Sentences with phrase «reading passages at»

This is an informal evaluation, based on the child's responses to short interesting reading passages at each grade level.

You can read a passage at different times and get deeper meanings each time.

Sally Student will correctly answer 8 of 10 what questions for a reading passage at her independent reading level.

Not exact matches

You're a literalist and stop at the basic reading of words on a page... you refuse to go deeper into the connotations of many a scripture because it ruins your basic reading of the passage.

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.»

Luke adds that he was «filled with the power of the Spirit» when he returned to Galilee, and that when he read from the scroll of Isaiah in the synagogue at Nazareth he began with the passage that said, «The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor» (Luke 4:14 - 18).

And go ahead and read the full passages IN CONTEXT at your own leisure, and you'll find that they have no other meaning.

In the Revised Standard Version (1946) this passage is set apart in small italic type, and the marginal note reads: «Other ancient authorities add 7:53 - 8:11 either here or at the end of this gospel or after Luke 21:38, with variations of the text.»

Now it is true that certain Biblical passages were used to support this view, but this was largely because the doctrine was read into them, an easy temptation to fall into at any time.

Normally in reading that passage Christians focus either on the elements of bread and wine or on the presiding minister at the Eucharist.

Well, just as you think I am not reading certain OT texts at face value, I think you are ignoring much of what these NT texts are saying, and not just these passages, but the whole tenor and focus of the ministry of Jesus.

The greatest proportion of people have read several passages or stories at 30 percent.

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,

It's one reason he chose to have a passage from the Quran read at the United Church of Gainesville, part of the United Church of Christ, on Sunday.

For example, if you don't feel comfortable leading an emotional prayer time, ask if you could instead read and briefly explain a passage of Scripture which is relevant to the topic at hand.

More than 20 religious leaders from Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Muslim backgrounds around Gainesville had the same Quran passage read - along with Christian and Hebrew scriptures — at their congregations over the weekend.

The text is one of those passages that ought to come at the end of a sermon, for there is nowhere to go except to your knees after it is read.

It is true, of course, that when the hypothesis is applied, some passages at once fit in with the Petrine theory, especially in chapter 1; but others definitely do not, and surely no one with only this Gospel before him would ever suspect that it was a mélange of Peter s reminiscences he was reading.

He was led simply by an urge for accuracy and honesty to call us to read each passage in terms of what Whitehead was thinking at the time he wrote.

After that passage which is often read out loud at weddings, Paul writes that someday all of our important and inspired words will end, our praying in tongues will end, our knowledge will end but love will be what lasts forever.

A careful reading of the many passages in which Whitehead criticizes the substance - quality mode of thought leads one inevitably to his thesis that it is derived (at least in part) from a «misapprehension» of the true status of «presentational immediacy» (PR 95f.

Passages from the Song of Solomon have been read at weddings for centuries.

Take 2 Corinthians 11:21 - 31, the passage of scripture mentioned earlier (pp. 10 - 11), and work at a «concept» for reading it aloud.

The reason I am summarizing it is because I want to begin looking at some of the key biblical passages which are affected by my proposal to see how we can read and understand these texts.

The fact that an ancient table of contents, already referred to in the Latin version of the fifth or sixth century, omits mention of the Testimonium (though, admittedly, it is selective, one must find it hard to believe that such a remarkable passage would be omitted by anyone, let alone by a Christian, summarizing the work) is further indication that either there was no such notice or that it was much less remarkable than it reads at present.

Those who shudder at inscriptions on monuments or passages in history books which refer simply to «the Great War» or «the World War» — written as though what we call World War I would indeed prove to be «the war to end war» — will feel saddened to read her portentous observation that «we have no guarantee that it will not recur.»

We lost the dimension of participation that was so prevalent in the Jewish synagogues, where any male (at that time) could stand up, read a passage, and then give his own interpretation, often leading to intense debate.

At first I thought that I had just incorrectly interpreted the passages that I read, and the inconsistencies that were strewn throughout the teachings.

If you spent half the time reading other books that have true knowledge in them, rather than reading small passages at a time of 1 book, you might know that.

