Sentences with phrase «of dying for the faith»

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Before the «Dispensation of Grace» of God, by which we are saved through «Faith in Jesus Christ» as Lord and our personal Savior, Jesus Christ fulfilled the «Law of God» on our behalf during His ministry on earth, died on the «Holy Cross» for the «Remission of Our Sins» once and for all, descended to hell and defeated death, then rose from the dead on the third day bringing us «Eternal Life» and «Reconciliation» with God the Father!

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?

And though He died for the sins of the world, God's forgiveness is only granted to those who receive it by grace through faith.

More Christians died for their faith in the twentieth century than in all the years of Christendom combined.

Perfect opportunities for you to share your faith and to spread the truth of the good news of Jesus Christ to a dead and dying generation of people.

I care for the elderly and have also seen this when people die... the people I have taken care of cared more about the people they were leaving and seeing those who had died before them, than any need to be told God was there... people with faith KNOW He is

I am not the most religious of people, but I do believe in God, and Jesus... but many people seem to forget that God's SON sacrificied himself for our sins... in my book, a SON is part of a FAMILY... God put us on this earth to be of free will and to make our own way... Love being the biggest part of that way... we love God and we love Jesus... but we are also all part of his FAMILY... He made us all to be part of a unit that has hope and faith and love... we were meant to procreate... so what does it matter if a person who is dying does not automatically think of God, but of their loved ones?

Bishop Niyiring who made this declaration yesterday during the requiem Mass celebrated for all the 10 deceased Catholics at Our Lady of Fatima Cathedral, described the death as painful, saying the catholic church honours those who died in their faith.

Several thousand died here for their faith, along with thousands of other political prisoners.

I suffered a terrible car accident... during 3 weeks I almost died «many times»... Now I can read a beautiful article like this one and agree with it... Believe me... no matter your faith, your fortune or whatever you may be involved with... on the face of death if you are human you will only care about your loved ones... you will remember about the moments you were happy together and dream they happen again... you will remember your childhood like you were 7 again... you will ask forgiveness and try to show your love, no matter how hard you are... In the face of death we realize that nothing more then our family matters... For the professor, once his life of arrogance reaches an end, he will then understand what is the meaning of family...

Why not display other religious symbols alongside this as a sign of respect for the people of other faiths who also died in the towers?

Jesus lived on this planet, he died for the sins of all mankind and he rose again, he will come back again!!!!! you can either have Faith and believe in him as your savior or not, the CHOICE is yours...

The colors of the various robes each have a symbolic meaning, e.g red for the cardinals, signifies that as a leader of the Church they are willing to die for the faith.

Faith (or belief without evidence) is more motivated by two basic human emotions: FEAR of dying and punishment and HOPE for an eternal afterlife.

Frans van der Lugt, who cared for disabled children of all faiths and refused to leave them when the war started, was dragged from his monastery in Homs, and beaten, shot, and left to die in the street.

if you have faith anything is possible, that's what happen on Monday, the Nation was asking for miracle and we received one, the pope was praying with for us, the peace he always breath, I don't wish anybody's death, but in this case someone had to die, either one of us again or Osama.

According to his obituary, Broomfield died «fighting in defense of those being persecuted for their Christian faith.

A campaigner who spent decades speaking out on behalf of believers around the world living under pressure for their faith has died aged 74.

Ursula Nash, who has died at the age of 96, was one of the Faith Movement's earliest supporters and for nearly twenty years ran the voice for Faith Magazine and pamphlets in her home.

David Mills is Executive Officer of First Things Justice, Peace and the Martyrs Thousands and possibly tens of thousands of Christians die for the faith every year, notes Daniel Philpott, writing in the Jesuit magazine America.

Edward Holloway, an active pastoral priest for fifty - five years, founder of Faith movement, editor of Faith Magazine, theologian and philosopher, died on 24 March 1999, aged 81 years.

Because I believe by faith that Jesus died for the joy of reconciling me to the Father.

Rather, what we find here is a supreme illustration of the faith of the one who said: «When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die».44 Nevertheless, some of the Marxist interpreters are correct in their perceptive observation of finding in Bonhoeffer's theology some possibilities for a constructive encounter between Marxism and Christianity.

The Apostles» successors, next three centuries: die for faith, write liturgies, establish canon of scripture, doctrine, and practice based on that tradition.

If you had faith enough that Jim Jones / David Koresh / Ra / Isus / My lawn sprinkler... could get you to a place of outstanding bliss... you would die for them or at their advice.

So, I pray that as I grow in my faith and as my children experience their own challenges... be it that one chooses to be a pastor or my daughter chooses a life of servitude as a nun that they will also always know that the Lord gives them the freedom to make changes and seek him in whatever way they need to without compromising the fact that he died for us to save us.

