Sentences with phrase «spiritual life of other»

Youth pastors are not meant to be the experts in the spiritual life of other people's children.

Not exact matches

He'll have seen the world as it is, from behind the eyes of someone who doesn't live their life judging others based on their spiritual beliefs.

But I trust the «evolutionary» spiritual process God has imprinted in us as I've see it work efficiently in my life and the life of others.

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.

Talking about spiritual growth, and the comforts of daily life, Don suggests, «It requires that we change our lives to change the lives of others.

The point is this: Stop thinking that when you share the Four Spiritual Laws, or the Romans Road, or the plan of salvation, or given an altar call, or invite someone to believe in Jesus for eternal life, or any of the other myriad of things that Christians today call «sharing the gospel,» stop thinking that you have actually shared the Gospel.

To surrender one's life in this way as a spiritual offering for others takes a heroism that is beyond most of us.

So great and splendid is the educational ministry of Christian parents that Saint Thomas has no hesitation in comparing it with the ministry of priests: «Some only propagate and guard spiritual life by a spiritual ministry: this is the role of the sacrament of Orders; others do this for both corporal and spiritual life, and this is brought about by the sacrament of marriage, by which a man and a woman join in order to beget offspring and bring them up to worship God.

He comes from the background of a religious home; he is seriously trying to work out an intelligent philosophy of life; he is sensitive to spiritual values; and he seeks a vocation where he can make the most of his best for the sake of others.

And thus do they pervert and distort the Scriptures, making them the guide to slavish details of the daily life and an authority in things nonspiritual instead of appealing to the sacred writings as the repository of the moral wisdom, religious inspiration, and the spiritual teaching of the God - knowing men of other generations.»

If you find that you're making changes in your life, you need to ask yourself whether those changes are for the approval of others or in order to facilitate a more spiritual awareness.

And he continued: «Personally, I owe deep gratitude to the priests involved with the Work [Opus Dei], to whom I have entrusted with much satisfaction the spiritual direction of my own life and that of other priests.»

I speak throughout Canada and internationally to churches, conferences, women's groups, universities, and workshops on topics ranging from spiritual formation, a sacramental view of living, being a Christian feminist, the ways that we can navigate change throughout our faith journey, the embrace of ancient church practices as a charismatic Christian, writing, social justice, and many other topics.

It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory in the midst of the sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33

It affirms that the richer the total economic, cultural, spiritual, and intellectual life of others, the richer our potential for aesthetic value relations.

Jeremy before the Gospel was preached in New Zealand my people the maori people already had many gods and lived under there own type of spiritual law.They had rituals to keep themselves holy or pure but was by works.They also believed that there was one supreme God who was above all other Gods and his name was eo.So when the Missionaries came they understood the message of a supreme God and the way to know him was through his son over 60 % of maori people accepted the Gospel.It was bigger revival than the welsh revival in terms of percentage of population the welsh revival was only 10 % of the population of wales and that was considered a large revival in its day the new zealand revival was in the years 1820 - 1840.

While some, therefore, among the great prophets turned away from it as too misleading to be useful, others, like Ezekiel, clung to it and, by giving it sublimated meanings, made it a servant of their spiritual lives.

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.

Life, for the early Church, was spiritual warfare; and no baptized Christian could doubt how great a transformation — of the self and the world — it was to consent to serve no other god than Him whom Christ revealed.

For as well as theoretical reflection on the moral significance of a decision, there are other ways and means by which a human being can either become clear about the rightness and conformity to God's will of a decision, or at least improve the conditions for its correct formation: the general cultivation of courage, unselfishness, self - denial, the practice of the art of making vital particular decisions which can not be deduced by purely theoretical consideration as this art is taught by the masters of the spiritual life.

That doesn't mean, however, that there aren't truths to be found in other religions — insights on the spiritual life, ways of praying, and so forth.

Long - range planning for preaching can be assisted by formulating an annual grid listing the months of the year along one side and three sets of factors along the other: (1) human factors (personal and public) relating to the seasons of the year beginning with spring; (2) congregational factors relating to the church life cycle usually beginning in September; (3) theological factors relating to the Christian Year, to lectionary selections or lectia continua, and to spiritual and theological themes needed by the church in its life and mission beginning with Advent.

That «sheol» or sprit world afterlife was in fact an Old Testament and even Torah - based belief and within that spiritual realm of sheol those spirits (all the spirits who were once living) were in either a state of happiness or in a state of limited ability to obtain happiness, or in other words a state of damnation or being in like a spiritual prison, which would later be further described in the New Testament (which the earliest figured written versions of the New Testament were written in Greek for newly gentile converts) as hell.

