Sentences with phrase «teach the story about»

This myth surfaces particularly when we read or teach the story about the two prostitutes with one baby (1 Kings 3:16 - 28).

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Think about life experiences that have impacted you, and start to tell stories to teach important lessons to those you are leading.

But life strategist Tony Robbins says that Mayweather's life story also teaches regular investors an important lesson about wealth and income.

Listening to their stories about our business and their lives teaches me about shared values, which form the foundation for a strong corporate culture that motivates people to do their best every day.»

BUILDING ON BEDROCK: What Sam Walton, Walt Disney, and Other Great Self - Made Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us About Building Valuable Companies For founders and investors — based upon research, and told through the stories of famous and not - so - famous American entrepreneurs.

This whole story is about race and for you, the author to ask us to follow in his teachings and not his color?

Such stories often teach similar lessons about hard times: Suffering is necessary, the «false self» must be abandoned, and «everything belongs, even the sad, absurd and futile parts.»

However, when I hear stories like Bookwork's, about breaking free from teachings like «avoid talking about death / hell and change the subject,» it impressed me and gives me hope that others will break free as well and look for answers.

On Wednesday, October 20, 1993, an AP story about the task force's draft of a social teaching statement, «The Church and Human Sexuality: A Lutheran Perspective,» hit the press around the country - even before the pastors had received their copies.

«The creation story is taught in science and there is no evidence that pupils learn scientific theories about the origin of the Earth.»

And so the story teaches us something about how to look for such things — if not necessarily to know when we have found them — and to know what kinds of secrets are worth pursuing.

It also taught me that clergy have to be on our guard against both parishioners and other clergy who have such disorders, particularly since we are often on ego - trips about «helping» people and get happy - clappy about spearheading redemption stories.

Our friends at Zondervan have created the most fun and thought filled Bible when it comes to teaching our kids about Jesus and the lessons in the stories.

The stories of the synagogue leader, the healed woman and the ancient patriarch teach us about daring to hold God accountable for promises God has made to care for God's people.

At Fordham University in New York, a Catholic school, a proud mother of a grown gay son drew a standing ovation when she told a story about discovering the effect of church teachings on her child.

The stories about Jesus which are recorded in the gospels, had first been told and retold in the teaching and preaching ministry of the church.

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archaeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archaeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

They had digested what was taught about God in the creation story and what was taught about Jesus in the Gospels.

Their stories often suggest the appalling extent to which the church tends not simply to ignore sexual, physical, emotional and spiritual violence against women and children as a major crisis, but actually to provide theological justification for this violence in its teachings about male headship, women's subordination, and the sinful character of sexuality.

We had the nicest most sincere nuns teaching us when I was a child — apparently I was one of the «lucky ones» as there are so many stories about the «mean old nuns» wrapping knuckles with rulers and more.

An old story tells about a philosophy professor who, despite his long tenure and large classes, remembered every student he had ever taught.

The story of Bambi is really about one thing: The young deer Bambi is gradually taught by the old stag how to live wisely, and much of what he learns has to do with death.

First, it is plain that the empty tomb was not the originating factor since careful critical study of the material found at the end of all four Gospels makes it clear that the stories about the empty tomb are more in the category of Christian apologetic — however honestly believed and taught at the time when the Gospels were compiled from earlier oral tradition — than in that of historical reporting.

I am sure that by this time next year, when the man gets up to teach all the amateur fisherman who have never caught a fish about the miracle - working wonders of this prayer, he will have some stories to tell them about me, and how I prayed five times a day, and as a result, caught the biggest fish the world and the most fish all in one day.

If I wrote a story about a super hero, and got others to write about said super hero, and we kept our teachings our story very consistent, that wouldn't make it any more true.

The archive also includes teaching, marriage and death certificates, a script of a play written about Mrs Watson and her husband, silverware and a short story written by a former pupil.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France, recently raised a commotion by trying to educate his country's youth: Every fifth grader, he said, should adopt the story of one of France's 11,000 Jewish children killed during the Holocaust, in order to teach them about prejudice and the evils....

She also seems to go out of her way to pick on evangelical leaders, which is too bad because I really think evangelicals need to hear what she has to say, especially on page 10: «I'm tired of watching those who are supposed to care about the Bible reduce its stories and its teachings to slogans.

We teach about the origin story of Genesis... as an origin story.

You can choose to believe the stories written about him in the Gospel or not, but there is historical basis for his life and teachings.

The Christian women of the first century who repeated stories about Mary Magdalene in support of their own visions, prophecies and teachings would concur.

When U.S. News & World Report ran a story in 1996 about the decline of civility, it opened with what it must have considered the man - bites - dog vignette — an account of a classroom where young people were taught to be polite.

I also think it's funny how relatively rich western believers read the story of the rich man and Lazarus as teaching primarily about a literal hell and eternal torment.

Reminds me of the story of the Sunday School teacher, who, after teaching about the self - righteous Pharisee who looked down on the tax collector, finished by praying «Thank you God that we're not like that self - righteous Pharisee.»

In the Quran, there are many stories about the life and teachings of Jesus Christ (called «Isa in Arabic).

This is a story about not taking things for granted and teaching that to your children.

A recent story in the L.A. Times about the Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops devoted to the pastoral care of families, offered this provocative view: «Vatican to Debate Teachings on Divorce, Birth Control, Gay Unions.»

When I was a kid sitting in the pews at church, I was taught that this is a simple story about why we should pray more.

(132) The energy bursting from this story is admirable, but this is a long way from the problems of an averageCatholic family in Britain, who are more likely to be worrying about what the local primary school is teaching their children, rather than the best way to shoot a rat.

Thus, the rest of the Gospels are the story of this King, the teachings of this King about His Kingdom (for example, the kingdom parables and sermon on the mount), and how this King ascends to His throne (Philippians 2).

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

With rising anti-Muslim sentiment across the country, an untold story is raising greater awareness about the Muslim faith and the teachings of the Quran.

We like to think that if we don't have a record of Jesus» teachings on a matter, he must not have said anything about it, but we forget that Jesus healed, blessed, taught, and shared meals with people whose names we will never know, whose stories will never be immortalized in stained glass.

In an earlier time, when historical and source criticism held sway, Mark's Gospel was often considered a collage of episodes, miracles and teachings leading up to stories about Jesus» arrest, trial, crucifixion and resurrection.

Male authority that does not stand up for women, teach about women, tell stories of women in the church.

Guroian used children's stories to teach his children, and uses them now in teaching his college students how to think about ethics.

I could tell you some stories too, about trying to teach in the parochial system with next to no government funding and lacking resources, about situations that have not worked out well.

I leave you with a story that Muslims are taught by Muhammad about Jesus, whom we believe to be a prophet of God.

As for the reports of the «witnesses» during Jesus» lifetime, the stories told about him, the reports of his teaching, his sayings, parables, interpretations of the Law, controversies with the scribes, and the application of Old Testament laws and prophecies — all this was undoubtedly orientated and controlled by the eschatological outlook of his teaching and ministry as a whole, but also undoubtedly it lacked the sharpness of focus which the Resurrection was later to give it.

He is not necessarily talking in these quotes about teaching theology through story, but by looking at his practice, I think that he would argue that the most basic «vernacular» of any culture is story.