Sentences with phrase «case for the faith»

For the first time we heard the case for the Faith put with clarity and in a way that wasn't «old».

To this public, we can make a case for our faith, beyond merely the confession of it.

I mean you can make an argument, as of course, [was done in] The Case for Faith... that there is a logical argument for the truth of Christianity.

Tony Blair's Foundation Mission Statement TO PROMOTE MUTUAL RESPECT, TOLERANCE, FRIENDSHIP AND UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE MAJOR RELIGIOUS FAITHS AND TO MAKE THE CASE FOR FAITH ITSELF AS A RELEVANT, POSITIVE AND BENIGN FORCE FOR GOOD IN THE MODERNWORLD Vs.

In the book «The Case for Faith,» the author Lee Stroble interviews Peter Kreeft, Ph.D..

«Miracle is faith's dearest child «-- that holds good perhaps for the uncritical man of the bygone and even of the present day, but in no case for the faith that endeavors to hear God's voice in the events of everyday.

Between Memory and Vision: The Case for Faith - Based Schooling By Steven C. Vryhof Foreword by Charles Glenn William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004, $ 22.00; 181 pages.

Not exact matches

Mark Campanale, executive director of the Carbon Tracker Initiative, a thinktank that analyses the financial risks of fossil fuel investments, said: «The financial markets are fast losing faith in the investment case for fossil fuels.

And if tomorrow's job report shows no signs of real wage growth (which is what economists predict it won't), the Fed's case for a rate hike will start to look more faith - based than empirically driven.

Disney shareholders lost their case but the final ruling set a new bar for directors when approving these kinds of exit packages: «If a director acts with conscious disregard — in other words, a looking away — rather than a deliberate intent to violate his duties, he can still be held liable for acting in bad faith,» plaintiffs» attorney Steven G. Schullman told the New York Times back in 2006.

While companies would still have to make good faith efforts to classify their products correctly, mistakes or disagreements in classification would no longer have tax consequences, removing the fears of audits and eliminating the need for CITT cases on the proper way to classify a trampoline enclosure.

The Chaplains can claim they're there for all faiths but at the end of the day I truly believe that in the vast majority of cases they put their particular faith before the needs of their troops.

This is not the case for those who utilize faith.

The Christian tradition is full of those who have suffered death and persecution as a result of their faith and, in some cases, for no discernible reason whatsoever.

The Israelites, though, were a special case in that a certain harshness was necessary to establish the Jewish Faith and people in order to prepare for a Messiah to save the whole world.

The case of the Lenten fast — as is the case with most faith - based fasts — is to provide an opportunity for personal growth.

They're wrong, in which case, they're headed for hell and damnation for eternity because of their lack of faith.

Cardinal William Levada, an American who heads the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said the newspaper «lacks fairness» and that it accuses the pope of «leniency and inaction» in dealing with abuse cases.

Unlike Superman whose creation can actually be traced back to a couple of young Jewish men in 1938 for the purpose of providing a sellable fictional story line to Detective Comics, there is no such evidence in regards to religious belief; especially since in this case being that this is about a God who does not want to be made known but who would rather have us develop our faith.

(A decision for same - sex marriage by a state could as in the case of Massachusetts, preempts the debate in that state, but it is less far - reaching because it leaves other states to arrive at a different conclusion — unless, as some same - sex - marriage proponents have claimed, other states are required to recognize such marriages under the Constitution's requirement of giving «full faith and credit» to other states» proceedings.)

if you have faith anything is possible, that's what happen on Monday, the Nation was asking for miracle and we received one, the pope was praying with for us, the peace he always breath, I don't wish anybody's death, but in this case someone had to die, either one of us again or Osama.

«As was the case throughout these past three years of court trial, and the earlier two years of investigation, we have placed our faith in God and trust that whatever the outcome, He will use it for our good (Romans 8:28),» Ho told CHC members last week [full statement below].

As was the case throughout these past three years of court trial, and the earlier two years of investigation, we have placed our faith in God and trust that whatever the outcome, He will use it for our good (Romans 8:28).

Once again, we make it clear that Faith Movement makes no case for polygenism at all.

That wasn't the case, however, for another part of Stark's theory — his claim that males who shun faith and worship services do so because they get a kick out of risking hellfire and damnation, or at least the loss of a heavenly afterlife.

But its apparent low priority makes the case of economics a good trial for the thesis that the reason of the social sciences fails without the support of faith.

While Faith continues primarily to reason for the existence of God through science, the book's salutary contribution to this reviewer's thought is the case that the moral argument is the most effective in reasoning for God's existence on university campuses.

This function of the will, though it is the responsibility of a person, is not meritorious in any way, for faith is not a work (Rom 4:5), but is simply being persuaded or convinced about what is true, which, in the case of eternal life, is being persuaded that eternal life is the free gift of God to all who believe in Jesus for it.

