Sentences with phrase «on every believer by»

A senior church leader in Nigeria has described the «difficult» life being experienced by Christians in the country, as attacks on believers by militant Islamist group Boko Harem continue.

His studies have documented ways in which religious feeling and organization confer survival benefits on believers by promoting cooperation within, and sometimes between, groups.

Not exact matches

«Our advice to early stage hardware companies is focus on five things — validating and articulating the pain they eliminate or problem they solve, benefits versus features and being laser focused on tech product development, cultivating a community of believers and early customers, efficiently using their cash by leveraging experts and community hubs like makerspaces and reflecting great leadership and a community mindset.»

I know that may seem counter-intuitive to the purpose of this post, and to the solid point made by AJ Kohn, but I'm a firm believer in focusing on your audience.

Religious believers are likely to get further in discourse with the current generation of secular academics by 1) continually demonstrating, as Posner himself seems to intuit, that only a moral theory founded on God can actually «work,» in the sense of bridging the gap between «is» and «ought»; and 2) demonstrating the inherent self «contradictions of the moral theories advocated by the «secular liberals.»

Meanwhile, the believers have to follow the moralistic codes based on tradition and scripture lest they may become a «bad witness» to the truth of redemption by Jesus the Christ.

Believers who are driven with a very stong sense of compassion are out there on mission trips.Believers are far more motivated to perform than those that are here by chance.

Kim T, I am interested in your thoughts: During most of my life as a teen, young man, and on into adulthood (mid 30's) as a bible believer, I was plagued by lustful thoughts.

I think the percentage of atheists versus believers is higher than the number you provide, and I also think the important point (perhaps implied by tallulah) is that per person, there is more anger on the side of the theists than the nonbelievers.

It depends on if you're a «christian» or a Christ - ian... today a believer can pretty much get away with anything because they pull the grace card, and I'm not saying there is no grace (my mouth is not perfect, but I bridle it by the Holy Spirit in me.)

@All most of the post by the none relegious on this blog show disdain for believers and confuse the church for God.

You hit the nail squarely on the head for indeed so, biblical truths are «written on our heart» by way of the Presence of Christ's Indwelt Spirit Who is ever faithful to «guide you into all truth» and «show (us) things to come» (John 16:13) but the problem is (as is woefully evident with this Article \ s Author), too many people (believers) choose to eschew or disregard «sound doctrine» (2 Timothy 4:3) promulgating John 14:17 ignorance of the Doctrine of The Holy Spirit whose inevitable product is a darkened understanding (such as is evidenced by the Article's Author --RRB-.

Regardless of your beliefs and views, is it not tasteless for CNN to run this as their lead story on Easter morning??? Americans are appalled by anything done to insult Islam believers, so why is this felt to be appropriate??? There is nothing wrong with the article, but its timing makes it a poor and inflammatory choice of journalism, and would be taken as «persecution» if was directed toward any other belief system.

Anyway, if I were on my death bed, I would want to be surrounded by real born - again believers, which automatically includes most members of my family, and The Scriptures.

sacraments — true you probably don't need a church for them — baptism is commanded (for believers), it's special, but not neccesssarily a sacrament, it can be done by any believer, although possibly it was only the apostles who baptized (I tend to go with the baptist view on baptism, because that's what I read in the Bible.

These acts may seem small and limited, against a global background of persecution and terror, but every act of kindness and mercy, practiced on a wide scale, by ordinary believers, would be significant.

Since the story as seems to be bigger than just «Osama being used and abused» but it was always every crime made by inelegance or the crime world was tagged to him being behind it... even those who wanted to collect the insurance of their buildings the blew them up and tagged it to the late, even those who enjoyed the fluctuations of shares prices have made their moves to effect the same and tagging it to the late... It is not that i know but rather being every thing is possible to fabricate... What ever the case might be or made done, we say; Believers: The Ultimate Victors [2:216] Fighting may be imposed on you, even though you dislike it.

Message to all anti-gay believers out there, your views on homosexuals are rooted in the belief that it is a behavior or a choice, yet you refuse to be corrected by someone who actually is gay and would know, how Christ like are you being that you should refuse to listen and discriminate according to your own assumptions?

The «climate crusade» is one characterized by true believers, opportunists, cynics, money - hungry governments, manipulators of various types — even children's crusades — all based on contested science and dubious claims.

After I read the article by Evans, it occurred to me that perhaps one of the many reasons that there is so much hate, ridicule and criticism generated by Satan and spewed by the non-believers on this forum is because in a small way they can witness the hope and peace of mind that believers have and for some reason they resent those that have that which they do not have, as did Evan's mother had for his father after he had accepted Jesus as his Lord and King and Savior.

I think you will see quite a few posts by believers on here that claim that prayer works, that they have had dozens of prayers answered personally by a deity.

