Sentences with phrase «sift half»

He is the theological trump card, the grid through which we must sift our theology.

, we need to sift through the palaeontological evidence for the spiritual.

Thus, there is no privileged information, and process theologians are free to sift the scriptures, as they do all experience, for reflections of that «brief Galilean vision» which prescribes a canon within the canon.

But to get at it, you not only have to know what questions to ask which authors are trustworthy, but you will then have to sift through thousands and thousands of web pages and articles, many of which contain contradictory and confusing information.

Every day we sift through hysteria online as every issue seems to demand an urgent solution.

A fuller understanding of revelation may eventually require such historical knowledge, but it is the task of systematic theology, as distinct from historical theology, to sift out of the traditional material what strikes it as the content most suitably challenging, as well as Good News, for our time and for our present readers.

You can sift through anything and get a useful insight here and there and occasionally you'll find someone who seems to have a lot of interesting things to ponder on, and possibly even believe.

It's also a fascinating perspective of the church that Protestants might find some insight in exploring, though they have to also sift through some incendiary content in order to get to it.

In their lectures and articles and efforts to sift and winnow the Bible so as to expose the contaminations of patriarchy they may appear very sophisticated; yet once we blow away the smoke we will find that, at bottom, they are in the same intellectual position as a pouting child at the breakfast table picking the raisins out of the bran flakes.

In the New Testament, Satan has to ask permission to sift Peter like wheat (Luke 22:31).

I think that reality ultimately will sift our theology.

It is difficult to sift the sense from the nonsense, but surely this whole exercise in self - analysis has yielded solid truth.

I have folders sorted by topic, so depending on what I feel like reading about that day, I don't have to sift through all of my blogs to find what I really want.

They must search and sift, think and feel, create and synthesize; moreover, they too must apply and incorporate their learning in order for it to become an actuality.

Rather than sift the Scripture according to the general principle of its applicability to salvation, wouldn't it be better to inquire of each text what was its intended message?

It is within the province of public schools not only to see that students are correctly informed about religious matters, but also to provide a setting in which older young people may learn to recognize and sift out irreligious and idolatrous tendencies and perversions in the various religious systems of mankind.

«Luk 22:3 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired [to have] you, that he may sift [you] as wheat:» Look at americult's people who have ALREADY been sifted.

There is no question that insults have been thrown, but if you sift through that, I believe that you will find the athiests have stuck to the facts, as in:

Bernie, Bernie, Trump has asked to sift you like a Mexican bean.

It is too difficult to give up everything, and so we take the easy way out, and leave things the way they are, or at least sift through the hay - stack of our beliefs with a needle, when we need a pitch - fork or a fork - lift.

Turning to Peter, Jesus says, «Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail; and when you have turned again, strengthen your brethren.»

The striking biblical passage that concludes the page devoted to St. Fidelis in The One - Year Book of Saints is Luke 22: 31 — 32: «Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to have you, to sift you like wheat, but I have pleaded in prayer for you that your faith should not completely fail.

It was too difficult to sift the wheat from the chaff.

Sift together flour, baking soda and salt; set aside.

Unless you know these people intimately and were there, in which case why in hell sift it all out again on a blog?

In this short review, I can scarcely sift through all his arguments, but I think his case sinks under its own weight.

It's always difficult to discern how things * could * sift out and where they * could * end up while you're right in the middle of such radical cultural change.

However, there is a mountain of data related to science and history and no matter how carefully you sift through it there is nothing in it to suggest there is a god.

It appears that he's trying to sift history and take a more «nuanced» view of how history formed Christianity... I wasn't really getting a value judgment from him on the right or wrong, just that it's a mixed bag, like all history is.

The final irony is that this advanced critic of Arendt speaks disparagingly of her «lack of several of the essential qualities of the historian: sympathetic imaginative insight, open mindedness, compassion, balanced judgment and the capacity to sift and weigh evidence.»

Yes it would be wonderful to see everyone glean from the bible the higher principles of love and charity and be able to sift out the garbage that promotes hate and bigotry.

All christians should boycott CNN, great idea, then the rest of us don't have to sift through your ignorant remarks.

And of Peter's denial, in Luke 22:31 - 32, Jesus says, again prophetically: «Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded permission to sift you like wheat; but I have prayed for you, that your faith may not fail; and you, when once you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.»

... while Paul VI did write that it was his responsibility to sift the material he had been given by many advisers, including the papal commission on marriage and fertility that Pope John XXIII had established and that he, Paul, had expanded, he also made clear that the teaching of Humanae Vitae rested, not on the personal conscience of Giovanni Battista Montini, but on the mature conviction of Pope Paul VI as custodian and servant, not master, of the Catholic tradition.

Believing in him is easy, once you sift through all the stuff that man has thrown in the way.

Yet, even knowing that Peter would do this, Jesus prayed for Peter, «Simon, Simon [Peter], behold, Satan has demanded permission to sift you like wheat; but I [Jesus] have prayed for you, that your faith may not fail; and you, when once you have turned again, strengthen your brothers» (Luke 22:31 - 32).

In an era where people are consuming a staggering 12 hours or more of content per day, your customers obviously have a lot to sift through.

Drill down into your website's traffic sources, and sift through you organic search traffic bucket to identify the keywords people are using to arrive at your site.

value investors are able to sift carefully through all the bargains for the ones they find most attractive.

But how, without history, can we understand these events, discriminate their significance, sift out the large from the small, see the basic currents underlying surface movements and changes, and foresee the result sufficiently to guard against fatal error or the souring of unreasonable hopes?

We sift through the equity universe to identify issues that we believe the marketplace has priced incorrectly and that offer attractive risk - adjusted return possibilities.

When it comes to exchanging your native currency for Bitcoin (or any other crypto) there are a LOT of options out there and its hard to sift through them to find the best.

NASA had to sift through an incredible volume of applications in order narrow down their selections for 2017's astronaut class.

Earlier in his career, Marion was paid to sift through North American labour data for the Finance Department.

If you can sift through all the drama and negativity you will only see the industriousness and innovation that is the hallmark of the country's success.

And those 44 different types of financing can be hard to sift through, even if you're asking the right questions.

Specifically, Brown argues that his team can sift through what he sees as a proliferation of investment products that have grown needlessly complex.

After all, partnerships enjoy indifinite longevity and (in some cases) limited liability, but we don't (with a limited exception - SIFT partnerships) tax them, we tax their partners.

I will refer to this book often as I sift through the details of my project.»

While these posts will be best suited to beginners — who often struggle to connect the dots as they sift through the enormous amount of information available on content marketing — more seasoned content marketers may benefit from using them as checklists for covering the necessary bases.