Sentences with phrase «at ideas of faith»

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It's our ability to put those two contradictory ideas together: We need to be prepared for what we can't predict and, at the same time, have this total, unwavering faith that we will find a way to deal with all of it.

I cintend that the bible also calls us to do the same thing — it calls us to action and then says when we have donr everything we can and there is nothing else we are to stand in faith that it will work out — of course i paraphrase — but wht do people think all christians do is sit on their butts and pray and look pie eyed at the sky - this christian worked her butt of on the streets - and look at Mother Thresa - and other christians working for humanity all over the world - i think athiests have the wrong idea about chtistians...

Atheist reject the idea of a god and believe their view to be true or they would be agnostic unless they choose no stance at all of a god that of which would require unknowing of what the term «god» means so it would fall under a belief and since they can't prove that a god doesn't exist then by definition it requires faith for their view, meaning it would effect their view of the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe if a god was proven to be true.

I'm sick of defending my faith after the fact to nonbelievers that means I'm not pro-active in my faith.It really irritates me how Christians get so offended at these groups and decide, through their pious thinking, that the best thing to do is create an alternative to these days and other ideas.

'' I have no idea what Bell is trying to prove; but the lost of income» — it doesn't make a lot of sense for a man of no faith to teach at; Christian schools... «his wife» — not related, read the story... «and potentially his home» - once again, related to his jobs at Christian schools.

Only faith derived from Christian preaching is able to deduce the certainty of God acting upon us even from those fragments, which otherwise would remain only a small part of the history of ideas, and quite a problematic part at that.»

I can see how one can look at this idea and look at the following examples in Hebrews 11 as «Because they were sure they would get this reward, they did this thing» but as the author points out in verse 39 that they didn't get what they imagined they would, so if we understand faith as «being sure» it would turn out that it is «being sure» of something and being totally wrong — instead it makes more sense to understand Hebrews 11:1 as saying that «faith is a realization (or actualization)» of our hopes, a realization that the author points out is greater than we could expect and be sure in.

He was confident enough in his faith to not see how science could undo what was important in religion even though the Pope at the time tried to twist his ideas into a convoluted «proof» of Creationism which Lemaître resisted.

The longer I looked at it, however, the more I realise that I've embraced the idea of evolving faith for many years.

They alone commend goodness to the world, for most people choose goodness, if they choose it at all, for the same reason that Tolstoy became a Christian: «I saw around me people who, having this faith, derived from it an idea of life that gave them strength to live and strength to die in peace and in joy.»

Kathleen Curran Sweeney FAITH Magazine September - October 2010 Kathleen Sweeney uncovers, in Henrik Ibsen's influential plays, some of the existentialist ideas at the root of the current...

To put the matter baldly, a person of religious conviction should not want to enter the marketplace of ideas but to shut it down, at least insofar as it presumes to determine matters that he believes have been determined by God and faith.

Tim i found it liberating to just do what the Lord wants you to do i work within his boundarys and yes i attend church and enjoy it.I love the people and i love hearing the word and worshipping the Lord even if others are still bound up with traditions thats not my walk thats theres.My focus is to do what the Lord wants me to do.There have been times i have said no to the pastor he does nt understand why i choose not to lead the worship.i query him as well regarding the idea that its not just performing a function because there is a need our hearts have to be in the right place so that the Lord can use us but he did nt understand where i was coming from and thats okay because of that i just said no until my heart is right i am better not being involved in leading.But i am happy to be an encouragement to others in the worship team i havent wanted to be the leader i have done that in the past.So my focus has been just the singing and being part of different worship teams i think the Lord has other plans as the groups i am in seem to be changing at the same time i am aware that i do nt to worry about change as the Lord knows whats best.I used to be quite comfortable leading the music but that was before when i was operating in my own self confidence and pride.The Lord did such a huge change in my life that i lost my self confidence and that is not a bad thing at all as my spiritual growth has been incredible.The big change was my identity moved from me and what i could do to knowing who i was in Christ and that he is my strength and confidence.Now i know that without him i can do nothing in fact i am dependent on his empowerment through his holy spirit all the time in everything.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music at another church i attend multiple churchs although i attend two regularly one has services in the morning and one has services in the evening so the two do nt really clash.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music its been two years since i did that and i was worried on how i would go.All i can say is that it went really well and because i stepped out in Faith the Lord really blessed the morning to the congregation.The difference is knowing that i serve the Lord with the gifts he has given me but my heart has to be right and when i do it in his way it builds up the body and it brings glory to him.May the Lord continue to show you what he wants you to do even though others may not understand your reasons i just want you to know that you do nt have to pull away completely just work within the boundarys that the Lord gives you and do nt feel pressured by others expectations to do anything that feel uncomfortable.Be involved just as you feel lead by the holy spirit even if it is in a very minor way take small steps.regards brentnz

«It is the Christian faith which, by setting the notion of the infinite being and our relationship with him at the centre of the whole revealed idea of God, makes us understand our nature, our destiny, the nature of the material world, of morality, and of the history of mankind.»

