Sentences with phrase «of evangelical faith»

The Cornwall Alliance is presenting its first Outstanding Evangelical Climate Scientist Award to Dr. Roy Spencer, who has made no secret of his evangelical faith, making him a model and inspiration for other scientists and evangelicals alike.

The family life of the ministers became the symbolical expression of the communal character of the evangelical faith.

But I suggest that ecumenism is a central portion» a core concern» of the evangelical faith and the evangelical church.

According to historian LeRoy Ashby, Bryan was sustained by «the combined heritages of evangelical faith and the republicanism of the nation's revolutionary era.»

Timothy George, in his article «Evangelicals and Others» (February), offers the insight that «ecumenism is a central portion — a core concern — of the evangelical faith and the evangelical church.»

Small fundamentalist part of the evangelical faith maybe.

The key, Hedges claims, is the certainty of evangelical faith.

White is the only pastor from Trump's group of evangelical faith advisors scheduled to speak at the inauguration.

«Not only in Europe and North America but equally even in Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, we find countless Christians with the same strongly held suspicions of the World Council of Churches or at any rate the same type of evangelical faith».37 Then Berkof makes an important observation.

The message, rooted deep in this man of peace, offers the best of evangelical faith in an accessible, inescapable way.

As in his earlier volumes, Wells shows himself to be conversant with various streams of social criticism as he wrestles with the present and future of evangelical faith.

Not exact matches

«I could not be more proud to stand with President Trump as he continues to stand shoulder to shoulder with communities of faith,» evangelical preacher Paula White told Religion News Service, «This order is a historic action, strengthening the relationship between faith and government in the United States and the product will be countless, transformed lives.»

Members of Trump's unofficial evangelical advisory council, a loose umbrella of faith advisers with close access to the president, celebrated the news.

Complicating matters further is Osteen's association with the prosperity gospel movement, and the related «Word of Faith» movement popular in some evangelical circles, which teaches that believing Christians can harness the power of prayerful speech: to reap material and financial rewards in this life as well as the next.

So, is the Army not the responsibility of the federal government, and wouldn't their support for a faith specific event such as this (it doesn't even cater to all Christian groups, only the evangelicals) be seen as an endorsement of evangelicalism by the federal government?

As for the «evangelicals» who hitched their wagon to the blasphemous Romney thinking that Jesus would have voted for someone who openly denies His Diety and sovereignty, and who hijacked the discussion of faith in this country to hide their actual agendas of hate, racism, division, and greed, the election result is another lesson to them to not drag Holy God down into the vile realm of man's political systems.

Evangelical - style faith was the de facto established religion of Graham's native South of the early - and mid-twentieth century.

Some faith leaders, including National Association of Evangelicals president Leith Anderson, oppose stripping away provisions that could aid mail - order brides and other immigrants.

I describe myself as a «former evangelical» for many reasons, not the least of which is I have an adult gay son who is not welcomed in lots of churches (neither is he welcomed by Muslims or those who practice B'hai Faith).

A handful of prominent evangelical activists are defending their decision to attend television host Glenn Beck's conservative rally in Washington this weekend after some Christians complained that evangelicals shouldn't be partnering with Beck because of his Mormon faith.

On the other hand, Americans of faith have rallied together as never before: Catholic and Jew, Evangelical and Mormon.

Other evangelical activists have gone further, arguing that Beck's faith isn't that different from that of mainstream Christians.

We envy our Evangelical friends for the vibrancy of faith in their communities.

A number of evangelical leaders with very large constituencies sharply criticized the declaration as a betrayal of the central Reformation belief in «justification by faith alone.»

Most of 1.3 million Korean Americans are Christian, Park said, and they generally subscribe to an evangelical Protestant version of the faith.

For Evangelicals, the Church as the one body of Christ extending through space and time includes all the redeemed of all the ages and all on earth in every era who have come to living faith in the body's living Head.

