Sentences with phrase «years as a believer»

Especially compared to the first 15 years as a believer.

I first wondered why I never, NEVER, during my 25 years as a believer, experienced Jesus as the girl does in the video.

During my 25 years as a believer, I could not honestly point out one single instance and say it was obvious that God had intervened (in my life nor the lives of the Christians I associated with).

Not exact matches

I really like that D has shifted its portfolio in recent years to reduce its exposure to commodity prices and that 90 % of the company's sales are from regulated operations, Also, I'm a high believer in natural gass (partly because that's what I studied in engineering so probably biased), but Management is investing heavily in natural gas, including massive projects such as the Cove Point LNG export terminal and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.

They really don't — the concept of somebody saving their lives from a crucified execution occurring 2,000 years ago is appropriately distant and irrelevant to them, because the vast majority of believers put as much thought and effort into what they believe about their religion as WHY they believe what they believe about their religion.

Oh but great Mirosal, if I said disprove Santa clause you wouldn't react in such a harsh immature manner.But if I said disprove God, there is something that changes.You become increasingly violent towards the believer who asks proof of your claim.You react childishly creating delusions from your own life such as «I went to a religious school for 12 years».

I spent 20 years of my life as a true believer; most of those years in leadership positions.

As a former believer in the 2000 year old story book.

Every year we force nominal believers to sing «Christian children all must be, mild, obedient, good as he», thus reminding them why they only come to church once a year.

The death of the 35 - year - old, who has been named as Bassem Attallah, marks the latest in a spate of attacks affecting believers in Egypt.

But (and I say this as a believer), don't make any Christmas plans this year.

So, how would you propose I interpret the evidence I have, which is my own personal observations over the past 35 years, 25 as a bible believer, and the past 10 as an atheist?

I also complement myself for having served my country as an enlisted and officer... and I complement myself for having «served» the fellow believers many years ago.

It doesn't apply to a belief in God, either - there's still the question of where God came from, unless you cut the Gordian knot by saying God is an effect without a cause, as believers have done for thousands of years.

= > so you understand why God does not bother to show you the proof you demand as he refused the non believers 2,000 years ago (Sanhedrin demand proof but none is given but the sign of Jonah).

As for me, I was a believer for many years, and I find that there is no evidence for any of it being true.

For the last two years I had heard about some believers whom God led to give up the religious structure they had become part of to live as the body of Christ together in this region of the world.

No need to respond to swine as bile calls them The truth will prevail and the believers will soon rule earth 1000 years with Christ.

As noted, over the years outsiders have routinely alleged that prophecy believers were «pessimistic,» too heavenly minded to be of any earthly good.

As I look back on my years as a bible believer, most of the time I was in bondagAs I look back on my years as a bible believer, most of the time I was in bondagas a bible believer, most of the time I was in bondage.

Sixty years ago, it was taken for granted that a significant portion of American writers were Catholics who balanced their dual identities as artists and believers.

Very well said Tim — You forgot to mention to have the unbelievers explain fish skeletons scientists have found over the years in the clefts of mountain top ranges, shark teeth discovered all in the Arizona deserts — Of course we know it was the flood — To a lot of non believers I speak to; it's sad because as opposed to looking / researching God's many evidences that He has left there are so many willfully ignorant in listening to modern man's (& I might add) opinion with nothing to back up evolution theories.

Except Years of Christian teaching said the Bible was to be believed as written & as the INFALLIBLE word of god, And NOW» believers» cry typo?

Many churches in the Yungan area are removing crosses from their buildings, and local police have cracked down on local gatherings: detaining a local pastor, as well as believers as young as 3 years old for singing in a park.

My wife has sat right beside me (25 yrs in July) and remarked to me on more than one ocassion that some of the women who post here seem angry when she has been a believer for almost 40 years and embraces here role and ministry gladly and she has never felt inferior or second rate as some here indicate they have.

Can someone explain to me why, in 25 years as a bible believer, I can not point to one single instance where God OBVIOUSLY, in a natural or supernatural way, acted in my life?

I relate with some of your dangers, I use to experience some of them when I first «left the church»... But I will say, years later... now that I have learned to center the majority of my relationships around Christ, that this builds lasting relationships and it is fulfilling for all in so many ways... I am learning to «live in community» with some close believers and feel as though I am experiencing Love like I have never experienced it before.

