Sentences with phrase «teaching me some things on»

«The importance of the economic and political future to a great extent depends on being able to teach these things on even a basic level like teaching foreign language,» Reimers says.

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«Doing 20 cases on countries and politics taught me one important thing: there's a lot of similarity between different politics situations.
But they both do need to recognize high standards for those things and teach realistic expectations on scope.»
In» 92, Taco Bell asked why I didn't computerize what I was teaching and put in a marketing system that made things easier on the managers.
This bundle includes seven courses that'll teach you how to create a wide array of charts ranging from pivots to maps on Excel and link and manage different email account in Outlook, among many other useful things.
If the Internet has taught us one thing it is that being more visible on the Web is always to the benefit of the marketer.
Bladow says that his experience with BloomThat has taught him about accountability, how not to be thrown by the things beyond your control and focus on what you can tackle right in front of you.
Valdis Krebs of Orgnet explains that «Schools are still stuck on teaching 20th century math for building things rather than 21st century math for understanding things» and suggests that curriculums focus less on the mathematics of engineering (e.g. algebra and calculus) and more on the mathematics of patterns (e.g. set theory, graph theory, etc.).
Microsoft's (msft) ill - fated Tay bot experiment in which online commenters taught the bot — basically software that takes on human characteristics powered by artificial intelligence — to say racist and sexist things also illustrates this point.
For the past few years I've hosted or have been a guest on several hundred webinars, teaching people a variety of things from LinkedIn marketing to how to start a business from scratch.
Our Digital Inclusion Program teaches foster youth basic digital literacy skills and provides them with a laptop and mobile Internet access for five years, two things that most of us take for granted but can be life changing for students who are accustomed to writing essays on their cellphones.
Stop searching for shortcuts and secrets; focus instead on the simple things your parents and grandparents taught you, such as not to spend more money than you make.
From using Siri to turning on and off devices, Apple's iOS 8 Course can teach you a thing or two about automation.
I'd been taught by Ben Graham to buy things on a quantitative basis and look around for things that are cheap.
I am glad to say that the levels you marked matched the ones I had on my charts almost exactly which proves a few things — there are no levels but more like zones — each person marks them differently without being necessary wrong, and finally, — your lessons / teaching / articles / ideas work and provide real, useful information.
It is one thing to offend by speaking truth, that'll happen, but any other type of offence is unnecessary and against the teachings (which show God's heart on the matter) in scripture for those who claim to «know Him».
So, not only do we think you're an idiot for actually believing in a magical, all - powerful, invisible man who lives in the sky and demands things of you, we think you're an idiot for turning your back on the teachings of this magical, all - powerful, invisible man who lives in the sky.
I believe on the same things about the meaning of life and I am very thankful to my parents who taught me to love and forgive.
I also thought the statement on the Iraq War, issued by outgoing president Bishop William Skylstad and approved by the conference, was a thoughtful teaching exercise in which, as I put it on the First Things website, the bishops «neither exceed their competence nor shirk their responsibility.»
What if we taught our people to ask the same things about their lives, our meetings, their kids and so on?
I hope American Atheists will drop this and focus on more important things, like insuring that religious teachings stay out of public school science classrooms.
On the scale of top ten things that God himself could have over to Mankind... it didn't even rank... but most people don't acknowledge is Christ within his teachings according to the Gospel of Matthew recapitulates 5 of the 10 commandments!!!
The pain and suffering that we receive in this life either teaches us not to do stupid things or (depending on how we handle it) can make us a better person.
But my experience and from things I read, even on this blog site, most, not all, but most don't like Churches teaching biblical morals and ethics.
He sees everyone get on a bike and he thinks, «I wish I could be in this race and teach these beginners a few things about cycling.»
School taught me how many wives Henry VIII had, helped me glean information about Australia's mining industry and even taught me the French word for «station», but nobody told me anything about the one thing you never believe will happen when you're young but happens to every human on the planet.
The apostles of the early church, who were taught by Christ and inspired by God, organized the church to primarily focus on three things: teaching, fellowship and prayer.
Thankfully, Calvinists recognize this as well and so are careful to clarify that the teaching on Total Depravity is not the same thing as «absolute depravity,» and that in general, humanity is not without some good.
