Sentences with phrase «by women of faith»

Abrazo was founded by a Protestant minister's daughter, and is staffed by women of faith, however, the agency is not affiliated with any specific church denomination and welcomes people of all faiths.

Not exact matches

Want a dominant church that just (by coincidence, of course) chooses only it's members for any leadership, along with a few «Token» women and non-whites, just to crush any white males not of the faith that might compete?

His early religious outlook was colored by the evangelical Baptist faith of his parents and a Calvinist theology of predestination - the belief that the fate of all men and women had been predetermined by God, PBS.org said of Lincoln in its «God in America» series.

These new expressions of faith, fed by passions of ordinary men and women, did not merely diverge from received authority; increasingly they failed even to take into account the standard theological categories that served as guides for religious experience and formed the common denominator of theological discussion between disputants.

Christians who want to defend our faith are being duped by the Father of Lies into falling for a story that says Islam is the enemy and therefore anything we do to fight Islam (including posting obvious lies, including inciting hatred for men and women made in God's image) is justified.

Do a personal or group study around Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith by Soong - Chan Rah, Mae Elise Cannon, Lisa Sharon Harper, and Troy Jackson This powerful book provides historical information, reflection, and prayers around Christian complicity in sins against God's creation, indigenous people, African Americans and people of color, women, the LGBTQ community, immigrants, Jews and Muslims.

I think of Sarah as a big sister in the faith, a woman whose wisdom and maturity challenge me, but whose honesty and vulnerability remind me that she's walking by my side in this journey, one arm over my shoulder.

Same goes for theologies that suggest the poor are poor because of their sins, that if only the sick had more faith or gave more money they would be healed, that the tsunami or the earthquake or the flood that devastated a community was clearly the result of God's wrath on its gay inhabitants, that we can stop rape by teaching women to cover up better, that sex before marriage makes a person «broken» and «unwanted.»

to know the truth — in a word, to know himself — so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves» (Faith and Reason: Introduction).

Hebrews 11 is the faith chapter of the Bible, and it records the accounts of great men and women of the past who lived by faith.

Mary was nominated by the Jersey groups of the Catholic Women's League, who say: «We are truly blessed to have some one of Mary's enthusiasm and endeavour in passing on the faith to the young people of our Island.»

Whenever women challenge the spiritual authority of men, whether by claiming a new faith or interpreting the orthodoxies of establish faith, their views have been seen as a political challenge to male dominance.

However, if we are humbly though critically ready to put up with the fellowship in its particular local manifestation, where and as we find it, we shall help to renew and strengthen it, at the same time discovering for ourselves the deepening of Christian discipleship and finding that we are enriched by other men and women who, like ourselves, are seeking to live in the Christian way, informed by the Christian faith, and supported by Christian worship.

What is new is that women in the diaconate will be the explicit focus of a commission set up by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, that half of the theologians named by the Pope to serve on it are women, and that a leading advocate for women's admission to the diaconate, Professor Phyllis Zagano of Hofstra University, is one of the members.

If one really believes in justification by faith alone, differences over other matters — the real presence in the Eucharist, apostolic ministry, the indissolubility of marriage, the ordination of women, and on and on — make no difference.

Given that the show's producers seem so keenly aware of the historical context around it (the first storyline is catalysed by the sinking of the Titanic, while women's suffrage and the social issues around the Great War are explored in depth), it seems strange that writer Julian Fellowes should ignore the historical accuracy of the place of faith.

Heinous deeds are committed by people of all faiths every day, by men and women who do not truly understand God, but one can not logically blame God for the deeds of mankind.

I hear all of the time that the Muslim faith is non violent and that it is only the extremist who are radical... yet, let's look at every country that is ruled by Muslims... They are intolerant to other faiths, oppress their women, and have extreme rage and animosity towards America and other Western nations.

After high school at the Black Heath School, founded in the 1860s by protofeminists «to produce women who could beat men at their own game,» Coakley entered Cambridge, where she studied with Robinson and «chucked out prayer and the ritual dimension» of faith.

