I'm not saying it isn't possible, but it's always awkward for me to listen as people report these conversations... There have been beautiful and
faithful people who have said God tells them what to get at the grocery store, whom to date, and what to wear.
Please, please, please consider the damage your kind of thinking brings to
faithful people who Only.
We know good and
faithful people who suffer so much and never receive a miracle.
Very
faithful people who really loved the Lord but who were convinced that a woman could not be in a role of leadership.
But
those faithful persons who have left us with the Genesis stories traveled on a completely different road.
When, in reality, it's His truth about the outcome He is teaching and what directions if taken by an outlaw (aka criminal mentality) or
a faithful person who respects His law.
He defines the Church as Christ «existing as a commentary» and he understood it to be «a community and fellowship of
faithful persons who live according to the principle of vicarious actions, i.e., an active «being for one another».
I'm made up of many layers, that can only be peeled back via investment in time and interaction, a respectful, polite, self - controlled, giving, and
faithful person who is very focus and optimistic.
Not exact matches
Develop relationships with the
people on the ground;
who knows the friends and professional partnerships you make now may just become long serving and
faithful customers in the future!
I don't see Christians as more honest, more
faithful in marriage, less violent, more giving, more polite, or more anything than the millions of
people who are indifferent to religion and
who only go to a church if there is a wedding or a funeral.
America is not inherently Christian, nor is Christianity inherently American — it might surprise many
people, but there are
faithful Christians around the world and across the centuries
who had nothing to do with our modern style of Christmas celebration.
I know this will draw criticism, but I say if it weren't for all the
faithful people of all good religions doing good acts, helping the poor, clothing drives, and on and on, this world would be in a lot worse shape than if just your average aetheist were in charge of helping those
who suffer.
You hit the nail squarely on the head for indeed so, biblical truths are «written on our heart» by way of the Presence of Christ's Indwelt Spirit
Who is ever
faithful to «guide you into all truth» and «show (us) things to come» (John 16:13) but the problem is (as is woefully evident with this Article \ s Author), too many
people (believers) choose to eschew or disregard «sound doctrine» (2 Timothy 4:3) promulgating John 14:17 ignorance of the Doctrine of The Holy Spirit whose inevitable product is a darkened understanding (such as is evidenced by the Article's Author --RRB-.
This, I'm told, is the kind of humor that
people who watch Stephen Colbert,
who is a self - identified
faithful member of a Church that teaches that homosexual inclinations are intrinsically disordered and that sodomy is a mortal sin, relish.
People who are dying are scared and the process of dying can shake the faith of even the most
faithful.
They are the
people who remain
faithful to God.
Further, Steve has helpers (also invisible, so don't ask to see them)
who jet around saving
people and guarding the
faithful.
One small example of this in our neighborhood is the urban farm one of my friends and mentors started to provide jobs to «returning citizens»: It required the city to help give away land and clear vacant property and some startup capital from a local farming company, but it is based on the church's understanding of the needs of the
people and explicitly tied to the concept that
faithful believers can help disciple and encourage
people who have been incarcerated for harming others, walking them through the transformative process.
I admire the character of
people like Romney and Obama,
who seem to have been
faithful to their wives.
The
faithful Mormons are offended because they think Christians are calling them evil
people, although many of us are not, while those of us
who went to seminary and suffered through a course on systematic theology keep stressing that there is actually a precise definition of «Christian» and that Mormons differ from that definition in a very few important ways.
But they are in fact a set of principles offered to
faithful lay
people in the political sphere
who can bring their experience to bear on an honest attempt to apply them.
Right, just because it's in the bible and the
people who commited some of those acts were not only never punished but still considered Gods
faithful servants, shouln't be any sort of quide on what the bible allows.
It must be said to the
people of Oberammergau that this danger has become a reality, and that the play as it is now performed is not merely worthless but positively harmful to the curious and the
faithful who journey to see it.
I now believe it does a tremendous disservice to honorable
people who are
faithful believers to place on them the additional burden of guilt, shame and magnified suffering that comes from the kind of doctrine that promotes (sells) prayer as a magic talisman which will somehow change God's mind, alter physical circumstance, and fix intractable problems — if only the one praying has enough faith or asks in the right way or lives a holy enough life or professes Jesus enough or waits patiently or never gives up or any of a hundred different gotchas that can be called upon to justify the lack of an affirmative answer.
There are some of us
who work hard to take care of our families while also accepting the responsibility of serving God's
people through the ministry of the Word and in the Sacraments — don't discount the number of
faithful men and women
who make this sacrifice — willingly and without thanks.
