Sentences with phrase «prayers of christians»

How about something simple like God taking time out between watching football games and answering the prayers of the Christians on offense or the Christians on defense?

Here are four areas that should garner the focus and prayers of Christians.

For the private prayer of the Christian, whether of the individual or of a group, is no merely «private» affair with which the Church has nothing to do.

Prayers of the Martyrs compiled and translated by Duane W. H. Arnold, foreword by Madeleine L'Engle Zondervan, 122 pages, $ 12.95 A beautiful collection of prayers of Christian martyrs arranged for devotional purposes.

The author says that the prayers of the Christian community for Peter were answered although, judging by their surprise when he appeared at the door, they weren't sure they would be.

It is the prayer of All Christians, that God will open your eyes and change your heart so that you may be saved from your sin, embraced by His forgiving love in the person of Jesus Christ, and come to know the peace which passes all understanding.

Steady focus and an open heart can support the prayers of a Christian, the poses of a yogi, and the intellectual questioning of an atheist.

Not exact matches

«Neglected Christian truths can be revitalized only when by prayer and long meditation we isolate them from the mass of hazy ideas with which our minds are filled and hold them steadily and determinedly in the focus of the mind's attention.»

If you believe at all that Christ was the son of God and came to save the world, you are a Christian, even if you don't pray a specifically worded and ho ll ow prayer that affirms publicly that you are «born - again» in Jesus» blood — which in itself is sad is tic and doesn't ensure that the person doing the public profession of faith actually believes or will suddenly become so changed that they will lead a better life.

Thanks to those witness testimonials, Christian Scientists the world over eschew modern medicine in favour of magical prayer healings — and die when they get a real illness.

I'd like to add to that the idea that as a Christian we may be tempted to flee day to day problems by imagining that God will lift us out of it all, or prayer will make it go away.

A National Day of Prayer is (1) for non-believers, an absurd and pointless pursuit of mass delusion, and (2) for Christians, a loving, usually unselfish, request made of a Supreme Being.

The answer is that the Christian right in our country is constantly trying to force their religious beliefs into the public sphere (science education, school prayer at public schools, Decalogue displays at court houses, nativity scenes on city hall property, crosses in all kinds of public places, national days of prayer, etc.)-- if these things stopped, the outcry from us non-believers would be greatly diminished.

Even when they had the White House (George W) and both Houses of Congress the GOP never even introduced, much less voted on, any bill banning abortion, allowing prayer in school, banning gay marriage or any other of the wedge issues they use to attract a certain mentally deranged segment of the population to their side by pretending to defend those things that are important to Christian conservatives.

Sometimes a situation doesn't need lots of agonised prayer, bad plumbing is bad plumbing whether the plumber is a Christian or not!

thebutler, I would agree, if I understand you right: ``... as a Christian we may be tempted to flee day to day problems by imagining that God will lift us out of it all, or prayer will make it go away.»

When Santorum or Rick Perry was the nominee it was all about social issues and bringing us back to being a «Christian nation» in good standing with God for the Republicans, we heard a never ending drumbeat about abortion, prayer in schools, teaching creationism, and trying to end funding for planned parenthood, even stopping the funding of birth control.

Other forms of persecution: Preventing Christians from normal livelihood, not giving space for prayer, obstructing or preventing the message from spreading by the media.

The Bishop of Stafford wants Christians to support dairy farmers through prayer and by buying British... More

That was very interesting thing to read about and I respect every word it came with and Thank you for the guidance and encouragement therefore I find my self more attracted to read the old books after all they are the elder parts of our book what ever they say although each has his own belief and can figure which are similar to ours and which are not... after all verses seemed as ours although were put differently... Thank you again and wish all the Christians a Happy and Peaceful celebration for this occasion... our prayers and peace upon the soul and the spirit of the Prophet and Messenger of God Jesus the Son of Mary..

Mr. Jenson is too in love with the «preaching and teaching and hymns and prayers and processions and sacramental texts» to recognize that these are exactly a Christian version of pharisaism.

A government which systematically and publicly seeks to buttress its political legitimacy from Christian Bibles, oaths, clergy, and prayer, in continuum with more than a millennium of political leaders within Christendom, is not acting «neutrally» among religions, or between religion and non-religion.

