Sentences with phrase «books about scripture»

I do not just read books about Scripture and theology.

Not exact matches

In «With Her» Milosz speaks of hearing a passage from Scripture during Mass at St. Mary Magdalen in Berkeley: «A reading this Sunday from the Book of Wisdom / About how God has not made death / And does not rejoice in the annihilation of the living.»

Among those revelations recorded in 1843 in the Doctrine and Covenants, a book of Mormon scripture, were teachings about plural marriage.

It seemed to me that they had not read any of the books I had read, or even knew anything about the way of reading Scripture which I had adopted.

I first posted my dream (and all the Scriptures that explained it to me) on a Christian book review site when I wrote a negative review of «Heaven is for Real,» and was subsequently emailed for a year by Thomas Nelson and Crossbow publishing to write a book about it.

When speaking this way about Scripture, most theologians are about to say that as a result of the Bible being a human book, it should not surprise us to discover that the Bible has errors.

I would say to any person commenting on your 10 Ways the Non-Violent Atonement Changes Your Theology blog, to read your book first (its not an expensive purchase) before launching into any detailed discussion or disagreement.It answers many of the potential concerns people have and gets the reader to reflect very strongly on what they have been taught about the atonement and to put on a new set of glasses when reading scripture.

When we ask again: «How is it that when he enjoined us in this book of yours not to do anything or receive anything without witnesses, you did not ask him: «First do you show us by witnesses that you are a prophet and that you have come from God, and show us just what Scriptures there are that testify about you»» — they are ashamed and remain silent.

Taking a Moslem book from one of my shelves, I discovered about the same frequency of use of Moslem scripture.

Just 37 years having a saving faith in Christ... reading a lot about church history... reading books by spiritual giants such as Tozer, Ravenhill, Finney, Spurgeon, Chambers, etc... reading and listening to such teachers as Winkie Pratney, Ravi Zacharias, etc... and just trying to read the scriptures and asking God to guide me on a right path.

159:4.9 «But the greatest error of the teaching about the Scriptures is the doctrine of their being sealed books of mystery and wisdom which only the wise minds of the nation dare to interpret.

That is, it is not one of the seven feasts which Moses wrote about in the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures.

We learned in a previous post about the Canonization of Scripture, that in 397 AD, some of the church leaders decided which books to include in the New Testament.

Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and other elements of the world... Now it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an unbeliever to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics... How are they going to believe these books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven?

Because this is the way life is, and the fact that Scripture reflects life helps us understand that the Bible truly is a book about life.

To learn more about this way of reading Scripture and gain a Crucivision theology, buy my book on Amazon today.

Brownson's conservative approach to Scripture will win over many skeptical readers, and his book should be required reading for anyone who wants to make an informed judgment about the Bible and homosexuality.

If for you your faith is only about «worshiping» the words in a book (which are written by man)... think about it... you might be wasting your time and not realize how distant you actually have become (from the true msg) worrying about trivialities or needing to reconcile scripture with science / common sense... simply because your book (and your self - imposed obligation to believe in the words) doesn't leave you another option.

Just as a sermon, a book about the bible, or a blog can help us understand the mind and heart of God as revealed in Scripture, so also can a translation.

Think whatever you want about George R. R. Martin and his books, Scripture agrees with him on this one.

In the book I explain why I think Scripture gives us reason to be optimistic about the future of humanity, but it has become increasingly clear to me over the past few months that this is a topic people desperately want to talk about.

When we think about the role of reading in our spiritual formation, we generally think of non-fiction books that help us understand scripture and theology, but fiction powerfully shapes the ways in which we think faithfully about God and the world.

You don't have enough king James scripture verses in it for any Christian publisher to be interested in putting it out (I've talked to Christian agents about this, and they are as frustrated as the writers at how boxed in to rigid rules Christian books have to be) and that is a sad fact about book publishing today.

