Sentences with phrase «about prayer as»

That's a lot of pages to sift through... I have some other posts on this blog about prayer as well which you might find helpful.

All the magical notions about prayer as the conforming of things to one's own imperfect notions fade away.

And they can pray with their whole selves, disregarding the nonsense that has been talked about prayer as a matter of merely «spiritual» nature.

It's where I learned about prayer as breath and work and presence.

But the pastor ought to be as discreet in giving advice about prayer as in advising about making love.

All the speakers were united in talking about prayer as what it is, the raising of the heart and mind to God.

Not exact matches

Now, to be fair, they'll pretty much leave you alone as long as you don't «stir things up» like complaining about school prayer, especially at the HS football game.

That was very interesting thing to read about and I respect every word it came with and Thank you for the guidance and encouragement therefore I find my self more attracted to read the old books after all they are the elder parts of our book what ever they say although each has his own belief and can figure which are similar to ours and which are not... after all verses seemed as ours although were put differently... Thank you again and wish all the Christians a Happy and Peaceful celebration for this occasion... our prayers and peace upon the soul and the spirit of the Prophet and Messenger of God Jesus the Son of Mary..

As one person said to me, «If we are serious about sharing the gospel around the world, shouldn't we be glad that we still have missionaries who pray rather than setting up a bureau of prayer inspectors!»

Instead of wasting time with these frivolous lawsuits, I wish the American Atheists would take issue with employers who require all workers to participate in group prayer (as one of my former employers did) or landlords who «casually» ask about your religion before they will rent you an apartment (that's life in the Bible Belt, eh?).

That to find ot about God and God's plan for us also involves first - hand experience such as following the teachings, study and asking in prayer.

If the church truly functioned as the church Sunday's would be about fellowship, prayer, worship (not rock concert that I can't sing too), and the gifts of the people displayed.

Religion News Service: Man spends 12 months practicing 12 different religions, and finds peace at year's end Andrew Bowen sat yoga - style in his armchair, absent - mindedly fingering a set of Muslim prayer beads in his left hand as he talked about 2011 - his year of conversion.

So to bring it into a Bible study, to bring it into talking about prayer, to talk about living with trauma as part of a fallen world, may help it become a more generalized topic where we don't have to be ashamed to name that we're broken and that we struggle.

If there is one thing we learn from the Lord's prayer in Luke 11:1, it is that the best ways to think about prayer is to view it as simply having a conversation with God.

The brothers ran afoul of the network after the site Right Wing Watch published a post about the pair, labeling David Benham as an «anti-gay, anti-choice extremist» for reportedly leading a prayer rally in 2012 outside of the Democratic National Convention held in Charlotte, North Carolina.

as far as IM concerned topher is nOT doing it so he can fell better.your argument does NOT support your response (topher only does it dso he can feel better about himself) Topher beliecves strongly the prayer works regardless of what YOU think ok?

I wrote about two dozen prayers in as many days, lucid and heartfelt, and the people of my home church distributed them to the congregation in photocopied booklets.

A Christian who leads a Bible study for his teammates as well as pregame prayers with the New York Knicks recently raised hackles with his comments about Jews printed in the New York Times Magazine.

Pastors and mentors will of course feel compelled to offer guidance and prayer as young adults navigate the tricky terrain of sexuality, but they should not be deceived into thinking that the all the questions about faith, science, technology, religious pluralism, politics, justice, equality, and ethics emerging from the Millennial generation are related to sex and can be solved by abstaining from it.

I'm not as concerned about someone ending their prayer «in Jesus name» as I am to hear people praying in Old English, using «thou,»» thy» or «thine» to use a couple of common ones.

As ecumenical as I fancy myself, however, I am still ambivalent about all the prayers to MarAs ecumenical as I fancy myself, however, I am still ambivalent about all the prayers to Maras I fancy myself, however, I am still ambivalent about all the prayers to Mary.

However we may feel about adoration and praise, including it in «vocal» prayer or letting it serve as a kind of borderline approach to «mental» prayer, it is obvious that when we come to meditation we are concerned with a kind of exercise that can quite readily be carried on with no verbal articulation u such.

Now meditation as an exercise in prayer is no different from this sort of natural and normal human experience, except that it is thought about God, about God's character and his activity in the world.

Prayer, we saw, always centers in an I - thou relation, not in merely thinking about an impersonal Principle that might be referred to as «It.»

As in even the most intimate of human relations there are facts for psychologists to discover and use towards man's self - understanding, so there is no limit to what may be found out about what happens in prayer.

We have through several chapters been tracing the foundations of prayer, trying to answer some questions about it, offering some suggestions as to ways of praying.

«If there is one thing I've learned about loving people in the last five years, it's that nobody wants to be featured as a prayer point in your newsletter.

I profess no advanced psychiatric knowledge, but such knowledge as a layman may have about the causes of disturbance to the human spirit is here placed in conjunction with what prayer can do.

