Sentences with phrase «teaching character in»

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There has to be way more tank - filling than tank - draining,» says Ruben Nieves, former Stanford University men's volleyball coach and current national director of training for the Positive Coaching Alliance, a nonprofit organization based in Mountain View, Calif., that focuses on teaching and encouraging positive character - building in youth and high school sports.

It literally taught an entry - level standard in game vernacular: how to use an analog stick to control a 3D character.

They knew how to be both eloquent and quippy in 140 characters, and taught us that collaboration with like - minded businesses or influencers could help grow the brand exponentially.

Rather, the new NIV here makes it possible for English readers to discover a more Catholic or Orthodox or truly Lutheran Paul, one who teaches that the problem with the Jewish law is its ethnic and temporary character and that human salvation concerns our real sacramental participation in divine life, real transformation, and ultimate resurrection.

Since last week, I've been thinking about how differently my life and / or the world (all mankind) might have been, had I / we been taught what has been revealed to me over the last 20 + years and now know in my mind / heart is the truth / gospel for me, about Father God's love, character and nature, the death of Jesus and Salvation.

To me it is obvious that Jesus, as the character in the bible, was basically modelled after the Buddha, mcuh of his teaching is in the bible, so «christians» are actually pseudo-buddhists wth a god element thrown in so they can still use god to frighten people with.

We still scratch our heads today, however, over his failure to alert us to church teaching on divorce, remarriage, and the sacraments, when so much else in his pastoral character was fine and admirable.

Man in a position of leadership without the right gifting and character is just as bad as assuming a woman teaching and having authority.

He added, in a tone so humble and sincere that his character would never have used it: «She taught me to be grateful for my life regardless of what that entailed, and that's directly related to the image of Christ on the cross and the example of sacrifice that he gave us.

I can not escape the conclusion that you will come out convinced that, both in general and in detail, the ethics of the Bible, from the Ten Commandments to the character and teaching of Christ, meet the test.

While they contain the best of the higher thoughts and longings of the Jewish people, they also contain much that is far from being representative of the character and teachings of the Father in heaven; wherefore must I choose from among the better teachings those truths which are to be gleaned for the gospel of the kingdom.

A last assumption in The Tablet's editorial concerns the character of modern non-acceptance of the Church's teaching.

In recent years, and notably in the teaching of John Paul the Great, there has been much attention paid to the nuptial character of priestly celibacIn recent years, and notably in the teaching of John Paul the Great, there has been much attention paid to the nuptial character of priestly celibacin the teaching of John Paul the Great, there has been much attention paid to the nuptial character of priestly celibacy.

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.

A character in Allen's «Notes from the Overfed,» an essay in Getting Even, observes that some people teach that God is in all creation.

Or was it only an event in the lives of the disciples — a change in their outlook as they came to realize through further reflection upon their dead and buried Teacher, that his influence still lived on, that his teaching had been true, that his life must be their example and his character a pattern for themselves to follow, that although he was dead he must still be revered in their memory as their Lord whose spirit could still be recreated in themselves in so far as they dedicated themselves to the aim of following in his footsteps?

When the followers of prophecy teach that God will visit the earth with a time of tribulation beyond any previous suffering humankind has experienced, they traduce the character of the God whom we come to know in Jesus Christ.

So if what Jesus said to Philip can't be used to teach us about the nature and character of God because it's historical narrative, then this same argument applies to every text in the Bible, and you can also not use anything from the Law, the Writings, the Prophets, the Gospels, or the Epistles.

Even as an atheist I can still say that Jesus taught a lot of wise things and was a compas.sionate character, but there is nothing of Jesus» admirable qualities in your view.

I think we will soon see that schools in which professors are not fully committed to teaching and the life of the mind do not form the characters or intellects of students and may not be effective even in imparting technical skills.

Does the change in me represent anything more than this: that the practical relevance, the struggle and the confessional character of my theological teaching have become visible to many, and now for the first time to most, against the background of a time which has taken shape at the hands of National Socialism?.

Jojo, real intelligent adults do nt beleive in made up characters that taught us 2000 years ago that our private parts are dirty and self pleasure is some sort of sin.

In the present situation the first step that can and should be made is for the church to recognize officially the somewhat provisional character of the authoritative noninfallible hierarchical teaching.

Teaching in accordance with it presupposes manipulation and control of persons to shape them for membership in a collection of some particular character.

The I — Thou relation to God characteristic of Israel might be replaced by an I - it relation in which, as Buber has taught us, the «I» also loses its personal character.

He pointed out the uniqueness of the messianic character of Israel's religion in whose sacred liturgy and moral teaching humanity is prepared to receive Christ who is «Lord of history and the human heart».

And speaking as a Catholic parent, I certainly do want to know and be assured that the ones who teach my children in this important area of their spiritual and moral development are those whose personal character, knowledge and teaching skills are adequate for the task.

He taught that creation and incarnation both declare «the thing - character of the creature and its general purpose of service to man».16 «Everything in the world is more and more subject to total domination by him and appears as derived directly from him.

Now a transient place full of hipsters, bond traders, and actors, as well as actors and hipsters who are the children of bond traders, all searching for an «authentic» place to replace the Midwestern suburbs and rural towns they came to Brooklyn to escape, Brooklyn for me will always be Flatbush Avenue and Rudy Giuliani, Bernie (Goetz, not Madoff), and Ed Koch, block parties, radios murmuring Yankees games on back porches (all of us too poor to afford air conditioning, which kept us outside in that great urbanist semi-public space), the blackout of 1977 and the blizzard of 1995, Mickey Rivers and Bucky Dent, not to mention the wild cast of characters appearing in the Daily News, a paper that practically taught me to read.

