Sentences with phrase «fleshly things»

This is essentially what Paul is saying in Romans 8:5 - 7 when he talks about the mind set on fleshly things.

If we set our mind on things of the flesh, even if we are setting our mind on not doing things of the flesh, we will face the constant struggle of falling into fleshly things, and will frequently stumble.

Were not people born from their parents» lusts after fleshly things?

Not exact matches

I've actually dealt with a large number of homosexual individuals (worked in an HIV program) plus in various other ministries... the whole «wired» thing I get but it isn't any different from other «fleshly» wiring that anyone else has... everyone has fleshly challenges that pull them from «The Way».

Catholicism is a fleshly (i.e., incarnational) thing, and this book exults in that truth.

And the saddest thing about having to be on that «demigod» pedestal is that there are too many people in the pews who forcibly place you up there because it's easier to follow a fleshly person than it is to follow Jesus.

Though the Word now becomes flesh, the fleshly become unaware of their own understanding ways... For as one sees one does nary understand yet as one thinks one dares to know things and while one and all beget themselves they become set apart and distanced from each others ways.

In working through my experience I have come to realize that Christianity is trying to achieve the same thing which eastern meditation practices are trying to achieve — the purifying / purging / cleansing / emptying of our minds of selfish, fleshly thoughts to increase spirituality, decrease self - centeredness, transcend self and thereby achieve behaviour modification.

How today do we see taking God out of every thing we do that we are starting to allow all forms of fleshly pleasure.

We may think that more laws are the only way to deal with the social needs that are blocked by our «fleshly desire» to keep things as they are.