A Pew Research Center survey conducted in 2014 found that 45 percent of Americans — and a majority of Christians (55 percent)-- say they rely a lot on prayer and personal religious reflection when making major life decisions.

Christians have their rationalizations to explain this, but at the end of the day there simply is no evidence that there is a God answering any prayer of any kind.

I grew to love this pattern of daily prayer, and it managed to change my life, immersing me in the Psalms and the rest of Holy Scripture, as well as in the early Christian canticles and hymns.

A popular Christian devotional item in the Middle Ages, this particular prayer book belonged to Francois I of France.

With respect to Compassion International, they appear to be a good organization but the Christian connection is a bit troubling especially if they require some kind of Christian prayer / membership before distributing assistance to those in need.

We know from their actions of today how Christians think they're being «persecuted» if they can't festoon their religious holiday decorations all over everybody's property and make everybody else recite Christian prayers at all public occasions or stamp their theology on our money and insert it into our pledge of allegiance.

The Christian god, a being powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies, reads your mind (or «hears your prayers» if you prefer) using some kind of telepathic powers.

Before the 1970s, evangelicals voted as often for Democrats as for Republicans, but in the wake of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, a Supreme Court decision ending prayer in public schools, and the legalisation of abortion in 1973, the Republican Party recognised an opportunity to build a new coalition of Christian conservatives upset with the cultural changes sweeping the country.

The monastery's publishing program has had more success, with more than a hundred new titles each year, covering all areas of church life: Christian spirituality, church history, Scripture, church music and arts, Orthodox ascetic practices, monasticism, liturgy and church prayer, and the lives of the saints.

There is alot of debate out there about Christians, but just forget that debate, and take it from me, a person who says prayers, goes to church, has trouble destroying ants on the doorstep... this is how I would describe my faith... its a country song, but give it a chance, its a good song.

I've heard some Christians claim that their decision to forego an abortion that's for a woman's health, or kicking their gay kid out of the house were the product of prayer, that these were «hard answers», but still ones that required obedience because they came from God.

Voice of the Martyrs, a persecution ministry that operates a popular and powerful Facebook page in which American Christians post prayers for persecuted Christians around the world, has highlighted Easter persecution, as well.

The global Christian organisation 24 - 7 Prayer International is making one video for every day of Advent.

Andrew, I understand what you're saying completely because I was a christian for the first half of my life, and I had the same opinion about prayer and emotional well - being.

if not for god and relentless prayer of the faithful christian all over the world.

A true Christian makes prayer a daily matter (1 Thess 5:17), in which Jesus taught them to pray first and foremost for God's name of Jehovah to be sanctified by means of his «kingdom».

Christians say God answers prayer, but there is no evidence of any kind any prayer ever uttered has ever been answered or had any effect on anything.

American pastors Michael and Susan Thomas at the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in old - city Jerusalem wrote that their church bulletin board is covered with e-mail thoughts and prayers from all over the world sent in support of Jerusalem Christians.

Did you ever hear of Christians trying to get prayer into the public schools?

«Prayer closets» Isn't that where a lot of Christians want to send gay people?

That coupled with what I observed in a lot of Christian believers, being ordinary people, sinners like I am, yet having faith in God and His redemptive Grace, I accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and personal Savior in a moment of clarity over a prayer.

@Dave if Christians are ruining America why did we have all these shooting, and other problems after the Pledge of Allegiance and prayer was taken out of school.

By safeguarding the privacy of our families and friendships and the quiet humility of our prayer life, we direct our lives towards God and uphold the Christian virtue of modesty, in all meanings of the word.

At another church, a prayer of the faithful called for strength for Christian victims to hold up under persecution, without any details.

For this is the correct Christian understanding of prayer.

The core of this document is about the renewal of religious education along with wholehearted commitment to ongoing conversion through the sacramental life, personal prayer and Christian action.

More conservative - leaning Christians may no doubt give pause at reading dozens of encounters of prayer and prophetic moments that Johnson claims have resulted in miraculous healings around the world.

-- like the Republican evangelicals who all think their church is the most Christian, the most right, the only ones going to heaven yet ignore the real teachings of Jesus by judging others, ignoring charity and the needs of their community, not understanding when the Lord's Prayer begins with «Our» Father — the «Our» is not just white people.