Sentences with phrase «from the life of»

«This masterfully written book highlights three leadership styles, culled from the lives of three kings mentioned in the Bible: Saul, David, and Absalom.

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When Erin Harris got divorced in 1981, she says she quickly went from a life of privilege to one of working four part - time jobs just to make ends meet.

She is also a bestselling author and recently released her second book, Bringing It Home: Favorite Recipes from a Life of Adventurous Eating.

There can be comfort in gleaning lessons from the lives of the mourned.

Here are 10 tips for business owners gleaned from the lives of America's greatest military leaders.

Without champions from within, the kind of diversity that comes from a life of struggling and hustling — the backbone of America's history — will simply not be a part of this country's corporate identity.

While most youth who grew up in supportive family homes can rely on help with affordable housing and advice and guidance from caring adults, these supports are missing from the lives of most youth aging out of care.

The term Ponzi scheme arose from the life of Charles Ponzi, who between 1918 and 1920 started an investment scam that at first was based on arbitrage.

Jesus said; I will show you my faith by my works: Faith without works is dead: (There is no life) = If we have the Faith of Christ (a gift from God) then we will have the works that go with it that is evident of our faith; the works will testify to our faith, then do we produce fruit that will remain: If our heart does not convict us to do what is right according the written word, then we are not in faith: Our hearts are far from the life of Words of our Lord penetrating into our hearts because our hearts are wicked; even Paul who said; follow me as I am of Christ; how was that??? In and by the Holy Spirit, even Spirit of truth as Paul takes us through the Words of the Lord to have us established in the truth: The Word of our Lord is as refined silver, 7 times in the fire: Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith, to them who believe: In the Bible one's «belief» and one's «behavior» are often compared.

They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.

The Church of England is also considering special services to mark people entering care homes - a significant change from a life of independence.

If only they come to know Christ, they will be set free from a life of hate, and know the true joy that comes only from knowing the living God.

On the one hand, one must counter a dictatorship of positivist reason that excludes God from the life of the community and from public organizations. . . .

The insight gained from the life of Jesus is that the task of becoming a human being, as God became a man, involves death.

(CNN)- This country is changing rapidly, and at the very time modern medicine puts life - or - death decisions in our hands, organized religion has faded from the lives of many Americans.

That means opposing the self - contradictory «dictatorship of positivist reasoning that excludes God from the life of the community and from the public order, as well as acknowledging... human rights, and especially the freedom of faith and its exercise».

While they may not have done the crimes that this man has done, they are nevertheless enemies of God, being alienated from the life of God, which they deny in the Person of Jesus Christ, speaking lies in His name.

To sum up, consider this interesting allusion from the life of Abraham.

To have some sort of at - one - ment with others is to weave our own lives with strands taken from the lives of others and to furnish our own lives as strands to be woven into their lives.

The figure of Beatrice was probably derived indirectly from the life of St. Francis, who was thought to have offered his followers as close an approximation of an experience of the nearness of Jesus as anyone since apostolic times had ever felt.

Now if we turn from the life of Christ to our ordinary experience of people, most of us would probably agree that there are certain types of men and women who need to be shocked or jolted out of their self - love and complacency before they can begin to see and appreciate what we and constructive love is trying to do.

The meaning of the cross is not disclosed from the life of Jesus as a figure of past history, a life which needs to be reproduced by historical research.

This, however, is to impoverish attempts to bring spiritual and moral values to bear on both national and world society, because practical action needs to flow from the life of the spirit.

• that the process of developing a sermon extends over enough time to allow for careful study of the text (s), theological reflection beyond the text (s), and direct influence from the life of the world and from the life of the congregation.

Holmes» equally talented father, an innovating physician and essayist, portrayed his son as The Young Astronomer, brilliant but aloof from the lives of others.

I believe that God has not been absent from the lives of those who lived before the Incarnation or those who live after without an explicitly Trinitarian theological faith.

It is too separated from the lives of those who are most injured by that society.

Hermeneutics remains a private, armchair exercise so long as it remains divorced from the life of a community that struggles to be faithful to that story and the One whom it reveals.

Religious organizations are noticeably absent from the lives of everyone in Thirteen.

Is he turning from a life of which he has had his fill and is now tired?

If human existence is inextricable from the life of the human city, then the human city will be raised from the dead with humankind, freed from all that is enslaving, dehumanizing, and tragic.

The greatest of them was Paul, radically converted from a life of persecuting the Christians to be the first great evangelist, missionary, theologian, and administrator of the Christian Church.

So here are just 10 reasons why vision and mission statements should be expelled from the life of the church.

Each chapter discusses an aspect of the one theme that the central purpose of all education — whether in homes, schools, churches, business organizations, community agencies, or the mass media, and whatever the area of learning, whether science, art, health, or international relations — should be the transformation of persons from the life of self - centered desire to that of devoted service of the excellent, and at the same time the creation of a democratic commonwealth established in justice and fraternal regard rather than in expediency.

Perhaps young lives redeemed from a life of crime, underachievement and illegal violence within society in some way bear testimony to the worth of boxing and MMA.

If we learn nothing else from the lives of the saints, we should know the power their works and examples had to change an age.

It is this act of kindness that causes Jean Valjean to turn from a life of stealing to a life of helping other people.

Because this vital, inward, spiritual fellowship is absent from the lives of many formal Christians, they find themselves reduced to one major technique in living — trying hard.

The cry for salvation that such men make is the cry for freedom from bondage, or to use a contemporary phrase, from the «other - directedness» and heteronomy of existence, from the life of mass - man.»

It is moral because we can not accept, on a permanent basis, the exclusion of perhaps a fifth of society from a life of modest decency.

Former mobster Michael Franzese tells Justin Brierley how he turned from a life of mafia crime after finding God in prison — and how he now shares... More

«Future updates will include a «prayer counter» to allow people pledge a period of prayer for vocations and a picture gallery which will include some images from the life of a seminarian,» the church statement said.

If religion ever does evolve enough to the point that it finally removes itself from the lives of others who don't want it there, then we might have something to talk about.

And theology fades away from the life of our denominations.

The strength of Soulprint is that each chapter is based on an event from the life of David.

Unless these clearly powerful and increasingly well defined influences on the lives of church members are met by equally powerful and well - defined influences of grace for living the Christian life, the role of clergy is in danger of being reduced to the role of chaplains, summoned for brief, emergency ministrations to a life cycle unfolding in complete isolation from the life of faith.

Again, the very frank admissions of weakness or stupidity or lack of faith or downright blindness and disloyalty on the part of the disciples are sometimes explained as due to Peter's lifelong penitent self - accusation: he could not recall incidents from the life of his Master without breaking into tears once more, as once he did outside the high priest's house in Jerusalem.

The parables, sayings, and anecdotes from the life of Jesus were used as «paradigms,» illustrations, exempla in the early Christian preaching and teaching, rather than as quotations from a finished and complete biography, based perhaps upon the memoir of an apostle.

Illustrations of this, partly in their own words, from the lives of some of those whose influence has profoundly shaped Christianity may be helpful.