Sentences with phrase «evangelical friends»

I have lots of Mormon and Evangelical friends, and I will bet you can guess which group adheres most closely to Christian principles.

That means that most Muslims — as well as Hindus, Buddhists, and Jews — have no evangelical friends.

But cries of protest quickly turned to chuckles as I realized that I could pigeonhole all of my Evangelical friends into his taxonomy.

For some of Perry's evangelical friends and supporters, his jump from a mainline to an evangelical church was a sign of spiritual growth.

On the other hand, my more liberal evangelical friends bring scripture to bear on issues of economic, political and environmental justice.

As I watch these programs with my family, I find in them patterns of behavior strikingly similar to what I see among my evangelical friends.

I had returned to Atlanta, Georgia, for Christmas break and spent the holidays with a group of mostly evangelical friends.

Disowning those feelings will not produce the «progress» my white evangelical friends say they want.

For I do not understand why some of my Evangelical friends are never baptized despite the fact that Christ says to be baptized, if baptism was nothing or if it wasn't necessary then God would have not instructed people to baptize.

I see hypocrisy and vitriol from both Christians, Agnostics, and Atheists so it just proves that people are still people, being gay or fat or devoutly Christian or not has nothing to do what kind of person you are and my wife and I have gay and straight friends, agnostic friends, evangelical friends, we don't discriminate, which is what Jesus Christ would have done in the first place.

I'm a Lebanese American who grew up in the Orthodox Church of Antioch and was transformed by Christ during my high school days in Wichita, Kansas, through the leading of evangelical friends.

You and all of your evangelical friends are no Christians when you have taken the Christ out of Christianity.

Back during college, a good number of my evangelical friends were liberals, and we spent countless hours arguing about politics.

Bigotry exists however, I have many evangelical friends and would never think of condemning all evangelicals for the behavior of a few or even of many.

«It says that Mary doesn't need to be saved,» Evangelical friends with doctorates in theology from elite universities have told me, which is, you know, and I do hate to say this, kind of dumb.

The second was an Evangelical Friends restart that offered a seeker service; it achieved Sunday morning attendance of several hundred but has had to contend with conflict and lost momentum.

I know that a lot of my evangelical friends have definitely had an influence on me.

Something I know would make some of my evangelical friends toes curl!

If you don't believe me, drop the name Rob Bell in conversation with your evangelical friends.

I have Evangelical friends that used to tell me that my depression was caused from not knowing Jesus enough, not loving Jesus enough, not praying enough, not believing enough, and on and on and on.

I had so many evangelical friends who raved and loved the movie «The Book of Eli», all the way up to the end.

We envy our Evangelical friends for the vibrancy of faith in their communities.

(Causing our Evangelical friends to wonder whether we've been hitting the communion wine too hard.)

When I showed one of those memos to an evangelical friend, he said: «I sure hope this doesn't get circulated in the evangelical world!»

I'm being introduced as «This is my evangelical friend,» and after a moment of someone looking at me in horror the following, «but he is a good guy - he isn't mean to us.»

Or as an Evangelical friend likes to say, «Jesus is coming.

Fred Clark with «Episcopalian and evangelical are not mutually exclusive categories» and «24 Warning Signs That Your Evangelical Friend Might Be About to «Depart» for the Episcopal Church»

Not exact matches

«If you're Mike Pence, and you believe what he believes, you know God had a plan,» Ralph Reed, an evangelical religious and political leader and friend of Pence's, told The Atlantic.

Many of my close friends are evangelical Christians.

Evangelical Catholicism also encourages regular Eucharistic adoration, in which the friends of the Lord look upon him and he looks upon them, as this Eucharistic fellowship of believers prays for the Church and its needs.

Their rich friends wouldn't understand if they became evangelicals.»

