I believe that therapy is a partnership between us built on a trusting relationship where we will explore both past and
present life experience.
Both past and
present life experiences shape who we are.
I can help you to understand how
present life experiences and difficulties may be connected to your past experiences and explore different ways to overcome these issues.»
Not exact matches
By feeling truly
present, you can share unbounded spaces and
experiences with the people in your
life.
It's probably not going to be possible to have a jury of people that have never heard of the bands, that have never heard the music, but the real question is, even with that understanding, can they only focus on the evidence that's being
presented by the parties at trial and only use that evidence and nothing from their own
life experience outside of the courtroom to make that decision?
Drawing on his
life story, as well as conversations with ordinary and extraordinary people he has met along the way, Dr. Bob
presents a compelling framework that will define and dramatically enhance your
experience of what it means to be human.»
Contemporary man
lives in a perpetual
present that
experiences little or no fascination for or energizing pull from great positive expectations for the future — an unprecedented state of affairs in our history that constitutes a breach from our past.
The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian
experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the
living, continuous, ongoing
experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the
present Spiritual Christ within his church.
These are assertions of the resurrected
life as
present experience.
As Whitehead says, «the greater part of morality hinges on the determination of relevance in the future».19 The total
life pattern is
present in the most transitory and intimate of human
experiences.
Every act is conditioned by early
life experiences which shaped the personality, by environmental factors in the
present, and by historical contingencies.
Other methods may give «religious»
experiences, but only Christianity insists that the
life of the spirit must be expressed within the terms of the
present human predicament.
because the Christian
lives in the fully incarnate body of Christ, he acknowledges the totality of our
experience as the consummation of the kenotic passion of the Word, and by giving himself to the Christ who is
present to us he is liberated from the alien power of an emptied and darkened transcendence.
Thereby the
living power of the transcendent and omnipotent Judge is transposed in human
experience into the dead body of Satan, as Milton's passage through the death of selfhood unveils the ground of an isolated selfhood as that chasm separating the creature from the Creator, thus making possible the reversal or dissolution of natural virtue and self - righteousness in the immediate and
present actualization of the self - annihilation of God.
If man today is asking can God's existence be affirmed as transcendent without making God a functional element in an abstract scheme, it may be fruitful to realize that knowledge and
experience of God involve a cyclic growth process from
experience to schematization, from formulation to God
present in the dynamism of man's
life and activity.
The «humility» that is usually (but not always)
present in 12 - Step Program communities comes from «bottoming - out», coming to the end of one's psychological / social resources while
experiencing life's challenges.
Ideology interprets
experience —
life does not
present itself to us simply as one damn thing after another — but ideology must always be subject to revision on the basis of
experience.
If, however, instead of correct belief about God's self - revelation in Christ,
experience of the
living God
present by the power of the Spirit in Jesus Christ is at the heart of Christian fellowship, then the Christian community becomes a circle of friends who strengthen each other in their search for deeper awareness of divine reality and love.
Where such a reality (as spelt out in 1) does not exist, either practically or
experienced as such by those
living in an illusory construction of the
present («our inviolable shores» ideology) the talk of peace tends to take on impractical («brotherhood and sisterhood of all humankind») and essentialized («the global village») colours.
I also enjoy moments away from
life's chatter where I can center myself in the
present and
experience the wonders of creation all around.
We see firsthand how key
experiences in the parents» marriage and of the characters» home
lives have the power to impact them in the
present day.
Essentially the orthodox Church wanted to defend its conviction that in the person of Jesus Christ and in the
experience of God
present in Christian
life and worship, the believer was met by very God.
Another example was alluded to before: the fact that our world seems to have taken shape over a period of many billions of years, rather than having been created in essentially its
present form a few thousand years ago, provides evidence against the view that the creation of our world required omnipotent coercive power; this fact is much more consistent with the view that the divine creative power is solely the power of persuasion, the kind of power we can
experience working in our own
lives.
about people who
experience same - sex attraction trying to
live a Christian
life, this fuller exposition of his thought on the new ideologies
presented a fascinating look into the way in which colonialism — discredited by liberals and to lesser extent many conservatives as well — has gone away from the actual military and political rule seen in previous centuries, to a stealthier and subtler form of the exertion of foreign power.
Jeremy, I realize that your thesis here
presents theology as distinctive and «based to some degree on out culture, worldview, and what we have learned /
experienced thus far in
life» Yet, for those who are
living in Christ (and not themselves), this is not (no longer) so.
In this chapter I have attempted to
present an understanding of our human existence which is true to the facts, so far as we know them, which makes sense of and gives sense to our
experience, and which indicates what is meant when we speak, as we do, of the worth and value in our
lives.
To put this more plainly, the notion of growth or development, of movement or process, which purgatory affirms of
life after death, is certainly valid for our
experience in the
present world.
In my understanding the Trinity is a symbol which affirms the Christian
experience that God is known as our Creator and Sustainer, that God is also known in the
life, teaching, death and resurrection of Jesus and that in both the fellowship of believers and in personal devotion God is
present as the Holy Spirit.
