«The Class - Consciousness Raiser,» June 10, 2007 «It may be that the only people
with abiding faith in the power of class divisions in America are the country's few remaining Marxists and Ruby Payne.»
Thus we have freedom of enquiry coupled with loyalty to the essence of the tradition; we have openness of mind combined
with abiding faith in the gospel's Lord.
Not exact matches
what you would call «lockstep» i would call upholding and
abiding with one of the basic principles of the catholic
faith, which is to love on another as jesus loves us.
What is often neglected in these ministries is that the emphasis in the context of these Scriptures is not on the kind of
faith or the amount of
faith, but on
abiding with Christ and asking according to the will of God.
My
faith has absolutely nothing to do
with my stance on gun control (I don't support infringing on the liberties of law
abiding citizens just because some people are scared of guns).
Their Americanization notwithstanding, the Durand - Perez family retained a number of features typical of every border family I know: pride in the Mexican culture and heritage; a deep and
abiding religious
faith; a love for both the Spanish and English languages (
with family members having different degrees of competence in each); and a special esteem for the family's youngest and oldest members.
We journey in joy and to joy on feet fitted
with the peace of our good news gospel, warding off every attack against that joy
with the shield of
faith, and wielding the sword of the Spirit, the very Word of God in whom we
abide as He makes our joy complete.
In any event, I find that I have begun the decade of the «80s still firmly committed to the same essential project
with which I entered the «60s: to work toward a genuinely postliberal theology that, being sensitive at once to the human concern for freedom and to the claims of Christian
faith, will be as concerned for the credibility of the church's witness when judged in terms of changing human experience as for the appropriateness of its witness when judged by reference to its
abiding apostolic norm.
I doubt that Orthodox
faith communities are any easier to
abide in than Catholic or Protestant communities when it comes to the mundane experiences of life; but at least those of us
with mystical tendencies would not be attacked for being «pietistic» as we so often are in most Protestant, even many Catholic, excesssively rationalistic and legalistic Latin / Western Churches.
Jesus said if love the Lord
with all our heart and all our mind and strength and love our neighbour as ourselves we fulfill the Law.The truth is none of us can live it without the holy spirit and
abiding in Christ only in him can we do that.We are no longer bound by the Law which brought condemnation and death but have been set free through Christ righteousness which we receive by
faith.
The New Testament is in itself all that is necessary as a basis for Christian
faith, but much light is thrown upon God's dealings
with man in the story of Israel's halting and gradual discovery of the true nature of God as universal, not national; as law -
abiding, not capricious; as a God of peace, not war; as a God of justice, love and mercy rather than of wrath, and vengeance.
Our security comes from having a close relationship
with God and
abiding in him through
faith and obedience.
While Clinton faces a deficit in trust
with voters, she sought to play to a major strength instead: Her resume, plus an
abiding faith in her capabilities as a leader.
«However, owing to our principal's decision to
abide by the rules of the game, we have continued to keep
faith with the system by allowing them to vote their candidate of choice.
Reacting on the rerun election, Mr Adamu Abubakar, the APC Returning Agent for the election, said that as a law
abiding party, APC has agreed
with the decision of the INEC in good
faith.
How can you have a meeting
with people who come to it
with a deep
abiding faith that a fertilized egg is a person, and a blastocyst created by nuclear transfer is a person, and the destruction of that blastocyst to harvest stem cells is murder?
If all of us
abide, we'll survive the Online Dating Battlegrounds
with our
faith in humanity in tact.
JEP Network firms are committed to
abiding by the above standards, actively encouraging feedback from their clients, and working
with their clients in good
faith to address any disagreements about their representation.