Shinto believers warm up before entering an ice - pool to pray to purify their bodies and souls as they display their endurance skills during a New Year's purification ceremony at Teppozu Irani Shrine in Tokyo on January 13, 2013.

Yes... this is the severist most ignorant form of human brotherhood... but Bill Nye, is taking the first step towards his goal, and the goal of many athiest activist... take the rights away from God believers... because... a hundred reasons... children will be hurt, holds back our country yada yada... be careful who you get suckered in by as you travel these few years we are given on this earth... allow your brother to be your brother... allow him to chose for his life and family... never cross the line of «knowing better.»

It is fifteen years since October 1988 when the Pope raised the only scientist as yet to the rank of a beatus, and two books have just appeared on the scene almost simultaneously to make better known the story of this incredible man, scientist and believer.

I was baptised as a baby and in Israel last year I confirmed this by being immersed in the Jordan I felt a feeling of completion as a believer and acceptable.

I have encountered but one Christian (naked pastor) in the 8 years of my life as a non believer, who actually listened to what I said without immediately coming up with an excuse for why Jesus seems to be a no - show.

for mr cathy to donate HIS money to focus on the family (which has helped sooo many families over the years & is non-judgmental as they help) or any other group / organization that lines up with the way God desires His believers to live..

Are the reachings out for spiritual community with sincere believers of other faiths to be one - sided, in that the insights of Western Christianity alone are to be held true and sufficient, and the insights of Hinduism and Buddhism and Islam (and Judaism, for that matter) simply yearnings toward fulfillment in Christianity, as has been held for so many years?

When I was a believer, many years ago... for many years, I was fond of using the pervasiveness of «sin» as evidence that the bible was true and the, therefor, God existed.

A couple of years back he made it clear this nation is a nation of believers and non believers as well.

Thus if truth is presented directly to a believer in the here and now, hence the absence of distance, the truth will be spat at, flogged, scourged, and crucified, as was demonstrated approximately 2,000 years ago.

6 --(yawn) Not sure what you are talking about due to your usual vagueness, but I'll take a stab at it — If I am right, and there is no heaven and no hell, you, as a believer and minister lose nothing by wasting years and years of your life preaching a lie, and convincing hundreds, perhaps thousands to believe that same lie, and waste millions, no, billions of dollars to pay for the continued propagation of that lie...?

Let me see, I was reasonable in my thinking as a non-believer for 33 years, but suddenly became incapable of reason because I became a believer.

Yes of course have understood what you meant after all the country is a country of all Egyptians whether Muslim or Christian or Jewish if any... those all have suffered for 30 years in the hands of this dictatorship which cared less for the people of Egypt only was there a greed for their money beside the control of their life and destiny... but above all only people with true faith can achieve what they have achieved, as people with no faith have not that will and power within granted by God to his believers...

I have tried numerous approaches over the years in an attempt to get believers to, not leave their faith behind as I did, but to examine their faith from the outside, from my perspective.

fishon — «Let me see, I was reasonable in my thinking as a non-believer for 33 years, but suddenly became incapable of reason because I became a believer.»

23 years ago I started attending 12 step meetings as an Adult Child of an Alcoholic - I was a believer back then as well.

Not only was this myth meaningful within Israel and the former generations of Christian believers, but also to us living in the new world, three thousand years later, it still speaks powerfully, as it lights up for us our human nature and our human predicament.

Please keep in mind that all I really know about the Christian faith is from my own miserable 25 year experience as a believer.

Years before the nation's capital legalized same - sex marriage in March, one church in Washington, D.C., opened its doors to gay couples as part of its mission to establish an «inclusive body of Biblical believers.»

I can tell you that you need to behave or you won't get a Unicorn for Christmas this year, but I doubt that will have much impact on your behavior as I doubt you are a believer in Unicorns.

The first 400 years of the church's life were largely given over to debates about the meaning and implications of confessing Jesus as Savior, Lord and Son of God, and the answers were shaped by the believers» contexts.

I knew some American Missionaries India who retired back in the USA in their late 70's, sadly left the Christian village they had started 40 years earlier with a school and hospital, and watched it fall apart from a distance as money stopped pouring in and apparently sincere believers of decades grab the next benefactor.

But of course, as much as she is hoping that I will become a believer and then be content to spend every Sunday sitting in church with her, I am hoping she will abandon her faith, (as I did after 25 years) and then she will be content to spend her Sundays with me, the man who loves her, and we could actually go off and do things together... or, we could compromise and I would be content with having one Sunday a month with her.