Sentences with phrase «faith and love within»

Though God pays for the guilt of personal relations and freely offers us full restoration to fellowship, we still have to pay for the consequences of our deeds in works of faith and love within the grace of God.

Not exact matches

But don't you dare go making sweeping generalizations of secular people who are kind, peace loving and law abiding... unlike some people of faith who harbor child abusers within their own confines.

There is much love within a faith community (a faith family) and it is very much a part of the church, synagogue and mosque.

But we're doing more than meeting needs: we're equipping and empowering the persecuted church to be the church, reaching out in love and compassion within their communities — whether those communities are comprised of other Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Yazidis, or those belonging to another faith or no faith at all.

There was need of that long, heroic journey through the mystical dark night, and of an exceptional development of the theological virtues of faith, hope and love, before matter could become «diaphanous» to Pere Teilhard's eyes and could reveal to him within itself not only the hallowing stream which flows from the Incarnation and the Eucharist but also the radiant presence of Christ.

Nothing «turns into» agape, but love experienced in depth within the context of faith in God's agape becomes an occasion for gratitude, humility and the celebration which expresses the life of God's people in his world.

When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith - community, we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.»

However, I lean towards a statement made by the author of the Letter to the Collosians: that your faith and love spring from the hope that is within you.

He encouraged experimentation with pastoral counseling which went beyond an exclusively supportive conception of counseling, because he believed that «within the Christian tradition in which we believe [is] the power of the Holy Spirit to regenerate people through merciful judgment and a loving challenge to grow through suffering into a stronger and deeper faith.»

Faith creates love» Yes, Steve, insofar that the desire, impetus and inspiration comes from without you and not from within, that does sound pretty cold.

They recovered the classical experience of reason as the potential infinity of human questions, showing how this dynamic «ratio» as a desire for understanding is healed and transformed by the paschal - metanoetic experience of faith in the Sophia - Cod of compassion and love.4 Aquinas, for example, understood God as «intimately present within everything that exists since God is existence» and that Cod's omnipotence — Aquinas wrote very little about it — regards not actualities but possibilities, and is best manifested in forgiveness and compassionate mercy.5

Tim i found it liberating to just do what the Lord wants you to do i work within his boundarys and yes i attend church and enjoy it.I love the people and i love hearing the word and worshipping the Lord even if others are still bound up with traditions thats not my walk thats theres.My focus is to do what the Lord wants me to do.There have been times i have said no to the pastor he does nt understand why i choose not to lead the worship.i query him as well regarding the idea that its not just performing a function because there is a need our hearts have to be in the right place so that the Lord can use us but he did nt understand where i was coming from and thats okay because of that i just said no until my heart is right i am better not being involved in leading.But i am happy to be an encouragement to others in the worship team i havent wanted to be the leader i have done that in the past.So my focus has been just the singing and being part of different worship teams i think the Lord has other plans as the groups i am in seem to be changing at the same time i am aware that i do nt to worry about change as the Lord knows whats best.I used to be quite comfortable leading the music but that was before when i was operating in my own self confidence and pride.The Lord did such a huge change in my life that i lost my self confidence and that is not a bad thing at all as my spiritual growth has been incredible.The big change was my identity moved from me and what i could do to knowing who i was in Christ and that he is my strength and confidence.Now i know that without him i can do nothing in fact i am dependent on his empowerment through his holy spirit all the time in everything.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music at another church i attend multiple churchs although i attend two regularly one has services in the morning and one has services in the evening so the two do nt really clash.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music its been two years since i did that and i was worried on how i would go.All i can say is that it went really well and because i stepped out in Faith the Lord really blessed the morning to the congregation.The difference is knowing that i serve the Lord with the gifts he has given me but my heart has to be right and when i do it in his way it builds up the body and it brings glory to him.May the Lord continue to show you what he wants you to do even though others may not understand your reasons i just want you to know that you do nt have to pull away completely just work within the boundarys that the Lord gives you and do nt feel pressured by others expectations to do anything that feel uncomfortable.Be involved just as you feel lead by the holy spirit even if it is in a very minor way take small steps.regards brentnz

If we can not within these structures find moral guidance from the law of love and moral stability from faith in God as he comes to us in Christ, not even the most rapturous experience of joy and peace through the lifting of the burden of sin will be sufficient.

Faith working through love, even within the restricted limits of the Christian community, challenged forcefully the natural impulse to possess and to retain possession of worldly goods.

