Sentences with phrase «other spiritual help»

in the course of marriage counseling, pastoral counseling, or other spiritual help given in confidence; and (b) communications of persons not members of the clergyman's parish or denomination.

Do we get jealous when our members seek out other spiritual helps?

The baptised have duties in the Church and also rights: «To receive the sacraments, to be nourished by the Word of God, and to be sustained by the other spiritual helps of the Church.»

Not exact matches

Even though the scripture uses some aspects of ancient mil life to help us understand spiritual truths, the mil life and church life are not a perfect analogy or paradigm by which to judge the other.

SisterChromatid - your missing my point I am not trying to trample anyone else s free speech, I just personally think it could have been said differently, what they said makes them appear like the self righteous ones and that helps no one, as someone who is spiritual and gay I have been judged by both Christians and atheists alike, one says I am going to hell the other says I'm a nutjob, when does it stop?

SGM evoked a religious freedom defense in 2013 when the confidentiality of its pastoral counseling was challenged, stating, «SGM believes that allowing courts to second - guess pastoral guidance would represent a blow to the First Amendment that would hinder, not help, families seeking spiritual direction among other resources in dealing with the trauma related to any sin including child sexual abuse.»

And I think this whole legal / spiritual wife thing is such a good idea I want you to keep on being the theologian - in - residence at my church, and I'll help you convince other people that your legal wife is crazy so you should have a spiritual wife instead.»

But I am doing my spiritual work and hoping that I can help others do theirs.

«SGM believes that allowing courts to second - guess pastoral guidance would represent a blow to the First Amendment that would hinder, not help, families seeking spiritual direction among other resources in dealing with the trauma related to any sin including child sexual abuse,» a representative of SGM said in a November 14 statement.

Whatever plan it followed, it would seem to be a calamity which the church need not add to her many other lost opportunities, to allow the cure and care of the drunkard to fall entirely into the hands of science, which admittedly needs all the help that faith in God can give in dealing with an ill so largely spiritual as the excessive use of alcohol.

Has it ever seemed strange to you that although there can be dozens of people out in the community loving others, serving the poor, meeting needs, and helping the homeless, the «truly spiritual people» are those who come to church on Wednesday night for the prayer meeting where they pray for the poor, the homeless, and the other needs of the community?

The author, a Japanese Christian, tells how a Taiwanese Christian helped him to deal with the spiritual homelessness that he experienced by going to live in other cultures.

To advocate self - help, to argue that affirmative action can not be a long - run solution to the problem of racial inequality, to suggest that some of what is transpiring in black communities reflects a spiritual malaise, to note that fundamental change will require that individual lives be transformed in ways that governments are ill - suited to do, to urge that we must look to how black men and women are relating to each other, how parents are bringing up their children, that we have to ask ourselves what values inform the behavior of our youth» to do these things is not to take a partisan position, or vent some neoconservative ideological screed.

It also makes me think of those who are respected for their spiritual consistency and as a result have something to offer in helping the others to be built up.

my chief desire is to help others in their spiritual walks.

They are written primarily for ministers (and those preparing for the ministry), but we hope that they will also prove useful to other counselors who are interested in the crucial role of spiritual and value issues in all helping relationships.

It doesn't take much spiritual discernment to spot the faults and failings of others, its recognizing our own that requires a little help from the Divine Counselor.

But if Pate thinks it is too humanistic (the many), and others think it might be too spiritual (the one), might postmodern thinking actually be incarnational, and therefore, a good candidate for helping us continue to read Scripture and develop theology?

He gives the blessing of living in America so that we can use our wealth and our resources and our position in the world to help other people and to help the Good News of salvation through Jesus Christ be spread to nations that are still in spiritual darkness.

This is a letter I wrote to the members of The Lasting Supper, my online community where we help and support each other deconstruct and reconstruct our spiritual autonomy and independence in healthy ways.

The series listed was written primarily for ministers (and those preparing for the ministry), but will also prove useful to other counselors who are interested in the crucial role of spiritual and value issues in all helping relationships.

Peace and Ramadan Kareem to all Muslim Brothers and Sisters... Inshallah fasting from Monday Dawn to SunSet... Just wonder in Christians or non Religious have tried fasting as Muslims do... am sure with time they will adopt it as a system for the health benefits it holds health and body... it is told it helps the body to discharge and burn out the poisonous chemicals from our bodies other than controlling weights... Some say they can not because of smoking other for water or food... but other than that is controlling anger or bad mood of the empty stomach, controlling one's tongue from hurting any one, to control eyes from staring at desire... Above all those to a Muslim he is to Maintain Prayers and Quran Reciting which of course beside it being a spiritual matter it is meant the body exercise by the up's and down's of prayers... as well as training of tongue & lungs by the Quran Recitation... these beside Tasbih «Praise of Glorify» helps to control one's breathing..

If someone works hard, is generally nice to others, donates to charity, and helps when someone needs help what does it matter if he calls himself Catholic, Baptist, Evangelical, Lutheran, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, atheist, spiritual, or even Raelian?

It's also a bit of a tongue - in - cheek pitch for The Lasting Supper that I'm passionate about and care about deeply because it is really helping people explore and exercise their spiritual freedom and independence with others of like mind.

The body therapy methods are used most productively when they are integrated with methods for helping people enliven themselves in all the other interdependent aspects of their psycho - social - spiritual - physical personhood.

Let's help people become disciples on mission, becoming spiritual self feeders, serving the marginalized, loving their neighbors, and telling others about Christ — that might be revealing, too.

