Sentences with phrase «encountered the woman of»

When Christ encountered the woman of Samaria, with her five husbands, he called her to conversion.

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One of the women, Leigh Corfman, said Moore initiated a sexual encounter with her when she was 14 and he was 32.

Five months later, Luke himself was suspended after a finding of «penetration without consent» during an encounter with a woman in his DKE bedroom.

Canada may have a pretty generous policy towards maternity and parental leave — especially compared to the U.S. — but many women still encounter significant career setbacks or experience the so - called «motherhood penalty» when they take time off to have kids, and many employers still wrestle with how to accommodate the disruption of employees going on leave.

The original inspiration for the app came from an encounter Isenberg had with a woman in Los Angeles who had been diagnosed with a rare type of cancer.

They encounter subconscious bias, but we've also been told of male investors saying they don't understand how women think.

With Japan's stock and property markets the envy of the world, I exploited one of the only times in history where a mere mortal could moonlight through a few wacky years of over-the-top TV commercials, exotic location shoots, spotlights with beautiful women and encounters with the famous.

The five women who spoke to Bloomberg say Pishevar used his position of power to pursue romantic relationships and unwanted sexual encounters.

Women encounter many difficulties in cities that are products of male design and planning.

This experience of communion between woman and man, self «giving, in mutuality, and without either's dominance, is more like the inner life of God than anything else that we encounter in creation.

But I can't tell you how many organizations I encounter that rely heavily on the efforts of the kind of women Hilary Rosen denigrated.

They do not recognize him and he feigns ignorance as they recount the story of his death and of women encountering angels in the tomb.

Although some commentators claim that the encounter with the hemorrhaging woman simply occupies an interlude in the story of Jairus's daughter, her healing points to the faith necessary for new life.

I find meditation, and compassion for self to be conducive to what you talk of with loving God and mankind — sometimes in mysterious, unfathomable and transcendent ways, encountering the power to open up men and women to each other and God in love peace justice and human dignity.

Most new testament scholars say that the Gospel of Mark originally ended with the story of the women who go to the cemetery, only to encounter a mysterious young man pointing to Jesus» empty tomb and announcing the resurrection.

Then, in the context of varying Christological perspectives in contemporary Scripture scholarship, he considers, one by one, Jesus» encounters with women (although oddly Mary, the Mother of Jesus, is omitted from the list).

By doing careful research and weaving more of a story arc into the five women's encounter, I hope to show people that the «characters» of the New Testament are actual, breathing people with stress and dysfunction and hopes just like us.

I wanted it to tell the story of five women whom Jesus encountered, allowing each woman tell their own story.

Like me, many women have encountered the difficult road of infertility, miscarriage, and all manner of loss.

Man and Woman: A Defense by Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson, and Robert P. George Encounter, 168 pages, $ 15.99 No argument is more effective in promoting gay marriage than the insistence that its rejection offends our sense of justice and equality, especially as concern for the....

«While I am sure most of the Christians you encounter of the over 40 age group probably did celebrate the passing of that ridiculous amendment, rest assured that this 48 year old heterosexual married woman most definitely did not.

You were predisposed to finding fault and do not want to be shown your error.There are many more instances of men and women encountering the living God in the Holy Bible.

To illustrate this point, we shall briefly consider what is surely one of the most eloquent descriptions of such an encounter: Jesus's meeting with the Samaritan woman at the well of Jacob (Jn 4).

If you have encountered one of these women in your life, then I'm sorry.

(This is especially a problem for women of color, who rarely encounter «nude» foundation or «natural» shampoos intended for their features.)

This would make much more sense in view of His encounter with the woman at the well who had had many husbands and was presently living with a man.

And to think that God (my Creator) and Jesus (my Savior) actually care about the all of the wounds that feel so raw, that They (and even others I've encountered here) care about justice for a woman like me.

One encounters an idol being exposed in the words of Carolina Maria de Jesus, a woman who lived in the slums of São Paulo.

And of course, other witnesses say it was only two women, who encounter an earthquake, two squirrel angels, and a box of pop - tarts, and Bippy shows up later to borrow more money from his followers.

To speak of the violence we experience as women is not easy — every encounter is surrounded by the tears of women.

The encounter «awakened all sorts of deeply seated fears in Lewis, not least his fear of women... [H] e became a child, a little boy who was being degraded and shaken by a figure who, in his imagination, took on witch - like dimensions.»

If men are brought up, as today's boys are, believing that girls always want the same thing they do from sexual encounters, and that it's evil and sexist to assume otherwise, then they are that much more likely to be impatient and uncomprehending of a woman's «no.»

