Sentences with phrase «reading through scripture»

A couple years ago, as I was reading through Scripture, I began to notice that there were numerous jokes, allusions, and euphemisms all over Scripture for the male sexual organ.

I spent the next few mornings doing the same exercise — reading through Scripture and writing down the things God wanted to be present in my life.

I appreciate very much the perspective of Moses «polemic» as a way to read through these scriptures.

but I was reading through scriptures..

That is not to say that the biblical writers had a purely natural theology, but as you read through the scriptures, you will find that the biblical writers were continually making inference from nature to nature's God.

Not exact matches

But we can strengthen our faith in His unchanging character through reading and trusting what He has revealed about Himself in Scripture.

Love, joy, peace, and hope become flesh «through the practices of the Church: witness, catechesis, baptism, prayer, friendship, hospitality, admonition, penance, confession, praise, reading scripture, preaching, sharing peace, sharing food, washing feet.

After his conversion through prayer and the reading of Scripture, he aimed his quill at the foundations of modern philosophy and became, in many senses, the Johann Sebastian Bach of philosophy: «a true pan of harmony and discord, light and darkness, spiritualism and materialism» (as Schelling so perceptively called him).

The most important way in which we understand God is through our reading of Scripture.

When you read through the Bible chapter for chapter one will get a broader view or the full context about what happened, maybe where it happened why it did happen and for which purpose it happened but: «All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:..»

Scripture can and should be enjoyed just by reading it and hearing the stories of love and pain, or faith and doubt echo through your own soul.

It's refreshing to read through Bessey's spiritual and theological narrative peppered with thoughtful and insightful reflections on interpreting Paul's biblical stance on women, and a beautiful litany of women in scripture and world history whom God has equipped and used to further God's purposes in the world.

What they would say is, «You must follow our method: read and study scripture for all it's worth and let it do its work in the world, in and through you and your churches.»

When I read the scripture I become convinced that the Kingdom is the leaven working its way through the dough, it is the mustard seed quietly growing into a large plant.

In the post-colonial, post-Atlantic slave trade world, it is crucial that peoples who have historically benefited from the sale and plunder of black women's bodies, justifying those practices with their readings of scripture learn to hear and the scriptures in our voices and through our eyes.

Or the times when I go through the motions — caring for the poor, showing hospitality, fellowshipping with believers, praying, reading Scripture, trying to live like Jesus — to find that there is redemption in the motions themselves, that taking a step of faith does not necessarily require a desire to move.

I am reading your newest posts to your oldest.I have never been to bible school but I consider myself in the journey of education concerning the bible.more than any opinions that you have what concerns me most is how «brothers and sisters» through their comments responds to someone who thinks differently from what is perceived as absolutes (not sure if that's the right term) in scripture.I wonder did the apostle believe half the things that are seen as church doctirine today?how did the disciples who did not have the new testament or the ability to read follow Jesus?I appreciate your questioning.In my experience we are too quick to try and fix someone or use the scriptures as a control mechanism and to slow to practise empathy and love..

Learn to read Scripture and view God through the crucivision lens of Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

And indeed, mysticism — which I would define as practices intended to help connect a person to God through experience, intuition, contemplation, the devotional reading of Scripture, ritual, and prayer — has been a part of the Church from the very beginning.

I would argue that Scripture is read because God speaks to his people assembled to hear his Word through the readings as well as through the sermon.

When it comes to Judaism, one would think, judging from his use of Scripture as proof texts, traditional Jews simply read Scripture verbatim without coming to it and drawing normative conclusions from it through the lens of the Talmud.

As I was reading through this section of scripture today I felt compelled to look up another opinion of what it meant to compare it to my understanding of the passage.

There is great mystery in how this worked for Jesus, but if we read the actions of Jesus back into the actions of God in the Old Testament, and we see there how God took the sins of Israel onto Himself through the inspired revelation of Scripture, then this helps us somewhat understand how Jesus accomplished this for the sins of the whole world on the cross.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

Moreover, while the central biblical message of new life through Christ is expressed so fully and dearly that one who runs may read and understand (which is what Reformation theology meant by the clarity and perspicuity of Scripture), there remain many secondary matters on which certainty of interpretation is hard if not impossible to come by.