Luke had been at pains to make clear that the risen Jesus was no otherworldly spirit but a physical form with flesh and bones, 42 who consequently presented his disciples with infallible proofs.41 The risen Christ came to be regarded as having conducted a fresh ministry with his disciples, and in these forty days he «taught them about the kingdom of God».41 But since the experience of the risen Christ was not of this character at the end of the century when Acts was written, it had to be made clear that this kind of experience was brought to an end by a new event, the Ascension.

The historical problem presented by the Gospels is, then, not the problem of determining whether the character of the early Christians, their faith, and the exigencies of their life and work have colored and overlaid the facts of Jesus» teaching and life, but is, rather, the problem of determining just how we should use our knowledge of this fact in our efforts to get back to the so - called historical Jesus» own words and life.

I think we know there are scribal errors in this bible of ours (no doubt from me)-- but I am yet to find a scribal error that changes the character of Jesus from what he claims to be to someone altogether different (ie: not the son of David or from Nazareth or hates Gentiles, etc) or changes his teachings from one thing to another (ie: we don't catch him stoning someone in adultery anywhere or cursing the roman guards for crucifying him).

Throughout the Gospels, you can find Jesus teaching on the characteristics of His Kingdom people as they reflect the character of God in the world.

This is natural, since the tradition had undergone considerable development before it was embodied in our canonical Gospels, and during this time it had been exposed to the influence of what we may call the «futurist eschatology,» as distinct from the» realized eschatology» which gives its character to the earliest preaching, as well as to the earliest tradition of the teaching of Jesus.

With all the magnificence of its imagery and the splendour of its visions of the majesty of God and the world to come, we are bound to judge that in its conception of the character of God and His attitude to man the book falls below the level, not only of the teaching of Jesus, but of the best parts of the Old Testament.

We have stressed the direct and concrete nature of the challenge to faith in the teaching of Jesus; we turn now to explore further the response - as - obedience aspect of that teaching in terms of a group of sayings which exhibit the radical and total character of the challenge of Jesus altogether.

And in the course of that inquiry they quickly discover that education is so closely connected with the life of a community that queries about the aims of teaching and learning can not be answered unless ideas about the character and the purposes of the society in which it is carried on are clarified first of all.

In our brief discussion of the teaching of Jesus I more than once referred to the exalted terms in which he described the righteous will of God and to the utterly uncompromising way in which he interpreted God's demands; and earlier in this chapter I pointed out that this teaching throws light not only on Jesus» ideas but upon his characteIn our brief discussion of the teaching of Jesus I more than once referred to the exalted terms in which he described the righteous will of God and to the utterly uncompromising way in which he interpreted God's demands; and earlier in this chapter I pointed out that this teaching throws light not only on Jesus» ideas but upon his charactein which he described the righteous will of God and to the utterly uncompromising way in which he interpreted God's demands; and earlier in this chapter I pointed out that this teaching throws light not only on Jesus» ideas but upon his charactein which he interpreted God's demands; and earlier in this chapter I pointed out that this teaching throws light not only on Jesus» ideas but upon his charactein this chapter I pointed out that this teaching throws light not only on Jesus» ideas but upon his character.

«Reality», for Panikkar, is the wholeness of Being that is constituted through God, Man and World, not the empirical reality which is of merely provisional character — as is maya in advaita - vedanta.60 Probably under pressure from the impact of Liberation Theology in the USA where Panikkar was teaching at the time, he had to face the issue of the political dimension of his theology and has reacted to it repeatedly in prefaces to his publications.

I saw him mould my character, teach me about service and humility, mature me through spectacular character failure, career disappointment and success, disciple me — right there in the headquarters of the fourth largest ad agency in the world.

However, to return to the main issue before us, it may seem that we are being disloyal to traditional Christian teaching if we in any way cast doubt on the universal and unsurpassable character of Jesus the Christ as decisively revelatory of God.

They arose instead from the practices and the teachings of the ancient Hebrews, a people whose deep and widely celebrated commitment to learning was and still is informed by an epistemology that is profoundly communal in character.

Frances and Derek Baars were never taught to believe in characters like the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus, so they didn't teach the 3 - and 4 - year - old in their care about them either.

After an armistice was signed in the summer of 1953 the Century indicated its support of the United Nations action in Korea by asserting that «now that aggression has been restrained at great cost in life and material, it is to be hoped that communist expansionists have been taught a lesson and that no other test of like character will be demanded of United Nation members» (August 5).

When Duke was founded in 1924, its founding document stated that «The Aims of Duke University are to assert a faith in the eternal union of knowledge and religion set forth in the teachings and character of Jesus Christ, the Son of God... «Until the 1960s, Duke continued to require undergraduates to take courses in Bible.

For instance, if one believes that Christ is in some sense God incarnate, then there is a sense in which the divine second person of the Trinity stands above history, There is also a sense in which the teachings of Christ might be said to have some trans - cultural character, despite being embedded in very particular cultural forms.

He himself was confused at an early age, as we all have been, by the imposition of religious teaching that depicted the character of God as one who creates and stands in charge of the gates of hell to give non-believers eternal physical life then to cast them into eternal physical pain.

For despite his defense of the Atonement, Wills actively dissents from Catholic teaching on the sacrificial character of the Eucharist, which he sees only as an anticipatory meal of the Messianic banquet in heaven.

This principle of discontinuity, as it is often called, does not presuppose that Jesus was never in agreement with the Jews of his day or that his character and doctrine were generally out of phase with the teaching of the early Church, but simply that it is more difficult to account for dissimilar statements as originating from sources other than Jesus himself.

a curriculum is a specially constructed information system whose purpose, in its totality, is to influence, teach, train, or cultivate the mind and character of our youth.