Sentences with phrase «as teaching moments»

Trenberth is well known for his method of using current extreme events as teaching moments for things that might be more common in the future due to AGW, which is effective, but they do not apply to decadal trends.

Parents can use these same TV reports as teaching moments about caring and sympathy.

When one of my kids finds him or herself in a predicament in which they're having a negative attitude or they're portraying selfishness, I'll often use those situations as teaching moments for what it means to be light.

Sandberg later saw this phone call as a teaching moment.

«Use it as a teaching moment, not ashaming moment,» Haley said.

He uses every experience as a teaching moment.

Use it as a teaching moment.

I really want to thank Deb, Marc, Steve, Doug, Rafael, Alvaro, and everyone else at the Notebaert who have contributed so much to making this centenary so effective as a teaching moment.

I started with research for a book, and that expanded into a vision of using the 2014 anniversary of the pigeon's extinction as a teaching moment to tell people about the bird and to emphasize aspects of the story that are still critically relevant today.

«This must serve as a teaching moment for the MTA, who frankly fell short of its responsibility in preparing a contingency plan for all of its customers.

«We need to view this as a teaching moment on how we teach new recruits.»

I would use this as a teaching moment.

She recommends that parents use their current situation as a teaching moment their child to hopefully avoid accumulating debt as a grown up.

Instead, treat it as a teaching moment and say «No» in an even voice.

It is not expected of a gorgeous show to double as a teaching moment, but, by turning the Bourgeois - defining sculpture queen inside out, this one does.

I like this site because there are so many people that help educate those who may not be as knowledgeable as they may be, and even when they express their opinions that may be in disagreement, they do so in a professional manner, and as people who have the experience, they take that opportunity as a teaching moment to correct the mishaps that they have seen done.

Not exact matches

It shocks me to see all the articles where in people describe Mormon beliefs as mysterious, when there's over 52,000 missionaries willing to teach the faith at a moments notice.

Maximus the Confessor interprets this event as a moment in which the disciples passed from flesh to spirit because «having both their bodily and spiritual senses purified, they were taught the spiritual meanings of the mysteries that were shown to them.»

The moment the Christian churches begin Attuning themselves properly to Jesus Christ and Preaching His eternal message of LOVE for Everyone, Without Conditions, and Teaching about the Afterlife as God has promised us there is, and Teaching about the laying - on of hands to heal the sick as Jesus did, and begin truly Sharing their money with the poor as Jesus did, THEN you will find people flocking back into the church.

The problem with the evangelical purity culture, as I see it, isn't that it teaches saving sex for marriage, but that it equates virginity with sexual wholeness and therefore as something that can be lost or given or taken away in a single moment.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

Of course faithful Christians constantly mediate between the teachings of the Church and our needs in the moment, but the «moral complexity» mindset tempts us to recast this tendency as a kind of sophistication.

In many ways this argument with Brightman can be seen as a formative moment in Hartshorne's thinking which taught him as much about what he could not allow into his thought as about what he could.

There was, for example, in the eighties an Interfaith Colloquium against Apartheid and there were various interfaith gatherings on ecological issues as well as interfaith prayer and work for peace, but the Parliament for a moment captured the attention of the world and sought to show, at a time of intense conflict in former Yugoslavia and of communal troubles in India, that religions need not be a cause of division but could unite on certain basic ethical teachings.

For he [Mark] had neither heard the Lord nor been his personal follower, but at a later stage, as I said, he had followed Peter, who 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 committed no error in writing certain matters just as he remembered them.

well just thinking about these wars in the muslim / mid-east world over religious differences (which may reflect mental states in many ways) in a world where most realize that living in the present moment is best way to happiness and being in the moment in non-strife and awareness through the teachings of masters such as found in the buddhist, taoist, zen, etc., etc., etc. spriritually based practices of religious like thought and teachings, etc. that to ask these scientifically educated populace whom have access to vast amounts of knowledges and understandings on the internet, etc. to believe in past beliefs that perhaps gave basis and inspiration to that which followed — but is not the end all of all times or knowledges — and is thus — non self - sustaining in a belief that does not encompass growth of knowledge and understanding of all truths and being as it is or could be — is to not respect the intelligence and minds and personage of even themselves — not to be disrespected nor disrespectful in any way — only to point out that perhaps too much is asked to put others into the cloak of blind faith and adherance to the past that disregards the realities of the present and the potential of the future... so you try to live in the past — and destroy your present and your future — where is the intelligence in that — and why do people continually fear monger or allow to be fear — mongered into this destructive vision of the future based upon the past?

