Sentences with phrase «in place of healing»

Rossing issues a salvo with her opening line: «The rapture is a racket,» Her first paragraph is a full - blown jeremiad: «In place of healing, the rapture proclaims escape.

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In other words, because gardening takes us to our «happy place» on so many levels and all at once, it is an exceptionally powerful and efficient way to activate our parasympathetic nervous system — the rest / digest mode, which stimulates the body's healing response mechanisms and sets off a bio-chemical cascade of wellness.

Sometimes at the moment when marriage is contracted, a person was not a believer; but it is also possible that a conversion process took place in his life, through which he experienced a sanatio ex posteriori [a «healing» or validation after the fact] of what was a serious defect of consent at the moment when it was given.

The building of the local hospital, the ambulance that got me there before I died from blood loss, the image of God in the paramedics that made them give their lives to rescuing people they've never met, the wisdom of the surgeon, the intelligence and skill of the thousands of individuals whose discoveries have made operating theatres and anaesthesia possible — all of these are gracious gifts of a loving God, whose mercy enables healings to take place across the world that would, in any other generation, be considered quite miraculous.

Healing is spiritual warfare... For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Two of my favorite books include Being White: Finding our Place in a Multi-Ethnic World by Paula Harris and Doug Schaupp, and More Than Equals: Racial Healing for the Sake of the Gospel by Spencer Perkins and Chris Rice.

The Gospels have in their way met this problem, not only by placing the kerygma on Jesus» lips, but also by presenting individual units from the tradition in such a way that the whole gospel becomes visible: At the call of Levi, we hear (Mark 2.17): «I came not to call the righteous, but sinners»; at the healing of the deaf - mute, we hear (Mark 7.37): «He has done all things well; he even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak.»

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Among these, none is more appropriate for emphasis in a discussion of community mental health than the observation that healing seems to have taken place almost invariably in some corporate context.

I see more vividly than before that our redemption requires that this power come to us, and through us, in healing and liberation, advocacy and friendship, love and sisterliness, in the most badly broken and frightening places of our life together and as individuals.

My guess is that many of them still struggle with lust, that is why they are in the monastery in the first place: to heal.

It can be an experience of being close to another person with safety; as each partner learns to risk being more caring and more honest in sharing his feelings with the other, healing of the wounds of the spirit takes place.

Could it not also be looked on in another way, that religion has caused Sophia to hate herself through the indoctrination and be encouraging women to escape and find freedom from such religion to a place of healing from self hatred and community that is more healthy than the opressive religious forces that are depicted in the picture.

Something of the difference may be seen in the caricature that Holiness churches emphasize the «graces» or «fruits» of the Spirit while Pentecostal churches place greater weight on the «gifts» of the Spirit, especially «divine healing» and glossolalia.

As Mrs. Eddy said, «The physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus» time, from the operation of divine principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation.»

As such it can not possibly understand the real uniqueness of each person nor the reality of the healing which takes place in the relationship between analyst and patient.

The healing of the lame man had taken place in Jerusalem.

While religion's importance to people transcends its healing value, Rabbi Hollander reports, its primary value lies in defining every phase of man's existence — describing his condition, his place in the universe, and his role in the shape of things.

There is not a universal response to this question, but here are four major keys that can help in moving us toward the place of healing and reconciliation.

Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem cell research that could save countless human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence of them existing.

But that Buddhist who spends his whole life making the world a better place, feeding the hungry, healing the sick, basically all the acts (sans miracles) that Christ lived by has no chance of salvation because he did not believe in the creator (the way he was supposed to).

Dana and I spoke with our children of Ruth's ultimate healing — of having faith that their sister was no longer in pain, no longer struggling but in the presence of the one who would wipe away every tear in a place where there is no more death or sorrow or crying or pain (Rev. 21:4).

Nor do hyped - up charismatic events represent the majority of environments in which healings actually take place.

daisy prays for all those who are in need of knowing God's love in this blog, may they find healing and comfort in knowing that they are not here on earth by chance, they were created to be here at this time and this place to fulfil your purpose.May they find everlasting love, peace and hope in you and you alone.

Eve may be the goddess Ninti who in the Sumerian creation mythology was a goddess of life and the «goddess of the rib», because she healed a pain in Enki's rib, a pain he suffered from a curse placed upon him from eating plants in the garden.

It could be argued that all such ideas were placed in his mouth by those who came later, but there was plenty in Jesus» Hebraic tradition to give him an understanding of himself as a suffering messiah whose death would bring the healing of the world: Isaiah's suffering servant, Maccabean martyr theology, Moses» offer to give his life if God would spare his people.

