As with so much
of living our faith, the key is to deny our selfish interests and be more interested in others.
Christian dialogue with people of
other living faiths and the world wide struggle for justice are the other two areas referred to in the process of globalization.
«We don't want to do something that keeps someone
from living their faith or from expressing their faith,» he argued.
And if you don't love the faith with your heart you certainly wo
n't live the faith in your life.
We should be thankful that we live in a nation where we can
openly live our faith without fearing for our lives, no matter how unpopular it may be.
We dare avoid these questions only if we are more interested in protecting tradition than in
nurturing living faith.
A former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani - Kayode, has hailed Bishop David Oyedepo of
Living Faith Church and the Christian Association of Nigeria on their recent...
The practice mirrors the public's current interest in morality and in reading such best - sellers as
Living Faith by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Conversations With God by Neal Walsch.
United States About Blog Rosalinda Rivera - Christian Women's Speaker and author - Inspiring People to Embrace Hope and Live Life Out Loud.Inspiring women to
live a faith fueled life.
Wherever
living faith exists, there is a community endeavoring to sustain and transmit that faith.
Please keep in mind that within any assembly of uncommitted, backslidden, or misinformed Christians, will also be committed ones who are
truly living the faith as God intended and are looking for the same fellowship as you.
They are concerned
with living a faith threatened by the inhuman forces released by the globalization of information, technology, economies and violence.
The Kingdom of God actually exists
wherever living faith and living love grows out of communion with God.
Eleven living faiths claiming man's devotion are discussed: Confucianism, Taoism, Shintoism, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddllism, Zoroastrianism, Sikhism, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.
Kerry, people who
fervently live their faith, are the people who are asked about eternity and how (even then), things can change for them so that they leave earth knowing that they were redeemed.
But their primary allegiance is to the supernatural and
living faith embraced by orthodox Christians for almost two thousand years.
These
guys lived their faith in real, tactical, practical ways that led millions of people closer to Jesus, in big efforts and small acts of love.
Because much recent thinking on this matter has been generated by individual theologians, the World Council of Churches» unit on Dialogue with People of
Living Faiths called a consultation of 25 Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Protestant theologians in Baar, Switzerland, in January to ask if there is an emerging consensus among those who have been wrestling with these questions.
She has written more than one hundred articles and blogs and has contributed to nine books, most
recently Living Faith: The Fragrance of Christ, published by the Evangelical Fellowship of India and the Evangelical Fellowship of India Commission on Relief.
This translated into a theology of «God's double choice» reflected in separate but complementary realities: «
Israel lives its faith, the Church believes.»
«The constant experience of doctrinal disagreements contributed to a Western tendency to make the Christian experience more about ideas than about heart -
driven living faith, more what you think than what you do; more assensus than fiducia, more ideas about God than surrender to him.
Into that conflict find my soul with its thoughts and emotions and choices can get really torqued and twisted if my heart is not set on God, if it's not
active living faith.
Though Boyer himself says little about it, scholars such as Nancy Ammerman, Margaret Poloma and Robert Wuthnow have shown that
fundamentalists lived their faith by setting up orphanages, running de-tox houses, maintaining inner - city day care centers.
Four of the eleven
principal living faiths of the world were born in India: Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, and all have extensive sacred literatures.
Richard recently in Christianity Today: «Only a thinker so well grounded in the Reformation traditions could be an honest broker in bringing faithful evangelicals and believing Catholics to recognize the common source of their life together in Jesus Christ, the Holy Scriptures, and the great tradition of
living faith through the centuries.»
Thank you for
living our faith right in the face of those who proclaim to be Christian as they drop more bombs.
David Oyedepo, the founder of
Living Faith Ministries (popularly known as Winners» Chapel) in Lagos, Nigeria's major port and most - populous city, owns three Gulfstreams (plus a Learjet) worth almost US$ 100 million.
Eleven
living faiths still claim man's devotion: Confucianism, Taoism, Shintoism, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Sikhism, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.
Finally, I'm looking forward to teaching, speaking and writing about life at the intersection of religion and politics, particularly focusing on how believers can
live their faith powerfully in the world.
We have a tendency to prefer telling dramatic stories about dark, reckless pasts turned around at a sudden moment to grab the attention of the crowd and stir their emotions rather than describe the ebb and flow of real -
life faith stories.
This is an eminently spiritual vocation that is consonant with the best inspirations of all the worlds
major living faiths.