-- 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.»

The hospice families, who cared for and loved and then let go of the ones they loved, have taught me that the human heart can be as big as the ocean, and that the work that God calls us to - to take care of each other - happens every moment in every place.

’14 In popular Jewish thought Elijah came to be regarded as «the ever - present prophet, wandering incognito over the earth, sometimes in the garb of a nomad, to aid in moments of distress and danger, appearing to mystics and scholars to teach them hidden truths, and acting as celestial messenger».15 He was thought to be present at every ceremony of circumcision as the guardian spirit and witness, and on such occasions a special chair was reserved for him.

But on my 3rd attempt, as I was happily contemplating my next conscious moment seeing Christ face to face and being completely pain free, a teaching came to mind about God rewarding us for the good we do after we get saved.

Jesus sees this as an important teaching moment.

Given his reputation, it is fitting that Benedict's decision to abdicate has served as an extraordinary teaching moment itself.

We shall return to Jeremias's work on the parables again and again, for it is epoch - making in several respects, but for the moment we want only to call attention to the consequences of this work so far as a general view of the nature of the synoptic tradition is concerned the success of Jeremias's work demands that we accept his starting - point, namely, that any parable as it now stands in the gospels represents the teaching of the early Church and the way back from the early Church to the historical Jesus is a long and arduous one.

Just as Jesus» life and teaching are the model or paradigm of the new age, and the resurrection its seal, every moment in history which partakes of the new age — that is, of the overthrowing of death and the power of death — is an eschatological event which ends the old world and inaugurates a new one.

Some have applauded the book as creating a teaching moment about the contours of Christian history and theology, and thoughtful readers might well be intrigued by complex questions the novel raises about Christian origins.

Nietzsche, who is a true prophet insofar as he speaks out of the depths of our destiny, teaches that authentic human existence is existence in the «here» and «now,» in the present moment.

The one concern in this teaching was that man should conceive his immediate concrete situation as the decision to which he is constrained, and should decide in this moment for God and surrender his natural will.

The Catholic intellectual tradition and, more specifically, Catholic social teaching long predate our historical moment, as, for that matter, does reflection on «the moral foundations of democracy.»

I write as a historian who finds Gregory's arguments persuasive, but I think Radner's review provides us with a teaching moment.

However, teaching and learning are effectively accomplished only when both are done as subordinate moments in one common quest for truer understanding.

West contrasts John Paul ll's teaching to the traditional approach, which he sees as puritanical (moments of laxism in the manuals notwithstanding).

As this very moment, I am in the process of remodeling my kitchen so I can teach gluten free cooking / baking classes.

Thanks for all the moments that gave us enjoy, for everything you did for our team, for everything you taught me as a professional and as a partner both on and off the field,» said the emotional message from from the ex-Anfield man.

Although it is hard to teach an old dog a new trick, if Gibbs could become more useful going forward and to me, that means to develop a final ball he could be a good squad player and for the moment our best starter as a left wing back.

At the moment it's not quite a living as John is still teaching full time, but for me it represents freedom.

... meals served in our school cafeterias are as much a «teaching moment» as what happens in the classroom.

Sure, your child wants to go out and plunk that money down on a new toy, but that money might provide a lifelong teaching moment as well.

However, if you view these as teachable moments, the holiday season can be a perfect time to teach your kids about bodily autonomy.

In secondary school my art teacher taught embroidery as the practical classwork element of our Higher Grade Art exam and from the moment my chosen fabric was first stretched in the embroidery hoop I was completely hooked.

And in that moment, I wondered, had I been a parent who believed in spanking as an act of discipline, would I have given my son a quick swat on the back side and thought it a teaching moment?