Sentences with phrase «of coming to faith»

What happened during that hour was the natural culmination of my coming to faith: I had been cracked open to the divine, I read books that I would have laughed at before the cracking, and the stars lined up and there was God, and then I knew, and then I said it out loud to a third party, and then I giggled.

The letter is a fascinating read, in which the Pope explains his personal story of coming to faith («For me, faith began by meeting with Jesus.

Paul seems not to favor the image of «born again» but prefers instead to speak of coming to faith as being made alive.

Not exact matches

That's because rather than losing faith in his call, Hussman did some digging around as to why it hadn't yet come true, and has recalibrated the conditions of his forecast.

I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.»

You always make a leap of faith when it comes to investing in Warren Buffett.»

«You always make a leap of faith when it comes to investing in Warren Buffett,» says Jack Ciesielski, an accounting expert and author of the Accounting Observer newsletter, who has recently analyzed Berkshire's financials.

came just hours after the Rev. Patrick J. Conroy's letter to the speaker rescinding his resignation and suggesting he was pressured to step down because of his Catholic faith.

When the most devastating terrorist attacks on America in the last 20 years come overwhelmingly from people of a single faith, and are performed in the name of that faith, a special obligation falls on that faith's leaders to respond,» Pompeo said McClatchyC - SPAN

This is not a discussion of whether Bitcoin is fraudulent or not, this comes down to a discussion of whether collectively as individuals at this point in history we want to put our faith in a currency backed by a centralized system or decentralized system.

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.

«Such social doctrine provides directions but, with few exceptions (for instance, the defense of innocent human life), does not provide directives of immediate applicability to policy questions on which people of good faith, guided by reason and conscience, can come to different conclusions.»

If you believe at all that Christ was the son of God and came to save the world, you are a Christian, even if you don't pray a specifically worded and ho ll ow prayer that affirms publicly that you are «born - again» in Jesus» blood — which in itself is sad is tic and doesn't ensure that the person doing the public profession of faith actually believes or will suddenly become so changed that they will lead a better life.

Come on, I have had debates with Atheist but I have also had to pretty much break up potential fights between two persons of Faith over an interpretation of a scripture.

In the course of my own studies of the scriptures I came to a personal understanding of my faith much more in line with the Arminian school of Christian thought.

And they even foretold of those that would come to sway our faith through philosophy and science.

In the end it really all comes down to something simple «do I love the gay person as my equal or is my version of the faith going to always limit them»?

They only need satisfy themselves that their position is a just one, suitable for teachers of the Christian faith who have come to realize in recent years that the faith has something to say to the problems of the day.

«I very much appreciate that, for so many of you, the inspiration to do such amazing acts of service in your communities comes directly from your Christian faith.»

The coalition then crafted questions to determine where the politicians stack up when it comes to, say, their stances on faith - based initiatives, public prayer and support of the word «God» in the Pledge of Allegiance.

I visited churches filled with new believers, many who came out of animist or Buddhist upbringings, often alone in their families, to confess faith in the risen Christ.

These brief statements of faith and «shadow confessions» are wholly inadequate to handle the coming cultural storm or indeed to guide day - to - day catechesis within the churches themselves.

Graham helped untold millions of Americans who already respected Christianity to come across the threshold of personal faith, and to be born again.

I also have people come to me with all sorts of questions because of my faith.

Though we may still sin every single day, Jesus Christ — the Son of God — came to earth to die on the cross so that we may be forgiven through faith in Him.

Thus when late moderns come across, say, St. Anselm's famous phrase «fides quaerens intellectum» (faith seeking understanding), they are often predisposed to see it at best as slightly duplicitous, at worst as expressing a somewhat contemptible ambition: the aspiration of an irrational passion (fervent, tender, fierce) to the dignity of a rational conviction (cold, adamantine, calm).

Both categories would have been unintelligible in the ancient or medieval worlds to which I had thought I was casting back a wistful eye — worlds in which reason and faith had not yet come to be regarded as utterly distinct, ultimately antithetical movements of the mind.

