Sentences with phrase «stories about believers»

Not exact matches

I have no doubt that most believers in christianity believe their religion is all about love, and I find this story touching.

So yeah, whether is it made ups stories about Jesus, Krishna, American Destiny, Mohammed or whatever, those stories can be vehicles for values for the believers — I wouldn't call the «truths», but vehicles or methods.

And, we've all heard enough stories about the «hazing» that goes on in our U.S. military forces, if one doesn't happen to be a «believer» or, a «believer» like they think you should believe.

While many of the news stories about this report focused on figures showing a tendency for numbers of religious believers to increase with age, the figures also showed the overall percentage of religious believers declined in most countries, showing an increase in only three:

So when Kim shared a small piece of her own story about leaving the institutionalized church and connecting to a less traditional community of believers, I mixed the well - meaning, thoughtful critiques in the comment section with some of the messages I've been getting from critics lately, and this is what I heard:

Jeremy thanks for your comments alot of this i never really thought about before until you provoked me to seek the truth in the word it is what we all should be doing finding the truth for ourselves God wants to reveal mysterys if we are open to hear.If we have been christians awhile we just take the word of whoevers preaching or whichever clip we see on god tube its knowledge but not revelation.Because the story sounds plausible we tag that on to our belief for example for many years i believed that the rich young rulers problem was money so the way to deal with that problem is to give it away and be a follower of Jesus sounds plausible.Till you realise every believers situation is different so the message has to be universal.So the reason its not about money because it excludes those that do nt have it and does nt make room for those that do have it but do nt worship it.The rich young ruler was not a bad person he lived by a good moral code but he made money his idol he put that before God.The word says we shall not have any idols thats a sin and a wicked one.In fact there wasnt any room in his heart for Jesus that is a tragedy.So when we see the message is about Idolatry we all have areas that we chose not to submit to God thats universal everyone of us whether we are rich or poor.I believe we are unaware that we have these idols what are some of them that was revealed to me our partners our children our work our church our family i can sense some of you are getting fidgetty.

Gil T clearly explained his point about the NT priesthood that everyone (all believers in Jesus Christ) are included in it but the church management (priests, pastors, etc.) is a different story although not completely disassociated from the former (i.e. example of the deaconess).

It's a story about bigoted believers and the next generation of less delusional believers who don't get their panties in a knot about gays, and don't want to continue to deny them their rights, regardless of what religious shamans and charlatans and The Babble says.

I also think it's funny how relatively rich western believers read the story of the rich man and Lazarus as teaching primarily about a literal hell and eternal torment.

lol @ «first of all you are not a believer so you do not know what the flood story is really about» Not only is god magical, and jeebus, but the book and the words in it are somehow magical in that no one understands them unless someone believes them.

Blessed are the Cheese makers Ok, first of all you are not a believer so you do not know what the flood story is really about.

These types of stories about so - called Christian songwriters get pitched to the media because the reality is that Christianity is losing its numbers of believers worldwide.

That «secular» literature might have meant something to someone in Solomon's court has been argued from time to time about certain proverbs and wisdom texts, but not about texts where God is the main actor in the story — and certainly not in the manner of Bloom, where J suddenly sounds like a skeptical college professor who is much more «mature and sophisticated» than the believers in his midst and their God.

I'm a big believer that online dating does work, but where we draw the line between exaggerating about weight, age and height is different from complete misrepresentation, such as in the Manti Te'o story.

Through the years I have spoken to many believers in Christ about their God Stories; how they came to know the Lord.

AA: I want to think more about that, Kasimu, that you're a firm believer in telling our own stories.

if you didn't have to explain to yourself the hilarious story Connolly has to tell his children about how there's more atmospheric scintillation but because only believers can see it, the stars don't seem to twinkle any more at night now, than they did all those years ago when optical astronomical photography of the sky started.

Particularly amusing for me last year was how I landed at another global warming believer's blog (I forget how, most likely from daily Google email alert I get on stories about global warming that I created in 2008), and after a series of comment placements which started with one of the strangest sidesteps * I'd ever seen, the blogger declared in a new blog post that I must be «the Gestapo of the Heartland Institute with the job of hunting down dissenting opinions and persecuting those responsible» (full text here).

It may not have the mainstream appeal of the story about the Georgetown Law graduate who sold his law degree on craigslist, but blogger, and Republican candidate for the Pennsylvania legislature, Stephen Bloom of the Believer's Guide to Legal Issues, has built a following around the notion of giving your law license to God.

Usually, bitcoin believers tell a familiar story about how they discovered cryptocurrency, including the moment of realization that lead them to become entirely engrossed in its untapped potential.