Sentences with phrase «teach the faith at»

It shocks me to see all the articles where in people describe Mormon beliefs as mysterious, when there's over 52,000 missionaries willing to teach the faith at a moments notice.

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I'm not an atheist, I was raised Catholic and believe in my religion but any Christian who openly professes their faith while condemning others who are of a different faith or of no faith at all, are blaspheming the true teachings of Christ.

If I am going to profess my faith in somebody I am going to look at that persons teachings and put my faith in him for what he says.

The teachers at two different Catholic schools, as well as many years of Cathecism taught me that questioning your faith is a natural and desirable trait, since when your faith wins, it will have grown to be that much stronger.

Have I questioned the teaching and my own faith at times?

What this means is you have disgraced the Lord Jesus, disgraced the Mother of God, and disgraced the small percentage of faithful young catholic women out there that obey the teachings of the faith instead of looking at it as being a «social club» to do «good deeds».

But then, of course, the seminary's opponents would use similar reasoning to suggest that the church's public teaching must regard the Jonah story as a straightforward historical account, and soon no distinction at all would be possible between what the Bible records and what it teaches, what is central to the faith and what is not.

But my LDS faith teaches me to regard all people as children of God, equally beloved of God, with race not being an issue at all.

I had been born in the faith, raised in the faith and taught to not even look at other faiths for they were all machinations of the devil.

The faith has absorbed some Christian teachings as well, but peyote remains at the heart of its theology and practice.

I think religion promotes this behavior by teaching people that somehow it is better to maintain your faith in something at all costs than admit you're wrong when the evidence doesn't support your view.

Here are some specifics on how this «always worship together rule» has now infiltrated our lives: Fred occasionally teaches Sunday School at my Baptist Church; I fully participation in his faith community's services and rituals during Hindu festival weekends.

It's not what Jesus taught but who Jesus is that lies at the heart of the Christian faith.

'' I have no idea what Bell is trying to prove; but the lost of income» — it doesn't make a lot of sense for a man of no faith to teach at; Christian schools... «his wife» — not related, read the story... «and potentially his home» - once again, related to his jobs at Christian schools.

All those claiming the schools and the church was wrong, listen he taught theological courses at a theological school, which by definition means that you have to be a person of faith (not to mention that these are not theological schools at state or public universities but denominational theological schools) and to pastor or counsel a church you again by definition have to be a person of faith.

I was amazed that anyone could think we believe that fossils are «put there by God to test our faith» and wondered what other nonsense our children might be taught at school.

John Paul achieved victory over a decades - long, vicious and cruel attempt to impose atheism on millions of people: his teaching, his personal courage, and his kindliness, faith and message of hope prevailed over Communism despite the latter having massive armaments, secret police, spies, prisons, and torture equipment at its disposal.

All my life I've been taught that the Church is at its best when the theology is consistent and everyone agrees with one another, but when my very faith was on the line, it was the diversity of the Christian tradition that offered me so much hope.

And second is that we live in a society just like our faith teaches us of free will where people can choose to worship or not at all.

Indeed, he believes that when the Catholic Church formally responded to the teaching of the Reformation at the Council of Trent in the mid-1500s (known as the Counter-Reformation), it denied the most important truth that scripture gives us: that we are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.

Moreover, it must be remembered that the Gospels are the records of early Christian preaching and teaching rather than attempts at objective historical narrative and are thus more immediately valuable as sources for the faith of the primitive church than for the biography of Jesus.

I was glad to see Kevin White's piece on the effects of microphones on the Mass in the recent issue of First Things («Drop the Mic,» December 2012), for microphones have been on my mind lately as I hear homilies at Masses several times a week and as I reflect on and teach about mission, liturgy, and preaching in various contexts for the Year of Faith.

As a man of Faith, I can tell you that I believe in Satan a much as I believe in God — for the very simple reason that I have encountered evil — utter, absolute, and in my face — but the spiritual dimension can not be taught — at all.

The problem under consideration has been clarified considerably by Hendrikus Boers, who identifies several points in the New Testament at which christological exclusivism is clearly transcended: (1) the authentic teachings of Jesus, which «did not bring the love and forgiveness of God, but affirmed its presence... by articulating it» (6:23); (2) Paul's treatment of the «faith of Abraham» in Rom.

If he believes that God is at the beginning as well as at the end, the Alpha as well as the Omega; if his hope for the future arises out of his faith in God's eternal presence; it is because he discerns the manner of God's presence and the way of his working in the strange person of Jesus of Nazareth, in his life and teaching, and not least in the bitter and apparently senseless tragedy of his death.

Those who still cling to pre-scientific religious fictions, ignoring the truths discovered through modern science, should at least take notice when the biology department at the world's most prominent Baptist university, where a statement of faith is a prerequisite for teaching, unequivocally support evolution through the following statement, which you can look up on their web site:

A Faith For All Seasons By Ted M. Dorman Broadman & Holman, 391 pages, $ 27.99 Coming out of years of teaching at Taylor University, a Christian school in Indiana, this book, written by a Protestant, evidences an admirable ecumenical and historical reach.

