Sentences with phrase «takes faith and love»

Control, being based in fear, takes faith and love away.

Not exact matches

We are able to do the work we love only because of your faith and support — and we will never forget that or take it for granted.

Christ taught us to be ministers to one another in love and in faith in healing and in helping... and to take offense in nothing... of what do you minister?

It takes more faith to believe in a universe evolving from nothing or from eternal matter than to believe in a loving Creator, existing outside the limit of time, who gave us this specially designed & tuned universe to explore and to learn about caring for one another even through the midst of difficult experiences.

So each takes his own «knowing» and lives by it... whether in faith, hope, and love, or in any other way one wishes to pursue «it»... that is our free will to do so.

take not for protectors your fathers and your brothers if they love Infidelity above Faith: if any of you do so, they do wrong.

It is a convincing testimony to the power of Grace when someone is able to take criticism as you have; but fear of such criticism can also have the affect of making those just learning of the depth of Divine Love after years of being taught to worship a Cosmic Bully fearful of sharing their own experiences and expressions of faith.

The great challenge, the one that took me a book to articulate and which I suspect will take me a lifetime to work out, is to hold every piece of my faith experience in love, even the broken bits, even the parts that still cut my hands and make them bleed.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

but if anyone truley had God in thier heart and had faith in the Lord... simply by folding your hands and asking God to enter your heart... (try it he will be there for you, and you will feel the joy of His love), then they would never do things like this... he obviously was not a person who loved God because No one with God in thier heart would want to do thing s like that... you HATE sin when you truely love God, No ones perfect though, even those who belive in God we all stray from our beliefs, its human nature and the devil takes advantage of this.

In the graciousness of the book (something often lacking when people engage Emergent, no names but...), in its passionate for the Scriptures, in its understanding that true faith shows itself in love, in its acceptance of the many things postmodernism has going for it without capitulating to todays culture, and especially in the willingness to both take on and unite both sides, Wittmer has written something here to be commended for, and something that all believers no matter what side they lean toward would do well to read.

«It's a matter of what you're doing in the community to demonstrate that you are a community of faith and that you care and you take the admonition to love your neighbor seriously,» he says.

Trust me, it takes much more faith, and many more irrational thought processes, to believe in the fairy tale of the blob than to believe in an Almighty, all - loving, creating God.

Like Bonhoeffer, she reminds us that our faith and life must be about more than our own comfort or security; we must learn to take risks for sake of loving others.

More to the point, the context speaks about confession of faith and love of one another — are these regulative statements or just as conveniently non-binding on you, someone who clearly does not take much joy in the fact that the bible * instituted * ecclesial offices?

Gal 2:20 «I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me» The government takes care of needy people; does that make welfare love?

After serving on the pastoral staff of one of the most progressive evangelical churches in the country, Brian and his wife Carrie took a big step of faith and returned to Dayton to launch The Mission — a new community of Christ - followers committed to loving God and loving people.

Catholic laymen must take up their place in life and face their family, their love, their children (who perhaps do not always come up to their expectations), their professional duties which grow ever more irksome and their duties as citizens; in doing so they will meet situations in which, because they reflect on their faith, they will know how to behave as Christians living in the grace of God, the light of the gospel and the imitation of the crucified Christ.

Take it from me: When you grow up being taught to love God with your mind and then get punished for trying to do so, the temptation to leave the faith in anger and disillusionment is overwhelming.

A colleague of mine, Gary Gutting, published an article in the New York Times this past Easter arguing that the core of the Catholic faith is a commitment to an ethics of love, and that the historical teachings of the faith are best taken as useful parables.

Where a Pastor SHOULD be speaking to answers on where God is during these tragic events, he considers his opinion designed to stir up emotion to take precedence over the message of Jesus Christ which teaches, love, comfort and faith in God in all things.

That takes a lot of faith — to love God, and a lot of work — to love our neighbor.

We have taken a faith founded on love and compassion for our fellow man and turned it into an us vs them revenge fantasy.

We'd talk about how our faiths have potential to do so much good, and yet how unfortunately some people take it to the extreme so it doesn't portray the real love and service that are at the heart of what we believe.

