With Christianity, although the reincarnation aspect seems to have purposefully removed so that people do not become «lazy» in search of
God in this life time, the practical and strict rules governing functions in this life (hard work to lead a prosperous life, improving moral values, etc) are appealing.
Not exact matches
I struggled with it myself for a long
time, but I came to realize that
life is that gift from
God and I think even when
life begins
in that horrible situation of rape that it is something
God intended to happen.»
Well, yeah, but when you're watching the negative news all the
time, and every shooting —
God forbid, we've had some horrific shootings around the world — is brought to you
in living color over and over and over again on every device you have, you feel like you're being just under barrage.
In other words, are you working 80 hours a week and don't have any time for anything else in your life like seeing your kid's ballgame or, god forbid, an extended vacatio
In other words, are you working 80 hours a week and don't have any
time for anything else
in your life like seeing your kid's ballgame or, god forbid, an extended vacatio
in your
life like seeing your kid's ballgame or,
god forbid, an extended vacation?
All faithful people, at some
time in their
lives, are called upon to witness to one another, offer comfort and encouragement, and remind one another of
God's promises.
Even just a kind word or a greeting card to someone who's hurting can make such a difference
in their
lives and it makes me feel full of
God's love at the same
time.
For me as a Calvinist, that suggests that rather than spending a lot of
time defending the doctrine of total depravity or of election I would do best to share my deeply felt sense of my own unworthiness, and to point people to the way
in which I have experienced
God's gracious workings
in my
life.
This is just one example of many
in the bible, where
god's words go beyond man's understanding of the
times in which they
lived.
As Christians
living in a culture that tends to present opportunities counter to our identities
in Christ — children of
God, as we're referred to
time and again — the danger is that we may be influenced into believing the lie that the decisions we make are without the burden of consequence we could expect when we were younger.
Jesus said; I will show you my faith by my works: Faith without works is dead: (There is no
life) = If we have the Faith of Christ (a gift from
God) then we will have the works that go with it that is evident of our faith; the works will testify to our faith, then do we produce fruit that will remain: If our heart does not convict us to do what is right according the written word, then we are not
in faith: Our hearts are far from the life of Words of our Lord penetrating into our hearts because our hearts are wicked; even Paul who said; follow me as I am of Christ; how was that??? In and by the Holy Spirit, even Spirit of truth as Paul takes us through the Words of the Lord to have us established in the truth: The Word of our Lord is as refined silver, 7 times in the fire: Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith, to them who believe: In the Bible one's «belief» and one's «behavior» are often compare
in faith: Our hearts are far from the
life of Words of our Lord penetrating into our hearts because our hearts are wicked; even Paul who said; follow me as I am of Christ; how was that???
In and by the Holy Spirit, even Spirit of truth as Paul takes us through the Words of the Lord to have us established in the truth: The Word of our Lord is as refined silver, 7 times in the fire: Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith, to them who believe: In the Bible one's «belief» and one's «behavior» are often compare
In and by the Holy Spirit, even Spirit of truth as Paul takes us through the Words of the Lord to have us established
in the truth: The Word of our Lord is as refined silver, 7 times in the fire: Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith, to them who believe: In the Bible one's «belief» and one's «behavior» are often compare
in the truth: The Word of our Lord is as refined silver, 7
times in the fire: Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith, to them who believe: In the Bible one's «belief» and one's «behavior» are often compare
in the fire: Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith, to them who believe:
In the Bible one's «belief» and one's «behavior» are often compare
In the Bible one's «belief» and one's «behavior» are often compared.
While most leaders or aspiring leaders would agree with this
in theory, many
life - long Christians, especially those with ministry responsibilities, spend more
time pursing a deeper understanding of leadership principles than they do learning to hear
God and submitting themselves to following.
Man has always perverted the truth, ever since the first
time he fell for a lie... it's
in human nature, or better said it's a human disease we're born with, till
God does His work
in our
lives, if we allow Him....
so
in your spare
time of denial read Romans chapter 10 verses 9 thru 13 and give your
life to Jesus Christ the one and only
God that gave his
life for all mankind, rich or poor that we may be forgiven of our sins and have power over the devil, and help the lost to find their way to salvation through the power of the Holy Spirit... so rebuke the devil and be free, give your
life to Christ so you can begin to sleep at night... I love you all with the love of Jesus Christ...
I've realized reality is most of the
time our natural hatred for
God as sinners comes through
in our daily
lives.
And there's a reason for them and the importance of them being fulfilled to the T. Fulfilled prophecies are for believers, so we may further trust
God on His promises and also to know the
times we are
living in.
The interesting thing is that to us, you are not only suffering a
life time of delusions that there is not a
God but if you factor
in Pascals Wager you will suffer longer for the lack of Faith.
Newton also
live during a
time in the UK that if you dissed the Roman myth or its
god you would get an opportunity to be take back any anti-
god statements under extreme torture or find yourself tied to pole
in the town square with a nice roaring fire surrounding you.
The devil finds fertile ground
in our comforts, and
God seems to prefer the tougher
times in our
lives for His efforts.
Another is that a person may have spent his or her entire
life, though relatively so short
in time, resisting the love of
God and then spends eternity regretting that.
