Sentences with phrase «by fellow christian»

I am encouraged by a fellow Christian bringing home a new daughter.

Extended also by the convenient Christian forums to further get to know other Christian singles and other potential matches through deeper conversations and topics discussed by their fellow Christian community to open up opportunities for life long fellowships, ChristianCafe.com offers an interesting twist amongst its competitor sites.

While many independent Christian films have been criticized — especially by fellow Christian artists — for producing simplistic films with bad acting and low production standards, this is certainly not the case here.

The sad think about by fellow christians is jesus said he came into the world to save it not condemn it.

Claiming to «know» god personally would have gotten you stoned to death a few hundred years ago by your fellow christians.

I think the main part of that uneasiness for Christians though is just thinking that we would be judged by our fellow Christians, not necessarily that it's not our cup of tea to hang out in «sinful» places.

I can run through a whole list of mass killers, and killings that have been committed by your fellow Christians that believe the very same thing.

Most of the Christians I know are decent people who get a great deal of personal satisfaction from their community and find that the good done by fellow Christians and the church far outweigh the negativity and bigotry of some in their community.

I find what I read here far more congenial than much of what is written by fellow Christians.

«I have never minimized the complicity of individual Christians, or the role of Christian anti-Semitism, or the betrayal of Christian rescuers by their fellow Christians,» he told me in an interview about the Holocaust.

I am often told by fellow Christians that an inclusivist reading of Scripture is the result of a sentimental «bleeding heart.»

I would like to know: what is the most encouraging (and maybe surprising) thing said to or done for you by fellow Christians since your coming out?

I have heard it asked by fellow Christians, «How dare we play God?

His comments may strike some as too outrageous to engage, but I think they reflect widely - held (thought not typically as crudely - stated) sentiments regarding birth control, sentiments I've seen expressed more and more often by fellow Christians in recent years.

Randy Boyagoda seems not to have noticed that the writers he's tired of seeing cited by his fellow Christians did not place their faith, as he does, in anything so small as literature («Faith in Fiction,» August / September).

I've been punished by fellow Christians for saying this out loud, but it's the truth: I'm afraid of motherhood.

ChristianCafe.com can help you in your search for a long term relationship with other singles who see their Christian faith so important, they only look for a mate on a Christian site, which is owned and operated by fellow Christians.

Not exact matches

You can say that millions of fellow Christians also believe that they were touched by the Spirit, but can you prove that they actually were?

Praising Him by saying nasty things about your fellow man is not going to be a credit to your account, and if you think intolerance is the way to comment on a story about a sad guy getting to be happy, you are no Christian.

Based on the context of this verse, causing a fellow Christian «to fall» means causing him to do something that violates his conscience by imitating an action he believes to be wrong.

For a Christian leader to call upon fellow Christians to vote for Christian candidates is not an attack on the principles of religious freedom established by our nation's forefathers.

Economics Today: A Christian Critique by Donald A. Hay Eerdmans, 336 pages, $ 17.95 An overview by a fellow of Jesus College, Oxford.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

And we know that some of our fellow Christians subscribe to those beliefs and are energized by them.

Part of the problem with me in being forthright and honest with fellow - Christians is that I'm rather shy, and am not by nature a confrontive person — unless I'm boxed into a corner and have no other choice.

Furthermore, by characterizing allegations of child abuse as a sad case of «disunity» and «strife» within the church and urging his fellow Christians not to ask too many questions about the situation, Challies only perpetuates the painfully common narrative that those who raise concerns about abuse in churches are troublemakers, out to sow disunity and dissention, and that we are wise to keep this matters quiet.

Though the Bible occasionally speaks of the death of the soul (cf. Ezek 18:4; Matt 16:25 - 26; Jas 1:21; 5:20; 1 Pet 1:9) these texts do not refer to the death of the soul itself, but to the separation of the body from the soul, which results in physical death (see the following articles by Bob Wilkin: «Soul Talk, Soul Food, and Soul Salvation»; «Saving the Soul of a Fellow Christian (James 5:29 - 20)»; «Saving Your Soul By Doing Good (James 1:21)»; «Gaining by Losing (Matthew 16:24 - 28)»; «Suffering which results in Abundant Life (1 Peter 1:9)»by Bob Wilkin: «Soul Talk, Soul Food, and Soul Salvation»; «Saving the Soul of a Fellow Christian (James 5:29 - 20)»; «Saving Your Soul By Doing Good (James 1:21)»; «Gaining by Losing (Matthew 16:24 - 28)»; «Suffering which results in Abundant Life (1 Peter 1:9)»By Doing Good (James 1:21)»; «Gaining by Losing (Matthew 16:24 - 28)»; «Suffering which results in Abundant Life (1 Peter 1:9)»by Losing (Matthew 16:24 - 28)»; «Suffering which results in Abundant Life (1 Peter 1:9)»).

