Sentences with phrase «devotional reading»

I'm still recovering from some of the rigid intellectualism though (as evidenced by my Paper on «A Hermeneutic for Devotional Reading of Scripture.»

We 20th - century readers, deeply familiar with a private reading practice that in fact developed in the Christian West from devotional reading, need to remind ourselves of the oddity of private reading in Augustine's time.

If you are looking to preach, teach, or study the Psalms, or simply want an aid for your summer devotional reading of the Psalms, I highly recommend Allen P. Ross» Commentary on the Psalms.

But according to Rollins, «a truly devotional reading of the text involves encouraging this mystery to be made manifest as a mystery and exploring how we are to celebrate, affirm, invite, and recall that mystery.

Almost without exception, classes open with devotional readings, brief devotionals or prayers.

This effort, like that of the NCBCPS, relies heavily on the distinction made by Justice Thomas Clark in the 1963 Supreme Court decision forbidding devotional reading of the Bible in public schools: «Nothing we have said here indicates that such study of the Bible or of religion, when presented objectively as part of a secular program of education, may not be effected consistently with the First Amendment.»

The 52 devotional readings within shine a light on all the times readers have loosened their grip on their children and encourages them to continue to let go in life - giving ways.

Daily Devotions: Walking Daily in the New Testament and Proverbs Make your daily devotional reading simple and organized.

Featuring a powerful devotional reading and prayer for every day of January 2016, this free ebook preview provides inspiration and encouragement for your soul.

If you are looking to preach, teach, or study the Psalms, or simply want an aid for your summer devotional reading of the Psalms, I highly recommend Allen P. Ross» Commentaries on the Psalms.

Or you've knelt endlessly at the altar, read the Scriptures and repeated the prayers; you've asked, sought and knocked during every sermon, liturgy and devotional reading you could find.

And indeed, mysticism — which I would define as practices intended to help connect a person to God through experience, intuition, contemplation, the devotional reading of Scripture, ritual, and prayer — has been a part of the Church from the very beginning.

The Our Bible app - which was funded by thousands of dollars from online donations - offers users at least 20 Bibles and over 300 devotional readings, articles, podcasts, and mediation exercises designed for LGBT Christians.

«A devotional reading of the story considers it to be an overflowing container of life - giving meaning and, as such, engages in an imaginative interaction with it,» he writes.

Lately I've also been enjoying the prayers found in A Book of Hours by Thomas Merton and the devotional readings and blessings written by Jan Richardson in In the Sanctuary of Women.

Lutheranism, Catholicism and other Christian traditions are not closed conceptual systems, but living, historical complexes of quite diverse practices: prayer, devotional reading, worship, communal life, and also reflection.

The group would agree to reinforce the discipline of Bible study, devotional reading, and prayer and meditation that each member is developing.

Ironically, in my devotional reading today I was reading Numbers 31 about how the Midianites were slaughtered except for the «virgin» women.

For many, such loving communion was most real in prayer and the devotional reading of scripture.

Whenever he baked communion bread for his church, he would bring extra loaves to those of us at the seminary, and he'd add insights from his devotional readings of Henry David Thoreau, W. H. Auden and Wendell Berry.

A rhyming, fun prayer finishes off each devotional reading pair.

There are books I use for research or devotional reading that I really appreciate having in print.

Here's a sentence that I refer to everyday in my devotional reading.