Out of all the postings on this site today, I found «Derp's «post the most fascinating and informative, as well as deeply revealing.Even after boasting of what seems to be a practically perfect live by any measure, he informs us that he takes pleasure in mocking and ridiculing those of faith who are presumably his opposite; I can only wonder if, given all his supposed accomplishments, he is smart enough to realize how deeply revealing of his true character his remarks are.As a believer, I rarely engage in arguments with my atheist friends, and like to think I wouldn't lower myself to the level of juvenile name - calling and personal attacks against whatever my atheist friends hold dear.Most of the time we simply agree to disagree; when they hold forth with misinformation or ignorance on their assumed «knowledge «of my faith, I try to gently correct them; I certainly don't allow any disagreements we have to devolve into hateful insults and name - calling.

17 times just on this page alone, scot has said «i'm sticking my fingers in my ears and yelling LALALALALA» by claiming people who don't believe as he does are «unregenerate» and implies you have to believe to see god... standard believer nonsense, but 17 times on one page alone shows the immaturity level.

colin: «Nah, I was responding collectively to the numerous assertions on the blog by the believers in the varios sky - fairies that atheists are somehow immoral.

The New Testament itself testifies to the persistence of pagan practices amongst the early communities and patterns of socialization by believers that brought them into contact with pagans on a regular basis (for example, 1 Corinthians 8 and 10).

Instead, you are simply seeking to be the church in a different way than by sitting in a church building with other believers on Sunday morning.

Nah, I was responding collectively to the numerous assertions on the blog by the believers in the varios sky - fairies that atheists are somehow immoral.

Like the third soil the cares of the world consume this BELIEVER and what he is worried about, concerned with and concentrating on gets wiped out by the storms.

Faith has be some been called the hand or instrument by which believers lay hold on and receive Christ.

Because believers rely on faith, they are easily deceived by unscrupulous people.

But some religiously orthodox wedding vendors are finding themselves compelled by the civil authorities to affirm an answer to that question that violates their religious convictions on the subject, and some religious institutions — from universities to social service agencies to private companies owned by orthodox believers — are finding themselves forced to take part in the enactment and enforcement of a moral code they are obliged to reject.

The students at YDS were not predominantly the children of lifelong believers; they were not well shaped by church tradition and well read in the Bible, ready and eager to take on the red meat of critical study.

The Catechism does say (1254) that an infant's godparents — and surely by implication his or her parents too — «must be firm believers, able and ready to help the newly baptized... on the road of Christian life.»

As I have read, ruminated, and wrestled with this I see the trend of Original Sin — that compulsion to seek godliness on our terms & not God's — evidenced in the history of secular humanity and borne by believers, the faithful as well as heterodox, into the congregation.

The crucifixion of Jesus was marked in Jerusalem on Good Friday when thousands of Christians attended a service held at a church considered by some believers to be where Jesus died and was buried.

The Fourth Gospel offers, in my view, a most profound and moving meditation on the traditions used by the Synoptists, in the light of the experience of Christian believers who truly encountered the risen Lord in the worship and witness of the Church.

It is all recorded in the Bible, written in countless books by believers who have passed on, and every believer alive today can give witness or testimony to their own spiritual experiences.

I suppose that most people who read or comment on this blog are believers in some sort of deity, although we probably all have been seriously let down by the deity we have been fed, hence the search for the real truth.

It is also believers who may use the Bible as an excuse to make others lives worse by hypocritically picking on gays or pro-choice advocates.

«So this latest discovery is good news for us believers, as it adds scientific support to the idea that the universe was caused — or created — by something or someone outside it and not dependent on it» What if God is the cause - and that which is caused?

Almost every believer I have ever talked to wants to use the logic of complex creations requiring a creator but fail to grasp the simple and unavoidable flaw in that logic which is that the super complex entlty it would take to design and build the universe would then by its own complexity require a more complex entlty to have created it and so on.

The system we receive is the product of the reflection on Scripture by countless believers for hundreds of years.

One of the many themes not dealt with adequately if at all, by contemporary fiction is a realistic portrayal on the effect of religion upon sincere believers.

Believers pray above a cross shaped by candles placed on jars of honey in the Church of the Blessed Virgin on February 10, 2013, during a celebration in honour of St. Haralampi, protector of the beekeepers.

They may se grouped into smaller divisions, but by definition they must be on the opposite side (or group) from the super set of believers

Tim Farron has responded to recent research by Premier Christian Communications on the place of Christianity in society today, saying believers should expect struggle and suffering because the Bible says so.

One of the issues here is the «unquestioned assumption» by the author, Pastor Jeffress... and some of the other fervent believers here on this - belief blog.

He said, «Maybe Judgment needs to fall on the country so that the President will seek the One true God's will» which means he hopes the entire country, except whom he feels are «true believers,» should be slaughtered by god in an apocalypse.

For instance, it speaks of the earth and heaven, Lord - men, Hell and heaven, 3 good deeds and by implication its opposite the bad deeds, righteous soul and by implication the unrighteous soul, at the judgment day4; Light - darkness, believers - unbelievers; 5 God - creation; 6 servant - master; 7 Good - evil.8 There also the repetitive emphasis on the otherness of God as in the notions of «the Lord of the Throne of Glory Supreme», 9 «Lord of the Throne of Honor; «10 emphasis on His power «Lord of Power; «11 His reach «The Lord of the two Easts and Two Wests, «12 and so on.

IMO it's the believers by and large who make the distinction of who is good and who isn't based on who is a believer and who isn't.