Sentences with phrase «struggled with teaching»

«During my first year, I really struggled with teaching online research,» she says.

Apparently, various first century churches struggled with the teachings of Jesus, Paul, and others about the new roles women could assume in the Christian community.

People struggle with the teachings of Christ because they are not perfect.

A lot of people struggle with teaching their kids how to eat healthy and stay away from salty, fatty and sweet snacks.

Single mom Camille Carvajal recounts having to struggle with teaching her little boy how to aim.

Educators often struggle with teaching vocabulary, especially to young children.

But if we don't capture the students» initial enthusiasm for the subject, we'll struggle with the teaching for years after, producing adults who are uninterested in or intimidated by the subject.

How can all students learn to read by 4th grade if so many teachers struggle with teaching reading?

Many dog owners struggle with teaching their dogs not to pull on the leash...

Not exact matches

With all life struggles, there are lessons to be learned — and McMahon admits she's definitely picked up a few teachings during her time.

My own executive teaching shows the dysfunctional processes associated with groupthink are all too real and something that many leaders struggle with.

Milyutin — who confesses that he struggled with math in primary school — cited a 1984 review by the late Benjamin Bloom, which reports that students who received one - on - one tutoring performed better than 98 % of students taught in a conventional classroom.

All is not smooth sailing: Emma's adopted son will fall prey to another great lie on offer in the twenty - first century and become a foreign fighter in his native Ukraine, while the children she teaches struggle with autism, anxiety, emotional problems, and speech disorders.

But anyway, I myself struggle with the same question you asked about pastors who know and embrace the full implications of Calvinism, and I have to say I DO regard a pastor like that as one who teaches False Doctrine and who is dangerous because of it.

So I speak as someone who has struggled with, and in some cases regretted, her decisions at the ballot box, and who recognizes no single political party boasts a consistent pro-life ethic, just as no single political party embodies the teachings of Jesus or the values of his Kingdom.

Much of what Ramsey teaches is sound, helpful advice, particularly for middle - class Americans struggling with mounting credit card bills.

If you have time to take a look, Ben Williams presents some thought - provoking ideas... some of which I can agree with and some of which I struggle to reconcile with what I've been taught or what I currently think.

As a committed Catholic who was raised in the seventies and taught that indulgences were a relic of the past, I struggle with the church and Pope even invoking the term «plenary indulgence.»

but I do not adjust the scriptures to fit my life, lol, that would be too easy, believe me, I struggle with my own demons, and not because of fundamentalist traditional teaching, as you can probably tell I rejected that long ago, I wanted to know what God was really saying, whether I liked it or agreed with it at all, and then I began to adjust my life to His Word.

At Vox Nova, Kelly Wilson has published an extended examination of the dilemma posed to those who find themselves struggling with Church teaching, whether because they authentically lack conviction or understanding or deal doubt from a more cynical place, as in the case of ideologically - driven op - ed columnists.

I have a lot to be mad with God about and sometimes I struggle, but my pain has taught me a lot about God and the human heart.

Many people struggle with how to teach and preach about Jesus from the Old Testament.

Naive and uncritical ideas are identified with the teaching of the church, and lay people struggle with their obvious limitations and paradoxes with little help from church professionals.

I struggled with it and rejected the so - called «Calvinism» at first, but gradually came to see that the Bible does seem to teach this, with sufficient references to the Church being chosen to conclude anything other than that salvation is totally of God, including who can come to Jesus for salvation.

When I read between the lines of the New Testament, I see, along with the good, a very chaotic community that struggled with the same issues the contemporary church struggles with: ambition, power, position, money, possessions, charismata and worship, order, heresy, dress, the abuse of the sacraments, teaching, and so on.

For many years I have struggled with deep seated doubts about Protestantism which clings so blindly to the Reformation's Sola Scriptura overreaction which gained its foothold at a time when «enlightenment» was only just beginning to teach us how to sign our names other than with an «X».

As I struggle with what I was taught in Seminary about Scripture, books like this give me hope that there is room for serious scholarship and deep thinking about Scripture, even if Scripture is not inerrant.

From that shocking conviction of faith, Luther was able to go forth teaching, preaching, raising a family, running from authorities, sulking in protective custody in two castles, translating the Bible, writing hymns, eating and drinking with students and colleagues, maladministering the new congregations of evangelicals, struggling for freedom, devising pragmatic polities for the churches, becoming a public and political figure, defying pope and emperor and developing a Christ - centered theology.

In my journey to Calvinism (which was not at all easy) and in numerous conversations with those struggling with the Bible's teaching on divine election and absolute sovereignty, it doesn't take long to encounter two fundamental questions: (1) If this is true, then how is God just?

