Sentences with phrase «what kind of faith»

What kind of faith do they have?

In the first two chapters of the letter, James points out instances of hypocrisy When we say we have faith but do not care for the widow and orphan, what kind of faith are we confessing?

While I was a prisoner, the crucial question for me was what kind of faith enabled a person to survive in such situations.

What kind of faith you have is what is at question.

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I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

All the good works done by religious organizations of all kinds (Christian and otherwise) might get a mention in a human interest story sometimes, but decades of this media treatment have skewed public perceptions of what faith is about.

If I were to treat others with hatred, fear and anger, specifically because I do not agree on how they choose to live their lives in faith, what kind of life would I be living?

The ability to accept such truly wacky ideas without critical analysis of any kind is what allows Mormons to stay true to their faith.

If you require proof, then what kind of «faith» would that be??? You can not disprove these things anymore than they can be proven... at least not the kind of proof you require....

But we don't need to understand philosophical similarities between Christianity, Judaism and communism to understand that what is now evaporating from the European landscape is a kind of faith — a faith in something larger than the individual, something one might give oneself to in devotion and sacrifice.

If we all had no faith — what kind of world would this be?

What is often neglected in these ministries is that the emphasis in the context of these Scriptures is not on the kind of faith or the amount of faith, but on abiding with Christ and asking according to the will of God.

I didn't pray for leukemia but I got it children die everyday new souls in this sometimes very cruel world what kind of god does that I'm sure you'll say the sins of the father or it just wasn't gods plan or if we were better Christians then we wouldn't be punished or our faith was being tested and to all of you I say what a cruel child of a god you have that» tests his flock he so lovingly created excuse after excuse I'll keep my faith in the science that put my cancer in remission and if I'm wrong I'll march straight into hell knowing I made no excuses

This kind of complete lunacy is what made me leave faith behind in the first place.

One such distortion is a kind of premature closure on this image as if it represented the whole goal of Christian faith and life instead of what it actually is, the basic mode of ministry to evoke faith and life.

But speculation of this kind, for all its divisiveness, was inevitable; and agreement in the early church on what we have called the «basic Structure» of faith did not prevent it.

Neville great quote i read that he was an atheist from what i understand he certainly had issues with the established church and it seems that he may have had some kind of faith in God he certainly had a gift for writing..

Harriet Martineau was a convinced Anglican who, coming to the United States in 1834 for a two - year period, compared the religious situation in America with what she perceived to be the «established» position of the church back home in England: «It appears to me that the one thing in which the clergy of every kind are fatally deficient is faith: that faith which would lead them, first, to appropriate all truth, fearlessly and unconditionally; and then to give it as freely as they have received it....

that He had defeated death or satan, this crucifixion was a promise that He had to make perfectly clear to His enemy 1st before He could say to the world ALL those who were created in his image, that its done it is finished I did what I said I would do, if you decide you need me, I will be waiting, man talk about patience, and this isnt the kind of patience that your see when people are waiting in line and they arent tapping thier foot, this is called perfect Faith, that comes in trusting and know the end from the beginning, thats HUGE!

And we of the faith will have to have the courage to do what Elijah did, that is, fling the epithet back in the accusers» teeth (12): It is not I who have troubled Israel, but you and your father's house, you and your kind, you and your acquisitive systems.

Among other topics, Volf discusses faith in the public square, and asks what kind of religious conviction will be able to give meaning to human lives and help people seek the common good.

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.

This is not the place to examine whether and under what conditions someone may certainly and invincibly think that he holds and must hold some secular proposition of a rigorously certain kind, (some truly «incontrovertible result of science»), whose compatibility with a doctrine of the faith he not merely can not actually in fact perceive, but one whose incompatibility with the doctrines of faith he thinks he perceives with quite inescapable certainty.

What kind of message does it send if we pressure privately owned businesses — which cater to people of all kinds of faiths and backgrounds — to only acknowledge our own beliefs?

From a Wesleyan perspective, this is problematic because it can lead to what Wesley called solafidianism in which the Christian life enters a kind of stasis where the believer, having embraced Christ in faith, need go no farther.

Because the kind of testimonies we make room for in our pulpits, and the kind of narratives we privilege in our pedagogy, inextricably shape our conception of what an exemplary journey of faith (and doubt) looks like.