The dramatic story of Mary's encounter with Jesus outside the tomb in John 20:11 - 18 probably circulated orally among women, as Hearon suggests.

With his superb eye for giving voice to female disciples, such as the Samaritan woman and Martha and Mary, the Fourth Evangelist tells the story of Mary Magdalene's encounter with Jesus outside the empty tomb.

As it seeks liberation from this dimension of its past, as it encounters feminist theology, the new consciousness of women, blacks, third world peoples, and their suppressed traditions, post-Holocaust Judaism as well as other religions, Christianity is transformed, becomes more authentically relational and creative, richer, more inclusive, less trivial in its harmony.

With feminist theologians and advocates of creation centered spirituality, mutually transformed by the encounter with the new physics and the new biology, process theologians have sought a vision of the relational matrix of creativity, and to learn from the wisdom of the earth and the embodiment of that wisdom in the all too long suppressed and neglected traditions of women, blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, of Africa and Asia.

bur David's suggestion (invitation) to view Jesus encounter with the Syro - Phonecian woman in a different way, serves as an example of Jesus» willingness (and ability) to change his position and illustrates one of the countless ways that Jesus would free us from our (continual) propensity toward sin.

Jeremy i am surprised you never countered my argument Up till now the above view has been my understanding however things change when the holy spirit speaks.He amazes me because its always new never old and it reveals why we often misunderstand scripture in the case of the woman caught in adultery.We see how she was condemned to die and by the grace of God Jesus came to her rescue that seems familar to all of us then when they were alone he said to her Go and sin no more.This is the point we misunderstand prior to there meeting it was all about her death when she encountered Jesus something incredible happened he turned a death situation into life situation so from our background as sinners we still in our thinking and understanding dwell in the darkness our minds are closed to the truth.In effect what Jesus was saying to her and us is chose life and do nt look back that is what he meant and that is the walk we need to live for him.That to me was a revelation it was always there but hidden.Does it change that we need discipline in the church that we need rules and guidelines for our actions no we still need those things.But does it change how we view non believers and even ourselves definitely its not about sin but its all about choosing life and living.He also revealed some other interesting things on salvation so i might mention those on the once saved always saved discussion.Jeremy just want to say i really appreciate your website because i have not really discussed issues like this and it really is making me press in to the Lord for answers to some of those really difficult questions.regards brentnz

After I wrote The Next Christendom in 2002, I had a bizarre encounter with an elderly and rather aristocratic Episcopal woman, who praised me for how effectively I had delineated the growth of new kinds of Christianity in the global South, with its passion and enthusiasm, its primitive or apostolic quality, its openness to the supernatural.

In any event, I was recently reminded of my encounter with that woman — those women, rather — while reading Boris Jakim's new translation of Notes from Underground (Eerdmans 2009), which is quite splendid and which should certainly now be regarded as the standard version in English.

These sexual situations would appear to create no harmful effects for women when, in fact, the context of the encounter is a power or authority relationship.

I encountered the Bible with the help of these women through reading and learning texts (memorization drills) as well as interactive activities (usually in the form of crafts).

Born and raised as Muslims, both women grew unsatisfied with the teachings of the Koran and converted to Christianity after personal encounters with Jesus.

«For so long, women were silent, thinking there was nothing you could do about it, but now the law is on the side of women, or men, who encounter harassment, and that's a good thing.

It is the most valiant, courageous, and dedicated group of women I have ever encountered — an army of «gogos» (grandmothers) and an odd assortment of other unlikely heroes.

But the formal error of the last generation in eliminating the quest has been to ignore the relevance for the Christian dialectic, paradox, and offence, of seeing Jesus causally bound within the historical reconstruction of first - century Judaism, and yet encountering in him transcendence: «born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law.»

4:27).102 The woman, who had been confined to her own house, realized a sense of freedom after her encounter with Christ to face her own people and introduce Jesus to them.

A decade ago, Michael Novak observed in the pages of this journal that «one scarcely ever encounters a theological argument against the proposition that women should be ordained priests» («Women, Ordination, and Angels,» April 1993women should be ordained priests» («Women, Ordination, and Angels,» April 1993Women, Ordination, and Angels,» April 1993)....

Using Jesus» encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well and the parable of the Good Samaritan, Carroll argues that Jesus models for us the appropriate response to those neighbors who stand outside our communities.

Louis Bouyer explains the importance of women for men as follows: «Man, the male, never finds himself except by a process of discovery blemished by narcissism, and, except by and in women, he never meets the world in an encounter which is real communion rather than a simple confrontation.