Sentences with phrase «on scripture in»

Feasting on scripture in soul nourishing ways — reading and living the Bible well — happens when these four crucial steps are followed:

The best is the closing remark... which I've been saying similar here for the last day or two: «However, you have become what you claim to despise; you have imposed your own agenda on Scripture in order to advance your own goals.

Perhaps we should institute some annual ritual, based on this scripture in Acts, by which we memorialize Judas's supposed act of perfidy and the selection of new leaders who have walked with Jesus in all aspects of his earthly ministry, from baptism to ascension.

In the 1960s, for example, it adopted an inerrancy clause in its statement on Scripture in a show of solidarity.

In this engagement with Scripture, Evangelicals and Catholics are learning from one another: Catholics from the Evangelical emphasis on group Bible study and commitment to the majestic and final authority of the written word of God; and Evangelicals from the Catholic emphasis on Scripture in the liturgical and devotional life, informed by the lived experience of Christ's Church through the ages.

Not exact matches

Sheryl Sandberg's book on inspiration and advice for women business leaders may someday be scripture on how to claim their rightful roles in the office and the boardroom.

In these moments of heartache and darkness, we hold on to God's word in Scripture: «I have heard your prayer and seen your tears, I will heal you.&raquIn these moments of heartache and darkness, we hold on to God's word in Scripture: «I have heard your prayer and seen your tears, I will heal you.&raquin Scripture: «I have heard your prayer and seen your tears, I will heal you.»

In one response you have referred to me as silly, accused me of being unable to reconcile my beliefs to scripture, accused me of stalling, rambling on and on, (love the irony in this one... grin), likened me to a tween, insinuated I do not know or rightly divide scripture, referred to me as sensitive, and implied my post was immaturIn one response you have referred to me as silly, accused me of being unable to reconcile my beliefs to scripture, accused me of stalling, rambling on and on, (love the irony in this one... grin), likened me to a tween, insinuated I do not know or rightly divide scripture, referred to me as sensitive, and implied my post was immaturin this one... grin), likened me to a tween, insinuated I do not know or rightly divide scripture, referred to me as sensitive, and implied my post was immature.

However, Church officials have responded, saying: «The objectives of the Shared Conversations on Sexuality, Scripture and Mission were set out in June 2014 by the Bishop of Sheffield in GS Misc 1083.

For no particular reason except that it has been on my mind, this goes out to lectors everywhere who have been given the wrong instruction manual on proclaiming scripture in worship.

Heck I just the other day finally got a new take on the idea of «two become one» in Genesis, the gospels, and Paul — and that's 14 years after the fact I first heard that scripture.

Love is the answer in any situation and upon that we can agree even if we disagree on the causality, genetics, and fancy theological words and scripture passages we can cite back and forth.

Their interpretations are based on the Torah (including those Leviticus passages) and they consider all thing in their interpretation — not just 2 scriptures as «evidence».

My aim is to take scriptures at their most obvious, and I am not bending or breaking a single thing from any passage in Genesis (most of this is based on Rabbinic interpretations).

It's not that I don't feel like I can, I can... but is that in the vocabulary of the one who I worship, if it's not then why would I as His Son want to take on what is not His, my Father's nature... The versions of the Bible I've read seem to think that words are powerful and speaking them is an action and can even change physics if used properly... Again, the scriptures speak for themselves and circumventing the topical study with christiany cliche come - backs doesn't answer or annul anything that the Word has to say on the matter.

Now the pressures of the sexual revolution are tempting the Church to loosen her claim on the bodily act that Scripture consistently treats as most deeply implicated in spiritual things — sex.

But slavery going from Egypt is in the Holy scriptures (Deuteronomy 28:68) Israel sons and daughters were put on slave ships and sold to their enemies!

So, by your reasoning, if «People put so much importance on words» (implying that they don't matter and we shouldn't take thought of how we use them) then I ought to be able to sing along with the lyrics from pac's «hit»em up» with my black friends, curse in a kindergarten class as well as a corporate meeting for my boss... what impression would a client have of my boss if I were cussing in a professional meeting or at a charity event... it doesn't add up, it's a cop - out rebuttal... trying to find loopholes or applying «human reasoning» like» ll take a swearing guy who's helpful» doesn't change Jesus or scripture it's just setting up a what - if scenario and trying to allow that to in some way justify your stance when again, that doesn't change The Holy Spirit or His heart in those who have been born again... the verses (inspired by His own Spirit) speak for themselves.

People don't behave the way we do, good or bad, because of ancient scripture or the voice of burning bush in the desert or the face of the messiah on French toast.

By the evidence of the scripture (if you were to actually study it instead of making broad assumptions about it based on what you read somewhere else) God set this earth in motion.

It is one thing to offend by speaking truth, that'll happen, but any other type of offence is unnecessary and against the teachings (which show God's heart on the matter) in scripture for those who claim to «know Him».

What's more, it in no way invalidates Smith's central point about Scripture's effect on us.

