Sentences with phrase «spiritual experiences in my life»

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We are crucified with Christ — this means that his death vicariously benefits us; we engage in a new spiritual life because of the spiritual death we experience.

So after leaving, well i lived in fear that the devil would destroy me coz i was out of spiritual covering, i was told i will dry up if i left, and so on... But i find that i am experiencing the opposite.

Sensual addiction of any sort attacks the spiritual life and the experienced joy of communion in God.

The ah - ha moments I discovered changed my life, resulting in two books sharing my experience, Whispers of Rest and Finding Spiritual Whitespace.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

These stages of our spiritual life mirror those of our physical life, and this further reinforces the fact that we all need to experience the ministry of Christ in all of its aspects throughout our whole life.

The author, a Japanese Christian, tells how a Taiwanese Christian helped him to deal with the spiritual homelessness that he experienced by going to live in other cultures.

I believe in God not only because of personal spiritual confirmations and experiences, but because of a living, vivid (but often messy [which only serves to confirm my conviction]-RRB- relationship with Jesus.

In his subsequent reconstruction of Jesus» life, Chilton suggests that this sustained personal experience of exclusion played a major role in Jesus» self - ident - ity, his concept of God and his spiritual quesIn his subsequent reconstruction of Jesus» life, Chilton suggests that this sustained personal experience of exclusion played a major role in Jesus» self - ident - ity, his concept of God and his spiritual quesin Jesus» self - ident - ity, his concept of God and his spiritual quest.

I merely observe that most of us slip easily into a loose godlessness — however well hidden it is beneath religious language and the outward expressions of piety - unless we are kept in a state of spiritual tension by life's disconcerting experiences.

Instead, the stories they tell about their experiences in organizing emphasize that their spiritual lives deepen as they become more politically engaged.

Certainly, one whose religious experience is lacking does well to inquire whether one knows enough as yet of God's truth about spiritual life, just as one who knows that truth sufficiently does well to take note of how God confirms it in experience.

I approach the Bible in all three connections as the communication of doctrine from God; as the instrument of Jesus Christ's personal authority over Christians (which is part of what I mean in calling it canonical; as the criterion of truth and error regarding God and godliness; as wisdom for the ordering of life and food for spiritual growth; and, thus, as the mystery - that is, the transcendent supernatural reahty - whereby encounter and fellowship with the Father and the Son become realities of experience.

In this situation, they are also looking for a spiritual experience that might give meaning and purpose to their lives.»

He responded by relating the parable of the Good Samaritan, one of my personal favorites... bear traps are hidden, and often unseen till bear or human are caught in them... the traps are deliberately placed, they don't just suddenly appear... the answer to the question was the man who had compassion on the man taken by robbers... he was a social and spiritual outcast who had compassion on someone who in normal circumstances would have hated his guts... because his doctrine and «lifestyle» were not acceptable to the religious establishment... I have had life experiences that bear this out, experiencing love and compassion from people whom today's religious establishment demonizes and looks down upon... any reading of the Good Samaritan story should be followed up by a reading of 1 Corinthians 13....

A genuine spiritual, regenerative experience via trusting in the historical Christ produces an undeniable and profound change in the believer's life.

All symbols are ever in danger of becoming spiritual, and not binding images, instead of remaining real signs sent into life; all sacraments are ever in danger of becoming plain experiences, leveled down to the «religious» plane, instead of remaining the incarnate connection between what is above and what is below.

Family - related growth groups engage adults in life - changing spiritual formation because this experience can change attitudes about family life.

The spiritual conversion experienced by both of these groups is intended to carry the individual along in a «new» way of life, and it does for those...

Perhaps the Eastern Christian Tradition can provide a way to preserve the material blessings of Western technology and scientific insights without losing the intuitive spiritual wisdom gained earlier when Religious Traditions experienced Grace more deeply by their participation in the natural rhythms of life.

Our concern is not with these, but rather to state simply that the reality of the presence of Christ in the Holy Communion is a given fact of two thousand years of Christian experience, and that Christian worship as it has historically developed has found that in the partaking of the consecrated bread and wine, as Christ commanded, His «spiritual body and blood» — which is to say, the reality of His life, divine and human, in a uniquely intimate and genuine way — have been received as His presence has been known and his person adored.

Needed is a foundation for uniting a radical understanding of God's action in history with radical individual and corporate discipleship in the world — namely, reflection which results from depth experience, the spiritual life, the interiorization of faith through meditation, prayer and corporate worship.

I intuitively sense an Immanent, Benevolent Presence in my life; but, of course spiritual experience is a subjective matter dependent on many factors — temperamental tendencies that are genetically predisposed (not determined) and personal experiences, so I am not claiming my experience is any sort of empirical «proof» for the existence of God that should convince others.

I generally put this down to very religious people (who have been raised with the concept that God is personally invested in them and is a central force in their life) experiencing the thought of a person without a religious belief system as being close to someone soul-less: without morals and without any fear of punishment (hell), so obviously less trustworthy than religious people who have a spiritual Big Brother and religious community watching their every move.