Most Convicting (nominated by Alise Wright): David Nilsen with «Coping with Disappointment When Calvinists Refuse to Be Jerks» «I think one of the problems with most of us who consider ourselves progressive Christians is that we live in constant expectation of being judged by our fellow believers who are more conservative.

As a pastor you love them because their sheep, as a fellow Christian you are frustrated with them because they have been brainwashed by churchernity (like modernity).

An amendment was laid before the House in 2016 by Lord Alton and fellow Christian politician, Lady Cox, Lady Kennedy of The Shaws and Lady Nicholson.

Rest assured, fellow Christians, it is for righteousness and truth that we are persecuted, reviled, mislabeled, and falsely accused by those who seek to sit in judgment over our faith.

It reminds me of a great post by a former fellow of the Boar's Head Tavern blog, A Toast to the Low - Minded Christian by Judson Heartsill (archived at Thinklings, as well).

Downey got it wrong by saying «Obama, a fellow christian».

I am appalled by extremists of any flavor, just as I am appalled by the intolerance of some of my fellow Christians toward Muslims.

The only ones affected by your «reasoning» are fellow christians.

Kevin: It is an outrage for a fellow Christian to justify their faith by essentially saying it is a safety net... either you believe or you don't... you are only doing yourself and everyone else a disservice by saying that you believe just in case there is a heaven you want to make sure you get in.

And that belief is molded and shaped by other Christian (ministers, apologists authors, fellow believers) that they encounter.

Paul in his letters often thanks God for his fellow Christians and calls upon them «in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving» to let their requests be made known unto God.

It is, in particular, the second of evangelicalism's two tenets, i. e., Biblical authority, that sets evangelicals off from their fellow Christians.8 Over against those wanting to make tradition co-normative with Scripture; over against those wanting to update Christianity by conforming it to the current philosophical trends; over against those who view Biblical authority selectively and dissent from what they find unreasonable; over against those who would understand Biblical authority primarily in terms of its writers» religious sensitivity or their proximity to the primal originating events of the faith; over against those who would consider Biblical authority subjectively, stressing the effect on the reader, not the quality of the source — over against all these, evangelicals believe the Biblical text as written to be totally authoritative in all that it affirms.

I am a Christian and I understand your feelings because some times I am embarassed by the way fellow Christians conduct them selves.

We risk missing some of the richness of our faith as well as offending fellow Christians by pretending that interpretation is not an issue in the evangelical church.

The task of confronting the nonevangelical world over the issue of Biblical authority is being undercut by the desire to challenge fellow evangelicals» notions of inspiration What is distinctively evangelical needs again to be forcefully presented to the wider Christian community.

Nothing more marginal skill coupled with idiotic conclusions first more people newflash have been mass murdered by his fellow athiests like Stalin Mao and Lenin... and if he thinks Hitler was christian he really is out of it... Hitler was a Christian in Youth then denied it... completely gee his athiesm helped Europe... he wished his minions to worship christian he really is out of it... Hitler was a Christian in Youth then denied it... completely gee his athiesm helped Europe... he wished his minions to worship Christian in Youth then denied it... completely gee his athiesm helped Europe... he wished his minions to worship him only.

Good Christians are interviewed by the police in their homes for daring to express Christian teaching on homosexuality, a charity worker is sacked for even discussing such views with a fellow worker, home - schoolers are placed under suspicion, a nurse is sacked for praying with a patient, and campaigners seek to force organisations in the name of equality to employ people who want to cross-dress part - time.

A true Christian (and I am by no means a perfect example of such) tries to love their fellow man.

Join me my fellow Christians by renouncing this man and his satanical ways!!

Indeed when my friend Professor Seshagiri Rao, a distinguished Hindu scholar, was asked to address an international Christian missionary conference, he began by saying, «I speak to you as a fellow lover of Jesus Christ...»

Since it is God's gift food should not be used as a weapon either by Christians to destroy the weaker consciences of their fellow believers or by the state to compel Christians to engage in certain cultural activities deemed to be necessary for citizenship.

No works of love are Christian unless they are God - centered, but no God - centeredness is truly Christian unless one is impelled by it to attitudes and to works of love toward one's fellow men.

One can well imagine a wisdom teacher like Jesus, son of Sirach, having much the same attitude towards those of his fellow Jews who were fascinated by apocalyptic, as an orthodox churchman today may feel towards some of the stranger Christian sects.