Sentences with phrase «journey of faith with»

Also — and I wish I'd remembered to include this in my review — it's possible to make a movie about spirituality that depicts a character's journey of faith with complexity, humanity and — above all — authenticity.

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If a worship recording is made of a worship gathering, it reflects that specific faith community and makes record of its journey with the Lord.

It's an awesome thing to walk together with this guy on a journey of faith.

So, if a worship recording is made of a worship gathering, it reflects that specific faith community and makes record of its journey with the Lord.

Gary, I was not speaking of YOUR personal journey; but from the perspective of my own transitional experience and the experiences of others who have informally shared the stories of their pilgrimages of faith with me — and they have been many.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

After years of doubt and deconstruction, we'd made peace with the meandering nature of our own faith journeys, but raising our little boy to do the same seemed daunting.

«The aim is to accompany young people in their journey of faith — and for that, we need spirit - filled evangelists, who are really in love with God» said Curtis Martin, founder of the movement, which began in America and is now in its 20th year.

Instead, I found a spiritual companion to travel with me on the journey of faith, for better or worse, in good times and bad, in times of spiritual wealth and in times of spiritual poverty.

It wasn't just about the subject matter — although it's tricky to write about such a tender and intimate time in a person's life, to tell your own story while still holding space for stories that are so different than your own, to attempt to shepherd people well in the liminal spaces of their faith journeys — but it was also just the season of life with being pregnant with our fourth and then giving birth and suddenly having four tinies between the ages of 9 and newborn meant I had a lot less time with a lot less energy (and even less sleep!)

We are beginning to see how exciting the faith journey can be when correlated with stages and transitions of adulthood.

So, too, the life of faith is a life of emptiness and darkness in the desert where one's truth and certainty as food for the journey are not a verifiable and present truth but a promise, just as the manna was a promise of the land flowing with milk and honey.

The final administrative function of the guide is to devise a system, perhaps in combination with the one by which stories of faith journeys are taken, to keep some updated inventory of the gifts and graces of each parishioner.

Those of us whose faith journeys have taken us from one tradition to another often struggle with overcorrecting.

The second important episode in the present arrangement of the narratives, following immediately upon the account of, Abraham's call, response and consequent journey to Canaan, shows the great Patriarch, who has just acted with exemplary faith, behaving as if the divine promise had never occurred at all.

As a result of this strategy some students switched from one version of Protestantism to another; other students left Protestantism entirely and became Orthodox or embraced certain features of Catholic teaching such as no longer practicing artificial contraception; others returned to their own branch with a greater sense of where its strengths and weaknesses resided; and still others discovered that their journey away from the Christian faith was not as simple as they had once conceived.

Miller writes with integrity but also gut - wrenching honesty about his own experiences in the past, and how they have led him forward in his journey of faith and understanding.

The story of the book and its message is deeply bound up with a journey in faith.

We are the greatest nation because we are a country of immigrants from all faith and the journey that started with mayflower countinoues till today.

Parts of my story, my journey of faith, my walk with God (or whatever you want to call it) have been posted in various places online (on Jason Boyett's blog, for example) and in a book I edited last year, but little of it has been posted here on this blog.

We can affirm with Exodus — and with greater conviction because of Exodus — that in all our journeys we are not alone, that when we look with faith, the Lord is himself even now «in the sight of all the house of Israel.»

The book ends with a helpful overview of its journey through faiths and traditions.

If one has never journeyed into the deep — prayed (which includes Scripture / theological study, faith sharing, adoration, spiritual formation / retreats, pilgramages, Mass, reconciliation, fasting, listening for God's voice, and more) on an ongoing fashion or done God's will (been obedient, patient, humble, unconditionally sacrificing, unselfish) to the extent that they understand what it means to be Catholic and God being your number one priority — that His Ways and those of His Church are not the ways of the world (trade vices for virtues) and that we are being called into communion with Him via love for Him and one another in our faith community and broader community — then it is no wonder some are lost or disillusioned.

This verb makes us reflect on the course of history, that long journey which is the history of salvation, starting with Abraham, our father in faith, whom the Lord called one day to set out, to go forth from his country towards the land which he would show him.

The reality is that people at very different places in their journey of integrating faith and sexuality connect with us.

As a transgender person of faith, his greatest passion is helping other trans and gender - non-conforming people see themselves in scripture, and to walk with them in their journey towards wholeness.

Evans» honesty in telling her faith journey impressed us along with how much her love of the Lord imbued the entire narrative.

In his foreword, the Rt Rev Peter Doyle, Chair of the Bishops» Committee for Marriage and Family Life, described the 4th edition as «a resource to assist all those in our communities whose marriages have failed, and those accompanying them; and restore to them, with the mercy of God, hope and confidence on the journey of faith in the light of the Gospel.»

