Sentences with phrase «personal tradition for»

If you can find something that you both enjoy, it can become a personal tradition for the two of you, an interest that regularly brings you closer.

The Lotte New York Palace Hotel always has the most epic Christmas tree (see my past posts from it here and here) it's become a personal tradition for me to go at least once every December to see it.

Not exact matches

In an April, 2003, speech, Harper defined social conservatism as «respect for custom and traditions (religious traditions above all), voluntary association, and personal self - restraint reinforced by moral and legal sanctions on behaviour.»

For Hart and the traditions from which he draws, it is a gross anthropomorphism to speak of God as «a person» or «personal.»

You cant debate God... you cant use logic to explain God... You cant use your small finite mind to try and explain away an infinite God... Man is flesh and blood but man has a spirit and some things can only be received and revealed thru spirit... And what you do nt see is actually more real than what you can observe with your five senses... And BTW I did nt say religion i said God... Religion is man made tradition... God is real... develop a personal relationship with the one who created you and gave you life... God has a purpose for your life...

For them, tradition is not a living tradition, and an understanding of tradition as a common and personal experience of life in Christ comes under suspicion as too «liberal.»

While, however, this disentangling of the Hebrew - Christian tradition from its incorporation in a special race and state provided the indispensable setting for a religion of free, personal choice, the influence of Jesus himself is needed to explain what happened.

Thus the Commission called for a Christian concern for Higher Education which helps critical rational and humanist evaluation of both the western and Indian cultures to build a new cultural concept which subordinated religious traditions, technology and politics to personal values according to the principle «Sabbath is made for man and not man for the Sabbath», enunciated by Jesus and illustrated in the idea of Incarnation of God in Christ.

In consequence, it is not alone to the prophetic tradition, with its distaste for priestcraft and animal offering, that we must look in the Old Testament to find personal prayer.

Some concern for personal liberty and social order is present in these traditions.

In these last years, scarred by AIDS, by the dominant culture of greed and violence, and by personal loss and pain, I have come to see more distinctly the vital link between the healing process (traditionally the prerogative of religious and medical traditions) and the work of liberation (assumed to be the business of revolutionary movements for justice).

If you are rejecting the messiah for your own personal religion or tradition, does God hear your prayer?

In these last years scarred by AIDS, by the dominant culture of greed and violence, and by personal loss and pain, the author has come to see more distinctly the vital link between the healing process (traditionally the prerogative of religious and medical traditions) and the work of liberation (assumed to be the business of revolutionary movements for justice).

Furthermore, despite the emphasis by such theologians as Augustine, Calvin, Jonathan Edwards, and Reinhold Niebuhr (with whom Schlesinger enjoyed a personal association) on the need to distinguish between divine and human authority, it is a gross distortion of all of their views for Schlesinger to impute to them the kind of relativism which makes the existence of God and the reality of revelation (the basis of all western religious traditions) so utterly irrelevant for public life.

Whenever pluralism becomes too content with a relaxed model of «dialogue,» it can ignore the need for conflict and the actualities of systematic distortions in the personal (psychosis), historical (alienation and oppression) and religious (sin) dimensions of every person, culture and tradition.

All writers must master the craft of literature, the possibilities of language, the examples of tradition, and then match that learning with the personal drive for perfection and innovation.

For Berger, then, the theological enterprise is best understood as a process of «induction,» in which one mediates and interprets personal experience in conversation with one's religious tradition.

Like Berger, Bellah has in mind the need for an overarching sense of meaning, but the symbols Bellah discusses seem not so exclusively to consist of «theoretical traditions,» as Berger describes them, but of anecdotes, images, pictures, connotatively rich names and places, rituals, and personal experiences.

While Biblical hermeneutics provided the key to an understanding of the role of women in the church and family, dialogue between those whose traditions have heard the Word of God differently in other times and places held the key for the discussion of social ethics, and engagement with the full range of cultural activity (from psychotherapy to radical protest, from personal testimony to scientific statement) was the locus for theological evaluation concerning homosexuality.

«I am not an orthodox Christian,» he said, «but the Christian tradition is so much a part of our life, of my life, and Christ is to me so commanding a figure who so released all that I care most for that I feel justified in asserting a Christian service which should not play up personal immortality» (Swanberg, p. 407)

It has been my personal experience that Judaism is often practiced with an appreciation for the cultural benefits of community and tradition without falling into the pits of fundamentalism and intellectual suicide; not that Jewish fundamentalists don't exist, they just seem to make up a smaller percentage of the overall population.

Jonathan Edwards is interesting for contemporary theologians because he developed a balance of brilliant intellectual honesty, fidelity to the biblical traditions, and an openness to new insight brought by personal experience.

The oral tradition he received (and this all helped to make him the civilized man he was becoming) had already created names for the large number and varied kinds of personal forces who made his world such a live place.

