Sentences with phrase «spiritual child of»

Louis and Graeme's dreams are to revive the point & click adventure game in its purest old - school tradition and make Jengo the worthy spiritual child of timeless classics such as Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacles or Full Throttle.

Not exact matches

But I'm always striving to place my greatest priorities outside of the professional sphere — to spend time with my wife and children, for example, and to satisfy my spiritual need.

He is emphatically NOT the healer of America's wounded soul, the finder of lost children, the tender of America's spiritual consciousness, or whatever other spiritual bull **** a «pastor - in - chief» would be.

There is a reason that phrase, «You must be as children» (paraphrased) is in the bible... because you really would have to be a child lacking wisdom and critical thought to believe the ridiculous books of the Abrahamaic faiths, and you'd have to ba an even bigger fool to think they are the last word in spiritual truth.

Recognizing that poverty is more than a lack of money, Compassion works through local churches to holistically address the individual physical, economic, educational and spiritual needs of children — enabling them to thrive, not just survive.

There is no hell... people make their own hell... God is Love and God loves all his children equally and would never condemn any of them to people's perception of hell... none of God's spiritual energy is ever lost and we are made from It... if you think otherwise, that is what you will find when you cross over, until you WAKE UP!

We need not address the emotional or spiritual causes of our sadness to have the cloud of depression lift; we need not question the way we teach our children before we can rid them of attention deficit disorder.»

... The child doesn't have to struggle to get himself in a good position for having a relationship with God; he doesn't have to craft ingenious ways of explaining his position to Jesus; he doesn't have to create a pretty face for himself; he doesn't have to achieve any state of spiritual feeling or intellectual understanding.

My guess is children from the «spiritual Marriages» are being supported by tax payers as most of the offspring from these non-legal marriages are.

Who in our culture, in our society has continued to really march on to ensure that the African - American child and all other children; have sought to make sure that in keeping education alive assures them of not only the bright spiritual dreams of heaven but also the American dreams of here and now.

She writes that it was hard on all of them, but that her husband did it to take on the financial, emotional, and spiritual role of husband & father for her sister and the children who'd been left without a husband and father.

Expecting your child to grow in their faith thanks to a couple of hours input at church each week, if their home life is a spiritual desert, is clearly unrealistic and an abrogation of parental responsibilities.

More recently another wise man, the American trendspotter George Barna, writing in «Transforming Children into Spiritual Champions» (Regal), identified the spiritual upbringing of children as the most critical factor in the church's sChildren into Spiritual Champions» (Regal), identified the spiritual upbringing of children as the most critical factor in the church's Spiritual Champions» (Regal), identified the spiritual upbringing of children as the most critical factor in the church's spiritual upbringing of children as the most critical factor in the church's schildren as the most critical factor in the church's survival.

I have a problem gaining spiritual insight and «depth» on the backs of raped and murdered children.

Their work includes a Children's Centre, focused on single and impoverished families, a pilot micro loan program for education and business development, an ongoing partnership for home ownership within the community, and a deep local commitment to the spiritual growth, empowerment and development of the community.

Thus Jesus» teaching is that an heir or child of God who is alive in Christ can indeed experience spiritual death if he / she sows to a lifestyle of unrepentant sin.

SGM evoked a religious freedom defense in 2013 when the confidentiality of its pastoral counseling was challenged, stating, «SGM believes that allowing courts to second - guess pastoral guidance would represent a blow to the First Amendment that would hinder, not help, families seeking spiritual direction among other resources in dealing with the trauma related to any sin including child sexual abuse.»

Children who are privileged to have a faithfully married mother and father who are functionally literate and have a desire to instruct their offspring, and a commitment to the Church, are privileged indeed: for such children, home is already a place of education and spiritual nourChildren who are privileged to have a faithfully married mother and father who are functionally literate and have a desire to instruct their offspring, and a commitment to the Church, are privileged indeed: for such children, home is already a place of education and spiritual nourchildren, home is already a place of education and spiritual nourishment.

The same applies as children get older, and their own moral and spiritual lives unfold, and the first stirrings of vocation are perhaps sensed.

Bradshaw is the psycho - spiritual evangelist of «The Inner Child,» and one of the hottest properties on the lecture - video - book - television circuit that caters to the masses exercising their discontents on an excess of leisure.

Children taught all major religions are part of God's progressive revelation to mankind, but that each person should accept a religion not because it was the faith of their parents but because he or she independently searched, researched, reflected, studied, thought, meditated, etc, and came to their own spiritual belief.

Indeed, to do good to a little child is to do good to Jesus himself, while to cause injury or hurt to one is a moral and spiritual calamity, deserving the punishment of death itself.

