Paul Marshall shows that living the Christian life is not about prayer, Bible studies, and church attendance, but about living the way God wants us to live
as human beings in this world.
To hear in it a call is to accept the creative tension between what is and what might yet be, between the life we live
as human beings in this world and the life to which Jesus summons us — without supposing that it is possible to resolve the tension in a single act or single moment.
Not exact matches
Where we
are being connected together
as human beings, and together — we have complex problems
in the
world, and we will solve them better together.
Though the idea may sound out of this
world, the nascent space tourism industry
is set to take off
in the next decade, and
humans will need a way to pay for things
in space
as well
as send payments to Earth, said PayPal President David Marcus.
The Internet, by his estimation, «
is the best tool we've ever developed
as humans,» and while most for - profit startups realize this, «the nonprofits that
are solving some of the most important problems
in the
world — that
are trying to save lives and provide education —
are not adopting it fast enough.
And while it
's tempting to think of markets
as amorphous virtual entities, remember that, even
in the B2B
world, every product
is purchased by a
human being in the real
world.
There
's also a great message about the need,
as human beings, to have real -
world interaction and not
be plugged
in all the time.
«
In the valuation
world, where people
are referred to
as human capital assets, it
's the positive difference makers, or high performers, who
are the greatest asset,» Bookbinder says.
They don't see those efforts
as mutually exclusive, and it
's perhaps for that reason that some HR departments, particularly
in the tech
world, have recently undergone some of their own internal rebranding, shedding the stodgy old «
human resources» name
in favor of friendlier and more inviting monikers like People Operations (Google, Southwest Airlines), Employee Experience (Airbnb), and Employee Success (Salesforce).
The unique thing about AR versus [virtual reality, or VR]
is that AR enhances the things that we do
as human beings out
in the real physical
world.
Using advances
in genomic sequencing, the
human microbiome, proteomics, informatics, computing, and cell therapy technologies, HLI
is building the
world's most comprehensive database of
human genotypes and phenotypes
as a basis for a variety of commercialization opportunities to help solve aging related disease and
human biological decline.
Braiding together more than 40 years each
in business profitability / marketing and organizing for social change, Shel Horowitz — known
as «The TransformpreneurSM «--
is working to create a
world that rewards business for
human - focused, planet - focused values and actions.
At the core of this new entrepreneurial path
is an understanding that
in today's
world of commerce, good business
is relating to customers
as humans, creating wealth
in a manner that supports everyone winning, for the betterment of individuals and society.
«An unwavering confidence
in human potential
in the long term stands
as a lighthouse guiding us towards our destination
in the investing
world — particularly when the storms
are raging.»
It will mean letting go of long held beliefs
in rigid B2B product marketing and embracing a brave new
world where
human connection
is not seen
as fanciful but essential to helping businesses succeed.
«There can
be few fields of
human endeavor
in which history counts for so little
as in the
world of finance.
The joint research undertaken by the two companies will examine how blockchain, the technology at the basis of cryptocurrencies such
as Bitcoin, could
be used for developing innovative cybersecurity solutions, such
as secure transmission of information between services and supply chains, user authentication, critical devices and elements that run with no
human intervention and additional solutions for the cyber challenges
in a hyper - connected
world.
«
As our work with employers has grown, so has our need to connect
in a deeper way with the
world of
human capital, and that
is why we
are so excited about the transformational opportunities that come with this partnership.»
It
is almost
as if the designer designed
humans to live
in a protected environment instead of the
world we live
in today.
I agree with your post, Mr. Stephens — insofar
as I believe that a cobbled - together patchwork of Bronze Age myths that sanction slavery, genocide,
human sacrifice, and child murder should not
be arbitrarily invoked
as the sole determinate for notions of morality
in the modern
world.
That everyone
in this country, even this whole
world, deserve equal rights
as human beings regardless of who they
are, how they live, what they do or not do.
and there has yet to
be definitive proof of ape evolving into
human if you have it please by all means post it the
world would like to see it, oh and you forgot to put
in how evolution has
as many gaps
as any religion like Genesis Park describes a number of images drawn by Neanderthals and by
humans in the Middle East which resemble dinosaurs.
