Sentences with phrase «years over my faith»

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It faces the challenge of living up to the faith of guys like Iridium's Matt Desch, who's counting on SpaceX to put nearly seventy satellites into orbit over the next five years.

Over the past two years I have lost faith in my own abilities (was a successful buy and hold investor in mostly mining stocks... copped a big hit in» 08).

That's where your faith should be, not so hung up in finding fault in a man that has been dead for over 30 years.

In the first place, because persons are constantly developing, in matters pertaining both to the knowledge they acquire over the years and also to their faith life.

I've been in the Christian faith for over 16 years, and I believe, that you and I, nor anyone here, were there when Judas «betrayed» Jesus.

Over the years, the kids have grown and gone on to great things, thanks to their faith.

Over the past 100 years hundreds of thousands of Christians have been put to death for nothing more than their faith during the Stalin purges, Chinese communist revolution, and hot spots all over the glOver the past 100 years hundreds of thousands of Christians have been put to death for nothing more than their faith during the Stalin purges, Chinese communist revolution, and hot spots all over the glover the globe.

Over the ensuing years, I saw faith marching us to war, with George W Bush, a president who claimed to get his marching orders from God, and the subsequent disastrous invasion of Iraq.

It was written by many people over the span of hundreds of years, it is tribal rules from the infancy of our development and arguably is not a good book at all but full of hatred, spite and unspeakable violence, and you arent allowed to use «faith» as your proof of existence... faith is nothing less than the throwing away of reason i.e. belief without evidence.

Over the years, Updike has presented himself as someone who, like most Americans of his class, has misplaced his faith and wishes he could find it again but knows he can't.

Sarah Beth Marr danced professionally for over fifteen years as a ballerina and now encourages women in the dance of life and faith through her writing.

I think there's a pretty nice cycle for seminary students: year 1: totally enthusiastic, young idealistic faith year 2: fairly smug, enthralled with knowing and using hip theology terms year 3: tired, disillusioned, a little bitter, anti-something or other year 4: just starting to get over one's self, wanting to «get out there»

As someone who consistently struggles with doubts about my faith, I've asked a lot of «off - limits» questions over the years, sometimes publically, sometimes privately.

Franklin Graham condemned the «Christian genocide» that's killing «over 100,000 a year because of their faith in Christ» at a Washington, D.C., gathering of 600 persecuted believers and their advocates from 130 countries.

The movie deals with faith, grief and doubt in a way that continues the «Jesus themes in other genres» trend that's been sliding into mainstream films over the past few years.

In fact the opposite is true, for they are willing to trust God only if these millions of words written over a period of centuries from two to three thousand years ago are all literally true, whereas my faith in God does not depend on this.

My definition of «church» has definitely changed over the years, and I find myself leaning more and more toward the idea that the true bride of Christ is a group of living breathing people — not a building, not an organization, not a set of doctrines, etc. — just people who continue on the path toward faith in God.

In his seven years as Bishop of Antioch, and the remaining years of his Roman pontificate, Saint Peter presided over Christians standing fast in the faith, living «in spirit, in faith, and in virtuous life.»

I've written about some of my experiences before — meeting a six - year - old forced to memorize and recite the Westminster Confession at dinnertime, nearly losing my faith over the notion that God created the majority of the human population for no other purpose but to suffer in hell for eternity, and encountering the famed «Jonathan Edwards is My Homeboy» T - shirt in the midst of the so - called «Calvinist resurgence.»

The most important elements of the faith, I believed, had not changed over the years, only gotten lost and rediscovered again.

Underlying this erroneous tendency, as Faith has pointed out many times over the last forty years, is the implicit or explicit denial of the transcendence of God, the Divinity of Christ, the historical objectivity of revelation and the authority of the Church in matters of faith and morals, and also the denial of the spiritual soul as a principle of existence that is distinct from yet integrates the material within the unity of our human naFaith has pointed out many times over the last forty years, is the implicit or explicit denial of the transcendence of God, the Divinity of Christ, the historical objectivity of revelation and the authority of the Church in matters of faith and morals, and also the denial of the spiritual soul as a principle of existence that is distinct from yet integrates the material within the unity of our human nafaith and morals, and also the denial of the spiritual soul as a principle of existence that is distinct from yet integrates the material within the unity of our human nature.

Numbers at the Evenings of Faith have been steadily increasing over our two years: in this summer series several large pizzas and some bottles of wine were needed every time for the party that follows the discussion.

that said over the years many copts have willingly left their homes taking their children with them to the rulers and announcing their christian faith and taking it to death for Christ's sake.

«If I've learned anything over the past five years, it's that doubt is the mechanism by which faith evolves.

