Sentences with phrase «at life of faith»

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Faith at work in the performance of The Nutcracker was like an offering up to God from committed people who gave their entire life to the art of dance.

If you believe at all that Christ was the son of God and came to save the world, you are a Christian, even if you don't pray a specifically worded and ho ll ow prayer that affirms publicly that you are «born - again» in Jesus» blood — which in itself is sad is tic and doesn't ensure that the person doing the public profession of faith actually believes or will suddenly become so changed that they will lead a better life.

So while I agree with her that political life may help renew faith in human dignity and so make human rights believable, the politics of human rights is conducted through liberal language that is extremely partial, that leaves out at least half of the human experience.

CNN: Convention's Mormon speakers expected to shed light on Romney's faith life Mitt Romney is famously quiet about his Mormon faith, but his campaign has said that some of Thursday's speakers at the Republican National Convention will shed light on the candidate's role in the church — and that Romney may open about his faith, too.

The Christian faith of Arnaud invited him to save life, if necessary at the price of his own.

You have been blessed to see life start and life end, but the most important thing is to see life continue at the end of this journey on earth, and the only way that can happen is to put your faith and trust in Jesus who created you and at that moment you step off that curb into the next life, it will be holding Jesus» hand and smiling into his face... blessings to both of you....

My mom was a wonderful woman of faith and I was gifted to be at her bedside the last five days of her life.

I'm currently reading the book, When bad Christians happen to Good people bc i've been there & have come full circle... Life church helped me to see that many of us mistakenly put our faith in other Christians instead of God, but pple are sinners & will fail us at some point.

i'll also say this, if and when she attends mass on sunday it will be no different than the other six days of the week that she conducts her life she can be at peace with her faith.

Buckley was never a professional Catholic, in the sense of someone who made his living from the fact of his faith, and his standing as a Catholic commentator may have declined when, in 1961, National Review responded to John XXIII's encyclical on Christianity and social progress, Mater et Magistra, with an unsigned quip: «Mater si, Magistra no» (though most reports now ascribe it to a hotshot young writer at the magazine named Garry Wills.)

David Barclay, the Faith and Public Life Officer at the Centre for Theology and Community, has led the Church of England's work promoting and creating credit unions and ensuring payday lenders do not exploit people who can not repay their loans.

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.

The only times I really start to think about your myth when a someone at work or I'm out doing something and one of YOU feels the need to inject your faith into my life or worse, when one of our nations policy makers feels the need to govern from the bible.

With regard to another post regarding faith... I have seen my preemie child struggling for life... I have held the hand of an old person as they slipped from life to death... I have stood vigil in the room of a man of faith as over 40 friends and family crammed into a room sharing pain and suffering as he slipped away suffering from cancer at a young age.

The merely «Religious» had a comparatively poorer showing at 45 percent, indicating that self - conscious lukewarmness in matters of faith may carry over into one's sex life.

at some point we all have to take steps of faith no matter what we believe about life... at least many christians are honest about their leaps of faith

Can say that I believe in every thing that you disbelief of when it comes to the Creator and the Creation of universe, life and guidance, God has given me hearing, seeing, thinking and heart feelings to see and experience signs and small miracles to have faith in him and continue with good deeds I was told of in his Holy Book although am not perfect at that but nothing to lose but contrary to that there are more to gain in life and life after... For those disbelievers they lose their senses by being locked and blocked from such experiences... It is all about souls as verses speak for them selves;

Expecting your child to grow in their faith thanks to a couple of hours input at church each week, if their home life is a spiritual desert, is clearly unrealistic and an abrogation of parental responsibilities.

But you should at least be honest and know that one who believes in the forensic science of origins of life has to have as much faith in the person asserting the theory as one has to have believing God was the witness to the event and told man kind how the world came about in simplistic terms.

Many feel deeply fulfilled at helping others grow in their faith, and are moved at the opportunity to be a significant channel for God's grace in the life of another person.

