Sentences with phrase «starts with faith»

It all starts with faith.

Start with the faith community.

@Rachel... Why do we have to start with faith?

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It's a good sign that the company is starting off with a solid revenue base, says Ainsworth, and he has faith it will find other money - making sources over time.

He starts with the primacy of the resurrection of Jesus in verse 17: «And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins!

if the inner of of us started with that we will find out that we were not the only ones needing to change but no Change if we do not started within our own inner selves first «souls» because it is only our souls ride us like untrained wild horses and only with faith and religion we are to train it for total control of the wild horse that lives within us all male or female!?

rea · son — noun / ˈrēzən / a.Think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic — humans do not reason entirely from facts b.Find an answer to a problem by considering various possible solutions c.Persuade (someone) with rational argument — I tried to reason with her, but without success» I accept nothing on faith» can you prove we evolved from primates or that life started by random chance?

But, when you rage against those with faith and start doing the same things yourself that you loathe Christians for doing, you've become hypocrites and irrelevant.

As far as the people who had a lot to do with starting these big religions I don't know much about them, but blind faith is pitiful.

historical Jesus, lmfao... show me any historical evidence of jesus... let's start with his remains... they don't exist - your explanation, he rose to the heavens... historical evidence - no remains, no proof of existence (not a disproof either, just not a proof)... then let's start with other historians writing about the life of Jesus around his time or shortly after, as outside neutral observers... that doesn't exist either (not a disproof again, just not a proof)... we can go on and on... the fact is, there is not a single proving evidence of Jesus's life in an historical context... there is no existence of Jesus in a scientific context either (virgin birth... riiiiiight)... it is just written in a book, and stuck in your head... you have a right to believe in what you must... just don't base it on history or science... you believe because you do... it is your right... but try not to put reason into your faith; that's when you start sounding unreasonable, borderline crazy...

A lot of this is what started my split with the church, religion, and faith.

I think there's a pretty nice cycle for seminary students: year 1: totally enthusiastic, young idealistic faith year 2: fairly smug, enthralled with knowing and using hip theology terms year 3: tired, disillusioned, a little bitter, anti-something or other year 4: just starting to get over one's self, wanting to «get out there»

Well considering your writing sucks, your reading comprehension is worse and your facts are completely wrong (starting with the US being the world's lowest and ending with Hitler wanting to only kill jews) I was insinuating that your education was so terrible it must have been on another planet because I have more faith that a public school in Rwanda could give a person a better education than the one you apparently received.

The premise we must start with is that if there is any such thing as faith or transcendence, it can not be found by going outside time and history.

However, the relation between theology and philosophy is markedly altered once we fully recognize that the starting point of philosophy, that is, the fundamental vision with which the thinker begins, is historically conditioned and that Christian faith has played a major role in the formation of the Western vision.

Once upon a time, I thought that the Christian faith, or at least the purest version of it, had started with Jesus and his disciples, taken a hiatus for about a thousand years during the reign of Roman Catholicism, returned with Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation, and gotten properly explained again by the 1895 Bible Conference of Conservative Protestants.

I and all people of faith know damn well this started with a man and a woman being PUT here.

Theology understood as a practical discipline should not» be confused with those theologies that make the question of «faith» the starting point of theological reflection.

The pastor friend starts confessing his questions to my pastor, how he struggles with some fundamentals of the faith, and how he wonders if this is a legitimate part of his growth to spiritual maturity.

When we start rejecting and even persecuting those of faith in God, with all the good work they do, we start going in a path that will not lead to prosperity..

People of faith and foundations with concern for religious liberty must start establishing alternative means to help students fund their education.

This issue is an extremely common topic at meetings and it is always stressed that believe in a Higher Power can be anything of your choosing and many AAs simply believe in the power of the group as a whole as their Higher Power (I have also know many people who started with this belief and later found faith in God).

We never have seen anything pop into existence ever, everything we see or build starts with some type of creation from some creator whether it be from humans or whatever, not one single example of anything would prove otherwise, so going about everyday life feeling confident that everything just magically popped into existence without a magician really takes a lot more faith than what I have.

It starts with the «faith» in the writings... the writings of men.

But this confident faith that God is in control may serve to stultify or weaken precisely that openness to the new which we called at the start the ability to respond to and interact with the new.

10 / 10... Atheist... Where faith begins, common sense ends... Religion is good for only one thing... TO START WARS... Who says you need a «God» to be a good person with morals and common sense????... Get a grip... Who said He is everywhere??

It will not be easy to stop accommodating Christendom and start accommodating both bothersome faith movements — which are the enemy of complacency — and nettlesome, nonconformist leaders who pursue vision quests and new religious practices with passionate intensity.

