Sentences with phrase «about seeking understanding»

It's more about seeking understanding.

This book is about seeking understanding and unity between the different journeys that all of us are on regarding church.

Not exact matches

«The late, great Stephen Covey (talk about world's best leaders) said that highly effective people «seek to understand before they seek to be understood.»

They seek to understand the customer's situation and needs before they make any attempt to talk about their product or service.

So ask questions about the ideas proposed in a way that's respectful and seeking greater understanding.

New York magazine made a similar case in a recent post, saying tens of millions of Facebook users «were served up or shared emotionally charged news stories about the candidates, because Facebook's sorting algorithm understood from experience that they were seeking such stories.»

Just be mindful, and seek to understand what failures can teach you, or show you about yourself.»

«Over the past few months, we've sought to better understand what researchers like about our program and where they'd like to see changes,» wrote Tyson.

In the new - ish Michael Lewis book, The Undoing Project, about behavioral psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, Lewis discusses how these two sought to understand people by looking at our decision - making process from another angle.

The 45 - day Call seeks to gather information about specific areas within the Beaufort Sea Planning Area that have the most promising oil and gas resource potential, while also increasing the agency's understanding about environmentally sensitive habitats and important social and cultural uses — including vital Alaska Native subsistence activities — that also exist within the area.

While talking about engagements between Glass Lewis and the companies we cover, Aaron pointed out that Glass Lewis does not meet as a representative of our clients but seeks to get a better understanding of the unique governance situation at each individual company.

In order to understand the context in which the FBI sought a FISA warrant for Carter Page, it is necessary to understand how the investigation began, what other information the FBI had about Russia's efforts to interfere with our election, and what the FBI knew about Carter Page prior to making application to the court — including Carter Page's previous interactions with Russian intelligence operatives.

To do the research appropriately, marketers need to understand the triggers for need for a specific category, their personas mindset (which some of your questions get at), their priorities, values, how they seek information and learn about products and services and more.

Good startup CEOs: ▪ Do what they are passionate about ▪ Make sure intentions match emotions ▪ Test concept before they raise money ▪ Make sure they want the success they are seeking ▪ Raise money from value - add investors ▪ Assume they will be successful and work backwards ▪ Recognize when they are the problem Additionally, they understand the qualities that make a good CEO.

«As business leaders seek to improve the impact of marketing and sales spend in 2016, this new study reveals powerful truths about a fundamental and often misunderstood element of their strategy — understanding the buyers they serve.

I have found that whenever I do feel confused about a «God» issue or Bible passage, the more I seek out an understanding or interpretation, the worse it is.

Also, there are things that can only be understood about God from seeking a true and comitted relationship with him.

So while I agree with you about charities possibly dropping the christian tag, it's not because it will bring in more donations, but because their organisations would be better welcomed and understood to those they seek to help.

It is not a retreat from social or political action to seek to get to the bottom of things and to understand the truth, which is about all we have left anyway.

And it is all in God's plan when new discoveries show that past interpretations of Scripture regarding the physical realm were incomplete or inaccurate, and He expects us to be constantly seeking to align our understanding with our discoveries, not to cling to interpretations about the physical realm that arose before more facts became available to us by the use of our God - given curiosity and intellect.

Bu tthe effort of trying to live a good christian life got to much ad i was disollutioned.Spent ten years as a backslidden barely believing christian and then in recent years as a transformed renewed Christian and i finally got it.It is all about a relationship with Jesus Christ and working in submission to the holy spirit he is the one that inspires his word he brings it to life.If you want to understand the word we must apply it to our lives then it becomes part of us thats the difference between knowledge and understanding not just knowing the word but living the word.The bible is a book useful for living not just a theoretical analysis or a history book.Jesus is the living word its through him that he opens his word to us without the holy spirit in us the carnal mind can not comprehend Gods word it a mystery.It was designed that way so only those who are truly seeking God shall find him.brentnz

If a problem arises which is not dealt with clearly in the Qur» an or in the Sunnah, the answer is sought in the schools of thought, the theories worked out by «leaders of thought» who have been careful students of the Qur» an and the Sunnah, have thought profoundly about their inner meanings and understand their general principles, and who have special knowledge of virtue and the general welfare.

In short, Culture and Abortion is addressed to the committed pro-lifer who seeks to understand more about the social, historical, political and literary influences on the «barbarity of abortion».

Through his suffering he conquers sin and dispels our misery.12 In his mercy, Jesus frees us from sin and enables us to live in the freedom of God's children.13 But it is important to understand that the freedom of God's children is lived in harmony with the truth; it does not seek to subordinate truth to itself.14 This truth includes, obviously, the truth about marriage revealed in Christ.

One ought to seek such light from a trusted counselor as will help him understand self and the situation better, but he ought not to intensify his troubles by talking generally about them.

It is when we recognize that the issue and practice of peace is an enduring, lasting, acute theme, and that it is the seemingly permanent persistence of the absence of peace and reconciliation that impels us to seek to understand, analyse and debate about the facets of peace, that this conference takes on an urgency that is necessary and compelling.

