Any other Blood Type dieters out
there with wisdom to share with one going to the Raw Foods Diet?
Don't misunderstand me, I'm not anti-church planting in the least but I do wonder why we are often so eager to start new things when the faithful ones who blazed the trail are
there with their wisdom and their anointing and their counsel, ready to empower and equip and love us.
Not exact matches
So,
there's a tremendous amount of standard business
wisdom about how you need to have an elevator pitch, a small nugget that will encapsulate what it is you do
with the amount of time it takes to pitch your business to a theoretical once - in - a-lifetime investor in a chance elevator encounter.
While
there's nothing inherently wrong
with this, it undermines our ability to receive balanced advice and
wisdom.
«At the time, the conventional
wisdom held that golf was dead, but I thought we were seeing some green shoots and
there might be a few smart ways for you to make money
with it,» the «Mad Money» host said.
There's only one problem
with this age - old
wisdom.
If
there's any truth to the idea that Facebook and its ilk is accelerating divorce, it's probably based in the conventional
wisdom that marriage and its delay or demise has traditionally correlated
with an abundance of alternatives.
By following the conventional
wisdom about the importance of personal connections (guangxi) in doing business in China, these American CEOs may believe that their principal obstacle to entering the Chinese market or becoming successful
there is the lack of direct exchange
with the right Chinese officials.
But I discovered that
there might be more beauty and
wisdom in those tricky, ignored Bible passages than I had perhaps thought, when approached as an exploration
with God and not a law.
(Ecclesiastes 9:10) All that your hand finds to do, do
with your very power, for
there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor
wisdom in She ′ ol, the place to which you are going.
But that is neither here nor
there with respect to Smith's main point, which is to propose, against the innumerable «spiritualities»
with which we are culturally inundated, that ultimate
wisdom and human flourishing are to be discovered in the historically grounded and communally normative religious traditions of the world.
There follows an excursus on the
wisdom of the neglected popular piety associated
with «offering up» daily hardships.
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son - Being knowledgeable about something has nothing to do
with wisdom, you may know a lot of things, but that doesn't make you wise, that just makes you a know it all,
there is more
wisdom in my poorly punctuated post, then
there is in the one sentence you posted.
I have been enlightened by the life and
wisdom of Gandhi, but I have not experienced intimacy
with God through the Hindu Tradition, although I recognize that Krishna is a Christ figure and have no doubt that
there are Hindus that have spiritually experienced the intimacy
with God that I as a Christian have experienced.
yeah sure at first a life
with out suffering sounds good; but without suffering their is no empathy, without empathy
there is is no compassion,
with out compassion their is no
wisdom.
Avram reminds readers that
there is
wisdom in listening to one's enemies and asks why a nation's power should he equated
with military power.
10 All that your hand finds to do, do
with your very power, for
there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor
wisdom in She'ol, the place to which you are going.»
There is great
wisdom in looking back at how our life parallels
with the life of Jesus.
You know that
there is a huge difference between a clump of cells and an elderly person
with life's
wisdom and vitality.
There is a second issue for Christians to consider regarding
wisdom, one that ties in more directly
with the Gospel reading.
Even, for discussion sake we go along
with this -
there is no evidence this ent.ity has successfully intervened in human affairs
with enough knowledge and
wisdom to aid human interaction
with another..
So
there is much to be worried about, especially
with regard to the continuing pressures the Church faces to conform to the perceived
wisdom about how to respond to problems such as early sexual activity, teenage pregnancy and STIs.
The two do not belong together in his eyes, for while punishment, which God in His
wisdom has connected
with every transgression, is a Good,
there is no denying that it is such a Good only when it is gratefully received, not when it is simply feared as an evil.
There is much rich truth in the Bible that one misses unless he sees it as God's long process of working in
wisdom and love
with his people.
Our Churches,
with common consent, do teach that the decree of the Council of Nicaea concerning the Unity of the Divine Essence and concerning the Three Persons, is true and to be believed without any doubting; that is to say,
there is one Divine Essence which is called and which is God: eternal, without body, without parts, of infinite power,
wisdom, and goodness, the Maker and Preserver of all things, visible and invisible; and yet
there are three Persons, of the same essence and power, who also are coeternal, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
The common
wisdom of church developers at the time was simple: where
there is a pool of white, middle - class, home - owning families
with children, mainline churches are likely to grow, no matter what their theological orientation.
There is little to indicate its date, except that the author seems to blend the Jewish
wisdom literature as found in Proverbs
with the style of the Cynic and Stoic traveling preachers.
