Sentences with phrase «come to faith by»

Other people come to faith by reading about Jesus.

Not exact matches

I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.»

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.

«Such social doctrine provides directions but, with few exceptions (for instance, the defense of innocent human life), does not provide directives of immediate applicability to policy questions on which people of good faith, guided by reason and conscience, can come to different conclusions.»

Which takes more faith, to believe things came into existence by mere chance or by design.

Seriously, President Obama says he came to his faith later in life because he saw in Jesus a living example of principles he could try to live by.

We know the parents had faith in Him, because they knew of His reputation and came to Him by their faith and asked Him to do what onle He could do, which included healing and raising the dead.

The most important message ever known to man is one that should be heard and understood by as many as possible so that as many as possible might come to faith.

The Old Testament is filled with examples of gentiles coming to faith in the God of Israel through the works demonstrated by Him.

Can say that I believe in every thing that you disbelief of when it comes to the Creator and the Creation of universe, life and guidance, God has given me hearing, seeing, thinking and heart feelings to see and experience signs and small miracles to have faith in him and continue with good deeds I was told of in his Holy Book although am not perfect at that but nothing to lose but contrary to that there are more to gain in life and life after... For those disbelievers they lose their senses by being locked and blocked from such experiences... It is all about souls as verses speak for them selves;

The Westminster Confession of Faith states it this way: «God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass; yet so, neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures; nor is the liberty or contingency of secondary causes taken away, but rather established.

The Westminster Confession of Faith puts it this way: «God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass; yet so, neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures; nor is the liberty or contingency of secondary causes taken away, but rather established.»

Salvation comes by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone, and a life of repentance is the natural response that the sinner has to what His savior has done for him.

The first is that this salvation by grace package comes to us through faith.

We come to Christ by faith in what he has done, not with self assurance of our own turning from sin.

If one is able (by God's grace) to come to faith apart from those crucial stories that would be great.

«I wouldn't have a problem with a child being fostered by someone who comes from a different faith but is sensitive to and responds to that child, who communicates with them, who shows their face to that child as well.

Steve... yr not answering my question.so I don't know whether to fall off my chair or not.But you say,» If one is able (by God's grace) to come to faith apart from those crucial stories that would be great.

satans aim was to stop the fulfillment of the seed that would crush satan underfoot.This hybrid between the angels and man created giants abominations in Gods eyes.They also were a threat to Gods people as can be seen by the giants in the land of caanan after the flood.If we agree on that then there is no way that Eve would have had intercourse with satan [false doctrine of the seed of satan -RCB- because the blood lines were still untainted by angelic beings or satan at the time of Noah maybe that is also why the genealogy of Christ is well presented with no surprises apart from Hagar and Ruth these two were gentiles that shows Gods mercy grace was always there to all nations he accepts people by faith not by race.Prior to the flood the mixing of the angels and man must have been widespread after the flood these beings were present but in limited numbers and God told his people to destroy them as they were abominations but they were a threat to Gods people.It would be interesting to hear what the rabbis had to say on this matter as i would think the stories would have been past down from generation to the next.Especially regarding the flood.God promised he would never flood the earth again but a time is coming when the earth will be judged not by flood but by fire Jesus is our ark and we are safe in him.brentnz

The openhearted observer of Islam in the West can discern the shape of hope in the increasing willingness of people of the two faiths to come together for dialogue and consultation on the mutual problems they face; in the reevaluation of Islam forced upon Muslims by their minority status in many places; and in the development of the concept of international law and universal human rights.

However the blood needs to be applied individually to each person that comes to Christ by faith in him.

Americans need to come together, and people of faith should lead the way, by praying diligently for our leaders whether or not they agree with them or their policies.»

Part of Israel's call was to be a light of who Yahweh is so that the nations around could come to faith, through faith, by the Passover blood and then the sign of circumcision, which for us I believe plays the same role as baptism.

I believe that I can not of my own understanding and strength believe in or come to Jesus Christ my Lord, but that the Holy Ghost has called me by the Gospel and illuminated me with His gifts, and sanctified and preserved me in the true faith..

This is especially the case when it comes to the doctrine of justification by faith alone.

