Sentences with phrase «experience as believer»

Have you come away from your experience as believer in boards of education or a determined skeptic?

Please keep in mind that all I really know about the Christian faith is from my own miserable 25 year experience as a believer.

He knows that, with his unsettled emotional state, he can never go back to that comfortable place where he once was, and at the same time, he feels that the path he is following will lead to a place that will not, or can not offer those safe, sheltered feelings he once experienced as a believer, but, he still believes in (or still wants to believe in) God, Jesus, etc, etc..

Not exact matches

So, what is my point?To read Paul's polemic, his rhetoric and generally his theology as an end in itself, rather than his attempt to bring others to an experience of the living God is to me, missing the point.It seems that much of the divisiveness between believers on this blog and a few others I visit is just that: I often read... Paul says this... hey, but Jesus says that... no, he wasn't saying that, he was saying this and so on and so on.Am I the only one bored with this «your Mother and my Mother were hanging out clothes» approach.I think we need a little more adverb, as in maybe....

Never in any ordinary, non-mystical believer's life is there a deeper experience of being gripped and converted, as Jonah turned around and returned to his mission.

And I can tell you from over a decade of counseling experience that I have found FAR more «self - loathing» (as I believe you are using that term) among atheists and agnostics than among believers of any faith.

While the Holy Spirit can and does work through every one of our meager attempts, continually experiencing the Good News in our own soul — especially as believers — is part of God's continual kingdom work, too.

As an atheist I would love nothing more than for moderates to stand up to these bullies, but my experience has been that they leave that up to us because they're just too nice to criticize, and they can't stand being told that they're not following Jesus by other believers.

Could it be that you have been experiencing some cognitive dissonance with being a believer and a high view of scripture whilst advocating the pointing finger where the bible here places such action in the same light as oppression.

To affirm, for example, that the essential elements of Christianity in the first century were only those items which believers of that day have in common with the «liberal» theologian of the twentieth century, is to eliminate as unessential to first - century believers their realistic eschatology, their belief in demons and angels, their vivid supernaturalism, their sacramentalism, their notion of the miraculous content of religious experience, and various other features of similar importance.

My point was that believers in all faiths claim that same experience; I used Vishnu as it pertains to a large, active religion.

Instead, we have two competing research programs, each with its own fundamental intuitions and program of inquiry to pursue, as in Imre Lakatos's philosophy of science.15 Only «over the long haul» can we judge which will be more progressive more able to handle the classical challenges raised by the entire history of metaphysics, by dialogue with existing religions (Christian and otherwise), and by the experience of contemporary religious believers.

Hartshorne is able to unite thought and experience for the believer because he has largely succeeded in developing a concept of God that is internally coherent and externally adequate to religious faith in God as the proper object of worship.

Believers are made alive at His coming, and experience the swalling up of death in victory before everyone else, as vs. 50 — 57 make clear.

As noted before, you might have personal experiences, perhaps as part of a mental illness, but you, nor any other believer, has actual evidence, evidence that would stand up to the scientific method or the justice system's rules of evidencAs noted before, you might have personal experiences, perhaps as part of a mental illness, but you, nor any other believer, has actual evidence, evidence that would stand up to the scientific method or the justice system's rules of evidencas part of a mental illness, but you, nor any other believer, has actual evidence, evidence that would stand up to the scientific method or the justice system's rules of evidence.

For others it is experienced as a deepening of faith in Christ and a peaceful sense of being welcomed into the communion of believers.

Sepúlveda argues that the contribution of Pentecostal theology lies not in its systematic treatment or elaboration, but in the believers» testimonies as narrations of their personal and communal experience of the Spirit.

In my understanding the Trinity is a symbol which affirms the Christian experience that God is known as our Creator and Sustainer, that God is also known in the life, teaching, death and resurrection of Jesus and that in both the fellowship of believers and in personal devotion God is present as the Holy Spirit.

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.

Life with Jesus risen from the dead was an experience that began here and now; and since it was God who had thus raised Jesus from the dead, Christian believers were sure that life in Christ was indestructible, both for him their Lord and for themselves as those already united with him.

In my experience the strongest believers were taught about it as children, and as adults they have never thought to question it.

A group of believers confessed their respective experiences of faith to one another and determined to form a congregation as the Bible commanded.

But maybe as a believer you had a holy experience, you had a brush with the divine.

By gazing at the heavenly Jesus as victim, i.e., Jesus in the Eucharist, believers are able to profit from Jesus» experiencing death for each of them, thus enabling them to appreciate Jesus» earthly victimhood, which resulted in his heavenly victimhood in the Eucharist.

