Sentences with phrase «what means to»

As many New Testament scholars such as Willi Marxsen have shown, what it means to have faith in the resurrection must be derived from the texts themselves.

You mean as part of what it means to make sacrifices the greatest of which being God having to make the greatest sacrifice of all that unlike Abraham who was at the last minute spared from having to make the sacrifice of his beloved son Isaac, God on the other hand due to his love for all of us imperfect beings had to actually sacrifice his beloved son.

We're completely confident that we understand what it means to be «saved,» how atonement works, and what happens to those who chose not believe or follow Jesus.

Why can't his statement s simply reflect the beauty of what it means to be a human firmly planted in reality?

I suggest your consider what it means to have Jesus a Lord — He loves you but you can not know Him on your own terms.

That's what it means to be wrong.

What every church needs to do is go back to the basic understanding of what it means to be a church.

I wonder if this twisted view of what it means to be proclaimers of Good News is more about our fear of rejection than anything else?

Especially when you tell me what it means to have faith.

If someone truly believe that's how it should be, then they don't understand part of what it means to be a Christian.

The central theme is what it means to be alive and...

Just as history brings freedom from rigid role definitions, it may also give us the freedom to think seriously again about what it means to be not simply a unisex parent, but a mother or father in particular.

But my wife and I are doing everything we can think of to teach the Bible to our girls, and more importantly, show them what it means to follow Jesus into the world.

He recounted why their church was founded and what it means to be a church «for the city.»

The fact you got involved with the Darfur thing isn't bad — it's what happens next for all involved that will define what that means to each person involved.

Reduced to basics, following this path requires wrestling with what it means to live between the ages, taking both ages seriously.

Most Western Christians, especially fundamentalists, define what it means to be human by the Original Sin, not the Original Blessing — which is not only unbiblical, but puts the emphasis on the human rather than Divine action.

Depends on your definition of «the church» and what it means to be «anti» gay.

I have never once stated «what this means to me» or «I believe this means.»

The older definition is probably a truer understanding of what it means to «know,» etymologically.

In their response to me, Robert George and Patrick Lee argue that some form of material continuity, indeed, a partial identity with respect to the material aspect of the human person, is part of what it means to believe in the resurrection.

We're also divided on what it means to serve the poor in an affluent society.

The reviewer can tell the reader that in Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions he is to think along with the author about what it means to seek God, how the «resolution of duty» that ought to be present in marriage transforms romantic love into love that conquers everything, and how the awareness of one's mortality, of the certainty of death, of «death's decision» enhances earnestness in life.

My students typically think this is what it means to know God.

The humanities «help us understand what it means to be human and connect us with our global community.»

This church and all churches like it need to reexamine what it means to be a true Christian.

I also know what it means to feel distant from the Lord... etc., etc..

I think most of are born with instinctual empathy, which I think is the core of what it means to be moral.

I also know what it means to carry a great sadness.

The ambiguity of what it means to be Christian is a key feature that has allowed it to survive despite the fact that it's based on a book of fiction.

Nonetheless, their respective concepts of what it means to be the People of God are mutually supportive.

But here's what you should consider: if we can understand what it means to have our world - view changed even briefly by believing in a movie long enough to get creeped - out by the zombies in it, we have to see what Peter was saying to the Jews — because he wasn't asking them to suspend their disbelief: he was telling them things they had witnessed for themselves.

Those in search of healing, and those charged with the task of guiding that search, are offered a wealth of reflection on how various thinkers have understood what it means to be whole.

Modernity said that God is a projection of the ideals and wants of what it means to be human so let us serve and worship the only God that matters — that is, the human.

In Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, the reader is to reflect along with the author on what purity of heart is, how to acquire absolute confidence in Divine providence, and what it means to follow Christ.

I admire and encourage people to find their own spirituality, to discover what it means to become spiritually independent, to refuse to bow to the institutional pressure to conform to the group.

We show respect because that is what it means to «be the bigger man.»

Think about what it means to be «Christ - like» before you open your mouth about this «Christian nation.»

What if being stewards of the world is foundational to what it means to be human?

However, all interacting and existing things must interact in a particular way, because they have a particular nature (what it means to exist), thus the «laws» must exist.

For a better understanding what it means to be a sinner we invite you to read the article «What is Sin?»

Her faith is even challenging Portman's idea of what it means to be successful in Hollywood.

2/8 Perhaps you don't understand what it means to prove something.

Ms. Crow's manner is inviting and leisurely, offering the reader a pleasurable education in the history of England and, more important, in the many ways that people over the centuries have understood what it means to be Christian.

People like «positive reinforcement» and knowing they accomplished something — and what that means to the community... it just needs to be meaningful I think.

This is part of a series called concrete liturgies by a Christian community, Vaux, where they're exploring what it means to express faith and worship in the language of the city.

He objected that the issue of contraception was «superfluous» compared to others; he asked what right the priest had to tell him what to do («judge not lest you be judged,» Hannity instructed); and he expressed shock at the thought that anyone might deprive him of taking Communion just because he was deciding for himself what it means to be Catholic.

It is within this tension that we have relearned what it means to pray.

The power of Genesis is that it speaks to universal ideas of what it means to be human in this world.

«So to have a monarch who talks openly about Jesus in a very relaxed and natural way, we find that a huge encouragement and hope that Christians across the country will take a leaf out of The Queen's book and learn to talk about Jesus in a natural way with friends, relatives and colleagues, so people can discover more about what it means to be a follower of Jesus.»