Sentences with phrase «good old faith»

I'm a retired Presbyterian minister and I've been saying the same things since fundamentalists rose to ascendancy, I hope I've lived to see the day when the new — actually the old — approach to the good old faith will find adherents again!

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I don't think any other Christian faith believes Jesus stopped by the good old US of A to say hello.

It's a diagnosis of our sickness - unto death that's older than Amos — the confusion of religion with riches, of doing good with doing well: «In their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.»

The candor of the Old Testament in expressing not only its emerging faith but, as well, its cynicisms and denials, is in this realm clearly exhibited.

Whereas the Jansenism of old despaired that anyone could really be loved by God, be good enough to receive Holy Communion, or be saved, its newer version has so little faith in the power of God to change hearts that it presumes God does not care for something so insignificant as the human heart.

Indeed, when the good faith of the Jew unveils the bad faith of Christian belief in God, the Christian can become more truly open to the Christ who points to the end of the old creation, the end of reality as such, and ushers in that new creation of total liberation, which no longer can even be named as reality.

Personally i think those specific prayers are a distraction most of the times we pray these prayers because its what we think we need and often thats not the case.The better way is to just trust the holy spirit let him lead i think we miss the awesomeness of doing it Gods way its easy not difficult.The struggle is difficult when we are walking by the flesh and trying to do it our way.When i got to the point where i said to the God i am not going to do it my way anymore and i submit to you because know whats best for me.Change me and when i feel the wrong desires or temptation to walk by the flesh i just say Lord you know i am weak and i can not live a christian life without you help me.As soon as i do that it is effortless theres no struggle thats how we should grow.I am excited with what God is doing in my life he has opened his word i am seeing the fruit of his life impacting mine and i am changing day by day.I am walking by faith and not slipping back into my old desires i know what it means to be an overcomer sin does not have dominion over me anymore.In myself i can not boast because it is the power of God at work in my life and i give all the praise back to God.brentnz

Best in Nonfiction: Among nonfiction reads that released in 2014, my favorite included The Bible Tells Me So by Peter Enns (read the review here), The Oldest Living Things in the World by Rachel Sussman, God and the Gay Christian by Matthew Vines, and Faith Shift by Kathy Escobar (read the review here).

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.

Jesus was never afraid to touch the untouchable sam is giving good advice but in the scriptures when a person in the old testament touched a leper or a dead person they became unclean that is our fear.What is different with Jesus is that when he touched the lepers his righteousness made them clean instantly when he touched the dead they came to life that is the power of the holy spirit and that power is in all of us who believe by faith in Jesus Christ.So we do nt have to be afraid because we are covered in Christ.brentnz

The fundamentalists of the Muslim and the Christian faiths are like the middle aged children, republicans all, who are trashing the place with global warming, abusing their younger siblings, making them work to make their older siblings look good.

Kaylee if you have asked Christ into your life then the holy spirit -LCB- he is the spirit of Christ -RCB- dwells within you it is him that changes us all we have to do is tell him that we are weak in whatever area we struggle.You mention alcohol when tempted to drink just tell him Lord i am weak but i am trusting in your strength to empower me and he will thats is how we change.If we try and do it in our strength we might succeed for a couple of times then fall back into our old patterns.Then it becomes forgive me Lord for my sin we feel guilt and condemned and that is the work of the enemy who is out to destroy our faith in God and because of our feelings we go and do the same things all over again.But we have a better way and that is to trust the one who is able to overcome having been set free from my old life style of sin i am grateful each day to be walking in his strength not mine.So the Lord has given you the victory in Christ and even if we stumble sometimes in the process we remember there is no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus God bless brentnz

The old man labored over the directions until, having done his best, he exclaimed, «If it was meself that was going to Letterfrack, faith!

Avoidance of the emotional side of the centuries - old discussion about faith and religion is the better way to reduce the noise and to understand the other side of the question.

Admittedly, in the area of religious faith and morals we have been rather slower to discard the old in favour of the new, for this is the aspect of human life in which conservatism has always been most strongly entrenched, for the very good reason that man looks to this area of life more than any other for his stability and security.

i wonder whih god will be more pleased with its slave — the one who murdered a man for his beliefs or the one who allowed his follower to die for his faith either way — god is a man made belief system that is only a few thousand years old — and in that time, no one single thing has killed more humans, than a man claiming to know the will of some kind of god Faith is good thing, faith in one's faith either way — god is a man made belief system that is only a few thousand years old — and in that time, no one single thing has killed more humans, than a man claiming to know the will of some kind of god Faith is good thing, faith in one's Faith is good thing, faith in one's faith in one's self.

