Sentences with phrase «teaching me a way into»

But here I did not have to earn or justify or teach my way into my place in that pulpit because of my sex.
«If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society, then I will not only drop my defenses and my hostility, but I will sing your praises and help you to make the desert bear fruit.»

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I initially found my way into the coding industry as a self - taught programmer.
First, all SEALs have a sick sense of humor, and second, it was another way to teach us how to think (just in case running around with a boat on our heads wasn't enough) that would eventually mold us into becoming something special.
Here are eight ways leaders can unplug from digital distractions, use it to grow their level of influence and teach employees how to disconnect from technology and plug into conversations that matter.
With hilarious and poignant storytelling, Jay teaches attendees the three primary ways to use customer experience to trigger word - of - mouth, illustrates mistakes to avoid, and inspires audiences to put new strategies into practice immediately.
Ashley is passionate about teaching this technique to women in the Chicagoland area and helping them to lift tone burn their way into the figure they have always strived to obtain.
This gets into philosophy - of - law issues, of course, but even some imaginable judicially restrained economic - autonomy - is - Locke's - teaching scholars (i.e., really none of the libertarian con - law scholars I know of) would be advocating a way of life, and a pattern of regular legislation, that centered one's practice of liberty upon, well, business - man, or to speak Republic book VIII, oligarchic - man, accomplishments.
Starting with no grammar or dictionary, indeed not one written word to aid them, missionaries have learned the oral language, often without benefit of any interpreter — definitely the hard way — worked out an alphabet, reduced it to writing, prepared a grammar and dictionary, translated some portions into the newly written tongue, then had to teach the natives to read their own language in order to read the Bible.
They want some big splashy teaching, like for instance — a course in miracles, rather than putting into practice in very practical ways with the people around them what the Isaiah says God requires (i.e. — love, patience, prayer, meditation, hopefulness, justice, etc).
How does this school's particular way of «having to do with God» both unify the school's practices of teaching and learning into a single course of study and make them adequate to pluralism?
When the philosophical synthesis that was used as the vehicle to expound the teachings of the Church gave way it seemed to throw into question many of the certainties of our faith.
So also, this theory goes, God had to slowly teach humanity about Himself and His ways, so that over time, we would grow and develop into the people He wanted us to become.
The word doctrine is therefore being used in a way that is flexible enough to accommodate the variety of biblical teaching on these and other subjects as well as the factor of development in some themes as we move from the Old Testament into the New Testament.
In many ways this argument with Brightman can be seen as a formative moment in Hartshorne's thinking which taught him as much about what he could not allow into his thought as about what he could.
No, what American Catholics are happy about, or should be, is that the pope is bringing Christianity into the dialogue with secularism in a way that doesn't alienate the people he would like to introduce to Christ via grace and mercy AND that he is doing so while maintaining the firm teachings the Church holds on moral matters.
I teach that evangelism is living life as a relfection of Christ in such a way that we inspire those around us wither into a relationship with HIM or into a deeper relationship with HIM.
The author teaches at St. Vladimir's Seminary in Crestwood, New York, and here provides from an emphatically Orthodox perspective an exploration into the ways that the Cross of Christ was and is the hermeneutical key to understanding all that went before and has followed after.
Cf. Buber's important Foreword to Pointing the Way, p. ix - x, in which he states that he has included «The Teaching of the Tao» in this collection because it belongs to that «mystical» «stage that I had to pass through before I could enter into an independent relationship with being.»
Gnosis has even found its way into modern psychotherapy through the teachings of Carl Jung:
well just thinking about these wars in the muslim / mid-east world over religious differences (which may reflect mental states in many ways) in a world where most realize that living in the present moment is best way to happiness and being in the moment in non-strife and awareness through the teachings of masters such as found in the buddhist, taoist, zen, etc., etc., etc. spriritually based practices of religious like thought and teachings, etc. that to ask these scientifically educated populace whom have access to vast amounts of knowledges and understandings on the internet, etc. to believe in past beliefs that perhaps gave basis and inspiration to that which followed — but is not the end all of all times or knowledges — and is thus — non self - sustaining in a belief that does not encompass growth of knowledge and understanding of all truths and being as it is or could be — is to not respect the intelligence and minds and personage of even themselves — not to be disrespected nor disrespectful in any way — only to point out that perhaps too much is asked to put others into the cloak of blind faith and adherance to the past that disregards the realities of the present and the potential of the future... so you try to live in the past — and destroy your present and your future — where is the intelligence in that — and why do people continually fear monger or allow to be fear — mongered into this destructive vision of the future based upon the past?
You must never preach a sermon or teach a Bible study that has not first found its way into your own heart, mind, and life.
It may be insight into the divine mysteries, the nature of Ultimate Reality, and of the laws governing the existence of the cosmos, of society, and of individual lives; or the gift of restoring into wholeness broken physical or spiritual health; or the ability to develop, by teaching and in other ways, the hidden possibilities in one's fellow men, and to give direction and purpose to their lives.
The experience of the dark night teaches us to be more comfortable in questions, in unknowing, in entering into the lives and situations of people who are in despair, knowing that somehow God is making a way.
As they clean their nets, Jesus continues to teach, and the crowd begins to press in on him more and more, until finally, Jesus gets into Simon's boat and asked Simon to take them a little way out so that Jesus can teach from there.
In some ways it's more a liturgical matter than a theological one — by modeling a predominantly narratival / typological rather than ahistorical / doctrinal approach to life, I've been able to pack a lot of teaching into relatively few moments.
