Sentences with phrase «spiritual life helping»

I couldn't agree more about a strong spiritual life helping.

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The scheduled attendees of the conference encompass a wide variety of experts, ranging from medical professionals, hospice advocates, scholars, religious and spiritual leaders, as well as entrepreneurs and business men and women interested in learning how an understanding of death and dying can help them live lives of greater purpose and meaning.

Olasky's thesis is that effective compassion» that is, service that helps people to transform their lives» is challenging, personal, and spiritual.

Even though the scripture uses some aspects of ancient mil life to help us understand spiritual truths, the mil life and church life are not a perfect analogy or paradigm by which to judge the other.

The statement called for understanding, forgiveness and spiritual support of homosexual persons; expressed opposition to «the unjust and unkind treatment given to homosexuals by individuals, society and the church»; and pledged to minister to homosexuals and «to help them to change their life style in a manner which brings glory to God.»

I recognize that I couldn't «go it alone» and have developed a more spiritual life with the help and guidance of my HP, the pricipals of the program and the support of its members and its fellowship.

In this whole process of vocation, there is a role for spiritual direction and close friends who can help you examine different parts of your life in the search of a genuine call.

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.

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.

I don't think what he does is harming anyone and if it helps some people lead a more spiritual life then so much the better.

And none of that give me a formula for helping people grow in their spiritual lives.

The emphases in counseling on respect for the orderly cause - effect sequences in the world of the psyche and on the necessity of a person's growing in his responsibility for his own inner life can help to counteract any tendency in spiritual healing to function in ways which encourage magic or the temptation to shift the total responsibility to God.

But the point is that IN THAT CONTEXT Calvinist theology was a much - needed pastoral and communal approach that helped people to break from the shackles of long - established systems of spiritual abuse by offering a different story to live by and a different kind of community to live in.

This trickster metaphor is a long - standing, cross-cultural spiritual idea that helps us to have the proper atti - tude towards the vicissitudes of life.

Pallotti told WFSB, «Through support and spiritual intervention, we can help those with same - sex attractions live moral and fulfilling lives.

Another couple found help in a «spiritual search group» in their church — a group of persons who share an interest in deepening their devotional life.

He gives the blessing of living in America so that we can use our wealth and our resources and our position in the world to help other people and to help the Good News of salvation through Jesus Christ be spread to nations that are still in spiritual darkness.

She helped me walk through one of the most critical times in my spiritual life.

In the bleak spiritual void which is modern Britain, Catholics needs straightforward and commonsense materials that help to keep Christ at the centre of life.

I am passionate about helping people move spiritually along their own paths, to boldly go where they've never or even anyone has ever gone before, to explore and find their own spiritual independence and live it out as they themselves choose.

I'm amazed at how many prominent pastors and spiritual leaders are obviously living in comfort... no problem with that... but without actually providing the help people need these days to grow and progress spiritually...

The vertical orientation of the church fellowship defines another unique resource — an explicit concern for nurturing spiritual growth by helping people develop functional adult values and philosophies of life and thereby strengthen their connection with the Source of life and growth.

(24) As a tool for exploring the healing - growth potentials of various self - altered states of consciousness, biofeedback may help us develop resources for enriching our spiritual lives.

This suggests that the pastor's role as spiritual leader is to make an intentional effort to help the people live in faithful response to God.

The restoration of theology would greatly enrich the cultural, intellectual and spiritual life of our society, and it would help overcome the gap between the academic and the ministerial, between the scholarly and the pastoral, that so bedevils American theological education.

The ministry is helping in winning souls for Christ and nurturing the spiritual life of converts and other Christians.

A third way in which the minister's counseling skills can be useful to the recovering alcoholic's re-synthesis of his life is in helping to further his spiritual growth.

When a recovering alcoholic comes to him for help with his religious problems or with the «spiritual angle» in AA, he has an opportunity to contribute to the creativity of that person's new way of life.

The sermon can help them understand the historical - developmental approach to the Bible as a friend that opens new windows in their spiritual lives.

