Sentences with phrase «jesus kind of faith»

Not exact matches

I'm sure there are many like me who believe that we have deep faith and call Jesus friend and teacher, but I have to say, I can only hope that my arms and hands could show that kind of mercy and love.

I have previously posted the example of Jesus as well as the «two thieves» being crucified beside Him as kind of an example of discussing God and faith at the last moment of life.

I put my faith in Jesus because he is good, and the kind of person I would like to be.

Even Jesus speaks of this kind of ignorance about faith in Matt23.16 ff.

I now believe it does a tremendous disservice to honorable people who are faithful believers to place on them the additional burden of guilt, shame and magnified suffering that comes from the kind of doctrine that promotes (sells) prayer as a magic talisman which will somehow change God's mind, alter physical circumstance, and fix intractable problems — if only the one praying has enough faith or asks in the right way or lives a holy enough life or professes Jesus enough or waits patiently or never gives up or any of a hundred different gotchas that can be called upon to justify the lack of an affirmative answer.

Christmas has largely become this jacked - up faith's glitzy high holy day, marked by the kind of consuming and spending and barn - building that bears very little resemblance to a Jesus who was born in anonymous poverty, ministered while homeless and altered the planet without a budget, church building, tax exemption or media empire.

But there's another kind of evil lurking around the halls of the depressed, and it's the belief that those who are stricken with depression (or any mental illness) are suffering because of their lack of faith in Jesus.

In so far as I firmly believe that faith in Jesus Christ requires action of a specific, unique, singular kind, I must admit that the counsels on violence issuing from the faith are addressed to faith, therefore can have no meaning for those who do not believe that Jesus Christ is Lord.

Hartshorne remarks that while «many theological and philosophical doctrines» of the traditional kind have asserted that «being divine means precisely, and above all, being wholly immune to suffering in any and every sense», yet in his judgement the insight of faith in Jesus as the Christ would rather point logically to the truth that «there must be suffering in God».

At the beginning of this kind of study some feared that our faith in Jesus might be challenged.

I kind of thought that is the central tenet of your faith is that Jesus died for EVERYONE's sins, and that your God gets to make the final call on that pitch.

I would be glad if you could consider the substance of this lecture a kind of commentary on the first paragraph of your own «Call to Covenant Community,» which reads: «We affirm faith in Jesus Christ who proclaimed the reign of God by preaching good news to the poor, binding up the broken - hearted and calling all to repent and believe the good news.

It is this kind of trust that Jesus meant by «faith.»

theres much more good in the world to be done, so instead rubberstamping segregation or hate of any kind... I have «faith» that somewhere up on an imaginary cloud jesus is shaking his head and looking at his watch.

We need the kind of hero's of faith as Jesus was.

I'm sure the last thing Jesus cares about is what hat a woman wears, when the women with the issue of blood went to Jesus to be healed God didn't care about what kind of head covering she had, or if she was a top dressed model for church, Jesus recognized her as a woman with utmost faith that Jesus could heal her.

We saw all kinds of problems with Father Meier's near divorce of the «Jesus of history» from the «Christ of faith,» and with his extremely truncated definition of history and of the historian's task.

This is sufficient for our faith — that we have a trustworthy guide — and this fits with our common sense in a way that other kinds of claims about Jesus do not.

The New Testament plainly indicates two kinds of experience as bases of faith in Jesus» continued life — one, the empty tomb and its associated events; the other, appearances of the heavenly Christ to various people, especially to Paul at his conversion.

There is first a kind of christological scheme, in which Jesus is a divine or more - than - human object of faith.

On the other hand, the essential faith which is enshrined in this story is the forerunner of the faith which in the Gospels so persistently cast Jesus Christ in the role of healer of all kinds of bitterness, the faith which appropriates to the suffering of the Cross the line first spoken of the Servant of the Lord: «with his stripes we are healed» (Isa.

Thirdly, there is knowledge of Jesus of Nazareth which is significant only in the context of specifically Christian faith, i.e. knowledge of him of a kind dependent upon the acknowledgement of him as Lord and Christ.

In this camp we find all kinds of strange comrades in arms united in their conviction that the historical events of the ministry of Jesus, in addition to the cross, are necessary to Christian faith.

Is the discovery by the Marys of Jesus» resurrection a kind of metaphor of the life of faith?