Substantial and speedy achievement is possible for such a community, and the sense of unity
in spiritual purpose is thrilling.
Not exact matches
The scheduled attendees of the conference encompass a wide variety of experts, ranging from medical professionals, hospice advocates, scholars, religious and
spiritual leaders, as well as entrepreneurs and business men and women interested
in learning how an understanding of death and dying can help them live lives of greater
purpose and meaning.
I resent them because I believe them to be less about what is stated to be accountability's
purpose — my
spiritual growth — and more about an unScriptural motive underlying the questions — playing God
in someone else's life.
Because I think that any
spiritual discipline can be taken and emptied of its
purpose of connecting us
in a very real sense physically, spiritually, emotionally and mentally to our God.
It's refreshing to read through Bessey's
spiritual and theological narrative peppered with thoughtful and insightful reflections on interpreting Paul's biblical stance on women, and a beautiful litany of women
in scripture and world history whom God has equipped and used to further God's
purposes in the world.
In Ramadan, a month for spiritual replenishment in the Islamic calendar, an estimated 1.5 billion Muslims around the world perform an obligatory fast from predawn to sunset for the purpose of purifying one's soul through prayer and self - sacrific
In Ramadan, a month for
spiritual replenishment
in the Islamic calendar, an estimated 1.5 billion Muslims around the world perform an obligatory fast from predawn to sunset for the purpose of purifying one's soul through prayer and self - sacrific
in the Islamic calendar, an estimated 1.5 billion Muslims around the world perform an obligatory fast from predawn to sunset for the
purpose of purifying one's soul through prayer and self - sacrifice.
In the early 1520s, Luther's preaching against the power of the Roman Catholic Church served as a rallying cry, helping give these peasant revolts a higher sense of
purpose, and providing them with a language of
spiritual and political critique.
But very often this constant awareness of
spiritual climates enables us to also recognising the Lord's heart for a particular / person / situation and partner with Him
in what He chooses to do through us, perhaps through prayer, releasing of scripture, laying hands, etc.,
in order to release His
purpose and power.
This is a striking picture of God's design for the local church - His own
spiritual house
in which disciples are born and raised and trained to fight against the enemy for His
purpose in the earth.
In accordance with the longstanding tradition of sobornost, a «
spiritual community of many jointly living people,» many Russians believe that they can only fully acquire a sense of meaning and
purpose as a people, not as separate individuals.
In humans, organs have purposes, as they do in animals, though in us the spiritual soul controls and directs so as to give «unity» to what is «related»
In humans, organs have
purposes, as they do
in animals, though in us the spiritual soul controls and directs so as to give «unity» to what is «related»
in animals, though
in us the spiritual soul controls and directs so as to give «unity» to what is «related»
in us the
spiritual soul controls and directs so as to give «unity» to what is «related».
The main difficulty with this view, however, is that it seems that the way of Jesus
in setting up a
spiritual Kingdom is «Plan B»
in God's redemptive
purposes.
There is a vast diversity of belief and non-belief, but there is a unity of
purpose to love and support one another
in our own unique and individual paths toward
spiritual independence.
In fairness to Niebuhr, he was a good deal more of an orthodox Christian than one might gather from the way some thinkers and activists selectively employed his elegantly framed «
spiritual insights» for their own
purposes.
This larger structure of prophecy beginning from Adam and ending
in Muhammad incorporates a particular objective of showing how from the time of the father of Judaism and the
spiritual father of Christianity, Abraham to the time of the last prophet, Muhammad through the line of Ishmael, prophets fulfill the fundamental
purposes.
Gods came to set the captive free.God is always
in control he calls the shots not Satan he is
in control his motives and
purposes we can not understand but we do know his character is always for good and he always has a plan.It is
spiritual lesson from a real life situation.I am jumping way ahead here but at the time the people sent Jesus away the demoniac man was sent back to his family when you read later because of his testimony the next time they visit years later to those towns many people are saved because of him so again yes some pigs died one man was set free but that man went and told his story and many were saved and added to the kingdom so to God be the glory.brentnz
In this situation, they are also looking for a
spiritual experience that might give meaning and
purpose to their lives.»
