Sentences with phrase «as teaching a set»

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Although the T. Rowe Price survey found that 69 percent of parents are very or extremely concerned about setting a good financial example for their kids, 40 percent are relying on a «do as I say, not as I do» attitude for teaching their kids about money.

You can create structure for the conversations you're seeking out as well as set up accountability systems so you progress in sync with these teachings.

As people who care deeply about their country, we are taught implicitly to vote for the party that most closely resembles our set of beliefs and convictions.

GREENBLATT: Well you know I taught at Columbia as I mentioned for the last 22 years and so I tell my students that first day of class actually, I tell them that you know I don't think there's a lot of social value in being an investment manager, it's not that I don't think investors who do work set help set prices and allocate capital and all those things, but I just think A, they're not very good at it, and B, it'll get done without you.

I am a firm believer on the importance of training, coaching or teaching as a way of transferring a particular skill set.

I quit my job just over two years ago to set up my own business and in those two years I've worked as a freelance copywriter but I'm now shifting my business into online teaching.

For that they need programs such as the federal «Goals 2000» Act, which sets up national standards in education for «gender - equitable and multicultural» teaching.

I told you before that I was a layman who has been a Sunday School teacher, and that I have taught in missionary settings as well as in counselling.

They worship Haile Selassie as a God and teach black supremacy, pacifism, a moral code, a strict set of dietary laws and some unique interpretations of Scripture.

The canonical texts are taught, but not as a set of isolated finalities.

«We prohibit and strictly forbid any ecclesiastic or layperson from presuming to defend as permissible this trade in Blacks under no matter what pretext or excuse, or from publishing or teaching in any manner whatsoever, in public or privately, opinions contrary to what We have set forth in these Apostolic Letters.»

But the biggest problem, as I saw it, was that those teaching this view of «biblical womanhood» refused to acknowledge that their interpretation — like all interpretations — involved a certain degree of selectivity and required a certain set of presuppositions.

It reflects the theology of those who thought of Jesus exclusively in apocalyptic terms, and were prepared not only to go through the tradition and substitute «the Son of Man» for his simple «I,» but also to insert appropriate quotations or paraphrases of their favorite apocalyptic texts in order to give his life its appropriate setting — as they assumed — and his teaching its proper interpretation.

what upsets people is what i DO N'T do: such as lead in a particular way, teach with authority, be more charismatic, not setting a higher moral standard, stuff like that... it's not about what i or we DO as a community.

To teach the Bible as factual knowledge is better than not to teach it at all, but without attention to both its historical setting and its theological implications, its richness for Christian experience can be missed.

Every one of them tries to perpetuate an archaic belief set derived using the world's worst decision - making technique — faith — and survives only because it provides a handy social outlet for people, most of whom aren't even aware of as much as 5 % of what their religion supposedly teaches.

Lost was a corporate observance that set the contours and rhythm of life, that gave meaning to feasting and abstinence and taught renunciation as well as affirmation.

When Jesus set in contrast a self - righteous Pharisee, saying to God, «I thank thee, that I am not as the rest of men,» and a contrite publican, praying, «God, be thou merciful to me a sinner,» (Luke 18:9 - 14) he was both summing up the best of his race's teaching on the true spirit of confessional prayer and indicating to his disciples the self - depreciation which must follow any such estimate of personal worth and possibility as he himself believed in.

Not only must the overarching goal shape the transactions that constitute its concrete location in some social setting so that they cohere with the abilities and capacities it teaches as instruments for understanding God.

If we follow God as set forth in the teachings of Jesus, aren't we stating that, although other religions may contain some truth, the complete and ultimate truth of God is found in Jesus (above all other revelations)?

A wise interpreter would set this verse aside as too vague and unclear on this particular issue and seek Biblical truth on this subject in the clear passages throughout the Bible that teach that God does not hold children to account for the sins of their parents!

John Warwick Montgomery, a lawyer and philosopher as well as theologian, provides perhaps the most comprehensive argument by a conservative in his recent book Human Rights and Human Dignity: An Apologetic for the Transcendent Perspective (Zondervan, 1986) He concludes that rights derived from the inerrant teachings of the Bible give authority to the rights set forth in the Universal Declaration, even exceeding its claims in significant ways.

In this respect John Paul II is most effective as a teacher through his symbolic acts and liturgies and least effective when he explicitly sets out to teach.

The «Bible» is a set of books agreed upon by the Catholic Church as the doctrine that they would teach, and all Christianity is born of the Nicene Council.

But no minister, unless immured within his local church structure, is devoid of teaching opportunities in other settings — if he sees them as such and responds appropriately to them.

Or, to switch images, Christian teaching provides one set of inputs into human consciousness, but other inputs are always cycling through that consciousness as well.

For this reason, among others, the faith is presented as adherence to a set of formulations of doctrine rather than a following of the moral teaching of Jesus that God is love and calls us to love one another.

sorry got a little off track we as believers are screwwing up big time we are using His word, Big and HUGE uncool thing, we are still normal, we all fall short of the glory of God, So because of this deception or lack of the proper teaching of the way of the cross we have a huge on set of actual so called Christians that cant even get along, and tell me this dosent exist in the muslim home or what ever cult mindset you are following and that includes the Christian church if they are more consirned with getting you in and keeping you there then setting you FREE!