What, then, constitutes a viable model for preaching that features the kind of dynamic, multi-dimensional approach of a David Landry at Faith Church?

If your relationship is not rooted in the same values or faith, what kind of foundation are you building your relationship on?

or, in the context of faith «what kind of person does God want me to be, and how can I take some small step in that direction?»

By faith however, I do seem to experience a kind of «certainty» or confidence but it is contingent on a whole matrix of relationships in progress and so while I can be passionate about the meaning I am making about those relationships, those relationships are always outstripping my meanings (claims) and revealing more about what meaning is possible.

It does not matter what or whom Humans have always taken advantage of a situation and twisted it to their own selfish ends... that is not Gods fault... It is Human Kinds fault... you know the ones that you have so much faith in...

Belief: Readings on the Reason for Faith Edited by Francis S. Collins HarperOne, 2010 352 pp., $ 19.99 What kind of flowers does Francis S. Collins — one of the world's leading geneticists — gather?

What kind of minister are you if you don't believe in the power of faith?

«Many people see it as a moral issue, because it necessarily involves defining what «life» means; on this kind of topic, a lot of people look to their faith.»

What would it look like if we became known for a «further up, further in» kind of faith?

A scholar - theologian who once taught on a theological faculty and later went to a department of religion in a secular university has written poignantly about his pilgrimage through the kind of identity crises I have just described: one who in college had a kind of neo-fundamentalist faith, went through graduate school, established peer relationships with scholars, and then found himself in a crisis of belief, now speaks about the morality of belief — the importance of being true and honest in what one can actually avow and affirm with integrity.

Faith is a human activity but a specific kind of activity, a response which allows salvation to become operative, which receives what has already been accomplished by God in Christ (Lincoln, Ephesians, 111).

This can be and has been interpreted in terms of fragmentation and alienation, but we need more than merely negative terms to describe what is going on here.16 The ground bass religion involves deep loyalties and even a kind of faith.

In the present book I have spoken only incidentally of the «case» for prayer; my purpose here is to make suggestions about the actual practice of prayer, including the question of its effectiveness, the various kinds of praying in which we may engage, the significant exercise of private prayer and of public prayer, the way in which the Lord's Supper (or Holy Communion or Eucharist call it what you will) sums up all our praying, and finally the point of prayer in the total context of Christian faith itself.

The fact that she didn't mention what kind of church she pastors leads me to believe that she does not have faith in the God of the Bible and has probably resolved to seek «enlightenment» in some new deception that makes her feel comfortable in her sin and doesn't hold her or her flock accountable to the one true God.

thefinisher1 Are prosecutors, police and juries stubborn spoiled brats for accepting what DNA, fingerprint, video, and all kinds of other evidence indicate about who committed a crime rather than having the faith to just take the accused word that they didn't do it?

I mean, honestly, what kind of bovine excrement omniscient being designs a universe that obeys a set of rules (physics), but designs a sentient being that He will then cast into eternal torment at death — no matter how good the being was during its life — unless that being has faith in His son?

we controlled the game but we lost, give me a break wilshere, your blind faith is rotten to the core.makes me question what kind of a relationship he has with the clown wenger.

What kind of Manager puts faith in a player for 10 years and waits for him to become a top player?

So I advise every women out there to first question themselves: who they are, what kind of relationship they want, what kind of man they want / don't want, and then put their entire faith into the man who matches their expectations.

And I mean the baby doesn't know what's going on and you can kind of empathize with them, especially for those of us in the twin world, where, you know, we had to go to the NICU and there was uncertainty and you just have to rely on the doctors and really put your faith in them and... So, what an awesome outcome in this situation.

«If we see the ruling party, witnessing this kind of situation, then we in the opposition parties will start wondering as to what will be our faith when the time for local governments election comes.

Last night, though, we debated what kind of divided society we might become if this choice is exercised to create a diversity of schools centred on different faiths and ethnicities.

«What we've done is create a place for people who are really passionate about their faith to get connected with like - minded singles, and, hopefully, there's some kind of romantic spark there.»

It's genial enough and never loses its faith even as it satirizes certain kinds of believers — while giving the perfect example of what they should be via Carol.