Sentences with phrase «god in direct ways»

We should reach deep within our tradition and rediscover those practices that connect us to God in direct ways.

Not exact matches

If I were to draw a schematic of 1980s «voice of God» media and hold it up against the way information flows today it would be clear that we now have a much more advanced system for movement of information in ever faster and more direct ways.

spending time in prayer may not bring direct results from «god,» but i think that the quiet, reflective nature of prayer probably helps lots of people find their way.

Buddhism (in its true form) provides a guide to the elimination of suffering, not deity worship; in fact never talks about God or gods in the sense the west does... FYI Buddha was born 630 years before Jesus, and it is proven that Buddhism traveled from eastern India all the way to Syria and the Middle East via the Silk Road... i am quite sure Jesus had heard some of his teachings... some of the things that Jesus says are a direct reflection of the eightfold path from buddhism... Jesus was the greatest salesman of all time... sold the most books in history... he really honestly does nt deserve worship but an Academy Award

If I think of answered prayer as a message telegraphed direct to my heart, if I have no sense of the breadth of God, the ways in which God talks to me, then I have only a rudimentary sense of prayer, for, as Gadamer shows, God is talking to me all the time and I don't seem to know it.

it is inconceivable that a God drawn along the Whiteheadian lines, with a total grasp of the possibilities unfolding before the progressive advance into chaos and with a direct pipeline to the «ear» and «conscience» of each and every emerging actual entity, could not have found for the world a way around such unspeakable suffering [as that which occurred in the Holocaust].

The ways of the Kingdom of God stand in direct contrast to the ways of the world and our culture.

All this, which is only a part of what ought to be said about the Atonement, is not irrelevant to our discussion; for like Professor MacKinnon, though in a rather different way, I want to lay the greatest emphasis on the decisiveness and uniqueness of the Cross and the Resurrection In both these acts of God, however, I find no inconsistency between their decisiveness and «objectivity» and the fact that they are directed towards men: the former as conveying to them the divine acceptance which is also judgement, the latter by bringing to them, in the Easter experiences, the active presence of the living Lorin a rather different way, I want to lay the greatest emphasis on the decisiveness and uniqueness of the Cross and the Resurrection In both these acts of God, however, I find no inconsistency between their decisiveness and «objectivity» and the fact that they are directed towards men: the former as conveying to them the divine acceptance which is also judgement, the latter by bringing to them, in the Easter experiences, the active presence of the living LorIn both these acts of God, however, I find no inconsistency between their decisiveness and «objectivity» and the fact that they are directed towards men: the former as conveying to them the divine acceptance which is also judgement, the latter by bringing to them, in the Easter experiences, the active presence of the living Lorin the Easter experiences, the active presence of the living Lord.

In the monarchical model, God knows the world externally, acts on it either by direct intervention or indirectly through human subjects, and loves it benevolently, in a charitable waIn the monarchical model, God knows the world externally, acts on it either by direct intervention or indirectly through human subjects, and loves it benevolently, in a charitable wain a charitable way.

To be «saved» is not to go to heaven when you die (though that is part of it), but is to follow God in a new way of living life, a life of restoration and blessing directed at others.

Since the churches aspire to speak in the name of God, they have to direct every criticism, first of all, against themselves, admitting in this way that they are met by the same judgment as those criticized by them.14

Speaking at his alma mater, the Angelicum, on the anniversary of Aeterni Patris in 1979, he said that «the philosophy of St. Thomas is a philosophy of being, that is, of the «act of existing» (actus essendi) whose transcendental value paves the most direct way to rise to the knowledge of subsisting Being and pure Act, namely to God.»

The struggle necessary if we are to direct our sexual energies to their appointed and life - giving ends becomes, in Christ, a battle with an old self that refuses to honor God and insists upon its own way.

Most important of all, their pastors and lay leaders believe that God is calling them to ministry, that God speaks to them — sometimes in rather direct ways — and that where God leads, God will provide.

In short, either Cobb conceives of actualized regions in such a way that my arguments apply to regions directly, or Cobb conceives of regions in such a way that regions have nothing to do with how God is related to occasions in the world and my arguments are then directed to the Doctrine of Standpoint InclusioIn short, either Cobb conceives of actualized regions in such a way that my arguments apply to regions directly, or Cobb conceives of regions in such a way that regions have nothing to do with how God is related to occasions in the world and my arguments are then directed to the Doctrine of Standpoint Inclusioin such a way that my arguments apply to regions directly, or Cobb conceives of regions in such a way that regions have nothing to do with how God is related to occasions in the world and my arguments are then directed to the Doctrine of Standpoint Inclusioin such a way that regions have nothing to do with how God is related to occasions in the world and my arguments are then directed to the Doctrine of Standpoint Inclusioin the world and my arguments are then directed to the Doctrine of Standpoint Inclusion.

It is stated that this direct relation to God must itself be realized in a way that involves an origin from this earth, being threatened by and vulnerable to the deadly menace of the powers of this world.

My failure to realize what was happening to my mind sooner, has to do with the fact that Christians are told that they must draw close to God in prayer and meditation, that they should walk with God and meditate upon his ways, develop a close and personal relationship with god and God will lead and direct them and they should trust god for his guidance because he will tell them what to God in prayer and meditation, that they should walk with God and meditate upon his ways, develop a close and personal relationship with god and God will lead and direct them and they should trust god for his guidance because he will tell them what to God and meditate upon his ways, develop a close and personal relationship with god and God will lead and direct them and they should trust god for his guidance because he will tell them what to god and God will lead and direct them and they should trust god for his guidance because he will tell them what to God will lead and direct them and they should trust god for his guidance because he will tell them what to god for his guidance because he will tell them what to do.