Certainly you can find a love for Scripture, personal faith, deviled eggs and Chubby Bunny in other Christian traditions as well.

«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».

Our group preamble is «this group of A.A. attempts to maintain a tradition of free expression, and conduct a meeting where alcoholics may feel free to express any doubts or disbeliefs they may have, and to share their own personal form of spiritual experience, their search for it, or their rejection of it.

For some, tradition means «how we did it last year,» a tradition based all too frequently on the personal and idiosyncratic projections of worship leaders.

The catholic tradition is not merely a topic for personal reflection and edification; it is meant to inform and structure the life of the visible church around us.

And, the tradition was broken for personal gain and the promotion of a book while causing controlversy in the public domain.

I have made a conscientious effort to let the voices of the Christian tradition speak for themselves in their own — though often translated — words, rather than interpose my own paraphrasing that can introduce unintentionally a personal bias.

Some religions, like Buddhism for example, do not believe in a personal deity, and some involve little or no definite doctrine at all, being little more than tribal and family ritual traditions with no formal belief structure.

While for the social scientist empirical data form the major source for his or her understanding and evaluation of a phenomenon, for the religious practitioner empirical data are just one source of determinative information, and often fill a secondary role behind other sources such as personal experience, intuition, and religious tradition.

To be sure, the world I inhabited for decades led me to develop most of my closest personal and professional relationships with secularized persons and with faithful adherents of other religious traditions.

Both intense group life and the demand for personal sacrifice in these church communities are profoundly important; but their stance encourages a withdrawal into privatism, lacks a sense of the common good, and fails to recognize the importance of tradition and history.

Thanks for sharing such a personal event with your family and their tradition.

We feel it's important for our team to join in this great tradition and special moment of recognition, at the same time we also respect the great liberties afforded by our country including the freedom of personal expression.»

I don't think the business of circumcision is being driven by profit - ppl circumcise because its socially acceptable, or tradition, or for religious reasons - its personal, and not commercial.

I collect all sorts of Christmas themed picture books for this tradition, but the nativity themed books are my personal favorites.

If Christians truly have any intentions of helping to preserve liberty for their children and grandchildren, they must put rhetoric, tradition, friendship, and personal feelings aside and take action.

We need to draw upon a specifically English story that points to the battle for social justice born of a proud tradition of personal liberty and independence - as resentful of corporate elites as meddling bureaucracy.

Lakota tradition has also been central to Raph's personal practice for many years.

Rooted in classical Aṣhtāṅga (eight - limbed) Yoga and steeped in tradition, our 200 and 300 - hour and Prenatal Yoga Teacher Trainings offer a comprehensive program to deepen personal practice and develop a strong and authentic foundation for teaching.

We didn't include anything in our day for «tradition's sake» and added elements that were totally personal to us and that made it really special — I'd say add in as many personal touches as you can and it doesn't have to cost you any more money to make it lots more memorable.

Yankee's new holiday scents — All is Bright, Bubbly Pomegranate, Alpine Martini, and my personal favorite, Christmas Thyme — are perfect for celebrating traditions in 2016, and the Get Your Glamour On collection is a game - changer for seasonal candles.

It's now my own personal tradition that I do for myself during the hustle and bustle of the season.

"CuppaLove.com - Dating, Love, Romance, Relationships, Personals» - it's the title of the site.The most important text on the main page - «Keeping the Conversation Going», «Marriage Tips For Couples», «Searching For a Soul Mate», «How to Approach Women», «Now serving freshly brewed cups of love...», «A True Healthy Relationship», «15 Signs You May Be in Love With Mr Wrong», «The Tradition of Toasting — Why Toast to the Bride?»

Chasabl is a hybrid social network and dating / personals site for big men and the men who love them — chubs and chasers, chubby bears and cubs, and everyone Chicago Bears Tradition.

It gives the idea of consumerism run wild the short shrift that it deserves (and the cynicism that an intervening quarter - century demands), touching on the original's explanation of the zombies» affinity for the shopping mall and the human heroes» delight at their newfound material wealth before becoming a bracing action film that, like Marcus Nispel's reworking of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the source of which didn't need updating as much as Dawn arguably did), is more firmly entrenched in the James Cameron Aliens tradition than the Seventies institution of disconcerting personal horror film.

Petra Volpe's entertaining political dramedy, The Divine Order, tells the story of unstoppable women who defied local traditions and oppressive husbands to fight for greater personal freedom.

Even the Center for Civic Education, a 40 - year - old nonprofit organization whose National Advisory Committee reads like a Who's Who of democratic values and traditions (including a dozen current and former members of Congress and a couple of Supreme Court justices), does not explain in its curriculum standards that civil disobedience is rooted in fundamental principles as opposed to personal preferences.