Sentences with phrase «connected with faith»

In 2008, I was one of the millions of fans who connected with Faith.

Everyone connected with the Faith movement will know the maxim of St Ephrem that is oft repeated at its conferences: «Fish swim, birds fly, men pray.»

We may not see how our responsibilities and routine tasks are at all connected with our faith, whether it be making parts on a production line or totaling numbers and billing customers, whether it be keying data into a computer or serving up hamburgers, selling real estate or planning the next step in company expansion.

Jesus doctrine was perfect, but it must be connected with faith, in order to improve life.

Not exact matches

The goal is to keep people from being anonymous, going from church to church with needs, and never connecting with a community of faith.

The official news release carefully pointed out that the organization was «not officially connected» with the NAE's convention but that its statement of faith is the same and its membership (open to both homosexuals and heterosexuals) is composed of «members of NAE and various evangelical churches.»

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

He connects sexual activity to increasing doubts among young adults, and suggests that when twenty - somethings come home from college with scientific or philosophical questions related to their faith, those questions are just a guise for what's really at work — they're having sex.

St. Paul meant we should overcome our selfish old nature which is tightly connected with our body through faith in Jesus, and love God and our neighbour.

The book, Evolving in Monkey Town, was published by Zondervan in 2010 and became an important avenue through which to connect with other Christians who were struggling with doubts about their faith and wondering where they fit into the church.

In 1966, he created Kwanzaa to connect African Americans with their African cultural roots and to enshrine life affirming values into black consciousness: values such as faith, purpose, self - determination, and cooperative economics, to name a few.

The event --(which is connected with the school, not the Festival of Faith and Writing, which is happening concurrently and which I'm also participating in)-- is free and open to the public.

Readiness for evangelism: i.e., clarity about the story of one's own beginning and progress in the Christian life, and the ability to tell it so that it connects with the life and faith experience of the listener.

It manages to discuss issues of faith without ever proselytising, and in a way that connects intuitively with the viewer.

I got connected with the BioLogos Forum and even attended a conference on science and faith where I pretended to understand jokes at the lunch table about protein biosynthesis.

People tend to be connected with subgroups rather than with the whole faith community.

Get connected with the releasing power of his death and resurrection through faith and sacramental baptism (infant baptism is valid).

Graham Tomlin, principal of St Mellitus, a training college for Anglicans, also highlights the importance of connecting personal faith with theology: «Doing theology without prayer means that you end up talking about God.

On the basis of information in the Chronicle of Arbel, he paints out that by the year AD 100, the Christian faith spread not only in Arbel in Mesopotamia but also in the villages near by on the mountains, lie concludes: «If, by the beginning of the second century, the Christian faith had already won converts among the inhabitants of the mountain village in Hadiab, then there can be no doubt that the Christian faith had been established before the end of the first century in Edessa and also in Osrhoene, which were on the high way connecting Arbel with Palestine and Syria.»

Catholics need to get some education about their baptism and how it is connected with the gospel and the faith.

Therefore Paul explicitly connects the resurrection with the overcoming of sin: «If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile, and you are still in your sins» (I Corinthians 15: 17).

Emmaus challenges us to see that it isn't our unshakable faith and deep spirituality that connect us with the risen Christ, but our smallest gestures of hospitality and friendship.

Niebuhr provides a helpful analogy illustrating how relation to a community's «internal history» can connect contemporary believers with the saving events that are often of little interest to those outside of the Christian faith tradition.

But it has consistently meant that the biblical text is shaped with a theological intentionality that is deeply and intimately connected to the most elemental faith claims of the church.

I've been a Christian most of my life, and part of what sustains me, I think, is that along the way, when in one season my faith stopped making sense to me, when it stopped connecting with me in a deep way, I had the tools and imagination I needed to refashion my faith.

It makes sense, then, that we would connect with Him in all sorts of unique ways, and that as our lives change, our ways of experiencing faith would change, too.

Neidhart concludes that as long as confirmation is «closely connected with social prestige, this period of life is certainly not the most favorable for a public declaration of faith and the ceremony related to it should rather remain without a vow.»

Check out this fascinating CNN Connect the World interview with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair about his personal faith, his conversion to Catholicism and his awards for short films about religion, which were announced yesterday.

William Diehl identifies four domains in which religious faith needs to be connected with praxis in everyday life: Family; Local Community; Employment (those paid or unpaid ways we spend our days); National and global concerns.

A faith that does not connect with the stuff of real life does not have much hope of transforming our world.

The reality is that people at very different places in their journey of integrating faith and sexuality connect with us.

With the rise of the evolution — creationism debate in the U.S., these academics, even if they did not subscribe to a religious faith themselves, were having to become more aware of ways in which faith and science interpenetrate, connect and harmonise.

He learned from the social sciences how to «read» the environment of Faith Church, all the way from discovering the social networks and patterns in downtown Metro City to learning how such configurations connect with the wars, poverty, political oppression, and inflationary economies that mark the globe.

Thus it appears that pistis (faith) is very intimately connected with love, and it is «faith working through love» (Gal.

There is an ocean of people out there who have been cast aside by churches and holier - than - thou church - goers such as yourself that need to know that they are not alone and need a place to connect with other people who are on an authentic journey of faith.

We need God to take our blinders off — to help us see how we are all connected — to help us see the image of God in «the other» — to help us stand in the gap like Nehemiah and Jeremiah — to own the reality that the forbearers of our Christian American faith were not transformed in these respects and the consequences still live with us.

Faith is (1) a total valuational response resulting from (2) a partial conformation of our feelings to the pattern of feelings or qualities of another actuality (3) with which we are in some way internally related or participatively connected.

It goes on to say: «Our Church wants people to connect with Jesus and come to a real and living faith in Him.

There's power in connecting with others who have like - minded faith for advice, counsel and how to approach a decision.

That's precisely what we need today — leaders to help Lutherans connect with the treasures of our catholic faith once more.

This is the issue: liberation theology seeks to understand why the actual decisions about the course of history are made on grounds other than Christ - centered faith and tries to connect the faith with the actual course of history.

Ahmadinejad appeared to be trying to connect with American Christians and to critique Bush in light of the U.S. president's own faith.

Certainly for the Christian who believes that Christ and society, faith and culture, and even what one might call theory and praxis, are intimately and dialectically related, the obligation to connect with secular culture is impelling.

You are connecting with the God of your faith through the practices of Judaism.

By faith and baptism you get physically connected with Christ's atonement, that means you have died and resurrected together with Jesus.

Happiness understood as a sense of well - being joined to serving others is intricately, and sometimes confusedly, connected with religious faith, according to Myers and the many authorities he cites.

The answers to these questions will connect what is going on in the world today with the moral vision rooted in Christian faith.

Our need for sacredness is part of our ancient survival apparatus, and manifests in what we call faith, the need to connect with that sacred dimension.

The caller's goals may concern formally leaving religion altogether, but Morehead said that counselors will also offer advice on finding a new faith or connecting with a local community of nonbelievers.

When Professor Donna Freitas decided to research how American students connect their faith with their attitudes to sexuality, she found that Catholic students to be of one mind.