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?

So perhaps you should come to terms with the one fact that is truly undeniable, infallible and that links all together as one people: regardless of what any of us believes, the thing that gives us the certainty to argue for our beliefs is simply faith.

I come to the «belief blog» because I am a believer and stories of faith strengthen my soul.

Is there a step of faith in believing that Jesus is the Son of God and that He came and died for a sinner like me and that He rose again to prove that He is God and that He defeated Satan, sin and death and has given eternal life to all who believe in Him?

Only a believer would think that an atheist is the one being intellectually dishonest when it comes to matters of faith.

Both were skeptics who set out to prove that Jesus and the Bible were a hoax, only to come to faith in Jesus at the conclusion of their investigations.

He describes the pain and embarrassment he experienced in his struggles to come to terms with his homosexuality; his determination, once his desires became undeniable, to remain celibate in accordance with his faith; the explosive mix of joy and confusion he experienced when he had his first homosexual experience at age twenty - three.

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.

If this seems to lack in «inclusiveness» or in sensitivity to «other living faiths,» perhaps it is only part of the offense that has always come when the gospel is truly preached and practiced.

All I can say is one day God will will and we all will be judged for the people we hurt and judge, but one thing I can be sure of is that when it comes to respecting people of other faiths I will not have blood on my hands for harming Gods children.

I wasn't born into my faith, I came to Christ as a teenager, and every step of the way since then (I'm 24 now) I've sought answers.

do not understand how the universe (or life, or...) came to exist, it does not mean you get to make the unimaginable leap of «faith» to suggest there is a supernatural being or a God or a designer, or whatever you want to call it.

Seriously, President Obama says he came to his faith later in life because he saw in Jesus a living example of principles he could try to live by.

And his apostles do not come as propagandists of a secular doctrine of salvation «with sublimity of words or of wisdom» (1 Cor 2:1), but as «ministers of the Word» (Luke 1:2), as his «witnesses to the ends of the earth» (Acts 1:8), as preachers and teachers of the Gentiles in «faith and truth» (cf. 1 Tim 2:7).

I also wondered whether these people were of such little faith that they needed these «signs and miracles» to keep them believing and coming back.

@Richard — I came across this understanding of «faith» from the writings of a Catholic priest whose job it was to understand and explain Christian theology.

That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have achieved it, that is, righteousness that comes from faith; but that Israel, who pursued the law of righteousness, did not attain to that law?

Absent a true understanding of what the liturgy is, grounded in a firm grasp of what the gospel is, those who «come to church» do not grow in living faith.

Recently, I've come to understand to a greater degree how «a theology» can replace «a faith» and mask itself as the real thing.I'm not anti-theological, in fact, I'm very theological - the difference in my approach now is a realization that if one has some degree of traditional, but contemporary faith in God (as I do), then a theology is inevitable....

Hello, Muneef, I hope and pray that you are doing fine, and that you are safe... I don't actualy know where you are, but I gather you live somewhere where there are many unrests... Today is the special day for all people who have put their faith in Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, who came to live among us, and who became a sacrificial Lamb, offeirng Himself to God for the sins of all mankind.

The atheist who claims to come from a «faith» background is extremely confused and more to be pitied than admired.Had the supposed «believer» continued in the «faith» they claim to have forsaken, they would ultimately have appeared before God and been rejected.These were deceived, they never met God, they never knew God and they never understood God.They are devoid of the Truth and twice lost.There is hope while they still breathe Gods gift of life that they might someday meet and be reconciled to God, but their lying nature makes salvation less likely.Debate with them is an exercise in futility.God bless

So, what happens as people read these stories over and over, the conversation simply never comes up... and if someone challenges their faith... and they go to the Bible to look for answers, they are simply never going to find a trace of what I'm trying to say here in the sacred books.

One thing I found really interesting is that one conclusion the book came to is that these «faith wars» had a direct impact on the fall of the Roman Empire because the gov» t had to deal with the internal struggle and the external enemies had to take a back seat in importance or at least drastically distracted the leadership.