The critics have never taken the trouble to study what the Faith really stands for, and in most cases have certainly never studied the relevant documents, namely, the books of the New Testament, with their adult intelligence.

In the case of prohibitions such as braided hair and expensive clothing, God calls for modesty — a fruit of faith — not legalistic control of fashion.

An exceptional case could be a corporation under a federal contract; the US government couldn't end an agreement with Chick - fil - A, for example, over its owners» faith statements, he said.

For one thing, as we saw in the case of the early disciples, it is important that reason and faith communicate so we don't make grave mistakes when it comes to understanding the requirements of our faith.

But the cases are not the same, and one can give many plausible reasons for the difference (beyond the obviously wrong explanations that Abraham had faith that God would in the end spare Isaac, or that he, Abraham, had [unconscious?]

This is the case particularly as regards Catholic theology, since the Catholic faith implies the conviction of aplurality of human knowledge which is important also for this faith, a pluralism which is not simply administered by the Church.

Among his publications are: The Scripture Principle, Harper & Row, 1984; Reason Enough: A Case for the Christian Faith, InterVarsity Press, 1980; (editor) Grace Unlimited, Bethany Fellowship, 1975; Truth on Fire, The Message of Galatians, Baker Book House, 1972, Biblical Revelation, Moody Press, 1971, Set Forth Your Case, Craig, 1968; and A Defense of Biblical Infallibility, Presbyterian and Reformed, 1967.

According to World Watch Monitor, an organisation which reports on cases of Christians seeing persecuted for their faith, people leaving Islam in Malaysia are being left in «legal limbo».

«[It] may be that those who remain committed to these theological perspectives are all the more motivated to make a «case» for their faith among their peers,» he says.

Its something that got my attention as it seems out of character for Jesus to do and does nt fit the bible context the word says that Jesus came to destroy the works of satan in this case he appears to be helping him.Interested in your thoughts.I have got my conclusions on this thanks to the holy spirit it certainly does nt shake my faith in Christ he is still the same yesterday today and forever.brentnz.

(A case in point is that of a publicly supported, church - related hospital which is the only hospital in town and which refuses to permit certain medically accepted surgical procedures — such as abortion or tubal ligation — which are objectionable to the church but not to the patients of other faiths or no faith who depend upon that hospital for health care, and whose tax dollars support it.)

Clive, you point out how others often don't understand what Jesus was saying; but while Jesus often labors to try and make things clear to the unbeliever («Oh, you of little faith) or at the very least the author tries to make it clear for us in retrospect (At the time they didn't understand that he spoke of this...), in this case Jesus switches from something that might be figurative to essentially say «no, I seriously mean this» and it concludes not with Jesus saying «don't go away, this is what I actually mean» but confirming that people would refuse to accept that God intended for them to actually fill themselves with the life that He offered so they stopped following him.

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.

See, that is the case here, at least for me, how do Christians practice their faith, is it as a true belief in a Christ, or as a sword to condemn and chop away at those who do not believe as they do?

If this is so, the cure for impotence is not more faith in mere mechanism — in her case, schemes from the consciousness movement for reprocessing the self.

In any case, the main point is that theology now must rest its case for the truth of the Christian faith upon the intrinsic convincingness of a Christian worldview, and this requires fulfilling the criteria of adequacy and coherence.

if by «the media» you mean in this case «Relevant — the magazine on faith culture and intentional living» written by Millenial Christians for Christians, then, sure.

Once all the disclaimers have been made — that many religious beliefs are supremely difficult to test for truth because they refer to the supernatural or to that which it is beyond our mental powers to discern, or because (in the case of faith) they are values and not truth - claims — once all this has been said, we still have to admit that yes, of course the question of truth enters in here.

In other words, the choice which Life requires of our considered action is a great deal less complex than at first seemed to be the case; for it is reduced to a simple choice between the first and last stages of the successive alternatives which we have been able to define: the rejection of Being, which returns us to dust, or the acceptance of Being, which leads us, by way of socialization, to faith in a Supreme Unity — opposite directions along a single road.

In the nature of the case the evidence needed for reasoned proof on empirical grounds is not accessible, and we had better frankly admit that our faith in immortality is a faith, coherent with what we know of God and his ways with men, and not a conclusion from scientific evidence.

There is not one single Christian in the first 300 years of the faith who justifies violence or makes a case for self - defense.

Beckett's apparent insistence, later in the book, on the importance of Catholic sympathies (e.g. in Shakespeare and Samuel Johnson) suggests apologetics, not aesthetics, and reminds one uncomfortably that arguing the case for reasonable faith and faith - based reason is tremendously difficult without straying into what appears to be a partisan position.