Sentences with phrase «to teach the faith»

And if / when we have kids, I will not squash any attempt to teach faith by my partner, unless it is dishonest.

He could still teach faith; he simply could not demonstrate it.

Catholic schools close and stop teaching the faith, and authority over curriculum and instruction is turned over to a state - authorized public school.

God teaches faith not a life of sin.

Parents and grandparents trying to teach the faith at home would find it a Godsend.

Stalin - era religious restrictions — including outlawing religious activity outside of Sunday services in registered churches and banning parents from teaching faith to their kids — remained on the books until the collapse of the Soviet Union, though the government enforced them only selectively.

We were taught the faith afresh and in a better way.

Christianity teaches faith without works is dead.

When teaching and ruling elders come together in councils they do not leave behind their essential calling; they are still ordered ministers with responsibility for teaching the faith and for discerning faithfulness.

What these bishops did was to remove the totally inadequate religious textbooks and the advisers / inspectors who wrote and promoted them and provide the teachers with sound Catholic text - books which were not only faithful to the Catechism of the Catholic Church but which also taught the faith clearly, comprehensively and without any ambiguity.

First and foremost, we lose the ability to unapologetically teach our faith and values because there is no actual «conversion» taking place.

I wouldn't want my children being taught their faith by someone who likely doesn't believe / understand it themself.

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.

My girls are taught faith not religion and I know I will get flack for this but I think religion was the downfall of faith.

Truth is, the only reason you've been taught faith is so important is that the creators of your religion know there is no evidence to support anything they want you to believe.

I struggle mightily with «how» to teach my faith to my tinies, I am not exactly into the whole Romans Road thing, or most modern Disney - fied children's ministry stuff.

Contextualization [is] a delicate enterprise if ever there was one... the evangelist and mission strategist stand on a razor's edge, aware that to fall off on either side has terrible consequences... Fall to the right and you end in obscurantism, so attached to your conventional ways of practicing and teaching the faith that you veil its truth and power from those who are trying to see it through very different eyes.

For several centuries the church fought classical drama because it was seen as a vehicle for the propagation of pagan philosophy, and it naturally resisted the use of drama to teach the faith.

We can study the history of our faith and proudly say we are where we are today because our ancestors in the faith raised their voices, made bold decisions and prayed and taught the faith.

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.»

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.»

All in all this book is very good and written with the vigour and zeal of someone who clearly enjoys being a Catholic and feels that traditions which help us to teach the faith are not only worth maintaining but encourage us to feast and be merry.

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.

The booklet would be especially appropriate for sixth form general RE in schools that do want to teach the faith and not just have vague socialism with a Christian tinge.

That's especially true when we teach them the faith as a proposition, as the most reasonable explanation of the world as it is; when we tell them that faith doesn't mean that you forsake reason, that faith is far and away the most reasonable proposition that explains the world as it is.

Wisest: John Stackhouse with «Why Evangelicals Should Be Glad We Weren't Asked to Pray At 9/11 Services» «Prayer isn't supposed to be an opportunity to proclaim or teach your faith to others.

«But so too is the interest of religious groups in choosing who will preach their beliefs, teach their faith, and carry out their mission.

Müller writes that as far as the Magisterium is concerned, the pope, too, might be wrong: for instance, if he omits to teach the Faith.

However, when we teach them the faith, we see them having a real confidence.

The church can no longer take it for granted that many institutions are working together to teach the faith to persons like Paula.

Let me ask you this, if you were born in a muslim country and ALL the people around you were muslim and you were taught this faith from birth... do you truly think you would be a christian today?

Teaching the Faith

At the core of their vocation, teaching elders are called to teach the faith and ruling elders are called to rule out, to measure out, fidelity to the gospel in the life of the church.

Teaching the Faith is also crucial, and we have a feature on Catholic schools.

In the first place, like all the Gospels this one teaches us faith and love; for it presents Christ to us as a most loving Savior and Helper in every need and tells us that he who believes this is saved.

It must teach the faith and «nothing else.»

UK law should be reviewed (and hence, possibly, amended) so that religious schools can only discriminate where there is a genuine and legitimate requirement that the occupation has to be filled by someone of a certain faith — for example, for the head of RE in a religious school that teaches faith - based RE.

The quality as measured by teacher salaries and credentials is low, and faith - based schools feel free to teach the faith.

In a world where values are progressively more and more secular and humanistic, Catholic schools are privileged to teach the faith and nurture in students a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

About Blog One Baha'i's approach... to teaching the Faith, and applying the Laws in my own life.