Sentences with phrase «biblical story through»
Not exact matches
Suzanne Collins» trilogy was the first foray into fiction I enjoyed after a year of research and writing for «A Year of Biblical Womanhood», so I surrendered myself totally to the unfolding stories and, like so many others, lost a lot of sleep as I worked my way through The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and The Mockingjay.
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«Through personal stories, proven experience and a thorough analysis of the biblical text, Building a Healthy Multi-ethnic Church illustrates both the biblical mandate for the multi-ethnic church as well as the seven core commitments required to bring it about.»
It is also evident that they will be, in one way or another, parables of democratic faith, carrying forward the prophetic convictions of our biblical and religious heritage through the story of our shared secular struggle toward «liberty and justice for all.»
Through biblical truths and stories, it shows that although life may not turn out the way we planned or imagined, we can trust God to resurrect something good from our shattered dreams.
From within our human history God's vision of cosmic destiny can be grasped only through the relatively limited and time - conditioned stories of promise that serve as the foundation of our biblical tradition.
Like most, I've spent a lifetime scanning through the pages of Scripture searching to find «my» story: a biblical narrative I could write myself into.
During my yearlong experiment, I interviewed a variety of women practicing biblical womanhood in different ways — an Orthodox Jew, an Amish housewife, even a polygamist family - and I combed through every commentary I could find, reexamining the stories of biblical women such as Deborah, Ruth, Hagar, Tamar, Mary Magdalene, Priscilla and Junia.
Historically, the biblical creation story was read through the sensitivities of Greco - Roman philosophy; in fact, the legacy of Greco - Roman contributions to the ecological crisis may be more powerfully influential than distinctively biblical contributions.
This is a great way to bring children into the spirit of the Advent season through biblical stories and images, and Ann Voskamp has quite a few resources for doing this well: The Greatest Gift: Unwrapping the Full Love Story of Christmas, Unwrapping the Greatest Gift: A Family Celebration of Christmas, and a whole Web site full of FREE printable ornaments, coloring pages, cards, gift tags, etc..
In the Middle Ages, when most Christians were illiterate and lacked immediate access to Scripture, artists transmitted biblical stories and theological truth through images that everyone could read.
Yet we must admit that through their work we have learned to take very seriously the total biblical story, reading with deeper insight the truths which are there stated not in propositions but in the events of history and in the response made to those events in the experience of men and women immersed in the ordinary affairs of daily life.
And again, through the work of other scholars like Bultmann and Buri, with their frank recognition of the mythological element in the biblical story, we have come to see that the affirmations of Scripture have their abiding significance, not in spite of, but precisely because of their being stated in language which can only be described as highly metaphorical.
As the biblical story tells us, our humanity is broken, but part of that fractured nature might be «repaired» through knowledge, wisdom, and love.
We do not, like Bunyan's Pilgrim, see ourselves as reflecting, imitating, taking upon ourselves the biblical or other traditional symbols and stories and making them our own through transference.
About Blog More Precious is the UK's most popular digital resource for Christian girls and young women.Passionate about equipping a generation of girls to live for Jesus Christ.Promotes and encourages biblical, «precious» qualities; to share stories of God's amazing work through stories of real lives and hearts that have been changed.
Religion and politics get a scathing scrutiny in a Man vs. State tale, told through allegorical fashion of the biblical Job story.
It looks at the idea of being your «brothers keeper» through engagement with two biblical stories.
The clergy team from St. Michael's have been in each Monday, telling the story of David and of Paul and how each of these biblical figures showed excellence through their faith.
Told vividly and with deceptively simple language, the story opens the door to the Biblical world through the circumstances and choices Joanna faces.
In this Ebook edition of The Land Between, author Jeff Manion uses the biblical story of the Israelites» journey through Sinai desert as a metaphor for being in undesired, transitional space.
I also have another Christian work I want to complete that will be based upon the Gospel Harmony view and write a story that takes some license but follows the ministry life of Jesus through Peter's life as the narrator... It may be controversial but likely draw a lot of readership who may otherwise not read the biblical account for the story it reflects.
About Blog The purpose of Bethany House is to help Christians apply biblical truth in all areas of life — whether through a well - told story, a challenging devotional, or the message of an illustrated children's book.
Through this class we will tackle such diverse themes as female rulers, women's roles in the home and kitchen, the concept of the muse, the historical odds of being a female artist, as well as biblical stories of rape, subjugation and triumphs.
McKibben's 2012 book, The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job, and the Scale of Creation expands on his 2005 Harpers magazine article asserting that the dominant America - as - a-Christian-Nation view is wrong, and explores left - wing politics as the true Christian mandate through the Biblical story of Job.
About Blog More Precious is the UK's most popular digital resource for Christian girls and young women.Passionate about equipping a generation of girls to live for Jesus Christ.Promotes and encourages biblical, «precious» qualities; to share stories of God's amazing work through stories of real lives and hearts that have been changed.
About Blog More Precious is the UK's most popular digital resource for Christian girls and young women.Passionate about equipping a generation of girls to live for Jesus Christ.Promotes and encourages biblical, «precious» qualities; to share stories of God's amazing work through stories of real lives and hearts that have been changed.