It is not about a church building or churches but about the church of God — Gods adopted
people through faith in Christ.
Another person through their faith might find them useful.
Follow the theories that social scientist Brené Brown uncovered when she asked herself, «What do these people with strong and loving relationships, leaders nurturing creativity, artists pushing innovation, and clergy walking with
people through faith and mystery have in common?»
Not exact matches
An ugly mantra ran
through his head on repeat: «I had raised a bunch of money from
people and they aren't going to have any
faith in my any more.
It is not fair to simply group all believers of a religious into disillusioned when many
people say they live their lives only
through faith.
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?
We actually trust that the Word of God will change hearts and bring
people to a living
faith in Christ the Savior,
through the hearing of the gospel.
This led to a big split among those that latched on to the words that having
faith in Jesus is what is needed to get to heaven vs words that say things like how it's easier to get a camel
through the eye of a needle than for a rich
person to get into heaven or help the poor.
Maybe have a little humility and admit you can't understand, rather than pretend you can demolish — in your mind — a human legacy that has endured
through thousands of years and continues to this day to inspire and transform
people from all walks of life and
faiths.
«In a situation like this
people turn to their
faith communities and their leaders and their counselling services because it's difficult not just to conceive the pain that
people are going
through but it's difficult to conceive why.
These beliefs are apparently the ones set forth by Messrs. Johnson, Hoge, and Luidens in «Mainline Churches: The Real Reason for Decline» (FT, March 1993): (1) That Christianity is the only religion with a valid claim to truth, (2) that
persons can be saved only
through Jesus Christ and otherwise go to hell, and (3) that therefore one should try to convert others to the Christian
faith.
... What has happened over time is that
people were forced to believe in the one of the Abrahamic
faiths through Holy wars, torture, Crusades and Inquisitions, and as
people practiced this chosen
people ideology, whether Christian, Catholic, Jew or Muslim, which was built on the principle of remaining segregated from the un-chosen, their
faith urged them to remain segregated, where they lived and never to marry anyone outside their
faith... and even in death there is a history of segregation which to this day continues, try having a non Jewish
person buried in Jewish cemetery.
Now, prior to Christ, the
people still went to Heaven the same way they do today — by God's grace
through repentance and
faith.
Perhaps Mormons should start embracing their Jewish heritage (
through Jesus who lived and died as a Jew) and starting giving their sons Bar Mitzvahs and observing important Jewish holidays and stop inflicting their beliefs on
people of other
faiths
That's good that these
people keep their
faith through anything — natural disasters, famines, war, etc. — it shows a portion of the magnitude of God's power, glory, and existence.
There is hardly a better example of the desperate state of the drug problem in the UK than the stories of the young recovering addicts at Betel of Britain, a Christian therapeutic community that helps
people to find healing from addiction
through faith in Jesus.
People who live by faith and personlaly accept that teachings of God and Jesus are a metaphor of the verb and not noun, these people are the happiest I have known through
People who live by
faith and personlaly accept that teachings of God and Jesus are a metaphor of the verb and not noun, these
people are the happiest I have known through
people are the happiest I have known
through life.
Heather Tomlinson travelled to Birmingham to profile the pioneering work of Betel of Britain, a Christian therapeutic community where
people are finding healing from addiction
through faith in Jesus
While the big lie
people in DC believe is that they can change the world on their own, Graham argued that changing their neighborhood — both locally and globally — is best attempted
through the sustainable, Spirit - empowered work of a community of
faith.
Maybe then we can do what Gungor pushed for in his original post, to be a
people who don't just «believe» in God, but
through our
faith do what He has commanded us to do: take care of the poor, the widow, the hungry and the needy.
Once again, it comes down to BELEIFS and
FAITH There is not ONE person on this planet that can say they are «IN PERSONAL CONTACT, OR GOD SPEAKS THROUGH ME» that I would beleive or have faith
FAITH There is not ONE
person on this planet that can say they are «IN PERSONAL CONTACT, OR GOD SPEAKS
THROUGH ME» that I would beleive or have
faithfaith in!!
And
through the Internet and other technology, folks are aware that the world we've been handed is fragile — and if our
faith is only promising
people life after death and not asking if there is life before death, we are going to lose them.
Let us be a group of
people who want to listen in love and work out our salvation
through faith together.
That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to
people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly
through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my
faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the
persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll
Only one theological position has ever resulted in the Romans 6:1 question, and it is the position which says that eternal life is by grace alone
through faith alone in Christ alone, and that once a
person has received eternal life in this way, it can never be lost.And when we realize the truth of this, it is incredibly liberating.
But Bell's job at Fuller was to help students
through their doctoral dissertations, a particularly stressful time, Fredrickson said, when seminarians need to lean on a
person with strong
faith.
Justification by grace
through faith has been a perennial theme throughout the history of the
people of God.
This is why Jesus died, to provide the atoning sacrifice
through His blood, so that
people who are under the wrath of God might find forgiveness and justification, not by their works, but by
faith.
Somehow, this made atheists think that Christians are horrible
people for expecting a man who works at a school with a
faith statement to actually believe that
faith statement, or a man who works helping students emotionally
through difficult times at a CHRISTIAN school to actually be Christian.
