Sentences with phrase «conversation with scripture»

Why would you compare modern informal conversation with scripture?

According to Enns, we would do well to learn a few things from the Jewish readers of Scripture whose emphasis in engaging the holy text is «not on solving the problems once and for all but on a community upholding a conversation with Scripture with creative energy.»

The book's pleasures are to be found in the many apt citations from these four figures in conversation with the Scriptures and with one another, and in Greer's wise and thoughtful musings on their lives and words.

Not exact matches

The fact that he is willing to be part of this conversation with the knowledge that his understanding of scripture is in the minority is noted; regardless of the fact that he is probably in the majority in his pews.

The church also partners with a local rabbi from time to time for conversation around Hebrew Scripture and offers a variety of Bible study / book club options.

Here's my blurb: «With this book, Austin Fischer brings fresh insights to a very old conversation with a perspective that is at times piercing, at times deeply personal, and always thoughtful and rooted in scriptWith this book, Austin Fischer brings fresh insights to a very old conversation with a perspective that is at times piercing, at times deeply personal, and always thoughtful and rooted in scriptwith a perspective that is at times piercing, at times deeply personal, and always thoughtful and rooted in scripture.

You ARE having spiritual conversations with people every day, even if you don't talk about Jesus, God, Scripture, or church.

If this is so, how will this effect your conversations with other people and especially your use of Scripture in those conversations?

This year, it was an intersection of my own heart, scripture, conversations with mentors and life circumstances that lead to the theme for 2011.

Toward the end of Ut Unum Sint, John Paul cites some of the questions that must be addressed in conversation with the communities issuing from the tragic divisions of the sixteenth century: (1) The relationship between Sacred Scripture, as the highest authority in matters of faith, and Sacred Tradition, as indispensable to the interpretation of the Word of God; (2) The Eucharist as the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ, an offering of praise to the Father, the sacrificial memorial and Real Presence of Christ and the sanctifying outpouring of the Holy Spirit; (3) Ordination, as a Sacrament, to the threefold ministry of the episcopate, presbyterate, and diaconate; (4) The Magisterium of the Church, entrusted to the pope and the bishops in communion with him, understood as a responsibility and an authority exercised in the name of Christ for teaching and safeguarding the faith; (5) The Virgin Mary, as Mother of God and Icon of the Church, the spiritual Mother who intercedes for Christ's disciples and for all humanity.

The data and detail he gives us can be brought into conversation with other ways Scripture speaks of the Trinity.

I am just happy to know that I can have a conversation / share insight with a man about scripture and that is not teaching or having authority over him.

Scripture teaches us that God is a friend and a Father, there by our side, wanting to have an ongoing conversation with us about what is important to Him and what is important to us.

Jesus himself in gospel passages that I can not even count at this moment — argued and debated with people constantly about beliefs — whether that was in question format or conversation... but it always involved scripture and interpretation.

Most Relevant to Recent Conversations: Daniel Kirk with «On Trusting the Bible» «Ironically, the conservative rejection of Neo-Orthodoxy in the name of a «high» view of scripture, at least in the case of Barth, ends up as a rejection of the Bible we actually have in favor of a man - made construct that does not match up with it.»

The most effective voices we can bring to this conversation will come from women who are funny, smart, civil and so informed about the content and context of Scripture that they can respond with wit and wisdom whenever it is used against them.

Perhaps we overemphasize dramatic conversion stories to the detriment of those who have struggled for their hard - won faith over a series of conversations or after years of struggling with Scripture.

I, like most of the Calvinists I meet, just want to have conversations about Scripture and theology with others so that we can all encourage one another to become more and more like Jesus.

Books are a way to have a conversation about Scripture and theology with another person who can not be present with me in the room due to geographical or chronological separation.

In the meantime, we get some nice awkward pauses, a few callbacks to and expansions of the recurring jokes, and some random moments, like the reverend's strange Scripture passage, the deceased dressed as a Roman centurion in a photo, and Howard's horribly inappropriate conversation with the widow.

Years were spent in a quest for happiness which included searching scripture, countless conversations with other women and reading many relationship books.