He blogs regularly about the intersection of life and faith at KellenFreeman.net.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

On Friday, September 11 and Saturday, September 12, I'll be at Irvine United Congregational Church for their annual Faith & Works Conference, where I'll be joining several other speakers in discussing the intersection of faith and everyday life and the future of the Church in a changing conFaith & Works Conference, where I'll be joining several other speakers in discussing the intersection of faith and everyday life and the future of the Church in a changing confaith and everyday life and the future of the Church in a changing context.

At the end of our lives, some of us might finish far away from Point Z perhaps but it took a tremendous amount of courage and faith to end up at Point P. And so we can celebrate any movement towards justice and wholeness in each other, however far from perfecAt the end of our lives, some of us might finish far away from Point Z perhaps but it took a tremendous amount of courage and faith to end up at Point P. And so we can celebrate any movement towards justice and wholeness in each other, however far from perfecat Point P. And so we can celebrate any movement towards justice and wholeness in each other, however far from perfect.

If you are in the midst of suffering, if you find your faith withering, if you are questioning whether God is at work — or even present — as you wait for something in your life to become beautiful, this book will be a welcome reminder that God never stops his redemptive work... and that there is a time for everything under heaven.

With the wonderment of an outsider, I try to understand the seemingly incomprehensible (to me, at least) pull that faith exerts over so many people's lives.

«At the center of biblical faith,» says Walter Brueggemann in a sermon on this passage, «is a command from God that curbs economic transactions by an act of communal sanity that restores everyone to proper place in the economy, because life in the community of faith does not consist of getting more but in sharing well.»

Some say this is because Judaism demands that your faith be woven into every aspect of daily life and is not proven or made secure by attendance at a meeting alone.

Believing that God is the giver of all life, our aim is to uphold and support the dignity, sacredness, personhood and flourishing of every human soul, whether born or unborn, elderly or young, privileged or poor, healthy or sick, strong or weak, American or international, Christian or Muslim or other faiths or no faith at all.

And that is why, in our prayer at the altar, we ask that the consecration may be brought about for us: Ut nobis Corpus et Sanguis fiat... 3 If I firmly believe that everything around me is the body and blood of the Word, 4 then for me (and in one sense for me alone) is brought about that marvellous «diaphany» which causes the luminous warmth of a single life to be objectively discernible in and to shine forth from the depths of every event, every element: whereas if, unhappily, my faith should flag, at once the light is quenched and everything becomes darkened, everything disintegrates.

To the best of my understanding, the deposit of faith clearly affirms the following: that God desires the salvation of all and offers the real possibility of salvation to all; the offer can be accepted or rejected and, if accepted by faith, such faith is recognized as the gift of God; if the offer is knowingly, freely, and definitively rejected, even at the very last moment of life, one goes to hell, which is eternal; but the deposit of faith does not tell us clearly that anyone is in fact eternally damned.

Now what Mark sets out to do, on the basis of the current tradition, already and indeed from the beginning interpreted by faith on the basis of experience, is to show that Jesus, instead of becoming Messiah at his resurrection, was already Messiah during his earthly life.

Yes, there are precise religious practices spanning many volumes in Judaism and in the statements of faith and conduct in Christianity, but at their fundamental core is the instance by God that they should bring life.»

When the erosions of age begin to leave their mark on my body, and still more on my mind; when the ills that must diminish my life or put an end to it strike me down from without or grow up from within me; when I reach that painful moment at which I suddenly realize that I am a sick man or that I am growing old; above all at that final moment when I feel I am losing hold on myself and becoming wholly passive in the hands of those great unknown forces which first formed me: at all these sombre moments grant me, Lord, to understand that it is you (provided my faith is strong enough) who are painfully separating the fibres of my being so as to penetrate to the very marrow of my substance and draw me into yourself

How can any man look at the universe from the sheer size to the unseen atom and say «we just happened by chance, from cosmic goo...» That sure takes a lot of faith — to make something from nothing, especially life.

