Sentences with phrase «foundation for faith»

Headquarters: Monongahela PA About Blog The Church as established by Jesus has ordained officers consistent with the scriptures that the believers possess the signs promised to them & that Church will remain upon the earth until the end of time.With strong foundation for a faith - centered life to enjoy fellowship through God's love, witness & celebrate the manifestations of God's spirit.Bringing salvation through Christ to all people.

Headquarters: Monongahela PA About Blog The Church as established by Jesus has ordained officers consistent with the scriptures that the believers possess the signs promised to them & that Church will remain upon the earth until the end of time.With strong foundation for a faith - centered life to enjoy fellowship through God's love, witness & celebrate the manifestations of God's spirit.Bringing salvation through Christ to all people.

First Unitarian's educational programs not only inform their members about the importance of environmental issues; these programs also provide congregants with a strong foundation for faith - based action.

Headquarters: Monongahela PA About Blog The Church as established by Jesus has ordained officers consistent with the scriptures that the believers possess the signs promised to them & that Church will remain upon the earth until the end of time.With strong foundation for a faith - centered life to enjoy fellowship through God's love, witness & celebrate the manifestations of God's spirit.Bringing salvation through Christ to all people.

Headquarters: Monongahela PA About Blog The Church as established by Jesus has ordained officers consistent with the scriptures that the believers possess the signs promised to them & that Church will remain upon the earth until the end of time.With strong foundation for a faith - centered life to enjoy fellowship through God's love, witness & celebrate the manifestations of God's spirit.Bringing salvation through Christ to all people.

But facts and experience never form a secure foundation for faith.

At any rate, in obedience to the firm resolution of the community to uphold the Hadith as a foundation for faith and practice, the learned men did their best to establish principles of criticism and grades of authenticity to serve as a guide in accepting true traditions.

The effort we are prepared to put into grasping Newman's thought process will help to introduce us to the three important ingredients of our faith: worship, devotion and interrelated dogmas, which must be joined in our minds because together they provide the strong foundation for our faith.

I see the Old Testament in its totality laying a permanent foundation for faith by its disclosure of God's moral character, sovereign rule, redemptive purpose, and covenant faithfulness and by its exhibiting of the positive dispositions of faith, praise, and obedience contrasted with the negative dispositions of mistrust and rebellion.

My hope is that as evangelicals move beyond the modern paradigm of individual autonomy (particularly as it applies to biblical interpretation), we will begin to appreciate church tradition as an undeniable foundation for our faith.

This calls for a costly abandonment of the old securities and the building of new foundations for faith — to will one thing.

Foundations For Faith [London: Moral Re-Armament, 1975], pp. 1,2,7, 16; H. A. Walter, Soul Surgery [Oxford: University Press, 1932] p. 86).

Our books explore theological foundations for faith and spirituality, ecumenical and interreligious initiatives, and connections between religion and human identity, relationships, and culture.

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The only reason Christians can not accept that a Christian could leave the faith is that, for that to be possible, it destroys one of the foundations of your faith, so in order to believe in what you believe you have to dismiss us as «not really Christian».

They suggest, as a possible model for our own time, just how much can be accomplished when Catholics, confident in both their faith and the intellectual foundations of the Church, suddenly turn their attention outward on an unsuspecting world.

Bonhoeffer lays the foundation for a life of faith that is rooted in God's transformation of our lives and the life of creation as a whole.

Magic, play, and utopian dreams are the foundation for his future community of faith.64

How do you raise your children to be people of faith without either indoctrinating them to the point that they can not think for themselves on the one hand or leaving them without a solid foundation on the other?

This is the foundation of our faith» (Pope Paul VI)-- and it comes with a responsibility for «my brothers» holiness», in other words, evangelisation.

Faithful to it, Vatican I recognised that faith involves a free act which can not «be produced necessarily by arguments of human reason» (DS 3035, 3010); hence the Council added to those external signs the «internal helps of the Holy Spirit» so that the former might be «most certain signs of divine revelation adapted to every intelligence» (DS 3009f, 3033f); as a result faith relies on «a most firm foundation» and «none can ever have a justreason for changing or doubting that same faith» (DS 3014, 3036; 2119 - 2121).

Indeed, chatting to various priest vocation directors, a common theme is that few people are coming forward for priesthood largely because few have the faith foundation to build a vocation upon.

And should one run the risk of losing faith by examining its true foundations, he is certain to be chilled by the dictum, in Hebrews 6:4 - 6, that «It is impossible for those who were once enlightened... if they fall away, to renew them again...» Those who originated a religion based on deception and delusion clearly knew that if the conditioning broke down or wore off, it could not work again.

He has collected over $ 1,000,000 for his faith foundation in 2008 - 2009 and probably another million this year and he is the sole member of said foundation.

Faithful to it, Vatican I recognised that faith involves a free act which can not «be produced necessarily by arguments of human reason» (DS 3035, 3010); hence the Council added to those external signs the «internal helps of the Holy Spirit» so that the former might be «most certain signs of divine revelation adapted to every intelligence» (DS 3009f, 3033f); as a result faith relies on «a most firm foundation» and «none can ever have a just reason for changing or doubting that same faith» (DS 3014, 3036; 2119 - 2121).

