Sentences with phrase «of teaching moments»

Over 40 Style Guide Today was one of those teaching moments, which provided me with a serious dose of get ready to go with the flow, baby!

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My yoga practice has taught me the power of mindfulness and how to train my mind to focus more on the present moment.

That's a valuable teaching moment, Golden said — and one it's better for your child to have early, with a small amount of money at stake.

A good leadership development program not only teaches the X's and O's of your business, but also prepares them for the moment.

To test how much meditation training you need to make a serious dent in your stress levels, J. David Creswell and his team from Carnegie Mellon University, looked at the payoff of three short 25 - minute mindfulness training sessions in which participants were taught to focus on their breath, focus their attention and be more in the moment.

Your kids can teach you a little about living in the moment and loving every minute of it.

The tutors have spent 2014 interviewing the founders of some of the most exciting startups of the moment, across the whole of the creative industries — including tech innovators, independent publishers, teaching startups, music businesses, fashion and craft designers, social enterprises and retail specialists.

Several moments later, someone asked how many of the churches have senior or teaching pastors spend 1 - 2 minutes at the offering time in the service challenging the church to give.

in the midst of all this opposition, I still try to bear witness / preach / teach the kingdom of God with the hope that a believer or a non-believer will have that aha or revelatory moment and truly realize the kingdom of heaven is in deed at hand, and one can actually live the kingdom life even while in this world.

It's one thing to help people go thru the final moments of life, but it's ALSO NECESSARY to ensure that their spirits don't end up separated from God forever; that they're able to be WITH this God that their family taught them about.

It might not have the powerful, huge worship moments of other festivals, or the shared experience of teaching, but Greenbelt acknowledges that an experience of the holy is bigger than our expectations.

Maximus the Confessor interprets this event as a moment in which the disciples passed from flesh to spirit because «having both their bodily and spiritual senses purified, they were taught the spiritual meanings of the mysteries that were shown to them.»

From the moment I could understand what murder meant, I was taught that it was «wrong» — a relative consensus that seemed to be universal; that came from people of different philosophical backgrounds.

Not going to «Church» is a vulnerable position if it separates us from teaching and lining ourselves with the Truth — this forum is part of my Church at the moment so I value thoughts to challenge me on the journey.

The moment the Christian churches begin Attuning themselves properly to Jesus Christ and Preaching His eternal message of LOVE for Everyone, Without Conditions, and Teaching about the Afterlife as God has promised us there is, and Teaching about the laying - on of hands to heal the sick as Jesus did, and begin truly Sharing their money with the poor as Jesus did, THEN you will find people flocking back into the church.

Furthermore, although Christians teach you can repent at any time right up to the moment of your death and still be saved, there are two problems with this.

When one of my kids finds him or herself in a predicament in which they're having a negative attitude or they're portraying selfishness, I'll often use those situations as teaching moments for what it means to be light.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

At the interfaith prayer service held in today for the victims of the Boston marathon bombing (including Lu Lingzi, a graduate student at Boston University, where I teach), President Barack Obama was once again called upon to play the pastor - in - chief at a moment of national tragedy.

It is not a pleasant teaching, and it is certainly out of fashion at the moment, but the fact of a general judgement was central to Christ's instruction on the Kingdom.

The words you quoted were an excerpt of a much more significant teaching moment.

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These teachings were not the program of a twentieth century liberal to bring in the Kingdom of God; rather, they were the absolute demand of the Kingdom itself which Jesus believed would come at any moment.

Interfaith Core President Eboo Patel said, «By responding to a moment of religious prejudice with grace, Balpreet taught hundreds of thousands of people about her Sikh tradition and showed them that religion can be a source of strength and bridge of cooperation.»

But beyond the drama of these moments that put Jesus» «instructions» to the test, there are his words uttered in the relative calm of the teaching situation.

For in this, instead of impressing upon him a holy fear and shame before the Good, he is polluting the pure one by teaching him the fear of loss of money, loss of reputation, misjudgment by others, neglect, the world's judgment, the ridicule of fools, the laughter of the frivolous, the cowardly whining of consideration, the inflated triviality of the moment, the fluttering mist - forms of vapor.

In light of this, may I speak for a moment to those leading women's ministries and organizing women's teaching events?

Luther's teaching that every human being at every moment of life stands absolutely coram deo» before God, confronted face - to - face by God» led him to confront the major misunderstanding in the church of his day that grace and forgiveness of sins could be bought and sold like wares in the market.

There were many ways to live, not simply one, the spiritual theory taught, all of them good, some of them better than others from one moment to the next.

In his earlier address to the bishops, Benedict urged «a clear and united witness» on public questions of great moral moment, recognizing that «it can not be assumed that all Catholic citizens think in harmony with the Church's teaching on today's key ethical questions.»