The conference was spearheaded by Michael Davidson, a man of God who came out of the homosexual life many years ago and heads up a group called Core Issues Trust («a non-profit Christian ministry supporting men and women with homosexual issues who voluntarily seek change in sexual preference and expression») and by Andrea Williams, dynamic barrister and CEO of Christian Concern (an organization that seeks to be «a strong Christian voice in the public sphere») and the Christian Legal Centre (a legal defense team for British Christians persecuted for their faith).

Neville i mentioned those people only because the discussion was talking about dominionism the combination of the church and state as a governing rule all those people were government leaders all of them suffered in there own way.Its was the suffering that prepared them for the roles that they were to play and there faith in God was what helped them get through.We are made stronger in our weakness no matter how important or unimportant we may appear to others.I guess it is easy to fall into the lie about political involvement that its hard to make change but some people have had a huge impact.Really it is God who deserves the praise he is the one that creats the opportunitys to make impact on the world as in our strength we can do nothing.In hebrews the great men and woman of faith there are those that seemed unimportant to the world and many suffered for there faith Our Lord knows everyone by name and every small act of faith we do he remembers because we do it out of our love for him that is what the christian walk is about living for Jesus and sharing that love with others.brentnz.

As the just person lives by faith, says Augustine, so the association of just men and women lives by faith active in love, the love by which one loves God alone and one's neighbor as oneself.

And while our sisters around the world continue to suffer from trafficking, exploitation, violence, neglect, maternal mortality, and discrimination, those of us who are perhaps most equipped to respond with prophetic words and actions — women of faith — are being systematically silenced by our own faith communities.

Two books that changed me in late high school (they set me firmly on the path I still follow): Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (it grounded my faith in reason)[and] Out of the Saltshaker by Rebecca Manley Pippert (for many reasons: loving Jesus so much that it overflows into your relationships with non-believers, and it gave me a picture of a strong, intelligent woman who was doing ministry)-- Laura Mott Tarro

There are of course a few individual exceptions of men and women who by faith have transcended the limitations of their respective German and American churches and have entered as persons into the fellowship of the universal community of faith.

«Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth — in a word, to know himself — so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves (cf. Ex 33:18; Ps 27:8 - 9; 63:2 - 3; Jn 14:8; 1 Jn 3:2).»

Now I stand firm on this conviction that yes... an homosexual man or women can come to faith and be saved by Jesus Christ and have their sins forgiven through the blood of Jesus Christ but through the sanctification of the Holy Spirit they would not carry on committing the act of homosexuality because they would be «convicted» — now where there is no conviction of sin then where is the fruit of the Holy Spirit in that man or women?

Had another thought on this Go and sin no more in the first instance when the pharisees were condemning the woman Jesus says you without sin cast the first stone thats present tense when he said Go and sin no more that future tense he is letting us know that since we all are sinners deserving of death he does not condemn us but came to save us and we see him do that for the woman caught in sin as we all are.Humanly speaking none of us can walk without sinning it is impossible unless we submit ourselves to Christ and walk by faith by the holy spirit and we can do all things through Christ that strengthens us.brentnz

The Church is the sphere in which Christian faith is known and Christian life experienced; it is the area in which men and women, captivated by the dynamic appeal of the Lord Christ, respond to that Lord and find their little human existence redeemed and enriched and made significant.

«My earliest recollections of faith come in the form of Sunday School lessons taught by wonderfully loving and patient women.

This guest post by LT Lewis looks at the woman with an issue of blood in Mark 5 and invites us to put our faith into action.

At least I find that the fear of same has contributed in controlling people from ab - using each other on the streets sw - earing calling names at each others beliefs, meaning that even if Jesus was s - worn at or called names at by a Muslim or non Muslim this will surely end up with the same faith of this woman since Jesus is as well Prophet and Messanger of God Allah and calling him names is just as equal guilt and that is the true law to be respected.

The Word of God that is inspired by the Spirit and the teachings of the holy men and women who have preserved the faith remain unchangeable.

The «immigration fugitives» are now on «order of supervision,» which means the six men and two women — who said they fled persecution for their faith in Indonesia — must check in with federal agents regularly but won't be deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.

The spiritually deprived missionary becomes a stunt man or woman bent on getting God and neighbor's attention by outrageous gestures of sin or sanctity, deep plunges of doubt, or Icarian flights of faith.

