Sentences with phrase «own faith experiences»

You are either intentionally or ignorantly — both then and now, i.e., 13 years later — are depriving those patients whom whom God of love is putting in your path to use your divinity school knowledge and your biblical faith experience to guide the path of that talk towards the absolute truth related to the love of God — i.e. true love which stems from God by giving his only Son for whoever to choose to believe on him to have «everlasting life» by having his / her sins forgiven.

Yet, at the same time, I knew that this is one of the many ways that Mosaic is distinct from so many other faith experiences.

The great challenge, the one that took me a book to articulate and which I suspect will take me a lifetime to work out, is to hold every piece of my faith experience in love, even the broken bits, even the parts that still cut my hands and make them bleed.

And now I write about my ever - evolving faith experience as a follower of Jesus Christ.

We didn't consider it a failure of our spiritual parenting but rather a natural part of their maturation and faith experience.

In your faith experience, is it possible to harmonize Scripture, reason, experience, and tradition or must there be a hierarchy?

It's important to keep in mind that negative encounters with «the Church» are, in reality, negative encounters with certain people in the Church, and that there are many wonderful, compassionate, God - honoring people eager to share positive stories about why church is a such a critical part of our collective faith experience.

Readiness for evangelism: i.e., clarity about the story of one's own beginning and progress in the Christian life, and the ability to tell it so that it connects with the life and faith experience of the listener.

I can not imagine what people of other faiths experience and frankly neither can you.

It is only when the child has already been involved in a good deal of basic faith experience that he steadily attains more self - awareness, and his developing mind recognizes that the context of his human existence is one in which the horizons are being pushed ever farther back.

And it is time for large churches to open their pulpits to those women, whose new and dynamic styles of leadership can enhance the faith experiences of Christians.

People of every faith experience this.

Eternal security (the belief that a person can not lose his or her salvation) is rejected, since Mormon salvation is based in large part on acts of obedience after an initial faith experience.

Is it possible to have a faith where, due to existential honesty, psychic pain and anxiety are regular features of the faith experience?

A great way to get through discouraging moments is to be reminded of past breakthrough faith experiences.

The whole point is that the faith experience needs to be deeper than gimmicky technology in megachurches or online.

When broken down by religious tradition, certain faiths experienced far more defection than others.

The Protestant reformers sought to recover the egalitarian and communal biblical faith experience as a reforming antidote to this poisonous sacralism (CSP 159 - 222).

As we continue our discussion of Peter Rollins» How (Not) to Speak of God, I'd like to explore the role that doubt plays in the faith experience.

With this framework, the research team, together with theologians and denominational leaders, developed a 38 question survey focusing on two themes, summed up in the report as follows: «A person of mature faith experiences both a life - transforming relationship to a loving God — the vertical theme — and a consistent devotion to others — the» horizontal theme.»

Give a (brave) listen to his album «Curse Your Branches» — the narrative inherent in the songs is hard, and then liberating, as he wrestles with the «coming out» journey from a wounded / wounding faith experience.

7 — Each individual potentially understands their need for a Savior and decides whether to accept His grace (through their sincere FAITH in Christ; being born again)» 8 — Individual with sincere faith experiences relationship / communion with God, thereby growing in faith and love in their Creator and Savior, and growing more holy as God works within the person (sanctification).

Such a method is bound to abstract considerably from what lies in the depths of faith experience.

Calvin understood that doubt was a part of the faith experience, because human nature itself finds ideas about God and His goodness so outside of what we can understand: «For unbelief is so deeply rooted in our hearts, and we are so inclined to it, that not without hard struggle is each one able to persuade himself of what all confess with the mouth: namely, that God is faithful.»

Did they finally have a presidential candidate who shared their faith experience and their conservative values, and — importantly — who could win in November?

My faith experience isn't entirely cognitive — that I will confess.

When you were a Christian, did you ever believe that you felt God's presence, or was your faith experience more cognitive than anything else?

The story of Saul's conversion is not told as the normative faith experience — it is the extraordinary one.

Discernment, therefore, is in the comparison of one faith experience with another faith experience, and in the concrete way in which that faith manifests itself in living.

The thing I love about this book, (and all of Sarah's writing), is that she really gets the evolving faith experience and how it's not just an intellectual exercise, but rather a deeply personal and consuming rearrangement of the self that affects body, soul, relationships, and identity.

Alise writes about the ups and downs of the faith experience with such honesty and authenticity, each post reads like a conversation with an old friend.

Having just finished writing over 50,000 words about my own faith experience, (much of which does not fit the Baptist mold), I can't help but wonder if I'll earn the «Read With Discernment» sticker myself.

There is historic basis for the attempt to combine faith experience and parish involvement with theological reflection.

The link between a faith experience gained in front of a television set and subsequent involvement within a local church or Christian group is usually provided by the bridge of personal relationship.

In Jesus this resurrection was uniquely striking, because it was experienced by his followers immediately after his death, and it has continued to be a part of the Christian faith experience ever since.

His seminary education (where «I could concentrate on critical biblical scholarship because I already knew the biblical content and narratives so well») and his later faith experiences and human encounters made it possible for him to analyze and interpret his own history in a way that has freed him to preach from the totality of that experience to the totality of human experience, encompassing as it does suffering and celebration, alienation and reconciliation, sin and redemption.

It is an easy step from here to oppose as either / ors, rather than both / ands, various aspects of Catholic faith such as propositions / faith experience, hierarchy / communion, what is unchanging / the grace of faithfulness through change etc..

My actual faith experience has been onion layers rather than one specific story.

Brian James worked in education and pastoral ministry and has spent over 10 years mentoring men and women from diverse backgrounds and faith experiences.

Not exact matches

The hope is that by showing faith in the worker, you give them confidence and experience that could pay off later in the season.

If you are serious about succeeding as an entrepreneur and person, expect to experience heart - wrenching moments that will test your faith, your endurance and patience.

But Carmody puts little faith in Whac - A-Mole campaigns, and his experience with Goon has him wanting something more.

Clayton Christensen writes about the experiences that have shaped his life and personal faith and have encouraged him to live a life of dedication and service.

Progressives disagree and put their trust in personal experience, even if that requires them to «resymbolize historic faiths according to the prevailing assumptions of contemporary life.»

So while I agree with her that political life may help renew faith in human dignity and so make human rights believable, the politics of human rights is conducted through liberal language that is extremely partial, that leaves out at least half of the human experience.

1: the study of religious faith, practice, and experience; especially: the study of God and of God's relation to the world 2 a: a theological theory or system b: a distinctive body of theological opinion 3: a usually 4 - year course of specialized religious training in a Roman Catholic major seminary»

I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

We have already had the experience of religion... The Inquisition... The Salem witch trials... The forced conversion off native peoples throughtout the Americas to the christian faith... oh and the priests who like to play with alter boys...

But after experiencing that struggle within myself, and seeing that so very many Christians still, after years of faith, suffer through the same inner struggle I did, I have to stand back and ask them... what do you have that I could possibly want or need?

I am a person of faith; I am a man of faith for personal reasons based on personal experiences.