Sentences with phrase «when evangelicals lived»
I remember the day when Evangelicals lived in shear fear of the prospect of their daughters returning home, saying they had fallen in love with a Mormon.
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Thus Evangelical Catholicism, knowing that its being a Church of sinners is another impediment to mission, emphasizes that friendship with the Lord Jesus is a matter of constant conversion of life; that this conversion involves the rejection of evil and sacramental reconciliation with Christ and the Church when we fail; and that there are degrees of communion with the Church that are not identical with the canonical boundaries of the Church.
When I hear people disparaging symbolic undergarments, I realize that they would do the same to Jewish and Catholic ceremonial garb, as well as the outwardly dramatic group reactions displayed by Evangelicals including, speaking in tongues and the accepting of Jesus in their lives.
Maybe it's just because I've lived in the Bible Belt my whole life, but when Smith writes that, among evangelicals, Jesus often gets «sidelined by the interest in defending every proposition and account as inerrant, universally applicable, contemporarily applicable, and so on in ways that try to make the faith «relevant» for everyday concerns,» I totally get it.
He said: «Society generally, particularly when it comes to evangelical Christianity, think that mostly we just sit around ranting about the things that we don't like in society and perhaps are completely unaware that we're also trying to live out our faith in the practical works that we're doing.»
The teachings of Jesus are not followed by evangelicals because they are in a war like state of mind because of their END TIME CULT persona to wipe out all muslims from Israel when jews and muslims lived in peace among themselves before the creation of the NEOCONS at the signing of the Balfour agreement.
Economist George Gilder, who identifies himself as an evangelical Christian, has argued,» «Give and you'll be given unto» is the fundamental practical principle of the Christian life, and when there's no private property you can't give it because you don't own it....
When one thinks of evangelical higher education, it is clear that historically evangelicals have landed on the side of forming students» lives as a whole.
It's probably the prairie kid thing, combined with the evangelical - mutt thing, but when acedia slinks into my soul, spreading into every corner of my life with an ooze, when my mind is fuzzy and apathetic, when I'm listless and worn out, burned out, on religion and parenting and marriage and family and everything about my life, I get to the daily, methodical, healing goodness of real work.
Then, when we actually moved to the South, we experienced the cognitive dissonance of being assumed to be part of the irresistible evangelical mainstream while practicing a form of Baptist life that eventually got our church kicked out of the denomination.
LaSalle Street Church in the Near North neighborhood looks like a venerable downtown First Church, but it actually began in the 1960s when evangelicals from institutions like Wheaton College and Moody Bible Institute sought to create a grittier, more streetwise form of church life.
Then, just when you think it can't get any better, Vicky Beeching hits it out of the park with her presentation about what it was like growing up, living, and leading in the evangelical culture, while (until recently) keeping her sexuality a secret.
When Jesus says, «I am the way, and truth and the life...» (John 14.6), we Christians of evangelical heritage and loyalties are quick to make this «way» and this «truth» into a cognitive, doctrinal litmus test for inclusion in the sphere of God's grace.
In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.
When 16,000 college students gathered at InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's latest Urbana conference to talk about missions, one of the main debates became how evangelicals should engage with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.
The smell like someone jamming two large needles a good deal up into your nasal cavity and then taking them out and then jamming them back in the diaper had to be changed though so I learned along with the wonder and amazement of responsibility in the life of a little universe just learning about how wonderful and talented it is and all it had to do was be born and stuff just worked unless the cuts came but I did let that happen not when homosexuals could get married and marijuana was legal now to remove the guns and evangelicals and live in peace with the other people.
@Tea Partier... hmmm, when I walk into the average nursing home in this «Great Christian Nation» of ours, I have to ask how much you and your Tea Party friends care about the elderly... I am amazed at how little conservatives, Evangelicals and the latest version Tea Party members care so little for the living except their own tribe in the so - called «light» of their scriptures...