Sentences with phrase «made out of faith»

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Entrepreneur sat down with DeFazio to find out what it takes to make a leap of faith into a new business, staring risk and fear of failure in the face, and finding success.

Well that makes it difficult to sit on cash, so you banned cash so that people can get their money out of the banking system and in faith because of banks trying to charge you 3 percent on your deposit.

So while I agree with her that political life may help renew faith in human dignity and so make human rights believable, the politics of human rights is conducted through liberal language that is extremely partial, that leaves out at least half of the human experience.

«By faith, we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible» — Heb 11:3

Religion knows it can't stand up to any sort of rational test, which is why it makes a virtue out of faith — not questioning and accepting whatever answers you're given.

I did not pull anything from a flier.you seam to be an educated and knowledgeable person.maybe the law of entropy in thermodynamics is now outdated.most likely changed to try to make some scientists reasoning work.honestly what are the chances of the earth and man to come out of nothing.it takes more faith or blind fanaticism to believe that.

Some of the good theological quotes did make it into the closing scene but no sooner had the credits started to roll than viewers were assaulted by «There's A Place For Us» by Carrie Underwood about «faith» and «love» and the line «we can be the kings and queens of anything if we believe» to make sure viewers walked out feeling good about themselves.

While some of those adventures have initially seemed intimidating, stepping out in faith to take part in them has made for the most rewarding times in my life.

So, while your at it how about you providing that irrefutable proof that there is no such God out there who does not want to be made known but would rather have us rely on having faith and that through relying on faith to see whether we would be willing to follow God on our own accord even when there is no irrefutable proof as opposed to having that irrefutable proof and thus having to follow becuase of having really no choice because of obligation.

And were they to consider doing something like that, which I would personally find to be a strech of faith after some of the out landish suggestions that he has made.

To make people of faith appear to be dying out.

The great challenge, the one that took me a book to articulate and which I suspect will take me a lifetime to work out, is to hold every piece of my faith experience in love, even the broken bits, even the parts that still cut my hands and make them bleed.

«These ministers represent the kind of Christianity that makes me reluctant to say to people I don't know that I'm a Christian, and the kind of speakers for the faith that drove all my children out of churches because they would not put up with such judgmentmentalism.

Hebrews 11:3 «3 By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.»

I can't even read the NIV anymore now, because of verses like Ephesians 2:8, which make it sound like faith is the gift of God (a Calvinist idea), when, as you point out, the whole salvation package — really, the work of the cross for us — is the gift of God.

After a year of dreaming and then a year of writing, and now a few long months of edits and planning and marketing, it's finally time: Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith has...

All too frequently this turns out to be a substitution for the gospel; it consists of some set of propositions, however traditional and however true they may be, which can in fact obscure the basic affirmations of Christian faith and make the gospel itself of none effect for those who hear.

This story will go on for ever until the date life ends on Earth... this ever lasting conflict was planted there because ever since it started it created jobs for war arms manufacturers, it has created good business revenue for war and arms lords, made a good business for those con - fis - cat - ing Palestinians lands & olive trees, turning them in to residential areas for imported Jews, gradually removing Palestinians of all faiths further out of range every time...?

He added: «I believe we should be more confident about our status as a Christian country, more ambitious about expanding the role of faith - based organisations, and, frankly, more evangelical about a faith that compels us to get out there and make a difference to people's lives.»

He lost his faith in a racist church and made a living out of being a doubter and a sceptic, but when... More

As we enter the «Year of Faith», a «full survey» of the British Church may be in order, to find out how we became so weak as to have lost such a pivotal, not to say epoch - making, battle.

After a year of dreaming and then a year of writing, and now a few long months of edits and planning and marketing, it's finally time: Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith has now been released into the big wide world.

It doesn't take much to figure out that the Deist is merely making up his / her own terms about God; they may come to those terms in somewhat of a logical way, but when you ask them the «hows» about their «faith,» they seem to come back to the «personal relationship» they can not articulate.

As an atheist I think it's important to know if your candidate picks his nose and eats the boogers, not that it makes any policy difference, but it is a charachetr difference, and if the candidate promotes his faith which includes baptizing dead jews whether out of guilt or love, I want to know about it so I can make an informed character choice on who I give my vote to.

It's almost been a year since my second book, Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith came oOut of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith came outout!

I can see how one can look at this idea and look at the following examples in Hebrews 11 as «Because they were sure they would get this reward, they did this thing» but as the author points out in verse 39 that they didn't get what they imagined they would, so if we understand faith as «being sure» it would turn out that it is «being sure» of something and being totally wrong — instead it makes more sense to understand Hebrews 11:1 as saying that «faith is a realization (or actualization)» of our hopes, a realization that the author points out is greater than we could expect and be sure in.

For me I figured that if there is a God out there who does who does actually have a plan for us and if part of that plan is to not be made known but would rather have us develop faith, and if the reason for why we need to have faith is to see if we are going to follow God because we choose to instead of being made to have to follow, and if the reason for all of those commandments is to somehow be for our benefit, and if I really want to and need to know, which I did, and that this supposed God wanted for us to find out through study, prayer and trying to practice those teachings to see for ourselves and then make our choice, then I figured to do just that and find out for myself.

Children should make (and be) good investments, while faith and fanatics are out of fashion.

Africa must make a quantum leap of faith into God's governance out of the church's history, sacraments, ministries and Christianity.

