Sentences with phrase «many small faith»

We began attending a church and small faith group, which helped us learn to give of ourselves, our time and our resources.

If one does so believe that nothing is one's finality, the, so be they, however if one faithfully believes in a hereafter, the will be faithfully rewarded no matter how small their faith is bequeathed upon them.

House church is about relationships forged in small faith communities.

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.»

I've read about a dozen books by N. T. Wright, and I am sorry to say that Small Faith, Great God is not his best.

The author clearly hopes that the ideal of male and female religious who move beyond gender roles to form small faith communities liberated from a centrally organized clergy is something we can finally realize.

Here is one place: Small Faith vs. Great Faith.

Boyd also reveals a basic misunderstanding of other key ideas as well, such as the term «salvation,» the requirements for eternal life, and the concepts of great faith, small faith, etc..

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

If we do not give thanks daily for the Christian fellowship in which we have been placed, even where there is no great experience, no discoverable riches, but much weakness, small faith and difficulty; if we keep complaining to God that everything is so paltry and petty, so far from what we expected, then we hinder God from letting our fellowship grow according to the measure and riches which are there for us all in Christ Jesus.

Not exact matches

Given the lack of faith most small business owners have that they'll be able to stop working, it's perhaps not surprising that only one third of them have a succession plan in place.

If you forget the smallest detail, or conveniently remember something in a slightly different way, then you lose faith and trust with the candidate immediately.

If we ask a customer to take one big leap of faith and complete an action, they are far less likely to be persuaded than if we'd started small.

Provide Leadership Training to Top Performers For a small company to succeed, employees must have faith in leadership and feel they belong to an organization that recognizes outstanding performances.

Small business owners are optimistic by nature, but they don't need to go into the new year with blind faith.

Small - company owners and entrepreneurs have faith in their rescuers: The optimism index of the National Federation of Independent Business jumped 38 points in December, reaching its highest level since 2004.

But small - business owners seem to have faith in him.

Without that faith, there can be no confidence in Canada for business operators big or small.»

«Without confidence in Canada's regulatory processes — whether seeking a permit to start a small business, harvest a stand of trees or advance a large capital project - we need to have faith in the processes set out by our governments.

Make sure that you think through everything and don't hold yourself back from taking a small leap of faith.

Second there are plenty of people who come to their faith as it were through something more than bible verses its called critical thinking people can critically think their way to the idea that they are rather small beings in a relatively huge universe and that they realize that they can't know everything and leave some things including the nature of the universe to faith and acknowledge it as faith if that's how they see the world fine is there anything particularly wrong with that?

From our monarchy to the smallest of gatherings in the local parish hall, traces of the Christian faith are all around us.

«There is no place for the Confederate battle flag in the iconography of the nation's most visible faith community,» explained Dean Gary Hall in a news release about the windows that include small Confederate flags as part of their interpretation of Lee and Jackson.

But the percent of thepopulation who are ready to truly emotionally accept that we take, say, induction or external reality on faith is still very, very small.

What this means is you have disgraced the Lord Jesus, disgraced the Mother of God, and disgraced the small percentage of faithful young catholic women out there that obey the teachings of the faith instead of looking at it as being a «social club» to do «good deeds».

When I was in college I went to a small liberal arts school with a diverse student body faith wise.

«We saw young people coming to faith and starting small house churches.

Can say that I believe in every thing that you disbelief of when it comes to the Creator and the Creation of universe, life and guidance, God has given me hearing, seeing, thinking and heart feelings to see and experience signs and small miracles to have faith in him and continue with good deeds I was told of in his Holy Book although am not perfect at that but nothing to lose but contrary to that there are more to gain in life and life after... For those disbelievers they lose their senses by being locked and blocked from such experiences... It is all about souls as verses speak for them selves;

Only faith in Jesus Christ, who paid the death penalty we all deserve for even the smallest of sins we've ever commited, can give us any hope.

When we lose faith in the essential goodness of life and our own humanity, seeing that which we judge «evil» to be more prevalent than that which we judge to be «good», then we have lost faith in either the goodness or the power of God to sustain that goodness and our God has become too small or just another Baal, a false god of our own vain imaginings, a projection of our own finite limitations and disordered desires.

«As you've done to the least of these you've done unto me...» I think that a faith which s not broad or deep enough to inspire down to earth empathy - in - action, which doesn't strive for real world results (however temporary they may be), is far too small and narrow a faith.

Add to that the variety of doctrines / Theologies within orthodox Christianity... with Consensus on a very small Core of Truths: God Is, We are not God, Jesus Christ is the Messiah and Salvation is Through Faith / Belief in Him... there is much that lacks Consensus and there are mountains of arguments and counter-arguments for each doctrinal / Theological position.

Engaging subjects: childhood, faith, love, death, aging, failure — the small and large occasions of human life.

These guys lived their faith in real, tactical, practical ways that led millions of people closer to Jesus, in big efforts and small acts of love.

Small, faith - based schools with religiously motivated teachers are more likely to offer the special attention, loving intimacy and moral standards hat an increasing number of dysfunctional homes can not provide.

God is famous in the family dinners and protest marches, in the re-reading of a favourite book to small children and in Wednesday night Bible studies open to the public, in the prayers of the unknown and the faith of the uncelebrated.

I pray that when we are bored and tired and discouraged and frustrated, when we feel futile and hopeless, small and ridiculous that we will receive the gift of faith and somehow remember to sink into your love and to receive new life, new joy, new strength, new boldness, new courage, new faith, new vision.

This small section allows the reader to share in the Eucharistic faith of saintly people who, since the Lord's command to «Do this in memory of me,» have handed to us that great treasure that we are now called to hand on, to celebrate and to revere.

As a new mom asking big questions about how we want to raise our son in the faith, I found this book incredibly helpful, because it starts so small.

So we came to faith in an unorthodox way, and we participated in small, organic,...

«I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, «Move from here to there» and it will move.

But I've also learned over my lifetime that it is just as holy and just as ridiculous and just miraculous for the people of God to pick up their own small shovels and shoulder into that mountain with faith.

In considering the Providence of God alongside the workings of the JULY / AUGUST 2006 natural laws he goes on to explain: «It is crystal clear that the Christian faith presupposes that God's providence is not just general but is very concrete, reaching down to the smallest and most unlikely details, even to the point that «all the hairs of our head» are numbered.

Faith, though it can start small as a seed, can grow into a towering tree if nurtured.

Jesus often spoke of the Kingdom of God in small ways: a seed that grows to a mighty oak, a mustard seed of faith, a bit of yeast that causes the whole loaf to rise.

Only faith derived from Christian preaching is able to deduce the certainty of God acting upon us even from those fragments, which otherwise would remain only a small part of the history of ideas, and quite a problematic part at that.»

«Remember we live in a very scientific age and so the man of faith is getting smaller and smaller because he can't bring any proof to the horizon; where is this so - called God.

My thought is someone's faith so wavering and small that it can't abide questioning and doubt?

Several students began to weep, but another, a small girl, made her way to the front and in her child like way wrote what words of FAITH in a loving GOD believes to be the only answer, «Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.»

Were they afraid to talk to me about their faith because they expected me to do everything I could to make them look foolish and small?