Within weeks he was visiting the Calais «Jungle», camps in Lebanon and making
friends with refugees who had made it to the safety of UK shores.
I have Jewish friends whom I have huge political differences with, but I'm still
friends with them.
I think He could have even been
friends with the Pharisees if they had also wanted to befriend them.
I'm American and have lived two years Asia and ten years in Northern Europe... and have met and made
friends with many Canadians along the way.
This works well for those who have winsome Christian
friends with the boldness to invite them to evangelistic events.
These people are great to you because you are
friends with them and they are, most likely, good people who just happen to have faith.
Many of us in the West watch terrorist atrocities on our television screens but don't interact with Muslims, much less make
friends with them.
Religion or no, there is no freaking way I could ever make
friends with someone who took someone special to me away.
Seriously, out of the all of the people he can be
friends with, he becomes
friends with a person who he only knows because he murdered his brother.
In the company of
friends with whom no other subject is avoided, we circumvent the spiritual life like quicksand.
my husband and I are on the same page with this as are others we are
friends with and it's not through a book we read or denominational position or sect leader's influence: I like to think we were all gradually influenced by the Holy Spirit... then I'm sure that's how you feel about your position too.
Also, I know of many groups that just hang out with the prostitutes on the streets, and also who make
friends with strippers in the clubs.
«You can't be real
friends with one of your parishioners,» he may have heard, and he may have swallowed this propaganda.
I am rather close
friends with a very knowledgeable economist.
Muslims only pretend to trust and be
friends with non-Muslims; in the deepest of their hearts they have been taught that all non-Muslims are infidels.
Certainly, some of these transplanted Christians may find deeper intimacy and fellowship with God and with other believers in their new circle of friends, but unless they are also finding ways to love, serve, and become
friends with people who are not Christians, all they have done is substituted one form of Christian consumerism for another.
Should you do up a list like this again, amaze
your friends with «Things Paul Wrote to Particular Greek Churches Jesus» and his friend, «Pentateuch À - la - carte Jesus».
None of it was a big deal I had
friends with people of many faiths and the same even my Muslim friends had friends of other faiths.
Now you may say «I doubt you are a Christian, because you would not be
friends with an atheist!»
I've known, lived among, worked with and, occasionally, been close
friends with gay and lesbian people for the 50 + years I admit to.
You are still
friends with them are you not?
It would have been hard for Pius IX to have been
friends with Benito Mussolini, given that Pius died in 1878, and Mussolini was not born until 1883, but why should Hitchens be concerned about historical facts, when he was having such fun making them up?
I'm
friends with people who are so angry that they swear they will never darken the door of a church again.
We are
friends with the homeless, and friends help friends.
But despite Driscoll - addicted buzz, Real Marriage is strikingly conventional, emphasizing the same commonsense ideals that other Christian marriage books do: honesty, mutual respect, forgiveness, and becoming
friends with one's spouse.
As I grew older and made
friends with everyone from Baptists to Catholics, I began to talk to these people about their own beliefs and their own convictions.
Do you slander Catholics with your other heb
friends with your smelly mouth full of garlic bagel, cream cheese and salmon, which lingers on your forked tongue all the live long day.
But you can still be
friends with me and text me whenever!»
That is why a fundie from any religion would be
friends with a fundie from another religion before being
friends with an atheist.
Hauerwas and the other essayists are on firmer ground when they write of the importance of holding on to the Christian story, which gives meaning to individual stories and provides «rich resources to make possible friendship between the elderly and, perhaps most important, becoming and remaining
friends with ourselves as we age.»
When we have dear
friends with whom we've experienced notable life transitions — high school, driving, dating, college, marriage, kids — it's only natural to assume that they will be along for the ride when our faith changes.
Anyway, in looking for something for me, I became
friends with [another editor] who was a major force in the Methodist church but also a strong believer in reincarnation....
My youngest son is best
friends with their youngest son.
(Full disclosure: I supported it, and did a little happy dance at 10 p.m. for all
my friends with preexisting conditions.)
The presenters are two youngish priests, Fr Marcus Holden and Fr Nicholas Schofield, close
friends with a shared enthusiasm for the history and culture of the 19th - century English Catholic Church.
I am not involved with institutional church but am
friends with many other christians with whom I and they share spiritual life.
Another virtue of Chesterton was his remarkable ability to make
friends with his intellectual opponents.
Telling the truth however is MORE of a problem than becoming
friends with others.
It is hard to go back to old
friends with bad habits and sinful ways.
Will my kids get their hearts broken again if we become good
friends with another family in the church and then one day POOF you just never hear their voices again?
Find
friends with gracious attitudes.
Some of his old Oxford
friends with whom he came into contact put him down and smirked about his religious commitments, and that must have been difficult.
Before he became
friends with fellow writer C.S. Lewis and help create the Inklings writers» group, Tolkien fought in World War I and later assisted the Allies as a code - breaker during World War II.
True, Williams went to Oxford when war broke out and became
friends with the famous circle around C. S. Lewis.
Before I left the church I tried desperately to make
friends with people outside of it.
When I was in my last year of high school I was good
friends with Janice.
And when the night sinks down in shades of indigo and navy blue, you'll be ready to be
friends with the night and the silence, and hopefully with your own soul at last.
SAVANNAH, Georgia (CNN)-- The Food Network announced Friday that it will not renew the contract of Paula Deen after she admitted using a racial epithet — but a black pastor who is
friends with the celebrity chef said she «can't be a racist.»
Years ago I discovered Doug Pagitt's blog and was interested to see what the «Emergent» thing was all about and if he was still the «same person» that I had met once and knew in an acquaintance sort of way because I was
friends with, and then dating, one of his best friends.
I've been
friends with pastor Brian Metzger for many years.