Sentences with phrase «faith effort for»

«There is a very strong, very committed, good - faith effort for all three parties to work 24/7 on this and to try and reach an agreement,» Freeland told reporters after talks with Lighthizer.»

Not exact matches

While companies would still have to make good faith efforts to classify their products correctly, mistakes or disagreements in classification would no longer have tax consequences, removing the fears of audits and eliminating the need for CITT cases on the proper way to classify a trampoline enclosure.

While both sides should have their own attorney, if you're the one asking for the prenup, Gilden suggests paying for your spouse's attorney as a good - faith effort.

No, although I've voted Democratic in every election since 1976 — except for primaries in Texas where there's no point in voting Democratic — I can say that every candidate I've ever seen has made some effort to look like a man of faith.

Make an honest, sincere effort to find God and plead for help to have faith in Christ and you will know the truth.

There are many of us who are weaker than we realize, and in an effort to be heard and enjoy some personal accolades as a leader of the faith, are; but only to look foolish for narrow - mindedness, cultural irrelevance, or logically flawed expressions of theology.

His effort to address the Jewish - Christian division, for instance, reduces the split to a tragic historical misunderstanding and blurs the theological differences between the two faiths.

That the majority of the relatively few men coming forward for priesthood now want to be faithful to the magisterium is likely due in large part to the enormous efforts of John Paul II and Benedict XVI to teach the «full faith», the «full content of the life of Christ».

«His efforts as a senator demonstrate his relentless commitment to freedom of faith for all people around the world.»

Hall said political leaders have been «in terror of the gun lobby,» but now they need to know that faith communities such as his are willing to stand behind efforts to push for gun control.

Jesus Christ is the «Elect One,» not by some effort of human nature alone, for that would not be real election, but by God's eternal purpose which «from the beginning of the world» — and long before it, too, if we may so speak — has determined that «in the fullness of the times» there shall be just such an actualization of the potential God - Man relationship as Christian faith discerns in Christ our Lord.

Troy Jackson is the interim executive director of the AMOS Project, a faith - based organizing effort in Cincinnati fighting for racial justice.

The Church, and faith, do not depend for their survival on human efforts alone.

I found my faith again in the margins — through the Gay Christian Network, for example, and among fellow doubters and dreamers who limp from their wrestling with God — and I'll be amplifying and supporting these efforts even more as they face potential new threats under this administration.

For Christian ethics, the effort is to determine how certain moral behavior is consistent with, or even perhaps required by, the tenets of Christian faith.

Hence, for me the great priority lies not in strategies, programs and campaigns to convert Jews, but in a major Christian educational effort to help church members recover the roots of their faith in Judaism.

The appearance of the Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry agreement of the World Council of Churches» Faith and Order Commission, the theological consensus statement of the Consultation on Church Union (COCU), and the proliferation of local ecumenical efforts in countless places offer new possibilities for effective unity.

When explaining what motivated his design for the new Coventry Cathedral after World War II, the architect Basil Spence called his effort an «act of Faith».25 What are needed now are «acts of Faith» on behalf of the environment.

To me it appears to be a sub-human one, for it is based on the notion that human enquiry about the implications of what is proposed in faith, as well as the honest effort to see what is really being asserted, is to be replaced by little more than pious credulity.

At a deeper level, as people are conditioned to a consumer outlook, the church finds itself under challenge to present the Christian faith in a way that meshes with people's desire for answers, and in a more pernicious way for a faith «product», that will meet their needs with a minimum of effort and disruption.

By extension every good deed, every struggle for justice and deliverance from oppression, every effort to care for and show concern about those who are in need, will be not merely a reflection of the divine mercy and righteousness but also an instrument for the bringing about of just such shalom or «abundance of life» for God's human children, So one might go on, almost without ceasing, to show that response in faith to the action of God in this vivid moment has its implications and applications for the whole range of human life and experience.

This effort has been called by some of his admirers the most prodigious apologia for the Christian faith ever written by an American theologian.

With the support of the American Center for Law and Justice, as well as other Christian watchdog organizations, efforts to ensure Christians are legally able to practice their faith in Russia continue.

Thus it is that over decades of Faith publications, symposia and youth catechesis we have and continue to put an extremely unfashionable effort into updating the traditional arguments for the distinction of matter and spirit, body and soul.

Sandro Magister points out that Pope Benedict appointed, as his own replacement at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Archbishop William J. Levada, one of the four bishops responsible for the effort against sexual abuse committed by priests in the United States.

There have been times of deep desperation in my life when God has come through for me in remarkable ways, and other times when it's been a long, grueling, agonizing wait — when just mustering faith has taken all the effort I can possibly give.