From that fateful date the Holy Spirit, speaking through the Pope and the Fathers of the Council (not the periti) told the Church that a new frame was needed, both to safeguard the ancient treasury of the Faith, and to draw forth from that treasury «new» things for this age, as well as the old things.

I am an Old Catholic and lay religious, and offended greatly by comments below that the Catholic faith is only the purview of those who are completely under the direction and obedience of the Bishop of Rome, as well as the inference that it has always been thus.

If it really has been «done to death,» then I can think of numerous topics that have been done many times more than this topic (at least where I'm at and interact): faith, hope, love, prayer, fellowship, giving, good works, christian unity, salvation, grace, faith healing, being culturally relevant, the gospel, the resurrection, religion vs. relationship, tithing, worship, reverence, christian music, legalism, old vs. new covenant, Paul's conversion, miracles, gifts of the spirit, sign gifts, tongues, nativity, the disciples, crucifixion, materialism, mysticism, new age, atheism, i could probably list about 50 more if I thought about it.

* Believe in Jesus Christ, that he died for you This requires that you get rid of your old sinful ways If you TRULY believe, that is, love Him and give your life to Him, good works and fruit will come out, but these are not what make you a Christian, they are simply an indicator of your faith in Jesus Pray, Read the Bible, Love God, Love others, worship God (live for Him in all you do, take up your cross, and know that in all of this God is very patient and loving

We may end our article where we began it, by quoting from the Novena of Cardinal Newman: Philip, my holy Patron, who wast so careful for the souls of thy brethren, and especially of thy own people, when on earth, slack not thy care of them now, when thou art in heaven... Be to us a good father; make our priests blameless and beyond reproach or scandal; make our children obedient, our youth prudent and chaste, our heads of families wise and gentle, our old people cheerful and fervent, and build us up, by thy powerful intercession, in faith, hope, charity and all virtues».

So pray as much as you can, but remember the words of James Gunn, who echoes the words of another older James: «What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works?

Certainly no intelligent man can retain his faith in God unless his God does grow better as he, the man, gets older.

Paul instructs older men to be «temperate, worthy of respect, self - controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance» (Titus 2:2) and older women to be «reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good» (Titus 2:3).

His verdict on the Church of England was that she was very seedy and sinking fast, «the serious and really good membersof the old lady's family are tending unconsciously to the Faith, whilethe naughty children are rushing intorationalism and infidelity».

What is more, it is an old conviction of mine that the philosopher's opposite in this type of debate is not the theologian, but the believer who is informed by the exegete; I mean, the believer who seeks to understand himself through a better understanding of the texts of his faith.

I also was powerless in regard to my old nature it had power over me.i came to the point that i needed to do something because i felt like spiritually i was dying and again it was by faith in Jesus Christ that changed me and that i admitted that i could nt live the christian life in my strength.Since then i have continued to walk by faith daily and i know what it means to be saved in this life we have power over our old nature through Christ that strengths us Personally i think this is a major reason why many christians are not growing and maturing as they should.Many people are struggling in there faith that is not how it is meant to be the word says we are overcomers more than conquerers through Christ that strengthens us.If you are struggling are you walking by faith or just doing good christians works that have no power to change your life Just admit that you cant do it in your strength let him empower you by his holy spirit to do what you cant.It has been a hard road to get here but i am never going back to living by works when you find the truth there is no comparison brentnz

There were injunctions to justice, mercy, and faith both in the law and in the prophets before Jesus» time, and the Old Testament concept of God has in it grandeur as well as narrowness.

Since the show debuted in 2012, family prayers, discussions about faith and good old - fashioned Bible Belt family values have been a staple of Duck Dynasty.

Best NEW angle on an OLD story: Matthew Paul Turner with «11 Days Until Judgment Day and I'm Not Laughing» «And while I know that the kids who believe in May 21st have what they consider to be «great faith in Jesus,» — trust me, they are scared.

Are faith transitions merely a rite of passage for 18 - 30 year - olds or is there something larger going on in the broader culture, something like what Phyllis Tickle describes in the Great Emergence as postmoderns picking and choosing the best elements from each faith tradition and trying to weld those elements into one?