Life is a journey of question marks, and that's more relevant to faith and spiritual life than it is to almost any other aspect of lLife is a journey of question marks, and that's more relevant to faith and spiritual life than it is to almost any other aspect of llife than it is to almost any other aspect of lifelife.

Instead, we've allowed ourselves to live out a watered down form of the gospel where we expect a special «enlightened few» to do the spiritual work, while the others expect a good performance.

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There were many ways to live, not simply one, the spiritual theory taught, all of them good, some of them better than others from one moment to the next.

In the company of friends with whom no other subject is avoided, we circumvent the spiritual life like quicksand.

The other was a spiritual leader with a ministry spanning across the U.S. and overseas, this was a man devoted to teaching others how to live in accordance with his view of the Bible.

They have reported his ascetic habits, his practice of visiting churches wherever he went, and other miscellaneous details of Stevens's spiritual life.

Rather, I argue that the profound and seemingly unmanageable pressures which marriage faces are a spiritual and not a psychosocial matter, one having to do with questions of human destiny: are we to live for ourselves, or for others, or for both in some yet undiscovered dialectic of being?

It is because members of a congregation are free from the dynamics of daily family life together that they can be a source of spiritual strength, solace, and inspiration to others.

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.

He did not understand the spiritual life as an ascetical exercise of self - negation that had no relation to justice in society and to love of the other even beyond the demands of justice.

It [the realism] arises from a conviction that there is no mere analogy, but an inward affinity, between the natural order and the spiritual order; or as we might put it in the language of the parables themselves, the Kingdom of God is intrinsically like the process of nature and of the daily life of men... Since nature and supernature are one order, you can take any part of that order and find in it illumination for other parts This sense of the divineness of the natural order is the major premise of all the parables... 132

It is a jungle out there, and it is no less true about spiritual life than any other aspect of life.

To live the values of this spiritual mastery over our selves is to realize a new power, a peace and joy that surpasses all other joys.

And so it is, to a large extent, with the other saints» cults as well, a point vividly illustrated in the testimony of several of the children of Sanchez, for whom the Lord of Chalma (another cult, centered about sixty miles southwest of Mexico City) was the focus of their spiritual life.48 Even when the cult is community oriented — as in the case of agricultural saints — it remains largely apolitical.

The establishment of religious foundations here in Britain and elsewhere in the world that have the Gospel of Life as their principal charism is surely an external expression of this spiritual battle in which we are all, in some rank or other, enlisted.

What we have subsequently discovered is that he lived and taught the non-appropriation of any goods, be they material, spiritual or intellectual: we are to store up nothing for ourselves, but we can and should freely and gratefully use God's gifts in a non-possessive way for the benefit of others.

Others of his shorter works, which are also published as Faith Pamphlets, and many as yet unpublished gems from his ordinary parish newsletters, reveal the effectiveness of this living vision of Christian truth - simultaneously doctrinal, moral, spiritual and practical.

It may be insight into the divine mysteries, the nature of Ultimate Reality, and of the laws governing the existence of the cosmos, of society, and of individual lives; or the gift of restoring into wholeness broken physical or spiritual health; or the ability to develop, by teaching and in other ways, the hidden possibilities in one's fellow men, and to give direction and purpose to their lives.

In light of this, can it be agreed that a study of theology that takes place, as at Steubenville, alongside a firm spiritual practice (Mass, adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, traditional Marian and other devotions) and a clear moral stance (students living celibate lives supported by households and communities) is a necessary part of a strategy for Catholic theology?

I have since noticed that people on a spiritual path of intention rather than religion pay far more attention to how they manifest in their lives an ethic which affirms life, how they behave in terms of respecting the sacredness of the Earth and others in it.

If you don't, pretty soon you will find yourself not reading Scripture, not hanging out with other believers, not following the ways of God, and not having any spiritual input into your life.

I hear homilies that relate to my life, I am a recovering sinner, am imperfect, have a spiritual director, my needs are being met (God's grace flows when one is fully engaged and giving of themselves to God and others wholeheartedly), and I am fully active and participate in the life of my family and Church.

The church split certainly became a defining moment of my spiritual life as I unhappily bounced between churches for the last 9 years, praying all along to see an official forgiveness session, watching with hope as small acts of kindness mended some wounds... noting as well how others remained gaping obviously.

But others (and yours had the sense of this without really saying it directly) seem to use it to mean a time of spiritual drought (unrelated to other occurances in one's life).

The essential ingredients of Christian spiritual formation never change: They are the prayerful study of Scripture and learning to live the life of faith through the influence of other Christians.

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.