I think we'll still enjoy all the things we do now, along with things we can only dream of
experiencing in this
present life.
Tommy God has already forgiven you for your sin the moment you asked Jesus into your
life and confessed him as Lord.From that point he paid for your sin in full past
present future.It is not sin that stops us from being with the Lord so you are saved.The problem you are
experiencing is the battle for your
life in the here and now satan is out to destroy you and he knows our weaknesses.If you are honest there were already issues in your
life that you struggled with and never got the victory over.So where do you go from here as i found myself in the same situation i was a christian but walking according to the flesh.God does nt change his mind he always loves us but because of our choices we distance ourselves from God.The issue is that we like sin thats our wicked hearts and to be fair we cant change our nature only Christ can do that our old nature must be crucified with Christ.The stumbling block is our pride we have to admit that we cant do it For me that was terribly difficult i was so independent thinking i could do anything but the truth was a made a real mess of things.I sense you are at a crossroads and are feeling desperate and confused.So as a brother in the Lord you need to confess your sin to God and tell him that you are weak -LCB- we all are -RCB- and that you cant do it in your strength -LCB- None of us can -RCB- but ask him to send the holy spirit to help you deal with the temptations and the sin that you struggle with and he will help you to change your
life he will empower you as he did me.Rather than look at who you are look to Christ and walk in him and he will make you a new man and sin will not have dominion over you.Jesus came to set us free from bondage.Having once been a slave to sin i know what it is like to have been set free by the power of God and that is what Christ is offering you today.All it takes is a desire to change or repent and admit we cant do it and trust him to give you the strength to walk in him regards brentnz
The questions are as extensive as our
present experience of
life because what we really are asking is how similar afterlife is to our
present life.
They
present the Church as the Church of those who as sinners accept in faith the human
life of all, with its ordinariness and its burdens, so that we
experience our own lot as that of the Church, and ourselves as its members in that way; as the Church which is believed because we believe in God, the Church whose belief is not to be identified with what it
experiences; above all as the Church which is the promise of salvation for the world which has not yet expressly recognized itself as part of the Church, the Church as the sacramentum of the world's salvation.
Your
experience at
present is so much closer to Jesus» command to take up your cross and follow him than if you were
living a comfortable
life as a rich and famous pastor of a large church.
It would seem reasonable to hold that as one grows up, as one's brain develops and becomes more complex (a process which does not end with physical maturity but continues through
life) and as one accumulates a wealth of memory against which one can compare and contrast
present experience, the mental poles of the occasions of one's regnant nexus would become generally stronger.
Throughout quite a long period of ancient Israel it was readily recognized that judgment is
experienced in the
present life.
When persons
experience the quality of
life and love that was revealed, manifested, and intended in Jesus of Nazareth, there the Spirit is
present.
By transcendence Marx means the movement of the
living and humanly
experienced present into the future.
Life is so much better when you're
present to
experience it.
By paying attention to what is
experienced now from the past, and how they are blocking
present awareness, past
experiences can be worked through and completed and that energy made available for
living now.
Yet we are witnesses to the amazing spectacle of the uncritical acceptance of this unscientific and romantic assumption by men who, in every other sphere of
life, pride themselves upon their devotion to evidence
presented by «the hard stuff of the world of physical and social
experience.»
Imagination and faith propel men into a future, that is, into a
living engagement with concrete
experience under some vision of reality that binds together the
present.
As he discovered, it is through the repressed memories, wishes, conflicts, and impulses in the unconscious that painful
experiences and unfinished growth from the early years continue to cripple the ability of many people to
live creatively in the
present.
In the course of addressing these difficulties, I will anchor my discussion firmly within the actual
experiences of common
life within the
present - day academy.
Yet what is important is the effect of the message on the early church and, through this impact, the effect on the
life experiences of people to the
present.
In a recent interview with the Washington Post (part of their ominously titled «Voices of Power» series), Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius discussed Archbishop Joseph Naumann's request that she not
present herself for communion because of her public support for legalised abortion: «Well, it was one of the most painful things I have ever
experienced in my
life, and I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I had.
Generis: «For these reasons the Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the
present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part of men
experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and
living matter - for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God» [italics added].
Two people can
live in the same house for decades without ever being
present for each other, without ever
experiencing a joining or linking of thoughts and feelings, longings and fears, dreams and delights.
Whitehead sees no reason to deny that self - determination is also
present in the
experiences of other
living things.
Thus «faith», the pattern of contemporary religious
experience which is to relate us to God through Christ, can not by its very nature be built upon «the
present evil aeon», with all that it provides of worldly security under man's control and invariably at his disposal; by definition «faith» is the
life given in death, and consequently has its basis beyond our control, is
lived out of the future, is «an act of faith».
The
present, therefore, in Jesus» thought, was not simply Satanic, as current teaching claimed; the kingdom of God was an immediate
experience as well as a future expectation and those who were in the kingdom, possessing, as they did, a
life with eternal issues inherent in it, could triumphantly surmount affliction.