I do believe the Bible teaches that justification happens in a moment, but the full redemption of us and this world will happen at some point in the (near?)

There was, for example, in the eighties an Interfaith Colloquium against Apartheid and there were various interfaith gatherings on ecological issues as well as interfaith prayer and work for peace, but the Parliament for a moment captured the attention of the world and sought to show, at a time of intense conflict in former Yugoslavia and of communal troubles in India, that religions need not be a cause of division but could unite on certain basic ethical teachings.

Christianity teaches that this particular individual, and so every individual, whatever in other respects this individual may be, man, woman, serving - maid, minister of state, merchant, barber, student, etc. — this individual exists before God — this individual who perhaps would be vain for having once in his life talked with the King, this man who is not a little proud of living on intimate terms with that person or the other, this man exists before God, can talk with God any moment he will, sure to be heard by Him; in short, this man is invited to live on the most intimate terms with God!

For he [Mark] had neither heard the Lord nor been his personal follower, but at a later stage, as I said, he had followed Peter, who used to adapt the teachings to the needs of the moment, but not as though he were drawing up a connected account of the oracles of the Lord: so that Mark committed no error in writing certain matters just as he remembered them.

well just thinking about these wars in the muslim / mid-east world over religious differences (which may reflect mental states in many ways) in a world where most realize that living in the present moment is best way to happiness and being in the moment in non-strife and awareness through the teachings of masters such as found in the buddhist, taoist, zen, etc., etc., etc. spriritually based practices of religious like thought and teachings, etc. that to ask these scientifically educated populace whom have access to vast amounts of knowledges and understandings on the internet, etc. to believe in past beliefs that perhaps gave basis and inspiration to that which followed — but is not the end all of all times or knowledges — and is thus — non self - sustaining in a belief that does not encompass growth of knowledge and understanding of all truths and being as it is or could be — is to not respect the intelligence and minds and personage of even themselves — not to be disrespected nor disrespectful in any way — only to point out that perhaps too much is asked to put others into the cloak of blind faith and adherance to the past that disregards the realities of the present and the potential of the future... so you try to live in the past — and destroy your present and your future — where is the intelligence in that — and why do people continually fear monger or allow to be fear — mongered into this destructive vision of the future based upon the past?

The religion does not simply grow from developing the content of the founder's teaching; the life of the founder is held to be one of the crucial moments, perhaps the crucial moment, of history, in which some new relation to the transcendent has been established.

-- but later on followed Peter and became his interpreter; and Peter «used to adapt the teachings to the needs of the moment, but not as though he were drawing up a connected account of the oracles of the Lord,» so that Mark was perfectly justified in setting them down «just as he remembered them.»

Until this moment they had failed to understand the teaching of scripture.

Thank you for what you are teaching us, what you are demanding of us in this moment.»

The hospice families, who cared for and loved and then let go of the ones they loved, have taught me that the human heart can be as big as the ocean, and that the work that God calls us to - to take care of each other - happens every moment in every place.

Blending laugh - out - loud moments with serious cultural critique, Evans discovers that living the actual teachings of the Bible means surrendering idealized role - playing in favor of becoming an eshet chayil — a woman of strength and wisdom.

Hiring Royce is a moment of hope for people like me interested in teaching the academic foundations of community.

Nevertheless, Western Christendom's great spiritual and intellectual founder did teach both church and civilization that the past exists only in the present moment of our remembering it and the future only in the present moment of our anticipating it, and he was utterly and disastrously wrong.

In my own study and teaching moments I always defer to Christ's authority in questions of doctrine.

Citing the example of Jesus, New Thought teaches the practical application of spiritual principles for the healing of body and affairs, and the availability of «the kingdom of heaven» in every moment.

When we think of him that way, in our most honest moments, we think that while it would have been nice to be back there and hear some of His teaching, see some of His parables, and go ask him that theological question that's always been bothering us — if we're honest with ourselves, we're not sure he's really the kind of guy we would want to hang out with.

Based on «the heritage of Catholic moral teaching» and «our Jesuit tradition,» the statement says, «Our long - term goal remains full legal recognition of and protection for the unborn child - from the moment of conception.»

In some ways it's more a liturgical matter than a theological one — by modeling a predominantly narratival / typological rather than ahistorical / doctrinal approach to life, I've been able to pack a lot of teaching into relatively few moments.

’14 In popular Jewish thought Elijah came to be regarded as «the ever - present prophet, wandering incognito over the earth, sometimes in the garb of a nomad, to aid in moments of distress and danger, appearing to mystics and scholars to teach them hidden truths, and acting as celestial messenger».15 He was thought to be present at every ceremony of circumcision as the guardian spirit and witness, and on such occasions a special chair was reserved for him.

So, how do you know that it isn't just a deeper part of your own conscious using what you were taught about God voicing what you believe God would say to you at that moment?