Sentences with phrase «life issues mean»

Not exact matches

But if any issue is below the waterline, meaning there is an issue that threatens the seaworthiness of the craft and the life of the crew, then it's time to sound the all - hands - on - deck alert as a way to rally everyone toward fixing that issue as quickly and as effectively as possible.

Having lived inside the system means you have seen what the franchise takes to operate and what issues need to be addressed before the franchise team even knows you exist.

Often, «no time» just means that this issue isn't a top priority in the prospects business or life, at this point.

The first step to achieving something vastly important but fuzzily defined like work - life balance isn't soul - searching or reading up on the issue, it's nailing down what you mean by the term in the first place.

I can not believe the ignorance and bias on this with Statistics Canada - I mean come on people lets get with the times - you are operating a Statistical agency like we are living in the 1950's - this is indeed the 21st century - income polarization is a massive issue, and to report on income like the manner that this article did is just out right garbage!!

Come back to me when you have issues like ours where our lives are destroyed over the mere accusations from all these Queen Bees thanks to our matriarchal chivalric ideals where men are meant to be meat shields for the princesses of the world.

On many of the deepest issues of human life» the meaning of sex, the dignity of the family, the creation of human beings» Jews and Christians stand together against the secular image of man.

It's inevitable, I think, that these issues be thoroughgoingly «pop» — by which I mean concerned with the moral life as we live it today.

To postmodern critics, such concerns suggest that life has a «plot,» as in a well - crafted novel, but of course what they are really pointing out is that such issues have no meaning in the absence of a transcendent grounding.

Inevitably, we have conversations about life — including the meaning of life and its problems and where God is in all of that, hopes, needs and a variety of other issues.

It was said that «the best of defense is to attack»... --- Those allowed such to be signed knew all the time that this is what was going to happen because it happened repeatedly through out history from time of the crusaders but still they continued with signing it because it meant for them money pouring in for all involved with the trading on this issue which has spoiled the life of the Palestinians and all Arabs ever started war over those lands started with swords and horses that has developed into the present arms that we became to know and only God knows how future arms would look like in few de-ca-des or cen - tur - ies that are yet to come...?!

inner conflicts, or meaning - of - life issues that block constructive behavior changes.

Progress always means change, and change is seldom easy, especially when we are dealing with subjective and even sacred issues in our lives.

We learn that the word «martyr» means «witness» and that «apostle» means «one who is sent» and then grasp what this really meant in the lives of the Apostles, and indeed what it means today: «Faith and love in Jesus will issue forth in ministry.

This may mean helping a patient deal with the implications of his faith for his problems, raising the issue with the staff regarding the effect of the religious dimension of a patient's life on his present behavior, or in helping the staff to deal with their own religious feelings or understanding.

The question is whether this distorted or compromised the meaning of agape, and that question remains one of the central issues for Christian thought and life.

Paul tempers this reply — there is no sin in being married, but then, as if wrestling with an issue which can not be settled by specific prescriptions, he gives his profoundest expression of what the new life means:

On this suggestion, «emancipation» means the opportunity to be creative, the measure of power that «issues from coordination,» and individuals are more or less emancipated depending on the natural and human context in which their lives are set.

The issue here is that your expenses are greater than what you can afford so you are living beyond your means!

But lets talk about the real issue — the real issue is that much of mankind refuses to see his reality around him through a Creator lens because then it means he must be accountable for how he lives — and man doesn't like that.

This also means issues of life and relations among the people, groups and communities implies the fused horizons in all the levels.

Now this doesn't mean that the Republicans should do NOTHING on immigration, but it does mean that their economic agenda should focus on issues that would help people in the two middle quartiles (and the last quartile) get what Reihan Salam called «the basics of a dignified middle - class life — affordable high - quality medical care, education, and housing» With that in mind, here is a partial (and I'm not sure totally compatible) list of policies that Republicans should be looking at:

The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.

But, of course, my central interest was in your progress toward a confident faith, which will put sense, meaning, and drive into your life, and I was happy to see that your serious thinking has issued in some promising results.

The matter at issue is not merely abstract and speculative; it is intensely practical: What does life basically mean?

If we can not afford to reflect seriously about the meaning of Christian faith in relation to new issues that confront us, Christian faith ceases to be the central organizing principle of our thinking and living.

Such an approach makes it possible to look on the world in such a way that one finds meaning in these issues of daily life and sees them as religious.

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 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 life of our family, I'd like to..

Thus in our present situation the hermeneutical problem (how traditional words, concepts and symbols are to be interpreted intelligibly in our cultural present) on the one hand remains the problem for those concerned with the theoretical issues of theology, and on the other the issue of liberation represents the center for those concerned more with the meaning of theology in life and in action.

Thus the issues which are being debated anew in the theological turmoil today center in the meaning of Christian love as it points on the one side to the possibilities of human existence, and as it points on the other side to a fulfillment of this life in an ultimate good which transcends the possibilities of this world.

