Sentences with phrase «about other marriage»

Not exact matches

If you're really serious about finding someone to marry right now, you should be using Match.com or something, where you can target based on very specific criteria, and these are other people who are paid and committed to settling down right now, so if marriage in the next 18 months is your goal, then Match.com is the product for you.

They believe most marital problems can be solved through open communication, and conversely many whose marriages dissolved blamed lack of communication,» says Pillemer (and just about every other relationship counselor ever.)

Similar legislation, which has arisen in response to federal court rulings allowing same - sex marriage in the 36 states, is pending in about 16 other states.

Milllennials and other families are asking tax questions about mortgages, marriage and student loans.

I don't seem to hear people being concerned about any other kinds of contracts; why the marriage contract?

But when it comes to non-autonomous children, policy protects their rights to pursue happiness by promoting the truth about marriage» encouraging a man and a woman to commit to each other permanently and exclusively so that any children that their union produces will have access to the love and care of their mother and father.

Right... so they didn't overtly «ask» you, however if you and the other members are living by «correct principles» then not a big leap to decide for yourself about the evils of gay marriage and contribute money yourself... which, in fact... many of you did, yes...?

I see no difference between «plural marriage» and any other nutty religious practice... but I do have ONE question for the Mormons about the topic:

It asks respondents about a wide variety of human - interest topics, from their participation in religious services and religious beliefs, to questions about their attitudes regarding marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and other family forms, to specifics about sexual behavior and experience of abuse and domestic violence.

What about other, shall I call them «soft issues» or non-core issues like, family counseling, youth ministry, childrens's ministry, community upliftment, marriage support, involvement in local cahllenges facing our community, being the moral compass in our city, etc etc..

I don't know what God thinks, but to me if gay marriage is about family life and the possibility of raising children (in other words a desire on the part of gays to be accepted into married life as it exists) then I think it is a good thing for the same reasons that I think hetero families are good and necessary.

Of course there are other reasons for my sporadic blogging this year: a surprise new baby coming which completely disoriented us, a new book to finish writing (and I will share all about that in January), travelling and speaking all over North America, stewarding the message of Jesus Feminist throughout her first year of life, creating the Jesus Feminist collection with Imagine Goods, a trip to Haiti, new opportunities as a writer, three tinies at home with their own lives and drama and growth and change, remodelling parts of our home, marriage, church, friends, life, work, laundry (oh, can we talk laundry?!)

Other readers took offense at some pastors in the article who declared that Obama couldn't be a Christian because he never talked about being «born again» and he supported same - sex marriage and abortion rights.

To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.

This arises from a warped and stunted notion of sexual ethics which offers nothing to say about the subject other than that it's acceptable within marriage and unacceptably wicked in any other context.

I spoke about giving and sharing, how living with other people means that we can not always have our own way and how in marriage, as in our families and churches, we must place the interests and needs of others above our own.

So great and splendid is the educational ministry of Christian parents that Saint Thomas has no hesitation in comparing it with the ministry of priests: «Some only propagate and guard spiritual life by a spiritual ministry: this is the role of the sacrament of Orders; others do this for both corporal and spiritual life, and this is brought about by the sacrament of marriage, by which a man and a woman join in order to beget offspring and bring them up to worship God.

Chastity, on the other hand, isn't about the state of your body, but the state of your soul; it's not just about whether or not you've had sex (although part of being chaste is having sex only in the context of marriage), it's about self - control, respecting your body, and enduring your trials with patience.

A church or other religious body which cares about human love will offer its service, its wisdom, and its ritual to those who wish to have them; but it will not control the legal foundations of marriage according to its own prescriptions.

He applied his own theory about justification as establishing a covenant of grace to the marriage union, and argued that «God draws a husband and wife into a covenant relationship with each other.»

This question becomes urgent as cultural elites grow more hostile, and orthodox Christian beliefs (shared by most other traditional faiths and by many with no faith) about sex and marriage are redefined as hatred and bigotry.

And Christians don't get worked up enough about other people's faith to send missionaries all around the world and protest gay marriage everywhere?

When writing about her troubled marriage, author Glennon Melton wisely avoids telling other women what to do, and instead puts the choice this way:

By the way, my wife wrote one description, and I wrote the other, so be very careful about which one you vote for... Our marriage is on the line....

In polite company, and for the sake of keeping peace with each other (because mutual apostasies take so much effort), we can do with marriage what we do with our disagreements about eucharist and baptism: keep our mouths shut and let God sort it out in the end.

After a journalist wrote about having a «marriage sabbatical», the Christian founder of the Marriage Foundation tells Premier there's no hard and fast rule but he advises long periods apart can be damaging and that couples should invest in eacmarriage sabbatical», the Christian founder of the Marriage Foundation tells Premier there's no hard and fast rule but he advises long periods apart can be damaging and that couples should invest in eacMarriage Foundation tells Premier there's no hard and fast rule but he advises long periods apart can be damaging and that couples should invest in each other.