This only proves how much failed you are from challenging the contents of the Quran and all you managed to do is making accusations with out a slightest idea of what you are talking about never even cared to take the beauty and leave out what you think of as beast rather than letting out all... but what the use of me talking to a brick of wall that has no religion faith that we can consider as a candle light to guide you to the straight paths to God..?

What God is looking for is repentence and a turning to him rather than a turning away from him.God instituted the animal sacrifices to show just how bad sin was so we would be sorry that we greived him.For us to be made right there has to be a choice to turn from sin and follow him and out of that decision there should be a desire to walk in his ways.Under the old law part of that obedience was to make offerings however it was by faith in God that made the person righteous and not the blood of animals.

Perhaps also this book not only may throw light on the fundamental purposes by which education should be directed, but may at the same time suggest the outlines of a relevant and mature faith for modern man — a faith that grows directly out of the daily struggle to make responsible decisions.

Above all, churches should ask for justice from religious institutions that continue to ignore Hispanics» existence: monocultural denominational and ecumenical agencies; theological institutions that refuse to hire Hispanic professors (and even discourage Spanish - speaking students from working toward doctorates); religious journals and magazines that fail to publish materials dealing with the life and faith of Hispanic churches; and mainline churches that do not make an all - out commitment to ministry among Hispanics.

Psalm 104:2 «who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain» Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.

For others, it's a nagging thought — as you work out your faith on your own, you keep coming back to this Jesus, and you can't make sense of him all the way, but you also can't accept everything he says because it seems somehow too hard to live that way, or too complex, or too simple, or merely out of your grid of experience.

So the ascension becomes for Luke not a literal event that baffles scientists and historians, but a symbolic event lifted out of the Old Testament and told to open the eyes of faith, to behold this Jesus as he really is — God of God, light of light, begotten not made.

These ministers represent the kind of Christian that makes me reluctant to say to people I don't know that I'm a Christian and the kind of speakers for the faith that drove all my children out of churches because they would not put up with such judgmentalism, cruelty, and, too often, drive for power and money.

As I mentioned in the opening paragraph, I have a position on the role of faith and works which seems to make the most sense out of most of the troubling and difficult passages of Scripture.

Posting a website doesn't make your diatribe anymore truthful... you are an evangelical atheist troll who hangs out on the religion blog and attacks all people of faith... I'm not saying this as an insult but just a statement of fact... it's what you do but it doesn't have to be this way... I think you know enough to know that your way ends in an eternity of anguish... attack me now to save face but please open your hardened heart and take your own journey to find God... ignore the radical wingnuts because this is your own journey.

Clive, you point out how others often don't understand what Jesus was saying; but while Jesus often labors to try and make things clear to the unbeliever («Oh, you of little faith) or at the very least the author tries to make it clear for us in retrospect (At the time they didn't understand that he spoke of this...), in this case Jesus switches from something that might be figurative to essentially say «no, I seriously mean this» and it concludes not with Jesus saying «don't go away, this is what I actually mean» but confirming that people would refuse to accept that God intended for them to actually fill themselves with the life that He offered so they stopped following him.

i do nt know wheather you are still living in Law or Grace, but thats what i encourage you to find out, cause nothing seem to make since, when your still trying to live under the Law, you must except the free gift of righteousness by grace through faith, if not, you will always come under condemnation, I experience this for years, Oh Thank God I Am Free, Read Romans, Galation, and ephisans, and Hebews

On the contrary, «fundamentalism has offered ordinary people of conservative instincts an alternative to liberal faith in human progress, a way of making sense out of the world, exerting some control over their lives, and creating a way of life they can believe in.»

But he also believed in an «indirect» vindication of Christian faith — namely, that «it makes more sense out of more facts» than any of its alternatives.

For a long time now the Christian understanding of man has been obscured by theories of his nature built on other dogmas than that of the sovereignty of God and constructed out of observations of his behavior made from other points of view than those of Christian faith.

In his journal Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1697 he wrote: «The Latins take a great deal of pains to expose this ceremony, as a most shameful imposture, and a scandal to the Christian religion; perhaps out of envy, that others should be the masters of so gainful business; but the Greek and Armenians pin their faith upon it, and make their pilgrimages chiefly upon this motive.»

The assumptions undergirding our democracy are a somewhat paradoxical amalgamation, characterized by a free - flowing sense of moral relativism, a laissez - faire individualism and a fairly profound liberal sense of social responsibility: It is difficult enough to make sense out of these dogmas without considering our Christian faith in the saving power of Christ's cross.

When viewed this way, it makes sense why people will shell out well over $ 30 million dollars during these «Woman of Faith» events.

No doubt the church has been right in acknowledging the deity of Christ and the Incarnation as the fullest measure of the divine revelation of which human nature is capable; though it should be pointed out that the church as a rule undertook to stand fast and to hold the ground of the traditional, historical faith, enshrined in the New Testament, and — as the histories of dogma make clear - only took over metaphysical definitions which had already been hammered out on the anvils of logical and exegetical disputation.

Logic and reason are necessary to find actual answers, faith requires obedience and the ability to accept blindly what someone else made up out of thin air.

Yes I do have a problem with a «god» who would behave in a way that makes him a cold hearted bastard getting his kicks out of eternal conscious torment for those he chose to deny the ability the have faith.