Sentences with phrase «sincere believer in»

The Gospels and Epistles are full of guideposts in a strange tongue that seem to direct us to a realization of a Christ who could include the Christ beyond Christianity and so the sincere believer in God outside the visible church.

This is how many times the idea of HYPOCRISY rears its ugly head, because to onlookers, even a sincere believer in God whose life does not match his worlds LOOKS like a hypocrite.

Smith's Rasputin was a sincere believer in God.

Not exact matches

And yet in this deeply Christian, extravagantly post-Christian nation of ours, a number of sincere believers find the life of Christ and his saints somehow compatible with the sterile, preening, sub-adolescent egoism of Objectivism.

Enforcement will be hampered in arguable cases, and courts will make mistakes, sometimes punishing sincere but unconvincing believers while exempting more convincing fakers.

We've sat in churches we'd walked by for a decade without ever stepping foot inside, churches that in our earlier, fear - filled days we would have condemned as «liberal», and have found within them sincere believers doing their best to follow Jesus.

It simply means this — there should be a sincere desire in the soul of every born - again believer to live righteously to please the Lord.

There is probably no greater cause for the ease in which believers are being misled by the teachings of others (however well - intended and sincere such teachings may be), than the fact that they have for all practical purposes never been taught how to rightly divide the word of truth themselves.

@ grassroots: I would like to believe that you were sincere in claiming that atheists have a ``... duty (as if being responsible to some authority) to debunk...» (I presume you to mean a belief in God) ``... via the Internet... [etc]», but when you mix sarcasm with rationality, then you lose creditability with me because you join the ranks of those who just want to poke fun at believers for entertainment and invite a heated argument with no intentions of converting such people.

In as much as the Church of North India will have within its membership both persons who practise Infant Baptism in the sincere belief that this is in harmony with the mind of the Lord, and those whose conviction it is that the Sacrament can only properly be administered to a believer, both Infant Baptism and Believer's Baptism shall be accepted as alternative practices in the Church of North IndiIn as much as the Church of North India will have within its membership both persons who practise Infant Baptism in the sincere belief that this is in harmony with the mind of the Lord, and those whose conviction it is that the Sacrament can only properly be administered to a believer, both Infant Baptism and Believer's Baptism shall be accepted as alternative practices in the Church of North Indiin the sincere belief that this is in harmony with the mind of the Lord, and those whose conviction it is that the Sacrament can only properly be administered to a believer, both Infant Baptism and Believer's Baptism shall be accepted as alternative practices in the Church of North Indiin harmony with the mind of the Lord, and those whose conviction it is that the Sacrament can only properly be administered to a believer, both Infant Baptism and Believer's Baptism shall be accepted as alternative practices in the Church of Nortbeliever, both Infant Baptism and Believer's Baptism shall be accepted as alternative practices in the Church of NortBeliever's Baptism shall be accepted as alternative practices in the Church of North Indiin the Church of North India.

Are the reachings out for spiritual community with sincere believers of other faiths to be one - sided, in that the insights of Western Christianity alone are to be held true and sufficient, and the insights of Hinduism and Buddhism and Islam (and Judaism, for that matter) simply yearnings toward fulfillment in Christianity, as has been held for so many years?

The marks of the true church are «especially the lawful and sincere preaching of the Word of God as it was delivered to us in the books of the prophets and the apostles, which all lead us unto Christ... the only head and foundation of the Church,» and the participation of faithful believers in the sacraments instituted by Christ, worshiping one God with «one faith and one spirit.»

I knew some American Missionaries India who retired back in the USA in their late 70's, sadly left the Christian village they had started 40 years earlier with a school and hospital, and watched it fall apart from a distance as money stopped pouring in and apparently sincere believers of decades grab the next benefactor.

I think that only a cynic could see cynicism in this cosmically, freakishly sincere true believer: The 40 - foot - high topiary sculpture of a West Highland terrier that Koons created the following year in Arolsen, Germany, isn't here, but another equally great topiary work, Split Rocker, now stands in front of Rockefeller Center.