How do
I keep the faith when there's turmoil aplenty, as was the case in 2008?
It's not the easiest thing to
keep the faith when even as a player you are not aware of what your manager has up his sleeves, whu'd have thunk that anyone in their right mind would buy a super-computer for 42.5 million pounds but forget / refuse to buy a monitor?
Arsenal fans have definitely seen the best and worst of Aaron Ramsey over the years, but Arsene Wenger has always supported the young Welshman during his times of trouble, and even
kept faith when the young Ramsey was going through an appalling run of form.
Not exact matches
And so there are times
when it's absolutely OK to
keep selling your product even after you've personally lost
faith in it.
When it comes to venturing out and starting a business as against
keeping a 9 to 5 paid employment, an avalanche of people get scared of taking that giant step of
faith that might land them into their fame and fortune.
I've always
kept that
faith that the universe is completely physical, not a trick played by some huge creature who intends to kill us all
when He gets bored.
Katharine Hill, co-author of
Keeping Faith... Being family
when belief is a question, writes, «The challenge for most of us is how we demonstrate unconditional love for our children, even
when the decisions they make disappoint us, so that they know that they are loved anyway.»
When I talk to people of
faith in the real world, I try to
keep it respectful in the hope that the conversation remains civil.
So they
keep the exhibition of their
faith for high days and great occasions,
when it comes forth with sufficient pomp and gravity of language, and ceremonial of manner.
When her neurologist prescribed surgery, she sought an alternative, one more in
keeping with her
faith.
Perfection will come
when we are changed in a twinkling of an eye and go to heaven, but while here, we try our best to
keep the
faith and be obedient and self - controlled and lastly leave a good and positive legacy behind
@ Derrick Yu, This actually may come as a shocker, but there are believers out there who still continue to ask questions about God, about the Universe, and so forth, and unlike certain atheists out there who if they can't get definite answers to just come to conclusions that can not be verified like conclude that there is no God, at least there are believers out there who at least are willing to at least be open to the possibility that there is a God, and from there they develop their
faith, which even though is not a perfect knowledge, at least can help
keep those minds open, unlike certain atheists who take the easy way out and convincing themselves that it is a fact that there is no God,
when in reality it is not a fact at all.
In the end, any close look at their career shows how U2 have
kept Christianity in the conversations of the age at a time
when faith is becoming more and more marginalised.
From Agnostic to Islam and I have seen examples in the past... so my humble request to you is not to stop...
keep learning or studying the new stuffs... an advice to you
when you decide to study or learn about Islam — do not point to the people who does wrong things as wrong doing people are there in everywhere regardless of
faith, but look into the scripture and go to someone who has knowledge if you have any question that bothers you but make sure that person is well educated to his community... i ask The Almighty God to open your heart...
Theresa
keep what you were doing
when you reached out to the homeless lady that was the right thing to do that was motivated by the holy spirit do nt follow what the church does do what the Lord wants you to do and it will bear fruit.Let them do there thing you just
keep following the Lord and listen to him in your heart and let him lead you.People do things for different reasons to please others for power to be seen to do the right thing all those are the wrong reasons they are just dead works without the Lord we can do nothing.Dont let others turn you away from what the Lord wants you to do its him we need to please always.Be encouraged that the Lord used you to touch a life that is awesome.And do nt take the rejection personally because its not you they are pushing away it is the Lord the yare not listening to him but doing wha tthey want to do it will bear no fruit.May the Lord bless you and your family in your ministry step out in
faith and trust him he will not disappoint you because he is with you.
Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of
faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study
when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret
keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.
Gary is right
when he says that there are many ambiguous actions which the Bible is less than clear on like pre-marital sex; or which the Bible is clear on but we have commonly come to disregard like whether or not a pastor should
keep his office if his or her children leave the
faith.
There are, of course, many different agencies
keeping up different phases of what we have defined as the life of the spirit, but they are not sufficient, even
when taken all together, for they do not give the dynamic of an organized
faith.