So the second
purpose of our
spiritual possessions is to gain knowledge of God, and we do this first by learning of the hope that is ours
in Christ.
Second, a basic confidence that there is
spiritual meaning and
purpose in the universe — not simply the meanings and
purposes which we put into life, but also those which we discover
in life because the Creator put them there.
Also
in the face of the ecological disaster created by the modern ideas of total separation of humans from nature and of the unlimited technological exploitation of nature, it is proper for primal vision to demand, not an undifferentiated unity of God, humanity and nature or to go back to the traditional worship of nature - spirits, but to seek a
spiritual framework of unity
in which differentiation may go along with a relation of responsible participatory interaction between them, enabling the development of human community
in accordance with the Divine
purpose and with reverence for the community of life on earth and
in harmony with nature's cycles to sustain and renew all life continuously.
This is the first
purpose of the
spiritual possessions that are ours
in Jesus Christ.
Jeremy and Redeeming God has been one of the most significant and most enlightening events that has happened
in my
spiritual life as an adult, having broken down impediments to my
spiritual advancement, thereby equipping and empowering me to better appreciate the character of Christ and His
purpose.
``... It was clear to me that Mark's attendance had the potential to divert attention from the real
purpose of Hillsong Conference, which is to see people leave encouraged
in their own
spiritual journey.»
The
purpose is pragmatic, and as a result these visions are adequate instruments for the end
in view, but they contain nothing from the domain of truth or of
spiritual revelation.
It is clear that
in the state capitalism of the socialist societies as well, the
spiritual threat of money has not been solved, Money is abused
in societies of both East and West, for
purposes more «clandestine» than pornography or abortion.
Created
in the image and likeness of God, principally
in the soul, he yearns for more; he yearns for the soul's trueenvironment which is the love and knowledge of God, for the goal and
purpose of all
spiritual nature is to rest
in God.
The prize, one of the largest prizes
in the world todate, standing at some # 800k, is awarded annually for the
purpose of heightening awareness of the
spiritual realm of human life.
It may be insight into the divine mysteries, the nature of Ultimate Reality, and of the laws governing the existence of the cosmos, of society, and of individual lives; or the gift of restoring into wholeness broken physical or
spiritual health; or the ability to develop, by teaching and
in other ways, the hidden possibilities
in one's fellow men, and to give direction and
purpose to their lives.
A refugee of violence, Charles told me
in this rich baritone, how prayed for
purpose, and he persevered into
spiritual headwinds, and he planted a church that grew to more than 2,000 and the refugee from Rwanda soon found himself invited to seminary at Multnomah University
in Portland, Oregon.
Zionism's messianic character is evident
in its attempt to end the role of the Jews as a ghost - people, to keep Jewry from retaining the status of an unclassifiable entity, and to reactivate the
spiritual purpose to which Jews have traditionally considered themselves covenanted (NZ 177).
We may arrange «a group of professing believers
in Jesus who have been baptized and have organized themselves under the leadership of elders and deacons for the
purpose of carrying out the Great Commission; for conducting the ordinances of baptism and the Lord's Supper; for building up of the Body through the worship of God, the fellowship of believers, the teaching of the Word, and the exercise of
spiritual gifts» and still not be receiving the presence of Christ.
Publicize the idea that «growth» —
in recovery,
in the
spiritual life, and
in individual lives — is not measured by how many meetings a member attends, how «single»
in purpose a recovery group's mission is kept, or how long one has abstained from an addiction.
The reason lies
in the
spiritual hunger which is evident beneath the
spiritual chaos and lack of compelling
purpose in our time.
God knows and loves only concrete realities, both
spiritual and material,
in their existent actuality and unto their final
purpose in the one plan of creation centred upon Christ.
