Sentences with phrase «who came to faith»

I know several people who came to faith via some form of direct - response marketing — a televangelist, a tract, a Gideon Bible, a black - and - white billboard signed by God.

For those of us who came to faith later and were not raised in it, not doing so would have simply been the status quo and conversion is the rejection — of what we knew before.

I've yet to see anyone minister effectively from a defensive posture, nor have I witnessed anyone who came to faith because they lost a theological argument.

Second there are plenty of people who come to their faith as it were through something more than bible verses its called critical thinking people can critically think their way to the idea that they are rather small beings in a relatively huge universe and that they realize that they can't know everything and leave some things including the nature of the universe to faith and acknowledge it as faith if that's how they see the world fine is there anything particularly wrong with that?

I'll bet the thief on the cross probably thought he wouldn't have much of a highlight reel, but how about all the people who come to faith at the very end of their life because of his story and testimony?!

Not exact matches

I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.»

«You always make a leap of faith when it comes to investing in Warren Buffett,» says Jack Ciesielski, an accounting expert and author of the Accounting Observer newsletter, who has recently analyzed Berkshire's financials.

Then that means your Jews who came from abroad came to kill your brother jews because they became into other faiths??

Let's see... believe in our God or you will be tortured for eternity... Believe in our God even if science and the fossil record refute our conclusions... Believe in our God who can do anything, it doesn't matter what you come up with, he can do it and don't you dare call it magic or fantasy... but don't test him either, he's not a performing monkey who does tricks to convince us he's real, we just have to have faith, but he could do anything if chose to...

They only need satisfy themselves that their position is a just one, suitable for teachers of the Christian faith who have come to realize in recent years that the faith has something to say to the problems of the day.

I visited churches filled with new believers, many who came out of animist or Buddhist upbringings, often alone in their families, to confess faith in the risen Christ.

Graham helped untold millions of Americans who already respected Christianity to come across the threshold of personal faith, and to be born again.

Is there a step of faith in believing that Jesus is the Son of God and that He came and died for a sinner like me and that He rose again to prove that He is God and that He defeated Satan, sin and death and has given eternal life to all who believe in Him?

Both were skeptics who set out to prove that Jesus and the Bible were a hoax, only to come to faith in Jesus at the conclusion of their investigations.

but they watched a lady sitting next to them walk after being in a wheelchair for a decade... and they came back filled with faith that God could really be who they read about in the bible.

That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have achieved it, that is, righteousness that comes from faith; but that Israel, who pursued the law of righteousness, did not attain to that law?

Absent a true understanding of what the liturgy is, grounded in a firm grasp of what the gospel is, those who «come to church» do not grow in living faith.

Hello, Muneef, I hope and pray that you are doing fine, and that you are safe... I don't actualy know where you are, but I gather you live somewhere where there are many unrests... Today is the special day for all people who have put their faith in Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, who came to live among us, and who became a sacrificial Lamb, offeirng Himself to God for the sins of all mankind.

The atheist who claims to come from a «faith» background is extremely confused and more to be pitied than admired.Had the supposed «believer» continued in the «faith» they claim to have forsaken, they would ultimately have appeared before God and been rejected.These were deceived, they never met God, they never knew God and they never understood God.They are devoid of the Truth and twice lost.There is hope while they still breathe Gods gift of life that they might someday meet and be reconciled to God, but their lying nature makes salvation less likely.Debate with them is an exercise in futility.God bless

For Evangelicals, the Church as the one body of Christ extending through space and time includes all the redeemed of all the ages and all on earth in every era who have come to living faith in the body's living Head.

In his Address to the Nobility of the German Nation (1520), Luther criticized the traditional distinction between the «temporal» and «spiritual» orders — the laity and the clergy — arguing that all who belong to Christ through faith, baptism, and the Gospel shared in the priesthood of Jesus Christ and belonged «truly to the spiritual estate»: «For whoever comes out of the water of baptism can boast that he is already a consecrated priest, bishop, and pope, although of course it is not seemly that just anybody shall exercise such office.»

(sigh) Those who know how to pray and pray in faith lets just pray for everyone making comments either way that this does nt continue to divide us but that we would one day all come into the full knowledge of God that we serve.

The summer I came to faith, my friend gave me a copy of The Cost of Discipleship [SCM Press], Bonhoeffer's most famous book, and he told me the story of this man who, because of his faith, spoke up for the Jews in Nazi Germany and got involved in the plot against Hitler.

In the end all you are doing is just relying on your own belief because even though there is no proof that that there actually is no deity who does not want to be made known but would rather have us develop our faith in said deity, since there is thus far no irrefutable proof that there is such a deity, that you then come to a conclusion that there is no such deity, all you are doing is just relying on belief just like I'm relying on belief and that what it really boils down to is just that it is all a matter of belief.

In view of the number of specific prophetic events that were fortold and have come about exactly as fortold, your position requires more faith to believe it is a fairy tale than mine to believe that there is someone (God) who knows the future and told us the future.

