Sentences with phrase «of teaching tasks»

«The sheer magnitude of the teaching task is immense.»

Not exact matches

Even if the game has joined the ranks of «tasks better done by robots,» I remain fascinated by what poker can teach us about business.

If you keep waiting to teach them until the task is upon you, they'll never be capable of freeing you from the task.

You may not like this idea, since it will take more time to teach someone than it would to just do the task yourself, but think of that training as an investment.

I hated those assignments, but Mom and Dad had taught me the value of working hard, regardless of the task at hand.

Participating in team sports can also teach control - freak entrepreneurs about the importance of entrusting others with important tasks, proving they don't have to do it all on their own to have a successful business.

You have a young head of Teach for America in the St. Louis area, Brittany Packnett who, reluctantly, I might add, joined the task force because she wasn't sure if her voice would be welcomed or heard.

The kingpin of a fictional drug enterprise may not be your typical business role model, but Breaking Bad's Walter White can teach you a thing or two about what it takes to build an empire, including when not to delegate important tasks.

While Evangelicals greatly respect the way in which the Catholic Church has defended many historic Christian teachings against relativizing and secularizing trends, and recognize the role of the present pontiff in that important task today, they believe that some aspects of Catholic doctrine are not biblically warranted, and they do not accept any claims of infallibility made for the magisterial teachings of popes or church councils.

Those who take on the task of writing about Catholic social teaching have compelling reasons to address Novak's project with greater seriousness.

It is your task to teach newcomers about Christian doctrine and Christian behavior and that sort of thing; it is our task to make sure that newcomers know about local traditions.

On Wednesday, October 20, 1993, an AP story about the task force's draft of a social teaching statement, «The Church and Human Sexuality: A Lutheran Perspective,» hit the press around the country - even before the pastors had received their copies.

The bishop chosen for the task force was one of the few known to be sympathetic to reconsidering church teaching on sexuality, and a de facto quota for homosexuals was created and filled.

As he enumerated the tasks of faith, being an apostle came first; being a prophet came second, preceding such essential tasks as teaching and heeling.

His ontological understanding of the priest as the one standing in for Christ who teaches, protects, leads and sanctifies led him to question many of the initiatives in the 1980s which sought to extend to the laity tasks traditionally the function of the priest.

Here it is assumed that the church's teaching is the responsible development of biblical teaching, but the task is not so much to check this assumption as to build on the tradition.

It is a mistake to use the pulpit for what we might describe as didactic purposes, however important and necessary the task of teaching may be in other connections.

The task of theology is to articulate the teaching of the church only to the extent that the church's teaching grasps and expresses the reality of our historical situation.

On the other hand, the confusion of the two tasks has often meant that the significance of the proclamation of the «Word of God» has been lost sight of in the valid concern for the ministry of teaching.

Following on the British government's decision in favour of promoting English rather than Oriental or Vernacular education in India, and to seek the help of private agencies in the task, the Missions started Christian colleges for imparting education in Western culture and modern science with the teaching of English literature at the centre of secular courses and spiritually interpreted by the teaching of Christian Scripture.

It is rare to come across teachings in the church dealing with the practical tasks of reforming communities.

The schoolmaster's work of establishing discipline is only a prelude to the positive self - giving task of real teaching.

The task of Bishops is to teach and celebrate God's plan, making use of the rich insights given through his faithful servants down the centuries.

We can therefore characterize the Christian ethical outlook without attempting the perhaps impossible task of reconstructing the precise teaching of Jesus.

Perhaps, however, there may be a barrier in Buddhist teaching to applying compassion to this kind of task.

Indeed, the same faculty that enables us to distinguish between good and bad science helps us in the complicated task of distinguishing between trustworthy and dubious religious teachings.

If we followed Farley's suggestions, education for the tasks of the professional clergy would have more theological integrity and theology could be taught as a respectable university discipline.

Thus the primary task of the reform - minded evangelical is to make the Bible teach feminism in the most plausible way.

But even today I believe these lay teachers might go at their task differently if they knew that the product of their efforts was to be appraised, in some proper way, and that this appraisal too was part of the teaching and learning process.