At the outset, it recognizes as fundamental the Protestant idea that reason, starting from outside the circle of faith, can not work its way to an affirmation of the central Christian truths.

Both Manning and Newman were unwilling to take him up on this, because at that time they could not accept the idea of organic development as it was seen to contradict the unchanging role of Scripture which was part of Anglican faith and enshrined in the Articles.

Still in the Apostles» Creed millions of Christians confess their faith that Jesus, when he died, «descended into hell,» that is, into Hades or Sheol, but the average person, making this confession, does not clearly visualize the literal, geographical significance that this idea had at the first in the New Testament.

As expressed in the preface to his Foundations of Christian Faith, his theological intention was «to reach a renewed understanding of this message and to arrive at an «idea» of Christianity... and... try as far as possible to situate Christianity within the intellectual horizon of people today.

Between them the Christian understanding of human being and society as created, fallen and redeemed by God was made irrelevant so that these forces of modernity were left to be interpreted solely within the framework of the humanism of the Enlightenment which at best had a Deistic faith coupled with a mechanical view of the world and a self - redemptive idea of history making for an optimistic doctrine of inevitable progress.

Fair enough, and those of us who have defended Francis against the idea that he is a revolutionary could respond, «Perhaps we have enough faith in the Holy Spirit and in Francis to trust that his inspiring pontificate — which we pray will be healthy and long — will bring about genuine, as distinct from false, «reform,» and will reaffirm the great truths of the Catholic Church, just as Francis did at this initial synod.»

If you accept on faith the idea that you have a soul then, like Brad who said he accepts some things that are not falsifiable, the basis of your belief is conjecture or hypothesis at best.

Rabbi Gellman's idea of the «Judaectomy» that many Jews feel they must perform on themselves in order to participate in civic discourse rang true (mutatis mutandis) for these young Catholics, who understand that a certain unwritten code of etiquette requires them to check their faith at the door in order to be heard as intellectuals.

With the conception of the Kingdom there was indissolubly connected the idea of the Messiah, the champion of God who would deliver the people of God; and Jesus accepted the confession of faith of Peter at Caesarea Philippi: «You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God» (Matthew 16.16, NEB).

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The topic of Obama's faith has been on the front burner since an Aug. 19 Pew poll found one in five Americans believe the president is a Muslim — an increase from 11 percent in March 2009 — and 43 percent had no idea what religion he practices at all.

«I was told it was always a bad idea to answer hypothetical questions...» A chuckle from the audience opened the door for a more direct continuation in which Gove assured the crowd of his faith that the Conservative Party would win an outright majority at the next election, hence he was «absolutely confident that the situation need not arise.»

«The idea that a younger son should become monarch instead of an elder daughter simply because he is a man, or that a future monarch can marry someone of any faith except a Catholic — this way of thinking is at odds with the modern countries that we have become.»

Speaking first, David Cameron told them their ideas were at the heart of the Conservative manifesto, promising to «invite charities, faith groups and neighbourhood groups to set up schools, to run welfare services, to help rehabilitate offenders».

Wanting to join the priesthood, but not having much religious faith, I abandoned the idea, destining myself to live on the secular fringes of what was considered at the time the normal world (where the men no longer were required to wear fedoras, but where sterile office cubicles in some cold stone building became the bleak destiny of so many of my contemporaries).

The teams from The School of Saints, Faith, Hope and Charity; St. Clements School and Our Lady of Perpetual Help gathered at the LEAP Collaboratory May 9 to present their innovative ideas, including their ideation process and iteration cycles, before their peers and a panel of judges.

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At that time my work was very expressionistic, but when I lost faith in this, I began to experiment with mark - making and the idea of chanting with forms — this was a fresh and exciting approach.

Through his development studying at Central Saint Martins and Chelsea College of Art, his interest in curiosities, scientific ideology and philosophical discourses led him to explore the ideas of faith and religion in the 21st Century.

Ms Bingham was seen more recently in a joint «Faith And Science» interview with another person who has gained fame from the idea of a moral imperative to fight global warming, Dr Katharine Hayhoe, director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University.

The Inquisition found that the idea of the Earth's movement «receives the same judgment in philosophy and... in regard to theological truth it is at least erroneous in faith».