Dean C. Curry teaches at Messiah College in Grantham, PA, and is the author of A World Without Tyranny: Christian Faith and International Politics.

Certainly other factors are at play here, from low levels of education to strong kinship systems, but it's likely that Christian and Muslim teachings celebrating the generation of life and customs and rituals honoring the sacrifices of fathers and mothers play a role in accounting for the close connection between fertility and faith around the globe.

Baker reports about the response to one of his six - day preaching tour: «The men of four villages wished at once to cut off their top - knots, and asked for baptism forthwith... I said that faith and patience were the life of Christ's people, and that a profession of this nature could not be put on and off like clothing: they had better wait;... But they said, «You must destroy our devil - places, and teach us to pray to our Father, as you call Him, in Heaven, or some beginning must be made.»

I think everything Jesus taught was that faith is something we choose and we work at, and that works are important, but we need more than works.

Doris A. Blazer, who teaches early childhood education at Furman, is involved in the National Symposium on Faith Development in Early Childhood and coordinator of preschool parenting conferences at Kanuga Conference Center.

You do not understand everything the Christian church teaches, you say, and some things that you think you do understand you do not believe, but you at least see enough in the kind of faith and life for which Christianity stands so that you would like to do something about it.

I learned when i studied the Bible, and met a man that taught religious studies at Penn.State Remember, God loves you, even with faith as little as the size of a mustard seed!!

At a faculty meeting at yet another university - related divinity school, a new faculty member was accepted after he had made it emphatically clear that he would never let his personal faith impinge upon his teaching and scholarshiAt a faculty meeting at yet another university - related divinity school, a new faculty member was accepted after he had made it emphatically clear that he would never let his personal faith impinge upon his teaching and scholarshiat yet another university - related divinity school, a new faculty member was accepted after he had made it emphatically clear that he would never let his personal faith impinge upon his teaching and scholarship.

Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem cell research that could save countless human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence of them existing.

Muslims appear peace loving on the outside, but at the root of all, they are guided by venomous philosophy — Kuran, which teaches violence and intolerance for every other faith and religion.

Editor's note: Danielle Elizabeth Tumminio is an ordained Episcopal Church priest and is author of «God and Harry Potter at Yale: Teaching Faith and Fantasy Fiction in an Ivy League Classroom.»

At the threshold of a new vision It is astonishing to us that in the latter years of John Paul II's pontificate he has in his teaching brought the Church to the very threshold of that new synthesis of the Catholic Faith and the scientific vision of the universe.

As we celebrate the twenty fifth anniversary of the election of John Paul II we thank God for sending us this Pope to re-build the Church, for his magnificent teaching given at a time of acute crisis, and for giving her the certainty in the faith she so desperately needs.

This appalling ignorance of the Church's teaching in Faith and Morals is surely the root cause of the decline of Catholicism in this country today, and, as many people observe, goes back at least one generation, (presumably that of its authors).

Editor's note: Danielle Elizabeth Tumminio is an ordained Episcopal Church priest and author of «God and Harry Potter at Yale: Teaching Faith and Fantasy Fiction in an Ivy League Classroom.»

What St. John gives us is the psychological truth of The One who was God and Man in the unity of One Person, and gives us the work, teaching, claim, and impact of Him who was both, at one and the same time the Christ of Faith and the Christ of History.

And so, as an evangelical, I am deeply invested in my faith, at both a personal and communal level, and I believe that all scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, challenging, correcting, and training in righteousness, so that people faith are equipped to love God and their neighbors.

After graduating from a Christian college in which this was the prevailing attitude, I nearly lost my faith because I began to fear that being a Christian required checking my brain at the door and ignoring what this world has to teach us.

Tumminio said she wrote God and Harry Potter at Yale: Teaching Faith and Fantasy Fiction in an Ivy League Classroom, to explore the contention by conservative Christians that Harry Potter is akin to heresy.

Seeker services aim at introducing the unchurched masses of our post-Christian culture to the rudiments of the faith, teaching them the elementary truths of the gospel in ways that liturgical worship and doctrinal preaching might not.

One need only look at President Jimmy Carter, who went so far as to teach Sunday school at his local Baptist church, to see how a sitting president can make room for faith, said Balmer of Dartmouth, who counts among his many books «God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush.&rfaith, said Balmer of Dartmouth, who counts among his many books «God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush.&rFaith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush.»

Second, because I teach at a very large secular state university, one of the largest in the nation in one of the largest states, with a growing multicultural population, I am constantly required to think about religion (and what my own Christian faith means) in a pluralistic setting.

Kneeling with them at Mass has taught me as much about my faith as all of my theology courses.