The expectation of conversionistic and instantaneous healing at every turn distorts the ways in which we strive to love and serve so many of our neighbors: people experiencing financial instability or going through divorce, those struggling with mental illnesses or who are simply sad, and most people whose journey of faith didn't entail a moment of single, dramatic conversion.

We journey in joy and to joy on feet fitted with the peace of our good news gospel, warding off every attack against that joy with the shield of faith, and wielding the sword of the Spirit, the very Word of God in whom we abide as He makes our joy complete.

I believe this man is on one of those journeys, and when his journey is over he will come back with much stronger faith in God, and he will bring along others who will begin their new journey as well.

I am planning on reading The Critical Journey, Stages in the Life of Faith, Second Edition this year, which apparently deals with the stages of the life of fFaith, Second Edition this year, which apparently deals with the stages of the life of faithfaith.

There is an ocean of people out there who have been cast aside by churches and holier - than - thou church - goers such as yourself that need to know that they are not alone and need a place to connect with other people who are on an authentic journey of faith.

-- Will This Rock in Rio by Ken Lottis — Attack Upon Christendom by Soren Kierkegaard — Plan B by Pete Wilson — Electing Not to Vote edited by Ted Lewis — The Sacred Journey by Charles Foster — Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card — UnChristian by David Kinnaman — Resurrection of the Son of God by NT Wright — Church Without Walls by Jim Petersen — Repenting of Religion by Greg Boyd — Spontaneous Expansion of the Church Roland Allen — Unlearning Church by Michael Slaughter — The Open Secret by Lesslie Newbigin — When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert — The Ministry of the Spirit by Roland Allen — The Mission of God by Christopher J.H. Wright — An Emergent Theology for Emerging Churches by Ray S. Anderson — Provacative Faith by Matthew Paul Turner — Transforming Mission by David Bosch — The Roman Empire and the New Testament by Warren Carter — I'm Fine with God; It's Chrsitians I Can't Stand by Bruce Bickel and Stan Jantz — Jesus and Empire by Richard A. Horsley — Simply Christian by NT Wright — Jesus, the Jewish Theologian by Brad H. Young

«My goal with this book,» he writes, «is to assure people of faith that they do not need to feel anxious, disloyal, unfaithful, dirty, scared, or outcast for engaging these questions of the Bible, interrogating it, not liking some of it, exploring what it really says, and discerning like adult readers what we can learn from it in our own journey of faith... We respect the Bible most when we let it be what it is and learn from it rather than combing out the tangles to make it presentable.»

After a journey of faith involving instruction from a parish catechist, candidates follow a series of public steps leading to a ceremony of admission, with others who have made the same journey.

So while Gladwell himself isn't a character in the narrative, its construction proved to be a remarkable personal journey for him.Aside from the section on David, three chapters of the book deal with the stories of people who drew on the extraordinary reserves of their Christian faith to defeat seemingly insurmountable odds.

This idea that his faith journey is big is out of touch with reality.

The Republican presidential candidate's 2007 church switch also may mirror something much more personal: The culmination of Perry's journey from a mainline Protestant upbringing to an evangelical - flavored faith built on close relationships with Baptist preachers and giving public testimony about God.

Jean Haldane's interviews with Episcopal parishioners suggested that their faith journeys flowed along private streams fed by many springs, quite separate from the busy mainstream of congregational life (Religious Pilgrimage [Alban Institute, 1975], p. 10).

The journey is a good one, in that the development of friendships (good ones) with many people of diversified faith, has established a desire to seek real knowledge beyond what has been so many questionable responses leaving guesswork.

I want her to know...» If you want a nonfiction account of what happens when fathers encourage daughters to get «in touch» with their sexuality because «it is not so big a deal,» read Hustled: My Journey From Fear to Faith (Westminster / John Knox), Tonya Flynt «Vega's sad tale of what it was like growing up as Larry Flynt's daughter.

we seek knowledge... we seek things beyond immortality... we want to see the world with the eyes of god... to be a true christian is to embark on a journey of compassion, forgiveness, love, and understanding... those are the values of our faith

The encyclical refers, in this regard, to the sacraments, par excellence, as those incarnate faith - encounters most intimately acquainted with the milestone moments in the faith journey through time and space of each believer.

I've especially enjoyed hearing from those of you who have wrestled with doubts about your faith, asked tough questions, and travelled similar paths on your faith journeys.

You may be surprised at the back grounds of and the journeys people with faith have been on.

The pedagogy of the Here I Am programme, based on the philosophy and theology of Our Faith Story, is to begin with the child's experience of, for example, journeys or «special people» and then engage with this experience by a process of «Recognise, Reflect, Respect, Relate, Rejoice, Remember and Renew.»

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

I listen wholeheartedly to their needs and help them get past the fear of the unknown so they can move forward with faith and confidence in their parenting journey.»

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