7 — Each individual potentially understands their need for a Savior and decides whether to accept His grace (through their sincere FAITH in Christ; being born again)» 8 — Individual with sincere faith experiences relationship / communion with God, thereby growing in faith and love in their Creator and Savior, and growing more holy as God works within the person (sanctificatFAITH in Christ; being born again)» 8 — Individual with sincere faith experiences relationship / communion with God, thereby growing in faith and love in their Creator and Savior, and growing more holy as God works within the person (sanctificatfaith experiences relationship / communion with God, thereby growing in faith and love in their Creator and Savior, and growing more holy as God works within the person (sanctificatfaith and love in their Creator and Savior, and growing more holy as God works within the person (sanctification).

Biblical faith, on the contrary, is centered in the existence and activity of a deity who is infinite in wisdom, power, and love, but who nevertheless cares personally for each of us, a God whom we can approach in prayer and from whom we can receive help and strength, a God who is always acting within the human scene and is known to us by his acts.

When we speak of the double efficacy of the risen Christ as ideal and as objective datum for present becoming, we might do better to speak of a «triple efficacy» of the love of Christ, for that faith, love, and communion with God which are Christ's find innumerable, if only partial, echoes in the lives of individual believers and in that system of relationships which they comprise within the world.

Of course, the love through which faith works must still continue to accept others and to act in their interests within society and culture as presently constituted.

In order for theological education to overcome its self - contradictions and recover unity it needs to repent its placing ultimate love and loyalty in these proximate purposes and convert to placing all its proximate goals within the context of faith in the One beyond the many.

My thesis is that the many visions of perfection are more or less the same or at least analogical, and therefore if each Faith keeps its ethics of law dynamic within the framework of and in tension with its own transcendent vision of perfection, the different religious and secular Faiths can have a fruitful dialogue at depth on the nature of human alienation which makes love impossible and for updating our various approaches to personal and public law with greater realism with insights from each other.

If each Faith keeps its ethics of law dynamic within the framework of and in tension with its own transcendent vision of perfection, the different religious and secular Faiths can have a fruitful dialogue on the nature of human alienation which makes love impossible and for updating our various approaches to personal and public law with greater realism with insights from each other.

the community of holiness is the community within which the Christian character is both nurtured and expressed by the practice of distinctly Christian virtues — faith, hope and love» (71).

But all of this happens within the community: the love is revealed there; the Spirit is given there; the faith and hope are to be found there.

The graceful and loving presence of Christ may well be active within the kinds of events just reported, but both faith in Christ and appreciation of the abundant fertility of Eros resist the facile equation of specific parish events with the activity of Christ.

Through three decades of absenting himself from the Catholic faith, Hendra has maintained his indispensable relationship with the cloistered monk («the rock of my soul»), and in a middle - aged crisis in which Hendra can feel within himself nothing but «sheer unending malice» it is Father Joe who pulls him through («I seem incapable of love, Father Joe.»

«Dating can be exhausting if it doesn't lead to love, and as a single guy raised within the Jewish faith, I personally value all the ways you can make quality connections with people.

Christian Mingle must let LGBT singles use dating site after losing court battle — God - loving gay singles have won the right to mingle on the world's most popular Christian dating site — and every other faith - based... treat every person within the jurisdiction as free and equal regardless of sex, race, religion, marital...

Michael Egan, the CEO of Spark Networks said: «We are pleased to incorporate another wonderful community of churches that can utilize the tools we offer to help single Christians find lasting love and fulfilling relationships within their faith spectrum.

God - loving gay singles have won the right to mingle on the world's most popular Christian dating site — and every other faith - based... treat every person within the jurisdiction as free and equal regardless of sex, race, religion, marital...

A Place for Us is set within a Muslim American family and their community, and explores many universal themes defining those important relationships: love and loss, familial and cultural expectations, honor and betrayal, faith and tradition.

With titles like Veil of Faith, Veil of Love's Pleasure and Veil of Logic, Hirst makes it clear that each work tackles a vast, complex, overarching presence within the human existence; presences which many choose to believe provide clarity, but which really continuously baffle and bewilder.

The first time Quinn's work has been exhibited in India, this career defining show runs throughout the summer while such monumental works as Leap of Faith, The Force of Nature II and Love are displayed to the public within the grounds of the Indiabulls headquarters in Mumbai as part of its commitment to supporting art and cultural programmes locally and internationally.