Sentences with phrase «conversion experience»

But around my 25th birthday I had a rather dramatic conversion experience.

The spiritual conversion experienced by both of these groups is intended to carry the individual along in a «new» way of life, and it does for those who stay with it.

To be honest, some of them provide a better conversion experience, and will give you a final ebook — perhaps in multiple formats — that you can use.

Everyone's life walk creates a different conversion experience.

Indeed, his opinion of philosophical method as practiced in his day was almost entirely dismissive; when, after his powerful conversion experience in London, Hamann was met by Kant, who had been sent by friends to rescue him from his newfound «enthusiasm,» his reaction was one of polite amusement: «I must laugh at the choice of a philosopher to bring about my conversion.

In fact, few places in Scripture speak to the Christian conversion experience through any method other than relational metaphor.

Although their particular tactics are enormously diverse, many fundamentalist groups impose creedal tests on their followers, many have rites of passage such as conversion experiences that demarcate entry into the community, and many enforce conformity in such matters as dress, sexuality and the use of alcohol.

For me, Ben Shemen provided a powerful conversion experience.

In a way, this little episode had all the hallmarks of a typical Christian conversion experience — the dark night of the soul, the call for help, the responding voice, the sense of transformation.

I do find it incredible that in the sudden conversion she experienced, she instantly knew that Catholicism was the correct path.

The spiritual conversion experienced by alcoholics and charismatics is intended to carry the individual along in a «new» way of life, and it does for those who stay with it.

In contrast to the celebrated emotional appeals he would issue to millions later in his life, Graham would recount that his own conversion experience was pretty platonic.

Sometimes the political conversion experience on the way to Washington seems even more dramatic than the spiritual conversion of the biblical Paul on the way to Damascus.

Since his dramatic conversion experience age 20, Moby has thought long and hard about what it means to be a Christian.

Christians tend to compare their personal conversion experiences to Saul's encounter on the road to Damascus.

There is little appreciation for the nature of conversion as an ongoing process made up of many steps forward and backward along the way; or, for marriage as only one option among a couple, or even a few, equally viable, equally «holy» alternatives for living out one's God - given vocation... I don't have to dig too deep into my own experience to recognize the hang - ups that this glorification of marriage and a one - time conversion experience can foster.

Too many of those who practice infant baptism speak of it euphemistically as «christening,» «infant dedication,» as a little educative exercise to remind the parents to get the child to Sunday school, or as an insipid, cute, rosebud of an affair all full of kisses and talk that «God loves you and we love you,» hoping that the church can get its real business with the child done later in confirmation class or through an adult conversion experience.

In too many Baptist churches, baptism is an afterthought to the real work of a prior conversion experience, an act justified on the purely historical grounds that «Jesus told us to do it» (though why and for what effect remain in doubt), a procedure mainly of value in entitling one to vote in future congregational squabbles.

The principal protagonist is a young priest in 1980s Philadelphia who undergoes a post-ordination conversion experience.

I am grateful that I had a sincere conversion experience and gave my life to Jesus, and I understood that there's a God that loves me.

Journalist William Scholes, writing in the Anglican journal the Churchman, suggests that Alpha overemphasizes a personal encounter with the Holy Spirit, making it «a second conversion experience.»

The First Great Awakening was heralded by spontaneous and emotional conversion experiences, scattered throughout the colonies.

Below, Adrian Vermeule, the Ralph S. Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, answers a few questions about his own recent conversion experience.

Christian affections are not part of our inherent nature or received wholesale in a onetime conversion experience; we need to grow into them.

Or St. Augustine's, for that matter, whose famous conversion experience involved little more than naïve obedience to a desperate impulse.

Of the 213 follow up cards I got at our church, only 3 indicated they had some kind of conversion experience there.

Fishon... I think you may have misunderstood my last comment, but upon reading it myself, I'm less clear than I thot.Nevertheless, I agree with you and that was my point, most believers that I know or read about have their initial conversion experience long before they adopt developed doctrines of scripture.

«You mean in a flash — some sudden overwhelming conversion experience?»

Kelly was a philosophy professor and a Quaker who wrote this book after undergoing a profound conversion experience.

Clifton Johnson's collection of black conversion experiences, God Struck Me Dead, illustrates this point.

They did not try to arouse conversion experiences in their listeners nor did they cultivate religious emotions or sentiments.

I want you to have an amazing conversion experience and love the look of your new cloth diapers, so if you have something special in mind please let me know:)

Christian Mingle the movie did a good job of taking Gwyneth on a spiritual journey that might've begun with lying about her faith but ended in an authentic conversion experience.

The session is presented by Mark Gross and Devorah Bloom of Data Conversion Laboratory, about DCL's specification process and how to prepare for the best possible conversion experience.

At first a fiercely determined adversary of the fledgling faith, after his dramatic conversion experience on the Damascus road, Paul became Christianity's most outspoken advocate.

The spiritual conversion experienced by both of these groups is intended to carry the individual along in a «new» way of life, and it does for those...

sam stone I must be missing something because even before I had a conversion experience I still felt this existence could not simply be that of naturalism.

You need a conversion experience to see that.»

The Confessions describes a conversion experience, a radical turnaround.

One day he has a conversion experience.