It is well to be chary about branding the prayers of another as hypocrisy, for «man looketh on the outward appearance» and only God is wise enough to judge fully any man's heart.

It has always seemed to me that the way to encounter God and to find out about prayer is by giving it a try: «Taste and see that the Lord is good», as the Bible puts it (Psalm 34:8).

One more point, according to the epistle of James, the prayer of the righteous are effective, therefore as the monks heal their souls, their prayers for the world will also become more effective (less about them, more about the salvation of the world).

The pre-adolescent youngsters that he profiles appear as, for the most part, empathic figures who are unabashed about the roles that faith and prayer play in their own lives.

About a year ago, we were studying, as a family, The Lord's Prayer, and we begin to close all of our prayer time as a family wiPrayer, and we begin to close all of our prayer time as a family wiprayer time as a family with it.

The service, expected to last about 90 minutes, also includes prayers by pastors from as close as Charlotte and as far away as Asia.

Also, pointing out that prayer works in the bible is about as useful as saying that magic exists because harry potter does it in his books.

Jeremy Myers, i think you are wrong and David is right, so many out there are preaching you can live any way you want and be right that Grace covers any sin, they really believe that, that is not what the bible says, God was very concerned about sin so much he sent Jesus his son to die on a cross for us, if we accept Jesus as our savor then we are to obey his commandments, not break them, we are to live a righteous and holy life as possible, the bible plainly list a whole list of things if we live in will not to to heaven unless we repent, if we die while in these sins, we will not go to heaven, what is the difference, between someone who said a prayer and someone who did not, and they are living the same way, none, i think, if we are truly saved it should be hard to do these things let alone live and do them everyday, i would be afraid to tell people that it does not matte grace covers their sins, i really think it is the slip ups that we are convicted of by the Holy Spirit and we ask for forgivness, how can anyones heart be right with God and they have sex all the time out of marriage, lie, break every commandment of God, i don't think this is meaning grace covers those sins, until they repent and ask for forgiveness, a lot of people will end up in hell because preachers teach Grace the wrong way,, and those preachers will answer to God for leading these people the wrong way, not saying you are one of them, but be careful, everything we teach or preach must line up with the word of God, God hates sin,

I am sure that by this time next year, when the man gets up to teach all the amateur fisherman who have never caught a fish about the miracle - working wonders of this prayer, he will have some stories to tell them about me, and how I prayed five times a day, and as a result, caught the biggest fish the world and the most fish all in one day.

As I have said before I think that prayer is for us to focus — its a tool to tune us in spiritually but I think thats about the strength of it — I have heard of stories of averted accidents but it never has happened for me when I have been asking God to avert the impending collision.

In every action, just as in every prayer, you are trying to bring about a certain result; and this result must be good or bad.

but fortunately there are psychologists, mental health practitioners and others who do and I have benefitted greatly from their work, personal testimonies and the various articles / publications which they have produced --(for example, The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology; The Religious & Spiritual Problems category in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (DSM - IV) published by the American Psychiatric Association; The US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health PubMed.gov database of healthcare and scientific literature)-- about the adverse psychological effects which can arise when persons engage in intense / deep spiritual practices such as intense / deep prayer, fasting and meditation which alter their state of consciousness.

And external based: go to baptism, go to communion, say your prayers, read the Psalms, yes, do think about all that, as in meditation, sing songs, and enjoy all that realizing that you are indeed, as the promises declare, a dear, forgiven child of God, no strings attached.

The tools, of course, are about as wide as you can imagine, but some that have been meaningful along the way for me have been books, poetry, counseling, friendship, spiritual direction, the Enneagram, centering prayer.

On Saturday, July 16, 1054, as afternoon prayers were about to begin, Cardinal Humbert, legate of Pope Leo IX, strode into the Cathedral of Hagia Sophia, right up to the main altar, and placed on it a parchment that declared the Patriarch of Constantinople, Michael Cerularius, to be excommunicated.

As a Christian, I grew up learning about traditional forms of spiritual practices, such as prayer and fastinAs a Christian, I grew up learning about traditional forms of spiritual practices, such as prayer and fastinas prayer and fasting.

But many of these would regard their experience in the Lady Chapel as a vivid form of prayer, in which they may have prayed to Jesus, but about which they would not employ the encounter - language that we use to describe a conversation, and which Luke used of the walk to Emmaus.

Claiming miracles in the debris of a summer storm is as vacuous as praying for a four to come up on each of six - hundred times you roll a die, and then claiming that god answered your prayers «about a hundred times.»

Johny Johny, yes Papa... Now dear Johny, Santa will be very pleased that you have learnt this nursery rhyme so well (Prayer really changes things) But since Christmas is far, how about learning something new as well?

In this context affirmative prayer, meditation, and so forth, may be viewed as the most effective actions to bring about positive social change.

My remarks about Anglicanism today, then, represented both a case study for all Christians, as well as a particular plea for prayer on all our behalf.