These two great forces maintain in Egypt a remarkable equilibrium without either destroying the other — perhaps because of the deep - rooted faith in religion which has been growing in the hearts of the Egyptians for hundreds of years — and education in Egypt continues to rest on the dual foundation of religious and secular studies.

The first is «exocentricism» as employed by 20th - century philosophical anthropology — one must ground one's identity outside oneself — but for which Pannenberg finds a foundation in Luther's understanding of faith.

People of faith and foundations with concern for religious liberty must start establishing alternative means to help students fund their education.

If you are going to argue that your perspective is more true than ours, then you should really take a look at the foundation for your beliefs and see if you can really put faith in that foundation.

And this task is a legitimate one, as certainly as the object of faith (particularly when it provides the foundations for all possible objects or, in religious language, when it creates them) still remains the object of faith and is the immediate and exclusive object of human activity.

The foundation will exist as an entity in its own right within Church law, and Fr Trafny explains: «This is an important step, because we are moving from being a simple project to merge learning between the pontifical universities in Rome to being a new entity recognised by the Holy Father as a reference point for all dialogue involving science and faith.»

In summary it could be said that Pope John Paul, assisted by Cardinal Ratzinger (surely also a key figure in this movement for reform) has rebuilt the foundations of the Catholic faith.

Needed is a foundation for uniting a radical understanding of God's action in history with radical individual and corporate discipleship in the world — namely, reflection which results from depth experience, the spiritual life, the interiorization of faith through meditation, prayer and corporate worship.

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However, I believe that this can be a good foundation for the next step in your search (that is if indeed you still have the fire of the Spirit in you); because I am sure that you will quickly realize that there are no errors only tests of [our] faith.

To pick some random examples: In the 12th century, Peter Abelard, after a life of tragedy and tribulation, concludes his account of his own faith by saying, «The storm may rage but I am unshaken, though the winds may blow they leave me unmoved, for the rock of my foundation stands firm.»

Any seeming benefit derived from mental manipulation is proportional to one's faith in magic... The process, either unconsciously or consciously, of thought manipulation has no scientific foundation, for God is uninfluenced and always conscious — always consciously governing all that is real, harmonious, and eternal.

I have found that if you build a proper foundation for what the Christian faith is all about, as you lead up to the cross, the listeners sit in stunned silence.

For like Whitehead and Dewey, Kadushin understood that the concept of organic thinking offered an approach to logic and the foundations of knowledge that was an alternative to the perversions of the sort of blind faith in natural science that had come to dominate the intellectual cultures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; an alternative that did not attempt to devalue science or replace it with a nonrational mysticism, but which did attempt to place scientific thought into a broader cultural context in which other forms of cultural expression such as religious and legal reasoning could play important and non-subservient roles.

Yet if Jesus were God and not man at all, there was no ground for the author of the fourth Gospel to say, «And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth» (John 1:14), or for the church to build its faith upon this foundation throughout the centuries.

And hopefully, for the elderly prof's sake, as his own movement turns on him he may start to question the foundations of what he began and rediscover his profound childhood faith.

Myth points the way to a proper harmony between the two, and Incarnation, the foundation and fulfilment of myth (and, for Faith movement, of everything else), enables this «recovery».

The chapter headings give us an overview of the work: Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ: the theological project of Joseph Ratzinger; The critique of criticism: beginning the search for a new theological synthesis; The hermeneutic of faith: critical and historical foundations for a biblical theology; The spiritual science of theology: its mission and method in the life of the church; Reading God's testament to humankind: biblical realism, typology, and the inner unity of revelation; The theology of the divine economy: covenant, kingdom, and the history of salvation; The embrace of salvation: mystagogy and the transformation ofsacrifice; The cosmic liturgy: the Eucharistic kingdom and the world as temple; The authority of mystery: the beauty and necessity of the theologian's task.

So Rene, I completely agree with your comprehension of Love, for sure (God bless you); but I see the foundation as faith in Jesus first; and all good things follow.

It was Augustine who spoke of Faith as the foundation for understanding.

But more important is that the discrete region of Christian social action has foundations in a certain way of interpreting the Christian faith, a way which is native to theological schools and for the most part foreign to Protestant congregations.

The Chalcedonian definition is not the foundation of saving faith, and unless one accounts for it genetically, it is more likely to mystify» than to enlighten us, or else to become a mere shibboleth of doctrinal correctness.

Wherever the festival was celebrated, the people would be reminded of the foundations of their faith: Israel was chosen by God, redeemed by him from Egyptian bondage, was made a covenant - partner with him at Sinai, continues to live under the leadership of God who is concerned for this covenant.

I thought that this subject could really augment our discussion surrounding my recent post about A New Kind of Fundamentalism, in which I argue that a commitment to love God and love people provides the foundation for the Christian faith.

Especially for faith - based nonprofits, it should be our foundation.

Pope Benedict has called for a Year of Faith in which we are to return to our own foundations - spiritual and doctrinal, especially as outlined in Vatican II - so that we can take up the task of re-evangelising our scientificallysophisticated yet now largely faithless culture.