As I'm walking this earth I want to cultivate a life
I love through my faith while still being stylish and fit.
Not exact matches
You begin to follow the Word of God and law therein out of your
love and
faith stemming from the Grace extended to you
through Jesus.
'' For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might
through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts
through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in
love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height — to know the
love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
It takes more
faith to believe in a universe evolving from nothing or from eternal matter than to believe in a
loving Creator, existing outside the limit of time, who gave us this specially designed & tuned universe to explore and to learn about caring for one another even
through the midst of difficult experiences.
One might expect that Benedict was working his way backward
through the theological virtues, with the first encyclical on
love, the second on hope, and a later on
faith.
Erica Christensen is unbelievably good as Leslie, just capturing the nuance of someone who has got a strong center to her, who isn't going to be pushed over, stands up for herself, but
loves her husband dearly and feels like
through her Christian
faith she is now going on this incredible adventure.
Through sacramental baptism and
faith we enter Christ, and in Christ we can do works of righteousness and
love despite our natural sinfulness which we have inherited from Adam.
In his letter to the Galatians, Paul says that «the only thing that matters is
faith expressing itself
through love.»
They have
love lives (sometimes not the kind that would keep evangelicals happy), they have outside interests and friends beyond the Church, and the majority seem to be wrestling and stumbling their way
through a life of
faith.
Scripture can and should be enjoyed just by reading it and hearing the stories of
love and pain, or
faith and doubt echo
through your own soul.
And yet when we simply meet with friends for fun, and not help them live a life of
faith,
love and hope
through Christ, we limit what they can do for God and others both for here and for eternity.
Let us be a group of people who want to listen in
love and work out our salvation
through faith together.
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
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but
faith working
through love.
I don't know how to raise them in the
faith in any other way than this: God is good, God is
Love, God is for you, never against you, and when you want to dance, darling, wave your flag and spin, let the wind of the Spirit move
through you.
And the life that I now live in the flesh, I live
through faith in the son of God, who
loved me and gave himself for me.»
If saving
faith is contingent upon belief only, then there would be no reason for the existence of verses that reference «the obedience of
faith» (Rom 1:5; 16:26) and «
faith working
through love» (Gal 5:6).
The grace given to us in confirmation enables us to grow to Christian maturity»... so that Christ may dwell in your hearts
through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in
love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the
love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.»
The «two in one flesh» that is achieved
through the marriage act integrally ordered to progeny, will itself be ordered to the ministry of their education and formation (cf. Luke Gormally's article in
Faith, Nov / Dec 2004, Marriage: The True Environment of Sexual
Love).
My own position is stated best by David Bartlett: «In Christ Jesus, neither heterosexuality nor homosexuality — in themselves — are of any avail, but
faith working
through love.»
It comes in standing with those whose
faith carries them
through the persevering fight for justice long enough to see actual change for anyone who
loves their neighbors as themselves.
St. Paul meant we should overcome our selfish old nature which is tightly connected with our body
through faith in Jesus, and
love God and our neighbour.
1) This is not a particularly hospitable place for agnostics 2) Nothing would crush my parents more than learning that their daughter has walked away from the
faith 3) I have a book deal with a Christian publisher 4) I want to keep my Christian friends 5) My doubts come and go, so there's no reason to unnecessarily drag the people I
love through my drama 6) If I fake it maybe I can convince myself that everything's okay
Through faith in our saviour we know our sins are forever hidden from God and we are fully reconciled to him and
loved by him.
One of the things I
love about Christianity is the physicality of sacraments like communion and baptism, the way we can taste, smell, hear, see, and feel the presence of God
through these beautiful acts of remembrance and
faith.
«For in Christ Jesus, neither opposite - sex marriage nor same - sex marriage matter at all; but what matters is your
faith expressing itself
through love.»
that Christ may dwell in your hearts
through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in
love, may have power to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and breath and height and to know the
love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
There was need of that long, heroic journey
through the mystical dark night, and of an exceptional development of the theological virtues of
faith, hope and
love, before matter could become «diaphanous» to Pere Teilhard's eyes and could reveal to him within itself not only the hallowing stream which flows from the Incarnation and the Eucharist but also the radiant presence of Christ.
He uses sign - acts to establish and maintain relationships of
love in and
through the community of
faith.
But we can say at least this: the essential meaning of the concept of the miraculous, as this has been used in traditional theology, is grounded in the keen awareness men have of the unexpected and unprecedented experiences and happenings, the novel and hence the unusually stimulating events or circumstances of life,
through which men in every age have been aroused to
faith in God and have been given a deepening conviction of his
love and care.
Having spent the last ten years wrestling
through some tough questions related to
faith, heaven, hell, and salvation, I really appreciate the personal way in which Bell frames the conversation, asking the very questions I was so afraid to ask all those years and proclaiming the same hope I only dared believe — that God doesn't give up on people, that he is ever -
loving, ever - redeeming, ever pursuing.
The New Testament speaks and
faith knows of an act of God
through which man becomes capable of self - commitment, capable of
faith and
love, of his authentic life.
He is ever beyond our natural understanding, but knowledge of him is open to all
through the gifts of
faith, hope and
love.
For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that ye may be strengthened with power
through his Spirit in the inward man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts
through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in
love, may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the
love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God.
But this can be done in
love and knowing in
faith that even we in our arguments possess that ultimate unity,
through the Church, in what is the Church's real nature.
Christian
love,
through which
faith operates, is open to a similar interpretation.
«Neither circumcision, nor uncircumcision avails, but
faith working
through love.»
... When God saves people in this life by working
through his Spirit to bring them to
faith and by leading them to follow Jesus in discipleship, prayer, holiness, hope, and
love, such people are designed... to be a sign and foretaste of what God wants to do for the entire cosmos.
Their upward climb to a sublime ethical monotheism and a Christian
faith in redemption
through the
love of «the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,» gives evidence enough that in the Bible is the record of God's progressive self - disclosure.
In his book Small
Faith — Great God, N. T. Wright wrote «The world has yet to see what God will do
through a worldwide church whose members
love one another.»
Today we have plenty of cults, sects and false churches replacing practical
love and righteousness in daily life (that would require the true
faith)
through ridiculous rituals (for example, the Muslims keep the 5 Pillars of Islam; that is enough to be a good Muslim, but they are not required to
love all people independent from belief, nationality, etc.) The cults, sects and false churches make their members practicing a biased
love.
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.
that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might
through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts
through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in
love,
It is given so that men and women who have come to
faith through its teaching might learn to five in God's world on his terms,
loving and honoring him in all that they do and seeking to make known to the world his law and gospel.
I don't claim that every Christian practices unbiased
love, but at least
through faith in Jesus he would be able to do that.
At the heart of the Christian
faith is this great assurance: Although we have sinned terribly against him and our neighbors
through our lovelessness, he still
loves us and seeks to win us to salvation by that
love.
He told us enough to build on, and a great call to
faith and
love, to dedication, to service and pure living in the midst of persistent evil, runs
through all his teaching.
What avails in Christ Jesus is «
faith working
through love» (Gal.
His heart is that each of us would be presented to the Father,
through our fervent
faith in Yahshuah, His Son, spotless, and blameless before Him in
love.
Conscience,
love, ideals, thoughts that «break
through language and escape,»
faiths and hopes that make us men indeed — not till the invisible so makes music in us are we completely fitted to this world.