Sentences with phrase «called us to faith in»

Hans Frei, a historian who reflected upon the history of biblical interpretation, was a theologian who called us to faith in Jesus Christ as presented in the texts, not behind the texts.

they give a high priority to evangelism: they will have one church service in the week devoted to evangelistic outreach or will give prominence to a call to faith in special services (however, this is less true of some Exclusive groups which keep themselves separate from society).

Not exact matches

As Mark Joseph Stern wrote in Slate, «Hsieh holds an almost romantic faith in a city's ability to foster creativity through what he called «the 3 C's»: collisions, co-learning, and connectedness.»

An open letter to Hsieh from a former Downtown Project employee who resigned because of a loss of faith in the direction it was taking, in addition to a scathing report from Re / code's Nellie Bowles, called into question the entirety of Hsieh's vision.

That's because rather than losing faith in his call, Hussman did some digging around as to why it hadn't yet come true, and has recalibrated the conditions of his forecast.

On April 28, 2009, the Bloc's critic for the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec, Jean - Yves Laforest, introduced a motion in the House of Commons calling for the feds to negotiate in good faith with the Government of Quebec to resolve the dispute, demanding a compensation package prorated to that awarded Ontario.

Due in part to a growing lack of faith in traditional financial advising brought about by this trend, more and more investors are switching to low - cost passive online advisors (often called robo - advisors) who exclusively or almost exclusively invest clients» capital into index - tracking funds, the thought being that if they can not beat the market they may as well join it.

This faith of investors reflects a belief in what Bertrand Russell called the «uniformity of nature» — the assumption that a repeated pattern must reflect some underlying law, to which there can be no exceptions.

As people of faith, we are called to address the injustices of the current health care system; as investors and professionals working in the field, we are called to address its inefficiencies.

They meant his creativity in sourcing pre-crisis loans and then selling them based on unconventional appraisal methodologies; the loans went bad, the investors are suing Credit Suisse, and I don't really know or care that much about the substance but it is always harder to argue about the good faith of your loans when you have e-mails from your own bankers calling them naughty words.

Let's see... believe in our God or you will be tortured for eternity... Believe in our God even if science and the fossil record refute our conclusions... Believe in our God who can do anything, it doesn't matter what you come up with, he can do it and don't you dare call it magic or fantasy... but don't test him either, he's not a performing monkey who does tricks to convince us he's real, we just have to have faith, but he could do anything if chose to...

You also ignore the fact that Christians have done just as bad things as those living in the Middle East and those you would call doing the work of the devil: killing those who do not share their faith, using their religious position to gain wealth and discriminate against those who have different beliefs or lifestyles.

In this magazine, the novelist Randy Boyagoda has called on Catholics to «continue to have faith in fiction» and to stop relying on the old standard bearers such as Flannery O'Connor and Walker PercIn this magazine, the novelist Randy Boyagoda has called on Catholics to «continue to have faith in fiction» and to stop relying on the old standard bearers such as Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percin fiction» and to stop relying on the old standard bearers such as Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy.

The call to faith, to trust in Christ, and be fully a saint in the redemption he provides freely, is a true reality, and still I am sinner all the time, if not doing bad, then thinking bad... though I don't want to.

Second there are plenty of people who come to their faith as it were through something more than bible verses its called critical thinking people can critically think their way to the idea that they are rather small beings in a relatively huge universe and that they realize that they can't know everything and leave some things including the nature of the universe to faith and acknowledge it as faith if that's how they see the world fine is there anything particularly wrong with that?

Everyone has a right to believe that there is a God or not, but the name calling and bitterness is a reflection a vacuous mentality.Many people believe that there is a God and no one can convince them otherwise because it is a matter of faith based on experiences and in the bible.

Washington (CNN)- The most famous and revered pastor in America, Billy Graham, is calling on voters to cast a ballot for their faith in full - page ads in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and other newspapers.

A polemicist might well have salty things to say about this abdication of moral principles that Christians have held since the earliest days of the faith, but in Wilcox's mild and irenic diction the mainline churches are simply «accommodationist,» espousing what he calls a «Golden Rule Christianity» that honors tolerance, kindness, and social justice as paramount virtues.

This is the extreme call of faith ~ that despite ALL appearances we CHOOSE to believe in a God that loves us and provides for all his creation regardless of what that does or does not look like to our human understanding.

After his promotion to cardinal, he was put in charge of the so - called «Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith» (formerly known as the Inquisition).

(Here Jesus calls His disciples to be like Him and that we are not to fear, but to look to His example by faith in Him.)

can you prove that God does not exist... can you prove He exist... it is called faith to exist... called self to not exist... your decision... I have nothing to loose in befriending God... I am destined to die either way... what may you lose if you disbelieve???????

Mr Goudie also founded a special faith - based community for people to reach their full potential in the creative arts called New Generation Music.

He added: «If you feel called to plant, we need you on the outer estates, we need you in our northern towns, we need you in areas where a majority of people come from other world faiths, we need you in those areas where the trendy coffee shops and artisanal bakers are hard to find.

