Sentences with phrase «into new ways of living»

But what I said earlier to Karen and Ken holds true for the rest of us: examining the contradictions in our sexuality can become our window into new ways of living.

Testimonies call us into new ways of living.

They function as bridges upon which we may walk to and fro from our private hurts to communicate with others, but never take a step off the bridge into a new way of life.8

This started as a way for me to feel better about myself, maybe lose some weight, but it has now turned into a new way of life.

Over the past decade and a half I have almost always used the opposite approach with my clients and that is, never dive into diets instead, ease into a new way of life, one habit at a time, if necessary.

Sometimes we expect ourselves to jump instantly into a new way of life and just «get it».

«The first few minutes of the wryly hilarious People, Places, Things find professor and graphic novelist Will Henry (Jemaine Clement, What We Do in the Shadows) thrust unwillingly into a new way of life.

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At its core, Cohen says Apple's mission is indeed to develop products that should be built, not finding a way to shoehorn every piece of new technology into people's lives, wanted or not.

Burned out from the entrepreneurial life, he sold most of his belongings, crammed his remaining possessions into a storage facility, and bought one - way tickets to New Zealand for his wife and then -10-month-old daughter.

Instead of dreaming up new ways to interrupt your way into your prospects» lives, invest in ways to engage them meaningfully with an inbound experience.

And since it comes with OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Evolution Mail, and a host of other apps right out of the box, it may be the best way to breathe new life into a seemingly moribund PC.

I am a huge advocate of being a master of managing our time and finding new ways to incorporate better structure into our lives on a daily basis.

Every team honored has developed their break through ideas into new market segments, products and services that vastly improve the way we live, work and play,» said Frank Bonafilia, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Edison Awards.

The Federal Reserve meeting last week, where the central bank raised interest rates for the fifth time in the last 15 months and signaled two more are on the way by the end of the year, should have breathed new life into the bears.

The state, and the republican school in particular, must play its role in transmitting this inheritance to each new generation and to immigrants by assuring mastery of French language, literature, and history, and socializing students into the French way of life.

Especially if you go through a big life changing event such as leaving the church it is nice to be able to explore new ways of thinking and acting which don't necessarily fit into what was previously the norm for you.

We have a new nature which strives to be like Christ, and we have an old, dead nature, called our flesh, which seeks to drag us back into our old way of living.

I have entered territory that extends beyond the safe boundaries of what I know, wandering by way of the sea, as well as the far - off lands where Paul will soon be wrestling with the Corinthians over what it means to be baptized into Christ, and into his death and new life.

Even a cursory reading of the book of Acts demonstrates that a commitment to Jesus (in that day) was an introduction into a whole new way of life.

But God has been speaking in secular ways to men and women through the ages; he has led them into more of the truth about the structure and functioning of the world in which they live; he is at work in the areas of human study, explorations research, and enquiry, which have given us this «new» world.

Ironically, this sense of a downward spiral into pastoral mediocrity has been occurring at a time when laypeople are expressing interest in the spiritual life at a new level, and are searching for ways to connect their yearnings with a way of faithful living.

Now that we face the possibility of human life springing not from a fertilized egg but from a clone, we are making great account (some would say too much account) of this possible new way for infants to come into the world.

about people who experience same - sex attraction trying to live a Christian life, this fuller exposition of his thought on the new ideologies presented a fascinating look into the way in which colonialism — discredited by liberals and to lesser extent many conservatives as well — has gone away from the actual military and political rule seen in previous centuries, to a stealthier and subtler form of the exertion of foreign power.

The introduction of wholly new modes of living as a result of invention has greatly widened the range of available choices and thrown into question the superiority of long - established ways.

If the fashion in which the basic New Testament proclamation has been interpreted in the preceding chapter has validity, then talk of the resurrection of Christ is a way of affirming that God has received into his own life all that the historical event, designated when we say «Jesus Christ», has included: his human existence as teacher and prophet, as crucified man upon his cross, in continuing relationship of others with him after that death, and along with this what has happened in consequence of his presence and activity in the world.

For if the ascetic way of life was the only reason for which Jesus came into the world, then only those who are ready to follow this rigorous way in «his fellowship in incorruption» and «the form of a new person» constitute the church.

The power of the resurrection was the establishment of the faith that in Jesus God's Messiah has appeared with redemptive power, and God's Holy Spirit is present to bring men into the new life for which Jesus has opened the way.

The fictional lead character in New Kind is poised to abandon his ministry until a wise new friend initiates him into the ways of postmodern Christianity, rehabilitating his ministry and liNew Kind is poised to abandon his ministry until a wise new friend initiates him into the ways of postmodern Christianity, rehabilitating his ministry and linew friend initiates him into the ways of postmodern Christianity, rehabilitating his ministry and life.