It's a pretty straightforward series of steps, based on spiritual principles, that helps people clean up their lives in a whole lot of ways.

The benefits are: God's mercy is communicated in a tangible way; Reconciliation with God; Personal encounter with Christ; Divine life is restored in our soul; Grace is given; Confession reminds us of the price of sin; The profits of penance; Remission of eternal punishment; Temporal punishment can be diminished; Merit and virtue restored; Makes our prayers and works more efficacious; We benefit from the priest's prayers and penance; More fruitful participation in other sacraments; Sacrament of healing; Strengthens our faith; Cultivates hope; Increases charity; Fosters growth in humility and in self - knowledge; Helps to form our conscience; Brings psychological benefits; Prevents us from falling into more serious sins; Improves our prayer life; Source of spiritual direction; Helps us becomesaints.

This includes help from AA, assistance from a medical expert, learning how to interrupt the addictive cycle, helping the person develop a new way of life without alcohol, and helping further his / her spiritual growth.

Spiritual help pours over into all areas of life: emotional, mental, and physical.

How far the renewed interest of some Christians in the mystical and contemplative traditions is indebted to Hinduism it is hard to say, but Western Christians can still be helped to discover a deeper dimension to life by encounter with the authentic spiritual teaching and practice of Hinduism.

At some point you have to look at these people and ask «Does it seem like their Bible is really helping them have a good productive spiritual life?»

Providing for the spiritual needs of the non-religious not does not include trying to force them into some religion or participate in public prayer ceremonies, it means helping these soldiers identify, live up to, and find inner - peace with their values and principles, same as what it means for religious soldiers.

This spiritual ground for hope at this time of wanton destruction of our world, can help us to recall the ultimate purpose of life and of our journey in this world.

Most important, practicing the Twelve Steps in Al - Anon will help her find spiritual resources, through relationship with a higher Power, which she will need in coping with her problems in living and her existential anxiety.

I've been thinking of the spiritual life of the disciples in relationship with Jesus, and how this might help me understand myself as well as those in my community, as well as those who have left:

However, he didn't tell them that they should keep the law by their natural power, but he told them that they would need a deliverer or redeemer, who would come and dwell in them (the Holy Spirit), in oder to be their spiritual power, which would help them to overcome sin and live a life of Christian love.

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.

In We Die Before We Live, his book about St. Rose's Home for terminally ill cancer patients, Daniel Berrigan writes: «I am beginning to sense it; you have to be in good form spiritually to work here,» At Cabrini, as at St. Rose's, not everyone is in good spiritual form, but it helps if you are.

i also don't believe that GOD really exist, but all of my doubts was gone and all of my questions in life and spiritual matters has an answers with the help of GOD, through brother Eliseo Soriano.Thanks for reading.

So, as when a Christian first joins God's Church, he does so through the formal Church rite of the sacrament of baptism, and as when his life further progresses it is marked and strengthened by other sacraments of the Church, so when he had damaged his relationship with God and his Church, and, by doing so, threatened or injured that of others, a sacrament of the Church makes provision or formal statements of sorrow by the sinner, of God's forgiveness by his Church, and for a means of spiritual help, grace, to help the sinner to carry out his intention to amend.

So many entrepreneurial, creative, and compassionate people are recalibrating their lives to start new businesses, non-profit organizations and churches to help meet the physical and the spiritual needs of those around us, working to help the situation and the person change.

The spiritual power that Christ awakens can not help spilling out into one's life in the world.

While I am very happy for anyone who finds their spiritual or non-spiritual calling in life that makes them feel happy and complete, I can't help but laugh at this attempt at mass hysteria.

«We are now on a mission to live more sustainably, become more self - sufficient and live off the grid» continues Naylor, «We involve ourselves in many practices that help us cultivate emotional, mental, physical and spiritual wellness.

About the Book: Most parents spend more time helping their kids succeed at academics or athletics than infusing shared spiritual experiences into the rhythm of everyday family life.

You also might discover that having animals in your life can help you to feel a greater sense of purpose and spiritual satisfaction.