Sentences with phrase «reading a passage about»

Ferriss told us that he used to read passages about compassion by Buddhist writers and think, «OK, if you're sitting in a monastery, where your schedule is set and you have very few uncontrolled variables, that's fantastic that you can do loving / kindness meditation, but that's not the world I live in.»

To test temptation, half of the students read a passage about God and half read a passage unrelated to God.

hey Lou did you ever read the passage about God smiling on those who do there praying in private and not in the streets for all to see?

Since I'd read her the passage about these just yesterday, she started laughing, too!

Have you ever read the passage about the false prophet's!

The man was reading the passage about the Suffering Servant in Isaiah.

The previous contractor, Pearson Education, was widely criticized for poorly written test items, including one based on a reading passage about a talking pineapple.

Includes 13 reading passages about sharks and 12 different types of sharks and the shark life cycle.

That said, it would be better — and far more fair — if test writers took care to choose reading passages about subjects children are more likely to have encountered in school.

Share a reading passage about Día de los Muertos with your students.

She chose to make a case for traveling to the Challenger Deep, for instance, partly because the reading passage about the submarine voyage contained a lot of details about different sea creatures the travelers would see.

Laurie Langford, a second grade teacher at West Defuniak Elementary, helps two students look for evidence in a reading passage about public sector jobs.

Just realize that you could be reading passages about one of the following subjects, so at least you'll know what you're up against.

In the late 1980s, professors Donna Recht of Cardinal Stritch University and Lauren Leslie of Marquette University gave junior high school students a reading passage about baseball and then asked them questions about the passage.

Teach reading and science together using this set of close reading passages about land biomes.

Below is an excerpt from the vocabulary instruction to prepare students for reading a passage about magnets.

High - Interest, Differentiated Reading Passages about Strange Happening, The History of Pizza, Haunted Places, Dinosaur Fossils, and Leif Erikson are at the heart of th

Not exact matches

In «With Her» Milosz speaks of hearing a passage from Scripture during Mass at St. Mary Magdalen in Berkeley: «A reading this Sunday from the Book of Wisdom / About how God has not made death / And does not rejoice in the annihilation of the living.»

Lent is about recommitting oneself to doing the difficult things in life — vowing to set one's Starbuck's money for the homeless, for example, or reading a passage from the Bible each day or doing something that makes life a little better for others.

Julie - I was especially encouraged and thought of you while reading a particular passage because it is about the story of a woman who was assaulted and not believed... and then about the way that it was necessary for there to be a public forum where she could claim and own her experience.

I would like to hear from both Perry and Bachmann about how they read this passage, and how it can simultaneously justify opposition to abortion rights and support for the death penalty.

Most of them have read only select passages chosen for them by someone else, who also tells them what to think about it.

Although the passage on page 88 about the «super-jective nature» reads easily as implying the doctrine in question, I agree that it may not have been intended to do so.

As such, we talk about a Bible passage that «speaks to us» or about how we «heard God» as we read a passage of Scripture.

«I have read about the passage we'll be studying in several commentaries, and some of them see this as I do,» I replied.

The use of a commentary discussing the passage that we hope to read can do a great deal to enlighten us about what it has to tell us.

I guess I always read the 1 Corinthians 5 passage to be about the sexual sin, and not about the abuse (a man has his father's wife).

I started out as a partially indoctrinated Christian and believed the Bible was largely true until the late teens, when I actually read it — all of it — without someone telling me what to think about various cherry - picked passages.

I find most Christians do NOT read their Bible — just a few passages here and there that conform and back - up their Western secular values — with a priest telling them what to think about it.

Read the passage and pay close attention to what Jesus says about marriage between a man and a woman in the beginning of time.

I'd also recommend reading through Romans 5:12 — 8:17 (which, as you know, is all about Adam, sin and Christ as the second Adam) and making a mental checklist of how Paul uses the term death in this passage.

For example, i read the bible and i read the passage that is about God punishing people that made mistakes.

There is definitely a warning for all people who read this passage in Matthew about the unforgivable sin, and we must not simply say that because we do not live in the days of Jesus that people today can not commit the unforgivable sin.

I recommend these men read the Gospels some more, especially the passages about helping the poor.

Nature has just as much beauty, order, love, and wonder as it does death, blood, suffering, and murder, and Scripture has hundreds of dark and disturbing passages which seems to paint a different picture of God than we read about in the Gospels or in 1 John 4:8.

To properly understand Ephesians 3:7 - 13, I highly recommend you go back and read the sermon manuscript on Ephesians 3:1 - 6, especially my opening comments about how my thinking has changed over the years about this important passage.

This is to davidnfran hay David you might have brought this up in a previous post I haven't read, but i did read quit a bit about your previous comments and replies at the beginning of this blog, so I was just wondering in light of what hebrews 6 and 10 say how would you enterprite passages like romans 8 verses 28 thrue 39 what point could paul have been trying to make in saying thoughs amazing things in romans chapter 8 verses 28 thrue 39 in light of hebrews 6 and 10, Pauls says that god foreknew and also predestined thoughs whom he called to be conformed to the image of his son so that he would be the first born among many brothers and then he goes on saying that neither death nor life nor angels nor rulers nor things present nor things to come nor powers nor hight nor death can ever separate us from the love of god in christ jesus so how would i inturprate that in light of that warning in hebrews 6 and 10,

I read again the passage in «Justification» about Romans 3:21 ff (which the reviewer mentioned) and I think Wright's book clears it up beautifully (cf. pp. 201 - 210).

It is, moreover, easy to be mistaken, on a superficial reading, about the true meaning of passages which may strike us as congenial.

But along with the praise, Wilson offers insights about the reasons these books are powerful: Lewis's generosity toward the authors he discusses, the way he finds passages that make them seem interesting; his sense of «wonder and enjoyment» in all he reads; his willingness to take up the great themes that engaged his authors, to put to work in criticism his «creative intelligence.»

If we read these passages thinking they are talking about how to receive eternal life, we will get very confused.

I started looking for other resources and after reading so many different opinions about the interpretation of James, still had no peace that the passages were accurately intrepreted.

In my study this week, I read all of the commentaries on this passage, and almost all of them debated about whether Jesus broke the Sabbath day laws or not.

When read this way, Genesis 6 — 8 is not a passage about humanity's inability to hear God or follow Him, but rather, is the exact opposite!

So when we read about surviving Canaanites later in the book (e.g. Josh 13:1 - 7; 17:12 - 13), this doesn't mean that the previous passage is wrong.

What fascinates me about him is he began as such a literalist, castrating himself based on the «eunuchs for the kingdom of God» and «if it offends you cut it off» passages but thereafter adopted a spiritualising reading of the scriptures and wrote a book against castration.

Just ignore all passages in the bible that you wont be reading about turning away from sin, holiness, etc..

And in an even more striking passage he addresses Christ: «I beg you, read what [the prophet] says about your mother, and your apostles.

I think your example is very true — how Jesus appealed to people's honour / shame mindset, but we often read those passages through a rewards / debt worldview — I'd never really thought about that before.

We must remember that when we read about God in the Old Testament, we read Jesus back into those passages, rather than read those depictions of God forward onto Jesus.