Sentences with phrase «exhortations about»

Educators thus should not be surprised when their exhortations about college and career readiness fall on unreceptive audiences.

Under the circumstances, I can forgive him some mush - mouthed exhortations about our arrival in the light of hope — he was neither the first nor the last auteur to imagine that a motion picture could somehow hold the line against the horrors of war.

Unceasing exhortations about the need to redress the massive injustices of the past produce in time not a sense of urgency but a retreat into cynical indifference.

In this book I hope I may be nudging an ecumenical discussion or two to take function seriously, instead of making exhortations about diakonia and then discussing ministry in terms of status rather than function.

Most try to pretty it up a little with exhortations about conservative values and concerns about the debt, but you have ably shown their ugly underside.

Not exact matches

Onstage, Shipp doles out the biographical details in concentrated chunks, leavening the drama with jokes about the Nintendo Wii and the repeated exhortation, «Don't be average.»

The result is this 270 - page formal letter, called an apostolic exhortation, addressed to bishops, priests, married couples, and lay people about «love in the family.»

It was a message projected into an already overheated Catholic conversation about the proper interpretation of the apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia.

For all churches, large or small, my exhortation is to think biblically about how the church might make much of Jesus, multiply and grow disciples, and, ultimately, die and be forgotten.

When we understand that, we will be more hesitant about squeezing some relevant exhortation from the story, drawing hasty comparisons to current events, or finding analogies within our own experiences.

All these years later, one cannothelp but be ambivalent about that exhortation.

On the other hand, Paul told Titus about Elders, «He must hold firmly to the faithful message as it has been taught, so that he will be able to give exhortation in such healthy teaching and correct those who speak against it.»

What does it mean that the Atlantic and Matthew Yglesias» Moneybox blog both ran appreciative posts today about Pope Francis» recent apostolic exhortation, or that the Daily Caller published a story about conservatives» reactions to the exhortation?

Interestingly, the Holy Father used his first apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, to speak about the joy the gospel brings him and to provide a sort of programme that should guide the synod.

In his third Apostolic Exhortation, called Gaudete et Exsultate, Pope Francis also suggested that believers ought to care for the welfare of migrants as much as they are concerned about preventing abortion.

Quite the contrary, this is the candid exhortation of a leader who has understood a hard truth about the condition of his people, i.e., that to be able to look their emancipator squarely in the eye, they must first raise themselves from their current level.

Matthew reports next (5:16) a sentence of exhortation, which points the moral of the saying about salt and light: «Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.»

Yuval's closing exhortation to conservatives, to write more clearly, probingly, and persuasively about human dignity, is problematic,....

Thus the final exhortation of Paul to his beloved community in Philippians 4:8: «Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.»

In the course of this exhortation, much is said about «the word of God» and about the «understanding of the Scriptures.»

We have sharp rhetoric about social justice, but the preferential option for the poor is an open - ended exhortation, not a precise moral demand like the condemnation of taking innocent life as an intrinsically evil act.

In the days leading up to Francis's recent Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris Laeititia, one would have thought that a seismic shift in Catholic theology was about to take place.

The reason I point all this is out is because Christ is about to give us three exhortations, and three actions to perform, in order to show love to our enemies.

The intriguing thing about these three exhortations is that they work both ways.

The Bible closely linksmany instructions about proper conduct - commandments, prohibitions, legal prescriptions, prophetic exhortations andaccusations, counsels of wisdom, and so forth - to the storiesconcerning the history of salvation.

This section has often been regarded as an exhortation to those who are about to be baptized, and it has been suggested that the act of baptism took place at the end of it.

Eschewing the story's details, they invariably talk about «passing by on the other side», a reference for those with ears to hear, a decontextualized general moral exhortation for those without.

At a style swap, all that self - talk about what will and will not look good on you gets drowned out by the gleeful exhortations of others.

They are the bread - and - butter novels I can't wait to sell, the books people talk about all year long, the books they buy for their sisters and fathers, the book they press into the hands of friends with insistent, almost violent exhortations.

This contains opinions on Sainsbury's wine range, exhortations to do more for organic farming and even comments about the supermarket's image and marketing techniques.

Bearing in mind the sagely exhortation of Michael Pollan to always «eat food» as opposed to food - like substances, this should be reason enough to think a while longer about that meal that can evidently stay happy for a lot longer than anyone thought.

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About Blog The Internet Café unites women of faith; unites women through the exhortation, edification and encouragement of each other through God's guiding hand.Our purpose is to UNITE women of faith, encourage each other on life's journey, and create an environment that is welcoming to each and every person who stops by for a «cup.»