Sentences with phrase «many evangelicals live»

I'd like to speak out on evangelicals living a tax free lifestyle.

The Evangelicals living in Rome knew the bible too, and sometimes took the Book of Mormon to see what it had to say.

The Book of Hebrews gives us a glimpse into the pastoral and evangelical life of another confessional witness.

It can constitute a ground for the notion that celibacy must form part of the ideal Christian life: the «evangelical life» which the Church of the fourth and later centuries identified with monasticism.

Rakhuba was in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, on America's election night; he said Ukrainians, including Ukrainian evangelicals living in Russia, were more likely to oppose Trump — in part because of his characterization of Crimea, the territory taken over by Russia a few years ago.

I remember the day when Evangelicals lived in shear fear of the prospect of their daughters returning home, saying they had fallen in love with a Mormon.

Sr Patricia, relying on Franciscan sources, describes the Franciscan life as a pre-eminent model and archetype of «evangelical life», something other traditions, such as my own Dominican one, may well resent.

In the most recent issue of First Things, Gerald McDermott writes about «Evangelicals Divided,» which explores current trends in evangelical life relative to what he describes as a struggle between traditionalists (who tend to be Reformed) and Meliorists (who tend to be Arminian).

Many evangelicals live thier lives within the «bubble» so much that they don't even know what a lost person looks like.

On December 16, Christianity Today announced its selection of top books, «most likely to shape evangelical life, thought and culture,» -LSB-...]

She's not writing so that someday, someone will know about the doctrines of the religion, or why she believed or didn't believe, but so that she herself will never forget that among all the unseen and the intangible that make up an evangelical life, there were things that were real; things that happened, that you could see and smell and touch.

Not exact matches

Majorities of white evangelical Protestants (55 percent), white mainline Protestants (60 percent), Catholics (62 percent), minority Protestants (69 percent), and the religiously unaffiliated (64 percent) also favor a path to citizenship for immigrants currently living in the United States illegally.

«I could not be more proud to stand with President Trump as he continues to stand shoulder to shoulder with communities of faith,» evangelical preacher Paula White told Religion News Service, «This order is a historic action, strengthening the relationship between faith and government in the United States and the product will be countless, transformed lives.»

Complicating matters further is Osteen's association with the prosperity gospel movement, and the related «Word of Faith» movement popular in some evangelical circles, which teaches that believing Christians can harness the power of prayerful speech: to reap material and financial rewards in this life as well as the next.

A sprawling 44 - bedroom house surrounded by towering brick walls that was once the home base for polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs has been converted into a sober living center by Evangelical missionaries.

He's not exactly another philosopher - pope, but there are other ways of being an inspirational, evangelical, and poetically theological pope: For Augustine, the joy promised by the Lord to his followers is given and lives in spe, in hope.

(Wilcox does not mention the recent and widely publicized finding that evangelical wives have better sex lives with their husbands than religiously unaffiliated do with theirs, but it seems to follow that this would be so.)

In the same year, Lifeway, an evangelical research agency, found that 46 percent of those it surveyed never wondered whether or not they will go to heaven, and 28 percent reported that finding a deeper purpose in life wasn't a priority for them.

But in recent years I have come to appreciate the fact that many promising younger evangelical scholars got their start in a serious commitment to the life of the mind by responding positively to the LaHaye - type call to intellectual warfare.

In the UK, where calls for equality are admittedly met with less resistance, in general, than in the gender minefield that is US evangelical culture, Christian advocates for equality have also been active, with the launch of gender - based violence charity Restored in 2010 and the publication of Jenny Baker's Equals (SPCK) this year, which talks about the practical outworking of equality in family life, work, and church.

Perhaps this attitude is best seen in the most influential Southern Baptists in America today: Billy Graham, a «prophet with honor» and America's chaplain for more that fifty years; Chuck Colson, evangelist, prison reformer, and cofounder of Evangelicals and Catholics Together; and Rick Warren, a pastor whose writings have touched millions of lives.

Thus Evangelical Catholicism's approach to church architecture, decoration, music, vesture, and all the other tangibles of the Church's liturgical life proceeds from the question, «Is this beautiful in such a way that it helps disclose the living God in Word and Sacrament?»

Jones has suggested that the Faustian bargain with Trump among evangelicals represented an application of desperate measures to a patient on life support.

Conversion is thus a lifelong matter for evangelical Catholics, for whom the Christian moral life is one of growing into goodness.

You don't have to venture very deep into the heart of your average evangelical Sunday to attend a service that avoids talking about discomfort or pain in life.