But don't be so harsh on your friends who are sure if they've read what's revealed to us in Scripture...

You don't want to try to understand the scriptures, and if you did, then you would know how wrong you are But, its more fun to twist things in your mind, so you can co = meback with your old and worn out «fouls» on everything.

On Luther's side, the final break with the Church authorities came in the wake of Leo X's bull of November 1518; in that document, as Luther saw it, Leo arrogated to himself the power of defining Church teaching without accountability to Scripture, the Fathers, or the ancient canons.

Evangelicals maintain that the one Church becomes visible on earth in all local congregations that meet to do together the things that, according to Scripture, the Church does.

Besides, Jesus discussed hell far more than he discussed heaven, and most Christian do believe it because the bible discusses it as a real place for real people on real pages in real scripture verses.

Ever since the call for prophethood first came to Muhammad, the son of «Abdallah» approaching the age of fortieth on the month of Ramadan, it is related the Angel Gabriel came to Muhammad and he slept in solitude on Mount Hira and said, «Recite» what Muslims known as the first four verses of the ninety - sixth chapters of the Muslim scripture, known as the Qur «an.

Since Christianity is based on the Bible, it is inconceivable how one can reconcile progressive attitudes towards gender equality with what is written in scripture without being an extreme semantic acrobat and moral contortionist.

In many ways, it is at odds with waiting on the Lord, seeking God in silence and solitude, and meditating on ScripturIn many ways, it is at odds with waiting on the Lord, seeking God in silence and solitude, and meditating on Scripturin silence and solitude, and meditating on Scripture.

The scripture dealing with Judas having been better off not being born, simply relates to the shame he will feel in due time when he is resurrected on earth to find earth's billions acknowledging him as the betrayer of the world's saviour, yikes!!

The promotional video for Bible Out Loud features several South Carolina athletes, but they're not named in an effort to keep the focus on Scripture.

For this reason, all attempts at discernment and teaching must rely on prayerful attentiveness to the guidance of the Spirit in the study of Scripture.

Though the Puritans believed in the primacy of Scripture, they were not narrow biblicists and drew widely on early Christian writings in polemical, homiletical, and exegetical works.

In 1 Corinthians 15:3 - 8 it says «For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve.

You looked forward to the part of your day where you were able to pour over the pages of Scripture that filled you in on this new relationship.

In a fascinating historical treatment, Holy Scripture and the Quest for Authority at the End of the Middle Ages, Ian Christopher Levy offers a new perspective on this question.

Is Fred Phelps, who has seized on a few hateful scriptures, more or less a Christian than Rob Bell, who no longer believes in an eternal hell?

As Evangelicals and Catholics we are agreed on what we have said together in the statement «The Gift of Salvation» and on what we have been able to say together in the present statement on Scripture and tradition.

edition; and when all these are consulted, the reader will see how little dependence can be placed on the most learned conjectures relative to these and the other animals mentioned in Scripture.

While Greene's project is an ideal way to reinvigorate one's Bible reading (as I hope will be the case with my copy) or introduce readers to Scripture for the first time, it won't ultimately prove as effective in helping us read Scripture theologically and spiritually, with and for the Church, as the editions you and I already have on our shelves.

CNN: My Take: The 5 key American statements on war Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» explores five texts that have served as «scripture» of sorts in American public life, each of which contemplate the meaning and ends of war

Until there are stronger practices of friendship and community and hospitality in the church, I feel an enormous amount of anguish and frustration when I tell young gay Christians that, yes, I do think, on the authority of Scripture, that God is asking you to live without gay sex.

It's a cherry - picking of scripture used to address what's happening right now in popular culture,» says Knust, author of the recent book «Unprotected Texts: The Bible's Surprising Contradictions on Sex and Desire.»

If you want to say that two men or two women is an abomination then you might want to read some more of that scripture and you would find puting two seeds in the same hole, working on sundays, wearing cloths with more than one color and lots of other dumb things are mentioned in a list why do you all foucus on just one part of that list it has lots of abominations that we all do every day

In his encyclical on Holy Scripture, Pius XII warmly acknowledges that the inquiry of modern exegetes «has also clearly shown the special preeminence of the people of Israel among the other ancient nations of the East....»

In the Jewish scripture, a form of indentured servitude is recognized and strictly controlled with set time limits on such service (seven years) as a method of discharging bankruptcy.

Based on the scripture verse, «Keep your head in all situations!»

The scripture is quite clear on our obligation to help neighbors in need — but it is also quite clear on the need for individual thrift and personal responsibility.

Touchstone provides a forum where Christians of various backgrounds — Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox — can speak candidly with one another on the basis of a shared commitment to the Great Tradition of Christian faith as revealed in the Holy Scriptures and set forth in the classic creeds of the early church.The term «mere Christianity,» of course, was made famous by C. S. Lewis, whose book of that title is among the most influential religious volumes of the past one hundred years.