Sentences with phrase «doubts about my faith»

I SO appreciate your artwork, which says so much about your honest grappling with doubts about faith, humanity and Christianity.

In reality, I have no doubts about my faith.

As someone who consistently struggles with doubts about my faith, I've asked a lot of «off - limits» questions over the years, sometimes publically, sometimes privately.

From Rachel: Does anything about your profession trigger doubts about your faith?

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.

For years I struggled with doubts about my faith, and through the emerging church movement, I found people who were asking the very same questions - about religious pluralism, the Problem of Evil, inerrancy, the notion of absolute truth, etc..

Eighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial made a spectacle of Christian fundamentalism and brought national attention to her hometown, Rachel Held Evans faced a trial of her own when she began to have doubts about her faith.

Luther's primary doubts about faith didn't necessarily rest on the question of God's existence, but His character.

Checking my e-mail to find my inbox crowded with e-mails from people who have struggled with doubts about their faith, who understand where I am coming from, and who offer their input and ideas without judgment.

Though his fear that his own sinfulness would separate him from God helped lead to then - radical ideas about salvation outside of man's own ability to be righteous, doubts about his faith, thinking and relationship with God would haunt him later in life.

After going through a pretty serious period of doubt about my faith, I found myself with a heightened sensitivity to the use of God's name in everyday speech, especially concerning 1) material blessings, 2) theological positions, and 3) life decisions.

From the AIDS orphan I held in my arms in India, to the passages of Scripture that seemed to condone genocide, to the persuasiveness of biology textbooks, to my encounters with people of other faiths — my interactions with the world left me wondering if rehearsed answers would be enough to satisfy my doubts about my faith.

I've especially enjoyed hearing from those of you who have wrestled with doubts about your faith, asked tough questions, and travelled similar paths on your faith journeys.

He said that Santorum's moral values leave no doubt about his faith.

I don't know if I can say when I first had doubts about my faith, because my faith has pretty much always been accompanied by doubt.

In dealing with Frankie, Father Andrew must come to terms with his own doubts about his faith.

Not exact matches

Ally Spotts shares revelations from 20 - something Christians about their faith, doubts and regrets.

I think faith is about persistence in the face of uncertainty and doubt.

The fact that one of your congregation a) was able to articulate such faith and doubt so eloquently; b) felt that he could ask you to share it in a Sunday service and c) that you did so — speaks wonders to me about what your community is about.

Washington (CNN)- Facing a re-election bid and contending with a bitterly partisan Congress, President Obama spoke Wednesday at a White House Easter prayer breakfast about keeping faith in the face of doubt.

I talk about how the evangelical obsession with sex can make Christian living seem like little more than sticking to a list of rules, and how millennials long for faith communities in which they are safe asking tough questions and wrestling with doubt.

The guy is having a little doubt about the whole religion thing and decides to take some time to explore the strength of his own faith, and they punish him for it immediately?!

The BBC Radio 2 presenter talks to Justin Brierley about faith, doubt and Strictly Come Dancing More

But some justices on the high court expressed doubts about the extent to which lawmakers - and later courts - should advise various faiths about what to say, and parse what is sectarian or not.

CNN: Franklin Graham apologizes for questions Obama's faith commitment The Rev. Franklin Graham on Tuesday apologized for publicly raising questions about President Barack Obama's Christian faith, saying «I regret any comments I have ever made which may have cast any doubt on the personal faith of our president, Mr. Obama.»

Obama has talked publicly about his faith for years, but doubts persist.

The language of personal faith appears to be helping GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum turn lingering doubts among Protestant evangelicals about Mitt Romney's Mormonism (and even President Obama's Christianity) into a poll surge.

I'm convinced that one thing folks from my generation long for is the chance to talk openly and honestly about our faith, our doubts, our questions, our ideas, our struggles, our joys, etc. in the context of a faith community.

And this could have been a good story about Rachel, bold through doubts and outspoken about the wrestle with faith, but it really isn't yet.