There are places where he resorts to the imagery of myth and speaks of Christ as if he were living an unseen life with God in a heavenly realm above, from which he would descend to appear on the earth at the imminent end - time.38 At other times Paul could speak of the church as the body of Christ, of which the Christian believers formed «the limbs and organs».39 He exhorted the Galatians to «put on Christ as a garment», 40 he said to the Romans, «Let Christ Jesus himself be the armor that you wear», 41 and he told the Galatians how he was in travail until they «took the shape of Christ».42 In various ways Paul spoke of the risen Christ as an indwelling presence in the believer, the most moving passage being his own testimony, I have been crucified with Christ; the life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me; and my present bodily life is lived by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.»

That is also what happened to me I am 12 and the devil put it into my mind but I know it's not true and don't think it is and I was so scared because it happened like 2 days ago and I realized the problem is that you have to ask lord to free you this is the devil trying to make you miserable you need to have faith today I asked god to forgive me because I don't know why it came into my head and I didn't think god loved me but I told my dad what happened and he said that it is I felt you say notice say it to someone that it's the truth that is what it means and I felt god in me today and he took away all my bad thoughts and now I know I am forgiven all you need to do is captivate those thoughts and say god free me because if you have committed the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit it's not that god doesn't want to forgive you it is that the person that has done it made up there mind and they don't want forgiveness.

Participants in this retreat will take up philosophical, theological, and literary texts from antiquity and the classical Christian and Jewish traditions to explore the nature of love and friendship as well as their relation to transcendence, faith, beauty, marriage, and reason.

Because of that I take seriously Their encouragement to love others in the way They love me — and to encourage others in their faith, or pray that our Lord will rescue them and draw them closer to Him through His Holy Spirit.

* Believe in Jesus Christ, that he died for you This requires that you get rid of your old sinful ways If you TRULY believe, that is, love Him and give your life to Him, good works and fruit will come out, but these are not what make you a Christian, they are simply an indicator of your faith in Jesus Pray, Read the Bible, Love God, Love others, worship God (live for Him in all you do, take up your cross, and know that in all of this God is very patient and lolove Him and give your life to Him, good works and fruit will come out, but these are not what make you a Christian, they are simply an indicator of your faith in Jesus Pray, Read the Bible, Love God, Love others, worship God (live for Him in all you do, take up your cross, and know that in all of this God is very patient and loLove God, Love others, worship God (live for Him in all you do, take up your cross, and know that in all of this God is very patient and loLove others, worship God (live for Him in all you do, take up your cross, and know that in all of this God is very patient and loving

The pastoral role is concerned with ministry to individuals; the priestly role has to do with the proclamation of the faith and with leadership in the liturgical life of the church; the prophetic role focuses on judging the level of humaneness in the social order and pointing to the changes required if common justice is to be approximated; the kingly role takes up governance and the expression of neighbor love through responsible corporate action.

God hates the sin but loves the sinner and none of are the Judge (I am not condoning gayness but trying to get everyone to see, in accordance with the bible, how God could take one or two men in bed if they believe and have faith in Him as their Lord and Savior).

Tim i found it liberating to just do what the Lord wants you to do i work within his boundarys and yes i attend church and enjoy it.I love the people and i love hearing the word and worshipping the Lord even if others are still bound up with traditions thats not my walk thats theres.My focus is to do what the Lord wants me to do.There have been times i have said no to the pastor he does nt understand why i choose not to lead the worship.i query him as well regarding the idea that its not just performing a function because there is a need our hearts have to be in the right place so that the Lord can use us but he did nt understand where i was coming from and thats okay because of that i just said no until my heart is right i am better not being involved in leading.But i am happy to be an encouragement to others in the worship team i havent wanted to be the leader i have done that in the past.So my focus has been just the singing and being part of different worship teams i think the Lord has other plans as the groups i am in seem to be changing at the same time i am aware that i do nt to worry about change as the Lord knows whats best.I used to be quite comfortable leading the music but that was before when i was operating in my own self confidence and pride.The Lord did such a huge change in my life that i lost my self confidence and that is not a bad thing at all as my spiritual growth has been incredible.The big change was my identity moved from me and what i could do to knowing who i was in Christ and that he is my strength and confidence.Now i know that without him i can do nothing in fact i am dependent on his empowerment through his holy spirit all the time in everything.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music at another church i attend multiple churchs although i attend two regularly one has services in the morning and one has services in the evening so the two do nt really clash.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music its been two years since i did that and i was worried on how i would go.All i can say is that it went really well and because i stepped out in Faith the Lord really blessed the morning to the congregation.The difference is knowing that i serve the Lord with the gifts he has given me but my heart has to be right and when i do it in his way it builds up the body and it brings glory to him.May the Lord continue to show you what he wants you to do even though others may not understand your reasons i just want you to know that you do nt have to pull away completely just work within the boundarys that the Lord gives you and do nt feel pressured by others expectations to do anything that feel uncomfortable.Be involved just as you feel lead by the holy spirit even if it is in a very minor way take small steps.regards brentnz

He began by observing that taking an either / or stand regarding God's power and God's «goodness» is unacceptable: «It is a violation of black faith to weaken either divine love or divine power.»

