of grace and faith, sin and redemption, justice and mercy, even act and consequence, whenever they want.

I can travel to places and I can see the long - term effect of Christians who never talk about their faith, yet they're reaching out with acts of mercy.

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.

Indeed, most people find that talking about their pilgrimages and their beliefs as Christians is itself a means of grace that enhances: and strengthens the faith they already have.

«These days, when the president talks about his faith, he sounds like a born - again Christian.»

Neville i mentioned those people only because the discussion was talking about dominionism the combination of the church and state as a governing rule all those people were government leaders all of them suffered in there own way.Its was the suffering that prepared them for the roles that they were to play and there faith in God was what helped them get through.We are made stronger in our weakness no matter how important or unimportant we may appear to others.I guess it is easy to fall into the lie about political involvement that its hard to make change but some people have had a huge impact.Really it is God who deserves the praise he is the one that creats the opportunitys to make impact on the world as in our strength we can do nothing.In hebrews the great men and woman of faith there are those that seemed unimportant to the world and many suffered for there faith Our Lord knows everyone by name and every small act of faith we do he remembers because we do it out of our love for him that is what the christian walk is about living for Jesus and sharing that love with others.brentnz.

Centuries ago, it was known that no reading of Scripture could be interpreted in one way... if you're talking about the Christian faith, which is already so one - sided, nowadays...

Actually, millennial Christians are more likely than any age group — notably, those generations of Christians that invested a ton of hope in the political process — to share their faith in public (43 percent say they talk to others about their faith at least once a week).

«Not just in one country but in numerous Muslim countries, I have been able to walk in, head held high, no covert cover story and not only identify passively as a Christian but identify openly, work openly and hold serious talks about faith between Muslims and Christians, and not just at the grassroots level of poverty — people who needed my help — but also with the powerful and influential people who could have, in that moment, had me arrested and had me taken out back.»

A Christian lecturer at a secular university reveals what it's like to talk about faith at work More

My hope is that the students will come away from the talk with an appreciation for how their worldview class is preparing them to think critically about their faith and become familiar with Christian theology and practice, but also how their worldview is bound to change over the next few years — and how that's okay.

It takes guts to talk about your faith with people who are not Christians.

They talk about the Queen's Christian faith, why evangelists are giving out free hugs on the UK's streets, when God takes over your church meeting, the global phenomenon of Muslims turning to Christ and Christian apologist Larry Taunton's unlikely friendship with atheist Christopher Hitchens.

I have interpreted it in a broad manner, as an invitation to talk about the Christian Faith in its relevance to social analysis of the present political situation and social response to it.

There are days when my faith doesn't make sense, when I can't turn on the news without crying, and when Christians talk about healing I struggle to believe in; when my friend Val says she still thinks the Church is a club she'll never join, and I worry that I'm not praying enough or in the right way and maybe it's my fault that I don't «get it»

Even if his statements about faith don't measure up to a traditional Christian standard, the fact that Kanye is making them should be seen as an opportunity to talk about real biblical truth in honest ways and be a part of the cultural dialogue.

The Bible scholar's goal is to massively revise the way we talk about the Christian faith.

He also talks about «a deeper vein, and richer yet, of God's pure gold, latent within the inexhaustible mine of Christian faith long worked by men.»

And what are the best ways for Christians to talk about and live their faith in a culture that thinks sex and chores are more important to family life than religion?

Are we talking literal prose or are we speaking in poetical idiom when we say things about our Christian faith?

If, however, our scenario had been a different topic — say, a student had experienced extreme poverty for the first time, or realized the magnitude of the global AIDS crisis and wanted to talk to her pastor about how her faith speaks to that — I imagine the response would have been easier for our students to get out and distinctly Christian.

I'm going to develop the response to my own question in two main parts to this lecture: In Part 1, I'm going to talk about Jesus and the Christian Life, and in Part 2, I'm going to talk about Faith and the Christian Life.

I have seen several people here talk about «what does it hurt to let Christians or other religious faiths believe what they want» and slam the atheists and agnostics for getting in the faces of believers.

you talk about Christians pushing our faith down your throat, what about you?

This is seen most clearly in Faith and Order's emphasis on reconciling the churches and the alternative talk about «a partisan church of the poor» which would divide Christians in a new way along social and political lines.»

The story is about Hebrews and by extension Christians being mocked and looked at as foolish because they have faith in God, talk to God and worship God then follow what to the lost and dying seems foolish.

However this may be, it is apparent that there is not now, there never has been, and there never will be, any strictly logical demonstration of what the Christian is talking about when he speaks not so much of immortality as of «eternal life» and above all when he declares his faith in «resurrection».

Unless this be the case, the Christian faith is sheer absurdity and should be rejected out - of - hand, for the God about whom it is talking can not be the God Nygren presents.

In one recent monologue, in which Roy Moore attempted to defend his own «Christian values,» Kimmel responded by talking about his faith:

Obama has repeatedly talked about his Christian faith, and his relationship with his controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, was a major political liability during his 2008 presidential campaign.

This unique structure gives members opportunities to learn Christian faith by living it, talking about it, and giving it away.

But I think that Muslims and Christians who embrace the normative traditions of their faith refer to the same object, to the same Being, when they pray, when they worship, when they talk about God.