Sure, David goes on to say that he was uneasy with such a claim and wasn't even sure that it was true, but still... how do you write a book which is supposed to be about taking back your faith from the American Dream and start the book by stating that you are the youngest megachurch pastor in American history?

As Paul Pfeutze has pointed out, both the dialogical philosophy and pragmatism emphasize the concrete and the dynamic, both reject starting with metaphysical abstractions in favour of starting with human experience, both insist upon «the unity of theory and practice, inner idea and outer deed,» and both insist on the element of faith and venture.

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.

That said, there really isn't anything wrong with being civil and perhaps even starting a response with something like «Glad that you managed to turn your life around, but if you are implying that only a faith in God could have accomplished this then I must disagree with you.»

Whilst this approach was disturbing for many Christians at the time, it again meant that defenders of Christianity, instead of calling for a leap of faith, could start from historical events and argue from them to the divinity of Jesus Christ His divinity was seen as the perfection of his humanity and this fitted with the approach of Schleiermacher, who saw Jesus, whose consciousness was entirely taken up with awareness of God, as «the ideal representative of religion».

I know that i have prayed and things changed for the good and i have learned that faith requires a courage that atheist just don't have, so now you atheist can start your shallow explanations about how you can think for yourselves and your laughable big bang theories and your evolved from monkeys nonsense and i'll just stay with truth.

In an interview with the Associated Press, the 25 - year - old player (who is a former teammate of Colin Kaepernick), explained that it is his Christian faith and the Bible that compel him to take part in the demonstrations: «It's the foundation of why we started doing this.

As far as creating opportunities for dialog within your faith communities, I'd recommend starting with a book club, perhaps around a book like Trouble I've Seen by Drew Hart, or The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, or Assimilate or Go Home by Danielle Mayfield, or Forgive Us by the authors mentioned above — something that's not directly about this election or this presidency, but that addresses issues related to justice.

We are the greatest nation because we are a country of immigrants from all faith and the journey that started with mayflower countinoues till today.

This past year I started to struggle with my faith... It came to a head in October when I felt like the Holy Spirit departed.

It may sound insulting already being a Catholic but I know for myself I grew up with a poor understanding of our faith and this book is a good start at explaining all our beliefs we don't completely understand.

His faith started to wane at university in Bristol, where Derren fell in love with the stagecraft of illusion and hypnosis.

The New York Times: Dressing With Faith, Not Heat, in Mind When the mercury passes 90, most New Yorkers start to wilt.

While John Lennon and Oprah Winfrey would surely love this «statement of faith», isn't it somewhat disingenuous for someone with your theological education to suggest that this could in any way be considered a New Testament church or that starting an «Open Circle» is «church planting»?

Another preacher preaching what ever goes is ok with Christianity... If your going to preach Christianity based on the Bible, then you might as well forget gay marriages are ok... If you want to twist it around then thats up to you... Paul said, «The Berens were of noble charachter because they didn't believe what they heard, but they took what they heard and confirmed it with the Bible... So its like the Yen or Yang... Its either Gods church or Satans Church... Can't be any other way... Do I hate gays, no... I have some very close friends that I have had for over 30 years that are gay, but I think they will be accountable for their life styles... Thats the thing about Christianity, we are held accountable, its not an everything goes belief... Its rules we have to follow... And rules we will be held accountable... So maybe this preacher needs to start a dfferent faith or religion... One where there are no rules and where its people are not accountable for their actions...

These are people just like me - wasted but willing to start over if someone will give us the chance to go on living, to bear the void (with faith as our guide) in an alcohol and drug free fashion.

This verb makes us reflect on the course of history, that long journey which is the history of salvation, starting with Abraham, our father in faith, whom the Lord called one day to set out, to go forth from his country towards the land which he would show him.

Starting with an aspect of love In terms of Cardinal Bertone's helpful summary of the Open Letter, the theological ground upon which we are being invited to build includes: «belief in the one God, the provident Creator... (and that) we are all called to commit ourselves totally to him...» From the point of view of the Catholic faith the latter is an aspect of love for God, an aspect even of communion.

The New Testament starts with personalities as in themselves supremely valuable, and conceives the «beloved community» in terms of their free cooperation and the social hope of the kingdom of God the crowning evidence of their faith and loyalty.

Mara Vanderslice, who started the first major Democratic faith consulting shop with Sapp after the 2004 election, has also joined the administration, along with other progressive religious activists.

What really makes people show disrespectful and not used to civilized / scholarly discussion is when they go into news forums talking about the catholic faith, christianity, judaism etc. and start insulting with a very proud and selfish tone, and in obvious bad faith.

Eric Sapp, who runs a faith - focused consulting firm with Strider, said he wasn't hired by the House and Senate Democratic campaign committees or by candidates for Congress or governor, for the first time since he started doing such work.

ago, I started out with Faith and hope, and not so certain about anything Christian.