(CNN)- The Rev. Franklin Graham on Tuesday apologized for publicly raising questions about President Barack Obama's Christian faith, saying «I regret any comments I have ever made which may have cast any doubt on the personal faith of our president, Mr. Obama.»

Then I'm off to Greenville College in Greenville, IL, where I'll be sharing about my faith and doubt in convocation on Thursday night at 9:30 p.m. and about my «Year of Biblical Womanhood» at Friday chapel at 9:30 a.m.

When I started this blog, one of my goals was to re-examine the fundamentals of my faith in the context of a changing culture and my emerging doubts about Christianity.

All of this points to what I hope is a trend toward talking more openly about doubt and acknowledging the vital role it can play in shaping our faith.

Either the folks at Zondervan are having a collective faith crisis, or the evangelical community is finally opening up about doubt.

As is often the case when I write about confronting doubt or questioning certain theological traditions, I got a message or two urging me to stop asking so many pesky questions and just enjoy the bliss of absolute certainty that should accompany true faith.

This is an excerpt from Changing Faith: Questions, Doubts and Choices About an Unchanging God by Michael Hidalgo.

Tell me about your Holy Week... moments of faith, moments of doubt, moments of connection, moments of disconnect.

In a scene near the climactic elevation of the cup, the presiding priest, who himself is infected with doubts and confusion about the faith, elevates the ceramic chalice filled with wine.

Matthew 21: 21 and Mark 11:23 Isn't talking about prayer working absolutely, it's talking about having faith and whether or not you have any doubt in your heart in which if there isn't any doubt you can move mountains.

I had such a good time working with Travis Reed from Work of the People on a series of videos about faith, doubt, the sacraments, and church.

Commenting about the doubts Mother Teresa experienced, Gumpel asked, «Do not these researchers understand that periods of doubt, and even severe trials of faith, have affected some of the Church's greatest saints — St. John of the Cross, Therese of Lisieux — and that persevering and overcoming them is considered one of the signs of sanctity?»

I guess I just thought to myself, «Okay, I'm a grownup now, and grownups aren't supposed to have doubts or fears or questions about their faith.

Kent Annan's breathtaking book, After Shock: Searching for Honest Faith When Your World Is Shaken will release in February and carry the current conversation about faith and doubt to new levels of honesty, intelligence, and gFaith When Your World Is Shaken will release in February and carry the current conversation about faith and doubt to new levels of honesty, intelligence, and gfaith and doubt to new levels of honesty, intelligence, and grace.

You need to stop lying (might want to check the Bible on that point) about what the President has said about his faith, and learn a little about the non-Christian you're no doubt supporting.

This in particular is a quick and easy way to instill doubt into the Christian faith altogether (As a Muslim, we believe in Jesus» prophecy but we believe that the book was corrupted and not preserved) Check out my post below on what the Quran says about Jesus but most importantly is that God is the same God for all civilizations (and only makes sense if He is the same, since we believe that He is FAIR).

You need to stop lying (might want to check the Bible on that point, Janice) about what the President has said about his faith, and learn a little about the non-Christian you're no doubt supporting.

Modern humanity has become expert in its knowledge of the scientific, exterior forces in the world — electricity, gravity or nuclear force — but we know little about the existential forces of the inner world — love, hate, hope, fear, doubt and faith.

I just worry about Christians, who already doubt their faith on their own (we all do from time to time), getting any help in the doubt department with ideas that God really doesn't exist... from clergy no less.

(c) An invitation to work out an intellectually respectable faith through grappling with questions and doubts about the Bible is the most efficient way of getting large numbers of adults into small groups.

In between the photo dumps and product placements were some of the most honest, considered, and powerful essays I'd ever read, essays about things that really mattered: faith, doubt, feminism, race, mental health, addiction, community, friendship, mindfulness, grace and the unique joys and challenges of raising children in our highly - connected, yet increasingly isolating culture.