Both of these forms of Counter-Reformation Catholicism think of the moral life as primarily engaging the will, whereas Evangelical Catholicism understands the moral life to be a matter of training minds and hearts, the reason and the will, to make those choices that truly contribute to goodness, human flourishing, and the beatitude that enables the friends of Jesus to live forever within the light and love of the Most Holy Trinity.

I think of my dear friend Robert Millet, with whom Richard Mouw has led this Evangelical - Mormon dialogue (and in which I have happily participated) and with whom I wrote a book.

One Baptist friend says it augurs ill for the Evangelicals and Catholics Together project if, in fact, there is a dramatic increase in five - point Calvinism, since most of the evangelical opposition to that initiative has come from Calvinists.

I think his observations are valid; I am not an evangelical Christian but I have, at one point or another, heard ALL of these terms and practices he describes from friends, acquaintances, and commentators on boards like this one who are «born again.»

They have love lives (sometimes not the kind that would keep evangelicals happy), they have outside interests and friends beyond the Church, and the majority seem to be wrestling and stumbling their way through a life of faith.

When her mother, the daughter and granddaughter of Methodist ministers, died on May 9, 1905, Jarvis in a series of recollections penned for friends and family remembered her mother especially for her evangelical piety and practice: her conversion at age 12; her lifelong work in a Methodist Sunday school in Grafton, West Virginia; her habits of secret prayer, her graces at table; and her abiding affection for her favorite hymns.

Armed with the latest surveys, along with personal testimonies from friends and readers, I explain how young adults perceive evangelical Christianity to be too political, too exclusive, old - fashioned, unconcerned with social justice and hostile to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

I have a friend that believes that Muslims an Christians worship a different God so I get the «Evangelical» point but to ban someone for showing solidarity with Muslims in the light of recent events is yes, I agree rejecting someone just as Jesus was rejected for identification with the marginalised.

• The Colson Center held a lunch - time forum on religious freedom at the Evangelical Theological Society meeting, and the four speakers were Timothy George and Ryan Anderson, both members of our Advisory Council, and Thomas Farr and Russell Moore, both friends of the magazine who've written feature essays in the last two issues.

At the same breakfast, Obama spoke of spending time every morning in «Scripture and devotion» and dropped the names of «friends like Joel Hunter or T.D. Jakes,» both well - known pastors of evangelical megachurches.

«I take issue with the word to a certain degree, so I make a distinction between a capital E and a small e. I was in the Caribbean in 2004, watching the election returns with a group of friends, and when Fox News, in a state of delirious joy, announced that evangelicals had helped sway the election, I realized this word has really been hijacked.

In this film, we are introduced to three industrial lubricant salesman: Larry (played byKevin Spacey), a brash, but honest veteran of sales; Phil (played by Danny Devito), Larry's friend and a seasoned, yet life - weary salesman; and Bob (played by PeterFacinelli), a young evangelical Christian who, as a rookie in sales, joins the twoveterans at a trade show.

Recently, I joined evangelical leaders across North America including friends like Tim and Kathy Keller, Bill and Lynne Hybels, John Perkins, Ann Voskamp, Sandy Willson, John Yates, Max Lucado, Eugene Cho and many others, by adding my signature to this petition to our president.

My evangelical, Catholic, and emerging friends have much more to say than that, but you get the point.

Furthermore, today's evangelicals rightly recognize that a major reason for the failure of Methodists to witness to their friends and neighbors is a lack of confidence that they have anything of great value to share.

And I suspect this explains why, in the wake of the Sandy Hook tragedy, so many evangelical leaders responded like Job's friends, eager to offer theological explanations for what happened instead of simply sitting down in the ashes and weeping with their brothers and sisters.

-- countless white evangelical male friends.

We were unable to attend due to travel, but two of our friends (former evangelicals) did, and they were confirmed this spring.

In a 2015 poll, LifeWay Research found that 70 percent of evangelicals without gay or lesbian friends believe that «sex between people of the same gender is sinful, regardless of its legality,» while 62 percent of evangelicals with such friends say likewise.