Sentences with phrase «as adult»

As an adult she joined Church of God because she wanted the pentacostal experience.

Talking about baptism, Jesus Himself was baptized as an adult.

BW, I was fortunate enough to come to faith in a Missouri Synod Lutheran Church that was slightly less fundamentalist than most as an ADULT from a relatively healthy unchurched family.

As an adult, I have served as a parish nurse in a Presbyterian and United Methodist church, and currently am working in the United Methodist Church for the Acts of Repentance towards Indigenous peoples.

Clemente's devoted mother, Luisa, told biographer Kal Wagenheim that Roberto had a favorite Christian hymn as a boy, which he continued to sing and play on the organ of his home for his family, as an adult.

Indiscriminate infant baptism is irresponsible and turns infant baptism into an act which can hardly be understood to be essentially the same as adult believers» baptism.»

As an adult... you should not believe is such crazy talk.

I would prefer to be treated as an adult.

As an adult, Sawyer transitioned to female.

Who he is: Robison spent much of his childhood living with his mother in extreme poverty; as an adult, he founded LIFE Outreach International, which provides for the homeless and needy.

I have not, neither as a child nor as an adult.

So as an adult — is what I can speak to.

As a revolutionary achievement, contrary to the traditional interpretation that the child has in principle at its disposal the same means of cognition as the adult, Piaget discovered that the development of the individual from child to adult must also be seen as a sequential building - up process of more and more complex structures of cognition.

As an adult, I embraced the same quaint right wing fundamentalist Christian religion, being baptised into it... and ultimately became heavily involved in another branch of the same church (which was no less quaint, or right wing, or fundamentalist)... and it is only now (as I approach my 60's) that I am coming to realise (in so many churches) the great loss that has been suffered as a result of silencing at least half the membership.

Squinted at in another way, Kenyon's life follows the arc of the classic conversion narrative: early churchgoing, adolescent rebellion, and return to the church as an adult.

and tried to find a church where I could get my bearings as an adult who found faith.

When I first walked into church as an adult, it felt like coming home.

One of my earliest memories of church as an adult is standing in a Sunday morning service feeling a bit lost.

Religion is something that should be sought after as an adult.

'' [B] lack males age 13 who have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult and should be treated as such.»

Q. 4 It is only acceptable as an adult to believe Bronze Age mythology like talking snakes, the Red Sea splitting, mana falling from the sky, a man living in a whale's belly, a talking donkey, superhuman strength, a man rising from the dead and angels, ghosts, gods and demons in the field of:

As an adult, I continued to uphold my family's tradition of eschewing spoken prayers at meals.

@ Ross says Hitler was only raised Catholic but not practicing it as an adult.

I have never been to church as an adult.

Level was referring to whether you'd go to your mother and breastfeed now, as an adult.

As an adult convert to the Christian faith, I often wonder why this obsession with the Ten Commandments and so little interest in the Beatitudes.

Look at me: I was baptized as an infant, but started to believe at first as an adult in my riper years.

To expect a three - year - old to act as an adult is silly — it is also silly for a god (or humans) to expect humans to live up to his godly standards.

What is the only thing capable of making 40 % of the country fvcking stupid enough to think the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with one man, one woman and a talking snake: (i) paleontology (ii) archeology (iii) biology; or (iv) religion It is only acceptable as an adult to believe Bronze Age mythology like talking snakes, the Red Sea splitting, mana falling from the sky, a man living in a whale's belly, a talking donkey, superhuman strength, a man rising from the dead and angels, ghosts, gods and demons in the field of:

Is there anything else you would ask of me or like me to know, as an adult who is invested in the spiritual development of your child?

I'd be so upset if I had to figure out, as an adult, that I really, really want that removed for convenience sake if nothing else.

However, as an adult, Hitler specifically rejected the Catholic Church, as well as Christianity in general.

With a recent survey showing that only a third of Americans can correctly identify Obama as a Christian, the president gave a personal account of his conversion as an adult and how his public service is part of his faith.

They respect me as another adult who is very capable of doing her own life, even if she thinks she isn't.

As I started to be drawn to Jesus as an adult, it was necessary to really look at what I believed and why.

There are more sophisticated versions you need to explore as an adult.

You may, however, discover that you can accomplish your objectives by holding workshops on Saturdays or by preparing a unit on oral reading as an adult Sunday school class, which can also recruit lay readers.

I also grew up in a time when the Church failed to teach Her people effectively, and as an adult, I began seeking the truth and the answers myself, and found everything I needed was right there.

Even I as an adult can eventually wonder, «Gee!

Finding friendships and community as an adult is a work in progress for me.

I spent most of my teenage years in Aliteen then as an adult in Alanon, alcohol ripped my family apart.

The double entendre continues in Jabez's prayer as an adult, «Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from hurt and harm» («b, «my affliction,» «my ouch,» that is, his obesity).

70 % of Americans raised by atheist parents to believe that God does not exist, eventually become a member of a religion as an adult.

What is compelling is that as an adult, you still have an imaginary «friend».

Having imaginary friends as an adult is a mental disease.

Twice in my life I've had lifethreatening anorexia — once as a teenager and again as an adult.

Although I was raised to believe that God was loving and gracious and kind, the theological / religious teachings I encountered as an adult seemed to suggest otherwise.

«It was really fascinating for me to approach faith and to approach religion as an adult again and to reintroduce myself to those ideas of spirituality broadly,» he says.

As an adult, however, she moved hack to her hometown of Provo, Utah, and embraced her Mormon heritage as fully as she could.

Jeremy and Redeeming God has been one of the most significant and most enlightening events that has happened in my spiritual life as an adult, having broken down impediments to my spiritual advancement, thereby equipping and empowering me to better appreciate the character of Christ and His purpose.