Sentences with phrase «good christian lives»

How can we expect our people to lead good Christian lives if we don't catechise them about grace?

Don't they need to know this stuff so they can live good Christian lives?

Bu tthe effort of trying to live a good christian life got to much ad i was disollutioned.Spent ten years as a backslidden barely believing christian and then in recent years as a transformed renewed Christian and i finally got it.It is all about a relationship with Jesus Christ and working in submission to the holy spirit he is the one that inspires his word he brings it to life.If you want to understand the word we must apply it to our lives then it becomes part of us thats the difference between knowledge and understanding not just knowing the word but living the word.The bible is a book useful for living not just a theoretical analysis or a history book.Jesus is the living word its through him that he opens his word to us without the holy spirit in us the carnal mind can not comprehend Gods word it a mystery.It was designed that way so only those who are truly seeking God shall find him.brentnz

I read my Bible often, and do my best to live a good Christian life» (Van Impe, Alcoholism: The Total Treatment Approach, p. 358).

Do you really mean that even «a good Christian life» will not be enough to establish a right relation to God?»

It was my father's 72 years of good Christian living.»

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One of the best - selling books of all time, The Purpose - Driven Life helps people of all ages and backgrounds determine their purpose, but is especially well - suited for those of you who observe the Christian faith.

«Now it depends solely on your good sense and your way of life whether you die as an ordinary musician, utterly forgotten by the world, or as a famous kapellmeister, or whom posterity will read... whether, captured by some woman, you die bedded on straw in an attic full of starving children, or whether, after a Christian life spent in contentment, honor, and renown, you leave this world with your family well provided for and your name respected by all.»

Osteen's Christian self - help books, including Your Best Life Now, have been a mainstay of bestseller lists since 2004, and Osteen has been broadcasting services from the Houston church since 1999.

Complicating matters further is Osteen's association with the prosperity gospel movement, and the related «Word of Faith» movement popular in some evangelical circles, which teaches that believing Christians can harness the power of prayerful speech: to reap material and financial rewards in this life as well as the next.

You might not choose to live by that story, but if more people did and did it better (including Christians, non-Christians, athiests, agnostics, and myself), the world would be the heaven or the Heaven that all of us long for.

If you believe at all that Christ was the son of God and came to save the world, you are a Christian, even if you don't pray a specifically worded and ho ll ow prayer that affirms publicly that you are «born - again» in Jesus» blood — which in itself is sad is tic and doesn't ensure that the person doing the public profession of faith actually believes or will suddenly become so changed that they will lead a better life.

Honestly, in my view, (mainly because I can now see Christianity from the outside) suggesting, as Chris brings up, that «grace» plays a role or should play a role in the Christian life, well that makes no sense to me, because I see no need for this grace, especially if it is something that the Christians constantly need reapplied, over and over again.

If you believe in god, as you have stated, and you live in the west, which you likely do given your good command of english, then you are almost surely christian.

F.Y.I. Judaism, the Christian Faith, and the Muslim Faith can all be traced back to Abraham, it's just different interpretations of the same «stories» meant to be an example of how to live life as a good person.

Do you know the mathematical impossibility that even one of these could randomly come into existance?Let alone all of the building blocks required for just a single simple cell to come together to form any type of living thing?There sure should be some blobs of fossilized transitions if evolution could happen.You people are real smart why don't you quit bashing Christians and quit believing the garbage you have been fed, and look up the evidence put forth by the Creation Research people.They have in fact proven creation down to a cellular level.Unlike evolution scientists who have no answers, but cleverly devised fables.Evolution is not even a very good fairy tale.Even if I didn't believe in God, Evolution is such a fools explanation of the origin of man that it takes just that to even consider it true.I understand though that you athiests will believe anything that allows you to love your sin and hatred of the one true God.

But I think what made me the happiest was knowing that my best friend, the son of very conservative Christian parents like my own, wasn't going to live his life in secret.

Let's not forget what and how America was suposedly started as a place of relgious freedom by the pilgrams (according to so called american history books) these religious people proceeded to rob & kill the Indians who saved their lives, take & kill Mexicans for land & gold & oil enslave a whole group of people as property for financial gain all under the guise of being good «Christians» (WHITE) and now perceive all «Muslims» (NON-WHITE) are evil unless proven otherwise.

Glen Beck is a Christian if you believe that saved means that we get to live in the afterlife with a chance to have eternal life in the mansion where God the Father and Jesus Christ are if we are worthy enough by doing good works to progress to be there and that God's grace comes after all we can do.

