Sentences with phrase «focuses on scripture»

As you said, this new way focuses on Scripture.

But my worry is that focusing on Scripture's effect within the worshipping body of Christ obscures Scripture's position over the Church as its rule for faith and practice.

The promotional video for Bible Out Loud features several South Carolina athletes, but they're not named in an effort to keep the focus on Scripture.

Two major problems are, 1, a focus on scripture without Christ, 2, a focus on Christ without Scripture.

She is hosting a weekly focus on Scripture memory called Memory Monday.

The books focus on scripture, God's character, and our relationship with Christ.

Not exact matches

The focus of Scripture is on the liberation from bondage, from the powers of death that diminish our humanity.

Earlier hominids did not count in Scripture's rendition because it focused on Semites, which allows for Indians in America, and Chinese in China.

For him, as for Pietists generally, the focus was on the personal appropriation of the good news rather than on the supernatural status of the scriptures through which we have access to it.

While much of Hebrew Scripture focuses on God's covenantal blessing to Israel through biological procreation, «the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus ushered in a host of transformative changes,» writes Matthew.

Some of us will depart from the scripture texts and focus on the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century.

Fortunately, elsewhere in the Hebrew scriptures the focus is not so narrowly on judgment.

The series will be similar to our Mutuality Week from 2012, but will focus specifically on those frequently - cited passages of Scripture that instruct wives to submit to their husbands, slaves to submit to their masters, children to submit to their parents, and Christians to submit to one another (Ephesians 5:21 - 6:9, Colossians 3:12 - 4:6; 1 Peter 2:11 - 3:22).

Teaching, however, was in smaller settings, to groups of disciples or others who wanted to learn Scripture, and focused on explaining and applying the Bible for the audience.

And secondly, with regard to what these essays say and do concerning the bearing of Scripture thus construed on doing theology, it will focus the discussion to ask two further questions: (a) How are Biblical texts brought to bear on the making of theological proposals?

This is the second post in a weeklong series entitled «Submit One To Another: Christ and the Household Codes,» which will focus on those frequently - cited passages of Scripture that instruct wives to submit to their husbands, slaves to obey their masters, children to obey their parents, and Christians to submit to one another (Ephesians 5:21 - 6:9, Colossians 3:12 - 4:6; 1 Peter 2:11 - 3:22).

Also, we normally focus on the eternal penalties of sin, because they are the most important, but Scripture indicates temporal penalties are real and go back to the first sin humans committed: «To the woman he said, «I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children (Gen. 3:16).

If modern authors can change in their theology, terminology, goals, focus, vocabulary, verb tense usage, and so on, and be allowed to revise, edit, and redact their own works, why can we not allow the same freedom and flexibility to the authors of Scripture?

The focus is on scholarly research with the original - language texts of the Jewish / Christian scriptures.

While teaching in Asia I became aware how often Western readers tended to see the truth of Scripture in abstract terms, while Asian readers tended to focus on narrative and concrete images.

But as psychologist and author Dan Allender explains, «The problem with the «focus on God alone» trope is that it is not the primary message of Scripture... It is not that we are to focus on God and thus achieve mental health, it is that God enters the fray of mental complexity and makes His home not only among us but in us.»

While I take issue with your reading of said scriptures, I think that if we focus on Christ's words themselves, he never once promised his followers wealth or perfect health.

I am writing a post about this for tomorrow, when I start to focus on the positive things Scripture says about prayer.

Regardless, it is important to focus on the major themes in Scripture, which seem to be pretty clearly explained, as you point out.

Instead, most chapters focus on explaining and applying a single passage from Scripture.

Well, by inference, since the apostles and prophets laid the foundation for the church through writing Scripture, the pastor - teacher should focus on teaching Scripture.

I have decided to return to the original purpose of this website, and focus my writing on the inexhaustible content found within the pages of Scripture.

Here again, since the evangelist gathered together the construction materials which will form the church, and these materials are the people of God, then the pastor - teacher focuses time and attention on teaching Scripture to God's people (cf. Acts 6:4; 1 Tim 5:17; 2 Tim 4:2).

By focusing on individual conversions apart from traditional church authorities that had, even for Protestants, provided the context for the communication of biblical truth, the revivals encouraged individuals to appropriate Scripture for their own purposes.

Eichenwald also focuses on narrative «contradictions» in the biblical account in order to undermine appeals to Scripture; specifically, the Christmas story, the Easter story, the Flood narrative, and the Creation accounts.

In a poll taken by Christianity Today in 1957, for example, among members of the Protestant clergy who chose to call themselves conservative or fundamental, 48 % affirmed that belief in Scripture's inspiration also demanded a commitment to its inerrancy, while 52 % said they were either unsure of the doctrine of inerrancy or rejected it outright.1 Discussion within evangelicalism concerning the inspiration of Scripture has usually focused on this point: whether or not Scripture is inerrant.

A focus on Mary also gives us a fresh approach to scripture..

The discipleship area is focused on text and audio material, and so if you don't spend much time reading theology books, studying Scripture, or listening to theology podcasts or books on audio, you probably won't enjoy the discipleship area of this website.

With a focus on Mary's Magnificat in Luke 1:46 - 55, this song is heavily influenced by scripture.

The music and Scripture should focus our attention on the character and holiness of God and be a reminder of the reason we worship Him at all.

Some of these Christians who focus on the canon think historical - critical research is very helpful in strengthening our interpretation of the texts of Scripture.

Appropriately, faith is relatively uninterested in historical - Jesus research, because such research does not focus on the central source of faith: the witness to Jesus Christ proclaimed by the church and contained in Scripture.

Their focus is not on imaginative construction but on what they call the «realistic narratives» in scripture that render characters and circumstances in mutual interaction.

And if you focused on learning about God, theology, or increasing in knowledge of scripture, you were frequently and often rebuked (knowledge puffs up, love edifies), and instead of «selfishly» learning theology, you should be out converting people (increasing numbers).

If the concern in Part One was to listen to Scripture's multifaceted testimony on this topic, the focus shifts here to a theological appropriation of what has been heard.

The proclamation of the church must not focus on itself but must be grounded in Scripture, must point to the passion and, as the rest of the altarpiece demonstrates, to the incarnation and resurrection.

The book contains 56 chapters, each focusing on a passage of Scripture.

Our central focus, of course, must be on faithfulness to Jesus and the Scriptures, not some label.

Today I want to focus on Webb's «redemptive movement hermeneutic,» specifically as it applies to those tricky passages of Scripture that leave us scratching our heads.

The lectionary is rich this time of year, and as I get back to blogging through the Scripture readings each week, our focus will be on paying attention to the witness of the prophets, connecting them to the Christmas story and to our present longing for God's will to be done on earth as it is in heaven.

I have found the slants on Scripture by Muslims, Mormons, and Jehovah's Witnesses to be persuasive, mostly focused on the rejection of his Divine nature.

Instead I want to focus on a woman from Scripture who proves that it's not the domestic accomplishments of the Proverbs 31 Woman that matter, but rather her virtues of wisdom and valor.

Ricoeur's interest focuses on the «intellectual activity which presided over this elaboration of traditions and led to what we now call Scripture.

The silent period is enhanced when a group of pray - ers share the same intention and focus their attention on God through Scripture.

The other kind of sermon one might hear on a Sunday morning is a focused on explaining and applying the Scriptures, which is closer to the «teaching» examples we see Jesus and the apostles engaged in during meetings of believers.