Sentences with word «baffled»

For decades, the United States baffled us with its unconditional support for Central American dictators — so much so that many Latin Americans now suspect the word «democracy.»

In a recent Ask Pastor John podcast, a baffled father queried Dr. John Piper about what he should say to his adult son who is considering a divorce from his...

Although I'm not arguing for the non-existence of God, nor for the existence of God, the problem of evil and suffering has baffled us for millennia.

The usual pastor is baffled about the next step in his presentation.

Besides, I was told, that when you get to the Third Step and are still talking about a lightbulb or a doorknob as your «higher power,» you will be baffled with a Third Step that says you are to turn your will and your life over to the care of God — a God it says you understood.

During his 2003 State of the Union address, George W. Bush baffled some listeners when he declared that there was «wonder - working power» in the goodness of American people.

What can the Christian religion contribute to our baffled world?

I can't tell you how many times people come to our church and are baffled... because what they've heard (not from me but from others) and what they see first off is so far apart that it doesn't make sense to them.

She rebukes Dr. Dysart: «If you knew God, Doctor, you would know about the Devil...» Unable to share guilt with her husband, baffled by her son's criminal behavior, she finds refuge in that old trick of religionists: accusing the devil.

A word with the same root is translated correctly in Ephesians 1:14, «the Holy Spirit is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance» so I am baffled as to why they translated it here as chosen.

I'm a bit baffled how you can be so self rightous to assume that your interpretation of religion can be the only path.

Also, given the prominent place religion occupies in Africa, I was baffled by the apparent determination of my church superiors to keep religious subjects from all «decent» and «cultured» conversation.

I, like probably many other rational and reasonable people, am baffled by your behavior and actions.

I am baffled by leaders who allow cameras to record services.

But as I scrolled through the «Christian» hate tweets to this news personality, I was baffled and ashamed by these so - called followers of Christ.

I'm baffled because a grown man who posts as «In Santa We Trusts» and constantly challenges me to «prove» things to him is down right silly.

My sensation, rather than fear or piety, was a baffled and uncomprehending rage.

Baffled conservatives should take the time to talk to real Trump supporters, not internet provocateurs.

This is what I've been telling myself lately because I feel so totally baffled and helpless by the situation in Syria.

I have to say also that I am utterly baffled by the anxiety, disappointment, or hostility he clearly inspires in certain American Catholics of a conservative bent (using «conservative» in its distinctly American acceptation).

When members of it hear Reinhold Niebuhr or some other prophet talk about sin and the judgment of God, it all sounds so strange that while they are fascinated they are baffled by it.

«Incalculable and unaccountable», I say, for the narratives constantly betray a baffled wonderment; but not magical or irrational, because they are congruous with the account which Jesus gave of the character of God: the «Father in heaven», who is «good» with a goodness beyond justice, (Mark 10:18; Matthew 5: 45; Luke 6: 35; Matthew 20: 1 - 15) supported by sufficient power; (Mark 10: 27, 14:36) and who persistently takes the initiative in giving good gifts to His creatures.

The more you read the words of Jesus, you find yourself really baffled by what evangelicals have become known for!

And I'm just baffled by the assumption that worship equals singing, and therefore we must always sing a few songs in order to meet with each other properly.

Billy Graham said he was baffled by the attention.

In my consultative work I have nowhere been more baffled than when asked what a center for disturbed children could do about ministry.

THAT is what «has scientists «baffled»», as I said... and not just Christian scientists, mind you.

As to what the new forms in campus ministry are or should be, I confess myself as baffled as most of the competent campus ministers I know.

I'm still baffled that Bachmann won.

I'm not baffled at all.

Cq... Many similar experiences are literally happening «after death», and have scientists baffled, since there is no brain activity that could possibly lead to a hallucination.

Always I leave more baffled and angry and awed by the Church than when I came.

And yet the preacher has been trained to employ this language and is baffled to discover its ineffectiveness.

I have always been baffled to hear other people make comments like «Why are you doing so much, you don't even know them?»

Publicly, I grew obstinate and incorrigible, ready to debate family and friends whose easy confidence baffled and frustrated me and gave me an excuse to be angry at someone besides God.

The Vatican said Tuesday it is «perplexed and baffled» by the public prosecutor's actions, and the Holy See aims for «complete transparency» in its financial operations.

Many ministers are baffled by the indifference on the part of AA's as to whether non-alcoholics do or do not drink.

Listeners often consider their being baffled a sign that the thought is deep and beyond their abilities to grasp, rather than a sign of the speaker's confused thought.

A recent C4 TV programme about a school called Chavagnes (cf. www.chavagnes.org) had a presenter baffled at the idea that young people should be encouraged to practice abstinence.

For example, many of the techies I spoke with told me that they are baffled by liturgical practices they see in their parishes.

It leaves us with a paradox or a mystery that has baffled the faithful.

Instead of being baffled by any difficulties that we may feel about church membership we need to ask ourselves quite seriously where else we may turn.

It's baffled many UK shoppers after Cadbury decided to sell its Mini Eggs this summer.

It's been reported that God was baffled but not totally surprised by his dismissal.

I hope you will take this not as me attacking your views but as me honestly attempting to better understand a particular viewpoint that has baffled me for years.

But some conservative commentators, after narrating all the outrageous anecdotes, seem baffled for a positive program of cultural education, and others even seem positively anticultural — as though willing to admit that the ideologies of the secularists are what constitute the humanities.

I remember that on my own report cards in the 1950s these skills were listed under the heading of «citizenship» — a usage of that term that would have completely baffled George Washington.

There followed a baffled silence at the other end of the line, and in the end they asked a priest in charge of the Shrine at Knock to engage with the humanist instead of me.

When he quotes John's Apocalypse, European bishops are baffled.

Rose, I'm totally baffled about what your point is.