Most Christians I know haven't even read the Bible all the way through, and I can out - quote them with their own scriptures.

Our minds must be transformed by grace, and that happens nowhere more powerfully than through reading scripture receptively and trustingly with the aid of the Holy Spirit.

«Over time, going to the church I go to, I came to an understanding through prayer and reading the scriptures that God says, «Be yourself.»

With his mind remade by the gospel, Paul goes back to scripture and reads it anew through a hermeneutic of trust.

First, in order to read scripture rightly, we must trust the God who speaks through scripture.

In Paul's fresh reading of scripture the whole mysterious drama of God's election of Israel — Israel's hardening, the incorporation of gentiles into the people of God, and Israel's ultimate restoration — is displayed as foretold in scripture itself, but this foretelling can be recognized only when scripture is read through the hermeneutics of trust.

When we read scripture through the hermeneutics of trust in God we discover that we should indeed be suspicious — suspicious first of ourselves, because our own minds have been corrupted and shaped by the present evil age.

When it comes to scripture though we have a written record that yes must be read and therefore interpreted but has been done so throughout the history of the Church and corrected by the same through the oversight and guidance of God himself and it endures even till today.

Yet it seems that according to the reading of 2 Timothy 3:16 which I presented, God does something through the reading of Scripture which makes it powerful and profitable once again.

Alison's book develops this quite extraordinary insight through close readings that show how Scripture helps us locate the time in which we live.

The God story as read through the lens of Hebrew and Christian scripture tells the story of a patient Creator - Redeemer.

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His fundamental point is the need to recover the Great Tradition within Evangelicalism and thus to read scripture in and through the lens of the church spread out through time.

It says: «From that time onwards the Church has never failed to come together to celebrate the paschal mystery...» And those celebrations are a description of our liturgy: ``... reading those things «which were in all the scriptures concerning him» (Luke 24:27), celebrating the Eucharist in which «the victory and triumph of his death are again made present», and at the same time giving thanks «to God for his unspeakable gift» (2 Cor 9:15) in Christ Jesus, «in praise of his glory» (Eph 1:12), through the power of the Holy Spirit».

She said she read the Scripture I sent her, and that God had spoken unto her through it, and asked me if I would pray for her.

I've spent far more time than I care to admit combing through complementarian literature, reading debates about whether women can read Scripture aloud in church, whether female missionaries should be permitted to give presentations on Sunday evenings, what age groups women should be allowed to teach in Sunday school, whether women can speak in small group Bible studies, what titles to bestow upon worship leaders and children's ministry coordinators so that they don't appear too authoritative, and on and on and on.

Altogether the book is a fine introduction to some of the issues of reading Scripture through a non-violent, Christus Victor lens.

We read the same Scriptures, we worship the same God — and yet the message that comes through is different.

Do you think using these six categories, one could read / look at a certain scripture almost like a Lectio Devina study and see what God is saying in each category to them / us through that particular scripture?

The lectionary is rich this time of year, and as I get back to blogging through the Scripture readings each week, our focus will be on paying attention to the witness of the prophets, connecting them to the Christmas story and to our present longing for God's will to be done on earth as it is in heaven.

It is therefore a broader term than prayer, for one may worship not only through prayer but through music and song, the reverent reading or repetition of scripture and creed, the spoken word of the sermon.

In the Middle Ages, when most Christians were illiterate and lacked immediate access to Scripture, artists transmitted biblical stories and theological truth through images that everyone could read.

Suffice for now is to say this: it is my opinion that 1) Scripture is clear that God's wrath and holiness demanded a sin payment, 2) as I read your articles you seem to be trying to use every logical, illustrative, and theological trick to convince yourself it's not true, but it's like you're losing the argument with yourself, 3) I really enjoyed that you broadened the truth of salvation through Jesus past justification (which many fundamentals focus on) to include redemption, sanctification, covenant marriage, adoption, etc..

Chuck: In our service, aside from the text of the sermon, we get no Scripture except through the responsive reading.

I am learning to read the Bible with spiritual eyes, and listen to the leading of the Holy Spirit through the words of Scripture so that all of the Bible points to the WORD, that is, Jesus Christ.