Every day we have to overcome the sinfulness of our body through faith in God's promises: died for the sin, in Christ.

I never argued whether the resurrection was true or false (that's a matter of faith and people die for their faiths all of the time), but the fact that he lived was my point.

Leading thousands of people in prayer for the victims at the Vatican on Sunday, he said that they died in «another act of ferocious violence» after refusing to renounce their faith.

Indeed, the radical Christian has taken this original ground of the Christian faith to its inevitable fulfillment: if all eternity must pass through «Self - Annihilation,» then God himself must die to make possible the redemptive triumph of the apocalypse, for his death reverses that «Self - hood» which is the source of the fall.

I didn't pray for leukemia but I got it children die everyday new souls in this sometimes very cruel world what kind of god does that I'm sure you'll say the sins of the father or it just wasn't gods plan or if we were better Christians then we wouldn't be punished or our faith was being tested and to all of you I say what a cruel child of a god you have that» tests his flock he so lovingly created excuse after excuse I'll keep my faith in the science that put my cancer in remission and if I'm wrong I'll march straight into hell knowing I made no excuses

I have friends of different faiths and walks of life, but as Jesus died for the muslims, atheists, satanists and everyone else, didn't he say we have a choice to make?

Christians says faith is the evidence of things not seen but the die hard «the big bang is true» refuse to admit that all they have is evidence for the thing not seen thus making it a belief.

Neville i agree with you Jesus has the power to forgive sin past present and future through the cross when he died his death covered past present and future.If those in the old testament were justified by faith and made righteous then they are covered by the blood of Jesus even though he hadn't died for them yet because there hope was in God.Isn't that what the definition of faith is it is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things unseen.The proof is Enoch how could he go to be with God if he was not righteous and only the blood of Jesus is able to do that.

consider your own logic: so here's a doctor who chooses not simply to make piles of cash in the US, but goes to the poorest continent not the planet... risking his life to work with people dying from an incredibly dangerous virus... openly admitting he is motivated by his faith in a God who didn't just risk his life, but gave it for others...

I kind of thought that is the central tenet of your faith is that Jesus died for EVERYONE's sins, and that your God gets to make the final call on that pitch.

Or, as Father Urban Roche, hero of Powers's first novel, puts it, «There was too much emphasis on dying for the faith.

For Bultmann, Jesus died on the cross; but he is «risen in the kerygma» or the preaching of him as the unique «act of God» the one in whom the past is overcome, the future is opened up, and a new life in faith by grace is made available to those who will respond to the proclamation.

Stirred by the example of the martyrs who died rather than deny their Lord, Christians today should be prepared to make sacrifices for their faith.

They alone commend goodness to the world, for most people choose goodness, if they choose it at all, for the same reason that Tolstoy became a Christian: «I saw around me people who, having this faith, derived from it an idea of life that gave them strength to live and strength to die in peace and in joy.»

Many of the things I still believe in I first learned in that modest Baptist community of faith: that Jesus loves me and died on the cross for my sins; that the Bible is the totally true and trustworthy Word of God; that all human beings are made in the image of God and are infinitely precious in his sight.

Millions have died for and because of their faith.

Millions now dying on both sides of the eastern front are dying for a faith.

As far as the question posed about what about salvation for people who died before Jesus came, or the people of other faiths who died already?

If this man dies for his faith, the reward of Heaven will outweigh anything he leaves behind a thousandfold.

i wonder whih god will be more pleased with its slave — the one who murdered a man for his beliefs or the one who allowed his follower to die for his faith either way — god is a man made belief system that is only a few thousand years old — and in that time, no one single thing has killed more humans, than a man claiming to know the will of some kind of god Faith is good thing, faith in one's faith either way — god is a man made belief system that is only a few thousand years old — and in that time, no one single thing has killed more humans, than a man claiming to know the will of some kind of god Faith is good thing, faith in one's Faith is good thing, faith in one's faith in one's self.

Those martyrs did not die for the right to practice their religion in a pluralist setting, but for the truth and exclusivity of the Catholic faith.

It is a win - win for this faithful christian man: if he lives then justice has been done and an innocent life is preserved, if he dies his death will only mean the growth of the faith his willing to die for.

The American Translation reads: «For God showed him publicly dying as a sacrifice of reconciliation to be taken advantage of through faith.»

Edward Holloway, the founder of the Faith Movement, who died in March 1999, was amongst those deeper and subtler minds who early on recognised the passing of the «old synthesis» and the urgent need for a development of theology and doctrine to meet the needs of the times.