Sentences with phrase «of devotionals as»

For free, you can use my Advent series of devotionals as a family — it includes scripture for the Sunday family table readings.

Not exact matches

As one has come to expect of this teacher, the new encyclical is marked by a relentless intellectual acuity joined to a penetrating devotional intensity.

These tender devotionals dare us to embrace any and all brokenness as a gift that moves us closer to the heart of God.

Fr Tolhurst outlines the Scriptural and devotional basis as well as the doctrinal development of Confession.

The Sikh scriptures, the Guru Granth Sahib or Adi Granth, which was originally compiled by the 5th Guru, Guru Arjan in 1604 — in the same year as work began on the Authorised or King James Version of the Bible — contains devotional hymns by Hindu and Muslim poets and saints as well as by the Gurus.

And indeed, mysticism — which I would define as practices intended to help connect a person to God through experience, intuition, contemplation, the devotional reading of Scripture, ritual, and prayer — has been a part of the Church from the very beginning.

The Eagles, as a whole, have a strong contingency of Christian players, who pray together, do Bible study and share devotionals with each other.

Today, just as in the early and medieval church, part of the devotional appeal of relics, particularly those of great saints, lies in the possibility of miraculous cures (Acts 19:12), either through their instrumentality, or on the occasion of their close proximity.

I encourage others to treat them as a kind of daily devotional

a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.

This is one I've done a good deal of study on, as I did a brief article for it as part of our going through 1 Corinthians 15 in AiG's biblical authority devotional series.

Advertisements for Bibles in various translations and with differing annotations, along with commentaries, software programs, reference works, devotionals, and paraphernalia, testify to Protestantism's continuing allegiance to Scripture as the only source of divine guidance.

The kind of orthopraxy that exists among many Christians is a devotional orthopraxy, or a syncretic orthopraxy, and so long as some of the clergy don't know about that, it coexists, and to the degree that some of the clergy find out about it, they get themselves terribly excited and think that they should be able to eradicate it.»

Even very sympathetic Protestants think of it as a kind of devotional optional extra.

Continuous therapy groups are carried on as well as individual counseling and Adult Intereducational Mission Groups, which combine sensitivity training and the development of skills in writing devotional materials.

This is to say nothing of countless prayers whispered quietly by bedsides, as Christians all over the world pray the psalms in their devotional lives.

it is through the devotional, «spiritual,» prayerful practice of Christianity that one has a «real apprehension» (as contrasted with a merely «notional apprehension») of what doctrinal statements are all about.»

But he was happy to report in 1844 that only a small fraction of the towns used the Bible as a devotional work; the rest used it as a reader.

To instead send your mind through imaginary scenes with Jesus, as Ignatian meditation and some other devotional paths do, is seen as not only a waste of time (why imagine he's here, when he really is here?)

But according to Rollins, «a truly devotional reading of the text involves encouraging this mystery to be made manifest as a mystery and exploring how we are to celebrate, affirm, invite, and recall that mystery.

«A devotional reading of the story considers it to be an overflowing container of life - giving meaning and, as such, engages in an imaginative interaction with it,» he writes.

But as much as this can not be said for another distinction, of which one often hears, between the historical interpretation of the Bible on the one hand, and an interpretation variously called devotional, religious, or theological, on the other.

Gradually, however, the realities of cultural politics are becoming evident even to secular academics, and some political scientists have developed survey items that distinguish among religious traditions as well as levels of religious commitment (the latter measured by church attendance, devotional practices, and the like).

I should like to put this as strongly as I can, because, as it seems to me, some of the renewed interest in prayer and in the devotional and the spiritual life in our day has frequently led many good people far away from true Christian prayer.

But as precious and important as it was to march before the throne of grace with such confidence each day, my prayer life became much richer when I discovered structured prayer and incorporated it into my devotional practices.

On the other hand, the purpose of the classical disciplines of the life of prayer — such as postures, directing of thoughts, or devotional objects — is to provide what have proved in actual experience to be the most favorable conditions for real prayer.

For it is necessary that the faith of the Church, as this has been articulated during the two thousand years of Christian history in the form of theological statements, should be made known to the people; it is equally necessary that the developed principles of Christian life, in respect to devotional practice and in terms of daily conduct, should be taught.

Believing Hindus today may be roughly divided into two general groups: those who accept the philosophy of nondualism (or neo-Vedanta, as it is sometimes called), and a far larger group of a devotional nature, who are often of a more orthodox type.

