1. Provide opportunities for prayer - such as daily prayer services, faith sharing groups, or nature walks focused on contemplation.
2. Share faith stories and experiences of God's presence - testimonies from parishioners or saints can inspire deeper faith.
3. Connect youth with mentors - pairing young people with devoted Catholics of different ages can nurture faith through relationship.
Slides from a presentation/training delivered in Fareham Deanery, Portsmouth Diocese on Saturday 14th November 2009. The slides cover interactive work on child development and then moves on to look at Dr. Rebecca Nyes framework SPIRIT for auditing spirituality within our children's work/ministry.
Trust and favor are keys to healthy relationships and create space for deep transformation. Trust usually takes time to grow - and can be easily lost. There is wisdom for growing trusting relationships. These slides were associated with a talk by Russ Fochler at Blazing Fire Church on June 22, 2013. See www.blazingfire.org and click on "Listen Not" to see the available podcasts.
Slides from a presentation/training delivered in Fareham Deanery, Portsmouth Diocese on Saturday 14th November 2009. The slides cover interactive work on child development and then moves on to look at Dr. Rebecca Nyes framework SPIRIT for auditing spirituality within our children's work/ministry.
Trust and favor are keys to healthy relationships and create space for deep transformation. Trust usually takes time to grow - and can be easily lost. There is wisdom for growing trusting relationships. These slides were associated with a talk by Russ Fochler at Blazing Fire Church on June 22, 2013. See www.blazingfire.org and click on "Listen Not" to see the available podcasts.
Presentation on Spirituality and how people mindset is moving towards it.POOJA
The presentation gives insights about how people are moving towards the spirituality and various organisations that is helping them to find the inner peace.
Credibility : An Important Ingredient to HaveKIGUME Karuri
LET US GO BACK TO THE CROSS ROADS AND SEEK TO BE CREDIBLE IN OUR DAYS. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT INGREDIENT LACKING IN ALL SPHERES OF OUR SOCIETY TODAY. VERY DIFFICULT TO GET CREDIBLE PEOPLE
Pas·sion noun \ˈpa-shən\: a strong liking or desire for or devotion to some activity, object, or concept. Strong and barely controllable emotion. Boundless enthusiasm. Passion is a powerful or compelling emotion or feeling. Passion brings energy. Leader’s who are passionate bring energy to the room.
As Christians, we are commanded to serve God with Passion. Matthew 22:37-38: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment."
Read the slides for more interesting messages from God.
Presentation on Spirituality and how people mindset is moving towards it.POOJA
The presentation gives insights about how people are moving towards the spirituality and various organisations that is helping them to find the inner peace.
Credibility : An Important Ingredient to HaveKIGUME Karuri
LET US GO BACK TO THE CROSS ROADS AND SEEK TO BE CREDIBLE IN OUR DAYS. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT INGREDIENT LACKING IN ALL SPHERES OF OUR SOCIETY TODAY. VERY DIFFICULT TO GET CREDIBLE PEOPLE
Pas·sion noun \ˈpa-shən\: a strong liking or desire for or devotion to some activity, object, or concept. Strong and barely controllable emotion. Boundless enthusiasm. Passion is a powerful or compelling emotion or feeling. Passion brings energy. Leader’s who are passionate bring energy to the room.
As Christians, we are commanded to serve God with Passion. Matthew 22:37-38: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment."
Read the slides for more interesting messages from God.
Homily: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Sunday 2024.docxJames Knipper
Countless volumes have been written trying to explain the mystery of three persons in one true God, leaving us to resort to metaphors such as the three-leaf clover to try to comprehend the Divinity. Many of us grew up with the quintessential pyramidal Trinity structure of God at the top and Son and Spirit in opposite corners. But what if we looked at this ‘mystery’ from a different perspective? What if we shifted our language of God as a being towards the concept of God as love? What if we focused more on the relationship within the Trinity versus the persons of the Trinity? What if stopped looking at God as a noun…and instead considered God as a verb? Check it out…
The Chakra System in our body - A Portal to Interdimensional Consciousness.pptxBharat Technology
each chakra is studied in greater detail, several steps have been included to
strengthen your personal intention to open each chakra more fully. These are designed
to draw forth the highest benefit for your spiritual growth.
What Should be the Christian View of Anime?Joe Muraguri
We will learn what Anime is and see what a Christian should consider before watching anime movies? We will also learn a little bit of Shintoism religion and hentai (the craze of internet pornography today).
