Sentences with phrase «back at my faith»

As Donald Trump becomes the 45th President of the United States of America, Katie Stock looks back at the faith of his eleven predecessors More

I began to look back at my faith and the choices I made, as well as the lessons I learnt from my parents.

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This is not a discussion of whether Bitcoin is fraudulent or not, this comes down to a discussion of whether collectively as individuals at this point in history we want to put our faith in a currency backed by a centralized system or decentralized system.

But I am concerned that late - cycle entrants into risk assets like stocks and high - yield bonds are taking a leap of faith at a time when there is less room for markets to move up and growing risks of them falling back.

One thing I found really interesting is that one conclusion the book came to is that these «faith wars» had a direct impact on the fall of the Roman Empire because the gov» t had to deal with the internal struggle and the external enemies had to take a back seat in importance or at least drastically distracted the leadership.

As a Catholic in WASPish Ithaca, William came to find solace in boxing as a way of striking back at local bullies who mocked his faith.

Faith - based charity Marriage Care has backed the proposals, speaking on Premier's News Hour, chief executive, Mark Molden said: «what this is about is saying, look; at a key moment where public services are in front of both expectant mother and expectant father let's give them some support at that crucial juncture to think about their relationship, think about how they might weather the inevitable storms that a new baby brings into a relation ship.

In recent years has grafted back the second wing of faith onto the long - prevailing narrative (even at AEI) of the American founding as a secular exercise in institutional ingenuity.

George Bush's faith based policies set science back at least a decade.

He says spiritual mentors like a Sunday school teacher in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and some of his Redskins players helped him get back on track with a deeper, more meaningful Christian faith even while the struggles were at their worst.

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.

It is written that God would rather have lost one of His sheep and found it again, then to never have lost Him at all, Meaning It is very easy in this world now more than ever to lose sight of God and your faith, we all sin even the most devote christian, But coming back to our faith and our christian ways after losing it is something that brings God joy..

I would rather simply hand back the flyer than admit to laughing at their faith.

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

The journey of faith is far too treacherous and exciting and beautiful to spend it looking at the back of another person's head.

But at the same time faith involves obedience, for faith means turning our backs on self and abandoning all security.

We have both family and family in the faith back at home that we feel drawn to be with, just as we had hoped for some time with our friends here.

In the back - and - forth of the case, the question at the heart of the matter is this: Can the government put companies in the position of having to choose between following their faith and following the law?

He drew out of the New Testament, and particularly from the faith of the apostles as they looked back at the cross of Jesus, the belief that it was the world which was dying, not God who was dead.

Their arguments goes both ways and we arrive back at an argument of faith.

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

When you come to look back on your life at its end in what ways do you hope most that it was an expression of faith?

Back in early 1300's a man was burned at the stake for refusing to recant his new found faith.

Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem cell research that could save countless human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence of them existing.

«That is a legitimate view, if you hold that, but at the moment people are really using faith schools as «back - door grammar schools».»

He'll probably crawl back to his lord at the end of the year with his faith renewed in the fictional christ / daddy figure, and get a book deal...

This appalling ignorance of the Church's teaching in Faith and Morals is surely the root cause of the decline of Catholicism in this country today, and, as many people observe, goes back at least one generation, (presumably that of its authors).

Well, FAITH, there's the problem... that gibberish in the bible was just made up by «some guy» to keep the peasants behaving in a manner that whomever wrote it thought was a good way to behave... some of those guys were wise, yes, and there are benefits to following some of the «guidelines» set forth in the Bible... but it's a circular argument to use the Bible as a reason to have faith, because you have to first BELIEVE in the deity, THEN believe that the deity inspired the writings, THEN you can take the writings as «truth»... I'm two steps back, not believing in the deity at all (Yay, AtheFAITH, there's the problem... that gibberish in the bible was just made up by «some guy» to keep the peasants behaving in a manner that whomever wrote it thought was a good way to behave... some of those guys were wise, yes, and there are benefits to following some of the «guidelines» set forth in the Bible... but it's a circular argument to use the Bible as a reason to have faith, because you have to first BELIEVE in the deity, THEN believe that the deity inspired the writings, THEN you can take the writings as «truth»... I'm two steps back, not believing in the deity at all (Yay, Athefaith, because you have to first BELIEVE in the deity, THEN believe that the deity inspired the writings, THEN you can take the writings as «truth»... I'm two steps back, not believing in the deity at all (Yay, Atheists!

