Sentences with phrase «made about marriage»

So when Jesus says that we must be born of Water and Spirit, and if you believe and are baptized you will be saved, I agree with you that in a strict sense God does the saving and we need only immerse (baptize) ourselves in the grace he offers us, I believe that the statement Jesus made about marriage to be applicable, «Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate» and echo Peter's rhetorical question, «Can anyone keep these people from being baptized with water?
I believe that this debate we are having is an expected outcome of earlier mistakes we have made about marriage and sexuality.
When I tell people the whole story, they make it all about my marriage, and it's not about that.
A stray remark in childhood a parent makes about marriage, or gays or even «fat» people can be the makings of a severe conflict decades later.

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Biderman was a relentless publicity hound, publishing a book about marriage, posing for unfortunate pictures, and saying many things he probably wishes he hadn't, such as: «We have done a really great job of making sure our data is kept secret.»
When the company acquired LinkedIn for $ 26.2 billion in 2016, PCMag made several predictions about the ways in which a Microsoft and LinkedIn marriage could work, like Microsoft leveraging LinkedIn in order to give users access to expertise within Microsoft apps, such as Word and PowerPoint.
The result of his own seemingly perfect marriage making him think about whether something was missing?
While my marriage didn't last, Carolyne and I are very close friends to this day and talk often about this defusing process and the way it continues to make our lives and our relationships better.
Most people will tolerate just about anything — a bad marriage, an intrusive government, a horrible boss, a job that they hate — if only that thing can make them feel more secure.
Yet his opponents warned that his hawkish foreign policy views and negative comments about gay marriage and Muslims made him ill - equipped to serve as a diplomat or to represent the U.S. on the world stage.
About two years ago, my wife, Minhee, and I made one of the hardest decisions we've made thus far in our marriage and in our calling as parents.
Nevertheless, this current situation described earlier makes us reflect, and, as pastors, we are worried about the fact that many people who contract marriage are formally Christians, since they have received baptism, but are not practicing the Christian faith at all; not just liturgically, but also existentially.
There is nothing about having diverse perspectives in a marriage that will make it inherently better — in fact, it may be less likely to succeed in the long run.
My life was turned upside down a couple years back in a situation that led to the dissolution of my marriage, I also work in animal rescue, which brings me constant anxiety that animals I know and care about may not make it, and frequently the actual crushing pain of losing them.
More generally, I think we need to make a simple change in the way we talk about marriage.
A general taboo about procreating outside the context of marriage, yes, but no extended analysis was really necessary while there was only one way to make a baby.
The best part about living in a secular country is that religious opinions of marriage are irrelevant to the legal definition as «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.»
Gay marriage makes it increasingly hard even to talk about what is essential to true marriage.
CS Lewis never wrote about gay marriage (as far as I know) but his comments on governments making laws about divorce are applicable to the issue.
To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.
Their lived experience of the effects of contraception, abortion, divorce, and infidelity on their generation has made them passionate about the need for our entire culture - not only Catholics - to embrace the challenge andauthentic freedom embodied in the fullness of the Church's teaching on marriage, family, and sexuality.
Do you believe I would make up a story about him telling me that I would basically need to accept Vivien as his mistress in order for me to save our marriage?
The love that comes with marriage is about commitment and sacrifice, and if you feel committed enough to make marriage work when money gets tight, then go for it.
'» All in all, the book makes fascinating reading, and should be studied by those who want to discover more about the present configurations of marriage among Christians of all denominations.
People often remark that I am «so open» online (usually with a bit of wonderment or «Oh, I could NEVER do that» particularly when I write about marriage)-- and I have to chuckle because if they only knew how little of my life makes it online.
These questions make it clear that the moral truths about marriage, available to reason and faith alike, form a very tight web indeed.
After all, redefining marriage to make it simply about emotional companionship sends the signal that moms and dads are interchangeable.
To make your claim, that the recorded statements of Jesus say nothing about gay marriage, you're trusting the authority of the four gospels — but not the rest of the New Testament.
Long before there was a debate about same - sex anything, far too many people bought into a liberal ideology about sexuality that makes a mess of marriage: Cohabitation, no - fault divorce, extra-marital sex, non-marital childbearing, massive consumption of pornography and the hook - up culture all contributed to the breakdown of our marriage culture.
What is remarkable is how quickly the need of the church to make ethical judgments on many problems entered into the shaping of the tradition, as appears to have happened with the modification of Jesus» word about marriage and the injunctions concerning the handling of disputes (Matthew 19: 7ff.
«I want to hear a song about the breakdown in your marriage, I want to hear songs of justice, I want to hear rage at injustice and I want to hear a song so good that it makes people want to do something about the subject.»
However it makes sense if we think not only about whether sex will contaminate the integrity of the Missouri House but also about if sex will contaminate the personal integrity of the Missouri legislators, since sex within marriage is fundamentally legitimate.
He would say to us today, likely, that we should relax about making laws about how folks that are different from us might be allowed to have legal standing such as marriage would provide.
Are you really that mad that I just refuted your ridiculous assertion that you made about Jesus never talking about marriage.
Over the past year, a few friends and I have had an open conversation about the highs and lows of marriage — specifically how to make the most of the high times and avoid the low ones.
At a press conference last week he was asked about his views on same - sex marriage and how to make Church relevant to modern - day life.
The main thing about the extended analysis of contraception, same - sex marriage and such is that it made Romney look resolutely conservative.
What will Synod 2015 say to the world that will make the world think again about marriage and the family, before these two essential building - blocks of civilization are further dismantled and traduced?
He writes about the practical response that Catholics could make to the current attack on marriage.
This baloney about how it's necessary to get «accurate census data» being a reason to make a distinction between same - s # x and straight marriage is one of the dumbest pieces of crap I've read here in a long time - and that's really saying something.
The health changes your pastor made due to conviction about his eating and fitness habits is just as important as the ways he's grown in his marriage.
Catholic Marriage The good points about marital preparation that Robert Spaemann makes in «Divorce and Remarriage» (August / September) are obscured by some important insensitivities.
If marriage is only for procreation then there are a whole slew of other considerations to make like what about hetero - couples choosing not to have kids or physically unable.
The United Reformed Church has not yet made a decision about marriages of same - sex couples — the issue will be debated at the denomination's General Assembly this July.
Most important are the notable series of statements Francis has been making on topics which bear directly on the family — the proper formation of conscience, the prophetic nature of Humanae Vitae, the true meaning of the sensus fidelium, and the need for bishops to preach the truth about the indissolubility of marriage, in season and out.
But please, for the love, don't leave a child and a community that was depending on you in a bind so you can make a point about gay marriage.
[12] Moreover, considerations about possible changes in circumstances in the future are not allowed to count when making marriage vows: «Marriage conditioned on a future event can not be validly contracted» (Canon marriage vows: «Marriage conditioned on a future event can not be validly contracted» (Canon Marriage conditioned on a future event can not be validly contracted» (Canon 1102.1).
Concerned that the civility and decorum exhibited by many LGBT rights advocates might make their arguments more persuasive, Anyabwile suggests that the key to «winning» the same - sex marriage debate is speak more graphically about gay sex in order to induce the «gag reflex.»
So yesterday's post was about all the troubled marriages making news this week, and because I like to include a graphic with each piece, I went to stock.xchng to get a free stock photo to use.
One would never guess, furthermore, from Wolterstorff's presentation that contemporary advocates of marriage as irreducibly procreative have also thought deeply about the reality of marriage past childbearing age, about infertility and contraception, and offered sophisticated responses that make laugh lines like Wolterstorff's seem entirely facile.
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