Experts fight too, of course, and professional cultures are also corruptible, but it avoids the very difficult task of teaching an entire society how to examine the issues, think them through, and arrive at a reasoned decision.

But when I have seen this, my next task is to let the book's message universalize itself in my mind as God's own teaching or doctrine (to use the word that Calvin loved) now addressed to humankind in general and to me in particular within the frame of reality created by the death, resurrection, and present dominion of Jesus Christ.

One of the main tasks of the school is competent vocational guidance, which is governed primarily not by the principle of helping the student prepare for and get the position he wants, but by the objective of teaching students to know their own abilities and the nature of their society and persuading and inspiring them to devote their energies to the tasks that most urgently need to be done.

This central religious task is inherent in all teaching, regardless of the field of study.

Not simply to enlarge the clergyman's store of secular knowledge, he declared, and not to train him to be a professional psychotherapist, the project was rather «to prepare him for the practical task of fulfilling his pastoral responsibilities more effectively» (I. F. Hollander, «Mental Health Teaching Materials for the Clergy,» Journal of Religion and Health, April, 1962, P. 273.)

Nonetheless, one may be permitted to wonder whether such factors should have much bearing on the responsibility of bishops to articulate clearly the Church's teaching and the pastoral tasks entailed by that teaching.

And speaking as a Catholic parent, I certainly do want to know and be assured that the ones who teach my children in this important area of their spiritual and moral development are those whose personal character, knowledge and teaching skills are adequate for the task.

Here the ethic, which in Buddhism is also identical with the teaching of salvation — perhaps even more than it had been in the Brahmanic system — has much more latitude; it has a task that is metaphysically meaningful — suspending at one point the cosmic law, unraveling it, as it were.

Are many of the posters here proclaiming themselves to be the voice of God, standing in front of congregations they are tasked to teach, and calling for the death of an entire minority group?

Every aspect of the Chaplain's role must lead back to his first and most crucial task, to be a «presence of faith» whose fidelity to the liturgy and teaching of the Church as well as to those in his pastoral care, helps to bring shape and solidity to the ambiguous but sincere faith that he encounters in his work.

The world tells us to go and experience all of the pleasures that can be found in our youth, but the book of Acts teaches us to go and consider our lives nothing to us, and only aim to finish the race and complete the task God has given us — to share His grace.

To help me with my task, I have explored the teachings of my own tradition, the writings of the rabbis, as well as the wisdom of scientists, philosophers and poets through the ages.

The fundamental problem in connection with knowledge of the teaching of Jesus is the problem of reconstructing that teaching from the sources available to us, and the truth of the matter is that the more we learn about those sources the more difficult our task seems to become.

We need to surrender our lust for power and recognition and return to the radical teachings of Jesus, it's not easy task, but it must happen if the church is ever going to be the true light of the world Jesus envisioned.

It is in this spirit that this present work is offered, as one man's contribution to the ever - continuing task of research into the teaching of Jesus.

However, the task became complicated when reports from investigation of September 11 identified those involved in the terrorist acts as adherents of Islam, and alleged to be highly motivated by their religious teaching.

The founding of the R.E.A. represents formal acknowledgment that the teaching task associated with women in the home had moved into the church in the role of the Sunday School teacher.

The most urgent immediate task, therefore, is the development of education on the basis of the sciences, both natural and social, for only with their help can society as a whole be taught to construct a life completely in accordance with that knowledge which has become the factor by which our age is distinguished from all preceding periods of history.

Once we have arrived at a reconstruction of an aspect of the teaching of Jesus, our next task is to seek to understand it, by which we mean to interpret it in its original setting and to arrive as closely as we can at its original meaning.

But when they are devoted to establishing growing churches, then they create partners in the task of proclaiming the Gospel, making disciples of all people and teaching them all things commanded by our Lord».11 McGavran was critical of the social activities of missions as a preparation for the Gospel.

In my next post I will turn to Ahab and Jezebel for another biblical example of a man and his wife failing together in the task of teaching and learning the word of the LORD.