Sentences with phrase «communities of faith took»

The image of God within was restored and true communities of faith took root, some multiplying a hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.

We have already noted earlier that when compared with the commonly accepted religious practices of the day, the Christian community of faith took on an everyday, almost secular appearance, not unlike such a contemporary movement as the Rotarians.

Not exact matches

I am prepared to fight, as I have since 2003 in the faith community, about the rightness of the position that the President has now taken.»

Getting to know someone for whom faith looks differently helps us take the first step out of the comfort zones of the faith communities and the traditions we know and cherish.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

«It's a matter of what you're doing in the community to demonstrate that you are a community of faith and that you care and you take the admonition to love your neighbor seriously,» he says.

After serving on the pastoral staff of one of the most progressive evangelical churches in the country, Brian and his wife Carrie took a big step of faith and returned to Dayton to launch The Mission — a new community of Christ - followers committed to loving God and loving people.

His challenge to communities of religious faith is to acknowledge and take the measure of that intelligence, while at the same time fashioning a constructive critique that can raise the standards by which we assess what qualifies as the best and brightest.

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

It appears that there is general though only implicit recognition of the fact that a call to the ministry includes at least these four elements (1) the call to be a Christian, which is variously described as the call to discipleship of Jesus Christ, to hearing and doing of the Word of God, to repentance and faith, et cetera; (2) the secret call, namely, that inner persuasion or experience whereby a person feels himself directly summoned or invited by God to take up the work of the ministry; (3) the providential call, which is that invitation and command to assume the work of the ministry which comes through the equipment of a person with the talents necessary for the exercise of the office and through the divine guidance of his life by all its circumstances; (4) the ecclesiastical call, that is, the summons and invitation extended to a man by some community or institution of the Church to engage in the work of the ministry.

Caring groups can meet regularly to share, to create community with one another, to discuss how members are doing in their own struggles to be faithful, to make sure that each one takes the questions of faith seriously.

If your faith community is actively working to support the systems of white supremacy and patriarchy that are enabling this administration, you may need to take a break, or leave.

Rousseau says, more or less, that the genuinely unfashionable or thoughtful professor today takes the side of the Republicans, the home - schoolers, orthodox communities of faith, and the honorable, violent, and deeply Christian and charitable Southerner who tears up when he hears Lee Greenwood sing.

In a world where other nations constructed the machinery of war in an attempt to achieve their own security, it was Israel's trust in Yahweh as warrior that freed the community of faith from taking part in arms races and saber - rattling.

There is a story out of Iowa - a story about a faith community that has matured beyond voting for the «most evangelical» candidate as a «statement» and takes seriously the responsibility of electing someone to occupy the Oval Office at a time of great national testing.

«Faith communities around the country must host these kinds of conversations,» an energetic Mexican woman declared as we dismissed everyone to break down tables and take photos.

It is the community of loyalty, devoted memory, and faith, which answer to the life, death, and resurrection of Christ; and therefore it is the community in which alone the life, death, and resurrection of Christ as a revelatory event took place.

The revelation of God is experienced in connection with significant historical events that take place in the life of the faith community.

It is not unreasonable to insist that an adequate discernment of God's character as «faithful to promise» could take place only from within the framework of our involvement in a faith community built up around the narration of previous instances of God's fidelity.

At least the scientific community employs detached and objective standards that undermine our efforts to take refuge in the slanted judgments of shared faith.

The Christian community in Corinth probably had in it people of both Jewish and Gentile back grounds, and even after their conversion, they must have been troubled by the discrepancies between the faith they affirmed and the taken - for - granted assumptions of their culture.

Both the baptism of believers and the baptism of infants takes place in the Church as the community of faith.

In Montgomery's day, people of all Christian communities took for granted the reality of prayer and believed that without prayer Christian life could not be lived nor Christian faith maintained.

Christian faith holds that our abiding within a community founded on hope in God's promise, and actively shaping history through the practice of justice and liberation, is the most «realistic» posture we can take in the world.

I think there's a very easy - to - find line between faith and reason, where one can take the community interaction, positive messages and good moral lessons of religion and mix them with a non-theistic tradition of self - improvement, free thought and ever - striving.