Feeling a little guilty, but also remembering that they had also taught us to read the Bible for ourselves, I looked at every passage where «fruit» was mentioned in the New Testament.

In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders.

If one wants to see for himself how truly great the Old Testament is, he should read in their context at least the passages to which references have been made.

So when I saw the faces once again of so many with whom thirty years before and in the decades that followed I had - so often bitterly embattled against the Establishment - faced that challenge, men from whom inevitably I had become separated on my own conversion to Rome; and when I saw their profound happiness at the Pope's great and apostolic act, and their excitement at the prospect before them, I could not fail to remember once more a famous passage from the Apologia pro Vita Sua, which the agnostic George Eliot said she could not read without tears; and certainly, I can not:

Remember those passages from Emerson which I read at my last lecture.

-- A few nights a week, I will read a short passage of Scripture at the dinner table (frequently from Proverbs) and we will discuss it together as a family.

In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders...» — Adolf Hitler

See my comment after Fred's post to find out why I bumped into this at a very odd time (I had literally read the very same passage from Uncle Tom's Cabin just minutes before his post appeared in my feed.

For an excellent Catholic Bible, get the Ignatius Study Bible (New Testament), and read the study notes at the bottom to see how the Catholic Church has interpreted different passages over the centuries (including many quotations from the Church Fathers).

Robespierre's address to the Commune of Paris at the convention of 1793 evidences that his Supreme Being also had this same character: «L'homme pervers se croit sans cesse environné d'un témoin puissant et terrible anquel il ne peut échapper, qui le voit et le veille, tandis que les hommes sont livrés au sommeil...» (F. A. Aulard, Le Culte de la raison et le culte de l'Être Supreme (Paris, 1892), pp. 285 f.) How can one isolate this «structure» and separate it from its biblical antecedents, when — to cite only one of the many passages — one can read in the book of Isaiah (29:15): «Woe to those who hide deep from the Lord their counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, «Who sees us?

Or, if we knew that the description in Exodus 19 has no external (archaeological) relationship to place, time, and event and that it is simply and intentionally metaphorical, we would be afforded the luxury of shedding at least for the moment the responsibilities of geographer - topographer - historian; we could then read the passage in the knowledge that here at least no clues exist to aid in the possible reconstruction of an actual event.

fishon, I don't take passages about «sexual immorality» that way and don't mind at all them being read or preached, but my experience is that preachers name homosexuality specifically and teach things that not only are (in my opinion) and poor interpretation of the Bible, but also things that could have no Biblical basis of support.

The best plan is either a consecutive reading in one book a few verses at a time, or the passage for the day indicated in some form of devotional guide.

In any case, instead of trying to read a long passage at a time it is best to read one brief unit of thought and let one's mind and spirit catch the message in it.

At this point I found myself reflecting on the meaning of the Scripture passages as they had been read earlier in the service and invariably that meaning clashed with what emerged in the sermon.

I woke up at 3:00 a.m. this morning and couldn't sleep, so I picked up the book I've been reading to discover one of the best passages I've ever read on the idea of inclusion:

Centralization of worship was out of the question at that time, and they rid Deuteronomy of any such program by ruling the passage 12:1 - 7 to be a later intrusion; and by reading 12:14 (RSV: «at the place which Yahweh will choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer...») «in any place which Yahweh shall choose in any one of your tribes.»

Here is the famous passage read almost always at Christian funerals:

As the league leaders stretched their lead at the top of the table to 10 points with a 1 - 0 win at Stamford Bridge, Wenger was focusing on safeguarding Arsenal's passage through to the FA Cup final as they squeezed past Reading.

I don't attend any toddler groups, I don't spend much time with other children of a similar age to mine, and my contact with La Leche League is limited to helping my wife who is a Leader prepare for meetings, and reading various passages from books that she passes to me on the couch at night.

During the third reading, and indeed at every stage of its passage through Parliament, MPs have been very vocal about not wanting to criminalise those who simply use the substances the government wants to ban.