Sentences with phrase «early believers as»

Best known as a refuge for Christianity before it was widely accepted, Cappadocia became home to early believers as they fled Roman persecution in the 4th century A.D. Over the next 600 years, these holy settlers would create the region's most notable landmarks, carving out their homes and churches into soft canyon walls to make so - called «fairy chimneys» while building unimaginably complex beehives of humanity.

Anyone failing to acknowledge the lives of early believers as set apart from the cultural norms surrounding does not comprehend their new birth transformation nor Acts 2 - 29.

Not exact matches

As I stated earlier, I am somewhat skeptical of any automatic trading system, but Option Robot has made me a believer in their system.

There's no doubt, (and I think Johnny would absolutely agree) that they went to Vancouver as skeptics and came home as believers that an early exit was the way to go.

We've sat in churches we'd walked by for a decade without ever stepping foot inside, churches that in our earlier, fear - filled days we would have condemned as «liberal», and have found within them sincere believers doing their best to follow Jesus.

As a sidebar here and for my earlier responses about unfair grouping of all believers with promoters of false doctrine, I should mention that Jesus warned us to strive to enter His Kingdom through the narrow gate, because the many who claim to serve Him and come to the wide and easy gate will be turned away.

What the early Christian believers and writers, for example Mark, tried to do was apply to him the highest conceivable categories, human and divine; but in the end these all proved inadequate, as the later church soon discovered; for Jesus means more, was more, and is more than any of these categories could convey.

As Bishop Rawlinson finely says, echoing Johannes Weiss, «Jesus is, for St. Mark, the Messiah, not in spite of His sufferings — as the earliest believers of all may for a time have been disposed to express it — but precisely because of His sufferings.&raquAs Bishop Rawlinson finely says, echoing Johannes Weiss, «Jesus is, for St. Mark, the Messiah, not in spite of His sufferings — as the earliest believers of all may for a time have been disposed to express it — but precisely because of His sufferings.&raquas the earliest believers of all may for a time have been disposed to express it — but precisely because of His sufferings.»

There will be no early exit, as many believers hope and believe because tehy have been taught to believe so.

I probably wouldn't now give his books to a brand - new believer, seeking to find a starting place in discipleship, for fear the new brother or sister might embrace the whole package — as some of us did with whomever it was that was influential in our early Christian lives, whether C. S. Lewis or J. I. Packer or John Stott or John Piper...

An earlier version of this book was of immense help to me as I learned about the roles of faith and works in the life of the believer, and how to understand most of the tough texts in the Bible on this topic.

Both early Christian apocalyptic and Zealot apocalyptic drew on the openness of this form of world - vision to the new, to make possible a meaningful participation of the believer in the «big story» to which he found that he was contributing as it moved forward to its end.

In the Christian experience as it was enjoyed in the fellowship, the early believers were confident that they were in possession of the supernatural blessings which the prophets had foretold.

To the persecuted Christian believers the Revelation to John brought hope, as the Book of Daniel did two centuries earlier.

As I said earlier, I am not bashing Muslims in any way, but I rather be respected as who I am, a believer and a follower of Christ Jesus, the Son of God, Savior of the world and Redeemer of all sinnerAs I said earlier, I am not bashing Muslims in any way, but I rather be respected as who I am, a believer and a follower of Christ Jesus, the Son of God, Savior of the world and Redeemer of all sinneras who I am, a believer and a follower of Christ Jesus, the Son of God, Savior of the world and Redeemer of all sinners.

It's easy for those lovers in so many of those songs to be a believer in their love, such as in the one, clearly modeled on early Beatles songs, where the Monkees» singer knows without a trace of doubt in my mind, and all because he saw her face.

However, an alternative concept of Purgatory had also been influential from early on, and was especially promoted by the Church father Origen in the third century: Purgatory as a form of purification to make believers fit for heaven.

As explained by my brother apologists in earlier comments here, it is a mistake to apply the passage in Mark to believers who are not direct witnesses to the risen Christ and not present at the time of Pentecost.

One scholar believes that the reading of 1 Thessalonians was an «event which contributed to the formation of the Christian church at Thessalonica.118 First Thessalonians is an example in early church history where an act of public reading «allowed the believers at Thessalonica to come into existence as the church of God.

