Sentences with phrase «united by the faith»

In the Church, people from all sorts of religious and racial backgrounds were united by faith in Jesus and by using the Jewish Bible; here they found the clue to the meaning of his life and theirs.

God is eternal, Jesus is the conqueror of the grave, and we, being united by faith with Him, share His everlasting life.

United by faith, this married couple is grateful to Christian Connection for bringing them together.

We are united by our faith in a God who wants all men and women to be truly free and live as Children of God.

We are united by our faith in a God who wants all men and women to be truly free and live as Children of God.

Not exact matches

But the United States put its faith in «self - regulation,» by banks — in a sector where financial crime always has been rife.

The original credo of our nation set by our founding fathers of «E Pluribus unum» (from many, one — or from many walks of life, faith, world views, we unite as one nation) has turned into «One Nation Under [a Christian] God.»

«Guided by uplifting music, nationally - known religious figures from all faiths will unite to deliver messages reminiscent to those given during the struggles of America's earliest days,» his site says of the event.

Everyone who is personally united to Christ, having been justified by faith alone through his atoning death, belongs to his body and by the Spirit is united with every other true believer in Jesus.

If Catholics in the United States are going to be healers of our wounded culture, we're going to have to learn to see the world through lenses ground by biblical faith.

Catholics believe in the following, «For there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved» than that of JESUS (Acts of the Apostles, iv.12); We probably can agree that we are united by Jesus in our faith and can set aside our other differences.

is asked and answered not in esoteric speculation but through everyday experience illuminated by faith» through our receptivity to the world around us, through our bodies united with our souls.

Therefore, it is only in so far as we are, as Paul expresses it, «in Christ», united with him by faith which responds to God's grace reaching out to us in him, that we may hope to be raised to a share in his risen life of communion with the eternal God.

She is the author of United: Captured by God's Vision for Diversity (Moody, 2014) and Fear and Faith (slated for April, 2015, Moody).

In March 2012, he became the Director for the Lifelines to Healing Campaign with the PICO National Network, a campaign led by hundreds of faith congregations throughout the United States committed to addressing gun violence and mass incarceration of young people of color.

By the time Julie Catalano entered Tufts University in Medford, Mass., three years ago, she had drifted from her United Church of Christ roots faith and considered herself bisexual.

Finally, if one goes by texts and not anecdotes, the UCC Constitution and Statement of Faith represent who we really claim corporately to be, not to mention the seven recent volumes of The Living Theological Heritage of the United Church of Christ, tracing our lineage from the ancient creeds forward.

Christian Post: «Live Nativity Scene» to Be Displayed at Supreme Court, Capitol Building The Christian Defense Coalition and Faith and Action are publicly sharing the message of Christmas this season by sponsoring a live nativity scene in front of the United States Supreme Court.

The James O'Kelly Christian Church, which represents an important southern heritage of the United Church of Christ, underscores other nonhierarchical biblical Reformation concerns by viewing the Scriptures as «the only creed, a sufficient rule of faith and practice.»

According to the most recent study done by the Pew Research Center on religion in the United States, this decline coincides with a growth in the number of people who either reject organized religion or faith and spirituality entirely.

Faith did not cure her depression, but it freed her to experience her mental and spiritual state in a meaningful way by allowing her to unite it to the suffering of others.

President Obama has approved legislation promoted by religious freedom advocates that should strengthen the United States» effort to combat persecution of Christians and other faith minorities.

It will always be difficult to analyze and to describe the spirit that prevails in a group united by common religious experience, a common faith, and common worship.

Sandro Magister points out that Pope Benedict appointed, as his own replacement at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Archbishop William J. Levada, one of the four bishops responsible for the effort against sexual abuse committed by priests in the United States.

Conversely, Christians claiming similar persecution on the grounds of their faith in places like the United Kingdom, the Vatican or the United States of America might specify what they mean by privilege itself in the face of the consequences of their faith in the locales mentioned before.

Much as the Study of Theological Education in the United States and Canada, directed by H. Richard Niebuhr in the 1950s, became an influential inquiry into the nature of the church and its ministry, so the Danforth study, ostensibly of campus ministries, became an important resource for exploring the necessary relation of religious faith, social ethics and public - policy formulation.

Bishop Nicholas said: «I am, frankly, very disturbed by President Trump's decision to revoke the United States» commitment to the Paris Agreement, which was a global commitment made in good faith.».

