Sentences with phrase «from spiritual things»

We have also fallen away from spiritual things and have become addicted to the sensual, or worldly — to sex, music, travel, money, eating and drinking, sports, parties, politics, humour, emotional sympathy.

Not exact matches

I was not at all interested in how changing these things would impact the spiritual effectiveness of our congregation or how much glory God would or would not get out of us cutting something from our service schedule.

I therefore offer that such a «fast» (as you suggest) from all things spiritual may be unnecessary for all people... though I think that some may benefit from it.

Michael «As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with religion, I have a problem with those who use there religions to control and hate others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.»

As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with religion, I have a problem with those who use there religions to control and hate others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.

As for the «spiritual wife,» all I can say is that it all strikes me as a repeat of the very thing the movement was trying distance itself from.

... and we then find out publicly from Julie McMahon ex-Jones in her online comments in 2009, 2010, and 2014 that at the same time those seemingly good things were happening, apparently she was enduring emotional and verbal and physical and spiritual abuse.

«Male and female he created them» is not merely a statement from Scripture but a reflection on the physical and spiritual reality of things, and in the modern era we are coming to understand just how very interesting it is that we are male and female, how different and complementary we are, howsignificant this might be, and how much we need to study and reflect on it.

If there's one thing we've learned from the evaporation of mainline Protestantism, it's that theological identity provides the basis of confessional discipleship and spiritual fellowship.

«First we affirm that we desire to follow Scripture alone as a rule of faith and religion, without mixing it with any other things which might be devised by the opinion of men apart from the Word of God, and without wishing to accept for our spiritual government any other doctrine than what is conveyed to us by the same Word without addition to diminution, according to the command of our Lord.»

We Christians often unwittingly adopt a Platonic view that assumes the spiritual world only consists of the unseen — heaven, hell, angels, souls — while solid things like tech toys, asphalt and food are unspiritual and disconnected from our Christian lives.

Evidence for spiritual things must come from spiritual sources, experiences, and methods, not from physical ones.

The bottom line is that one of the main things holding back people from exercising the spiritual gifts in church is the presence of paid, professional, pastoral staff.

The crude superstition of man's prayer as a means of instructing God or altering his intention was overpassed and praying became both congruous with the Christian idea of God and effectively powerful in spiritual result — «Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; remove this cup from me: howbeit not what I will, but what thou wilt.»

The language of spiritual affectivity they often hear from the pulpit sounds like meaningless mumbo - jumbo to a person more used to reading a technical manual or, worse, more used to figuring things out on their own.

In addition we've bought into this dualism, separating spiritual things from practical things when that's really not a gospel thing to do.

«The man in the Israelite world who has faith is not distinguished from the «heathen» by a more spiritual view of the Godhead, but by the exclusiveness of his relationship to God and by his reference of all things to Him.»

I don't think the Pope was challenging governments to change philosophy, but is merely calling on his followers to re-prioritize their lives from money and material things to spiritual wealth.

Here are three typical answers: «He is as much a necessity to my spiritual existence as the elements of pure air are to my physical system»; «If I were convinced that there is no God, I fear a sense of loneliness would become intolerable»; «As for any repose, or ability to face life and death with composure, any incentive to be perfect in things hidden from outsiders, any exhilaration in living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea of God.»

Noun excommunication (plural excommunications) The act of excommunicating or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.

Take them one at a time, spending as much time as you need to discuss thoroughly the issues and feelings that arise: «The ideas and issues which excite me most are...;» «The things that are most worth living for right now are...;» «I feel the most joy (pain, hope, lonely, together) when...;» «What I really believe about God is...;» «I feel closest to (most distant from) God when...;» «I get spiritually high when...;» «The beliefs that mean the most to me now are...;» «The beliefs from my childhood which no longer make sense are...;» «Life has the least (the most) meaning for me when...;» «I feel closest to you (most distant from you) spiritually when...;» «The way I really feel about the church is...;» «I'd like to do the following, to enjoy more spiritual sharing...;» «To enrich the spiritual life of our family, I'd like to..

That anti-humanity tone in churches is a carry - over from ancient Gnositicsm, which saw all things material and earthly as evil, and only what is spiritual and heavenly as good.

Your spiritual life is going to evolve for the rest of your life (all healthy things grow over time) so the goal here isn't to decide what you believe for sure and never waver from it, but start teaching yourself the tools for what a healthy spiritual life needs in order to grow.

Most truly spiritual people would thank him for sharing, and not give him labels such as «obnoxious» — because you are doing the things you claim to hate — labeling to manipulate opinion and silence opposing viewpoints that are different from your own.

