Sentences with phrase «talk about prayer»

More commonly I hear people talk about prayer / meditation in the mornings..

A steady stream of talk about prayer threatens to silence us.

So I shall talk about prayer under such headings as recognition, as resistance and submission, as community.

I am convinced that a good deal of talk about prayer is vitiated by the assumption that God is an intolerant, indeed we might say an intolerable, tyrant who must be cajoled rather than addressed; and this is tied in with a picture of his nature or character that is fundamentally unchristian or subchristian, even if many Christian thinkers have fallen victim to it.

When we talk about prayer, we generally think of a pastor or godly person saying spiritual sounding words to God.

This encourages parishioners to make appointments to talk about prayer and sets the stage for conversations about prayer during pastoral calls.

There is no denying that the various styles of prayer, adoration, meditation, contemplation, thanksgiving and supplication are all spoken about, but because the speakers talk about prayer in a familiar way they do not really cover specific types of prayer.

If we are talking about prayer then why do you need to be President?

He was talking about prayer and said we need to be careful not to keep pleading and pleading with God for something that is not His will for us.

So to bring it into a Bible study, to bring it into talking about prayer, to talk about living with trauma as part of a fallen world, may help it become a more generalized topic where we don't have to be ashamed to name that we're broken and that we struggle.

All the speakers were united in talking about prayer as what it is, the raising of the heart and mind to God.

Matthew 21: 21 and Mark 11:23 Isn't talking about prayer working absolutely, it's talking about having faith and whether or not you have any doubt in your heart in which if there isn't any doubt you can move mountains.

This isn't the loveliest image one could imagine for talking about prayer, and yet it is a powerful one.

I'm talking about prayers for trivial things like...

I heard a sermon several years back where the pastor was talking about prayer, and he said that he uses a prayer system of concentric circles.

The opening words of the film are from Isaiah 40: «The Lord is the everlasting God...» and it closes with the real - life Doss talking about prayer.

And they can pray with their whole selves, disregarding the nonsense that has been talked about prayer as a matter of merely «spiritual» nature.

By and large, most christians» talk about their prayers, or prayers in general, made no sense to me.

On the cover it talks about prayer to overcome our propensity to sin and inside he talks of our sensitive conscience making us feel bad.

We met the next week, sitting under a tree on a bench and talked about prayer.

We're not talking about prayer.

Hassan talks about prayer and demonstrates the prayer positions.

Let me assume that you are not talking about prayer with this couple because you are unwilling to accept them as different, and you are not talking about prayer because you are trying to force them to change...... rather you are talking about prayer because ~ from your personal experience ~ it is one of many topics (communication skills, managing finances, dealing with family of origin issues, family planning, etc, etc) that couples need to learn / practice if they are going to be successful in the vocation of Christian marriage.

Not exact matches

This is about prayer not rather God talks to you or people have ever seen him ornot.

3) for all your talk about taking the Bible literally, you clearly don't care about mutating the Lord's Prayer with «your own version.»

I get a kick out of the Atheist talking about how religious people try and ram their faith down throats... and then you see clowns like hippypoet and the prayer is not healthy kook... guess they are hypocrits just like everybody elese.

The Bible contains a lot of interesting stories, talks between people, between God (Jesus) and people, wisdom (proverbs), prophecy (revelation), words of salvation (the 4 gospels, the epistles), historical data, like dates, locations, names of people involved in the stories, parables, reports about miracles, Jesus did, songs, prayers, psalms etc...

Dr Brown talks about why ther is trouble in a christians life and how to overcome through prayer and faith in the LOrd in heaven.

Yes, the preachers and chaplins came with prayers, but our love for each other and family was what we talked about.

I'm talking about painters, drawers, cartoonists, writers, poets, speakers, musicians, journalists, bloggers, prayers, conservationists, activists, potters, gardeners, jewelers, dancers, bakers, and pizza makers.

See, try to run for president, and talk about faith and prayer in the same way that Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich do.

Pete Greig, one of the founders of 24 - 7 Prayer International, told Premier's Inspirational Breakfast: «Going to number one is incredible, but what it means is that this week more people are downloading videos about Jesus at Christmas than Ted Talks, or Ricky Gervais» podcast, or the Foo Fighters!»

And, when she describes that change, what she ends up describing is what already more - or-less exists, namely: mainline christianity, embracing the reformed and the catholic, the scientific and the traditional, which has been doing (never perfectly, to be sure) the sort of deep thinking, social justice, and disciplined prayer that she talks about continually while the evangelicals were breaking off to do their own thing (the thing she seems to want them to stop doing) throughout the twentieth century.

Religion News Service: Man spends 12 months practicing 12 different religions, and finds peace at year's end Andrew Bowen sat yoga - style in his armchair, absent - mindedly fingering a set of Muslim prayer beads in his left hand as he talked about 2011 - his year of conversion.

One thinks of Theresa with her comparison of the life of prayer to a medieval castle, of John of the Cross with his lovely story of the lover in the garden of cypresses, and of Meister Eckhart (the most abstract of them all) with his talk about a spark of deity that seems to become the very self of the person praying.

Now 15 years later, you have Chance the Rapper doing stuff with Kirk Franklin; you have Kendrick talking extremely openly about his faith; Ty Dolla $ ign is on Lecrae's album; Kesha's doing a prayer song.

So to not be able to talk about such embarrassment had been a hindrance for me at the time rather than the time of prayer ministry being a help.

Before any headway can be made in understanding the foundations of prayer, we must know what we are talking about.

Clearly that's the «power of prayer» these people are talking about.

I believe with all my heart, after thousands of hours reading the Bible under prayer so my understanding would be inspired by the Holy Spirit, that the Mormon church is indeed a satanic cult - it's one of the «other gospels» Paul talks about in Galatians 1:8.

And even though one understands something about prayer and is himself nourished by it, one is apt to feel that it is presumptuous to talk much about it.

It's funny you liken us to fruit flies and yet in the paragraph above you're talking about how god wants our emotion of love, he can hear our prayers he is interested in every individual life of close to 7 billion people on earth.

Contemplative prayer is about being with God rather than talking with God.

I am ashamed of the way I judge those I deem judgmental, the way I stumble through my day without prayer, the way I issue praises to heaven in one breath and curse my brothers in the next, the way I talk a big game about loving others and then brush past the woman crying in the airport, the way cynicism seeps into my bones, the way I zone out in front of my wireless glowing mirror in a pathetic effort to avoid confronting it all.

At The Lasting Supper, we talk a lot about how our ideas and attitudes around prayer have gone through major changes.

I learned about all sorts of management techniques, from talk - therapy, to meditation, to hormones, to surgery, to prayer, to vitamins, to exercise... and experimented with them all.

Note that I am not talking about praying less, but only about the official «prayer meetings» at church, which often become a substitute for action.

@ hawaiiguest: while i'm perfectly content to talk to you about the effectual nature of prayer, i was attempting to meet you on your own ground.

Graham Tomlin, principal of St Mellitus, a training college for Anglicans, also highlights the importance of connecting personal faith with theology: «Doing theology without prayer means that you end up talking about God.

The main difference is Obama doesn't lead state - wide prayer meetings and talk about his biblical interpretations of the bible... like Bachmann's belief in submitting to her husband.