Our brains are built to intuitively grasp natural numbers, we need education to learn about zero and the rest, our brains are built to seek refuge from the unexplainable, the unknown holds some danger, so the brain has mechanisms of inventing imaginary supernatural creatures to help make sense of things that are beyond our knowledge and understanding.

Neuhaus goes on to ridicule the idea of this man telling «the congregation about his temptations, seeking their understanding and acceptance.»

I don't understand why atheists follow articles about faith, only to seek to offend people who may agree with one or more points of the article.

Within this is there no time for standing still by found treasures, to built palaces of knowing sure around them Every treasure found is a stimulation to start seeking for other discoveries, Because we can never know fully and can never know Him fully, not even think about understanding Him fully.

But there is nothing egalitarian about a moral vision that flows from understanding human dignity in terms of transcendence - seeking projects; and libertarians, under the brutalizing influence of Ayn Rand, seem to have become increasingly honest about the inegalitarian consequences of their agenda.

Ah, so much is said about human want and misery — I seek to understand it, I have also had some acquaintance with it at close range; so much is said about wasted lives — but only that man's life is wasted who lived on, so deceived by the joys of life or by its sorrows that he never became eternally and decisively conscious of himself as spirit, as self, or (what is the same thing) never became aware and in the deepest sense received an impression of the fact that there is a God, and that he, he himself, his self, exists before this God, which gain of infinity is never attained except through despair.

I applaud your efforts and point of view and I hope that others realize the value in actually seeking to learn about others, not to learn where best to land a blow, but to learn to better understand their neighbor.

I myself am inclined to agree with Barr about the poverty of this postfundamentalist theology and tradition for the future of evangelicalism — though I would want my evangelical colleagues to understand clearly that I reject this tradition not to reject biblical or evangelical faith but to seek rather a more adequate conceptual framework through which to be more faithful to the Scriptures.

He and his many devoted followers on the left would do well to think through more thoroughly and take to heart more fully the eloquent strictures about the need for engaged social criticism — criticism that first seeks to understand people on their own terms and in light of their own standards — that Walzer has woven into his voluminous writings.

In order to live in these thriving relationships it is vital that we are willing to live with discomfort; exercise intentional decision making about how to spend time, energy, money, and relational capacity; seek to understand «the other» and myself; communicate a lot (mostly asking questions) in a posture of humility; willingness to experience unfamiliar things, and give up some non-essentials that get in the way.

More than once I've found that as I've sought understanding about something Father brought clarity by shifting my focus to a different perspective.

McLoughlin proposes that the Fourth Great Awakening began about 1960, following the undeclared war in Vietnam, and that it has appeared at a time when once again we are seeking a new understanding of who we are, how we relate to the scientific worldview, and what is the meaning of the many domestic and worldwide crises that threaten our security, our sense of order, and our self - image as a mighty and righteous world power.

«In the world in which we now live, with fears about «The Other» - whether that be Sunni, Shia, Jew, Christian, Yazidi, Hindu or Buddhist - stoked and spread through social media, and amplified by those who would seek to suppress understanding, rather than promote it, there is an urgent need for calm reflection and a genuinely sustained, empathetic and open dialogue across boundaries of faith, ethnicity and culture.»

There is something quite strange about the drowning of Pharaoh's army which needs to be pointed out as we seek to understand the violent descriptions of God in the Old Testament in light of Jesus Christ.

So when scholars write about the Old Testament, they primarily seek to understand only what the original human authors and original human audience understood when the text was written.

Newbigin is absolutely right that Christianity, or at any rate Christian mission and apologetics, is always involved in a pluralist tension — the tension between confidence in God and uncertainty about living out that truth in the world, between faith as God's gift and understanding as a form of growing discovery, between knowing who God is and seeking to bring that knowledge into situations of despair or resistance, not to say anything about the diversity and conflict of views among self - avowed Christians.

This is the issue: liberation theology seeks to understand why the actual decisions about the course of history are made on grounds other than Christ - centered faith and tries to connect the faith with the actual course of history.

The New Quest - some of whose original practitioners are among the members of the Jesus Seminar - sought to recover from Jesus» sayings and parables his «understanding of existence,» detached from any particular claims about his life and actions.

So where the biblical depictions of God conflict with what is seen in Jesus, we don't make Jesus to be more like that violent and bloody god, but should seek to understand what Jesus is telling us about that violent and bloody god....

· and finally, that it is particularly important to be critically attentive to the concepts of «theory» and «practice» that are employed by any proposal seeking to understand a theological school, and that it is also important to pay attention to the proposal's assumptions about human personhood.

Our proposal is that what makes a theological school theological is that it seeks to understand God more truly by focusing study of these matters through questions about Christian congregations.

The Evolution of Adam not only answers just about every question I had after Enns» Biologos lecture, but also includes a lengthy and thoughtful treatment of the apostle Paul's Adam, again seeking to understand Paul's intent within his unique context and culture.

I think they should seek it out and learn about it and grow to understand that art is meant to be.

Street Talk understands Queensland - based The Natural Grocery Company had its sights set on About Life, seeking to put the two footprints together, cash in on their mutual suppliers and extract available synergies.