Gestalt therapy challenges the «aboutism» of endless intellectualizing (in theology and philosophy) concerning the «ultimate meaning of life» which so often becomes a substitute for the direct, enlivening experiencing of spiritual reality.

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The artist of vision and fantasy expects us to learn something about ourselves by having made a sojourn through fantasy, to probe our spiritual nature, to grow in experience, to resolve our lives toward new directions.

I believe the spiritual, the internal, will always overpower the external but in order to experience that we have to have an upside down view of everything in that the physical is not ever as important as the spiritual — and this is something special a gift a freedom that is amazing and in our world of Ugg boots and cars with amazing technology, with the million catalogues that drop through the door or show their wares on our screens... to discover and experience the joy of the internal spirit life is nowhere near as easy as it sounds — and once experienced it is an effort to hold to it and feed it for it to grown and be the power it is meant to be.

They experience spiritual formation through regular participation in the life of a congregation over an extended period of time.

However, if church membership is not experienced by adults as a way of living in the world that depends on faith in Jesus Christ, infant baptism may only foster spiritual complacency and reliance on an empty ritual.

The spiritual dimension (life as relationship) focuses on life in a praying community: it includes both interior experience — the direct encounter with God resulting in a personal knowledge of God's love — and exterior manifestation — daily life lived in an ever - deepening love relationship with God, or life as a testimony to the sifts of the spirit.

As they move along the marriage journey, it may be necessary periodically to revise their understanding of religion, to keep it in touch with their changing experiences, views of life, and spiritual needs.

It was the most incredible spiritual experience I've ever had in my life — it was just so beautiful.

If, abstracting altogether from the question of their value for the future spiritual life of the individual, we take them on their psychological side exclusively, so many peculiarities in them remind us of what we find outside of conversion that we are tempted to class them along with other automatisms, and to suspect that what makes the difference between a sudden and a gradual convert is not necessarily the presence of divine miracle in the care of one and of something less divine in that of the other, but rather a simple psychological peculiarity, the fact, namely, that in the recipient of the more instantaneous grace we have one of those Subjects who are in possession of a large region in which mental work can go on subliminally, and from which invasive experiences, abruptly upsetting the equilibrium of the primary consciousness, may come.

«This condition,» he says, «in which the association - centres connected with the spiritual life are cut off from the lower, is often reflected in the way correspondents describe their experiences....

Indeed, the major function of religion, in the experience of its great exemplars, has been not so much the explanation of life, as life's conquest — the winning of spiritual triumph in the midst of mysterious adversity.

Today more and more of us expect a rich variety of experiences — including work and prayer — in our lives, and many are reaching into the Catholic or Eastern religions» treasure houses to recapture the more inner - directed spiritual wisdom of an earlier day.

Buster People all around the world have experienced near death events... of all regions and non-believers... over all those people do not have the same experience but those that are religious see the after life in terms of their religion, but all have a spiritual experience that changes them... What I am curious is do these prove that Christians are correct..

God calls us to live in ways that we can experience consistent spiritual growth.

All the great spiritual writers have known this, but few in the Church's history understood it better, experienced it more deeply, and wrote about it with more insight than John Cassian, the monk from southern Gaul who lived in the early part of the fifth century.

It's the actual spiritual experience and the miracles that I've seen with my own eyes that it couldn't have been no one but God that perform such wonderful deeds in my life as well on some of the people that I prayed for, including their healing.

In my own experience, I had to walk away from the «church» to preserve my spiritual life.

After living in California, her family moved to Virginia in 2000 to join a Sovereign Grace Ministries church, where they experienced and participated in 10 years of cult - like spiritual abuse.

Second, growth counseling involves a variety of growth - stimulating methods to help people use more of their potentialities by (1) developing better communication with self, others, nature, and God — the four basic relationships within which all growth occurs; (2) developing new skills of relating in mutually - affirming, mutually - fulfilling ways; (3) growing by making constructive decisions and taking responsible action; (4) using the growth possibilities inherent in each life stage; (5) learning to use the pain and problems of unexpected crises as growth opportunities; (6) learning better methods of spiritual growth — the maturing of one's personal faith, working values, sense of purpose, peak experiences, and awareness of really belonging in the universe.

Speaking personally, what a relief to discover that the I was not alone in experiencing spirituality this way and to be affirmed that experiencing God as on a far - distant horizon is not bad, wrong, a sign of spiritual weakness, or a conquest of Satan in my life.

The spiritual conversion experienced by alcoholics and charismatics is intended to carry the individual along in a «new» way of life, and it does for those who stay with it.

They can be engaged in helpfully by persons of any degree of spiritual maturity — from the person who has never prayed in his life but wants to begin to the saint of ripe experience.

A whole chapter is devoted to experiences from Anderson's life - as a producer at the BBC, as spiritual director at the Scots College in Rome.

In a vital religious experience the ontological loneliness of feeling oneself to be a spiritual orphan is overcome by the awareness of one's unity with all of life.

Plainly we must endeavor to draw in as much spiritual life as possible, and we must place our minds in any attitude which experience shows to be favorable to such indrawal.