Sentences with phrase «learning something from god»

I'm sure you'll reject it, so since I'd rather spend the rest of my evening learning something from God's Word instead of shaking my fist at Him, I'll bid you a good night.

Not exact matches

There are so many things to learn about God and His desires for us, that getting caught up on the Holy Trinity and explaining it as something scientific can take us away from the glory of His creation.

By that I don't mean you have to take on any of the perceived baggage of the name, just that you are starting from a point of neutrality on the god - issue like we hopefully start from neutrality any time we don't know something and want to learn about it.

I still think we should still go to the church... or maybe a meeting where all the believer can learn from each other, strengthening each other, pray for each other etc, and of course, to worship God together... It is true that sometime I feel that I do not learn many thing from the sermon, but, many times, I learn by going to the church, knowing that I will not learn something from the preacher, humble myself to still listen to God and worship Him,,,, it is such a blessing to hear others testimony about how God works in their life, it is such an encouragement to see people open up their problem, then, we can pray about them..

It has been my experience that those church leaders who are more into control and performance will get very uncomfortable and irritable when someone joins the group who actually want to talk with God in order to learn from Him, rather than talk (or yell) at Him in the hopes of sounding super-spiritual and maybe even manipulating something out of Him.

We wonder whether something of what he learned as he witnessed the smoke rising from Sodom and Gomorrah may have prepared Abraham for his greatest trial, enabling him to respond without so much as a peep of protest about the suffering of the innocent when God asks him to become not just an accomplice in the death of Lot but an actual killer of his own beloved son.

MacIntyre's position is, I think, similar to his characterization of Rosenzweig's in Edith Stein: «We do not begin with some adequate grasp of the concepts of knowledge and truth and in the light of these pass judgment on whether or not we know something of God or whether or not it is true God exists, but rather it is from our encounters with God — and with the world and with human beings — that we learn what it is to have knowledge of what truth is.»

Hauerwas reminds us of writings in which he has talked about cooperation with others in the search for justice, and he now flatly asserts, «Something has gone wrong when the church is not learning from the world how to live faithfully to God.»

The liberal readiness to see the world (with Calvin) as «the theater of God's glory» has its own tortuous history, and modem evangelicals have something to learn from that history for example, how «success» in secular society often demands compromise with that society.

We need something that can fire contemplatives and other religious, priests, preachers, teachers, catechists, theologians, parents, youth leaders, «the men and women in the pew» and the youth of today's Church as they all do their bit to learn from God's Word and announce the Good News revealed by Jesus Christ in His words, miracles, Passion and Resurrection.

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Each time something catches my attention; a person, place, thing, or something else — I call it cause to ask God what He would have me to learn from «it».