As Fred Craddock says so well, «If a minister takes seriously the role of listeners in preaching, there will be sermons expressing for the whole church, and with God as the primary audience, the faith, the doubt, the fear, the anger, the love, the joy, the gratitude that is in all of us.»

In one way I've had no need of it as my faith is a simple one and I read the Bible as Gods love story, knowing that I was undeserving of it and taking Gods word as a given and what He dishes out I accept with a thankful heart.

Her there, whole, on the road of wholeness, took more guts and faith than I think I posses and I love her, I love them all, our girls.

We have set prayer in the context of the Christian faith that God is Love as revealed in Jesus Christ; and we have sought to take account of modern knowledge of the world so that prayer does not seem an unreal escape from the facts that we all know about that world.

But if changes in Christian morals are to this extent inevitable, what never changes is that the returning love for God in which faith by its very nature eventuates always has just such properly moral implications and that they always pertain to acting in the situation in a distinctive way — namely, so as to take account of all the interests affected by our action in order to realize these interests as fully as circumstances allow.

When a person's belief drives them to take a man's children away from him for no reason other than who he loves, or drives them to rape a lesbian woman to make her straight, when a person's faith tells them it is good and right to kill another person because of their faith or lack thereof... these are harmful.

Behold from faith thus flow forth love and joy in the Lord, and from love a joyful, willing, and free mind that serves one's neighbour and takes no account of gratitude or ingratitude, or praise or blame, of gain or loss...

In what ways does faith and our church practises need to be changed to take account of consumerism, and in what ways does faith need to stand apart and challenge the society in the name of the One who is supreme, and jealous for love of his people?

This is important because it makes it clear that the family, or basic human community, in which the newly born infant learns to take the first steps in faith and hope, is itself created by love and should continue to be a community visibly demonstrating love.

My feelings are Jesus was setting the example for taking care of one another (love) I think Jesus believed in a government for the people, by the people.I believe Jesus would want people to pull together for themselves and not for profits to the moneychangers.I also believe that If you have faith in Jesus..

People of faith, in love for Christ, are supposed to take care of the poorest, and be the light and that salt to the nations.

However, 1) by no means is the entire faith «bad» or «wrong» because a handful of people abuse the religion, and 2) arguably, «Christian hypocrites» are not really Christians at all (in the Gospels, for example, the Pharisees, extremely religious Jews who took extreme measures to follow all of Moses» 613 laws, proved to be Jesus» «enemies», because they did not love other people.)

To go from not believing in the existence of any God, Hindu or other, to faith in the love and guidance and loving arms of a Father in Heaven is, indeed, a huge «leap» for some, that takes not only that BELIEF but the FAITH that something, or someone, or a higher being is here with us even in Spirit, will comfort, will love without condition, will forgive no matter what and endlessly when we sincerely ask fofaith in the love and guidance and loving arms of a Father in Heaven is, indeed, a huge «leap» for some, that takes not only that BELIEF but the FAITH that something, or someone, or a higher being is here with us even in Spirit, will comfort, will love without condition, will forgive no matter what and endlessly when we sincerely ask foFAITH that something, or someone, or a higher being is here with us even in Spirit, will comfort, will love without condition, will forgive no matter what and endlessly when we sincerely ask for it.

Ye who do truly and earnestly repent you of your sins, and are in love and charity with your neighbors, and intend to lead a new life, following the commandments of God, and walking from henceforth in his holy ways: Draw near with faith, and take this holy Sacrament to your comfort; and make your humble confession to Almighty God, devoutly kneeling.

So, far from taking them aside into the heavens, faith nails them to these kingdoms of the earth, which are promised to the meek to inherit and the love of which they sometimes confess.

Taking faith, hope and love together, the feeling is that the American theologian can really live in only one of them at a time, perhaps only one in a lifetime.

It would take great faith, and enormous skill and patience and love, to undertake to deal, let us say, with Russia, on any other basis, but in the end what other hope is there?