For they have taught that some receive it sacramentally only, to wit sinners: others spiritually only, those to wit who eating in desire that heavenly bread which is set before them, are, by a lively faith which worketh by charity, made sensible of the fruit and usefulness thereof: whereas the third (class) receive it both sacramentally and spiritually, and these are they who so prove and prepare themselves beforehand, as to approach to this divine table clothed with the wedding garment.

Muslim's Lifestyle: he teachings of Islam not only set forth a stern religion, but they govern the total life of the believers as well.

-- but later on followed Peter and became his interpreter; and Peter «used to adapt the teachings to the needs of the moment, but not as though he were drawing up a connected account of the oracles of the Lord,» so that Mark was perfectly justified in setting them down «just as he remembered them.»

In a similar way, Catholic teaching today, as notably set forth by John Paul II, strongly encourages the fullest possible cooperation among Christians in contending for a culture of life and of truth against the encroaching culture of death and deceit.

The programme sets out marriage as the morally right context within which sexual intimacy may be expressed while, of course, acknowledging that this moral teaching is rejected by many and infringed by others through human weakness.

It is also the onlyCatholic programme which I've seen which sets out the Church's moral teaching from the Catechism on masturbation and homosexuality, subjects which are frequently ignored by Catholic education programmes as too hard to teach in the current climate.

Their move to a Catholic church was taken as meaning only one thing: that despite the lip - service being paid by the diocese to the teaching that «non-celibate gay people should not be given Communion», the diocese of Westminster was in fact giving its tacit approval and support to a situation in which that was precisely what was happening, in a setting in which the Pope and the teaching of the Church were regarded with hostility and held up to contempt.

An incarnational approach to education might just require us to set aside some of our «professorial prerogatives» and «professional prestige» (i.e., academic arrogance) in order really to teach — as well as to learn.

The illusion of the conviction of the Holy Spirit... which is really an emotional response to something being very wrong and the turmoil experienced when these feelings contradict all you've been taught by the church and its Pastor, who has set him / herself up as the supreme anointed authority under God and is due utmost and unquestionable respect.

As Seyyed Hossein Nasr writes, «For traditional man, Muslim or otherwise, that is a man whose life and thought are molded by a set of principles of transcendent origin and who lives in a society in which these principles are manifested in every sphere does not have cause to question the teaching of his religion.

By some it is regarded as an original poem setting forth Krishnaism based upon the Sankhya - Yoga philosophy, but modified later by the additions in which the Vedanta is taught.73 Others think that it is an old verse Upanishad worked over by a poet in the interest of Krishnaism, after the beginning of the Christian era.74

It is not possible, according to Catholic teaching, to avoid even the mere possibility of a conflict between sacred theology and science by delimiting beforehand and on principle the domain of reality to which the propositions asserted by each refer, in such a way that even the material object of each set of affirmations would be different from the start and as a consequence no contradiction at all would be possible (Denzinger 2109).

To take Mark's presentation of Jesus» teaching as normative, or final — as on the older «Marcan hypothesis» — is simply out of the question, and sets before the Christian religion, as we have seen, a problem which nineteen centuries have now demonstrated to be insoluble.

As Paul went about teaching the Gospel, he constantly faced opposition from a set of Christians who believed that to truly follow Jesus, you had also obey the Mosaic Law.

It is only when his ethics is separated from the ethical teaching of Judaism — which he deepened and spiritualized — and is then given a purely apocalyptic setting, that it can be described as «interim ethics.»

The church possesses, or better is possessed by, the principle of life «in Christ» — a life of discipleship that is not simply obedience to a set of moral truths supposedly taught by Jesus but a life in which «Christ dwells in our hearts by faith» and enables his people to act, insofar as they are able, in conformity with his pattern of human existence.

Once we have arrived at a reconstruction of an aspect of the teaching of Jesus, our next task is to seek to understand it, by which we mean to interpret it in its original setting and to arrive as closely as we can at its original meaning.

The other is a set of personal gifts for the indirect «teaching» that, as midwife, helps another come to personal appropriation of revealed wisdom.

Would it make a difference if the teaching setting was set up as a dialogue instead of a monologue?

We teach the necessity of two genders that, at the end of the ages, God may set aside the man as begetter of first instance.

Unlike God's work and teachings in this later era, where compassion and kindness for one's fellow man are the whole of the law (by word, but more importantly, in example after example, that when we think we know God's law and set forth to make prey on our fellows using it as our succor, that indeed, no matter the crime, the answer is to treat each other with dignity, humility and love).

The setting itself gives the tone for this authoritative teaching: while Luke's account of the sermon takes place on the plain, Matthew has Jesus up a mountain, thus evoking the biblical notion of mountain as a place of divine revelation, and Mount Sinai in particular as the place where God's will for his people Israel was revealed.