But other elements of the musical trend — its emphasis on the personal connection between the believer and God, its popular bent, its triumphant spread through the churches, and the very fact that many of the «frozen chosen» find the music divisive and beneath them — would probably strike the early Pentecostals as warmly reassuring.

These earliest believers solved the problem of the relation of the human and divine in Jesus in precisely the way one would expect — by resort to a view which, in a later form, came to be known as «adoptionism.»

Both of these points, that early statements were based primarily on the narrative of Scripture and the behavior of believers, will become critical later in this chapter for understanding how we as twenty - first century followers of Jesus can stand up for the truth without the damaging and destructive statements of doctrine that have divided Christianity for so long.

After all, they were prevalent enough among many pagans in earliest Christian times and it was natural for Christian thinkers as well as simple Christian believers to be influenced by them.

Here we have a phenomenon not without parallel in the history of other religions, as Lohmeyer notes — for example in Islam and in Mormonism — namely a shift from a first center to a second within the first generation of believers; and it is all the more striking that the evidence is preserved in Acts, whose whole interest and orientation centers in Jerusalem, not in Galilee, and whose earliest traditions are almost exclusively those of the capital city.

Early Palestinian Christian tradition understood baptism as an eschatological reality binding believers to the eschatological person of the Messiah, conveying them into the end - time reality of the Kingdom, bestowing on them the eschatological gift of the Holy Spirit and the forgiveness of sin, and incorporating them into the company of those redeemed by the Christ.

I knew some American Missionaries India who retired back in the USA in their late 70's, sadly left the Christian village they had started 40 years earlier with a school and hospital, and watched it fall apart from a distance as money stopped pouring in and apparently sincere believers of decades grab the next benefactor.

I am a firm believer that it's never too early to begin the conversation around the importance of consent and ownership of one's body, and it's something I take incredibly important as a parent.

If you have read some of my earlier posts, you would know that I am a big believer in learning journeys designed as play.

As born - again, Reformed believers, we do not celebrate any of the «feast days» of Roman Catholic / Early Church saints.

«As an ardent supporter of reducing gun violence and a strong believer in government's ability to play a role in that mission, however, I'm disappointed that President Obama did not urge us to look at our nation's gun laws, as he did in his speech about the Tucson massacre earlier this montAs an ardent supporter of reducing gun violence and a strong believer in government's ability to play a role in that mission, however, I'm disappointed that President Obama did not urge us to look at our nation's gun laws, as he did in his speech about the Tucson massacre earlier this montas he did in his speech about the Tucson massacre earlier this month.

He ennobled Maurice Glasman, a great believer (and participant) in grass - roots democracy, and he hired Arnie Graf, the American veteran campaigner who had mentored Barack Obama in his early days as a young activist in Chicago, to inject the Labour party with the movement politics spirit.

I am a huge believer that if we all show that breast cancer takes lives - but not, if people start treatment at early stages - we do good for everybody and for our souls as well!

Early filmed projects included the features Rowing Through (1996) and Night Sins (1997) and the television miniseries More Tales of the City, as well as prominent roles in the celebrity - themed telemovie biopics Daydream Believers: The Monkees Story (2000) and Inside the Osmonds (2001).

Earlier today, House Republican leadership recessed debate on Kline's No Child plan, the Student Success Act, without so much as a vote on the full bill after conservative true - believers within the caucus threatened to vote against it.

State Treasurer John Chiang described himself as a «strong and firm believer in early childhood education,» and said he supports universal preschool.

That's a tough question, because I'm a firm believer that you should start investing as early as possible.

I'm a big believer that you need to do as much as you possibly can as early as you possibly can.

They had begun collecting as newlyweds in New York in the mid-1960s, setting aside $ 25 a week to collect art — they were early believers in Basquiat, Richard Prince, Mike Kelley, and Keith Haring — and discovered Murillo two years ago at the Independent Art Fair, where he was showing with a London gallery, Stuart Shave.

While it is true that many scientists believed ulcers were due to stress and diet, and this was later proven wrong, as with many early medical beliefs, the believers never had a significant body of evidence or research to support this contention.

Though I began as a believer, it became obvious to me rather early on that the warmists were engaged in tactics that severely impacted their credibility.

We're strong believers in a culture of experimentation, and this model preserves fair contribution for early backers, without imposing rigid restrictions on the ability to test new SNT utility as the project evolves over time.