Sentences with phrase «faiths and love people»

We are brought up in the Church to accept other faiths and love people equally.

Not exact matches

But don't you dare go making sweeping generalizations of secular people who are kind, peace loving and law abiding... unlike some people of faith who harbor child abusers within their own confines.
I have to say that many of the posts throughout this website make me very happy that I have a church where I can worship God and celebrate His endless love with people of like faith.
The Christian faith and the other faiths that believe in a loving, peaceful God (including much of the Islamic world) have reached out into our communities to help people — helping first and preaching God's love by example.
On the same point, I know many, many people of faith who do not «force» their views on others, yet instead use their faith as their guiding principle to share love, kindness, and goodness to others.
I also hope and pray that some of these young people dedicate themselves to the truths of the faith and help guide human life into a revival of spirit and love as our Lord intended.
The moral challenge that faces many faith communities is how to accept and love people when you disapprove of their behavior.
Yes, talk mostly about family and love and life, but don't withhold elements of that persons faith that they deserve in settling their existential angst.
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.
and by that i mean the clergymen, not the author of the article, i believe in the good faith you good people have with the loss of your loved ones... god bless
It has nothing really to do with religious faith - it has to do with people's ability, in their final hours or days, to see love as way to understand their life and their relationships and find some comfort in that understanding.
«I love my church and have a lot of faith, but culturally we haven't done a good job in dealing with people who are gay when they face life challenges,» whether that be coming out, depression or struggles with suicide or illness, Fletcher said.
I am not the most religious of people, but I do believe in God, and Jesus... but many people seem to forget that God's SON sacrificied himself for our sins... in my book, a SON is part of a FAMILY... God put us on this earth to be of free will and to make our own way... Love being the biggest part of that way... we love God and we love Jesus... but we are also all part of his FAMILY... He made us all to be part of a unit that has hope and faith and love... we were meant to procreate... so what does it matter if a person who is dying does not automatically think of God, but of their loved oLove being the biggest part of that way... we love God and we love Jesus... but we are also all part of his FAMILY... He made us all to be part of a unit that has hope and faith and love... we were meant to procreate... so what does it matter if a person who is dying does not automatically think of God, but of their loved olove God and we love Jesus... but we are also all part of his FAMILY... He made us all to be part of a unit that has hope and faith and love... we were meant to procreate... so what does it matter if a person who is dying does not automatically think of God, but of their loved olove Jesus... but we are also all part of his FAMILY... He made us all to be part of a unit that has hope and faith and love... we were meant to procreate... so what does it matter if a person who is dying does not automatically think of God, but of their loved olove... we were meant to procreate... so what does it matter if a person who is dying does not automatically think of God, but of their loved ones?
Now as a Christian I follow the new testament, and so striving to be Christ like as a Christian I accept everyone for who they are, I love them and do not presume to know the right way for them to live their life, instead I simply open my arms to others and know that all people of all faiths are just fine it doesn't matter to me what you do with your life all that matters is the way that you do it... that was my understanding of christs teachings anyways
Contrary to the plati - tudes abhorred by Lamott and put forth often by people who claim to be Christian, putting faith in God does not mean letting go, it means grabbing on to the truth of God, trusting fully in Him, and acting responsively to His love which endures for us despite our undeserving nature.
Yes, we can go to social gatherings elsewhere, but for people of faith who don't want to look at the world as hopeless and destined for disaster, we wish the churches we know and love would join us and do the same.
So glad to read an account from another person who loves exploring other beliefs and faiths.
To put those signs up in the neighborhoods, where people clearly love and believe in their faith, is just asking for trouble.
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.
Let us be a group of people who want to listen in love and work out our salvation through faith together.
That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll
In those days I tried to think of myself as an atheist because I was pretty sure that the God Christians proclaimed loathed me for my sins — my laziness, my incompetence, my general lack of faith, and most of all my lack of love toward people in my life whom I knew I was supposed to love.
«The aim is to accompany young people in their journey of faithand for that, we need spirit - filled evangelists, who are really in love with God» said Curtis Martin, founder of the movement, which began in America and is now in its 20th year.
but if anyone truley had God in thier heart and had faith in the Lord... simply by folding your hands and asking God to enter your heart... (try it he will be there for you, and you will feel the joy of His love), then they would never do things like this... he obviously was not a person who loved God because No one with God in thier heart would want to do thing s like that... you HATE sin when you truely love God, No ones perfect though, even those who belive in God we all stray from our beliefs, its human nature and the devil takes advantage of this.
Then there are the Bad Attitudes of the immature in faith: I have a hard time accepting myself; I feel overwhelmed by all the responsibilities and obligations I have; My life is filled with stress and anxiety; I tend to be critical of other people; I do not want churches getting involved in political issues; I do not understand how a loving God can allow so much pain and suffering in the world.