I think that a good God, would want me to overcome my arrogance and teach me things that I need to learn on this world.
You go on to say that Paul teaches that these things WERE but a shadow of things to come, when it actually reads ARE SHADOWS, present tense not past tense.
When I count my blessings, lgbt Christians are high on my list — especially the pastor who was there for me in a crisis 25 years ago, but also the many lgbt couples I've known who could teach all us straights a thing or two about dedication and commitment.
Tim, it is interesting that Matt 23:2 - 3 immediately precedes an entire list of Woes pronounced on the Pharisees for the things they teach and do.
(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.
Jesus never taught this and in fact was opposed to a focus on material things in this life.
I can take a lot of things I've been taught, that have meaning for me, and call myself «Christian» and then add on dozens and dozens of footnotes....
Thus they arrived ahead of Jesus and the disciples; but although his attempt to find solitude had failed, «he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things» (Mk 6:34; Mt 14:14; cf. 9:36; Lk 9:11).
My point being that taking a member of the set of all things Jesus never explicitly taught on and positing, if only by implication, that his silence is an endorsement of that thing is not a valid foundation for making a sound argument.
Robert, you should teach a class on race because you seem to know things that I did not know.
They teach people that aside from attending church on Sunday morning, the next most important thing in their life as a follower of Jesus is attending church on Wednesday night.
The recent Faitheditorial on Renewing Our Vision of the Sacramentsi n citing the teaching of «the Latin Father Tertullian» in defence of «the sacredness of matter» was, all things considered, infelicitous.
Biblicism falls apart, Smith says, because of the «the problem of pervasive interpretive pluralism,» for «even among presumably well - intentioned readers — including many evangelical biblicists — the Bible, after their very best efforts to understand it, says and teaches very different things about most significant topics... It becomes beside the point to assert a text to be solely authoritative or inerrant, for instance, when, lo and behold, it gives rise to a host of many divergent teachings on important matters.»
In his encyclical letter on the importance of St. Thomas» work, Pope Leo also alluded to the Church's need to maintain a deep study of science: «When the Scholastics, following the teaching of the Holy Fathers, everywhere taught throughout their anthropology that the human understanding can only rise to the knowledge of immaterial things by things of sense, nothing could be more useful for the philosopher than to investigate carefully the secrets of Nature, and to be conversant, long and laboriously, with the study of physical science.»
One of the most difficult thing a pastor teaches on is giving.
And it is boringly generic for everyone to thing their interpretations are «the unequivocal Biblical teaching on the topics»
There were pictures of women, every tribe, every tongue, on every wall, and so it felt like everyone here in the world was there with us, somehow, and a gigantic canvas on the stairs said: There is no such thing as small change, and the famous red couch at Idelette's was worn out and comfortable, especially with Kelley sprawled on it, twisting her hair unconcernedly when she really got talking about the theology of adoption and Lord, yes, that woman can preach and teach in a living room beside a piano better than some preachers I've seen in thousand - dollar suits on a television show.
For an atheist, there is the additional complication that one of the very things being objected to is the overreaching application of the «Great Commission» — that compels Christians to impose their teachings on society at large.
The good thing is that I had already been somewhat primed for this in my series on Bibliology where I questioned and challenged everything I had been taught about Inerrancy and Inspiration.
I was glad to see Kevin White's piece on the effects of microphones on the Mass in the recent issue of First Things («Drop the Mic,» December 2012), for microphones have been on my mind lately as I hear homilies at Masses several times a week and as I reflect on and teach about mission, liturgy, and preaching in various contexts for the Year of Faith.
With these pastors, priest, popes, and elders all lying to the people, misleading the flocks, as was prophesied they would in Ezekiel 20, Malachi 2, Jeremiah 23:1 - 5, we are all a lost generation of pestilence, greed, and poverty, and this is not old people, as taught to us in Isaiah 43:11,13 - 19; that this book gives us the past, present, and future of what is going on, then, and now, it's juxtapose, meaning one must «compare» what is going on today with what went on long ago, for it has not changed any, not a bit from how people went astray then, full of pride, and are doing the same thing now, calling it good, or right, prophesied in Malachi 3:13 - 15.
Some people pay hundreds of dollars to go buy books or go to seminars that teach on some of these things, and it is always a gamble whether these secular ideas will work or not.
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