Now, we certainly have two or more
people gathered together, and they have asked in Jesus» name, and we have not one but a million
faithful believers
who, by definition, have faith and believe.
Now, we certainly have two or more
people gathered together (Jesus liked the two or more thing), and they have asked in Jesus» name, and we have not one but a million
faithful believers
who, by definition, have faith and believe.
He is one of the messengers that God always provides to wake us up and help prepare the way His words may bring to mind
people in our own lives
who have been such
faithful harbingers of truth, those
who have smoothed the way for us, leveling the rough places through which we must walk, even as they challenge us to seek to be the
people God calls us to be.
They were that part of the
people of Israel which had power through wealth and influence but which was rejected, disdained, and hated by those
who were
faithful.
At the same time an effective support network for those
who wish to live a chaste life in spite of homosexual temptations is necessary lest
faithful people are left alienated and feeling separated from the Church.
So how can we strive to successfully accomplish being a
faithful steward of the things and
people who have been allotted to us?
Our task, as those
who would be
faithful preachers of the Word of God, is to bring to our
people the Lord Jesus Christ, so that they may share in his «grace and truth.»
For the Ibadis, faith includes action; the
person who commits a major sin is still a monotheist, but not
faithful.
Braun believed that many of those
who attended church did so out of the belief that
faithful churchmanship helped them to become acceptable
people.
I have no doubt that many of the
people who opposed abolition, interracial marriage, protection of indigenous
people, black civil rights, women's suffrage, etc. believed wholeheartedly that God was on their side and they were simply being
faithful to God's Word.
More important, as I have written, «In trying to reach a consensus of the
faithful, the key to bringing
persons together is in sharing opinions, ideas, dreams, hopes, doubts, feelings of despair or joy, and those normal human expressions that make us
who we are.»
I was not referencing this scripture to point out the penalty for those
who attempt to convert God's
people, I used it to point out that the
faithful are required to «not listen» making my point.
On the contrary, His highest ambition, as a Jew
who is
faithful to the law, standing in the tradition of His
people, is to fulfil the Torah — even its smallest details: the jot and the tittle; the smallest punctuation mark and the smallest letter.
funny how
people who arnt
faithful to christ come on here and pretend to be christian while dencouning
people and what they believe..
The deciding factor on
who should lead the flock should be how decent and
faithful that
person is, regardless of their gender.
They are the
persons who, in simplicity of spirit, in comforted sorrow, in humility, in yearning aspiration after goodness, in compassion for others, in purity of heart, in peace - making, and in
faithful devotion even to the point of persecution, seek after God and his kingdom.
A priest
who is accused of even one incident» even if it was no more than a misunderstood hug, and even if that was twenty or thirty years ago» and has given his life in
faithful service to the
people of God ever since, is rudely thrown out, not because he poses a credible threat to anyone but because he is a convenient scapegoat for bishops
who, after years of laxity, now want to look tough.
All these were
faithful, non-compromising
people of faith in deeply secular pluralistic environments
who 1) had integrity in their convictions; 2) genuinely loved, listened to and served those
who did not share their convictions; and 3) consistently did both at the same time.
I love to hear and admire the testimony of an elderly
person who was saved early in life and was
faithful to God all the years of their long life, never mentioning a doubt one, and living the Christian life to the best of their ability.
It is incumbent on those of us
who are in position to influence the thinking of
faithful people to make clear that the neo-liberal economic thought that informs most current top - down development, riding roughshod over communities, and reshaping the lives and thinking of hundreds of millions of
people, is based on assumptions that are antithetical to ours.
A true pastor - teacher is one
who knows the primary way of feeding and caring for his flock is through
faithful and systematic teaching of Scripture, while at the same time, the teaching of Scripture is not an end in itself which is solely an academic pursuit, but is for the purpose of loving and caring for other
people.
All we know about «The Enemy» comes from
people who have an agenda for there to be an enemy to rally the
faithful.
Even if in traditional thinking it is God
who sends
people to hell, God's
faithful have been tempted to anticipate God's judgement!
Because we believe in divine presence, power, and authority, we know that we should plan our way, making wise, informed decisions about every aspect of life, including voting, but we must also conduct ourselves like those
who believe that their God is
faithful and true to his promises for his
people and his plans to renew the world.
Each one
who knows himself... as called to a work which he has not done, each one
who has not fulfilled a task which he knows to be his own, each
who did not remain
faithful to his vocation which he had become certain of — each such
person knows what it means to say that «his conscience smites him.»