Sentences with phrase «n't make confessions»

p. 409) Knowing that his or her confession of child abuse or neglect will be reported, the offending party will not make confession or seek counseling.

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Believe it or not, coaxing a confession from a suspect is a lot like making a successful sale.

Strength in vulnerability will show up with statements like, «I have a confession to make» or «I'm really not sure where to go with this, what would you do in my situation?»

The Confessions do not in the first place talk about God; Marion makes a great point of saying that the second grammatical person prevails here over the third person.?

Those existing before the Cross were presented with the Gospel by Jesus and the criminal on the Cross that went with Jesus to paradise did not make any unique confession of Christian faith only asked Jesus to remember him.

Victor Davis Hanson's confession that he doesn't even try to keep up with culture anymore («Confessions of a Cultural Drop Out») made for a funny column.

And as Cheever's confession to Hersey makes clear, the real stress lies more on the human choice between darkness and light than on the sovereignty of God's grace — the divine goodness which must redeem not only our grosser sins but our noblest aspirations as well.

And when it is made as the confession of an experience and not as a metaphysical statement, there is the Church.

A central plank of Garnet's legal defense was that, although he was made aware of the Gunpowder Plot beforehand, he could not have done anything to stop it because he learnt about it only during the sacrament of confession.

Perhaps it should be noted that although Elisha did not receive the famous general when he came the first time from the king of Syria and also from the king of Israel, he did receive him the second time when this man came to make a confession of faith and to show him the conflict of faith.

It is a move that not a few have made, with denominational provenance spanning most every Protestant confession....

Contrary to many reports, he did not make any connection between «the pill» and this population disaster, but the irony was not lost on many commentators, who began - perhaps unfairly - to brand his article a «confession.»

Priests whose favorite past time involve making out with little boys, Celibacy in ministry, not biblical, confessions to priests; not biblical, praying to dead people; not biblical.

In the United States, the Louisiana state Supreme Court ruled last year that state law does not require a priest to notify authorities after hearing evidence of child abuse from a child making a confession.

When the novelist William Styron used his imagination to write The Confessions of Nat Turner, many voices were raised not only in disparagement of his novel but also against his even attempting to make the leap of races and conditions.

Almost immediately after Peter makes his confession in Matthew 16 about the identity of Jesus, Peter reveals that he doesn't have a clue about why Jesus came to be the Messiah.

I don't have time to make all these corrections in this article here, so let me just provide the basic biblical teaching on confession and forgiveness.

So since there is no chance of persuading them otherwise, let me go further and make another confession: I not only read the book; I enjoyed it.

You, dear friends, can't rely on some wandering, set - up - to - die goat to do your bidding - which is why you are commanded to make public confessions in synagogue during Yom Kippur.

As we make our way through the Book of Hebrews with its glittering and sometimes confusing images of sacrifices and great high priests and its extended metaphor of Jesus as that priest who makes all other priests unnecessary, the following verses come to us with a remarkable clarity and freshness: «Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.»

What our churches are arguing over, therefore, is not the authority of Scripture or confessions but over those things to which reference must be made when authority is exercised, over their correct interpretation, and over their relative weight in settling disputes.

On a completely separate note, the «I read this as» part was meant to imply that I don't think there are any «creeds or confessions [that Scripture makes clear».

When we acknowledge Jesus as the center of our history, we make not only a judgment about the facts but also a confession of evaluation.

Thus understood, humor becomes for speaker and hearer a form of celebration, an expression of fellowship, a confession of trust in the Creator who made things as they are and who does not need the protection our humorless piety would afford.

Whenever we confess the traditional words of the creed «I look for the resurrection of the dead», we are not comforting ourselves with the hope of personal immortality; we are making a very solemn confession about the serious purpose of life.

Here it is shown clearly that the idea of sin is not radically conceived, so long as the idea of the possibility of good works persists along with it, so long as the confession of sin can be something which makes sin pardonable, so long as man is not seen as wholly and in everything a sinner before God.