However, the case of an Iranian woman being sentenced to death by stoning for adultery has lead many to criticize the Muslim faith for its practices.

My understanding of «missional» derives from what I would call a «classical understanding» of mission: that women and men, through personal faith and conversion by the work of the Holy Spirit, would become disciples of Jesus Christ and responsible members of Christ's church.

Citing a mountain of statistical data that shows women are more inclined than men to remain faithful to their religious affiliation and participate regularly in communities of faith, some folks — like controversial West Coast pastor Mark Driscoll — have declared the situation a «crisis,» concluding that the Church has failed men by projecting a «Richard Simmons, hippie, queer Christ» instead of the true, «Ultimate Fighting Jesus.»

An absence of this virtue of faith would seem to be illustrated by another recent Tablet editorial (14 April, «Listen to the People») which affirms: «Disobedience, in theory, includes a rejection of the arguments... against the ordination of women.

If my faith was based upon «fuzzy feelings» (I have no idea what you're talking about by the way, as I didn't mention fuzzy feelings in my comment) then I wouldn't have much of a faith as I am a young woman.

Again and again we have remarked that some of the chronic evil seemingly inseparably associated with mankind has displayed several of its colossal dimensions among peoples who have called themselves Christian, but that repeatedly efforts to counter this evil, some of them at least partly successful, have been put forth by men and women inspired and sustained by Christian faith.

These references depict a society still in touch with its roots, old men and old women renewed in the shade of Jesse's ancient stock, their old frames, matured by godly fear and faith, now become the polished horn for the spirit's eloquence: «The people who have walked in the dark have seen a wonderful light... for unto us a child is born.»

And finally, I notice that the controversies raised by the women's movement are disturbing and spiritually unnerving the faith of many church people.

Any man or woman who is willing to expose himself to the truth of the Christian faith in the life of the Christian community, nourished by the worship of Christian people, will discover that the truth becomes true for him.

Catholic News Agency: Be «light in Africa,» Pope tells bishop «Be the salt of the African earth, blessed by the blood of so many martyrs — men, women and children, witnesses of the Christian faith even to the supreme gift of their lives!»

Furthermore, it has insisted — and rightly — that Christianity is a faith and not a philosophical or ethical system; it is a faith in which affirmations are made about an historical person in whom God is believed to be specially at work; it has insisted that we have to do with a tradition which has been nourished by the lives of holy men and women, by saints and scholars, but which is based upon the gospel, whose grounding is in the scriptural record and witness and which therefore can not exist without constant reference to that «deposit» of God's self - revelation.

Resources: ««Humanae Vitae» Author Pope Paul VI Moves Toward Sainthood,» Catholic News Agency, December 20, 2012 Evangelii Nuntiandi, Apostolic Exhortation of Paul VI (1975) Sacerdotalis Caelibatus (on priestly celibacy), Encyclical Letter of Paul VI (1967) Populorom Progressio, Encyclical Letter of Paul VI, 1967 Humanae Vitae, Encyclical Letter of Paul VI (1968) Declaration on Procured Abortion, Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, approved by Paul VI, 1974 Persona Humana, Declaration on Certain Questions Concerning Sexual Ethics, Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, approved by Paul VI, 1975 Inter Insigniores, Declaration on the Question of Admission of Women to the Ministerial Priesthood, Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, approved by Paul VI, 1976 Become a fan of First Things on Facebook, subscribe to First Things via RSS, and follow First Things on Twitter.

It was as if the original inwardness of the Lutheran position, driven to even profounder depths by the pain and passion and tragedy following the war, had become the defining element of the Christian faith to these men and women.

Moderates are strong supporters of women in ministry and reject the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message Statement, adopted by conservatives, which says the Bible prohibits women from being senior pastors and that wives should submit to the servant leadership of their husbands.

The Daily Mail (always a bastion of good faith when it comes to women's issues) is currently proclaiming that «Mothers who choose not to breastfeed are «twice as likely to get postnatal depression because they miss out on mood - boosting hormones released by the process»», while the Telegraph is announcing that «Failing to breastfeed may double risk of depression in mothers».