Personally i think those specific prayers are a distraction most of the times we pray these prayers because its what we think we need and often thats not the case.The better way is to just trust the holy spirit let him lead i think we miss the awesomeness of doing it Gods way its easy not difficult.The struggle is difficult when we are walking by the flesh and trying to do it our way.When i got to the point where i said to the God i am not going to do it my way anymore and i submit to you because know whats best for me.Change me and when i feel the wrong desires or temptation to walk by the flesh i just say Lord you know i am weak and i can not live a christian life without you help me.As soon as i do that it is effortless theres no struggle thats how we should grow.I am excited with what God is doing in my life he has opened his word i am seeing the fruit of his life impacting mine and i am changing day by day.I am walking by faith and not slipping back into my old desires i know what it means to be an overcomer sin does not have dominion over me anymore.In myself i can not boast because it is the power of God at work in my life and i give all the praise back to God.brentnz

Unless lay people came to their own confession of faith and were committed to the beliefs at which they arrived, I could not, and can not, foresee a healthy renewal in the life of the denomination.

Covering faith, culture and intentional living, the stories we tell are at the intersection of where a Christ - centered life is really lived.

to dandintac, the evolution of stars or solar systems or life forms to different species takes billons of years to complete., that we in our lifetime cant comprehend its teleology or purposefullness.At the University of Illinois, a super computer called The nautilus, predicts the future by analysing through computational methods mathematical algorithim the historical inputs for hundreds of years and discovered that it has a direction or intepreted as has a purpose.Someday in the future when we will be technologically advanced, Gods will will be clearly reveald to us.All of this will be part of his will, at this time beyond our comprehension, but will be in the future, The next generation of quantum computers which are tens of thousands more powerfull and faster than todays will provide us the informations to solidify the future religious faith based in science.

One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason — but one can not have both.»

In talking about these books with some friends, I was reminded that books that challenge us at one stage of life or faith may not seem so challenging as we continue to mature.

«Slavery itself... is not at all contrary to the natural and divine law... The purchaser [of the slave] should carefully examine whether the slave who is put up for sale has been justly or unjustly deprived of his liberty, and that the vendor should do nothing which might endanger the life, virtue, or Catholic faith of the slave.»

Despite the efforts of the Modern Church People's Union and «Sea of Faith» conferences and other theologically radical groups, many questioning followers of Jesus have drifted away from church life, or at least from participation in the church's decision - making forums, thus allowing undue influence to more traditional positions.

But we can say at least this: the essential meaning of the concept of the miraculous, as this has been used in traditional theology, is grounded in the keen awareness men have of the unexpected and unprecedented experiences and happenings, the novel and hence the unusually stimulating events or circumstances of life, through which men in every age have been aroused to faith in God and have been given a deepening conviction of his love and care.

Frans and Annemieke Alting von Geusau - Houben FAITH MAGAZINE September - October 2015 Frans and Annemieke Alting von Geusau - Houben look at the current position of Catholic families, and write from their own experience about the possibilities and practicalities of a radical and joy - filled Catholic family life.

«Religion is an important part of our society, its voice should be heard, but I wouldn't want to live in even a democratic theocracy,» the former prime minister said at the office of his Tony Blair Faith Foundation, which works to promote multifaith understanding.

(Galatians 2:20) At every point, therefore, faith means to Paul that vital self - committal to Christ which so opens the life to him and appropriates his spirit that by it men become sons of God.

Some people need to learn to set boundaries but this girl's boundaries were no bigger than her view of life and church and faith at the time.

Faith is never a tool or a means to gain something else, at least not faith in the God who is I AM, the God whose glory fills the world, the God whose life throbs in the life of every human being, the God whose love is the matrix of our wFaith is never a tool or a means to gain something else, at least not faith in the God who is I AM, the God whose glory fills the world, the God whose life throbs in the life of every human being, the God whose love is the matrix of our wfaith in the God who is I AM, the God whose glory fills the world, the God whose life throbs in the life of every human being, the God whose love is the matrix of our world.