Indeed, by placing our faith in Christ, we are presently united to Him and raised with Him (Ephesians 2:5 - 6; Colossians 3:1 - 4).

«My Take: 10 dos and don'ts for religion and democracy» By Tony Blair, Special to CNN (CNN's Editor's Note: Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007, is founder and patron of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation.

we have to unite by finding a common ground, scientific theology is the answer, we have to believe that all religions belongs to Him, the god who created scientifically and beyond any reasonable doubt that all came from the big bang 13.7 billion years ago.we evolved later to bcome what we are, the evolution of different religious faith in the past is just part of the evolutionary process, but all is under His guidance by evolutionary will.we are part of Him,

By being united with Jesus Christ in faith, we share in the very life of the Trinity itself.

New Delhi said: «[This unity] is being made visible as all in each place who are baptized into Jesus Christ and confess him as Lord and Savior are brought by the Holy Spirit into one fully committed fellowship, holding the one apostolic faith, preaching the one gospel, breaking the one bread, joining in common prayer, and having a corporate life reaching out in witness and service to all and who at the same time are united with the whole Christian fellowship in all places and all ages, in such wise that ministry and members are accepted by all, and that all can act and speak together as occasion requires for the tasks to which God calls His people.»

The guidelines for sexual education were roundly and predictably attacked by Catholics United for the Faith and other rightwing Catholic groups.

Contending with Modernity: Catholic Higher Education in the Twentieth Century By Philip Gleason Oxford University Press, 434 pages, $ 35 We Catholics are united in the faith, but infinitely disunited in almost everything else,» said John Lancaster Spalding, Bishop of Peoria, around the turn of....

Are we really talking about «cultural Catholics», united to the Church by «works» rather than faith in Jesus Christ and his teaching?

That «distinctive faith» ventured down a different ecumenical path in 1960 with the proposal by United Presbyterian Eugene Carson Blake that four major denominations — his own, the Methodist Church, the Episcopal Church and the United Church of Christ — merge into one denomination.

Education was being placed under the control of the state and was becoming secularized, but on the frontiers of white settlement, especially in the United States, those moved by their Christian faith were founding most of the institutions of higher learning and were even responsible for much of the public school system.

As a result, I think a Muslim and a Christian, simply by living and engaging in a pluralistic society like the United States, have the opportunity to get to know more about their respective faiths, just through experiencing life in a society that includes members of that faith.

The USCCB website invites us a little coyly to «Dive in deep into the Church's teachings»: this can be done by going to one of the site's most valuable pages, which gives links to statements on marriage by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the Second Vatican Council, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope John Paul II, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Pontifical Council for the Family and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

Paul VI in his first sermon as Pope spoke to those «who without belonging to the Catholic Church are united to us by the powerful bond of faith and love of Jesus Christ and marked with the unique seal of baptism — one Lord, one faith, one baptism», seeking to «hasten the blessed day which will see, after so many centuries of deadly separation, the realisation of Christ's prayer on the eve of his death — ut unum sint, that they may be one...» 6

Missions won many of the aborigines — Indians and Eskimos — to the Christian faith, and white occupation was not accompanied by as extensive wars and exploitation of non-whites as took place in the United States.

Some faith groups, like the United Methodist Committee on Relief, are using Halloween as an opportunity to promote justice and fair - trade by joining Equal Exchange, a cooperative that sells fairly...

Most of us in the United States have been influenced chiefly by the monotheistic Abrahamic faiths: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

And while we remain almost microscopic in the United States, the Church is increasingly attracting converts, assisted by an increase in the number of English - speaking parishes, our beautiful chanted Liturgies, and our refined understanding of the Christian faith.

Precisely because the new community was not constituted by natural or social ties, it had to be united by a common faith.

Even Christian thinkers who did continue to use the language of friendship turned more often to the language of brotherhood, «preferring to represent themselves as brothers united in Christ by virtue of their faith rather than claim the name of friend on the basis of their own excellence.»

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RVP only moved to the Super Lig during the summer after being deemed surplus to requirements by Louis van Gaal at United, with the coach instead opting to put his faith in Memphis Depay and Anthony Martial, neither of whom have wholly impressed.

For virtually the entire of his time at Manchester United, Alex Ferguson, that most adaptable of managers, has held tightly to a faith that sustained Paul McCartney's recording career well beyond its sell - by date: wings are the business.

However, it's claimed by the Manchester Evening News that United opted not to move for Ozil in the end because Jesse Lingard's improvement convinced them to continue to show faith in him instead.