Sentences with phrase «experience as a father»

One of the most painful things that you will experience as a father — I am saying, will experience because it's going to happen.

Paying attention to men's experiences as fathers may be particularly important.

He turned to his own experience as a father, asking how he could make parenting easier with safe, reliable baby equipment.

This one draws from Pastor Tripp's seasoned experience as a father - and from God's Holy Word.

As an instructor Nick is passionate about blending his professional experience as a paramedic with his practical experience as a father to deliver high energy and realistic classes for parents and caregivers.

Geared for Imagination was founded in 2009 by two dads — Ryan Hamilton (3 daughters, 1 son) and Bret Faber (1 daughter, 1 son)-- who have combined their many years in the toy business and their experience as father's to bring only the best toys to their customers.

Despite Gordon's disastrous experience as a father (caused in large part by his obsession with money instead of family), the disgraced stockbroker wants to rebuild his relationship with his only remaining child.

Barlog has spoken before about how Kratos» journey has been shaped a lot in the game by his own experiences as a father, and there's a level of emotional depth to the proceedings here that is new to the series.

This blog's about my experiences as a father, my increasingly nostalgic reflections and other random stuff that interests me from time to time.

Not exact matches

Textile-wise, my father has so much experience, but he was never into sales or marketing, and felt that as a manufacturer we always had to be behind - the - scenes.

[M] uch as I would love to experience what you describe, I have not,» James K. Rilling, a father of two who studies the neuroscience of social behavior at Emory University, told Business Insider in an email.

As part of your home - based business, use a site like Etsy.com to sell your products, and mine your brothers, fathers, friends, and personal experience for ideas.

With Ryan's expertise in crowdfund investing, David's reputation as «the father of angel investing» and Sara's 30 years of experience in the field of corporate and securities, the panel is sure to provide a comprehensive view on the best approaches to getting started.

I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

Likewise, if you have had a bad experience with your father, then it's not always going to be easy to relate — consciously or subconsciously — to God as your Ffather, then it's not always going to be easy to relate — consciously or subconsciously — to God as your FatherFather.

BTW, as a Christian I believe in the Trinitarian Mystery and while I realize that «when you get One, you get them all», I have a more intimate relationship with the Holy Spirit than I do with either the Father or Jesus, the Son, even though I don't experience most of the «psychological fireworks» that many Charismatic / Pentecostal Christians frequently do.

«For those who have had the experience of an overly authoritarian and inflexible father, or an indifferent, uncaring, or even absent one, it is not easy to calmly think of God as a father or to confidently surrender themselves to him,» observed Pope Benedict XVI during a General Audience in January 2012.

One powerful way for our kids to experience God's light is seeing me, as their parent — their father — engage them with humility and asking them for their forgiveness.

People have varying kinds of experience with human fathers and, as soon as one speaks of God as father, some are sure to project upon God the dependency, fear, hostility or resentment that has marked their relationship with their earthly father.

The subsequent centuries have witnessed endless conflict over the Christian cultus, but one element in the long development of Biblical experience and thought concerning fellowship with God has remained as the common and unifying gain of all — «Thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret.»

If it was said: Honour thy father and thy mother, Thou shalt not steal, not lie, not commit adultery, people knew exactly what was involved, they had a precise idea of their obligations as something concrete and experienced as identical countless times over.

The whole point of these lessons we're supposed to learn is the idea that one day we become fathers, that we will grow up and have the same knowledge and experience of our fathers, sometimes more than but in terms of our relationship with god, we're supposed to accept that we're eternally children, that as much as we learn, grow and generally build upon past knowledge, we'll never attain the level of understanding or power that god has, this being is on a completely different level.

... While the Principle of Redemptive Withdrawal is focused on the abandonment Jesus experienced as he experienced the Father's judgment on the sin of the world, it is nevertheless grounded in the truth that the cross is the definitive expression of the self - giving, mutual indwelling agape - love that defines the triune God throughout eternity (p. 778).

In effect, Jesus on the cross experiences the agony of being temporarily forsaken by the Father, while the Father in the same moment experiences the anguish of being separated from his Son, hence of losing his own identity as Father.

Yet, says Moltmann, in this surrender of their mutual identity as Father and Son for the sake of sinful human beings, Jesus and the Father experience a new unity with one another in the Spirit.

«Trinity» did not originally mean, as it does for some later, that there are three kinds of revelation, the Father speaking through creation and the Spirit though experience, by which the words and example of the Son must be corrected; it meant rather that language must be found and definitions created so that Christians, who believe in only one God, can affirm that he is most adequately and bindingly known in Jesus.

