Sentences with phrase «own spiritual children»

Spiritual milk is necessary for spiritual children.

Paul, as a spiritual father, did not engage in spiritual child abuse.

Egos of very young spiritual children caught up in literal interpretation.

It is the responsibility of the spiritual adults to guard the spiritual children from false teachers and false doctrine.

Often, money is a factor as well, so that rather than teaching to grow spiritual children into adults, they only teach to grow their own wallet and bank account.

This chapter looks at verse 14 and the topic of guarding the spiritual children in the church, and the next chapter will consider verses 15 and 16 about guiding and growing spiritually mature Christians into greater depth and Christlikeness.

The sad reality is that these false teachers are not just led astray themselves by the lure of power and riches, but also lead astray spiritual children who have not been grounded in good doctrine.

But how can you tell who is a spiritual child and who is not?

When you learn and live this way, you will no longer be spiritual children (cf. 1 Cor 13:11), tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine, but instead, we will become mature and Christlike spiritual adults.

Although Ephesians 4:14 mainly talks about the importance of guarding the spiritual children in church, the other aspect of proper parenting is giving to the children, or providing for them.

But when it comes to spiritual children in the church, we have become experts at fostering and encouraging perpetual immaturity.

Finally there is the theme of global Pentecostalism, which Hempton comes close to crowning as Methodism's spiritual child.

Others are his spiritual children, simply seeking confession.

Local gay rights advocates and supporters described programs designed to turn gay teens straight as programs that engage in mental and spiritual child abuse, promote self - hatred and place LGBT teens at high risk for suicide.

However, we encourage you to come during our Spiritual Children's Camp.

Walter Owen's spiritual children trotted out the Continental GT Speed and the Mulsanne Mulliner Driving Specification for the Angeleno audience to ogle, but the car everyone's eyes fell upon was the Continental GT3 concept, making its North American debut after zapping the Parisian audience awake earlier this year.

Louis and Graeme's dreams are to revive the point & click adventure game in its purest old - school tradition and make Jengo the worthy spiritual child of timeless classics such as Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacles or Full Throttle.

Not exact matches

But I'm always striving to place my greatest priorities outside of the professional sphere — to spend time with my wife and children, for example, and to satisfy my spiritual need.

He is emphatically NOT the healer of America's wounded soul, the finder of lost children, the tender of America's spiritual consciousness, or whatever other spiritual bull **** a «pastor - in - chief» would be.

There is a reason that phrase, «You must be as children» (paraphrased) is in the bible... because you really would have to be a child lacking wisdom and critical thought to believe the ridiculous books of the Abrahamaic faiths, and you'd have to ba an even bigger fool to think they are the last word in spiritual truth.

Recognizing that poverty is more than a lack of money, Compassion works through local churches to holistically address the individual physical, economic, educational and spiritual needs of children — enabling them to thrive, not just survive.

There is no hell... people make their own hell... God is Love and God loves all his children equally and would never condemn any of them to people's perception of hell... none of God's spiritual energy is ever lost and we are made from It... if you think otherwise, that is what you will find when you cross over, until you WAKE UP!

We need not address the emotional or spiritual causes of our sadness to have the cloud of depression lift; we need not question the way we teach our children before we can rid them of attention deficit disorder.»

... The child doesn't have to struggle to get himself in a good position for having a relationship with God; he doesn't have to craft ingenious ways of explaining his position to Jesus; he doesn't have to create a pretty face for himself; he doesn't have to achieve any state of spiritual feeling or intellectual understanding.

My guess is children from the «spiritual Marriages» are being supported by tax payers as most of the offspring from these non-legal marriages are.

Who in our culture, in our society has continued to really march on to ensure that the African - American child and all other children; have sought to make sure that in keeping education alive assures them of not only the bright spiritual dreams of heaven but also the American dreams of here and now.

