Sentences with phrase «story of adultery»

Instead there is much wasted time on superficial Presidential interactions and a needless side story of adultery involving Cecil's wife (Oprah Winfrey) and his friend (Terrence Howard).

Genesis 20 tells the story of adultery in the time of Abraham.

The Nuffield Foundation's new report called «Finding Fault» claims sixty per cent of divorcing couples are making up stories of adultery and bad behaviour in order for the divorce to go through quickly under «fault - based» laws.

Not exact matches

The New York Times is reporting a disturbing story in which ISIS militants stoned two twentysomethings in the streets of Mosul after they were accused of committing adultery.

Think of The End of the Affair and A Handful of Dust: both stories about adultery, and both Catholic stories about adultery.

You seem to have highlighted particular sins as though some are worse than others all sin leads to death not just the big ones because we all are sinners.All have gone astray none are righteous.I believe the worst sin is pride idolatry is the first commandment we set ourselves as Gods.Regardless of what the sin is, our hearts are condemned by our pride.It wasnt the sin of homosexuality or sexual deviance that destroyed sodom.It was there pride and it is one of our biggest stumbling blocks in our christian walk or it certainly was for me.We look at the story of the adulterous woman and we think adultery is a terrible crime but the story is for our benefit to show that we all are sinners that Jesus does nt condemn us but came to save us.And when Jesus says go and sin no more he was not only talking to the woman but everyone else that was around judging her for her sin its a universal message that we all need to see that we all are condemned because of our sin that Jesus came to save us and that we turn from our sin and follow him.Because he is the way the truth and the life.brentnz

From the liberal standpoint, modernity is not the desert of meaningless lifestyle - chasing Hauerwas implies it is (he appears to endorse Wendell Berry's judgment that the «dominant story of our age, undoubtedly, is that of adultery and divorce»).

You'll find people who criticize Mad Men for glorifying casual sex or alcoholism, which is a bit like criticizing the story of David and Bathsheba for glorifying adultery.

On the first night the story of the woman caught in adultery from the Gospel of St. John is read, followed by a guided meditation in which the retreatants are invited to enter into the woman's experience of shame and despair.

An example of a guilty person facing the wrath of the crowd can be found in the story of the woman caught in adultery (John 8:1 - 11).

Love that you included the missing half of the adultery story.

We see this in the story of the religious leaders who ganged up on the woman caught in adultery.

In other words, in the cross and resurrection story, the bond between the meaning of the story and what Jesus did is very tight, whereas in the story of the woman caught in adultery (John 8: 1 - 11), the story is true whether or not it actually occurred, because it shows us the kind of person that Jesus was.

This is based on the famous story of the woman caught in adultery in John 8 in the bible.

From what we see in the story of the woman caught in adultery this was not an offense that was treated lightly.

I plan to read it at our Bible discussion group tomorrow night, since we'll be looking at the first part of John 8, the story of the woman caught in adultery.

I am sorry you were subject to your mom's adultery (and I plan to write about the impact of adultery on kids very soon; perhaps you'd want to share your story in confidence and anonymously?)

Based on the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, this is the story of the infamous Hester Prynne, tried by her own townspeople in colonial Salem and found to be guilty of heinous fornication, adultery and of having born an illegitimate child.

Henry's observations, set down ten years after that fateful year, are much more than the «old story» of adultery his mother deemed her affair to be.

Several of his stories and novellas have been adapted into films, including In the Bedroom (based on «Killings») and We Don't Live Here Anymore (based on «We Don't Live Here Anymore» and «Adultery»).

Quatro's debut novel (her follow - up to the excellent short story collection I Want to Show You More) explores heady questions of faith and passion through the story of a woman's adultery.

Throughout the centuries, the concept of adultery has provided writers with rich fodder for wonderfully compelling stories.

His marriage to his second wife, Spanish fashion designer, Bienvenida Pérez Blanco, who was 30 years younger than him, ended in scandal, when she admitted adultery with Sir Peter Harding, the British Chief of the Defence Staff, and sold her story to the News of the World for # 150,000.