It means to see the suffering we go
through (whether we want it or not) from the perspective of Christ, Paul, Peter, and countless
people who suffered for the sake of their
faith and offered their suffering to God as a sacrifice on behalf of others.
1) This is not a particularly hospitable place for agnostics 2) Nothing would crush my parents more than learning that their daughter has walked away from the
faith 3) I have a book deal with a Christian publisher 4) I want to keep my Christian friends 5) My doubts come and go, so there's no reason to unnecessarily drag the
people I love
through my drama 6) If I fake it maybe I can convince myself that everything's okay
When a culture puts more of it's
faith in God (Christian God) they are much more honest hard working
people who do not rely on their government to pave their way
through life.
Conversion is a process that does not begin and end with the profession of
faith in Christ, but begins with the Holy Spirit's prevenient grace on the
person's life and continues
through repentance for a lifetime — the Kingdom comes.
The bottom line is that so many
people are going
through a crisis of belief,
faith and intellect and there is no room for them to experience this safely, which often results in very tragic social ramifications.
God on the other hand is seeking for all
people to know him in
faith through his son Jesus.
Although acknowledging that pastoral counseling had the same ultimate aim as other dimensions of pastoral work — that of bringing
people to Christian
faith and the Christian fellowship, where those goals were «relevant» — Hiltner defined the special aim of pastoral counseling in more flexible terms, virtually indistinguishable from those of secular counseling: «The attempt by a pastor to help
people help themselves
through the process of gaining understanding of their inner conflicts» (Pastoral Counseling, 1949).
Very prominent and incredibly smart
people lived their lives with
faith, notables LeMitri who proposed the Big bang theory was a priest, Galileo who despite everything he went
through with the state and churchnever gave up on his Christian prpractices and look at the timeless legacy he left.
You can't, but if God,
through grace, impresses upon a
person's heart that what they are doing is wrong, then they are under his conviction, and
through faith they can be saved and forgiven.
I think that it's especially important for young
people, especially those who are just moving away from home to go
through that, and kind of establish their own
faith and have a relationship with God that is their own.
The rest of the world is rapidly tiring of the violence that you
people encourage
through your «
faith».
When you're going
through changes in how you think about
faith, how do you have grace for
people who aren't changing or may be changing in the opposite direction than you are?
Having spent the last ten years wrestling
through some tough questions related to
faith, heaven, hell, and salvation, I really appreciate the personal way in which Bell frames the conversation, asking the very questions I was so afraid to ask all those years and proclaiming the same hope I only dared believe — that God doesn't give up on
people, that he is ever - loving, ever - redeeming, ever pursuing.
And all the faithful, considered as a whole, are infallible in matters of belief, and the
people display this infallibilitas in credendo, this infallibility in believing,
through a supernatural sense of the
faith of all the
people walking together.»
The numbers of
people who have come to Christian
faith through the Toronto movement,
through many different churches, are impressive.
Graham, his son, Franklin, and others can still preach a meeting and
people will come to hear the truth of the Gospel and many will respond by grace
through faith.
Through my own pastoral experiences I have come to see that neo-orthodoxy — with all its emphasis on realism in theology, on the kerygma of the Bible, on the sinfulness of personal and corporate life, on the radical nature of the new life, and so forth — is hesitant and weak in calling
persons to a positive
faith.
I've gone
through such a difficult, isolated time as the Christians around me believe things that make me so angry — like gays are sinning and that homosexuality is the worst thing for our society and is accelerating us towards the end times and that if we support gay
people we are deeply deceived and can fall away from the
faith.
For years I struggled with doubts about my
faith, and
through the emerging church movement, I found
people who were asking the very same questions - about religious pluralism, the Problem of Evil, inerrancy, the notion of absolute truth, etc..
Worse still — and more to the point of my concern — the translation of the one Word of God into direct social and political terms has meant that the churches neglect the message for which they do have sole responsibility, that which constitutes their specific raison d'etre, and which no other agency in the world is called on or is competent to proclaim: the gospel of Holy Scripture which has the power to make
people wise unto salvation
through faith in Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 3:15).
actually you do nt have to prove the many deities or Gods that they really exist, because they really had existed in their times, They are part of the evolutionary process for us humans to transcend to higher consciousness.To simplify the analogy, when we were young and we are in the lower grade school, we were taught simple subjects not advance literatures but simple stories even mythicals, The same with religion, thousands of years ago when there was no science yet, primitive
people had a religion, of course man made
faiths to conform with their state of mind or intellect.But later atfter thousands of years we evolve into a more educated
people and so new concept of God again was presented to them, another man made concept, and this go on and on, until a few thiousand years ago.monotheism, Judaism, christianity, islam, buddhism, etc also evolved, But with the accelerated evolution, these
faith again is threatend with obsolesencs because of of scientific developments and education.In panthroteistic
faith, the future religion needs to conform to evolutionary process, This proves that God is always there guiding the change.And it his will that made this a reality in history since the begining of the universe 13 billion years ago, and this will continue to exist until He will completely fulfill His will to infinity, Thats PANTHROTHEISM, the futue, man made religion under His guidance
through scientifiic evoluition after the Bi Bang