Sentences with phrase «teaches about faith»

But what the church teaches about faith and values is not.

The Pope is infallible when teaching about faith AND morals.

Further, people with such different attitudes as those I have mentioned are united in a common inability to listen with complete objectivity to what the texts teach us about the faith and hope of primitive Christianity, without mixing their own opinions and the views that are so dear to them with their interpretation of the texts.

His favourite theme is to challenge Christians to rethink what they've been taught about their faith and their identity...

Surely we can never think of Christian teaching about faith and morals, or about anything else, as a kind of closed enterprise, at the end of which the job is done and we have finally got our people «fixed» where we should like them to be.

Of course, we need more and better teaching about the systematic ordering of the gospel and its corollaries — that is, teaching about the faith as a whole.

She taught me about faith in the impossible.

When lapsed parents approach us to have their child baptised, or lapsed couples for marriage, it is very rare that this is done merely for social reasons — that they just want a party (I think on these occasions a priest may well have to make a stand — but only after he has ascertained that they would not be open to some teaching about the Faith).

But, as so often happens to kids who grew up in church, when I reached young adulthood, I started to question a lot of what I was taught about faith and life and ever since then, doubt has been an ongoing presence in my life.

Not only has breastfeeding taught me about faith, but also about confidence.

Some of you may know I've finished the heavy lifting for my memoir Accidental Soldier: What My Service in the Israel Defense Forces Taught Me about Faith, Courage and Love.

Not exact matches

I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.»

Ok Reality, if you want me to teach you Quran, then you will first have to drop this offensive language about my faith.

If your faith is so weak as to not be able to tolerate those with different perspectives, may I suggest that you re-examine what your faith actually teaches about loving others?

It is about time leaders of Faith, speak out and call on their people to follow the teachings of Christ, not just mouth the words, but live them... I know more non Catholics that are thinking of converting than I have heard ever....

They taught litteracy, cared about people etc... but also had the faith to even see the dead raised.

Since young adults perceive evangelical Christianity to be... «unconcerned with social justice», it's a shame that more evangelical churches don't know about the Just Faith program, which provides «opportunities for individuals to study and be formed by the justice tradition articulated by the Scriptures, the Church's historical witness, theological inquiry and Church social teaching» (from jusfaith.org/programs).

Never, so far as I can tell, has modern historical study made it impossible for a contemporary person concerned about intellectual integrity to believe what the Church (or the synagogue) has long taught as necessary for true faith.

As for the latter, those worried about another Catholic slide into incoherence should have faith in the ecclesial experience of the last three decades, which has taught enduring lessons about how Catholicism can not merely survive, but flourish, amidst the cultural acids of post-modernity — if it holds fast to a dynamic orthodoxy lived with compassion and solidarity.

Not about the integrity of any individual's faith in God, but about the integrity of the church's public teaching.

Blind faith is used as a caution By one that knows when teaching the ignorant about such things as fire for example, when the student comprehends feeling heat, they learn without burning themselves.

Furthermore, you have NO CLUE about Church teaching, nor do you seek to be an obedient member of the faith.

Many religious people I have talked to don't even know much about their faith, only what they are taught by rote.

What do the latest statistics say, and what resources are available to help us to teach children about the Christian faith?

For a Catholic, of course, the overarching framework is the Catholic faith and the revealed truths that it teaches about God, man, and the world.

I spend a lot of time teaching my freshmen students about the «essentials» and «non-essentials» of the Christian faith.

If you want to learn more about what Scripture teaches about the words «save» and «grace» and «faith» and how these are related to the gospel, consider taking my course, «The Gospel According to Scripture.»

The majority of christians have no idea about their faith or what it is to be christian, you see them spout nonsense from a bible they have never read and judge or even hate others who do not believe their beliefs, all the while not knowing they are going against its teachings.

Her book, The Spiritual Lives of Young African Americans, explores what this population can teach the wider body of believers about integrating faith and activism.

We set about teaching our eldest how her faith is compatible with science and hoped that would be the last time she would encounter such a misrepresentation.

Best Biographical Sketch: Jennifer Fulwiler with «What Mother Angelica Taught Me About Radical Faith»

This I found disconcerting, since faithfulness to papal teaching has always been one of my guiding objectives when writing about the faith.

Your teachings about how to read / understand Genesis have strengthened my faith.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

If you believe all that happened randomly, that the bang was powered by nothingness, then you could teach us religious folks a few things about faith.

Among other controversial teachings of the Church, he developed a much needed line of thought about the sacramentality of the sexes in the plan of God (more fully outlined in Sexual Order and Holy Order, Faith Pamphlets).

It is because the biblical teaching about the kingdom of God promises joy, contentment, and significance to those who live under the rule and reign of God that the invitation to enter into the kingdom by faith in Jesus Christ has such persuasive power.

Now, here's where I suspect Challies and I may agree: Because we believe Scripture to be authoritative in matters of faith and practice and a trustworthy testimony regarding Jesus Christ, we would be right to be highly suspicious of anyone whose claims about their experiences with God run contrary to the teachings of Scripture.

He told the Today programme: «A Catholic faith school can say to their pupils we believe as a religion contraception is wrong but what they can't do is therefore say that they are not going to teach them about contraception to children and how to access contraception.

The Table teaches us that, ultimately, faith isn't about being right or good or in agreement.

We usually focus on the content of faiths and policies in disputing groups; for example, the Catholic bishops» pastoral letters, the sermonic messages of Martin Luther King, Jr., and black churches, Mormon doctrines about equality or inequality, New Christian Right teachings based on revealed truths, or Jews» concepts of the land of Israel.

In a typical gathering, a member of one faith will make a few introductory comments about a scripture passage, and then the entire group attempts to understand what the passage is teaching and how it ought be applied today.

A recent study, «What Catholic Women Think About Faith, Conscience, and Contraception» (see whatcatholicwomenthink.com), has shown that 37 per cent of women aged 18 to 34 who attend Mass weekly and have been to confession within the past year completely accept the Church's teaching on family planning.

Too bad that his faith hasn't taught him anything about compassion or empathy.

That teaching wreaked havoc on my young faith, as I write about in Evolving in Monkey Town, and in several of the posts below.

To the extent that they are careless about their instruction in the faith, or present its teaching falsely, or even fail in their religious, moral, or social life, they must be said to conceal rather than to reveal the true nature of God and of religion.»

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.

Religion is about the individual and how that one person responds to to the teachings of their faith.

As such, I would not call Lydia a new believer here, but rather a woman who was already a believer, but who had limited knowledge about what she believed, and who came to a fuller knowledge of her faith through the preaching and teaching of Paul.

He added: «I am passionate about the Christian faith that can transform individuals, communities and institutions, and about communicating that faith through pastoral care, teaching and community engagement.