Sarah God forgives you for your actions if you confess it to God he does nt change he still loves you.It is hard but as a believer we must forgive those who hurt us not for there sake but for ours harbouring anger bitterness and unforgiveness causes us to get sick that is where i believe your mental illness is coming from.Those negative emotions have the power to destroy us if we let them.Only Jesus can help us to forgive when it hurts so deeply like you are experiencing tell him you cant do it and ask him to help you by his holy spirit so he can set you free and bring healing and restoration to your life brentnz.

It's been my, albeit limited, experience that as the Calvinist believers that I've associated with these past four decades have come to know the Lord Jesus closely in their walk, they have either abandoned their belief in predestination or it has faded far into the background in importance in their theology.

Ethical agreement certainly helped create the new friendships I described, but judging from what I've seen and experienced, Evangelicals and Catholics have begun to respect and enjoy each other as real believers, not just cultural co-belligerents.

I relate with some of your dangers, I use to experience some of them when I first «left the church»... But I will say, years later... now that I have learned to center the majority of my relationships around Christ, that this builds lasting relationships and it is fulfilling for all in so many ways... I am learning to «live in community» with some close believers and feel as though I am experiencing Love like I have never experienced it before.

In a recent interview with the Washington Post (part of their ominously titled «Voices of Power» series), Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius discussed Archbishop Joseph Naumann's request that she not present herself for communion because of her public support for legalised abortion: «Well, it was one of the most painful things I have ever experienced in my life, and I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I had.

I experienced the full gamut as a believer.

As a result, we witnessed and experienced a rich tapestry of diversity among us... anywhere from believer to atheist... all gathered around the value of love and mutual respect.

Even the believer, as Joseph Ratzinger once wrote, now «knows himself to be constantly threatened by unbelief, which he must experience as a continual temptation.»

The whole force of the Christian religion, therefore, so far as belief in the divine personages determines the prevalent attitude of the believer, is in general exerted by the instrumentality of pure ideas, of which nothing in the individual's past experience directly serves as a model.

I first wondered why I never, NEVER, during my 25 years as a believer, experienced Jesus as the girl does in the video.

Experience shows that believers are, as a matter of fact, sometimes anxious about bad news of the quest for the historical Jesus.

To experience reconciliation through the blood of Jesus Christ is quite different than giving mental accent to a particular belief.Now our society has devolved to where believers are labeled as «haters», when in fact, the hate emanates from those who claim otherwise.

A senior church leader in Nigeria has described the «difficult» life being experienced by Christians in the country, as attacks on believers by militant Islamist group Boko Harem continue.

Experience of Spirit binds believers together as a community of love (Acts 2:43 - 47).

Particularly pertinent to our present theme is the fact that by this saving deed believers conceived themselves as ushered into a new experience of sonship to God.

Believers who fail to live as Christ wants them to will experience a stinging rebuke, exclusion form the wedding banquet, and millennial disinheritance.

This same Spirit renders each of us a contemporary, as it were, of this Jesus — astonishing as it is to comprehend — in a faith encounter in which God's Spirit effects living contact for each believer with the foundational experience of belief: the encounter with the Lord.

As believers during this church age, we experience only two of these seven — spirit baptism at the moment we believe in Jesus for eternal life, and water baptism as the first step of discipleship and following ChrisAs believers during this church age, we experience only two of these seven — spirit baptism at the moment we believe in Jesus for eternal life, and water baptism as the first step of discipleship and following Chrisas the first step of discipleship and following Christ.

In a number of passages, Hook reports passing judgment on himself as if from God's perspective, having hope of a sort stronger than he could quite account for and experiencing within himself a surge of creativity of the sort a believer might point to.

He always resisted the temptation to accept these evidences as a believer would but he did not destroy the record of these experiences in himself.

We need Hispanic theologians and social scientists who will reflect from within the common experience of faith of our people, not as outsiders but as believers who are seeking to understand, clarify and enrich our own life of faith.

For believers, repentance also helps us experience intimacy and fellowship with God in a greater way as well.

I know my 25 years as a bible believer does not make me an expert, but shouldn't I be given at least partial credit for the experience?

She's a big believer that travel is an excellent education and tries to work in as many learning experiences as possible during their journeys.

As a doctor, I'm a huge believer in making decisions based on evidence — both in terms of scientific research and first - hand experience.

I am a firm believer in rehabilitation and education as the «practice of freedom,» thus if we can improve the conditions of their educational experience inside, they may embrace education a liberatory tool of empowerment.