Sentences with phrase «faithful life»

Here practice refers not to the acquisition and application of a technical skill, but to a complex pattern of interaction by which people elaborate structures and theories of faithful life over time.

Even beyond the sexuality conversation, it's encouraging for me to observe those who lead faithful lives — to learn from their examples, both positive and negative.

We will now proceed to explore what faithful living means with regard to possessions and the use of money.

(8) Yet rarely has the church addressed this aspect of culture in a sustained and balanced way that helps its adherents live faithful lives within this particular culture.

Interpretation and Obediance: From Faithful Reading to Faithful Living by Walter Brueggeman Fortress, 324 pages, $ 14.95 The author is a much - published Old Testament scholar at Columbia Seminary in Atlanta, and he here collects some of his commentaries and exhortations that intend to be faithful to the title.

God uses rewards to encourage faithful living.

If members are to learn faithful living from one another, they have to know and trust others enough to confide in one another.

When Christians express their learning about faith through ministry, they can learn faithful living from one another.

May the Holy Spirit grant us this holy dying and faithful living as we travel the road to which we are called.

Whether or not you share my admiration of the orthodox doctrine, we have to recognize that it represents an interpretation of God and Jesus which not only has had the allegiance of the vast majority of Christians in the history of the Church, but which also has a proven track record as a doctrine which can help people to lead faithful lives following the teaching and example of the Christ.

I knew he believed in Jesus (and he actually lived a more faithful life than I did).

But can the ol' ball coach and the Florida faithful live happily ever after?

As this inheritance is almost always associated with obedience or a life of faithful living, people who think that our inheritance is the same thing as eternal life from God will get very confused about how to receive eternal life.

I will proceed now to describe what I think are key elements of the proposed framework (Recall that it is designed to help us respond to the question, «What sorts and sources of knowing should we consider compelling as we seek to live faithful lives?»)

Reward, on the other hand, is an added bonus or additional incentive God offers as a way to encourage faithful living and self - sacrificial love for others.

She is held together within «the envelope of God's grace» and therein gains the freedom to «write new scripts of faithful living.»

The faithful life of the obedient child has immeasurable worth and divine appreciation.

It is in a life of chastity under vow that this law is made strikingly visible: in its faithful living, we «reverence the holy flesh of Christ,» through which His perfect love was expressed, and work to heal the disorder in the soul and body of Man.

«The faithful lived by lawlessness, but in those years Mahound — or should one say the Archangel Gibreel?

No Hebrew person in that time (and perhaps no Israeli even today) would see a faithful life being lived alone.

At my bedside, the comic and romantic tales were stories of the cure to be found in the spontaneity of faithful life.

It might seem that there were clear choices and options for those who wanted to live a faithful life.

And (2) is it possible to accumulate or keep great wealth and also to live a faithful life?

So if one person is thinking only about the parts of the gospel that tell a person how to go to heaven when they die or receive eternal life (faith alone in Christ alone), while another person is thinking about the parts of the gospel which tell followers of Jesus how to live on this earth (discipleship, obedience, faithful living), but both persons keep using the term «gospel,» the argument quickly becomes quite messy.

In of the word of God, there is no greater incentive to faithful living than the realization that the Lord Jesus Christ may come back at any time.

When you read in the Bible about proclaiming Jesus as Lord, following Jesus, taking up your cross, eternal reward, inheriting the Kingdom, life in the Spirit, faithful living, and on and on and on, the author who wrote that text was primarily thinking of how we should live as followers of Jesus so that we can experience the life God meant for us to live.

Ironically, this sense of a downward spiral into pastoral mediocrity has been occurring at a time when laypeople are expressing interest in the spiritual life at a new level, and are searching for ways to connect their yearnings with a way of faithful living.

«Received through faithful living» ie religion man doing the work of faithful living, not the indwelling Spirit do the work.

I do find that this blog is focused too much on definition and not on what it means to live a faithful life.

What sorts and sources of knowing should we consider compelling as we seek to live faithful lives; in other words, Where do we need to look to learn what we need to know so that we may do what we ought to do?

Indeed I often pray the Offertory prayer in my own private devotions before the Blessed Sacrament: (Suscipe Sancte Pater...) «Accept O Holy Father Almighty and Eternal God, this holy and unblemished victim which I thy unworthy servant offered unto Thee, my living and true God for my own innumerable sins, offences and negligence and for all here present and for all the faithful living and dead that it may profit me and them for salvation to eternal life».

But in the meantime the faithful live in the tension between the change that has already come into being through their dying to the life of sin and the continuing power of sin.

What is involved in faithful living is immensely important, but it is not settled by appeal to moral principles.

By thus being united with Jesus, the faithful live in confidence that they will rise with him and share in his glory.

This doesn't mean that there is no place in the faithful life for fun or recreation or simply goofing off, or for careful financial planning, or for working hard to attain personal goals.

«How can anyone doubt the consensus of the Church, developed in the early years of the faith from the Biblical witness, confirmed in the teachings of scholars and saints through the centuries, and tested and proven in the living out of millions of faithful lives?»

Our conclusion stands: we must replace the concept of salvation from sin in this life, and its negative and inadequate emphasis on avoidance, with the idea of living a faithful life.

Practical theology, emerging out of life in a faith community, is a doxological mode of reflection that, by placing itself within the context of the church's service to God, attempts to facilitate the goal of a faithful life in the present on behalf of God's future.

Let me state it more clearly: I believe that not even a commitment to obedience and faithful living is required.

But not in the past era of Caesar and Herod, nor in the distant eons of the ages of ages to come, but right now in faith — now in the preaching, baptism, eucharist and faithful life in the community of the Spirit.

If in the course of an ordinary day we are not struck in the face or accosted by beggars or taken to court or hit up for a loan, there are plenty of other demands on our time for faithful living!

7he worshiping congregation is indispensable to the life of faith, but faithful life in the world is equally indispensable.