The devotionof the Seven Churches,
in fact, brings together various of the themes we have already discerned
in looking at St Philip's methods: it was distinctively Christian and prayerful, allowed for healthy exercise and good spirits alongside its primary
purpose of pilgrimage, and was a practical way of getting ordinary young men out of danger's way at a time of potential
spiritual hazards.
I have had to learn slowly and diligently to practice shalom
in my body — not for someday when I'm a certain size, not for someday when I take up less space, not for theological
purposes, not for when I'm dead, not as a hotly contested
spiritual concept but here and right now, I want to make peace with my body.
The
purpose of Christian
spiritual formation is growth
in grace, or
in capacity to live
in faithful response to God's love.
Faith and its opposite Unbelief presuppose a universal
spiritual dimension of human selfhood
in which the self sees itself as poised between the world and God i.e. at once as an integral part of the world of matter and the community of life governed by the mechanical and organic laws of development respectively on the one hand, and having a limited power to transcend these laws through its
spiritual relation to the transcendent realm of God's
purpose on the other.
The
purpose of all of these religious messages is to make the
spiritual assertion that our lives are devoid of security, truth, and meaning unless and until we become a part of God —
in other words, until we become part of that which is really real.
But there is certainly nothing inherent
in the standard free - will perspective that requires the FWT to hold that God's primary
purpose for creating free creatures was to make it possible for God to «enjoy the value of knowing that those of us who developed moral character and
spiritual virtue... did so freely» (ER 18).
The coming council, he insisted, was to have three
purposes: the
spiritual and pastoral renewal of the Catholic Church, the updating of the Church's outlook and institutions so as to make her proclamation of the Gospel more effective
in the modern world, and ecumenical reconciliation with non-Catholic Christians.
Hence procreation is seen to be the final
purpose of marital love - St. Thomas held that the final cause is the principal cause - and the physical openness of spouses
in the physical act of marriage reflects and deepens the
spiritual love that unites them to each other and Christ.
The deepest convictions of men
in favor of future hope, therefore, have come not so much from those who have framed arguments for it as from those who have heightened life's
spiritual value, given it new meaning, made it wealthy with fresh significance and
purpose until it has seemed as though it ought to go on.
The story may have been used, to be sure, to inculcate
spiritual lessons; its usefulness for that
purpose may explain its presence
in Luke's source.
When thoroughgoing materialism is accepted — a merely physical cosmos, lacking
spiritual origin,
purpose, or destiny, with man and his esthetic and ethical values only a transient fortuity — there is no further mystery
in suffering.
This
spiritual ground for hope at this time of wanton destruction of our world, can help us to recall the ultimate
purpose of life and of our journey
in this world.
from individualism
in religion and society to corporate existence; from
spiritual and economic selfishness to the truth of the community and of the world which God loves; from rigid doctrines of private property to the original
purposes for which God gave his earth to his human family; from privatization of life to Trinitarian communion; from ritual preoccupations to pursuit of justice; from law to grace and from sacrifices to mercy.
So we can also contemplate this same unfolding and unified
purpose of Christ
in our own lives, from our conception as a simple cell, ensouled by God
in accordance with the Unity Law, to Baptism and entry into Christ
in the Eucharist, through the years of growing up and formation
in holiness and the
spiritual life — maybe through failure and re-conversion.
Second, growth counseling involves a variety of growth - stimulating methods to help people use more of their potentialities by (1) developing better communication with self, others, nature, and God — the four basic relationships within which all growth occurs; (2) developing new skills of relating
in mutually - affirming, mutually - fulfilling ways; (3) growing by making constructive decisions and taking responsible action; (4) using the growth possibilities inherent
in each life stage; (5) learning to use the pain and problems of unexpected crises as growth opportunities; (6) learning better methods of
spiritual growth — the maturing of one's personal faith, working values, sense of
purpose, peak experiences, and awareness of really belonging
in the universe.
Additionally, a clear, theological foundation, which takes into account the pastoral needs and
spiritual purposes of both the individual and the community, is critical
in deciding what is confidential and what is not.