An earlier America thrilled to the «new
wisdom of the Hindoos,» especially the belief that
there is in each of us a very special self that is actually continuous
with God (tat tuam asi — God is you, too).
People may naturally seek you out for guidance or words of
wisdom, and
there's nothing wrong
with that, but try to break away from that mindset and just be a part.»
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it
with your might; for
there is no work or thought or knowledge or
wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
Perhaps we should listen to and appreciate the
wisdom of those who have been around longer than we have (even if we disagree
with them)- maybe
there is something we could learn..
Just as
there is a human
wisdom that comes
with maturity and is the result of the interaction of experience and critical reflection, so
there is a theological
wisdom that comes
with maturity and is the result of the interaction of critical reflection, of experience in the church, of engagement
with Scripture, of Christian witness today, and of the testimony of the Holy Spirit.9
Yes, when late autumn comes, even the flower can speak the
wisdom of the years and say
with truthfulness, «All has its time,
there is «a time to be born and a time to die»;
there is a time to jest lightheartedly in the spring breeze, and a time to break under the autumn storm;
there is a time to burst forth into blossom, beside the running water, beloved by the stream, and a time to wither and be forgotten; a time to be sought out for one's beauty, and a time to be unnoticed in one's wretchedness;
there is a time to be nursed
with care, and a time to be cast out
with contempt;
there is a time to delight in the warmth of the morning sun and a time to perish in the night's cold.
Against new knowledge, as men gain new
wisdoms from science and new power in the universe,
there is no Lordship of Christ over all the ages, unless His voice can speak
with as much authority affirming and defining now, and a thousand years from now, as it did in the market towns of Galilee, in the Temple at Jerusalem, and along the shore of the Sea of Tiberias.
«Whether or not
there is a God,» says Ward, «I think we can see how the universe could have a goal and roughly what it would be - the existence of intelligent life
with understanding,
wisdom and happiness, free of suffering, disease and death.»
Yet
there is almost never an occasion where waiting is not the better option; when slowing down doesn't let
wisdom and dignity catch up
with us and offer us a better response — which sometimes is no response.
There are shades of this in Gestalt Therapy,
with its emphasis on the «
wisdom of the organism» and its faith placed in the hierarchy of needs.
With insightful
wisdom he asked me, â $ œWhat do you want people to say about you at your funeral?â $ Suddenly
there was great clarity.
A work of fiction
with bits of
wisdom here and
there.
And
there is a revealing passage in the account of Solomon's
wisdom that compares him
with famed sages of the non-Hebrew world:
However,
there is a scripture that says a very few non-believers that DO NOT follow Jesus are allowed into eternity
with Jesus because they listen to Jesus»
wisdom that is built into all of us (aka our conscious from the beginning
with Him (1st earth age... aka time frame).
quoth the
wisdom of Cato: «for when their veins are swelling
with gross lust, young men should drop in
there, rather than grind some husband's private mill.»
His lectures are filled
with much
wisdom: for example, that «Christianity is communal before being individual,» and that
there can be no Christian society where
there is no respect for the religious life.
There is nothing like greeting the morning
with a prayer intended to remind you of your own mortality — «Teach me to number my days, that I may gain a heart of
wisdom» — to put that deadline or that interview into perspective.
There's all the rest of us trying to figure out what to do
with this stupendously important book — either because it anchors our faith, or because it contains enduring
wisdom and the foundations of our cultural identity.
As early as Paul the doctrine of Jesus» pre-existence was prevalent, and
there is some evidence in his letters that he identified the Pre-existent Christ
with the hypostatized Logos or
Wisdom of God, who according to certain Hellenistic Jewish teachers, functioned as God's agent and mediator in creating and sustaining the world.
But God is making the
wisdom of the wise ones perish and for those of us living to see it
there will be a period of judgement along
with those who have died in ignorance.
Discussions begin
with «Of course, if Jesus were alive today...» and
there is a sort of assumption that this is in itself a really profound statement, a sort of deeply - held
wisdom.
When this searching takes place in an atmosphere which does not threaten the person
with rejection, no matter what he may disclose; when
there is the
wisdom and technical knowledge required to help the person to a new interpretation; and above all, when the counselor is able to communicate his own willingness to enter
with this person into the new orientation toward which he is moving,
there can take place (certainly it does not always happen) a reorganization of the personality.
There are leaders who have been in the trenches for marriage ministry for many many years, longer than we have even been married and
with much more experience and
wisdom than I could dream of having.