I approach the Bible in all three connections as the communication of doctrine from God; as the instrument of Jesus Christ's personal authority over Christians (which is part of what I mean in calling it canonical; as the criterion of truth and error regarding God and godliness; as wisdom for the ordering of life and food for spiritual growth; and, thus, as the mystery - that is, the transcendent supernatural reahty - whereby encounter and fellowship with the Father and the Son become realities of experience.

Plan both family experiences such as outings, trips, vacations, and father - children, mother - children experiences.

My father was so authoritarian and judgmental that to think of God as Father meant I could experience God only as judgmental, authoritarian, and contemptuous of me as ffather was so authoritarian and judgmental that to think of God as Father meant I could experience God only as judgmental, authoritarian, and contemptuous of me as fFather meant I could experience God only as judgmental, authoritarian, and contemptuous of me as female.

As they ran, the son shared what he was learning in seminary about urban ministry, and the father, an inner city pastor, related experiences of his own.

If we were to empty the term «Father» of human experience, it could not create meaning at all, and we might as well call God some nonsense term and fill it with any meaning we choose.

Work at gradually releasing the children into their own orbits by continuing to strengthen intimacy through a variety of experiences as man and wife as well as mother and father.

If one thinks of God only as the Father - Creator, he can be a long way off; if one thinks of God only as the Father - Creator revealed in Christ, the Historic Character, he can be a long way back; but when one perceives God as the Father - Creator, revealed in the Historic Character, and now become the Divine Spirit in us, our unseen Friend and abiding Companion, that is an experience to sing about.

Some of the authors insist that we should not understand «Father» as a literally male term or that we should bracket all our experiences of fathers when speaking of God as Father.

I actually had much the same experiences as a child — physical abuse (father) and emotional abuse / adandonment (mother).

She confesses to experiencing a distinct pleasure every time she reads in the paper, «Disagreeing with the Pope, Father Charles Curran of Southern Methodist University said...» It does seem to reduce his already reduced credibility as an authority on Catholic faith and life.

After describing in some detail the principle of complementarity in physics, Austin suggests that images of God as Father and as Judge are complementary models used to interpret individual and corporate experience.24 The prophet Amos, he points out, interpreted events in Israel's history primarily in terms of God's judgment, while Hosea understood events in terms of God's forgiveness.

The founding fathers of this great country included the right to practice religion as the first fundamental right because of what they had experienced and yet many of you are calling for the complete purging of this religion.

And I think our experience, Elaine's and mine, has been that as she has put less emphasis on her motherhood role, and more on herself as a person, she's been a better mother... and I'm a better father.

Those who do test their faith in the crucible of human experience do become certain that the witness of the Scriptures, rightly interpreted, is true and the God that Jesus proclaims as Loving Father, not the Cosmic Bully proclaimed by the Pharisees, is the True God.

But the Christian experience of the risen Lord is of being confronted by an external reality that is both of God (and not simply from God), yet also distinct from God the Father: as he cries «my Lord and my God,» the Christian feels as all the New Testament writers emphasize — that the living presence which confronts him is that of Jesus.

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Paul experiences the extremes of sin and God's mercy, which so captivates him as to make him the spiritual father of the Gentiles: «In the history of his sin and its most gracious forgiveness, he exemplifies far more than his brother Apostles his own Gospel; that we are all guilty before God, and can be saved only by His free bounty.»

But Jesus» use of the words expresses a much greater despair at the isolation that he was experiencing as he, God the Son, was alienated from God, his own Father.

I think he must be writing here from his own experience as a pastor's kid witnessing his own father's faith and the life of his church.

The second he talks about the «worldly» folk being more «authentic» — my word, not his - and in the first quote he reveals his own anger at overhearing his father's prayers that sound both authentic and all about the inner experience as he wrestled with his faith.

If to avoid such doceticism we adopt the radical kenoticism of Thomas Altizer, accepting a successive trinity such that in Christ God (the Father) died to be received by us as wholly immanent Spirit, then we must explain how universally necessary divine attributes (such as God's full experience of every actuality) can have such an abrupt and contingent end.

During my 30 years as a Mormon, I sincerely believed that mystical «spiritual experiences» aligned me with my heavenly Father, Jesus and the Holy Ghost (I believed in three separate gods, but no Trinity) in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints (LDS).

A lot of the way that I now find I'm expressing my priesthood as a father is very much according to the fatherhood that I experienced from my dad.

Thus he has encouraged us to believe in him as the Son, to call the abyss of mystery Father, to realize both our origin and our future in this word alone, and thus to measure the dimensions of our dignity, of our task, of the danger and experience of our life.