While in recent centuries Islam encouraged believers to be politically passive even in the face of ruthlessly repressive rulers, today the message is often a revolutionary call to arms to implement God's law through the creation of Islamic states.

Kevin Davis of New Release Tuesday gave it a four-and-a-half out of five stars, evoking how the album is "filled with songs that both challenge and encourage believers in their walk".

Paul both warned and encouraged fellow believers with these words: Let "no man ... be disturbed by these afflictions; for you yourselves know that we have been destined for this.

He encouraged fellow believers there and gave Bibles to Russian occupying forces.

She encouraged believers to use judgement and hindsight when considering music that is uplifting.

The second movement, from 1880 to 1920, included the founding of the Y.M.C.A., the New Thought Movement, which encouraged believers to replace negative thoughts with positive ones, and a new slew of fitness fanatics.

We intend these to encourage and equip believers with new scientific evidences that support the faith, as well as to 'popularize' our ideas in the broader culture.

Maimonides, who was staying in Fez with his father, is said to have written to the communities to comfort and encourage his brethren and fellow believers in this time of oppression (see Ibn Verga).

Among its promises are seminars "to encourage and equip believers with new scientific evidence that support the faith, as well as to 'popularize' our ideas in the broader culture."

And these new creeds, attractive or not, must have encouraged believers to examine and perhaps to challenge the dogma of the official church as well as ways in which the servants of the church-its bishops and priests-practiced their duties.