The way in which this was done in an earlier day certainly can not be ours in this time; but the vision, insight, intuition, conviction — call it what you will — that Jesus Christ establishes with the transcendent a «new relation» into which «in rite, celebration, meditation, way of life» (to use Miss Emmet's phrases) we are permitted to enter and to have it made our own — notice I did not say «make our own», which would deny the divine priority in this event — is Christianity.

With some there may be an almost overwhelming sense of being caught up into a new life; with others, probably with the majority, it will be much more a matter of decision and purpose that is not highly - fevered but is rather a strong determination to give oneself fully and unreservedly to the Lord and to that Lord's work and way in the world.

Consequently, process theology is helping to pave the way into new and still largely unexplored realms of interpretation of the nature of man's ethical life under God in this present world.

Can we lose that salvation i believe so if we totally turn away from him by rejecting the conviction of the holy spirit in our lives.I say that because as a new christian i accepted Christ into my life and the holy spirit was convicting me to surrender my heart to him as Lord and i was resisting him i would not surrender to him fully and so he gave me a choice to either accept him or reject him.I believe he gives everyone the chance to make that commitment as Lord of there life.When we make that deeper commitment and follow him he will continue to perfect us through his holy spirit so that we conform to his image.By the way i knew that if i rejected him at that point that was it he would never bother me again i would have been eternally lost the thought was terrifying at the time.There was definitely a spiritual battle being fought over me i was very aware i needed to decide which side i was on.Thankfully i chose the winning one.brentnz

Rather than think our way into a new kind of living, we need to live our way into a new kind of thinking.

He had opened up a new and living way into the Kingdom of God, and, in doing, so had become the Lord and Savior of men.

12 Even on the assumption of a Vitalism of essentially higher principles of that kind, which raise the organic, as an intrinsically higher level of reality, above merely inorganic matter, and constitute biology as an independent science, and even if we regard the entelechy factor as simple and indivisible, there would only be an eductio e potentia materiae when a new living being came into existence, if we excluded creation in this case in the way it is exemplified in the human soul, though that is not very easy to prove, and at the same time rejected the not at all absurd supposition that in the generation of new life below the human level what happens is only the extension of the entelechial function of one and the same vital principle to a new position in space and time within inorganic matter.

Elements of democratic ethics, such as doctrines of human rights and religious freedom, are gradually finding their way into Catholic thought.7 Since the Church is a living organism it can respond to every new cultural situation while maintaining steadfastly its own absolute authority.

The church as the new people of God who follow Jesus into the world, declaring, proclaiming, and revealing a new way of living according to the ways of the kingdom of heaven.

After about an hour of eating and chatting, we moved to the living room and sat on couches where we introduced ourselves (for the several new people that were there), and then discussed that the way of following Jesus was not upward mobility, but downward mobility, into the muck and messiness of life.

It was easy for me, then, to become cynical about the faith that I was raised in, to punch the holes into the theology of the people I grew up with and spot the gaps in the preaching and methods, and point a finger of blame when «they» got it wrong, to separate myself from the culture and, like most kids raised by immigrant parents (because, in a way, my parents were like immigrants to this strange new land of Christianity), I took for granted my life in the new Kingdom, completely unable to imagine a life without freedom, without joy, without Jesus.

Brendan Freeman, a Trappist monk from Iowa, says that the Beatitudes «draw our hearts out of themselves into a new way of understanding our lives... they are deliberately incomplete.

A halfway house for emotionally disturbed teenagers, tutoring programs for educationally deprived youngsters, a community service program for senior citizens, and a hot - line link with a substance abuse clinic, become, in Landry's sermons, ready references to ways in which Christ intervenes in the corporate life of downtown Metro City, to help translate the powers of death into the vitalities of new life.

There were also numerous people who had questions about Jesus and this new way of life that many people were being baptized into.

Each one brings an old way of life into their new life together.

Christ is «being formed in us» as we enter fully into our humanity through the gracious action of God, who has broken through our old and estranged ways and established the foundations of the new life.

I'll merely suggest the obvious: The future of the Catholic faith belongs to those who create it with their fidelity, their self - sacrifice, their commitment to bringing new life into the world and raising their children in truth, and their determination to walk Christ's «narrow way» with joy.

This imaginative faith helps to effect the transition into a new perspective on life, into a new way of relating, and of thinking, and of knowing, and of living.

But the new forms of communication require to redefine some of the ways by which community comes into being, and to fashion communication processes which include the feedback and mutuality essential to community and to the life of its members.

Yet humanity has a deep allergy to this connection and its challenges and it is only when we experience the full force of being connected first to God that His spirit flows into us in a new way and enables us to live Love's way.

This rally showed quite dramatically what has been noted before: Whatever else one may say about it, the NSDAP has given young German men a new sense of identity and self - confidence, and in many cases it has channelled individuals with a criminal past into a disciplined, socially responsible way of life.

And while Cromwell put English history into a new gear, Luther ushered in a whole new way of life in Europe which had been struggling to birth for a century and more.