Sentences with phrase «fourth reads of the text»

Third and fourth reads of the text have proven to be useful in understanding the «downfall» of the early church; roots of error and departure from NT expectations for a local assembly that have bloomed into flowers with an unpleasant aroma that must be a stench in the nostrils of God.

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If you read some of the ancient sermon texts, even from the very beginning of institutional Christianity in the fourth century, you can often read between the lines of these sermons and see that the Bishops and Priests had such people in their congregations, and were cajoling them and guilting them back into conformity, and even sometimes persecuting them for «abandoning Jesus and the church.»

Fourth, more generally, I believe this text can be read philosophically, i.e., in search of wisdom, without prior religious commitment; one need not be a believer either to understand what is being said, and why, or even to affirm or deny the truth of the account.

Again when the text of the New Testament itself was intoned, in readings from the New Testament, from John, from Paul and other writers, he began to sense the bite of the original and more intellectual Greek, standing behind the fourth - century Latin text of Jerome's translation (the Vulgate), Latin which was now part of Luther's natural and normal way of expressing himself.

Gary McCurry reviews the fourth episode of Bloodline... Among the kind compliments I received regarding the first Bloodline piece, a couple of people (one being my father so I'm not sure that one counts) text stating that they plan on starting the show based on what they had read.

Three - fourths of more than 500 students surveyed, ages 5 - 17, said they wanted to read the paper versions of books, and more than six in 10 preferred the traditional text to reading online, even though most expect that electronic devices will be the dominant...

In this lesson, students are on the fourth read aloud of the text, Owl Moon by Jane Yolen.

By the end of the year, fourth graders should recognize figurative language, integrate knowledge and ideas, and read and comprehend informational text.

In fourth grade, students should have command of grade level appropriate sight words, be able to read and comprehend informational text with domain - specific vocabulary, use context to determine the correct meaning of homonyms (multiple - meaning words), and recognize figurative language, including common idioms, simple similes, and metaphors.

The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk at The University of Texas at Austin was recently awarded $ 3.5 million by the Institute of Education Sciences to investigate practices to improve reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing instruction in fourth - grade classrooms by using informational texts.

In the fourth quarter of 2010, Gartner surveyed 1,569 consumers in six countries — the US, UK, China, Japan, Italy and India — about their subjective experiences of reading on screen versus reading printed paper text.

Indeed, the standards recommend that fourth - grade students should spend half of their reading time with informational text, with the expectation that there will be even more focus on informational text in later grades.

Critical Care Nursing Made Incredibly Easy Fourth Edition — An easy - to - read and often humorous text about how to work in various specialties of critical care, conditions you might see, advice about how to handle specific situations and more.

I remember reading one book that suggested I ignore fourth - fifths of a man's text messages and emails to make him crazy about me.