Sentences with phrase «for real faith»

I am not a practicing christian, although I was raised Catholic, but I do have a lot of respect for the real faith, which is so sadly caught up in BS and misrepresentation of people and organizations like Ezzo and his crew!

I applaud them for their REAL faith.

To admire the beautiful things in many of the world's religions is not a subst «tute for real faith.

Not exact matches

And if tomorrow's job report shows no signs of real wage growth (which is what economists predict it won't), the Fed's case for a rate hike will start to look more faith - based than empirically driven.

And, tired of passing out rain checks for out - of - stock sale items, supermarket chain Kroger Stores is consulting locally with Faith about a real - time FOD application to shrink the gap between print - ad expectations and day - of - sale supply.

Would you accept the same claim being made for another god, that someone had faith in their being real, and that god sent a sign proving his or her existence

Let's see... believe in our God or you will be tortured for eternity... Believe in our God even if science and the fossil record refute our conclusions... Believe in our God who can do anything, it doesn't matter what you come up with, he can do it and don't you dare call it magic or fantasy... but don't test him either, he's not a performing monkey who does tricks to convince us he's real, we just have to have faith, but he could do anything if chose to...

It has a PR problem for a reason, and until someone of actual Muslim faith steps up to the plate to show the «real» side of Islam I don't see that changing.

But in the real world, I think atheists and people of varying faiths probably work together on various things for the good of mankind — often not really knowing fully about each others» beliefs, yet still accomplishing good things together.

For the faithful, the real value of cultural Judeo - Christianity (as Pera calls it) is to cut a clear path sothatall might someday be Christian by faith.

The faith has «tried» to stay the same for 2000 years, but, just as Galileo and heliocentrism struggled to show that reality was clearly different than what bare faith could handle, this same scene will be repeated a hundred thousand times more, as real life overtakes 2000 - year - old literature.

Thanks for your «real» faith that places ancient Jewish rabbis as power hungry christ - killing Jews.

I would like to point out to those here who think it is not possible for Jesuits (or anyone) to hold science and faith simultaneously, and who invoke «evidence» as the only arbiter of what is real, that human knowledge is always evolving.

Real faith may even require you to die for your belief (as did early Christians).

These beliefs are apparently the ones set forth by Messrs. Johnson, Hoge, and Luidens in «Mainline Churches: The Real Reason for Decline» (FT, March 1993): (1) That Christianity is the only religion with a valid claim to truth, (2) that persons can be saved only through Jesus Christ and otherwise go to hell, and (3) that therefore one should try to convert others to the Christian faith.

Faith and baptism become real for us, when we submit all areas of our life to God: S - x, business, handling of people, marriage, possession, etc...

So please get real in all of the places I have listed above Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Atheists, Shia Muslims, Sunni Muslims and many many more are Jailed, Beaten and Murdered for their faith.

If you want the method to make your church grow or give you the five keys to a victorious life then you'll go away disappointed but if you're hungry for a faith that can deal with real life, joy and pain, triumph and disaster, laughter and sorrow then join Rob in a journey to follow the rabbi.

And of course the whole point is not to share with others what isn't real or true for you, a point that is not lost on super pastor Rob as we return to the dilemma of living an honest faith when you become the latest pastor in demand.

Will he choose to deal with the situation based solely upon doing what is best for the nation, based upon real world evidence - even if that evidence conflicts with his faith?

«As you've done to the least of these you've done unto me...» I think that a faith which s not broad or deep enough to inspire down to earth empathy - in - action, which doesn't strive for real world results (however temporary they may be), is far too small and narrow a faith.

It's possible for someone to convince all those around, including himself, that he has real faith, and then to lose whatever it was that he had — so we must take the warnings as seriously as we take the assurances.

Evolutions makes sense for a little bit but than you are going to need some faith to fill in the gaps of that religion because it breaks down real fast as soon as you start poking around.

I rather suspect that the real danger for faith lurks in its estrangement from rationality.

The evidence for faith is NOT the same, but is no less «real» (i.e., within the spiritual realm).

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

We have seen that the first is problematic for Christian faith because it relegates faith to the realm of what, at best, may be true and real.

To claim that the Bible is perfect and infallible is to substitute it for God, to engage in idolatry, and to close ourselves off from real faith in God.

For the most fanatical of Christians, the really conservative, big «C» ones, there is no real ecu.menical outreach to other faith communities.

For real «faith» photos, he should have taken photos of people jumping out of airplanes without parachutes.

, we wrote: «Throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s Faith movement carried the flag in the UK for [orthodox] doctrinal catechesis... made [even less fashionable] by our calls for a real development of doctrine and theological expression... There are now many voices championing orthodoxy... [which] are greatly to be welcomed.»

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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.

I've always been unconventional about attending church regularly, or becoming a member of anything, but, more recently, I join when the church is gathering, because when I need healing, I need real people with faith to pray for me for healing; when I am confused, I need real people to talk to and pray with me.

For my own part, I can not imagine how di - polar theology could be genuinely Christian so long as it places christology and eschatology at the periphery of faith and understanding, nor can I see how it could ever gain real relevance or power so long as it continues to be unable either to address us or to speak in terms of the imagination.

If this principle is applied also to those who do not practice their faith, hence have no real relation to the community Church of faith, then the actual number of priests must, indeed, give the impression of a shortage, for there are not even enough priests for all the established parishes and Mass centres.

It usually refers to the real substance or essential nature of something (though what those terms precisely mean is a matter of philosophical discussion); so Hebrews 11:1 is more getting at faith as providing substance to a future we hope for — that their hope for the future, through faith, becomes a present reality to affect their actions.

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

It is neither more real nor less real in the infant than it is in the intellectual genius, but in the maturer person there is much greater awareness of the grounds for faith and the challenge to commitment.

We have only to observe the work of Teilhard de Chardin to grasp the revolutionary consequences for a faith that would engage in a real encounter with our world.

He is finally beginning to understand the real need for a belief in God, for nothing else can take its place — not a faith consisting of mere words and rituals, but religion that includes every aspect of humanity: the mind, the body and the soul.»

As People magazine reported, despite all her troubles and irresponsible acts, Patty Duke's childhood faith still had a real pull on her: «For a good Catholic girl, abortion was out of the question.»

Funny how those folks were «devout» in either the Christian, Muslim and Hebrew faith and feel they are right to do so for their «real» god.

In terms of Newman's distinction between «real» and «notional» apprehensions and assents, Hartshorne's a priori arguments justify the notional assents which provide the intellectual and theoretical grounding for the experientially informed real assents of living faith.

Let us know when your «theory» or empty praises for your faith actually meet up with the real facts.

You say she has no proof that she has seen angels but do you have proof that she has not see angels and if you have proof that she has not I would love for you to point it out and we believe GOD is real for we walk by faith and not by sight but you say no one has proof that GOD existed but think about this what would lose believing in GOD if he doesn't exist?

his mom brought him from church to church for an excorcism while passing up the hospitals and look what happened... these people need REAL medical help, not crazy faith - heads who compound the problem with their unjustified beliefs in invisible monsters.

But the real term for the American bishops who have issued a challenge similar to Francis Parkman's is another that could be applied to Augustine, Borromeo, and Wojtyla: «confessor» — a synonym for defenders of the faith.

I believe that we should all have tolerance for each other's faith or faithlessness; the ONLY time I have a real problem with faith is when it interferes with the operation of government and social programs, including women's reproduction rights and gay rights issues.

It is the real task of faith and theology to make it possible for us to survive, to go on living, with this open wound.