The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.
The PBHP DYC ~ Reflections on The Dhamma (English).pptxOH TEIK BIN
A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma Reflections for the PBHP DYC for the years 1993 – 2012. To motivate and inspire DYC members to keep on practicing the Dhamma and to do the meritorious deed of Dhammaduta work.
The texts are in English.
For the Video with audio narration, comments and texts in English, please check out the Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF2g_43NEa0
The Good News, newsletter for June 2024 is hereNoHo FUMC
Our monthly newsletter is available to read online. We hope you will join us each Sunday in person for our worship service. Make sure to subscribe and follow us on YouTube and social media.
In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way.pptxCelso Napoleon
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way
SBs – Sunday Bible School
Adult Bible Lessons 2nd quarter 2024 CPAD
MAGAZINE: THE CAREER THAT IS PROPOSED TO US: The Path of Salvation, Holiness and Perseverance to Reach Heaven
Commentator: Pastor Osiel Gomes
Presentation: Missionary Celso Napoleon
Renewed in Grace
2. GOAL: TO RECONSIDER HOW WE CATECHIZE
BY BROADENING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF…
What is Faith?
How Does Faith Develop?
How to Encourage Faith?
3. OPENING PRAYER
MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am
following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road
though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you
always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave
me to face my perils alone.
- Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude
4. WHAT IS FAITH?
Faith in the Scriptures:
Take the verse that your group has been given
Read it aloud
Answer the accompanying question
5. WHAT WE‟RE COVERING TODAY
What is Faith?
How Does Faith Develop?
How to Encourage Faith?
6. WHAT IS FAITH?
Etymology of Faith:
Hebrew: To hold close as a child in a
parent‟s arms
Latin: credo – to give one‟s heart to
Anglo-Saxon: to hold dear; to prize;
derived from German vorlieben – to
fall in love
7. WHAT IS FAITH?
“By faith, man completely submits his intellect
and will to God. With his whole being man gives
his assent to God the revealer. Sacred Scripture
calls this human response to God, the author of
revelation, „the obedience of faith.‟” (CCC 143)
Faith is our response to God‟s revealing himself
to us
Personal Adherence (fides qua)
Assent to the whole Truth God has revealed
(fides quae)
8. CHARACTERISTICS OF FAITH
Grace – “Faith is a gift of God, a supernatural
virtue infused by him” (CCC 153). Grace must
move in the heart of all before they can accept
God
Human Act – As much as we need Grace for
faith, it is also still a free act of our will. We have
to consciously choose to submit to God.
Necessary for Salvation – We cannot have
intimacy with God or salvation without faith
11. CHARACTERISTICS OF FAITH
Faith seeks understanding (St. Anselm)
It is certain because it is founded on
Truth
Can seem difficult because we are imperfect
Certainty rests on God who is perfect
Faith and Reason
“Though faith is above reason, there can
never be any real discrepancy between faith
and reason. Since the same God who reveals
mysteries and infuses faith has bestowed the
light of reason on the human mind, God
cannot deny himself, nor can truth contradict
truth.” (Vatican I, Dei Filius 4)
12. WHAT WE‟RE COVERING TODAY
What is Faith?
How Does Faith Develop?
How to Encourage Faith?
13. BRAINSTORM
If faith is our “yes” to
God, then what is it that
keeps most young
people in our culture
from saying yes?
14. WHAT IS FAITH DEVELOPMENT?
Faith Development theories and
schemas seek to put language
around the different stages of
faith which we all encounter
that are impacted largely by how
we are developing as people
Grace builds upon nature
16. CATECHESIS AND FAITH DEVELOPMENT
The goal of catechesis is to create an
environment where an active and
conscious faith is stirred up “which seeks
to put the person in communion with
Jesus Christ.”
Catechesis is mean to inspire and
integrate faith…not only a cognitive
function, but one of the whole person
Catechesis is meant to give direction and
meaning to each stage of human
development and leads ultimately to full
identification with Jesus (NCD, #174)
17. WHAT WE‟RE COVERING TODAY
What is Faith?
How Does Faith Develop?
How to Encourage Faith?
18. ENCOURAGING FAITH
Pick one of the “needs” of faith we
discussed earlier and come up with
three ways you or your parish could do
to try and fill that need