As a Catholic in WASPish Ithaca, William came to find solace in boxing as a way of striking back at local bullies who mocked his faith.

So many people who advocate or speak publicly for political or personal reasons aren't acknowledged as much when it comes to religion when someone is wanting to speak out about there faith a light bulb goes off and says we don't want to hear, or talk, or, air any thing that has to do with the mentioning of God but because of the high profile story and because this is the President of the United States it's ok hats off to them for not being ashamed to speak about there faith I agree with Richard some people just because they profess there faith doesn't mean there trying to push there beliefs on anyone people of faith have a right to free speech also.

How does all of that mean that there is possible way that it could not all come from any god and epecially in way would it come from an Abrahamic God; a God who does want to be made of in the first place but would rather have us develop faith in that God?

After Bergson, however, came Léon Bloy, the novelist who led Jacques and Raïssa to the Catholic faith.

But you should at least be honest and know that one who believes in the forensic science of origins of life has to have as much faith in the person asserting the theory as one has to have believing God was the witness to the event and told man kind how the world came about in simplistic terms.

This sets a lot of atheists (who for some reason come to a faith blog!)

I see and work with people who were athiests or agnostics, came to faith in God and for the first time in thier lives found hope, joy and solutions to long standing issues in thier lives.

@ Derrick Yu, This actually may come as a shocker, but there are believers out there who still continue to ask questions about God, about the Universe, and so forth, and unlike certain atheists out there who if they can't get definite answers to just come to conclusions that can not be verified like conclude that there is no God, at least there are believers out there who at least are willing to at least be open to the possibility that there is a God, and from there they develop their faith, which even though is not a perfect knowledge, at least can help keep those minds open, unlike certain atheists who take the easy way out and convincing themselves that it is a fact that there is no God, when in reality it is not a fact at all.

«I wouldn't have a problem with a child being fostered by someone who comes from a different faith but is sensitive to and responds to that child, who communicates with them, who shows their face to that child as well.

What about the millions of Christians who were not «indoctrinated» as children, but came to faith in young adulthood, middle age, older age, etc.?

So how does your school of thought apply regarding the fewest of explanations and fewest assumptions apply when it comes to God who does not want to be made readily known in the first place, but wants us to develop faith in that God instead.Your school of thought could apply well if the notion of God was a God who either wants to be made known or doesn't care whether or not to be made known, but your school of thought doesn't apply at all if said God does not want to be made known but would rather have humanity develop faith, which is not a perfect knowledge.

There are still millions of Christians in this country, in many denominations, who cling to the scriptural and traditional faith and the morality that comes with it.

I now believe it does a tremendous disservice to honorable people who are faithful believers to place on them the additional burden of guilt, shame and magnified suffering that comes from the kind of doctrine that promotes (sells) prayer as a magic talisman which will somehow change God's mind, alter physical circumstance, and fix intractable problems — if only the one praying has enough faith or asks in the right way or lives a holy enough life or professes Jesus enough or waits patiently or never gives up or any of a hundred different gotchas that can be called upon to justify the lack of an affirmative answer.

Now, when it comes to believing in God, there are believers who seek validation for their faith from other people; however, that is not the main source of validation!

Out of all this insanity comes the very wise perspective of a woman who identifies herself as «the very worst missionary,» but who is pretty much «the very best blogger» when it comes to speaking frankly about faith in real life.

Part of Israel's call was to be a light of who Yahweh is so that the nations around could come to faith, through faith, by the Passover blood and then the sign of circumcision, which for us I believe plays the same role as baptism.

He has stirred up some of his allies who, desiring to satisfy their own avarice, are presuming to assert far and wide that the Indians of the West and the South who have come to our notice in these times be reduced to our service like brute animals, under the pretext that they are lacking in the Catholic faith.

Those who came to him he encouraged and supported in their faith in Christ and the Church in very difficult and confusing times, offering always both clear and profound intellectual answers as well as spiritual guidance.

It comes in standing with those whose faith carries them through the persevering fight for justice long enough to see actual change for anyone who loves their neighbors as themselves.

as someone who was raised religious and was rather religious in my teens i can see where people of faith are coming from and how you can get caught up in it but as soon as i started to apply logic to it i struggled to find any truth to it to me its to man made and the whole concept to conceited i mean apparently animals don't go to heaven because they don't have a soul....

And it is not the people of Faith that make it so disgusting, it's the idiots who come here to amuse themselves!

let not those grieve thee who race each other into Unbelief: (whether it be) among those who say: «We believe» with their lips but whose hearts have no faith; or it be among the Jews, — men who will listen to any lie, — will listen even to others who have never so much as come to thee.

But I also say that people who choose other lifestyles, heterosexual or homosexual, should be accepted, just as atheists and libertarians are accepted, in the hope that they will come to faith in Jesus which will presumably involve repentance.

Who would want to look so foolish to have faith in a book that you don't even know where it came from?

On Wednesday, Iraj Kamalabadi and other Baha'is came to Washington to tell the commission just how bad things are for his sister, Fariba Kamalabadi, and six others who have been imprisoned because of their faith since 2008.