Two thousand years of Christian teaching do indeed explain all the reasons why life is good, and why killing is wrong.

(LOL) if they do not want me because of my beliefs, even though I live a better, more «christian» life style than most christians I deal with... no problem..

But I am okay, and if people believe that is going to be all good once they are Christians, what they will probably find is that life will get hard and seem impossible regardless, but somehow in the mix, after we are spit out the other side of the tough stuff, we notice He is still there, and in «that» there is hope.

``... those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy, the most sublime & benevolent, but most perverted system that ever shone on man, endeavored to crush your well earnt, & well deserved fame.»

Jesus death and resurrection changed the world for the good forever so all of you liberals Christian haters should live with it or go live in societies that show no tolerance.

The message that Christians live well, on average, is glossed over because that's the opposite of what the teachers think gets kids out of churches.

This train is filled with well - meaning people who have long forgotten why they do anything in the Christian life — it's all just a requirement to be a Christian.

I was told not to pursue a career, but to seek to be a good Christian wife, who could earn her living typing if something happened to her husband (called «the sweet promise).

Taylor finds the solution not in the rules of modernity or the rules of Christian orthodoxy but in practical reasoning that seeks to evaluate «forms of life» from within broadly shared «conceptions of the good.»

People are people whether in the church or not, but the best people I've known in life have been the devoted Christians in church.

I grew to love this pattern of daily prayer, and it managed to change my life, immersing me in the Psalms and the rest of Holy Scripture, as well as in the early Christian canticles and hymns.

Would Judaism and the Jewish people have fared better or worse if they had not found themselves for the most part living in a civilization dominated by the Christian religion, which has claimed from the beginning to be the direct descendant and fulfillment of Judaism and the life of the Jewish people?

Free to save REAL sinners (regardless of how well they live up to the Christian faith, or not)

I'm currently reading the book, When bad Christians happen to Good people bc i've been there & have come full circle... Life church helped me to see that many of us mistakenly put our faith in other Christians instead of God, but pple are sinners & will fail us at some point.

Perry may well pay for that ham - handedness, but our religion expert wants to connect the dots, to warn us that Dominionism is the belief that «Christians should dominate every facet of life, from government to the arts.»

Well exactly Abishai, if you consider the number of Christians and Muslims in the world and where the live geographically, one could estimate over 75 % of world states do not believe in evolution.

Dying Christian: But God, I am being robbed of the best years of my life.

Our role as parents, I believe, is the same as our role as Christians: to do the best we can with what we have and what we know; and, after that, to live our entire lives in a constant state of humility and repentance.

There are even more examples of people who live and breathe being good Christians.

In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

It's interesting to see how people will find their own truth, dig in their heals and be blind to any other idea... What would Jesus do is an interesting question... I consider my self a Christian and a spiritualist... because I believe it's just not as black and white as one religion or another thinks... there is way more grey area... but a fundamental truths that are a good rule to live life by, wether you are christian or not... treat others the way you want to be treated... do unto others... I am my brothers keeper... aChristian and a spiritualist... because I believe it's just not as black and white as one religion or another thinks... there is way more grey area... but a fundamental truths that are a good rule to live life by, wether you are christian or not... treat others the way you want to be treated... do unto others... I am my brothers keeper... achristian or not... treat others the way you want to be treated... do unto others... I am my brothers keeper... all apply.

There are faithful Christians, who do nothing but good, each and every day of their lives.

I've been a good Christian all my life, and part of being a good Christian is not judging others.

Beta Upsilon Chi is a Christian Fraternity, so either way you look at it, they encompass a combination of the Greek life as well as a Christian Student organization.

Say have Christians helped it to have a decent life or at least develop what they know best with equipment's at least towards recycling as green move this way they would have helped them needy for decent living and conserved environment and nature?

It is commonly understood among the followers of Christ that when one receives the blessed sacrament of the altar, one participates fully and wholly in the body and blood of our Lord Jesus, and in his most sacred gospel, or «good news,» establishing beyond any and all doubt that the one who so participates and lives accordingly IS a Christian.

And while we're at it, there are millions who had good lives, and then things fell apart, and that includes devote Christians; did your God give up on them?

I'd rather live the life of my own truth and die by that truth, as I assume a christian's stance would be as well.

The best argument a Born Again Christian could have is to LIVE THE LIFE..

Even if you are an atheist (and you certainly have every right to be and I respect that right), a Christian, Muslim, Budhist, Jew, etc. etc. etc. that's a darn good rule to live by and we all should give it a little more effort.