Besides a sensitivity to this dimension, spirituality also includes an aligning of one's life with it, a directing of one's self towards God in the way one lives.

And this naturalism means that something basic to the church's confession about Christ is missed — the fact that the history of Jesus is what it is only because it is rooted in God's being in a direct and immediate way.

It misses the history of Jesus that is rooted in God's being in a direct and immediate way.

Is not precisely the essential difference between natural and secular history on the one hand and the really personal, sacred history of redemption on the other, blurred, if God's action even outside the history of redemption receives a definite predicamental position within space and time, because a definite, precise individual reality in distinction to others and in a different way from others receives a privileged direct relation to God?

Whether this be good or evil, whether it be directed to further prospective fulfillment or a denial of that end, whether it be adjustment or maladjustment: all is accepted by God and in one way or another can be used by him.

The only way in which it could ever come was by the direct and divine intervention of God.

Khandi Busby got a direct message from God advising her that the only way to save her 6 and 8 year old boys was to toss them off a bridge in Dallas.

On balance we can say that in choosing the way of the prophets Jesus was more comfortable with visions of the future that pictured the direct rule of God (the kingdom of God), or the gift of that rule to an apocalyptic Human One, than with the vision of a kingdom ruled by an earthly king of David's line.

I think there is a way of reading the Old Testament in light of Jesus Christ on the cross which allows God to get involved in the violence without making Him the direct cause of it.

Stewardship means far more than direct giving to good causes, though it includes that; it means the holding of all that we have as a trust from God to be used responsibly in ways that advance his kingdom.

In many ways, direct and indirect, this limitation of the Hebrew god to his own geographical demesne is revealed in the early documents of the Bible, as, for example, when Naaman, the Syrian, healed by Elisha, carried «two mules» burden of earth» from Israel's land back to Damascus, that he might have, even in a foreign country, some of Yahweh's soil on which, standing, he could worship the god of IsraeIn many ways, direct and indirect, this limitation of the Hebrew god to his own geographical demesne is revealed in the early documents of the Bible, as, for example, when Naaman, the Syrian, healed by Elisha, carried «two mules» burden of earth» from Israel's land back to Damascus, that he might have, even in a foreign country, some of Yahweh's soil on which, standing, he could worship the god of Israein the early documents of the Bible, as, for example, when Naaman, the Syrian, healed by Elisha, carried «two mules» burden of earth» from Israel's land back to Damascus, that he might have, even in a foreign country, some of Yahweh's soil on which, standing, he could worship the god of Israein a foreign country, some of Yahweh's soil on which, standing, he could worship the god of Israel.

Ultimate models — whether of a personal God or an impersonal cosmic process — direct attention to particular patterns in events and restructure the way one sees the world.

Christians often say that human beings are disposed to configure appetite in a God - directed way, but we are, in fact, no more disposed to configure our desires that way than any other.

Hence no Christian can despair of any man, even of himself; for each man is «a sinner for whom Christ died», each man is loved by God, each man can direct his life in response to that love made manifest in diverse ways but «re-presented» (in Schubert Ogden's word) in Jesus Christ.

We hold that it was precisely not demonstrable that God was in any direct, causative, and purposive way related to the exodus events.

He is directing affairs in some mysterious way such that men and nations retain their freedom and boast only of their own designs, yet through the chaos of a world in flames as well as through the drab days of common times when vested wrong seems invincible, God is bringing to pass his purposes.

7.13 found in Mark 14.62 and the same combination found in the pre-Lukan formulation of Acts 7.56 can not be dependent upon one another, since the one, Mark with the circumlocution, reflects a Jewish way of thinking, and the other, Acts with the direct mention of God, reflects a non-Jewish way of thinking.

Our trust is directed toward God as well — trust that in Jesus has been truly disclosed the truth about human life and the truth about God, so that if we entrust ourselves to God through Jesus God has truly shown us the «way and the truth and the life» (John 14:6), that in Jesus we truly perceive the «pioneer and perfecter of faith» (Heb.

While it is true that man's spiritual personality has its origins in a direct intervention by God, this intervention itself was in no way arbitrary or discontinuous with the previous history of the cosmos.

The way in which we keep, or do not keep, the promises that we vow and the commitments that we make on our wedding day to our future spouse, before God, a celebrant authorised by the government to receive such declarations and probably anywhere between two and two - hundred witnesses, will unquestionably be a direct reflection of our own integrity, loyalty and faithfulness to our marriage partner.

I enjoy every minute of this little person that God has entrusted us for looking after, and I am filled with deep gratitude towards all the people that made this birth so special — Ralph, the star in the performance as well as the prize, Peter who supported me in an amazing way in this second birth, Joshua who made it a proper family happening, Luschka whose presence and support were amazing throughout and the midwives who really supported rather than directed me.

i've always learn to make God the center of my life... in all your way acknowledge him and he shall direct your path...

What I did know is that the actor Tom Blake Nelson has written and directed three films enormously admired: «Eye of God» (1997), «O» (2001) and «The Grey Zone» (2001), all three dealing in a concrete dramatic way with important questions: Religion, redemption, race, the Holocaust.

He decides to make a change, and seek out God in a more direct way, so that his daily life becomes a much more meaningful path of righteousness.

The way in which we keep, or do not keep, the promises that we vow and the commitments that we make on our wedding day to our future spouse, before God, a celebrant authorised by the government to receive such declarations and probably anywhere between two and two - hundred witnesses, will unquestionably be a direct reflection of our own integrity, loyalty and faithfulness to our marriage partner.

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