For example, despite his insistence that what he does is different than what goes on in an Institutional Church, he still describes a group of people who sit in chairs arranged in a square, sing some songs from a book, and talk about spiritual things.

This protects you from the «attack» of the Other, you think... but if you ask me, it brings up enough negative energy in you to have a spiritual breakdown, like Job, and to side only with people, who hold to Scripture, blindly - in other words, to side with those who have not learned to trust that thinking for themselves, as individuals, is a good thing.

Spiritual healing and development, at any age, can help people recover from things gone wrong.

The only thing that separates the Natural body from the Spiritual body is the Baptism of Repentance (Mark 1:4).

They have the ability to reach people who might not otherwise be inclined to think about spiritual things, and I actually think it's healthy to acknowledge the fact that our talents — be they athletic, academic, musical, entrepreneurial, or whatever — are gifts from God that compel us to be good stewards who give glory to Him.

Tim i found it liberating to just do what the Lord wants you to do i work within his boundarys and yes i attend church and enjoy it.I love the people and i love hearing the word and worshipping the Lord even if others are still bound up with traditions thats not my walk thats theres.My focus is to do what the Lord wants me to do.There have been times i have said no to the pastor he does nt understand why i choose not to lead the worship.i query him as well regarding the idea that its not just performing a function because there is a need our hearts have to be in the right place so that the Lord can use us but he did nt understand where i was coming from and thats okay because of that i just said no until my heart is right i am better not being involved in leading.But i am happy to be an encouragement to others in the worship team i havent wanted to be the leader i have done that in the past.So my focus has been just the singing and being part of different worship teams i think the Lord has other plans as the groups i am in seem to be changing at the same time i am aware that i do nt to worry about change as the Lord knows whats best.I used to be quite comfortable leading the music but that was before when i was operating in my own self confidence and pride.The Lord did such a huge change in my life that i lost my self confidence and that is not a bad thing at all as my spiritual growth has been incredible.The big change was my identity moved from me and what i could do to knowing who i was in Christ and that he is my strength and confidence.Now i know that without him i can do nothing in fact i am dependent on his empowerment through his holy spirit all the time in everything.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music at another church i attend multiple churchs although i attend two regularly one has services in the morning and one has services in the evening so the two do nt really clash.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music its been two years since i did that and i was worried on how i would go.All i can say is that it went really well and because i stepped out in Faith the Lord really blessed the morning to the congregation.The difference is knowing that i serve the Lord with the gifts he has given me but my heart has to be right and when i do it in his way it builds up the body and it brings glory to him.May the Lord continue to show you what he wants you to do even though others may not understand your reasons i just want you to know that you do nt have to pull away completely just work within the boundarys that the Lord gives you and do nt feel pressured by others expectations to do anything that feel uncomfortable.Be involved just as you feel lead by the holy spirit even if it is in a very minor way take small steps.regards brentnz

Why do so many southern Christians take with utter seriousness spiritual things that seem to most of us as outmoded leftovers from a redundant worldview?

One thing I don't shy away from however is saying that tithing or stewardship or whatever you might want to call it is a spiritual practice.

1Corn 9:11 If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?

Jim says: One thing I donâ $ ™ t shy away from however is saying that tithing or stewardship or whatever you might want to call it is a spiritual practice.

I didn't want to volunteer to shut out romantic love from my life — the beautiful union of physical and spiritual intimacy that straight people took for granted as a potential blessing life might grant them — by committing to celibacy, and I thought the positive, self - loving thing to do was to accept myself.

and that authority comes from the Father of all things spiritual.

1Co 9:11 If it is we who sowed the spiritual grain in you, is it a great thing that we should reap a temporal harvest from you?

Instead when a person marries... he takes his sexual desire, and he does the same thing with it that we must all do with all our physical desires if we would make them means of worship — 1) he brings it into conformity to God's word; 2) he subordinates it to a higher pattern of love and care; 3) he transposes the music of physical pleasure into the music of spiritual worship, 4) he listens for the echoes of God's goodness in every nerve; 5) he seeks to double his pleasure by making her joy his joy; and 6) he gives thanks to God from the bottom of his heart because he knows and he feels that he never deserved one minute of this pleasure.

