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Each member should write two or three questions or list two or three book passages for discussion.

Reading at Book Passage for Best Women's Travel Writing Volume 9 October 20 2013 Book Passage Corte Madera, CA

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On Tuesday, New York Times reporter Sopan Deb, who covered the Trump campaign in 2016 as an embedded reporter for CBS News, criticized a passage in the book in which Bossie and Lewandowski said he was «literally crying» at a press conference before the second presidential debate when Trump appeared with women who accused former President Bill Clinton of sexual harassment.

Here's another brief passage from the book that tracks the story of affirmative action in America — and, for that matter, of the larger political divide in America.

In Origin of Species there is a passage where Darwin expresses fear about the entire idea that he posits in the book and fear about the possibility of being held accountable for it.

It's easier now watching the years tick by, the seasons balancing their books, the sun swift in his passage, like a man who goes home after his day's labor full of gruff gratitude for the lights that one by one rise up in welcome; glad of what he's done, but gladder still it's done with, and enough.

It was a positive sign that Christians supported a Mormon for Prez, even though the Book of Mormon contains many many passages «like the book of Malachi» which contradict the biBook of Mormon contains many many passages «like the book of Malachi» which contradict the bibook of Malachi» which contradict the bible.

The book has many attractive passages, and whole chapters are occasionally distinguished for comprehensiveness or freshness of approach.

Given the consistency in teaching between the gospels, and indeed finding many exact, word for word passages between the books evidences a common docu.ment between them.

See for example, http://www.faithfutures.org/JDB/jdb471.html and Professor Gerd Ludemann's studies in his book, Jesus After 2000 Years pp. 369 - 370: «This passage no more goes back to Jesus than the parable of the rich farmer Luke 12: 16 - 20.

The author of the review thinks this book sinks under its own weight, for its author makes no secret of his loathing of the whole homosexual community, quoting every passage in the bible that can even remotely be translated against them, often twisting passages to say what they do not mean.

And it's unlike any other book I've ever written, for in addition to the memoir, it includes original poetry, short stories, soliloquies, and even a short screenplay — all aimed at capturing the wonder and beauty of Scripture, while honoring the best in biblical scholarship and acknowledging the challenges of its most difficult passages.

The resolution offered in all three passages is also remarkably similar: God recruits the prophet to plead on behalf of the poor and needy; Timothy recruits the community for a vocation of holiness; and the crafty worker fiddles with the books to recruit sympathy for himself.

I think that every Bible should have a big «STOP» sign on the first page along with that passage of scripture letting the reader (or potential reader) know that this book is not for everybody, but only for those that have been enabled by God to read and understand it.

(ENTIRE BOOK) Based on passages from the Gospel of Matthew, this book considers what it means to be «called» in a time when Christians have so many competing claims for their time, love, and commitmBOOK) Based on passages from the Gospel of Matthew, this book considers what it means to be «called» in a time when Christians have so many competing claims for their time, love, and commitmbook considers what it means to be «called» in a time when Christians have so many competing claims for their time, love, and commitment.

The striking biblical passage that concludes the page devoted to St. Fidelis in The One - Year Book of Saints is Luke 22: 31 — 32: «Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to have you, to sift you like wheat, but I have pleaded in prayer for you that your faith should not completely fail.

Certainly Coll tries to demonstrate the relevance of these passages, but in a book that is over 400 pages long, and for those who are interested in the subject matter of the book, namely women deacons, this proves is a considerable distraction.

the bible has so many passages about i.ncest and r.ape it's hard to believe anyone looks to that outdated book for guidance.

But taking the fruits of exegetical method that was taught here at RMS, I got three methods as a short primer on what to do with the exegetical work in terms of preaching / teaching: 1, preach off of the exegetical outline (no time to prepare); 2, use the proper by the book method (Homiletics training); 3, use Pauls method of explaining the passage doctrinally for up to half, and spend the rest of the time in application.

After reviewing all the references regarding John's gospel, I recommend reviewing Professor Ludemann's and Professor Crossan's many books on the historical Jesus where they explain in great detail their rigorous test procedures for determining the authenticity of not only John's gospel but the authenticity of all passages of the NT, passage by passage.

If we step back from this particular passage, and attend to our different hermeneutical strategies, we shall see that most of the continuity we discern between these books will depend upon the interpretative unit we select for Process and Reality.

The fact of the matter is that specific passages cherry - picked out of these «Holy Books» counts for exactly nothing.

I stemmed the flood of tears and rose to my feet, believing that this could be nothing other than a divine command to open the book and read the first passage I chanced upon; for I had heard the story of how Antony had been instructed by a gospel text.

Next to the description of Pentecost in the second chapter of Acts, this passage is the most important in the entire book, for what takes place here opens up for the church its largest field for expansion and makes possible the eventual winning of the Roman Empire to Christianity.

Augustine snatched up the «book of the Apostle» he had been reading, opened it, and read in silence the passage on which his eyes first lighted: «Not in dissipation or drunkenness, nor in debauchery and lewdness, nor in arguing and jealousy; but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh or for the gratification of your desires» (Rom.

The argument for this 30 % tithe is based on several passages from the Books of Moses.