It is a worthwhile question though, and one to ask of any faith system which takes us out of the recognised communities.

It is necessary, however, to add the unqualified judgment that what Israel borrowed she always transformed in significant degree; which is to say that what Israel took over she modified by incorporating it into the total structure of faith and the Covenant community.

As the founder of MOSAIC, a faith community in LA, he has spent most of his life inspiring people to live up to their full creative potential — in whatever form it takes.

«Special revelation» means first of all and most obviously the specific «face» this mystery takes to the community of those who adhere to specifically Christian faith.

In trying to develop upon the emphasis of Our Faith Story the most that OTWTL can affirm of the Church's role is this: «conversion is essentially a response to an encounter with Christ as truth mediated in the community of witness, that is the Church... (such that) we are «re-narrated» as we take on an identity which is conferred by grace.

There's a sense of elitism that can creep iin, like we're the real, hardcore Christians who don't need lightshows or multimillion - dollar buildings to worship Jesus, so go take your pleasure - seeking self down the road and away from our «authentic» community, O ye of little faith.

When she stormed out of the government last year, the faith minister's job was actually upgraded because Eric Pickles, the local government and communities secretary, took it over himself, with assistance from another minister, Lord Ahmad.

Baroness Warsi, who took over as secretary of state for faith and communities in 2012, took the opposite stance to the one she had held in opposition.

• The report also states that «Some within the Methodist Church have argued to end our involvement with faith - based schools on the grounds that they generate a privileged elite within the national system and take a disproportionate amount of the Church's attention when it should be focusing on the needs of the poorest community schools... we find it hard to understand how promoting Christianity within all schools will be assisted by removing» the privilege» of greater contact with Methodism and therefore with Christianity in 79 schools.»

Faith communities are taking action too: hosting community solar gardens on church roofs, helping individuals cut their carbon footprints, and raising their voices here in the U.S. and around the world in advance of COP21.

As the moral implications of climate change become more apparent, faith communities around the world are taking action, both personal and political

we caught up to discuss the details — taking a calculated leap of faith, the importance of cultivating a community within a corporation, and amy's advice for other women who want to embark on making their dream a reality!

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A nice balance of serious spirituality and fun adventure means that both the faith - based community and general audiences will enjoy this fresh, heartfelt take on the greatest story ever told.

The solution, the report concludes, can only be in the formation of new, more broad - based, inclusive coalitions and communities that take account of the diversity of civil society and the strengths of different parts of civil society, such as CSOs, community groups, online activists, the new protest movements, faith - based groups and trade unions.

It's taken as an article of faith in the education reform community: we're screwing poor kids by giving them less effective teachers than their more affluent peers enjoy.

First, we are taking this opportunity to advance the cause of Christian / Jewish relationships, a historic step in building bridges with a community that Pope John Paul II referred to as «our elder brothers in faith».

The Obama administration is helping communities take the leap of faith through incentives like Stronger Together, which would offer grants to help districts create and implement strong voluntary, community - developed plans to increase socioeconomic diversity in their schools while improving student achievement.

Keep in mind, success is not a solo journey; it takes all of us working together — parents, grandparents, teachers, pastors, principal, and our faith community — for our students to achieve greatness.

I will follow you every morning with your encouraging messages, thank you for taking time to weave a feeling of community and care into our «leaps of faith!»

About Blog Dad Tired is a community of men who are taking their faith, family, and marriage very seriously.

In 2007 the couple took a leap of faith, parlaying their Catnippers experience into launching the nation's first full - time fixed spay / neuter clinic dedicated entirely to community cats.

When I was planning my own untethered existence I joined Amy's Nomadtopia community to help educate and inspire me to take that leap of faith into a nomadic existence.

Conceived as an organic interchange, Friends in High Places, explores the implicit connections within a community and takes as an article of faith that a fluid curatorial approach can yield a comprehensive catalog of practices and principles.

The number one source of carbon emissions in the developing world is deforestation, and faith communities from Cambodia to the slopes of Kilimanjaro are taking pro-active steps to protect their forests and build sustainable communities.