Enns, an Old Testament scholar, has an approachable, lively writing style that makes his books informative and easy to discuss, but what I love best about Enns» work is that each page betrays a rigorous commitment to preserving both intellectual integrity and faith.

It was present in the Old Testament period before Jesus made it his central message; it is present in the worship and moral endeavors of those of faiths other than Christianity; in acts and attitudes of compassion and a determined effort to bring about a better world, it may be present in persons of no acknowledged religious faith.

Now he could tell his gang and the other gangs that the Americans would be apostates, which had corrupted the good old Aztec faith by Christianity.

The proclamation of the good news of divine love, of the forgiveness of sin and the deliverance from evil; exhortation to lead the Christian life; instruction of young and old in the Christian faith — these evidently require not only that the minister have heard and apprehended the gospel, comprehended the law and learned the creed, but that he have gained insight into the ways of God and men and that he grow continually in his understanding of them; that further he have grasped the meaning of preaching and teaching in relation to all the other activities he and the Church carry on.

However, such is Hodgson's faith in the midfielder, that he's willing to allow the 24 - year - old the chance to prove his fitness in England's pre-tournament friendlies, in the hope that Wilshere will be back to his best in time for the Three Lions» opening fixture.

With Louis van Gaal showing a great deal of faith in him this season, the 20 - year - old has responded to the pressure well and has been United's main attacking threat on numerous occasions.

All of these pieties have a similar ring, as well they should, for they all reflect a centuries - old Anglo - Saxon article of faith: a man who plays games is a right guy.

There have been a fair few reports about the Ox being ready to go because of his lack of first team game time in recent years and the idea that Arsene Wenger does not have as much faith in the player's ability as he would like, so how does the Frenchman go about convincing the 23 - year old that staying put and snubbing the chance to join Chelsea is his best bet?

Trying to keep the faith but its looking like the same old story; Start well, top the table a few times before Christmas, collapse between Christmas - February then go on a run between February - May.

«You have to give credit to the boss as well because, at a club like Arsenal, you are looking to win things, finish top four, get Champions League, win competitions, and to play a 19 - year - old and keep your faith in him week in, week out... [Iwobi] has repaid him well.»

Jack wiltshire on arsenal.com, «You have to give credit to the boss as well because, at a club like Arsenal, you are looking to win things, finish top four, get Champions League, win competitions, and to play a 19 - year - old and keep your faith in him week in, week out... [Iwobi] has repaid him well.»

A sense of renewed faith takes over, and all of a sudden, people think next season Arsene of those sweet old days will resurrect and do better.

Even after season after season we see youngsters that Wenger has shown faith in establish themselves as key members of the first - team (Coquelin, Ramsey, Bellerin) some fans still question the player Wenger felt was ready to combat one of the best midfield's the world has ever seen at the age of 16 and was arguably the best performance a 16 year old has ever achieved!

No CB, no viable RB to set with Freeman in 2019 (no faith in your RB pick), no FB with Flowers available in the 7th, I like the DE but don't see it as a pick when you handicapped them with the trade, WR like you said is already «old» for a rookie and likely not to develop much more (again the trade made picking one in the 3rd a better choice than TE).

If the team lacks something, they will go all out and spend neccessary big money on filling the voids, Wenger just doesn't do that and never will, every season after a transfer window we say, «Oh if only we brought this player in that position or that player in this position, oh well maybe Wenger will do it next summer» but Wenger just always leaves a weakness that just never gets filled, he could have got Khedira, made a bid for Vidal or Carvalho, but no... Instead he puts his faith in a 32 - 33 year old slow Spaniard who only knows how to pass and nothing else and a 30 year old Frenchman named Flamini who only knows how to foul.

I have no doubt he (bellerin) will get better from playing in the Dortmund game, it amazes me how we always seem to want other teams 19 years old and do not have any faith in ours.

European football's control, ethics and disciplinary body acknowledged that the allegation was made in good faith by the 17 - year - old but, after a number of extensive interviews with players and match officials, it came down to Brewster's word against that of Spartak captain Leonid Mironov.

Wenger could do a lot worse than place his faith in Holding; the 21 - year - old has already shown us how good he can be and he will only improve further in time.

And it has been a faith well placed, with the 31 - year - old currently the leading scorer in the 2017 J.League as well as netting four times on the continent.