Sentences with phrase «power of presence»

Another distinguished family therapy authority, Lynn Hoffman (1981), attested to «the power of her presence with families» and her «extraordinary and unique contribution» to the field.

There is a grace and fragility to these works that reveal an unexpected depth of emotion and paradoxically underscore the power of their presence.

Focusing on action, mobility, the work of art and the power of its presence, the exhibition Amours has devoted the entire space of the Fondation Cartier to the conventions of the representation.

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What we're looking at in the Escalade's success, then, is the power of presence.

Students need to understand the power of presence, and of being fully engaged, whether it's while performing an activity, listening to a friend, or even just experiencing a feeling.

The book is not a book of deep theology, but through the stories and simple truths it contains, reveals some of the deepest and simplest theology that exists: the power of presence (theologians call it «incarnation») among the sin, pain, and suffering of this world.

The denial of sexual feelings among church members makes it difficult to experience the power of any presence, including the presence of God.

Whatever it is that transpired between the burial of Jesus» body in the tomb and the growing conviction among his followers that somehow the power of his presence still permeated their very lives, it can only be comprehended as something utterly novel.

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If you want to boost your charisma, practice a combination of power, warmth and presence.

On top of this, China's growing presence in the Balkans can also impact relationships with other regional powers such as Turkey and Russia.

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According to a blog post, Robin, a Boston, MA - based provider of a presence - powered automation and intelligence platform for the workplace, raised $ 1.4 m in seed funding.

If Pentecostals are sacramental, then it is highly ironic that they tend not to believe that there is any real spiritual power invested in the rites of baptism and Holy Communion, holding instead that they are only symbols and marginalizing their presence in their services.

but neither is the power and assurance of God's presence to be negated.

Our presence expressed, better than words, the power of love that unites us in our sorrows and in our joys.

The old setting, where Americans in power could count on the presence and support of clergy to undergird prevailing social mores, had passed.

Elections to the city council» the supreme power within the new Genevan republic» increased the presence of councillors sympathetic to Farel and Calvin.

Man, sure wish we cared less about size and form... if there's 2 or 3 believers, or 2 - 3000... or if we meet in a building or home or the street... and cared more about if the living presence of God in power is there.

When the Magi offer him gold, which indicates a king, we are invited to lessen the tribute we offer to the power structures to which we belong and on which we depend; when they offer him frankincense, which indicates a priest, we are invited to tiptoe out from under the delusions of our sacred canopies, to be drawn into the jagged - edged sacrifice of presence that this Priest will carry out; and when they offer him myrrh, which indicates a prophet's death, the Magi invite our hearts to lighten as death loses its hold over our drives and desires.

The beasts receive their doom, and pass from the scene: the powers of evil are overthrown, not by any human virtue or strength, but by the presence and power of the living God.

Where do you experience the presence and power of God?

But, if the persuasiveness of his preaching was only down to God's power and presence, then Jesus needn't have built his communication around some very specific prompts.

His resurrection was its power of new life and the promise of life in the presence of God forever in the world to come.

Perhaps we might even surmise that if he is leprous, if there is this contradiction between his political power and his hidden distress, it is because God was waiting for him and planned through his mediation to penetrate the sphere of politics with the testimony to his love and also the presence of his truth.

Thus the king might have shown himself to the humble maiden in all the pomp of his power, causing the sun of his presence to rise over her cottage, shedding a glory over the scene, and making her forget herself in worshipful admiration.

You whose loving wisdom fashions my being out of all the forces and all the hazards of earth, teach me to adopt here and now, however clumsily, an attitude the full efficacy of which will be plain to me when I am face to face with the powers of diminishment and death: grant that having desired I may believe, and believe ardently, believe above all things, in your active presence.

But he also had a more general aim of establishing a Franciscan presence in the area, and the fact that the Franciscans are still the custodians of the Holy Places is an eloquent testimony to lasting power of his influence.

And isn't that inability precisely because they haven't been set free from the power and presence of sin?

Can this mean that, apocalyptically and dialectically envisioned, Satan is the Christian name of the atoning power and presence of Christ?

The empiric sense of reality moves ironically in the opposite direction, away from assertions about divine presences and powers and toward the scientific understanding of the world's regularity.

If God asks me to depend on HIm, wouldn't He make it possible by freeing me from the power and presence of sin?

Though it is an oversimplification, we could say that if justification is deliverance from the penalty of sin, and sanctification is the deliverance from the power of sin, then glorification is the deliverance from the presence of sin.

Most still acknowledge a power greater than themselves and they may have a deepened spirituality, but Vaillant concludes that «the presence or absence of» either spirituality or religious adherence had little association with successful aging.

Furthermore, to limit the presence of Jesus to the words of Scripture, as if Christ's presence is restricted to paper and ink, is to deny the resurrection of all its power.

Whether this immediacy of God was described in Pauline terms as God's Spirit, carrying the divine presence and power into the Christian's inner life, (I Corinthians 3:16) or in Johannine terms, as God himself dwelling in his people, (John 14:23; I John 4:12) the accessibility of the divine grace and help was everywhere proclaimed.

According to the New Testament, this experience of the indwelling presence of God is the essential source of the Christian's power (Acts 18) and of his peace and joy; (Romans 14:17) it is the best gift which the Father can bestow on his children; (Luke 11:13; John 14:26) it is the secret alike of moral renewal (Titus 3:5) and of practical guidance; (Acts 13:2) it furnishes the interior standards of motive and behavior which must not be violated; (Ephesians 4:30) whatever else in Christian faith is valuable, even though it be the love of God, becomes effective only when this experience makes it inwardly real; (Romans 5:5) and the temple is easily dispensable since to every Christian it can be said, «Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you?»

In order to let the world come into existence, and then to continue to be itself and not just an emanation of God's own being, an omnipotent Creator would somehow have to restrain or «rein in» the divine presence and power.

Does it not follow from this statement that biblical love (agape) refers to the presence and power of God himself.

2 Thessalonians, 8 - 9: In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power

They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power.

Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion of sex as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian vision of the total kenotic movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision of the full identity of Jesus with the individual human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.

«I definitely feel the presence and continue to feel the presence of a higher power that I'm connected to in faith,» he said.

Even in fairy tales, the presence of talking stones and larger - than - life animals call attention to the powers and interactions of the concrete world.

What this fifth wave reminds us is that God is powerfully at work in the world through the presence of the risen Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit.

I get a little queasy at the line, «I definitely feel the presence and continue to feel the presence of a higher power that I'm connected to in faith,» he said.

Rather, the ground of our real transformation and the assurance of it is «the radiant certainty of an indwelling Christ, whose mercy has cleansed us, whose love has saved us, and whose presence within our hearts has given us power and victory.»

It is primarily through the experience of God's power, whereby our lives are affected in a concrete way by God's presence, that we come to understand its authority.