It
is singularly brilliant, it reveals him not
as your stereotypical «pointy - headed» philosophy professors but rather
as a
human being, willing and eager to stand for his beliefs
in the concrete
world... hear, hear!
I agree with L.Nielsen
's sentiment that you
are «almost there» — close to realising that this
is the only life you have and that all your effort should
be directed at living it well for it
's own sake, close to realising that you
are strong enough
as an individual to face the
world without the psychological crutch you call god, close to realising that you
are a good
human being in your own right, close to realising that your own successes, failures, loves and fears
are yours and yours alone, not attibutable to an imaginary creator.
As humans created
in the image of God we
are capable of divine expression even
in our pitiful fallen state; even the soldiers
in World War 1 had a brief respite on Christmas and walked out of the trenches to greet each other only to return to the trenches the next day and resume killing each other.
I believe this dominance has held
humans back
as a race and
is the very reason for all the problems
in the
world today.
The aim of work
is to impress some temporary
human purpose upon some component of the
world; the aim of explanation
is to reveal the
world as it
is and not merely
in respect of its potential to satisfy
human wants.
This can
be seen also
in other areas of
Human history, such
as the Consti «tutions around the
world.
As a participant in that 1998 Ramsey Colloquium, a longtime supporter of the cautious use of rights language, and a frequent critic of its misuses, I was moved by Reno's arguments to ponder whether the noble post — World War II universal human - rights idea has finally been so manipulated and politicized as to justify its abandonment by men and women of good wil
As a participant
in that 1998 Ramsey Colloquium, a longtime supporter of the cautious use of rights language, and a frequent critic of its misuses, I
was moved by Reno's arguments to ponder whether the noble post —
World War II universal
human - rights idea has finally
been so manipulated and politicized
as to justify its abandonment by men and women of good wil
as to justify its abandonment by men and women of good will.
While convergence does happen
in religion from the perspective of the
human psyche
being adapted through its self - deceptive capabilities (e.g.,
as a coping mechanism), we didn't land
in the new
world with the discovery of the same kind of scripture stemming from a singular God.
A justified process - rooted philosophical appreciation of social canons can
be taught through a pedagogical strategy that begins with their critique, that expunges them from the natural given furnishings of the immediately real
in order to rediscover them
as the inherited cultural accretions by which we transform the immediately real into a
world of enduring meanings and
human significance.
It seemed to me that the truly sovereign God could not
be regarded
as absent or superfluous
in ordinary
human experience and philosophical reflection, but that every single reality should prove incomprehensible (at least
in its depth) without recourse to God, if he actually
was the Creator of the
world as Barth thought him to
be.
The way of touching
is the way back to reality, back to the interpersonal
as the characteristic
human way of becoming a self and of
being in the
world.
In large measure, however, these relations
are not preconditions for but properly a part of the public
world, i.e., they yield happiness beyond some minimal degree because nature
is,
as it
were, taken into the
human community.
As the Danish statistician Bjørn Lomborg has shown
in study after study, life expectancy
is increasing on a global basis, including
in the Third
World; water and air in the developed world are cleaner than five hundred years ago; fears of chemicals poisoning the earth are wildly exaggerated; both energy and food are cheaper and more plentiful throughout the world than ever before; «overpopulation» is a myth; and the global picture is, in truth, one of unprecedented human prospe
World; water and air
in the developed
world are cleaner than five hundred years ago; fears of chemicals poisoning the earth are wildly exaggerated; both energy and food are cheaper and more plentiful throughout the world than ever before; «overpopulation» is a myth; and the global picture is, in truth, one of unprecedented human prospe
world are cleaner than five hundred years ago; fears of chemicals poisoning the earth
are wildly exaggerated; both energy and food
are cheaper and more plentiful throughout the
world than ever before; «overpopulation» is a myth; and the global picture is, in truth, one of unprecedented human prospe
world than ever before; «overpopulation»
is a myth; and the global picture
is,
in truth, one of unprecedented
human prosperity.