Most of those who understand publishing as mission think the denomination's role is to improve upon the independent publishers» popular offerings, producing «more responsible» devotional and self - help books.

The second consideration is that as the individual develops in his life of prayer, he will find that petition for material advantage is less and less a part of his asking, and that more and more he desires only that he may be conformed to God's Will, so that as Christ's Spirit is formed in him he is enabled to live as un autre Christ — that fine phrase which was so often used by French devotional writers in the seventeenth century.

It was only after he had diligently attended to his main responsibilities, such as devotional exercises and the tending of the sick, that he had spare time to devote to study and meditation.

Religion — «a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.»

Growing up in Tennessee, I became a big fan of the «Man in Black,» and this devotional reflected on the need to run toward grace, as Cash, a sinner and saint par excellence, did so often.

A theological tradition which «believes in Jesus» encourages the believer to construct the faith - image of this Jesus, an image made up as a result of many different influences: the preaching and teaching of the Church, the reading of the gospels and of devotional literature, the lives and ideals of influential individuals, and so on.

The daily devotionals and free on line books are a blessing to me as I wander in the wilderness outside of institutional church.

An elaborate tract by Newman presented the beauty of the complete system of the Latin Offices — No. 75, «On the Roman Breviary as Embodying the Substance of the Devotional Services of the Church Catholic.»

His treatises include works on Marriage, on Confirmation, and on the Holy Communion, and his ethical and devotional writings take up the principles of spiritual guidance as a pastor might want to know them in dealing with others, as well as assisting priest or people in their own inner life.

This effort, like that of the NCBCPS, relies heavily on the distinction made by Justice Thomas Clark in the 1963 Supreme Court decision forbidding devotional reading of the Bible in public schools: «Nothing we have said here indicates that such study of the Bible or of religion, when presented objectively as part of a secular program of education, may not be effected consistently with the First Amendment.»

W. G. Ward's book, The Ideal of a Christian Church, which brought on the formal crisis of the Oxford Movement in 1844 - 45, was largely a plea for the introduction to England of the devotional discipline and efficient pastoral methods so well exemplified, as he saw it, in the contemporary priesthood of France and Belgium.

Because I feel that in the heavens above The angels, whispering one to another, Can find among their burning tears of love, None so devotional as that of «Mother,» Therefore, by that dear name I have long called you, You who are more than mother unto me.

All songs are played relatively straight — nary a jingle bell in earshot — which is a good choice, as it offsets the devotional aspects of more traditional carols like «O Come All Ye Faithful» and «Angels We Have Heard On High».

I then became the editor / compiler for a four - book series of Fiction Lover's Devotionals published by BroadStreet Publishing Group as gorgeous hardcover gift books.

Today, Deb Potts is joining us as she shares her experience on publishing her 40 - Day devotional book in such a short period of time.

I realized as soon as I did my first search that I would use only.001 % of it's 2 million book content because that's how few Christian books they offer and absolutely zero magazines or devotionals!

Pleasant Fruits: Sweet Whispers from the Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit is a personal daily devotional book containing words of edification, exhortation, and comfort written as a firsthand «love letter» from God to you.

Together we're going to search the Word of God and find out: * who you were meant to be * what to do about drama * where to find a good friend * how beautiful you really are * why God picked you to change the world Just Us Girls can be used as a personal devotional and a group Bible study.

You don't have to like the iPad, but deriding those who do use one as simpletons who follow trends just makes you look like a complete tool.When there are over a dozen high - profile Android tablets on the market and they can't collectively total 10 % of the tablet sales, then there is something more at work than simple blind devotional support.

The starburst surface of «Tubby,» one of Ken Price's lobbed ceramic sculptures, comes closest to Mr. Brown's tender sense of craft, as do two of Diane Simpson's mysterious, meticulously constructed sculptures, which somehow suggest architecture, cartoons and devotional garments.

Representative of a kind of contrapuntal pan-African groove, the internal and external antagonisms and entanglements of these figures» rhythms, movements, and ideas — which are so beautifully distilled and disseminated in Ofili's work — will be considered as devotional practice, anticolonial demand, and chromatic rebellion.

The show explores the crowns» devotional use, iconography, stylistic evolution, and how they preserve the memory of early Indian Buddhist practices — such as those depicted at Ajanta in India — that would otherwise would be lost to us.