Its features were preaching in the open air, in houses, in synagogues, the healing of the sick, and constant journeying — then repetition of the same activity in another place, and so on through Galilee and the neighboring regions.

Sometimes (but not always) in churches where healing and miracles take place, there is also a lot of chaos, bad theology about God, and power struggles between leaders.

Whatever Jesus may have meant when he told his followers to buy swords (see the discussion of Luke 22:35 - 38 in chapter 1), when the sword was actually used, he rebuked the user, healed the wounded man, 1 and said, «Put your sword back into its place; for all who take the sword will perish by the sword» (Matt.

Matthew's account of this incident is condensed and placed later in his narrative, after the Sermon on the Mount and two other miracles of healing.

We go because it's the last place on earth (except perhaps the therapist's office) where it's socially acceptable to cry in public, or to say out loud that we're sinners in need of mercy, or broken and in need of healing.

I pray that the places where this world has broken you, where evil has left its mark, where you have felt abandoned and broken and hurt, where you are in pain would become a wellspring of healing and wholeness for you.

When he returns from Gerasa, he heals two women whose place in the unity of Israel (the number 12 is repeated) is blocked by the impurity of blood and death.

For example, of the healing of the with a hemorrhage in Mark 5, Binz notes, «the healing takes place solely at the woman's initiative and follows immediately upon her touching Jesus» garment, the only healing in the Gospels that occurs without the expressed intent of Jesus.»

Because the only way to really heal our pain — particularly our soul pain, I believe — is to do the work at the place of the pain, to chase it all the way down, over and over, week after week, moment by moment, to keep resetting ourselves to the truth in hopes that someday the truth will hold, to believe that all of the healing by degrees that we are doing will someday turn into wholeness.

Based on the «downward mobility» model of the Beatitudes, Kathy's approach to «church» is radically different than what we've come to accept in our consumer - driven Christian subculture and focuses instead on following Jesus into the hard places of suffering, inequality and justice in order to experience hope, beauty, justice, equality, generosity and healing.

But you do it for the sake of liberation and healing, not for the sake of putting people in their place.)

We found it necessary, in the words of Episcopal Presiding Bishop John Hines, for the church to «take its place humbly and boldly alongside of, and in support of, the dispossessed and oppressed peoples of this country for the healing of our national life.»

By the members of the Synod embracing their role as a band of joyful missionary disciples, we here in Southeast Michigan will be strengthened for our vocation «to be all in» with the New Evangelization, to have full confidence in the power of the Holy Spirit to heal and transform, to put uncompromising trust in the Lordship of Jesus over every time and place.

Healing, wholeness, and renewal take place between persons and in communities of acceptance.

Where there is no safe place to heal in the Body of Christ, there arises not a higher standard, but a double standard.

If someone can be brought to the place of accepting God's love... JUST AS THEY ARE... and are allowed to bask in that love... their healing will have begun and they will come to you rather than you going to them to tell them how wrong they are.

It touches some of the painful and dark places in your life, and through the exercise of getting it out on «paper» these painful places in your life begin to heal.

It is the availability of Jesus as a committed partner in dialogue that permits healing to take place.

Holy Spirit, as for feminine energy in Holy Triangle, is now moving forward to heal not only the church, yet the PLANET all together Pope is so amazing, and all had been propesiazed, as we are in times of much real miraculous awakening Coming forward is this very Feminine energy, that is ready to take out the weak, pervert links, beings that make HER, the church which was always made to be the most peaceful place to connect with Highesness

More people have been killed in the name of God by the Christian church than have been healed... so I don't think the Christian church is the place to go for advice on health care.

I like to think that the Living Temple (of believers) is made the more beautiful by these marbled - believers placed in places of prominence, or places of healing, for the sake of many.

So you believe the creator of life, the universe, and everything placed more importance on Joel Osteen asking him for a favor in healing your mother than keeping 29,000 children from dying?

«The specific character of the Christian understanding of healing and health arises from its place in the whole Christian belief about God's plan of salvation for mankind,» wrote the draftsmen of the Tübingen conference on the Healing healing and health arises from its place in the whole Christian belief about God's plan of salvation for mankind,» wrote the draftsmen of the Tübingen conference on the Healing Healing Church.

«Men of a certain age» are not valued in our society or in the church — even though they have been tried and tested, broken and (hopefully) healed, and have more to contribute, and again hopefully, from a healthier place, than they did before.