The apostle Paul talks about this in Romans 14
when he explains that we must regard one another with kindness and without judgment for the decisions we make that
keep us from stumbling in our
faith.
But
when the Christian consciously
keeps faith with his Lord, he is led to the least of these, the brethren of the Lord, and to the Lord himself (Matthew 25:40 ff.).
When our conclusions regarding regarding troubling passages in the NT contradict the clear, positive statements out of the mouth of Jesus in John 3:16, 18, 5:24, and elsewhere, regarding eternal life being a simple matter of
faith we need to
keep seeking until our understanding of those passages agrees with that He said.
So if one person is thinking only about the parts of the gospel that tell a person how to go to heaven
when they die or receive eternal life (
faith alone in Christ alone), while another person is thinking about the parts of the gospel which tell followers of Jesus how to live on this earth (discipleship, obedience, faithful living), but both persons
keep using the term «gospel,» the argument quickly becomes quite messy.
The raft, that is
faith, or religion, or belief, etc... is that thing that
keeps our heads above water
when the rapids come...
when things get rough.
When he warns, «Everyone who accepts circumcision is obliged to
keep the whole Law» (5:3), he is speaking both literally to the Galatians and also typologically to us: If we insist on following the old customs required by those laws which have not yet been superseded by
faith in Jesus Christ (that
faith «which makes its power felt through love»), we will continue to be slaves, to be
kept in our place, to be oppressed by those who have power through those laws to dominate us.
Then
when I read scripture I see how much
faith I'm still lacking, and I
keep praying, «Lord, give me more
faith.»
I am scared sometimes with the world and what could happen to me such what happened in Aurora but my
faith gives me strength to
keep pushing on forward; I will not give up and I just smile a lot even on days
when I do not want to smile.
Thank You Replying I Commit Lots of sin
when i Struggling I want to serve God By Doing his will But I Have hard Time Doing It I Hope he will Help Me Any Time Soon But I Hope I Will Respond to Him There a lot of Bible Verse That Scare me I Believe That God Will Saved Any One IF They Truly Want to Be Saved I Want to Be Saved I Did Accept Jesus Christ As My Lord And Savior i HOPE I Did it in
Faith Because i
Keep Doubting Because my Double mind and James Mention This
I sure was glad I had enough grounding in a different kind of
faith to
keep me somewhat together
when I got squashed under the weight of the Me & JC Happy Club.
Even
when others despair, we Christians must, for our sake and for the sake of all humanity,
keep the
faith.
It took a real effort on my part to
keep calling myself to the truths of my
faith, which says that however he was behaving, in God's eyes he was just as precious as my little girl, and that's a hard thing to accept
when you're having to deal with the loss of somebody that's so dear to you.
When we
keep these relationships in mind, we will have a picture of our own
faith that will facilitate a more respectful approach not to nature but to the created order as a whole.
In the closing section, Tallis ponders the fate of the artist who would
keep working and being true to his
faith, predicting the time «
When Beauty in itself will be destroyed, Its imaged world stark nature to the mind» and the soul «nothing but a light Phantasmal spray.»
St. Vincent of Lerins referred to this as a «great trial» for Catholics: to
keep one's
faith when it is coming under attack — hardest of all,
when it is being attacked by distinguished teachers.
You
keep saying I am wrong
when I say I have personally and or do not think atheists are discriminated against anymore thant those with
faith.
When a sick person reaches his last moments of life the family ought to
keep calm so there will be no disturbance of the emotions which could cause the dying person any loss of
faith in the last moments.
Christian theologians explore their
faith within a particular community and tradition, though «
keeping faith with tradition... is not at all being bound by the letter of the law; it is more a matter of the company you
keep — or the books you reach for first —
when you want to do your best thinking.»
We please God
when we
keep the
faith in Jesus.
When I read Calvinists it seems like they
keep trying to explain why their
faith is NOT like this, even though from an outsider's perspective it really IS like this.
