Too often,
I hear faithful people waving away their problems, affirming that «God works out everything for good» without asking hard questions about how.
Not exact matches
Prayer has a powerful placebo effect on the
faithful person doing the praying, makes him - her feel swell, but when they start
hearing voices it indicates they forgot to take their medication.
I love to
hear and admire the testimony of an elderly
person who was saved early in life and was
faithful to God all the years of their long life, never mentioning a doubt one, and living the Christian life to the best of their ability.
Let me
hear what God the LORD will speak, for he will speak shalom to his
people, to his
faithful, to those who turn to him in their hearts.
Wesley writes that, for him, much of this shame was lifted when he encountered C.S. Lewis» essay «The Weight of Glory» — a literary reflection on the moment when God glorifies his
people, when followers of Jesus
hear God declare, «Well done, my good and
faithful servant.»
But even if the Donatist argument were correct - that is, even if the prayers of a sinful bishop are not
heard - a good and
faithful people would have no cause for concern, Augustine counselled (cf. ibid., 2.8.15).
A terminally ill patient can turn their lives over to God, be
faithful, and still (here is one of the keys
people hate to
hear) DO THEIR PART in the fight against that cancer.
Suffolk Democrats raised $ 400,000 at their fall dinner Monday where about 500
people heard Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo rail at President Donald Trump and rally the party
faithful to turn out at polls Nov. 7.
Some of the perceptions we have
heard about bi-sexual
people is that they are afraid to pick a side or they are not usually
faithful to their partners and many other things.
In that vision, my grandfather was walking in the desert when he
heard a voice that foretold of a place that would one day be populated with trees dripping with fruit, wonderful schools, beautiful churches, bountiful farms, and happy,
faithful people.