The Holy Eucharist stands at the very center of evangelical Catholic life.

But having embraced him who is truth as the truth because they have entered into friendship with him, evangelical Catholics are liberated from the epidemic and soul - withering skepticism of postmodernity and are empowered to embrace the authority that Jesus represents and incarnates: the authority of the living God, who reveals himself in deed and word to the people of Israel, and who finally and definitively reveals himself in his Son.

Thus Evangelical Catholicism, knowing that its being a Church of sinners is another impediment to mission, emphasizes that friendship with the Lord Jesus is a matter of constant conversion of life; that this conversion involves the rejection of evil and sacramental reconciliation with Christ and the Church when we fail; and that there are degrees of communion with the Church that are not identical with the canonical boundaries of the Church.

The line from nineteenth - century Evangelicals to the New Deal — era embrace of the idea of the living Constitution is not as direct as Compton's intentionally provocative title suggests.

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pedophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice) Clinton, Cardinal Law), jail for embellizing / money laundering (the topic rabbi) and the death penalty or life in prison for murder («Kings David and Henry VIII).

Evangelical Catholicism understands the priesthood in iconic terms: The Catholic priest is a man whose ordination makes him into a living re-presentation of the Lord Jesus.

Because it lives under two sovereigns, Evangelical Catholicism is bilingual.

For Evangelicals, the Church as the one body of Christ extending through space and time includes all the redeemed of all the ages and all on earth in every era who have come to living faith in the body's living Head.

Thus Evangelical Catholicism challenges the proscription - centered understanding of the moral life into which both Catholic traditionalists (who insist on hard - and - fast rules, and lots of them) and Catholic progressives (who want to loosen the rules, to the point where they often disappear) are stuck.

Even if antebellum Evangelicals did not create the idea of a living Constitution, it could be said that by rejecting the continuity of human moral experience, they took a first necessary step towards it.

Evangelical Catholicism is a liturgically centered form of Catholic life that embraces both the ancient traditions of Catholic worship and the authentic renewal of the liturgy according to the teaching of the Second Vatican Council.

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.

18:30 Assistant editor Alexi Sargeant reflects on the life and legacy of Jack Chick, the evangelical comic book artist who died last week.

Evangelical Catholicism is a biblically centered form of Catholic life that reads the Bible as the Word of God for the salvation of souls.

In The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution, John W. Compton argues that the idea of the living Constitution has a much longer history that began with nineteenth - century EvangelLiving Constitution, John W. Compton argues that the idea of the living Constitution has a much longer history that began with nineteenth - century Evangelliving Constitution has a much longer history that began with nineteenth - century Evangelicals.

This emphasis on beauty in the liturgical life of the Church is another reason Evangelical Catholicism takes sacramental preparation and adult catechesis so seriously.

The rise of evangelical and Pentecostal Protestantism, the advent of Pope John Paul the Great, and the ascent of more - traditional strains of Judaism all appear to signal the weakening hold of secularism on American religious life.

Both of these forms of Counter-Reformation Catholicism think of the moral life as primarily engaging the will, whereas Evangelical Catholicism understands the moral life to be a matter of training minds and hearts, the reason and the will, to make those choices that truly contribute to goodness, human flourishing, and the beatitude that enables the friends of Jesus to live forever within the light and love of the Most Holy Trinity.

Having shared the great grace of baptism and having been appropriately catechized into «the mysteries,» evangelical Catholics understand, appreciate, and live the biblical truth of Christian vocation as given by St. Paul: «Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of working, but it is the same God who inspires them all in every one.

However, by refusing to submit to «the democracy of the dead,» (Chesterton's words, not Compton's), nineteenth - century Evangelicals did, in ways Compton suggests but does not fully clarify, take a first crucial step toward the idea of a «living Constitution.»

The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution by john w. compton harvard, 272 pages, $ 45 The Constitution has become something different than what it once was.

Evangelical Catholicism celebrates the seven sacraments as divinely given means of sanctifying life.

In this engagement with Scripture, Evangelicals and Catholics are learning from one another: Catholics from the Evangelical emphasis on group Bible study and commitment to the majestic and final authority of the written word of God; and Evangelicals from the Catholic emphasis on Scripture in the liturgical and devotional life, informed by the lived experience of Christ's Church through the ages.

The result of that evolution, Evangelical Catholicism, is an expression of the four enduring marks of Christian ecclesial life — unity, holiness, catholicity, and apostolicity.

@Damian,... I'm Evangelical Protestant, but I live outside of USA.