In the graciousness of the book (something often lacking when people engage Emergent, no names but...), in its passionate for the Scriptures, in its understanding that true faith shows itself in love, in its acceptance of the many things postmodernism has going for it without capitulating to todays culture, and especially in the willingness to both take on and unite both sides, Wittmer has written something here to be commended for, and something that all believers no matter what side they lean toward would do well to read.
It wasn't the summer that brought an end to my doubt, but it was the summer I encountered a different Jesus, a Jesus who requires more from me than intellectual assent and emotional allegiance; a Jesus who associated with sinners and infuriated the religious; a Jesus who broke the rules and refused to cast the first stone; a Jesus who gravitated toward sick people and crazy people, homeless people and hopeless people; a Jesus who preferred story to exposition and metaphor to syllogism; a Jesus who answered questions with more questions, and demands for proof with demands for faith... a Jesus who healed each person differently and saved each person differently; a Jesus who had no list of beliefs to check off, no doctrinal statements to sign, no surefire way to tell who was «in» and who was «out»; a Jesus who loved after being betrayed, healed after being hurt, and forgave while being nailed to a tree; a Jesus who asked his disciples to do the same...
1) This is not a particularly hospitable place for agnostics 2) Nothing would crush my parents more than learning that their daughter has walked away from the faith 3) I have a book deal with a Christian publisher 4) I want to keep my Christian friends 5) My doubts come and go, so there's no reason to unnecessarily drag the people I love through my drama 6) If I fake it maybe I can convince myself that everything's okay
Gal 2:20 «I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me» The government takes care of needy people; does that make welfare love?
Pope Benedict again reminds us: Many people today have a limited idea of the Christian faith because they identify it with a mere system of beliefs and values rather than with the truth of a God who revealed Himself in history, anxious to communicate with human beings in a tête - a-tête, in a relationship of love with them.
i love it when people talk about religion and there faith its mind boggling how people create up what ever they want.
The real test of love as seen in the deeper moral traditions of mankind, and in the Christian faith, is the willingness of persons to commit their lives and sexual being faithfully to one another «till death do us part».29
The Ear of the Heart presents the life of a person whose character, faith and love continue, after some 50 years, to respond with self - emptying generosity to such a God - given call.
And the more people know their faith the more they will see the beauty of their faith and therefore love their faiAnd the more people know their faith the more they will see the beauty of their faith and therefore love their faiand therefore love their faith.
Having spent the last ten years wrestling through some tough questions related to faith, heaven, hell, and salvation, I really appreciate the personal way in which Bell frames the conversation, asking the very questions I was so afraid to ask all those years and proclaiming the same hope I only dared believe — that God doesn't give up on people, that he is ever - loving, ever - redeeming, ever pursuing.
Nympha smiles as her voice carries the words: «We have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God's people
If you have the gift of evangelism, you love to share your faith with other people, and you sometimes get frustrated that other's don't share your passion.
Nothing «turns into» agape, but love experienced in depth within the context of faith in God's agape becomes an occasion for gratitude, humility and the celebration which expresses the life of God's people in his world.
I love it when people like you try to present the idea that faith is a wash between spiritual believers and those without a belief in the supernatural.
After serving on the pastoral staff of one of the most progressive evangelical churches in the country, Brian and his wife Carrie took a big step of faith and returned to Dayton to launch The Mission — a new community of Christ - followers committed to loving God and loving people.
Your faith in a dead God is vain; you're apparently blind to your own disbelief and sadly cut off from repentance of it; and your prejudiced accusations and support of a policy platform that defiles the sacred fountain of life, pretending to «love» people by clothing them in chains of dependency, expose your fearful guilt.
We easily regard as the defeat and regression of the Church in modern times what is actually only the social manifestation of a state which has always existed, even in the so - called good old days, because even then people, on the average, had but little faith, hope and love of God and men.
When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith - community, we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons
As long as a person preserves his external union with the Church by fulfilling his duties, he may well himself decide in Christian freedom whether he prays better, that is to say with greater faith, hope and love at home or at a liturgical celebration.
What defines the inquiry as «theology» is its guiding goal, not the distinctive «methods» it employs (although it will be poor theology if it employs inappropriate methods), nor the distinctive subjectivity of the persons engaged in the inquiry (although it may be pretty thin theology if the inquirers are not personally «formed» by faith, hope, and love).
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.
For these reasons and more, I highly recommend this book not only for people experiencing a crisis of faith but for people who love and care for someone experiencing a crisis of faith and don't know how to respond.
... When God saves people in this life by working through his Spirit to bring them to faith and by leading them to follow Jesus in discipleship, prayer, holiness, hope, and love, such people are designed... to be a sign and foretaste of what God wants to do for the entire cosmos.
Today we have plenty of cults, sects and false churches replacing practical love and righteousness in daily life (that would require the true faith) through ridiculous rituals (for example, the Muslims keep the 5 Pillars of Islam; that is enough to be a good Muslim, but they are not required to love all people independent from belief, nationality, etc.) The cults, sects and false churches make their members practicing a biased love.
We know this Camping is a false prophet but the danger is his deception and the fact that this event will drive more people away from the faith as the press loves to ridicule Christians.
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