Sentences with phrase «if reading texts»

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But often these passages in the Old Testament will state that the instructions were given by God, and if we read these texts in the light of Jesus, then we understand that although God was not telling them to do such things, He nevertheless inspired them to write what they did so that He could take the blame for their sinful actions.

If you read the text of the bill that pertains to school food, it's pretty clear why parents are so alarmed: it calls for a complete repeal of all nutrition standards currently governing the national school lunch and breakfast programs.

Basically, if you read the text of the Executive Order, there's no mention that it discriminates based on religion and this makes the EO entirely constitutional.

It might be a fruitful exercise today if we all read the text of just one of these documents, not as lawyers, perhaps, seeking out ambiguities and arguments, but simply as citizens of the world, seeking ever more humane conduct, even during war.

Not exact matches

If you want to keep track of 3,000 texts on oncology, well, I can't read that many.

If you find the text difficult to read and feel like there should be more contrast, don't hesitate to call your designer and let them know.

«If you have to use small text, use it sparingly, and it always helps to increase the line height of bodies of small text if it starts to become hard to read.&raquIf you have to use small text, use it sparingly, and it always helps to increase the line height of bodies of small text if it starts to become hard to read.&raquif it starts to become hard to read.»

If you want to work at whiskey company WhistlePig, which sells luxury, 10 - year old rye, you're first going to have to learn how to feed big, burly pigs and read historic philosophy texts.

We've been gradually getting used to reading onscreen, in part because we increasingly read short texts, such as e-mails, blogs and Facebook updates, but also because today we use our cellphones as much (if not more) for reading and writing as talking.

When it comes to slide presentations, if you use a slide with text on it, the audience can either read what's on the screen or listen to you speak, but not both at the same time.

That 7 - inch screen has just about the lowest resolution you can get — 1,024 x 600 pixels — and yet it's sufficient for things like games, movies and, if you're not hung up on print - quality text, reading.

I still recommend you try the Canadian Securities Course, even if you just sign up for it, read the text, and never write the exam.

If you doubt the value of SMS text message marketing, you should ponder this statistic: 95 percent of your customers who have opted into your text messaging program open (and read) your mobile messages within three minutes of receiving it.

If you're using a thermal printer, make sure it's set up to print dark, clear, easy - to - read text.

I got a kick out of reading my texts via the HUD, even if there's no way to return messages without actually pulling out your phone.

It provides features found on sophisticated financial software for your phone or tablet, including charts with 50 + indicators, stock screening, industry group and sector analysis, and audio expert technical analysis of chart patterns for easy listening, or text if you prefer to read.

if you really want to understand why, read the entire text that was quoted by One One in the context that leads up to those scriptures.

@Margroks If you actually read the post, you'll see that no where in the text does the author state that Bin Laden physically died prior to this past week.

If the book itself is too heavy or clumsy for easy use, photocopy the text and place it inside a choir folder and read from that.

To ignore these principles of interpretation is to distort the text just as much as if you ignored the principle of reading poetry as poetry with all the rich meaning of figurative language and chose rather to read it like it was a science text book.

he has a very detailed chapter on your worm... I think if you read real science text books on evolution you will get the facts rather than just a rebuttal based on biblical stories.

If you are honest you have to wrestle with these issues or be subjected to the same form of proof texting and selective reading of the Bible discussed in the article above.

It is as if few people read the text with an open mind and form insightful comments on the article itself.

If the woman read only Matthew 22:34 as her Christian text, the congregation must have been confused by its connection to the Shema.

If experience is more important than doctrine, and no doctrine is immune to revision» both of which are conclusions of Olson's postconservatives» how do we know that our fresh readings are not derived as much from our experience as from the biblical text?

I simply have a different understanding of these verses than you do, and if you read some of the others posts on this blog, you will learn how I understand those texts you quoted.

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I am convinced that you must read the Bible with a half smile on your lips and a glint of humor in your eyes if you are going to properly understand some texts.

Indeed, if we read the website of the Family Education Trust (which does not make its appeal to any text or creed) we find, under the heading «The Importance of the Family», the following:

That is not the message of the Bible which you should be able to see if you read beyond a few favorite proof - texts.

If, therefore, the God of the Old Testament looks nothing like Jesus in the gospel, we need to question how we are reading and understanding those texts in the Old Testament.

The Office of Readings for the solemnity of the Ascension offers a lovely excerpt from one of St. Augustine's sermons «de Ascensione Domini,» in which the learned Bishop of Hippo takes as his text Colossians 3:1 - 2: «If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated, at the right hand of God.

If we think this question through, we might be embarrassed into the realization that God's Word is read for a greater purpose than simply to provide the preacher a sermon text or pretext.

Then, once you have a basic idea simply from reading through and praying over the text, if you want, you can start consulting some of Bible study guides which are available.

But if the purpose of my images is not to impede reading of the text, but is instead to aid the reader to do his own thinking more confidently in images (I think he does it anyhow), then might not the pictorial gain be offset by apparently not appealing to the reader's imagination?

If our critical readings lead us away from trusting the grace of God in Jesus Christ, then something is amiss, and we would do well to interrogate the methods and presuppositions that have taught us to distance ourselves arrogantly or fearfully from the text and to miss scripture's gracious word of promise.

if it is all «context» and can be so subjectively read, there is either NO authorial intent (and therefore no permanent meaning) or you are assuming a larger foundation of truth to read along with the text (but that invites all the criticism you are levying against the religious).

If we step back and forget everything we think we know about church, and read the texts without such filters, they say something very different than often assumed.

If you understand that and read the bible as close as possible to the original text (try the NIV version) the word becomes alive.

Cap if you believe the bible says «the earth is balanced on pillars, the earth is a flat disc,» you should read the text in it context (again)

Disagree with the other person if you want to, but recognize that they are trying to understand and explain the text just as much as you are, and that just as you want them to listen to how you arrived at your conclusions regarding the text (and don't say, «I just read the Bible,» because you didn't), so also, that other person likely engaged in deep study of the biblical text to arrive at their understanding and it would benefit you to hear how they came to their understanding.

The discipleship area is focused on text and audio material, and so if you don't spend much time reading theology books, studying Scripture, or listening to theology podcasts or books on audio, you probably won't enjoy the discipleship area of this website.

If you read some of the ancient sermon texts, even from the very beginning of institutional Christianity in the fourth century, you can often read between the lines of these sermons and see that the Bishops and Priests had such people in their congregations, and were cajoling them and guilting them back into conformity, and even sometimes persecuting them for «abandoning Jesus and the church.»

Regrettably, she does little more than provide us with a reminder of a textbook example of eisegesis (reading «into» the biblical text one's own ideology) rather than exegesis (reading «out of» Scripture with attentiveness to historical and literary context, even if it conflicts with one's own personal views).

By contrast, a teaching such as the Immaculate Conception, as with so much Marian dogma, makes claims that not only stand on a highly contestable reading of an extremely narrow scriptural base but also seem to stand in tension with, if not even in contradiction to, significant biblical texts.

If the readers of texts in both the Jewish and Christian communities took their responsibilities seriously and understood that they were making a significant contribution to worship, we too can recapture the enthusiasm for public reading which the early Christians enjoyed!

Find some way of writing or recording the ways the text affects you as you begin to read and study it, even if at first you do not receive much from it!

It was apparent that those who read had not prepared their text, reading as if they thought their contribution was not as important as the music.

That's what's missing in the text, there's no feeling of that happening when you read it, or very little feeling of it, especially if you're re-reading a portion of it.