Romans 5:13 (in context) says that when we have faith in God to deliver us from sin, there is no law (to condemn us) because righteousness comes not by the law, but by faith.

The talks of the conference have sought to explain what it means to say we have faith in God by looking at the evidence for His existence and his eternal plan to found the Church as man's true environment in which he comes into contact with his creator.

Father, Son, Holy Spirit: Though we can not fully get our minds around such incomprehensibles, we know by our faith that the triune God is how the world came to be, the energy that keeps it going, and the future toward which it — and we — move.

According to God's written word, faith comes by hearing the word of God preached in the power of his holy spirit.

We know by our faith that the triune God is how the world came to be, the energy that keeps it going, and the future toward which it — and we — move.

Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country could be described as a «Protestant» novel; it comes closer than any other novel I know to telling a story of justification by grace through faith.

John Montague came by his mature faith honestly: Sent back to his family's Ireland from the Brooklyn of his birth, enduring separation and a simple life in the complex North, he married in his works the intimately human and the broadly historical with a seamlessness that few have achieved.

The intuitional evidence for belief in Allah, the belief based upon the recognition of Allah by our inner consciousness, is brought to our attention in the Qur» an by pointing out the important psychological fact that there is an instinctive feeling of faith in Almighty Allah, the Creator of the universe, which comes to men when they are free from inclinations, or the distractions of dull routines, or when surprised by the question of the origin of the universe, or when faced with hardships or misfortunes which they can not overcome by themselves.

(I am aware of the irony of this statement coming from a regular contributor to this blog) The great problem with religious faith is that any proposition predicated on dogmatic acceptance of unprovable supernatural postulates can and will be manipulated by the unscrupulous for their own gain.

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).

Graham, his son, Franklin, and others can still preach a meeting and people will come to hear the truth of the Gospel and many will respond by grace through faith.

Hill has come to see how his struggles are not separate from God's providence for him - they do not disqualify him from living the Christian life and being pleasing to God, but are rather «part and parcel of what it means to live by faith in a world that is fallen and scarred by sin and death».

This edition of Gerard's autobiography comes with a very useful introduction by Michael Hodgetts, known to many readers of Faith Magazine for his work as an educator at the Maryvale Institute, as historical director at Harvington Hall and as editor of both Recusant History and of the Volumes of the Catholic Record Society.

And, as Pope Benedict again has said, this fundamental question, which isa question we have to answer with our intelligence sustained by the light of faith, is that if we discern reason in the world, in nature - if nature is understandable - the question arises; where does this come from?

One definition of living by faith which I have been able to come up with is this:

Spirit Café, pioneered by a Partners in Harvest Church in Birmingham, is currently seeing many with New Age interests coming to Christian faith.

Christianity can not make its contribution to the coming world faith by abandoning its greatest achievements.

It is now the history of humanity as lived under the impact of the new faith which is born out of response to Jesus, and through which a new «people» has come into being which lives by the mercy God has shown in him.

Jesus was never afraid to touch the untouchable sam is giving good advice but in the scriptures when a person in the old testament touched a leper or a dead person they became unclean that is our fear.What is different with Jesus is that when he touched the lepers his righteousness made them clean instantly when he touched the dead they came to life that is the power of the holy spirit and that power is in all of us who believe by faith in Jesus Christ.So we do nt have to be afraid because we are covered in Christ.brentnz

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

And as we are strangers and pilgrims on earth, help us by true faith and a godly life to prepare for the world to come; doing the work Thou hast given us to do while it is day; before the night Cometh when no man can work.

It's also a sign of weak faith and the hypocrisy that pervades most organized religion that preachers fear alienating their source of income by preaching on economic injustice but are real warriors when it comes to bashing gays.

And none is more real than that which comes to light in Cary's explanation of what Luther actually means by «faith alone,» namely, a simple, firm belief that our sins are absolved when we hear the divine words to that effect pronounced in the sacraments of Baptism and Penance.

It is a metaphor, Kaufman argues, that does not really describe the process by which we come to faith.

By contrast, when Augustine had come to the English in 597, he had brought with him not only the message of the gospel and the authority of the See of Rome but the liturgy of the Latin mass, and he had made the acceptance of this a condition of conversion to faith in Christ.