The Chicago Tribune and Washington Post correctly reported that Wheaton College students condemned Jerry Falwell Jr.'s comments about Muslims, urging us to «follow the voice of Jesus, calling us to love our neighbor and to pursue peace toward those hostile to us or our faith, and to stand in solidarity with our Muslim brothers and sisters.»

We hurt their feelings and probably interfere with their sleep patterns by calling them out on everything from poor spelling to having a faith grounded in no evidence (at least in its core claims).

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...

This is part of a series called concrete liturgies by a Christian community, Vaux, where they're exploring what it means to express faith and worship in the language of the city.

Christian and other faith communities around the world are hosting 120 events in 35 countries, all calling for governments, businesses and individuals to do more to reduce global warming.

In the mists of all his science there is the faith, God, Allah or whatever you wan na call it.

It is a call for like - minded people of like - faith to UTILIZE the religions freedom established by our forefathers to vote into office a person who... according to our shared beliefs... fits in with our concept of what makes a person «honest, forthright, [and has] a healthy vision for the nations future & its citizens.»

It would seem, Follow of Christ, that the creator has a lot more to answer for than simply «having faith» in his so - called grand plan when his ultimate creation has already been made.

His being Catholic as a writer has to do «not so much with explicit faith or transmitting an explicit faith in my writings as it has to do with what I would call an anthropology.»

None of this foolishness is acceptable in my country, where we are called to accept and respect those of all faiths.

In Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism: A Call to Action, George Weigel offers a succinct statement of where the war on jihadism stands today, what....

It isn't wrong to do this — we are called to proclaim our faith in Christ.

As to all you people who say what does faith have to do with it we'll see what faith has to do with it when you're in a crisis and you call on him.

They are found to be a very Rich & Powerful Groups and Mother of Groups that control lives of Millions... Now Finding Peace means that we should think on how to get those Master Keys or Super Master Keys of Super Powerful Groups that are to be gathered all in one Ring lock that works to getting them to work towards One Purpose only and that is on how to make Human Life better Globally and that by investing in them human populations worldwide not minding their Race or Faith or Political interests such will work towards Building Bridges between all Nations holding and calling one Message of Love and Sharing in some form of Brotherhood that works towards a Greener Planet Earth!?

I would hardly call believing in God «safe» considering the historical record of people who have been martyred for witnessing to their faith in word and deed.

Sadly, in this day and age, when someone with proper Biblical understanding tries to educate others about matters of faith, it's called hate mongering, intolerance, bigotry, etc..

Hitler, for a time, advocated for Germans a form of the Christian faith he called «Positive Christianity», [244][245] a belief system purged of what he objected to in orthodox Christianity, and featuring added racist elements.

Does their faith not call them to action in order to relieve the suffering of their brothers and sisters?

While these contentious issues have already generated a heightened interest in Pope Francis» words and the American bishops» public statements, they also call on young Catholics to reflect more deeply about the seriousness of their faith and Catholic identity.

Martin fails to help both believers and unbelievers understand what the alternatives are for dealing with this issue of faith and history because, in a fashion now considered politically correct, he advocates what he calls «multiperspectivism.»

Out of all the postings on this site today, I found «Derp's «post the most fascinating and informative, as well as deeply revealing.Even after boasting of what seems to be a practically perfect live by any measure, he informs us that he takes pleasure in mocking and ridiculing those of faith who are presumably his opposite; I can only wonder if, given all his supposed accomplishments, he is smart enough to realize how deeply revealing of his true character his remarks are.As a believer, I rarely engage in arguments with my atheist friends, and like to think I wouldn't lower myself to the level of juvenile name - calling and personal attacks against whatever my atheist friends hold dear.Most of the time we simply agree to disagree; when they hold forth with misinformation or ignorance on their assumed «knowledge «of my faith, I try to gently correct them; I certainly don't allow any disagreements we have to devolve into hateful insults and name - calling.

A fundamental flaw in this claim, on which I'll elaborate more in another comment, is that lacking any reason to believe anything one could reasonably call a god exists, what incentive do I have to invest time and effort developing faith in one?

Roof and McKinney's emphasis on liberals» secular drift aptly calls attention to the perennial liberal problem in propagating the faith and inculcating piety.

I now believe it does a tremendous disservice to honorable people who are faithful believers to place on them the additional burden of guilt, shame and magnified suffering that comes from the kind of doctrine that promotes (sells) prayer as a magic talisman which will somehow change God's mind, alter physical circumstance, and fix intractable problems — if only the one praying has enough faith or asks in the right way or lives a holy enough life or professes Jesus enough or waits patiently or never gives up or any of a hundred different gotchas that can be called upon to justify the lack of an affirmative answer.

His story and take on war, patriotism, military service and Jesus» call to nonviolence are chronicled in his new book, Reborn on the Fourth of July: The Challenge of Faith, Patriotism and Conscience.

This small section allows the reader to share in the Eucharistic faith of saintly people who, since the Lord's command to «Do this in memory of me,» have handed to us that great treasure that we are now called to hand on, to celebrate and to revere.