Sentences with phrase «of my devotional times»

In thinking about how I felt like a big, fat loser when I missed one of my devotional times or ate a second cookie, I was struck with how much self - condemnation was swirling around my brain.

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Quiet time, devotional time, prayer time, personal time — whatever you want to call it, most of us are referring to something similar: a regular time when we seek to meet with...

The Sufi orders are declining in influence at the same time that the devotional and mystical teachings of the Sufi masters are being studied more sympathetically by intellectuals.

We 20th - century readers, deeply familiar with a private reading practice that in fact developed in the Christian West from devotional reading, need to remind ourselves of the oddity of private reading in Augustine's time.

Indeed, some of the greatest devotional poetry of all time is found in the Hebrew psalms.

I couldn't connect to the kind of devotional, emotional spirituality so many of my friends seemed to enjoy; and most of the time I'd rather study the details of Paul's arguments about justification than meditate on a Psalm.

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?)

In addition to spending a lot of time in Isaiah and the Gospels, for my own reading in the mornings, I've always turned to Luci Shaw's book for Advent and Christmas poetry called Accompanied by Angels: Poems of the Incarnation or her co-written devotional with Madeleine L'Engle called Wintersong: Christmas Readings along with my daily time with Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals.

It will be enough to say that somewhere, not far from the beginning of the Christian era it attained its present form and has been since that time the highest expression of the essentially devotional type of Hinduism at its best.

On learning that, although Jesus Christ is the Word who was from the beginning, the power of Christ that was working for salvation before the time of Jesus, in virtue of his coming, is still working in people of sincere faith, devotional Hindus will want to know why they must abandon their own sacraments.

We are glad to have been active in, and witnesses to, gradual and in some cases dramatic improvement in areas of Church life where we stood frm: most Catholic youth events now have the sort of liturgical and devotional style that at one time was almost unique to the annual FAITH summer gathering, and the new generation of priests has a vigorous approach to catechesis and to promoting the Church's message on marriage and family life.

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.

At the same time the political priorities of the papacy seem to have inhibited in recent centuries the intellectual and devotional creativity the church has sometimes shown in other countries.

Yet in our time the form of devotional aid most widely used is probably The Upper Room, Today, Forward, or some other serial publication in pamphlet form.

The best plan is either a consecutive reading in one book a few verses at a time, or the passage for the day indicated in some form of devotional guide.

How many of us struggle to self - motivate during a devotional time?

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.

Characterized by the meticulous, almost devotional labor of recreating found, journalistic, pop, or literary texts, these works stand as extreme acts of obsolete protocol, investigating the lapses of time and information between reading, writing, and reception.

The resulting practice remains difficult to name and is quite distant to the academic sculptural traditions of the time, it links more to the vernacular traditions of making devotional objects in Podhale, the region of Poland where he lived.

About Blog Dr. Stacy L. Spencer, Senior Pastor, of New Direction Christian Church posts his daily devotionals of wisdom and encouragement, from his time spent daily with the Lord.