The programs taught me about (1) admitting I was beat, (2) coming to believe in something greater than myself (eventually a higher power)(many evolutions and concepts of HP, all of these at one time or another: nature, the 12 steps, creator, Love, spiritual principles)(Step 3) applying my low self worth and gigantic Ego to these spiritual principles (4) write down my liabilities and assets (5) share them with another and my higher power (6 & 7) ask for the liabilites to be removed and be patient with the process (8) Make a list of all that were harmed by me (9) make amends to such folks except whn to do so would injure them or myself (10) take a daily inventory of my day, checking for snafus, mean temperment, arrogance etc (11) meditation and prayer to communicate to my higher power and quiet reflection to listen for the Truth (12) after having a spiritual awakening as a result of working these steps, help others if they wish for help because now I am in the position to assist.

All means of counseling and spiritual guidance should be used to help the offender, and he or she may even be encouraged to seek other professional help.

The ministry is helping in winning souls for Christ and nurturing the spiritual life of converts and other Christians.

He gives us leaders / elders to help raise us up to spiritual maturity, and we have Holy Spirit in us who is our Ultimate Teacher, Counselor and Guide Tas the Word says, since we have Him, we need no other person to teach us).

The benefits are: God's mercy is communicated in a tangible way; Reconciliation with God; Personal encounter with Christ; Divine life is restored in our soul; Grace is given; Confession reminds us of the price of sin; The profits of penance; Remission of eternal punishment; Temporal punishment can be diminished; Merit and virtue restored; Makes our prayers and works more efficacious; We benefit from the priest's prayers and penance; More fruitful participation in other sacraments; Sacrament of healing; Strengthens our faith; Cultivates hope; Increases charity; Fosters growth in humility and in self - knowledge; Helps to form our conscience; Brings psychological benefits; Prevents us from falling into more serious sins; Improves our prayer life; Source of spiritual direction; Helps us becomesaints.

I believe God has used this illness to help me grow in my spiritual walk and has used my story to also help others.

Pray to his God, like a devout Jew would, yes, but why would one part of God need to verbally ask for spiritual help from one of his other parts?

Those are the people who can help us think about how economic joblessness and spiritual poverty reinforce each other.

Similarly, the minister who elicits trust in healing prayer isn't the one promising perfect results, but the one who acts as a guide through the thicket of the spiritual world — urging and helping others to accept their responsibility to work as partners with Jesus Christ, who respectfully and lovingly stands at the door and knocks, but waits for us to open.

7 A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other.

Second, growth counseling involves a variety of growth - stimulating methods to help people use more of their potentialities by (1) developing better communication with self, others, nature, and God — the four basic relationships within which all growth occurs; (2) developing new skills of relating in mutually - affirming, mutually - fulfilling ways; (3) growing by making constructive decisions and taking responsible action; (4) using the growth possibilities inherent in each life stage; (5) learning to use the pain and problems of unexpected crises as growth opportunities; (6) learning better methods of spiritual growth — the maturing of one's personal faith, working values, sense of purpose, peak experiences, and awareness of really belonging in the universe.

At their best, such «chaplains» help to «damp» the explosions of social conflict, to channel it into constructive or at least rational forms (rather than impulsive or self - destructive), to provide links to the other structures of society, to lend legitimacy to the objectives of the militant groups, to help them to weigh the choices before them and to communicate their hopes and needs to the «outside world,» and to supply spiritual nurture and encouragement.

So, as when a Christian first joins God's Church, he does so through the formal Church rite of the sacrament of baptism, and as when his life further progresses it is marked and strengthened by other sacraments of the Church, so when he had damaged his relationship with God and his Church, and, by doing so, threatened or injured that of others, a sacrament of the Church makes provision or formal statements of sorrow by the sinner, of God's forgiveness by his Church, and for a means of spiritual help, grace, to help the sinner to carry out his intention to amend.

A fourth paradox: while the denominations survive as some means or other of helping people link up with traditions and find spiritual families, they are grossly undersupported.

This in turn allows room for personalism and, for example, helps us to repair the damaging split that developed between a legalistic and naturalistic moral theology on the one hand and a separate personalistic spiritual theology on the other, as well as challenging the Western tendency to subordinate person to nature and grace to law.

Above all other Indian meals, there is one which is considered to help facilitate spiritual growth.

In other words, practicing one's faith is important, but a dad's emotional relationship with his kids is key to helping them develop a healthy spiritual life Tweet this!.

my mom assured me that the way i felt was perfectly normal, other ap mama's i knew assured me that i would somehow find a way to work it out (even if it meant me cosleeping with both kids which i had not originally wanted to do) and i relied on my spiritual path to help me.

Application: People who fail to train themselves to be like Christ will continue to act as spiritual infants who have to rely on others instead of the Lord for their help.

I see this number pretty regularly, probably because I write about spirituality and offer intuitive sessions that, among other things, help people connect with their spiritual guidance squad.

After embarking on her own self - healing journey, Danielle is passionate about helping other women find the key to unlocking physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional wellness.

For more than thirty years they've combined their deep love for each other with the work of inner exploration and self - discovery to build The Enchanted World of Amy Zerner and Monte Farber: books, card decks, and oracles that have helped millions answer questions, find deeper meaning, and follow their own spiritual path.

Since then, he's helped thousands of people tap into their spiritual side through yoga, meditation and other practices.

Leanne's journey from engineer designing submarines — to acupuncturist — to artist — to color and light therapy expert... is driven by her lifelong love of science, holistic medicine, spiritual growth and a true desire to help others.