As Evangelicals and Catholics fully committed to our respective heritages, we affirm together the coinherence of Scripture and tradition: tradition is not a second source of revelation alongside the Bible but must ever be corrected and informed by it, and Scripture itself is not understood in a vacuum apart from the historical existence and life of the community of faith.

In sharpest contrast to such partisan excitements is D. Michael Lindsay's Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite (Oxford).

As far as faith is concerned, there are a lot of Captain Amazings in the Evangelical church.

The Protestant evangelical primacy of justification by faith, coupled with an overemphasis on discontinuity between the covenants, has more often than not resulted in the confusion of soteriological and ethical categories, in the end breeding among evangelicals a moral mindset devoid of both foundations and fiber.

Without denying the place that Protestant reformers occupy in evangelical faith, it should be said that classic Christian teaching, whether in the realm of doctrine or ethics, is best defined not against the backdrop of the sixteenth century, but rather in the light of the broader apostolic tradition.

His early religious outlook was colored by the evangelical Baptist faith of his parents and a Calvinist theology of predestination - the belief that the fate of all men and women had been predetermined by God, PBS.org said of Lincoln in its «God in America» series.

«Once again, expressions of Christian faith that honor the rights of women to choose their own health care options and what happens to their bodies are not seen or heard,» wrote the Rev. Barbara Kershner Daniel, who pastors the Evangelical Reformed United Church of Christ of Frederick, Maryland, in a message that she circulated via email.

There's a huge difference between being spiritually aware / having a faith, and being one of these evangelical crackpots that want to make some parts of their faith * law for everyone in the country *.

Background About two years ago, I published an article called The Gospel is More than «Faith Alone in Christ Alone» in the Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society.

Because of the historical particularities involved in each period and the differing nature of the struggle in each case, these uses of the word evangelical convey a different vision of Christian faith.

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.

He does not help the believer both for these reasons and because the solution he proposes is both lame and inconsistent with any sort of Christian faith, evangelical, liberal or Roman Catholic.

I talk about how the evangelical obsession with sex can make Christian living seem like little more than sticking to a list of rules, and how millennials long for faith communities in which they are safe asking tough questions and wrestling with doubt.

In some ways, Flanders is the embodiment of evangelical cultural stereotypes: He's extremely morally conservative, constantly references his faith, has a seemingly perfect family, is prone to cringe - inducing clichéd sayings and is a fixture at the local church.

Similarly to the article, and how George W. Bush used his presumably Evangelical faith to benefit his campaign, every interpretation of the bible has been used to the advantage of those who will benefit the most within the congregations walls.

Indeed, just as the world is filled with selfappointed salesmen for God, it is also filled with evangelical atheists who are equally determined to convert anyone who will listen to their belief system, their faith in the non-existence of God.

What Sarah Bessey does is claim the voice of feminism for her own Christian faith — an evangelical faith, no less!

His 1994 book Reasonable Faith (Crossway) argues that «Evangelicals have been living on the periphery of responsible intellectual existence... there is an intellectual war going on in the universities and in the professional journals and scholarly societies.

While some evangelicals agree with Trump's efforts to course - correct on behalf of persecuted brothers and sisters, many others worry about the ramifications of privileging Christians above other faiths.

The official news release carefully pointed out that the organization was «not officially connected» with the NAE's convention but that its statement of faith is the same and its membership (open to both homosexuals and heterosexuals) is composed of «members of NAE and various evangelical churches.»

As a former evangelical, I put some faith in the fact that I was in a church that was part of a mainline, liberal denomination.

An emphasis on the decision character of faith has a long and deep history in the American psyche going back to our Puritan and evangelical ancestors.

I had a classmate at an evangelical Christian college who repeatedly defined faith as «stepping out of airplanes, knowing that God will catch you.»

There is disagreement among Christians about this, (and historically, even among evangelicals), so is it really my place, or the government's job, to impose my beliefs on people of all faiths and convictions?