She writes that it was hard on all of them, but that her husband did it to take on the financial, emotional, and spiritual role of husband & father for her sister and the children who'd been left without a husband and father.

Expecting your child to grow in their faith thanks to a couple of hours input at church each week, if their home life is a spiritual desert, is clearly unrealistic and an abrogation of parental responsibilities.

More recently another wise man, the American trendspotter George Barna, writing in «Transforming Children into Spiritual Champions» (Regal), identified the spiritual upbringing of children as the most critical factor in the church's sChildren into Spiritual Champions» (Regal), identified the spiritual upbringing of children as the most critical factor in the church's Spiritual Champions» (Regal), identified the spiritual upbringing of children as the most critical factor in the church's spiritual upbringing of children as the most critical factor in the church's schildren as the most critical factor in the church's survival.

I have a problem gaining spiritual insight and «depth» on the backs of raped and murdered children.

I think that's spiritual abuse to tell your children it's honoring your parents to pay for their irresponsibility.

For the first time since becoming a mother, I was thinking less about how I didn't want to parent and more about how I did want to parent, particularly as it concerned my child's spiritual formation.

Similarly, David Hay, with another collaborator, Rebecca Nye, has established that children are naturally spiritual — even if this can be neutralised in them by unsympathetic adults!

Their work includes a Children's Centre, focused on single and impoverished families, a pilot micro loan program for education and business development, an ongoing partnership for home ownership within the community, and a deep local commitment to the spiritual growth, empowerment and development of the community.

Thus Jesus» teaching is that an heir or child of God who is alive in Christ can indeed experience spiritual death if he / she sows to a lifestyle of unrepentant sin.

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.»

Children who are privileged to have a faithfully married mother and father who are functionally literate and have a desire to instruct their offspring, and a commitment to the Church, are privileged indeed: for such children, home is already a place of education and spiritual nourChildren who are privileged to have a faithfully married mother and father who are functionally literate and have a desire to instruct their offspring, and a commitment to the Church, are privileged indeed: for such children, home is already a place of education and spiritual nourchildren, home is already a place of education and spiritual nourishment.

The same applies as children get older, and their own moral and spiritual lives unfold, and the first stirrings of vocation are perhaps sensed.

In 1971, British child psychoanalyst D. W Winnicott was approached by Anglican priests and asked to solve the following dilemma: How does one distinguish between a person's need for spiritual counsel and the need for psychoanalysis?

Personnaly; I think they have lost their moral / spiritual authority to dictate policy on any issue concerning women or children.

Bradshaw is the psycho - spiritual evangelist of «The Inner Child,» and one of the hottest properties on the lecture - video - book - television circuit that caters to the masses exercising their discontents on an excess of leisure.

Children taught all major religions are part of God's progressive revelation to mankind, but that each person should accept a religion not because it was the faith of their parents but because he or she independently searched, researched, reflected, studied, thought, meditated, etc, and came to their own spiritual belief.

Indeed, to do good to a little child is to do good to Jesus himself, while to cause injury or hurt to one is a moral and spiritual calamity, deserving the punishment of death itself.

«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.

As a child of God it is part of my spiritual DNA to love others, even if I dislike the behavior.

Far from being unapproachable, God's dwellingplace was within the spiritual life of his children.

Already there are many thousands of present - day parents who were brought up with no religious faith and few standards, and they have had almost nothing, and sometimes less than nothing of spiritual value, to pass on to their children.

The best of mothers to her children, she also quietly lived out a Marian vocation of spiritual motherhood.

In most areas, Paul allowed others to make their own choices, but some «spiritual fathers» today want families to check with him regarding such things as vacation planning, job transfers, financial management, and child rearing.

The idea of spiritual fathers comes from passages like 1 Corinthians 4:15 - 16, 11:1, Philippians 2:22, 4:9, and 2 Timothy 3:10, 14 where Paul tells those under his care to follow his instructions and imitate his example because they are his children in the gospel.