To maximize the public
world is to maximize this sharing, where «maximize» refers to the only Whiteheadian way
in which
human sharing
as such can
be greater or less, namely,
in the beauty achieved.
As Taoist sees the
world, the present
world is that of arbirary and artificial reality,
in which the
humans strsuggle afainst each other.
On the other hand, a true - believing Gnostic, oriented to a transcendental state of
being, would have to see the computer
as the means the Demiurge uses to imprison
humans more securely
in the
world of time and matter
in which the rigged environment frustrates any attempt at transcendental relief.
Many careful observers believe that
human economic activity
is already at an unsustainable level
in many parts of the
world and even globally,
as indicated by global warming.
As described
in my article on The Judeo - Christian Origin of Science» [1], science
is based on specific fundamental beliefs about the natural
world, namely that matter
is good, rational and contingent and open to the
human mind, and that any discoveries that may
be made should
be shared freely.
God, the actual inspiration behind the private evangelical college
in Chicago's suburbs, announced long ago that he would come to this
world as a
human being to express his support for the
human race.
As long as it was assumed that the world that originally came into being was much like our present world, with human beings coming into existence abruptly in their present form, it was hard to think of origins in terms of chance and necessit
As long
as it was assumed that the world that originally came into being was much like our present world, with human beings coming into existence abruptly in their present form, it was hard to think of origins in terms of chance and necessit
as it
was assumed that the
world that originally came into
being was much like our present
world, with
human beings coming into existence abruptly
in their present form, it
was hard to think of origins
in terms of chance and necessity.
That summer I realized that the very ways
in which «progress»
was being made — e.g., dominant development policies
as well
as economic programs
in the industrialized
world —
were all part of the total network of processes that
were destroying the basis of
human life on the planet.
The revelational rap against apologetic theology
is that it either engages
in a sellout to the «
world» (the self - disclosure of God
being so utterly relativized by
human wisdom that Christians
are unable to tell atheists anything that they don't already know), or it
is an exercise
in various intellectual imperialisms, such
as: «We can prove the existence of God» or «If
human culture really understood itself, it would find that it
is striving toward that which we already have.»
«Motivated
in large part by their religious traditions of protecting the vulnerable and serving «the least of these,»
as Jesus instructed his followers to do
in the Gospel of Matthew,» writes Eric Marrapodi, «
World Relief and other Christian agencies like the Salvation Army
are stepping up efforts and working with law enforcement to stem the flow of
human trafficking, which includes sex trafficking and labor trafficking.»
Among the reasons they cited for wealth
being «increasingly concentrated»
in the hands of the richest
is tax evasion and the ability to exploit workers
as human rights erode
in countries around the
world.
There remains the question
as to whether adopting the perspective that locates
human beings within the whole creaturely
world, albeit
as the most valuable part of it, would
in fact work against the interests of the poor.
Acts 17:24 - 28 «24 The God who made the
world and all things
in it, since He
is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell
in temples made with hands; 25 nor
is He served by
human hands,
as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; 26 and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, 27 that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He
is not far from each one of us; 28 for
in Him we live and move and exist,
as even some of your own poets have said, «For we also
are His children.»»
Because, my God, though I lack the soul - zeal and the sublime integrity of your saints, I yet have received from you an overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the dark mass of matter; because I know myself to
be irremediably less a child of heaven than a son of earth; therefore I will this morning climb up
in spirit to the high places, bearing with me the hopes and the miseries of my mother; and there — empowered by that priesthood which you alone (
as I firmly believe) have bestowed on me — upon all that
in the
world of
human flesh
is now about to
be born or to die beneath the rising sun I will call down the Fire.
Just
as the emergence of reflection
was a crucial moment, a breaking point
in the
world of instinct, so religious belief
is a unique event of ultimate import, a breaking point and crisis
in human rational experience and history, both individually and collectively.