Organisers say: «For over 20 years we've gathered together in a profound expression of unity which has not only shaped the New Wine movement, but also impacted the faith of countless individuals as they have encountered Jesus afresh.

Over the years, the priests of religion have done a good job of selling «belief» as «faith».

This week we've been talking about how changes in faith affect our relationships, and today I wanted to share a few lessons that I've learned as my own faith has evolved over the past ten years or so.

After a pretty lame attempt to explain to him how doubt has actually enriched my faith over the years, how walking with a limp has made me more dependent on the steady shoulder of my heavenly Father, and how I don't really want to be fixed if being fixed means accepting without question or concern the notion that God creates the majority of the human population for hell with no hope for salvation, I decided just to turn the response over to you guys instead.

He has collected over $ 1,000,000 for his faith foundation in 2008 - 2009 and probably another million this year and he is the sole member of said foundation.

Orthodoxy was the ony Cristian faith for over 100 years - when Rome broke off to establish a papacy.

This year's Republican primary season offers us an important opportunity to confront our scruples about the privacy of faith in public life — and to get over them.

You said, «America has not been short on people of faith in God and those that have acknowledged Jesus as their savior and look where it got us for over 200 years.

Those words I toss around so casually in my lectures — faith, doubt, fundamentalism, gender, sexuality, church — are potent seeds that have nestled, split, and grown inside of them, over many years, producing testimonies as unique and as urgent as the ones they print in Christianity Today, but without the tidy endings.

He and his wife Lyndie have experienced some changes in their faith over the past few years, and are currently in the process of leaving (on good terms) their Reformed church and looking for a new one to call home.

I, however, having been raised Baptist for over 20 years and then deciding to convert to the Catholic faith after taking several formal classes in theology, philosophy, and history, at least have the benefit of seeing both sides of the Catholic - Protestant split.

I was an evangelical christian for over 25 years and finally, suddenly lost my faith through reading and peeking outside the box.

If I've learned anything over the past few years it's been that when the rains come down and the floods come up, when doubt and frustration whip like wind against my faith, all the apologetics in the world can't ground me like the simple, yet profoundly challenging teachings of Jesus Christ.

He notes that in subsequent years Gilson's approach attracted a number of high - profile adherents, including Joseph Ratzinger, who, over the long course of his theological and now magisterial service, has relied consistently on the «Gilsonian paradigm» when explaining the relation of faith and reason.

Wuthnow concludes, from his three - year research into how Americans view faith and money, that although there is much lip service to decrying the overemphasis on money and materialism, in practice mammon is winning out over God, and the churches are silent for the most part on stewardship issues.

We have followed a system that has evolved over the past 4000 years and has worked its way to all the world, a system of slavery that has replaced faith in God with the almighty dollar.

I can not describe the depths of despair I endured watching my family so hurt by those who declared love for us.8 years on and the pain still lives on and my faith is non existent!The church has grown and the pastor travels all over the world preaching and being feted by everyone.He is now high up in the G12 organisation doing very well thank you!!

I have said once and again that Islam is a continuation of the Abrahamic faiths and that it does complement those faith in ways that go beyond the confirmation but also the rectification of that which has been corrupted by men over the years.

The International Theological Commission (ITC), an advisory body to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, addressed the topic in Le Diaconat: Evolution et Perspectives, a formal study conducted over ten years, completed in 2002, and published early in 2003.

Over the past three years, the number of Millennials who say they've shared their faith at least once in the past year has gone from 56 % to 65 %.

Actually they say all the three Abrahamic faiths are not Religions of Peace and all three of them had their Bloody History but the difference here is that we are as Muslims had the shortest history of bloodshed since we are only 1400 years old and like yours people of the bible one over 5000 years and the other over 2500 years in bloodshed history...!!

Over the last few years, Democrats, including President Obama, have spoken freely about their faith.

I raised my 4 children in the faith, although it got more and more difficult over the later years as I began to see the fallacies of the belief, and I began to feel like I was lying and pedaling junk philosophy to them.

What can you expect of religions who tout as a holy prophet and the patriarch of their religious faith a man who made a fortune pimping his wife all over the Middle East for years until his god raised hell and threatened a prince who was shacked up with her at the time.

I expected this article to be another New York bashing of faith, but instead I read a well thought - out and accurate telling of a partial telling of Christianity over the past hundred or so years.

What followed over the next fifteen years were nine conferences and consultations on topics as diverse as «Gospel and Culture,» «Muslim Evangelization,» «Simple Lifestyle,» «Evangelism and Social Responsibility,» and «Faith and Modernity.»