Sentences with phrase «not edifying»

But frankly, its not an edifying spectacle watching these academics being dragged kicking and screaming from the global warming bandwagon and being forced by everyone else to reduce their certainly from the spectacular corrupt down to just corrupt.

Without a personal relationship between the character and his or her Lord it's not edifying, as this is the core of the Truth of the Gospel.

A good title that deserves a chance, despite its oddities probably due to the original development team, swallowed by debt and afflicted by a not edifying work story.

I will not go into details as they were part of private communication but it was not an edifying interaction.

not an edifying picture, but it resonated with me.

Not exact matches

I can not comprehend how anyone can enthusiastically present this constant recycling of slaughter, either as a memorial to those whose deaths are exposed or as an edifying spectacle for the millions of visitors a year who will be exposed to them.

Brian: The best way, I've discovered, of edifying the saints is to not put obstacles in their way or burdens on their backs.

therefore even if you wish to say it is brave or not, like all events following the incarnation, they are not accomplished for the sake of God who has accomplished them, but for humanity which may be edified by them.

But people should not expect to be edified by everything they find there.

Age cohorts and fertility rates may not be terribly edifying topics, but as Roof and McKinney show, they are crucial for understanding the plight of the mainline, Liberal and moderate Protestants suffer from an aging population.

Many fellow believers do not stray from the insular circle of the church community where they are content to «edify» one another with well - worn Christian cliches.

Upon this assumption the whole story becomes not only innocuous, but edifying.

I'm sure you know that not all threads end up this edifying!

Taking IT back to the science and prove (science probes, not proves, says Bateson) No matter what the token topics are: it's the argument - going - on that's most interesting and maybe most edifying.

You know it is actually possible to have sex in the absence of marriage in ways that are actually respectful and edifying for both don't you?

But we could too easily replace this shallowness by another, cruel as sentimental attitudes inevitably are, which leaves out of account the presence in human life of the sheerly irrevocable, of that which has been done, and it is now too late to undo, of the damage inflicted on others that can not be put right and that no interpretation can possible render edifying.

Sorry, but I just can't find anything at all redeeming or edifying or remotely valuable about «preaching».

Make sure you don't read or listen to anything edifying throughout your day.

It's not been an altogether edifying show to date; one may hope that, as the fields get....

Yes, even if you did not exist, the edifying contemplation finds no rest before it has also plumbed this sorrow.

For one who is capable of accomplishing something for others is not regarded by the edifying contemplation as in the strictest sense a sufferer.

It lies close enough to us even though they wish to keep away from any such unfortunate ones and to avoid all sober reminders not alone from the careless judgment of the storyteller's art, but also from the church and from the edifying insight that must certainly know that the Holy Scriptures have almost a predilection for the halt and the lame, the blind and the lepers.

But what I feel we need to remember, in order to not become a bad name to Christianity ourselves, is that our job is not only to enter the lives of sinners and to show them the love of Christ but to lovingly edify those we feel are hurting Christ's cause.

Yes, some of us gather together physically from time to time, sometimes weekly, to encourage and edify one another, and while this physical gathering is one way of manifesting the church, or being the church, the physical gathering itself is not «church.»

I'm not sure how the debate on homosexuality would turn out if defined that way, but I believe it would be more edifying than many recent discussions of these matters have been.

But there are also the sleepy souls who regard it as not only pleasing, but even edifying, to be lulled to sleep.

«Its happy optimism, its gaiety, its love of good - natured fun» has been overlooked by most of its commentators, he says: «They have invested the Song with a serious edifying character which does not fit it at all.

We of who does speak and write and read based upon the KING's English have many variants of the Hebrewic doctines yet it is not in our edifying of such doctrines but like you stated above did write, «Christians have a bad habit of not translating the Bible well» is an exact truth!

It is one question whether it can not be edifying to everyone, seeing that not everyone possesses the capacity for following it; it is another question whether it possesses the specific character of the edifying.

May we keep our dispute ongoing and edifying, and not just argumentative in the worst sense?

But here we may reasonably suspect a certain amount of embroidery, the more so since Matthew has also an edifying story about the traitor's remorse and grisly end — a story, by the way, inconsistent with another account of his death which is found in the Acts of the Apostles, not to mention a third divergent account which we know to have been handed down traditionally in the early church.

As to the first, however, this does not express my opinion of the matter; and if it were true that the form is too strict to be edifying, that, according to my conception, would be a fault.

Pole is not treated to hagiography; but that is unnecessary: his life is most edifying.

While true explanations, they were not life - changing, encouraging, or edifying.

Not good, why neglect things which are edifying to the christian life, that would be an unhealthy focus on evangelism in the place of discipleship, just do both I say What if, instead of starting Christian Coffee Houses, Christian Work - Out Centers, and Christian Bridge Clubs, we started just going to these places that were already in our community and meeting the people who go there?

The prophets asserted the demand of the clean heart against all the specific requirements of the law.30 Jesus summed up all the law in the two commandments to love God and our neighbor.31 Paul puts it radically when he says, «All things are lawful for me; but all things edify not «32 It is in the actual service of my neighbor's need and my own that the ultimate permission or prohibition of any action lies.

Anyway, in no particular order these works (not all are books) have persuaded, edified, confirmed and / or challenged my thinking or otherwise fascinated me:

More, her edifying maxim was disabling, even cruel: you can not help people face their troubles by telling them that they have no troubles.»

It would be nice if some pastor, some where in the US, would be willing to equip the Saints and help them get to know God more instead of instilling guilt because they're not doing enough and when they ask for the pastor to lay off the hackneyed cliches even once in a while, they get something other than «knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.»

I use the gift to edify myself in private or at times if I pray for someone and am not sure what to pray I use tongues under my breath and it's as though the Spirit aligns my thoughts with His and then I proceed to pray normally believing it is under The Spirits guidance.

Here we have no other version to help us reconstruct the original form of the parable, but the task is not difficult, since the tradition has sought to make the parable edifying by means of additions at the conclusion rather than by allegorizing the story itself.

«All things are lawful for me, but not all things edify.»

The prayers are jarring because they are so personal and raw, clearly not written to «edify the saints» in a published manuscript.

Above all else, the edifying philosopher takes responsibility for keeping this conversation alive, not by «finding the proper set of terms into which all the contributions should be translated,» but by being willing «to pick up the jargon of the interlocutor, rather than translating it into one's own.»

The author of the Ephesians is not talking about some future horizon so much as the actual and present means for edifying, for «building up» the Church; so that she can preach the fullness of Christ's message of salvation and so serve the holiness of its members.

The power of this viewpoint is displayed in the less - than - edifying spectacle of various critics in the course of the next two - and - a-half centuries attempting to make Othello merely swarthy or «tawny,» and not a sub-Saharan African.

And this history is not a very edifying one.

Writings, however edifying, which were not believed to have their origin in that first generation were deliberately excluded from Scripture, because they lacked this apostolic authority.

The strategies required to do this are not always edifying.

I am not sure there is a change too big or a change to small — when the call is back to building up and edifying the community.