I was tempted at first to give maybe a 10 point list of advice for parents going through deconstruction in front of their kids... things like let them see the books you read and answer their curiosities about them; teach your kids how to think, not how to believe; tell them everything you're going through and let them deal with what it means for them; ask them what they believe and listen objectively and engage in conversation about it; openly share your struggles with what you're going through with the church and let them process it themselves, and so on.

My 26 year old daughter struggles with committing to church because as someone working towards her PHD in education, she will be given equal opportunity to teach on a college and university level, but not be allowed to teach in the church... How surreal is that?!

This implication is derived from one of the most valuable insights of process thought, namely, that each of us is not only an intellect, not only a rational being with some capacity to learn truth, not only a will to be taught to strive and struggle — human beings are supremely sensitive, desiring, feeling, appreciating, and valuing beings.

They attend to scripture; struggle to discern the gospel's call and demand on them and their congregations in particular contexts; lead worship, preach and teach; respond to requests for help of all kinds from myriad people in need; live with children, youth and adults through life cycles marked by both great joy and profound sadness; and take responsibility for the unending work of running an organization with buildings, budgets, and public relations and personnel issues.

and then went to the Coburn Law School which gives a very religious teaching of their version of «law» (it has also struggled with accreditation).

Not too long after Aristotle, Jesus lived and died, and His followers struggled with what to do with the teaching of Jesus and the teaching of Aristotle.

The issue i have is that christians stay at the cross and never go any further in there belief that is tragic and if the songs and teachings only lead them to the cross then that is a crime.The cross represents our death as we were crucified with him and after that death we rose with Christ.Sadly many christians are still at the cross still struggling with there demons and flesh life and asking for forgiveness continually pleading the blood.They do nt understand because they are babes in Christ The reality is that Christ died and rose again our life is not in the Cross but is in the risen Christ and in him we are more than conqueres.Lets celebrate our new life in Christ not the death of our old life in Christ.brentnz

But should it be a teaching of the Church that God expects half the population to limit their freedom for the sake of people struggling with natural tendencies?

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

If Christians are to contribute prophetically to the struggle for new meaning and purpose in academic life, they must attend with quickened imagination to «the teaching of the apostles, to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to the prayers.»

I did the latter as I was taught but I know you end up with less flour that way and my dough was way too wet and I struggled with forming the ball even with ample flour.

With Liverpool's current manager Rafa Benitez struggling to get his team to gel, and having failed to bring in a decent winger or two during his spell at the club, you can't help wonder whether his north - west rival couldn't teach him a trick or five.

It would show that Jackson would likely struggle picking up new concepts which would likely be taught to him with a whiteboard and he wouldn't have time to learn simply by multiple (years) of repetition.

In a world where anyone who struggles with anything will sometimes face persecution because of their struggle, you have a unique opportunity to teach your children compassion.

Should colleges be teaching people not to cheat romantically — especially with so many struggling to offer just the basics, thanks to budget cuts?

On this call, API founders Lysa Parker and Barbara Nicholson talk with Lu about how: — our «flaws» are actually pathways to raising resilient, secure, connected kids; — without an awareness of how our story drives our fears, our kids re-enact it; — without self - understanding and empathy, parents then tend to manage rather than engage, control rather than connect, in a chronic practice of «defensive parenting»; — we can turn our old wounds to new wisdom and free our kids from repeating our stories; — the gift of our anger, fear, doubt, chaos, anxiety, struggles, and conflicts is that they can shed compassionate light on our old wounds and we can use this light to «heal» our inner conflicts, and pave our path for ourselves and our kids; and — doing this paving work «keeps our light on»... and our children's light on, and teaches them the power of forgiveness, humility, and humanity.

I know I've shared off and on through the years my struggle with shyness and challenge in speaking, teaching workshops, or book readings and such.

A pivotal book for all parents who struggle with how to teach their children to be compassionate, empathic and socially intelligent.»

Working with the therapeutic educational indications of Rudolf Steiner that were developed into a framework by Audrey E. McAllen that is referred to as The Extra Lesson, Rachel teaches a collection of remedial drawing, painting, and movement exercises that address and may help with remediation for difficulties experienced by students struggling to learn writing, reading, and arithmetic.

I also know, from experience, that being alone with children all day can be demanding at times - we all need stimulating ideas and encouragement, whether we are mom - teachers or professional teachers and so I hope that by sharing my joys and struggles in the Homeschooling pages, that I will lift you above the level of dirty finger marks and spilt milk and give you the motivation and inspiration you need to teach and train your children well.

Dr. Kurcinka views power struggles as an opportunity to teach your child essential life skills, such as how to calm oneself, to be assertive without being aggressive, to solve problems and to work cooperatively with you and others.