Sentences with phrase «people in one's culture»

It seems that most people in our culture think that being Christian simply means being a good person.

The truth is, far too many people in our culture do not know what love is.

It may not seem that way because you see lots of other people in your culture consuming such high amounts.

Most people in our culture turn to the internet.

There is a movement afloat to change the perception of older people in our culture.

Their resolution of these conflicts becomes a kind of universal drama that gives meaning to many people in their cultures.

Most people in this culture have already heard that story and by the time they are dying have either accepted or rejected it.

In some recent surveys (reported in books like unChristian and They), it appears that most people in our culture believe that Christians are about as trustworthy as car salesmen and lawyers.

I watch the parade of people in our culture marching through their lives on the quest to get thin, fit, beautiful, calm, centered, smarter, more productive, more emotionally intelligent, climb higher, run farther, find more success, live longer, look younger.

People in every culture known to us have had experiences that seem overwhelmingly to them to be experiences of the Sacred.

If we really follow Jesus, He leads us to love those that many of the religious people in our culture hate.

Lots of Christians fail to recognize that «presenting the Gospel» to people who didn't grow up in church has very little chance of getting a positive response, especially for the many people in our culture who have a negative impression of Christianity.

Because people in our culture, including those who fill our churches, no longer see the world in metaphysical terms and are more secular in their orientation, the idea of mystery as an objective fact, inaccessible to empirical study, has less of a hold on their consciousness.

Yet, many people in our culture claim to be Christians but have never heard a comprehensive gospel message.

First, my post does not refer to arranged marriages or forced marriages or any of the terrible abuses of marriage as an institution to harm or enslave people in any culture throughout history.

Each serves as a positive example and an inspiration to their co-workers and family members who need to overcome complacency that often leads to poor eating habits, inactivity and obesity that so many people in our culture fall victim to,» Picente said.

Bonobos seem to have sex more often and in more combinations than the average person in any culture, and most of the time bonobo sex has nothing to do with making babies.

People in every culture cook at least some of their food, says Richard Wrangham at Harvard University.

Both books delve into the work of Dr. Weston A Price, a dentist who studied the oral health of people in cultures around the world.

How to Become a Happier Person In our culture high stress is a norm, and we compete as if our lives depended upon it.

Beautifully rendered and assuredly directed, the film raises a lot of questions about the nature of damaged people in a culture of excess and non-stop barrage of information, capturing the zeitgeist in ways that no other film this year has done.

There are so many registrants at the brokerage, the salesman doesn't even know who owns the brokerage and doesn't care, stating that if people in his culture can't get a real job, they go into real estate; hundreds of them, perhaps thousands now grand - fathered, many well - educated.

I would accept the notion that most persons in our culture, Christian and non-Christian alike, function in their daily lives, perhaps unconsciously, on the basis of the assumed absence of God in history.

For far too many people in cultures and eras of the past, the sort of horror depicted in these movies is not just imagination, but was a daily reality.

Tragically, a majority of people in our culture, and even in our Church, have used contraception.

What we can't forget is that these analogies were chosen in order to explain things that are constant (God's character, God's love for the church) in ways that people in those cultures would understyand (gendered relationships).

The Almighty redeems the culture through redeeming the people in that culture.

But over the last thirty to forty years, it has become unpersuasive to millions of people in our culture.

Unfortunately, many people in our culture, including many Christians, have adopted Hollywood's definition of love as feelings.

Well, in our culture, the law says this partly because the Bible says this, but even without the Bible, people in our culture believe that in general, a man who has two or more wives can not properly love them both.

Beyond this, a gospel - centered approach to culture can encourage Christians to recognize that the Spirit of God is at work within culture even before the people in that culture hear and embrace the gospel.

To some extent, and this is a point sometimes missed, arguing simply for the limited freedom for the Church to act as she desires in her own limited sphere is unsatisfactory, because it appears to abdicate the Church's responsibility to proclaim the truth for all people in all cultures.

While it would take an empirical study to solve the issue, my hypothesis is that most persons in our culture — liberal, postliberal or what have you — interpret their experiences and «the universe» primarily in terms that are neither biblical nor theological.

I said that the breast is overly sexualized and that people in our culture can not separate the sexual from the simply functional.

Most people in our culture are riddled with fear, and it's running the show in our lives, taking the wheel in most of our decision - making.

Most people in our culture would probably think of that.

So many people in our culture are giving up on marriage and we are glad not to be the only ones saying, «Marriage is for life.

Each person in our culture does experience «heavy doses» of shame -LSB-...]