Sentences with phrase «faith efforts of»

Divorce mediation is a process that requires the good faith efforts of both spouses.

i think that the bad faith efforts of this plaintiff definitely gave impetus to the judge to look for ways to rule the way he did, but the question this leads us to is, would a clueless plaintiff have had more success?

Adrian Jovanovic, president of the Committee to Save Cooper Union, said his group was encouraged by what he called the good - faith efforts of the interim president, William Mea, to fix the college's finances.

«Despite the good faith efforts of both the House and Senate, a gaming bill will not pass the Legislature this session,» they said.

So rather than wait due to concern about ownership issues, it is likely much safer for the animals and the shelter's reputation to provide vaccination in a good - faith effort of protecting the animals entering care.

Not exact matches

The discount rewards the behavior of people who don't smoke and those making a good faith effort to quit.

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.

A Justice Department official said Monday that the government made a «good faith» effort to resolve the harm to competition while allowing significant parts of the deal to move forward.

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.

On the subject of religion, Porter points out that the time, effort and currency invested in the practice of faith is simply the price of receiving «a mixture of insurance and social services.»

I am sorry there are people that have no faith in God, but I am more saddened by the efforts of ALL in this discussion to cast words of hate on others in some personal attempt at achieving self - worth at the expense of someone else's belief (or non-belief).

CNN: As sex trade increases around conventions, faith - based groups step up efforts It's 10 p.m. in Charlotte's trendy NoDa district, and a handful of women and one man have hunkered down over French press coffee and pastries.

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.

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.»

so please try to be civil and not slam doors in the face of people that put a lot of love and faith in their efforts to share good news in this world of increasing bad news.

Among the many blessings resulting from this cooperative effort, we note especially our common affirmation of the most central truths of Christian faith, including justification by faith, in the 1997 statement, «The Gift of Salvation.»

There WAS a successful grassroots effort on the part of private citizens who happen to be of the LDS (MORMON) faith who fanned out in their communities all over California in an effort to Pass Prop 8.

This distinction points to what is perhaps the major flaw in Dreher's otherwise winsome effort: the lack of emphasis on creation as a normative order to which everyone, irrespective of faith, is subject.

I am angry about all the years of effort, «faith», «praying», and all that religious madness that I WASTED because religion is bullshlt.

The history of modernity in the West is in many ways nothing more than the effort to destroy medieval faith.

Communities of faith are not bereft of the Spirit, and therefore of the possibility of renewal through the efforts of men and women who dare to act in the hope that the Church can contribute more to our public life than merely another interest group.

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.

Despite such efforts to instill doubt in voters, a recent CNN / ORC International poll showed that a candidate's Mormon faith made no difference to 80 % of Americans, and that 51 % believed Mormonism was a Christian religion.

These guys lived their faith in real, tactical, practical ways that led millions of people closer to Jesus, in big efforts and small acts of love.

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.

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».

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.

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

There was too much effort to protect a special sphere in which Christians could maintain their faith while surrendering the dominant domains of thought to science.

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.

The development in our souls of supernatural life (based on the natural spiritualization of the world through the efforts of mankind): this in the last resort is the field where the operative power of faith is positively and without any known limits exercized.

Louder than Words encourages and motivates those stuck in a rut of tepid or untapped faith to take the plunge, make the effort and leaving false humility behind, to aim high.

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.

Despite the efforts of the Modern Church People's Union and «Sea of Faith» conferences and other theologically radical groups, many questioning followers of Jesus have drifted away from church life, or at least from participation in the church's decision - making forums, thus allowing undue influence to more traditional positions.

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.

We seek true ecumenism, and its foundation is full faith, deep charity and tremendous personal, spiritual effort to live the integrity of Christ in morals, as well as in faith.

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.

The current interest in practical theology may be seen as a return to the earlier effort to develop a comprehensive, integrated understanding of the life of faith in contemporary society.

The act of being missionary against faith has often involved as much zealotry as has the effort to spread belief.

Rather, it follows the flawed efforts of terrified people who, out of faith and love, willingly «wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places» (Eph.

The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) encourages increased understanding and reconciliation between those of different faiths and backgrounds, and it laments efforts that work against a just and peaceful society.

The letter from the Council (which consists of forty representatives of the region's Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, mainline Protestant, and Jewish communities) warned that the SBC's efforts, «however well - intentioned,» might well «disrupt the pattern of peaceful interfaith relations in our community and unwittingly abet the designs of those who seek to provoke hate crimes by fomenting faith - based prejudice.»

To the extent that we Christians simply accept the premises of suburban culture, we compromise both the substance of our faith and the effectiveness of our evangelical efforts.

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...

Because in this country, the vast majority of the believing public, and the ones making the most effort to turn their faith into the law of the land, are Christians.

When asked what part his faith plays in his efforts, Freire replied, «Without my faith, I could not do this type of work.

To the extent that we Christians simply accept the premises of suburban culture, we compromise both the substance of our faith and the effectiveness of our evangelical effort.

Eric — Belief requires faith which takes quite a bit of effort, actually.