They talk about their families because that is what really matters
in a person's
life... that is thier true legacy and their only real immortality... most people, I am fairly sure, know deep down that
god is a fairy tale, a cushion, and that death is truly the end... what this very excellent young woman heard from these dying people makes perfect sense... death is a
time to end the bs and look at and reflect upon what was real and important
in that individual's
life
The hebrew war
god which later took meds and turned into the christian «peace»
god which then will stop taking meds and launch an attack from atop his magical unicorn claimed
in Exodus 12:12 that it will punish all of the Egyption
gods (and at the same
time it'll end the
lives of babies).
At the same
time, I think it plausible that evangelicals are encountered by the
living God, and are encountered more frequently than many of those who worship
in the ways that Smith outlines.
As for silly people who spend a year or any amount of
time trying to
live exactly as the ancients
lived, by re-enacting practices found
in the Bible, they do a great disservice to
God's Word and His people.
Because on that day I stand before my
God and give an accounting of my
time in this
life he will know that I stood for Him, I did not deny Him, and as for me and my house we serve the Lord.
Your critics most likely will «get it» at that
time in their
lives as well, and I hope they will have a Kerry to comfort them and exhibit love, that only can come from
God.
Your «at the same
time» dilemmas are caused by your assumption that
God lives in the same
time frame as we do.
I had a hard
time loving because of pain and hurt
in my
life... from none other than my family... but I asked
God to allow me to see them through his eyes... that helped me pick up the pieces... hand them to Jesus and allow him to lead me and guide my way to him... that is the only hope of
life we have.
In our time, with a little distance from it all, a book like God and Man at Yale and a life like William F. Buckley's seem to call us to a different way of being Catholic in the worl
In our
time, with a little distance from it all, a book like
God and Man at Yale and a
life like William F. Buckley's seem to call us to a different way of being Catholic
in the worl
in the world.
God gives you two presents at the same
time: Forgiveness and a new
life in Christian love.
= > whenever my faith falters such as when limbs are not returned there are
times when I can not see
Gods hand
in my
life.
I believe
in government; that men can not
live together without rules but that they should be kept at the bare minimum of safety; that there is no form of government ordained from
God as being better than any other; that the anarchic elements
in society are so strong that it is a whole -
time task to keep the peace.
In fact, this article suggests that
God is NOT an important part of people's
lives, at the one
time when they would be MOST introspective.
I will have plenty of
time with
God, but my moments with my family
in this
life are limited.
We are
living in a
time when the images of
gods and idols are crashing all about us.
We shall
live through a long, long chain of days and endless evenings; we shall patiently bear the trials fate sends us; we'll work for others, now and
in our old age, without ever knowing rest, and when our
time comes, we shall die submissively; and there, beyond the grave, we shall say that we have suffered, that we have wept, that we have known bitterness, and
God shall have pity on us; and you and I, Uncle, dear Uncle, shall behold a
life that is bright, beautiful, and fine.
They are revealed by
God's historical and dialogical self - revelation by words and deeds, and
in the fullness of
time by
God's eternal Son becoming flesh
in a certain
time and space of history;
in church history under the guidance of the Holy Spirit they have to be witnessed to and developed through the
living tradition (see the dogmatic constitution Dei Verbum, 2, 8).
a) Dinosaurs and humans
lived on earth at the same
time b)
God made earth with dinosaur fossils
in it and dinosaurs never actually
lived on earth c) Something else?
There are
times I'm so tired from whatever is going on
in my
life that I want
God to spell it out for me, and leave a literal, printed note on my desktop.
Either they necessitate a deceptive «
God», e.g. creating starlight «
in transit» which means that for some light the star that supposedly sent said light would never have actually existed, or they would cause effect that should be evident but are not, e.g. temporarily fast starlight would effectively cook many things, such as
life on earth, if the required light (and attendant gamma radiation) were compressed into a significantly shorter
time frame (think of the radiation from the apparent 13 billion years of the universe arriving at the same
time, or even over a 1000 years).
We simply have the privilege
in our
life times to experience
God currently.
They're stuck
in another
time where they honestly think there's a «
living god.»
That the way
in which
life together is conducted is as essential to the knowledge and love of
God as is much reading: this is a truth lost to most of us most of the
time.
Unfortunately, there are
times in our
lives when our link to
God's community is severed for some reason — whether by travel, death, moving churches or any of a number of reasons.
«If you spend your
time in session talking about what
God thinks and what the Bible says, you don't get to understand what the patient thinks and what happened
in their
life up to that point that explains why,» Giugliano says.
I applaud what he is doing and hope that he brings others to
God throught the torture and bloody human sacrifice of his son (himself, actually) where he died (well, for a few hours anyway) for us all (at least so the story goes) so that we may
live with him
in heaven (a great place for which no evidence or photographs exist) until the end of
time.
Kelly said he has had the opportunity three
times to gaze down on Earth from space, giving «an entirely different perspective of
life on our planet... Earth as
God created it,
in the context of
God's vast universe.»
Including how every single male would not even be worthy to practice «
God's highest ideal»
in the first place, or even
lived in a
time where it was sanctioned to do so.
I don't believe
in a
god and could not
live any amount of
time pretending as is I did.
I see and work with people who were athiests or agnostics, came to faith
in God and for the first
time in thier
lives found hope, joy and solutions to long standing issues
in thier
lives.
However, a
life time of theological / spiritual formation
in our Western Churches has left many people with a concept of
God that is more like Baal than the Loving Merciful
God and Father of Jesus.