Getting to know many other young normal (well almost normal...) Catholics was really important and encouraged me to
keep practising the
faith even
when it was hard, and what I have learned through the talks (even though I slept through many...) and the discussions has helped me to grow in my
faith.
So
when the gospel is presented to us and we are told that eternal life is the absolutely free gift of God to anyone who receives it by
faith in Jesus, and that there is nothing we need to do or even can do to earn it or
keep it, most people start a get a little suspicious.
Just
keep telling yourself that your
faith makes you superior, it feels good to believe yourself better than everyone else, to have that confidence in you getting a reward
when others won't.
At times, I feel guilty for not believing in a g - d but there are also times
when I feel the power that
faith has, it
keeps people sane, it them someone to look up to
when all is going wrong.
Though it may not appear that this is what you are doing, it is what you are doing
when you
keep Kosher, the commandments, and practice all the ins and outs of your
faith.
When the answer to my questions were «pray about it» and «have
faith» I needed to
keep looking.
I began reading him in 1970,
when his classic, A Rumor of Angels, was assigned in a course on Revelation and
Faith — and I
kept reading him for over forty - five years.
And just as in human contacts the new understanding created by encountering another in love and trust is
kept pure only
when it permanently retains its connection with the other who is encountered, so too the self - understanding granted by
faith never becomes a possession, but is
kept pure only as a response to the repeated encounter of the Word of God, which proclaims the act of God in Christ in such a way as continually to represent it.
some that with out self thought knowledge who called themselves athiest are really confused and truelly believe what they are saying even
when wrong they believe to be telling the truth now that is not all atheist some are really cruel and mean to deceived others - those who are not stading in solid ground are those worth reaching out to - cause they need to know truth from false testimony... those who trully know God can not depart from him but there are those who blindly fight their way away from him... evil is blind and can't see the presence of god — that was God's course for rebelion... only a pure soul can be reach by the creator now that is not that easy to
keep so its only through
faith and the acceptance of jesus sacrifice for the human race that is posible to find the way and acceptance required by God in his second agreement to menkind... jesus was the lamb who took all our sin so even with a blind soul one can find the way to the creator and at one time if any find themselves in the presence fo the lord our God the reason we are here...
Terroll, who served time in prison, tells how Christian rap music
kept him on the straight and narrow after he came to
faith: «
When I became a Christian, it was a new world to me.
some that with out self thought knowledge who called themselves athiest are really confused and truelly believe what they are saying even
when wrong they believe to be telling the truth now that is not all atheist some are really cruel and mean to deceived others — those who are not stading in solid ground are those worth reaching out to - cause they need to know truth from false testimony... those who trully know God can not depart from him but there are those who blindly fight their way away from him... evil is blind and can't see the presence of god — that was God's course for rebelion... only a pure soul can be reach by the creator now that is not that easy to
keep so its only through
faith and the acceptance of jesus sacrifice for the human race that is posible to find the way and acceptance required by God in his second agreement to menkind... jesus was the lamb who took all our sin so even with a blind soul one can find the way to the creator and at one time if any find themselves in the presence of the lord our God the reason we are here...
i was a devout believer once... i have read the bible many times from an unbiased point of view — the issues came
when i asked questions and people
kept sayin you HAVE TO TAKE IT ON
FAITH... if faith is all thats needed, why the book, why the 10 commanments????? i have seen horrors in life, and in my lifetime — stuff that if god existed then i find him no more worth worshiping then the pipe that helps me sleep at n
FAITH... if
faith is all thats needed, why the book, why the 10 commanments????? i have seen horrors in life, and in my lifetime — stuff that if god existed then i find him no more worth worshiping then the pipe that helps me sleep at n
faith is all thats needed, why the book, why the 10 commanments????? i have seen horrors in life, and in my lifetime — stuff that if god existed then i find him no more worth worshiping then the pipe that helps me sleep at night.