1 Corinthians 9:11 - If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?

One of the biggest things I do is to encourage people to liberate themselves from censoring themselves... a malignant gift they'd inherited from their upbringing... familial, social, educational or spiritual.

it is a shame that many plp think so little of our faith... they do no understand what is like to be a true christian... and no not one of those plp who say im a christian and go to church from sunday to sunday, not one of the fanatics who advocate hate, not a bigot who proclaim god's name without understanding... this life is a journey to find something greater than spiritual awareness... it is a journey to see the world the way god does, it is a journey beyond any book, any view... that is why i belive in my faith... im a christian and i love my god but im not the one who follows faith blindly and question every thing

We both accept, I think, these four related things about human knowing: (1) sentient experience of «physical things» is intrinsically infused with objective meaning, purposefulness and value; (2) flowing out, of this and intertwined with it is, at least for humans, «cognition» of the physical, and moral experience of such value; (3) this moral experience and engagement reveals the spiritual realm as something foundational to and «abstractly distinguishable» from the physical realm — values for Ward, mind for me; and (4) one piece of evidence for making such a distinction is the uniquely «publicly....

Many things were removed from the bible because they were deemed not spiritual enoungh or holy inspired.

The only real thing that separates «Christianity» from any other religion or spiritual belief, is not whether we incorporate Easter Bunnies, goblins, ghouls, monsters, Santa, or tiny elves into our celebrations, but rather, that our faith is not found in our ability to «save» ourselves but in Christ who died for all, so that all could enter into unbroken friendship with Him.

I don't think it's so much about the levites being paid for their service it's about us doing what's right toward Pastors that must feed and tend to the flock of GOD if GOD has called them.JESUS even said in luke 10:7 that the laborers are worthy of their wages.In luke 8 1 - 4 it's says even JESUS HIMSELF recieved financial support from the women who ministered to him with their possessions.Now most people today would say he should have been ashamed of taking money from those poor women but JESUS accepted their support and they was blessed for sowing onto the LORD»S work.1 Corinthains 9:1 - 15 says dint muzzle the ox while it tread out the grain was GOD talking about oxes no he was talking about those who labor in the ministry.Who goes to war at their own expense.Or who goes to war but pay for their clothes, guns, etc.No one because the goverment if that country provide these things because of the soilders service.Who plants a vineyard and don't eat from it.Who tends a flock and don't drink the milk of it.I think it's just spiritual sense to support a pastor that's teaching you the word, casting out devils, laying hands and healing is manifesting in people lived, going to hospitails, prisons, and house calls to pray for the sick and shut in, going to graduations and funnerals, praying and fasting for himself and the flock.I think a person who think a pastor shouldn't be paid for their service either don't know they need to be paid and need to be taught or they are demonic in their thinking and either hate GOD, PASTORS, AND GOD»S PEOPLE.Why do nt you hear people saying anything against the dope dealers, strip clubs, dope houses, liquor stores, etc.It's only when people give into the LORD»S work that evil minded or misinformed people have a problem with it.No sir we don't have to use the old testament to show that we should support out pastors.You don't use the law, love tells me to support the pastor.Under the new testament LOVE is the greatest of all.Love for GOD and man.If GOD asked for 10 percent under the law to support the levites who didn't have all the responsibilities of Pastor today.Church rent, gas for vans of thd church, insurance fir the church and church vehicles, feeding and clothing the poor, light, gas, and water bill, mantience on the church or vehicles, not to mention the Pastor own house, cars, children, insurance, etc.If would be foolish for one to think that a pastor should take care if his house and GODS HOUSE without people supporting the work of the KINGDOM OF GOD.If we love GOD we are going to support HIS KINGDOM and HIS PASTOR.If under the law GOD asked for 10 percent how much should we give under the LOVE COVENANT?Example I love my wife and if I had 300 dollars I would surley give her more that 10 percent which would be 30 dollars because I love her.The law says you must give LOVE says I chose to give because I love GOD and man.Again we don't have to use the law just love and spiritual sense because hate and a carnal senses will not understand.Now I have given you scriptures please do the same when you respond not your opinion.Please respond right away I await your answer.GOD BLESS.

It is participation in the freedom from self and society, and from the whole world of things, that only those can know who have ever broken through the spiritual time and sound barrier of existence.

Until then, you're merely embarrassing yourself manifesting the sillyness that shows forth from your lack of understanding of these spiritual things.

I began to let go of many things and embrace new and came to the conclusion that Western Church and theology has misunderstood Jesus life and teachings altogether as IMO it can only be understood from a Eastern Spiritual Tradition perspective.

«We know that many disgraceful things have happened in this Holy See for many years now, such as abuses in spiritual matters, surfeit of financial demands, and everything used perversely... it is hardly surprising if the disease has gone from the head to the members, from the chief bishops to the other lower prelates.

Solzhenitsyn not only dissects these propensities; he also provides a way out» an «ascent from ideology,» in Mahoney's words, that aims at healing the human soul by recovering the God «given natural order of things as well as the spiritual basis of political freedom.