And regardless of what you believe about the violence of God in Scripture, these books will present you with a new way of looking at things so that you no longer have to choose between accepting that God is violent or writing off the Bible as hopelessly full of error.

I have been waiting for these books for about four years now... His book attempts to provide an explanation for the violence of God in Scripture.

Jesus said let them come to me.Those children killed in these OT scriptures are saved from growing up in an evil society (God said they were were evil and a bad influence on His children) The book of Revelation is about God pleading with mankind to find Him.

So, too, fallen human beings can not read the book of nature and learn about God without the assistance of the spectacles of scripture.

This is about a book we call scripture proclaiming God to be the kind of monster who does these things.

One of the accounts in the Hebrew Scriptures which does a masterful job of portraying this age - old question about the nature and character of God is the book of Jonah.

As Don Whitney wrote in his book, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, «When we meditate on Scripture, it colors our thinking about God, about God's ways and His world, and about ourselves.»

By the way why didn't you quote the scripture from the book of revelation where it talks about Jesus sporting a tattoo on his thigh when he returns?

Oddly enough, Augustine was writing about the mysteries found within the book of Genesis, when he said, «in matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received.

Rachel Held Evans has written a comprehensive, impeccably researched, heartfelt, whimsical, scripture - honoring book about the role and experience of women in Christian society.

Rather than being excited about some new insight from Scripture or idea about theology which I get to pass on to others, my writing has become more about pageviews, backlinks, ad revenue, email subscriber stats, book sales, and comment counts.

Whichever approach you choose, it is important to note that while Scripture does teach about getting blotted out of the Book of Life, this does not ever refer to losing eternal life.

Whether Scripture is talking about keeping your name in the one Book of Life or having it transferred from the Book of Life to the Lamb's Book of Life, the point remains the same: Whoever has their name written in the Book of Life (whether it is one book or two) is still alBook of Life or having it transferred from the Book of Life to the Lamb's Book of Life, the point remains the same: Whoever has their name written in the Book of Life (whether it is one book or two) is still alBook of Life to the Lamb's Book of Life, the point remains the same: Whoever has their name written in the Book of Life (whether it is one book or two) is still alBook of Life, the point remains the same: Whoever has their name written in the Book of Life (whether it is one book or two) is still alBook of Life (whether it is one book or two) is still albook or two) is still alive.

As a child, my parents took me to a Baptist worship service (my paternal grandparents were Baptists), and I didn't know it was any different at all until I asked a question about a scripture I knew from the Book of Mormon.

And the hard part about it is that when a pastor teaches through books of the Bible as I do, when we come to some of these seemingly boring sections of Scripture, what are we to do with them?

As with everything Dr. Enns writes, this book was full of deep insights and helpful ideas about the nature and authority of Scripture.

This kingdom is about letting your enemies join in, and what The Message edition of the book of James (2:8) calls «the Royal Rule of the Scriptures: «Love others as you love yourself.

During the Caliphate of Othman, it is reported, an important leader came to him beseeching him to do something about the matter lest the Moslems come to «differ in the Holy Book as the Jews and Christians differ in their scriptures.

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If you like what is in the book and how I explain the five words and the various Scripture texts, then you will LOVE learning about the 52 words in the course.

Last week I wrote a post about the inspiration of Scripture and the inspiration of other religious books which struck a cord with a lot of people.

I have some recommendations on books representing, in my view, good and sober theology about the Holy Spirit, får from Benny Hinn, close to Scripture.

In fact, since my goal on this site is to Bring Scripture and Theology to Life, I also read lots of books about how to live life, and how best to put my theology into practice.

Look, along with teaching and writing about Scripture and theology, I also design websites and publish books for other authors, and I get paid a little bit of money to do so.

I would think by putting scripture at the top of the list just makes people worship the book instead of who the book is about.

With how much it is talked about in our pulpits and written about in out books, one would think that warning against false teachers is a popular topic in Scripture.

If you can get past that, this book will challenge everything you think you know about the violence in Scripture, the role of the church in the world, and how you view your enemies.