Phycs like all others professionals are taught not to air out disagreements in public yet we see major cracks in the consistency and uniformity of this and other organizations about gay marriage that the gays don't want you to know about.

Coontz is fatalistic in her predictions about the triumph of love at the expense of all the other goods of marriage.

How about in other countries where gay marriage is legal?

«Throughout this and other gay - marriage campaigns, some queer activists have expressed their own discomfort about feeling obligated to fight for an institution about which they feel ambivalent while other essential battles — against HIV / AIDS, homelessness, domestic violence, and general discrimination — struggle for money and media attention,» wrote Deirdre Fulton in the Portland Phoenix.

That's the point; you can, and people have, used Christianity to justify just about everything, including capital punishment, abolishing capital punishment, the murder of abortion doctors, opposing all murder, endorsing state sponsored assassination of enemies of the nation, becoming rich, giving away all your property, marriage, celibacy, hating Jews, wanting to support Jews, and a bunch of other things.

2) Pastors, lay leaders, and educators need to speak more clearly about marriage, both from the pulpit and in other teaching venues in the their churches.

2/3 of African American babies are born out of wedlock, African - American men are absent while children are slaughtering each other on the streets, and and some African - American Pastors are concerned about Gay Marriage?

Marriage partners can stimulate and support each other's inner renewal by taking time to talk regularly about their real concerns.

Marriage isn't about 1 person, it's about 2 people, each giving to the other in nurturing love and loving relating.

If marriage is only for procreation then there are a whole slew of other considerations to make like what about hetero - couples choosing not to have kids or physically unable.

Basically, what has happened with CST is comparable to what has happened with marriage and family: We spend a lot of time talking about contraception and abortion and bioethical dilemmas, and unfortunately we must do so, given the gravity of these evils and the obsessions of our day — but as a result we can fail to see, or at least fail to communicate to others, the profound truth of the sacrament of matrimony, which is the foundation of all the rules and prohibitions.

In so far as that is the dominant view of law in America, «gay marriage» says nothing about the morality of homosexuality one way or the other, it simply guarantees that all «domestic partnerships» (an alternative term considered for «civil unions») are treated equally.

Another preacher preaching what ever goes is ok with Christianity... If your going to preach Christianity based on the Bible, then you might as well forget gay marriages are ok... If you want to twist it around then thats up to you... Paul said, «The Berens were of noble charachter because they didn't believe what they heard, but they took what they heard and confirmed it with the Bible... So its like the Yen or Yang... Its either Gods church or Satans Church... Can't be any other way... Do I hate gays, no... I have some very close friends that I have had for over 30 years that are gay, but I think they will be accountable for their life styles... Thats the thing about Christianity, we are held accountable, its not an everything goes belief... Its rules we have to follow... And rules we will be held accountable... So maybe this preacher needs to start a dfferent faith or religion... One where there are no rules and where its people are not accountable for their actions...

To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....

Understanding each other's values, caring deeply about some of the same things and respecting the spouse's right to differ on other things — all help keep a marriage growing.

When some of the anger and frustration had been dealt with, not only verbally but also physically using foam rubber bats, (2) and Connie and Steve were feeling a little more friendly toward each other, the counselor asked them to try telling each other what they still liked about their marriage and about each other.

As we live in a culture that has just defined marriage in a way contrary to what evangelicals and others believe, we must understand that, as Christians, we aren't the only ones who care about marriage.

One great advantage that ministers and pastoral counselors have is the opportunity for education and consciousness raising about changing roles and identities and their effect on marriage through other facets of church life.

However, generically speaking I continue to be surprised at how many times there are significant issues in families and marriages that involve, as one of the major components, if not THE major component, crisis brought about because people's perceived needs and rights (I call them their «wants») are not being met by others.

It usually comes as a hope - engendering surprise to discover that the other person still appreciates as much as he (she) does about oneself and the marriage.

tradition hard to break.the tradition of marriage is older and more meaningful than any other we know it crosses all religions and non religions, and races and cultures.it won't change easy.calling it something else for some people may make it easier to change.but what about those people who want that time tested tradition for themselves for their own self worth.it is a civil right give it to them today.this issues has divided my community as much as any other, but as we have fought to gain right after right, we have lost sight that all deserve the right of freedom of happiness.No gayness here, just can't fight the battle to keep someone down after being held down

As they worked through this change, Jason and Alise discovered that there was much more holding their marriage together than pulling it apart, and they began to work in their faith communities to bring about a greater understanding of what the others actually believe and to bring about a better dialog between atheists and Christians.

Misleading Headlines The recent Synod of Bishops in Rome was about the Eucharist in all its aspects, so maybe it was inevitable that pastoral problems surrounding marriage and Holy Communion should have been raised again, among many other questions.

I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal holiness and not on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the Law into one of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».