Her recent book, The Passage of Nature (London: Macmillan and Temple Press) is an analytic discussion of what it means for anything to be a process, with critical reference to some of Whitehead's views.

If you go to the book of revelations, read a couple documents and study a little in some documentary's you will find out that the translation is corrupt, infact they destroyed for other reasons, BUT in Tobias you will still learn that the old testomant does not approve of homosexuality, also in Leviticus, as well as Romans, and 2nd Corinthians, and a bit more passages, use google, it might help.

I interpreted it solely as a divine command... I seized (the book I had been reading], opened it and in silence read the first passage on which my eyes lit: «Not in riots and drunken parties, not in eroticism and indecencies, not in strife and rivalry, but put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh in its lusts» (Rom.

Lindsell, in his book The Battle for the Bible, contends that the Bible itself and the history of the Christian church support a view of inspiration that insists on the inerrancy of the autographs of Scripture in every detail of chronology, geography, astronomy, measurement, and the like, even when such details are incidental to the central intent of the passage.»

For example there is no discussion of the celebrated passage in book nineteen on the «compromise between human wills [of the two cities] about the things relevant to mortal life.»

In what must surely count as the most polemical passage in the entire book, Besançon even makes bold to claim that iconographers have substituted their art for true religion and even believe that their art comprehends God:

In recent years, however, I've found my enthusiasm for Rapture theology dwindling, and in Chapter 8 of «Surprised by Hope,» (our book club selection for the month of June), Wright does an excellent job of exploring the passages often used to support it.

For a much more in - depth look at this passage and others in Wisdom literature, see Bruce Waltke's The Book of Proverbs: Chapters 15 - 31 and Ellen F. Davis» Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs.

Defending Balthasar against Scanlon, he cited the passages from the Pope's Crossing the Threshold of Hope mentioned above and referred also to his own book, Death on a Friday Afternoon, in which he had argued from several New Testament texts that although we can not be certain, we may indeed hope and pray for the salvation of all.

This an excellent book for students of Scripture, preachers, and teachers, especially when you are looking for ways to preach and teach about the «giant» passages in the Bible.

What fascinates me about him is he began as such a literalist, castrating himself based on the «eunuchs for the kingdom of God» and «if it offends you cut it off» passages but thereafter adopted a spiritualising reading of the scriptures and wrote a book against castration.

Gail Sheehey in her book Passages points out that women often feel a need for a mentor to support their entry into a professional field.

It is tempting to pass this book off as propaganda, but no one should underestimate Carlson - Thies, who in 1992 began working, from his position at the Center for Public Justice, for the passage of Charitable Choice.

I want to scrawl whole passages of books on the stairway walls, scripture on the fireplace, psalms on the cupboards, epic poems on the east wall, quotes on pumpkins, rules on the stairs, wear out a pack of Sharpies on the backs of the doors, just writing the truth that I know while I know it still for someday.

Gregory concluded Book One of his Pastoral Care with a remarkable exegesis of a curious passage found in Leviticus 21: The Lord spoke to Moses and said, speak to Aaron in these words: No man among your descendants for all time who has any physical defect shall come and present the food of his God.

The Twittersphere lit up this past week with the revelation that Mark Driscoll's new book includes passages that bear a striking resemblance (though not quite word - for - word equivalence) to material from the book that is cited as their source.

In that moment, I remembered a passage from an old favourite book of mine, Anne's House of Dreams, when the heroine receives a ring with a pearl instead of the traditional diamond for her engagement.

My favorite quote of the book comes from a passage where she relates going to a Christian tent revival meeting somewhere in Maine just to escape her cramped apartment on a Saturday night, and to her it â $ œsounds like the perfect entertainment for an atheist out on her own.â $ Hereâ $ ™ s the quote:

This passage would probably not be so prominent in the tithing debate if it were not for the comments on this passage by the author of the book of Hebrews.

So in the Book of Daniel we find this conviction stated: «Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt,» (Daniel 12:2) and in two late Isaian passages a similar expectation is expressed: «He hath swallowed up death for ever; and the Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for Yahweh hath spoken it»; (Isaiah 25:8) «Thy dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise.

For in the earliest round of the debate, Griffin remarked on how forced, unnecessarily cautious, or simply unnatural are Ford's readings of relevant passages in Science and the Modern World and Religion in the Making — readings claiming that panpsychism is not truly found in either book, and that the appearance to the contrary is due to our reading into them ideas derived from the canonical portions of Process and Reality (REWM 194 - 201).

All the other habits of composition that Ford attributes to Whitehead rest on the two attributions we have just put into question; for we are told that the insertions of later writings into earlier ones, and the overall arrangements of writings in a given book, are meant to induce readers to disregard passages conveying abandoned doctrines or positions or, if the doctrines and positions are kept in modified form, to reinterpret them in terms of their final or mature formulations.

The book's most poignant passage tells of a woman parishioner who lived near the church writing Fosdick in his retirement, begging him and his wife to come over for a cup of tea:

The prophet Joel, probably writing during the miserable humiliations of the Persian period, left a book containing some of the most bloodthirsty passages in the Old Testament, calling for vengeance and inciting to battle.