Sentences with phrase «potential life of faith»

As a full time pastor of a local church who loves the Church and God's people and all people, I concur that the Church is often the biggest stumbling block in the potential life of faith in an unbeliever.

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It also lives on in mainline churches when they overbuy the human potential movement or have too much faith in the motivating aspects of purely rational discourse.

well just thinking about these wars in the muslim / mid-east world over religious differences (which may reflect mental states in many ways) in a world where most realize that living in the present moment is best way to happiness and being in the moment in non-strife and awareness through the teachings of masters such as found in the buddhist, taoist, zen, etc., etc., etc. spriritually based practices of religious like thought and teachings, etc. that to ask these scientifically educated populace whom have access to vast amounts of knowledges and understandings on the internet, etc. to believe in past beliefs that perhaps gave basis and inspiration to that which followed — but is not the end all of all times or knowledges — and is thus — non self - sustaining in a belief that does not encompass growth of knowledge and understanding of all truths and being as it is or could be — is to not respect the intelligence and minds and personage of even themselves — not to be disrespected nor disrespectful in any way — only to point out that perhaps too much is asked to put others into the cloak of blind faith and adherance to the past that disregards the realities of the present and the potential of the future... so you try to live in the past — and destroy your present and your future — where is the intelligence in that — and why do people continually fear monger or allow to be fear — mongered into this destructive vision of the future based upon the past?

Why ask the schools to promote faith and not ask the same of the truly distinctive expressions of free enterprise life, where persuasion has such potential?

Hope, therefore, in actualising the potential of faith, confronts all obstacles within temporal life — the temptations and persecutions that constitute the cruciform existence of the Christian — in the dynamic desire for the transcendent Good.

The task of Christian educators is not to develop an individual's potential (as if the world were not already developing all sorts of potentials in us), but rather to induct us into the faith community, to give us the skills, insights, words, stories and rituals that we need to live this faith in a world that neither knows nor follows the One who is truth.

As the founder of MOSAIC, a faith community in LA, he has spent most of his life inspiring people to live up to their full creative potential — in whatever form it takes.

If we insist in our evangelism that the hearers subscribe to all our orthodox doctrines and in the full understanding that we subjectively assert must be understood for salvation, we can invalidate for the potential convert the simple act of faith which does bring eternal life.

In a letter to all cabinet ministers, he wrote: «Catholic teaching about the foundations of family life, a teaching shared not only by other Christian churches but also other faiths, means that Catholic adoption agencies would not be able to recruit and consider homosexual couples as potential adoptive parents.

Sandy Mercurio, an active Catholic who is divorced, found herself in largely the same situation as Sarah, Melanie, and Emily in her 60s: Her faith is a significant part of her life, so, in considering a potential partner, she hoped to find someone with whom she could share that.

In fairness, the film does show a man anguished over the potential of his book to shake people's faith in God, and that sentiment of Darwin's apparently was true in real life.

In lush Haiku, this estate on Door of Faith Road offers exquisite ocean views, a spacious open floor plan and the potential for building an additional cottage for extra rental income or living space.

When we set out to bring Mirror's Edge to a new generation of gamers, we knew we wanted to deliver on the potential of the first game — building an iconic heroine in Faith, bringing a beautiful, stylized world to life, and delivering fluid first person action... In Mirror's Edge Catalyst, you will get to feel what it's like to glide across the skyline of the city.

When we work together to explore the issues and problems you bring to the counseling process, I provide a combination of life experience, in - depth study of the human psyche, well - researched methods for creating healthy relationships, and a deep faith in the human potential for growth and healing.