The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was the greatest in the long succession of Jewish prophets. None can acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah without becoming a Christian.
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If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
This piece-bright paling shuts the spouse Christ home, Christ and his mother and all his hallows.
It is a tradition during the Christmas and New Year holidays and we found it necessary because of the inner feelings of our people,
Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites.
To these men and women we humbly bow, to the generations who followed and carried the pulpit and teaching of Jesus Christ, we are grateful. Let us be inspired to walk in His presence and leave our children the same faith and hope of a home beyond the grave -- a house not made by hands but eternal in the heavens.
And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.
But Tammy Faye calls me, and Ron Jeremy calls me, Erik Estrada sends me a Christmas card every year.
Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers.
Unfortunately, even as Christians, we do things wrong. We're all sinners.
The stores saw enough demand during the Christmas holiday that the wide launch in February went very well.
Christmas parable The stable boy had finished work that day, Had filled the manger with new, fragrant hay, Had fed the beasts, and usually would sleep Snuggled for warmth among the placid sheep But not tonight, for hed conceived a plan To join a merchants camel caravan And travel to far places. He had heard Exciting tales of cities which had stirred His longing for adventure. He would go Where things were happening his friends would know Why he had gone. He often said to them, 'Oh, nothing happens here in bethlehem.' He looked back once, before they traveled far, And wondered vaguely why that brilliant star.
I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.
I am responsible for making sure that all of the church members live a godly life, and if they do not, I am in charge of their discipline.
Order your soul reduce your wants live in charity associate in Christian community obey the laws trust in Providence.
Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with a surer and more reverend realism, says that they are all fools.
It's a stream of Christianity that didn't win the day.
The Twelve Days of Christmas The first day of Christmas My true love sent to me A partridge in a pear-tree. The second day of Christmas My true love sent to me Two turtle-doves And a partridge in a pear-tree. The third day of Christmas My true love sent t.
He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity -- a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.
I just panicked. I didn't want her to see all the Christmas stuff up.
We believe that the search for justice is the chief way of living a Christian life.
I was surprised. I can hear the cheers too, but there were some boos. I think it was kind of retribution for what happened in Miami over Christmas. I think the Miami fans were so vocal over Kobe.
Gospel music is no longer relegated to just the churches in the South. There is an emerging gospel music, a pulse that is all over the country, and we wanted to capture that for our viewers.
The bottom line is he is allowed to worship in any Catholic church. Any Catholic is welcome.
I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.
I hadn't seen them, my dad and my mom, since Christmas. It was a good feeling seeing them.
I believe in the Church of Baseball.
It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole.
The brotherhood of man is an integral part of Christianity no less than the Fatherhood of God and to deny the one is no less infidel than to deny the other.
Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments.
The university's vision is to be a Christian community of learning and service. The Board of Trustees feels it can best fulfill that vision if the board is representative of the broader Christian faith.
Nyack College is an educational institute committed to training its students to serve both the church and the world. The chairman of the board has told the employees that a new president must embrace those core values and continue on the path that Dr. Schroeder has set us on.
Religion I have disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give to them, and that is the Christian religion. If they had that and I had not given them one cent, they would be rich. If they have not that, and I had given them the world, they would be poor.
I consider him to be one of the 21st-century prophets, along with people like Bill Gates, who is at the forefront of bringing real medical relief to the world's poor. We seek to model Jesus in Matthew 115, where he said, 'The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk.' We seek to help those afflicted with crippling diseases, like Rick Warren is doing with his AIDS project. The church must act.
Online retailers continue to re-create the offline world on the Internet. People come out to the stores the day after Christmas looking for bargains. Now a natural part of shopping is to first poke around online. Some shoppers might see bargains online and decide they don't have to fight the crowds in the malls.
When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.
When they go to class in the morning, I think it is. And the study hall right here, with all the computers, it is. And with the full room and board and tuition and fees, I think it is. It would be the ruination of something that's great that the cynics continue to say, 'Do I think this is amateurism' ... I would be 100 percent against anything like NBA subsidies. The only thing I've ever said is more stipends for the kids. The No. 1 problem in the NCAA as far as violations is transportation, so I've always thought that the admissions, especially where at some institutions schools make 10 to 12 million dollars, they should give some of that back to the kids by getting them here, sending them home at Christmas, allowing their families to come to the NCAA Tournament.
Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.
The nearer the Church, the further from God.
The bishops will govern the Church, the priests will do all the work and the deacons will have all the fun.
I don't think Canadians want a Christmas election, ... So Jack Layton and the NDP have to act now.
Created, Loved and Called would be a great study for any church to use beginning sometime in January, maybe on Sanctity of Human Life Sunday.
It is not our purpose to do missionary work and expound the gospel. Our purpose is to expound upon the environment and 'feeling' of BYU.
I just heard about the church that burned 10 years ago. It just really did touch my heart. I've just kept up with them through the years.
The whole family sings together at church.
Above and beyond giving a mea culpa, John Paul II will attempt to frame what the church means by a mea culpa. His belief that the church strengthens itself through a frank acknowledgment of past sins is a remarkable thing. But the Vatican is also being careful to make clear that this isn't simply a spectacular act of self-flagellation before hostile outsiders it's about the church's need to express regret and ask for God's pardon rather than to satisfy outsiders.
When I was young, I was sure of many things now there are only two things of which I am sure one is, that I am a miserable sinner and the other, that Christ is an all-sufficient Saviour. He is well-taught who learns these two lessons.
If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
The church was great. They held a spaghetti supper and raised about 1,000 to help pay our expenses.
Down the street from Klak's shop, up on the third floor of the landmark St. Mark's Church, dance company 7Dance is rehearsing for an upcoming show for a preview, see p. 25. There is a strong core of artists who have been working to preserve Frankford for a long time, ... It's been very inspiring and motivating for me to start to build relationships with them.