For far from being a deviation from biblical truth, this setting of man over against the sum total of things, his subject - status and the object - status and mutual externality of things themselves, are posited in the very idea of creation and of man's position vis - a-vis nature determined by it: it is the condition of man meant in the Bible, imposed by his createdness, to be accepted, acted through... In short, there are degrees of objectification... the question is not how to devise an adequate language for theology, but how to keep its necessary inadequacy transparent for what is to be indicated by it...» Hans Jonas, Phenomenon of Life, pp. 258 - 59; cf. also Schubert Ogden's helpful discussion on «Theology and Objectivity,» Journal of Religion 45 (1965): 175 - 95; Ian G. Barbour, Issues in Science and Religion (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice - Hall, 1966), pp. 175 - 206; and Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962).

Human life continues to be «historic» even when it is eschatological — for that I take it is what you mean by «the eschatological judgment still lies in the future» — and it issues forth in a new life.

Jeremy i am surprised you never countered my argument Up till now the above view has been my understanding however things change when the holy spirit speaks.He amazes me because its always new never old and it reveals why we often misunderstand scripture in the case of the woman caught in adultery.We see how she was condemned to die and by the grace of God Jesus came to her rescue that seems familar to all of us then when they were alone he said to her Go and sin no more.This is the point we misunderstand prior to there meeting it was all about her death when she encountered Jesus something incredible happened he turned a death situation into life situation so from our background as sinners we still in our thinking and understanding dwell in the darkness our minds are closed to the truth.In effect what Jesus was saying to her and us is chose life and do nt look back that is what he meant and that is the walk we need to live for him.That to me was a revelation it was always there but hidden.Does it change that we need discipline in the church that we need rules and guidelines for our actions no we still need those things.But does it change how we view non believers and even ourselves definitely its not about sin but its all about choosing life and living.He also revealed some other interesting things on salvation so i might mention those on the once saved always saved discussion.Jeremy just want to say i really appreciate your website because i have not really discussed issues like this and it really is making me press in to the Lord for answers to some of those really difficult questions.regards brentnz

When we inquire further as to the concrete meaning of Jesus, after his death, within the life of the early Christian community, we find ourselves at once forced to deal with two theological issues of fundamental importance: the nature of the church and the nature of revelation; for the essential and permanent significance of Jesus lies in the fact that he was the center and head of the church and that he was the central figure in that revelation of God which we have received and by which we are saved.

For issues relating to the meaning of life, people turn to their religious and / or ethical traditions.

By social ethic I do not mean something opposed to a personal ethic, but one which is concerned with the issues between groups and nations where the decisions taken alter the lives of multitudes of people and the direction of history.

Martin Luther, for example, that great reformer who battled the Catholic church over the issue of how to receive eternal life, called the book of James, «a right strawy epistle» meaning that there was nothing in it but wood, hay and stubble.

But despite intellectual challenges, issues in his personal life and emotional swings, Lewis is ultimately remembered for his writings on faith: Even when it meant putting aside momentary feelings of uncertainty: «Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods... That is why Faith is such a necessary virtue: unless you teach your moods «where they get off,» you can never be either a sound Christian or even a sound atheist.»

For the enlightened Portestants Catholicism meant backwardness (Islam was not yet an issue, because no Muslims lifed in Europe, but, of course, Islam also means backwardness).

This book is a great introduction to some of the issues surrounding the gospel, the death of Jesus, and what these mean for our lives and our understanding of God.

Thus the central and essential foundational question for me has to do with the basis on which each individual person (and each purposive community) resolves the issues of meaning and value for his or her (or its) life.

It must bring these ideals to bear on particular issues, illuminating their moral meaning in the light of Scriptures, the life of Jesus, the laws of nature and the Kingdom of God.

They see meaning in the various issues that come up in their business and family life, in community relations, in civic and social responsibilities, even in leisure.

Our composite human nature — part animal and part angel — means we must always confront two issues: what we live through and what we live for.

Questions such as whether the language of «faith» has any authority in a scientific age, or whether mind and life are reducible to atoms and molecules, whether only the tangible is real, whether the human person is anything more than a complex physico - chemical mechanism, whether we are free or determined, whether there is any «objective» truth to the symbols and myths of religion — all of these questions are asked at all only because what is fundamentally at issue is whether there is an ultimate context that gives meaning to cosmic process and significance to our lives in this process.

Being a man or a woman is «very good» and life is meant to be a joyful adventure, finally celebrated in the great Wedding Feast of the Lamb which we all seek to witness and in which all our earthly explorations and ponderings of these profound issues will reach their utter fulfilment.

«Many people see it as a moral issue, because it necessarily involves defining what «life» means; on this kind of topic, a lot of people look to their faith.»

This, of course doesn't means we don't deal with political issues (which emcompass just about every aspect of public life), but it doesn't have that dynamic of allegiance and it isn't about personalities.

A month later, Archbishop Justin Rigali issued a statement reiterating the Church's position on such matters, citing several Church sources including Pope John Paul II's 1998 statement calling medically assisted food and water «an ordinary means of preserving life.»

The core issues that properly concern theologians and pastors, as Cobb knows, have to do with the kind of theological - ethical glasses one wears as one attempts to discern the moral and spiritual meanings of the data, to see in what respects they comport with our deepest understanding of how God wants us to live in the world.