In contrast, the Church taught, that the rich man could buy his way into heaven, whereas the poor man was left out in the cold... condemned to a life of limbo...
The historical problem can be stated in some such way as this: «We know that the Gospels were written more than a generation after the events they relate occurred and that they bring us the preaching and teaching of the churches — or of some of them — after the Christian movement had emerged into a Gentile environment.
For now I'm accepting my own personal challenge to teach in a way that is not coercive or oppressive, but encourages people to happily recognize their own spiritual condition and to willingly move deeper into a life of love.
As their summer lengthens into autumn, they will still be teaching both children and grandchildren the ways of God, for those ways shine in their faces and their works.
So they are kind of taught Islam in a way that brings a lot of their culture into it.
If Jesus had not taught in any formal way at all, or if, he having done so, his companions had completely forgotten his words, even so the church would still have come into being.
On the other hand, scholars who were sensitive to the differences between the historical Jesus and the Christ of the gospel tradition tended to see their task as depicting the historical Jesus in such a way that they and their readers might enter into his experience and so share his confidence in God, (For example, B. Harvie Branscomb, The Teachings of Jesus [New York: Abingdon Press, 1931], p. 209: «This is the source and ground of Jesus» confidence and courage....
Traditionalists who like to see morality as a series of rules with messages about bending one's will creakingly into line with stern teachings will not like this book very much — or, rather, they will like it, and they will know it makes sense, but they will try very hard to dislike it because it presents the Catholic and incarnational message in a John Paul II sort of way.
He goes into Luther's teaching on the two ways that God reigns in the world (by Law and Gospel) and shows how it has real resources for judging and even resisting worldly powers.
Justification by faith was treated moderately in the first part; Melancthon presented it in a way that did not necessarily contradict traditional Catholic teaching — even though it put sacramental practice into a less «legal» and obligatory context.
As we covered in a previous article, these instructions fall smack in the middle of words to men and women about false teaching and angry disputing over ways the surrounding culture is creeping into the Ephesian church.
In this totality there is, of course, included the story of Jesus» remembered teaching, acts, and relationships, as well as his death and the way in which through death he was believed to have been «let loose into the world» (as John Masefield once put it) as he was also believed to have been «raised from the dead» and received by God into the divine life.
We would be persecuted for adhering to his teaching and not sliding into the easy way out of apostasy in the face of adversity.
According to many Shi'as, Husayn undertook his desperate battle because Muslims had strayed so far from Muhammad's teaching that only the shocking murder of his grandson would jolt them into realizing the error of their ways.
This has been the Catholic Church's way of bringing her moral teaching into conformity with the spirit of our age.
If there is no Jesus, there is no «Christianity» — a term that is very muddled, by the way, because there are over 2,500 versions of Christianity, each designed by man to fit the teachings of Christ into the version they prefer.
Our letter concludes by indicating how theologians and pastors who teach and put into practice any of these eight positions can thereby do grave harm to many souls, and pointing to some ways in which this may happen.
Pope John Paul was emphatic in teaching that» [t] he use of the infertile periods for conjugal union can be an abuse if the couple, for unworthy reasons, seeks in this way to avoid having children, thus lowering the number of births in their family below the morally correct level.This morally correct level must be established by taking into account not only the good of one's own family, and even the state of health and the means of the couple themselves, but also the good of the society to which they belong, of the Church, and even of the whole of mankind.
In the next several posts, I am going to make some practical suggestions for how churches can practice healthy teaching, and not only learn the Scriptures, but also put into practice what has been learned in tangible ways in the community.
ive been wrestling since i was 9 years old and when i went into high school i had to wrestle a girl... growing up learning to wrestle i had ended up having violent style, i never was dirty or broke rules but i was taught to do anything in your power to win whehter it was to club down the head or grab the throat to gain position etc. unfortunately i was in the postion to wrestle a girl once and at the time i did nt care who you were boy / girl, white / black / purple it did nt matter im was going to go out there bounce your head of the mat and bury you, so i went out there and wreslted the same way i always wrestled, 110 % and always to put your oppenents back through the mat i dditn change my style at all bc she was a girl i wrestled the same against everyone but after i pinned her in the first minute i did nt even realize that i broke her ribs when i power doubled through her, now after that for the rest of the tournament i was heckled and berated for forcefully beating a girl ppl were telling my parents «hey, looks like you raised a wife beater» etc. etc.... ever since then i refused to wrestle girls and thank go i eventually grew out of the lower weights, moral of the story is that is great and all that girls are wrestling but they shouldnt wrestle boys even if they know what they are getting into because 1.
Thus they find their way, in some form or other, into nearly every course I teach and form the context for most of my research.
Aristotle (and certainly Thomas) taught that forms, rather than «coming into» matter from outside, are actually «educed» from the inner dynamism of matter itself at a lower level of complexity, all the way down to the interchange of the «elementalqualities» (which appear almost as primal «tendencies» rather than anything substantial).
The proclamation of the good news of divine love, of the forgiveness of sin and the deliverance from evil; exhortation to lead the Christian life; instruction of young and old in the Christian faith — these evidently require not only that the minister have heard and apprehended the gospel, comprehended the law and learned the creed, but that he have gained insight into the ways of God and men and that he grow continually in his understanding of them; that further he have grasped the meaning of preaching and teaching in relation to all the other activities he and the Church carry on.
The miso found its way into this dressing by way of my Chinese aunt, who taught me how to use Asian ingredients.
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