It must clearly be noted that this was in essence far more a demonstration of political loyalty than of religious worship; and it must still more clearly be noted that Rome was the reverse of intolerant, and, if a man made this confession of political faith, he could then go away and worship any god he liked, so long as that worship did not conflict with public decency and order.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

My question is how can you trust some one who can not make a decision without praying and asking God, Jesus and probably a priest in confession (IF your are Catholic, which Newt now claims to be) and maybe half a church congregation for the anwer?

His theory that Christ atoned for sin by making a confession of sin for the whole race of men has been often criticized on the ground that the sinless Christ can not confess the sin from which he sets men free.

[28] See Confessing the One Faith: An Ecumenical Explication of the Apostolic Faith as it is Confessed in the Nicene - Constantinopolitan Creed (381) New Revised Version, Faith and Order Paper No. 153 (Geneva: WCC Publications, 1991), where in commenting on the creedal article «One baptism for the forgiveness of sins,» it is pointed out that «A substantial challenge is made to this confession by the fact that in contrast to the one baptism enunciated in the Creed many Churches, while officially recognizing each other's baptism, still can not join together in the celebration of baptism.

Still in the Apostles» Creed millions of Christians confess their faith that Jesus, when he died, «descended into hell,» that is, into Hades or Sheol, but the average person, making this confession, does not clearly visualize the literal, geographical significance that this idea had at the first in the New Testament.

How we are to make place theologically for the reality of Judaism, where the Law is the center of religious life, in light of the Church's confession of Christ as Lord and the doctrine of the Holy Trinity is not at all evident to me.

What he painfully learns is that «growth is betrayal,» that we abandon those who have given us life, that to live at all is to make choices and commitments which exclude the many roads and selves not taken, that human existence is thus an endless trail of guilt and harm which can be traveled only in perpetual confession and forgiveness.

Confession should be on a personal basis between two people, not necessarily to the entire church, for in confession to one member confession is made to all.

He had experienced this himself, putting it off from week to week: «I broke out of the vicious circle and took part in the Sacrament, even without making confession» — he assured the reader that he had not been guilty of any gross sins.

It might be important for you to make a public confession, but it might not.

Which makes all the more awkward my confession that I am one of those people who usually orders the same thing in restaurants, though not, I hope, for bad reasons.

sorry smurfied have a confession to make: I am not as intellectually baffled as you are as it relates to the existence of God.

Is the «priest - penitent privilege» properly invoked when there is no pastor - parish setting in which confession is a religious duty incumbent upon priest and penitent, when the «penitents» are not necessarily members of the priest's denomination, when there is no «confession» as such, and when the clergyman is asked to divulge not the content of a confession, but, as the legal briefs say, observations made by him «incident thereto»?

Confessing sins to God, not doing certain things while making an effort to do other things, making a verbal confession of faith... None of these lead to salvation, but are rather a result of salvation and come forth from the indwelling Holy Spirit as fruit.

Indeed, confession might be (and often has been) made before the congregation; the clergy, as such, need not be a party to it at all.

Obviously, Boe's role at Wounded Knee was not a traditional ecclesiastical one; AIM was not a «parish» of the American Lutheran Church (though that church has made regular grants to it); probably no one was confessing his or her sins; and Boe was not asked to divulge the content of any such confessions anyway.

The person making the confession is not like a servant that gives account to his lord for the management which is given over to him because the lord could not manage all or be present in all places.

Mr. Donohue will need to make a darn strong confession before he dies, because God does not endorse hate and those who die with such sins on their soul go to hell.

For I wish him to keep his hands off confession and not make of it a compulsion or command, which he has not the power to do.

The first is an examination of conscience that's designed to help Catholics prepare for confession before stepping into the confessional, «so you don't walk in and just start making up sins off the top of your head,» Leinen said.

... wow... an app for confessions... hilarious LOL... leave it to the catholics to make their religion easier... not that it already wasn't the easiest

They were not expected to confess their sins in detail, but those who were in need of counsel were encouraged to make complete confession of all that burdened them.