He just realized a while back that in order to have any serious political aspirations he had to, at least publicly, prescribe to the Christian faith.

But at least for today - Egypt's first Independence Day - Islam has taken a back seat to a very different sort of religion: faith in the power of an oppressed people to grasp after freedom and feel it fresh in their own shaking hands.

«Not just in one country but in numerous Muslim countries, I have been able to walk in, head held high, no covert cover story and not only identify passively as a Christian but identify openly, work openly and hold serious talks about faith between Muslims and Christians, and not just at the grassroots level of poverty — people who needed my help — but also with the powerful and influential people who could have, in that moment, had me arrested and had me taken out back.»

At the Vatican, Sisters Pat Farrell and Janet Mock, president and executive director respectively of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, sat down with Cardinal William Levada, head of Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - the church's doctrinal watchdog group, and Archbishop Peter Sartain of Seattle, who is charged with bringing the nuns back in line with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Vatican.

But I believe that they can also put us back at the center when we believe our feelings are a guage of what is right, true, or necessary when it comes to matters of faith.

Fr Roger spent fourteen years at the John Fisher School — where a FAITH group still flourishes, thanks to Mr Daniel Cooper, meeting weekly in an unbroken tradition now going back 40 years — and was then appointed parish priest at Folkestone in Kent.

At the point where anyone of religious faith would then attribute the goodness and power of creation to an omnipotent and loving God, Frank chooses to step back from that conclusion, and just revel in «the mystery», and bemoan its sudden passing when we die.

In this, Tolkien is echoing an ancient spiritual tradition that extends back through his own Catholic faith, and the Anglo - Catholicism of his friends at Oxford, all the way through the Jewish and Christian testaments.

People need to cultivate the ability to stand back enough to gain aesthetic and intellectual «distance» between themselves and what they see in the media, and then, from a critical perspective informed by their own faith, look at what the media are doing and saying.

I knew I loved Christ - I was an associate pastor at a small Pentecostal church back home - and wanted my career to be tied to my faith.

How could you turn back and look at all your problems with the other faith instead of looking past all of it to see the possibility of ONE people emerging together for the good of the country and the good of the people ALL the people.

Dr Greg Farrelly, back by popular demand after showing off his teaching skills at London Bridge, headed up our lay - led summer meditations on the nature of the human person, and our very inspiring six autumn talks on «Love», led to the now famous (see Faith Magazine January 2015) post-Synodal tour de force by Jaqueline Stewart.

I stand over his bed at night with my hand on his forehead and pray that if he strays from the faith that he will always find his way back home.

And, third, the reason - centred reflectivity of the enlightenment, which lead to the blossoming of a spirit of critical reconstruction within traditional religions.3 Hindu representatives who found themselves at the locus of these dynamics had to advocate for their traditional religion and talk - back to the western imperialists in order to undercut missionary interpretation of Hinduism, deny the silence of the eastern Other and engage in a process of re-presenting their own faith tradition in a changing world.

Moreover, if we are to accept the account of the deliverance at the Red Sea given by the J document, this central event of Israel's faith was the act of a nature - god who sent a wind and drove back the waters.

You may be surprised at the back grounds of and the journeys people with faith have been on.

Back in Wittenberg, Luther reached the last verse of Genesis with its symbolical ending, and its atmosphere of promise and faith which were so much part of Luther's faith: «At length Joseph said to his brothers, I am about to die; but God will be sure to remember you kindly and take you back from this country to the land that he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and JaBack in Wittenberg, Luther reached the last verse of Genesis with its symbolical ending, and its atmosphere of promise and faith which were so much part of Luther's faith: «At length Joseph said to his brothers, I am about to die; but God will be sure to remember you kindly and take you back from this country to the land that he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jaback from this country to the land that he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

This spring, the evangelical world was roiled when Francis J. Beckwith, a professor of church - state studies at Baylor University, decided to return to the faith of his childhood and was received back into full communion with the Catholic Church on April 29 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in....

Helped out of his slough of despond, Hendra starts «back down the path of faith» at the end of the 1980s.

I can't start my mornings without a banana either, and I've definitely thought ahead to breakfast the first day back from traveling and bought bananas at the airport too:) Faith VanderMolen recently posted... Coconut Oatmeal Bars with Peanut Butter Banana Filling

If this is true then it is a great buy for us but I doubt this with Wenger having faith in Ospina n Sczceny keen on getting back but I will love to have an experience like Cech at our goal post.