Rudoif Bultmann, often treated as within the neo-orthodox school but whom I prefer to see as a bridge figure between neo-orthodoxy and later developments in contemporary theology, adopted existentialism in his effort to render the Christian faith intelligible for today.

The adaptation of Christianity to the an - thropocentric faith appeared in other ways: in the attenuation of the conviction of sin and of the necessity of rebirth, in the substitution of the human claim to immortality for the Christian hope and fear of an after - life, in the glorification of religious heroes, and in the efforts of religious men and societies to become saviors.

Biblical scholars have recently turned to the social sciences for clearer insights into the social forces that molded faith communities in Scripture, all in an effort to sharpen the reading and interpretation of the Bible.

On the other hand the effort to translate Christian faith into a socially useful force entails the suppression and transformation of some vital elements in it, just as the effort to make it serviceable to individualistic success in the era of early capitalism entailed the deformation of the Reformation into the sort of thing that Tawney has described for us.

Strider, who helped spearhead Democratic faith outreach in 2006 and 2008 - when he directed that work for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign - said the party put substantially fewer resources and effort into faith - based strategy work this year than in any election since 2004.

There are two factors in it the unifying grace of the Spirit and the humble efforts of believers, who do not seek their own, but are united in faith, in adoration, and in love and service of Christ for the sake of the world.

Virtue without effort and money for free (sort of reminds me of a Dire Straits song) are two things I have heard promised lately; if I have enough «faith».

This is such a huge subject that I must beg indulgence, therefore, if I give my space to but a small fraction of the historic faith — namely its main emphases on God, Christ, the Church, and eternal life — and consider only these in our modem context, in the effort to discover what values they may have for men and women who are tossed about in an unsettled world, with an uncertain future, and doomed — almost certainly it seems — to a doubtful truce of arms, at worst to a war which threatens to annihilate man as we have known him and in any event to leave us a bare existence such as we can eke out on a totally devastated planet.

Historian David Bebbington suggests a respected paradigm for those who identify as an evangelical: a transformed life through following Jesus, faith demonstrated through missionary and social reform efforts, a regard for the Bible as ultimate authority, and a central focus on the sacrificial death of Jesus.

This is precisely what Pope Benedict in Porta Fidei is alluding to when he asks for efforts to strengthen faith and the work of proclaiming the Gospel.

The effort we are prepared to put into grasping Newman's thought process will help to introduce us to the three important ingredients of our faith: worship, devotion and interrelated dogmas, which must be joined in our minds because together they provide the strong foundation for our faith.

In pursuing these avenues I have found much inspiration in the thought of process theologians, who have made a conscious effort to interpret Christian faith for our time in terms that appropriate the insights of science.

Being a good person takes too much effort for you, so you hide your worthlessness behind your patina of faith.

Yet strange as it seems, though a new religious expression of some rather old verities has sprung up in our midst, no Christian theologian of any real merit has made any significant effort to make of football — and the wisdom it seeks to transmit — a metaphor for the faith.

The effort to display Roman mastery over the nascent Christian faith by covering up its holy spot had, in fact, marked it for future veneration.

Zoll: In your view, is there any value for faith groups to pursuing religious exemptions as a stand - alone effort — meaning independent from defending marriage?

Because we know of God's justice and justification by faith, we can differentiate between God's justice and human efforts for social and political justice.

Any effort to restate the insights of the Christian faith within a philosophical framework is bound to awaken protest among many Protestant thinkers for the reason that Protestant theologians have tended to dissociate faith from any consciously conceived rational structure.

It also succeeds in lifting up the importance of social justice in Christian faith (for example, one clip shows El Salvadorans and North Americans working on a Habitat for Humanity effort).

It's interesting that all this effort is being put into freedom of religion for one faith while a equal amount of effort is put into removing any sign of religion for the dominate religion in this country

The sustaining theological motive for this effort is reflected by H, Richard Niebuhr in his discussion of the historic debate on the relationship of faith and culture:

What is again needed today — and remember that I am attempting to describe a position which will regard Christianity as a living, growing tradition, continuous with its past yet open to the present, ready for critical investigation and concerned to restate the faith for those who live in our own day — is precisely this fearless attitude about the faith, this honest effort at enquiry, and this constant willingness to relate the gospel to the changed world of a new age.

Crucially important to winning support for these reforms has been a grass - roots group on «faith and learning» which meets regularly to reflect on the college's religious character and to support efforts to strengthen it.

Although justice and peace are finally God's, our joint efforts, together with those of other faith communities, will help bring the kingdom of God for which we hope and long.