«SGM believes that allowing courts to second - guess pastoral guidance would represent a blow to the First Amendment that would hinder, not help, families seeking spiritual direction among other resources in dealing with the trauma related to any sin including child sexual abuse,» a representative of SGM said in a November 14 statement.

As a child of God it is part of my spiritual DNA to love others, even if I dislike the behavior.

Far from being unapproachable, God's dwellingplace was within the spiritual life of his children.

Already there are many thousands of present - day parents who were brought up with no religious faith and few standards, and they have had almost nothing, and sometimes less than nothing of spiritual value, to pass on to their children.

The best of mothers to her children, she also quietly lived out a Marian vocation of spiritual motherhood.

The idea of spiritual fathers comes from passages like 1 Corinthians 4:15 - 16, 11:1, Philippians 2:22, 4:9, and 2 Timothy 3:10, 14 where Paul tells those under his care to follow his instructions and imitate his example because they are his children in the gospel.

«A parent must respect the spiritual person of his child, and approach it with reverence, for that too looks the Father in the face and has an audience with Him into which no earthly parent can enter even if he dared to desire it.»

As a child of God it is part of my spiritual DNA to love others, even if I dislike their behavior.

As Strat wrote in that first editorial: «We have barely begun to count the cost of the assault on the child, in social let alone in psychological or spiritual terms.»

To advocate self - help, to argue that affirmative action can not be a long - run solution to the problem of racial inequality, to suggest that some of what is transpiring in black communities reflects a spiritual malaise, to note that fundamental change will require that individual lives be transformed in ways that governments are ill - suited to do, to urge that we must look to how black men and women are relating to each other, how parents are bringing up their children, that we have to ask ourselves what values inform the behavior of our youth» to do these things is not to take a partisan position, or vent some neoconservative ideological screed.

One of the challenges and joys of a good marriage is the opportunity to work together at discovering the particular forms of belief and practice that will meet the spiritual needs of both partners and their children.

Our views regarding the spiritual education of our children were no longer the same.

Their stories often suggest the appalling extent to which the church tends not simply to ignore sexual, physical, emotional and spiritual violence against women and children as a major crisis, but actually to provide theological justification for this violence in its teachings about male headship, women's subordination, and the sinful character of sexuality.

I think if more people allowed themselves to be led by the Spirit, we might see the end to a great deal of the needs around as us God's children pour out their resources in love and compassion for those who have spiritual, physical and emotional needs.

The media have brought to public attention several cases in which Christian Science parents have been prosecuted for the deaths of their children while under spiritual treatment (cases, which the church argues are unrepresentative of its healing record).

A discipline - focus for spiritual formation can lead to legalism — as evidenced by the Christians who congratulate themselves on their daily Bible reading, church attendance, or the superior vocations of their children.

He became a Congregationalist «in an attempt to raise, with my Unitarian wife, four children in some sort of Christian context,» and moved to Episcopalianism, «in accord with my present wife,» but one suspects that these compromises fit his own spiritual needs as well.

It is not the mental immaturity of the child that I commend to you but rather the spiritual simplicity of such an easy - believing and fully - trusting little one.

Free from the lesser entanglements of husband and children, the «free - lance virgin» could experience a special sense of spiritual power.

With the simplest of methods for gathering the simplest of nourishment and with a few acts of healing, we have sufficient justification for abandoning: one of the ten commandments, a substantial body of religious law, a defining cultural activity and for setting aside all the spiritual and secular reasoning for honoring and holding sacred a day of rest and reflection — and replace it with professional sports, athletic competitions for children, travel and recreation, cultural activities and being open for business 24/7.

The child Lewis — an Ulster Protestant with the usual hostility towards papists — would have been amazed at the adult Lewis» thoroughly Catholic theology of pleasure: «There is no good in trying to be more spiritual than God.

We must be prepared to invest in the spiritual, intellectual, and emotional lives of our children, as have Chinese Indonesian Christians, who benefit from the dual heritage of Christian faith and Confucian morality.

Like Calvin, Edwards «emphasizes the sinful nature of children, [but] he also believes that they have rich spiritual lives... and he claims that Christ loved even the poorest, humblest child.»

«The family has the most potential of any institution for shaping the spiritual and moral lives of children.»

(CNN)- An estranged son of anti-gay Kansas pastor Fred Phelps said Wednesday that the spiritual leader of Westboro Baptist Church hit his wife and beat his children with a mattock handle until they bled.

Egos of very young spiritual children caught up in literal interpretation.

She seeks to do this through promoting truth - seeking expeditions, advocating gender equality, educating the Church on abuse, and aiding the rescue of men, women and children from spiritual, emotional and physical poverty.

Ministers cast about for responses to displaced farm families, to the deepening misery of the rural and urban poor, to the epidemic use of drugs in every strata of society, to half a million homeless children; they seek techniques for church growth, approaches to spiritual nurture and meaningful worship.