Sentences with phrase «faith effort with»

«I think North Carolina has been making a good faith effort with some actual measurable results,» said Horn.

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It also gives equity fundraising portals a five - year grace period to make a good - faith effort to comply with all new requirements.

Michael Ferro may want his shareholders to have faith in his vision of returning Tribune Publishing to some kind of halcyon time when newspapers ruled the media world and spun off millions in cash flow with virtually no effort.

Assuming a project is well - intentioned making a good faith effort to be compliant with the law, she said:

«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.»

«We partner with charitable and faith - based groups in the communities,» Mills said about FEMA's recovery efforts.

He was also familiar with the Una Sancta movement, an effort to overcome confessional divisions through the renewal of faith among both German Protestants and Catholics, to establish «fraternity in Christ across all barriers.»

While some evangelicals agree with Trump's efforts to course - correct on behalf of persecuted brothers and sisters, many others worry about the ramifications of privileging Christians above other faiths.

Mitt Romney's team invited reporters to go to church with him last Sunday, and The New York Times is reporting that the upcoming Republican presidential convention will showcase Romney's faith in an effort to humanize him.

They, with great effort and sacrifice and going completely against the tide of the times, raised us in the Catholic Faith with conviction and joy in a radically secularising Netherlands.

The church also convened an international conference in Crete, but as Patriarch Bartholomew says, «our efforts will be meaningless if they remain fragmented».19 The demands of the world call upon Christians not only to act ecumenically but together with all people of faith and good will.

During this Year of Faith the texts of the Council and Catechism will be central to our efforts as Catholics to rediscover and share with others the gift of Faith entrusted to the Church.

These efforts have culminated with his forthcoming study, Families and Faith: How Religion is Passed Down across Generations (Oxford University Press).

So, in an effort to help you learn how to walk by faith, how to take up the shield of faith, how to allow God to be your bodyguard, I want to conclude this morning with a short discussion on how to live by faith.

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.

In an effort to divert attention from all the money that wasn't being given to faith - based groups, we had come up with the idea of highlighting the amount of money now «available» to faith - based organizations...

What a fine tragedy it would be if those with the most Christian and promising option proved unable to make good their case against many objections so that the shift away from classical faith continued despite their work and effort.

Those atheist churches only dedicate their time and effort with disbelieving in the Christian faith.

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.

Those with faith have faith and they should drop any further effort to rationalize the irrational.

In an effort to press their faith into the crannies of ordinary life, Puritans of old and new England wrote books on everyday activities with titles like Husbandry Spiritualized and Navigation Spiritualized, Trading Spiritualized and Weaving Spiritualized.

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.

In an effort to get him to deny his Christian faith, they stood him on a table, tied his arms behind his back with a rope hanging from the ceiling, and then kicked the table away.

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.

As the old models of biblical study break down, Gary - along with his former colleague at Harvard, Jon Levenson - has been at the forefront of efforts to rethink the relations between the historical - critical project and the living realities of contemporary Christian and Jewish faith.

It took a real effort on my part to keep calling myself to the truths of my faith, which says that however he was behaving, in God's eyes he was just as precious as my little girl, and that's a hard thing to accept when you're having to deal with the loss of somebody that's so dear to you.

If any Christians are currently promoting a «gnostic split of soul and body,» it is those on the left who seem satisfied with social programs that feed the body but starve the soul and, even worse, turn a blind eye to growing efforts by the government to discriminate against faith - based charities that are serious about ministering to the whole person.

New texts on systematic theologies, along with new dictionaries, encyclopedias and biblical commentaries, are significant signs of efforts at retrieving the faith and «getting it all together.»

It is a good - faith effort on the part of some Roman Catholics and some Evangelicals to say, with as much clarity as possible, how they understand God's gracious gift of salvation on the basis of the Word of God.

With reason relativised, people are tempted to attain reality through a felt experience, a leap of faith, an effort of will, or simple scepticism.

After two weeks of interviews with St. Louis faith leaders and advocates, and several days on the ground moving between mobilizing efforts in Ferguson and dialogues with evangelical faith leaders, I see the same dynamic at work here.

What is notable about them is that they lead us to acknowledge that scientific work is energized throughout by a faith or trust that truth is worth pursuing, by a faith that it is worthwhile joining with others in an effort to uncover the facts about the world, and by the belief that it is wrong to deviate from a method that brings us to the truth.

Such an effort is a necessary component of any sort of engagement of theology with those who live outside the context of the faith community.

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.

Now in his sixties, Konchalski has held firm to his no - frills faith, and equally resisted all efforts to expand his business or update it with high - tech communications.

It is true that such efforts met with stout opposition from the conservative votaries of the faith.

Yet its most pathetic pages deal with the efforts that private Americans make to develop private faiths.

Seeking to reform the Affordable Care Act is not a betrayal of populism but an effort to keep faith with the particular populist coalition Trump assembled, with which the law is very unpopular.

Such religion defends the status quo at all costs, identifies faith in God with staunch conservatism, and associates «civilized» life with stony immobility in the face of revisionist efforts.

Whilst missionary efforts met with considerable success in the Americas, Australasia and Sub-Saharan Africa, Christianity, despite considerable support in the Philippines and South Korea, remains very much a minority religion in most Asian and North African countries, where the great faiths of Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam have been long established.

Again and again we have remarked that some of the chronic evil seemingly inseparably associated with mankind has displayed several of its colossal dimensions among peoples who have called themselves Christian, but that repeatedly efforts to counter this evil, some of them at least partly successful, have been put forth by men and women inspired and sustained by Christian faith.

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.

Those of us who have made the effort to engage Mormons in friendly and sustained give - and - take conversations have come to see them as good citizens whose life of faith often exhibits qualities that are worthy of the Christian label, even as we continue to engage in friendly arguments with them about crucial theological issues.

The repeated efforts of Christian thinkers to avoid the association of faith with that authoritarianism have been only partly successful.

Relationships with those of other faiths should not be items added on to the Christian agenda but ought to be at the heart of much of our mission efforts.

So when Paul urged the Ephesian church to «make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace,» he followed this with an acknowledgement of the Church's diversity, in which there are «apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers... so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.»

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.

If you don't think, and if you don't defend the faith with effort, intelligence, love, and patience, you will be led into disaster by the wolves who are right now leading the world into religious conflicts for their satanic ends.

As part of the effort, the federal government will lead a new partnership with charitable organizations, faith - based organizations, the private sector and local, state and tribal governments to reduce food loss and waste in order to improve overall food security and conserve our nation's natural resources.

According to the consent decree, «Quinnipiac will make a good faith effort to promote women's rugby as a varsity sport and to encourage other NCAA Division I schools to sponsor women's rugby as a varsity sport with the goal of establishing a Division I varsity women's rugby athletic conference and a NCAA varsity women's rugby national championship.»