Sentences with word «upbuilding»

This is not to say that sin and penitence are the only notes that need to be sounded; there is need of a positive upbuilding of personality.

The author of upbuilding discourses does not exhort, does not pass judgment.

Concern for fairness and for upbuilding community is not viewed as rational within the system.

So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

Prayer together among close friends can be a richly upbuilding as well as uniting experience.

«60 He makes clear that its ultimate function is not upbuilding for its own sake.

These highly self - conscious groups have deliberately, and on the basis of well - articulated evangelical mandates, provided the means for motivational and educational upbuilding.

See Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, 134: «While the crowd makes a big noise and uproar and triumphs and jubilates; while one individual after the other hurries to the crowd's arena, where it is said to be good to be if one is seeking oblivion and indulgence from the eternal; while the crowd seems to be shouting mockingly at God, «All right, see if you can get hold of us!»

On the other hand, concern for others expressed in helpful and upbuilding action results in the best growth of all who are in the group — including, once again, the person who shows this concern.

He waits to inform us, to use us in prayer and through it, to impart healing and upbuilding power to the lives of others when we pray.

When one of her works was included in a group show at Betty Parsons in March 1952, the New York Times critic Howard Devree compared it with Nell Blaine's «intricate upbuilding» in a scene suggestive of mountains, stating: «Perle Fine's canvas has reached the utmost in economy in two areas of bluish - green bordering a sweep of white as if the shadow of a cloud had all but obscured a landscape.»

A pictorial series of posts with your mes slowly disolving would be very upbuilding to others out here who have moved or are going to do so.

First, as just indicated, the layman is the «ultimate consumer» for whom the church exists, and there can be no «upbuilding of the Body of Christ» unless laymen are being built up in the power of the gospel.

In Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, the reader is to reflect along with the author on what purity of heart is, how to acquire absolute confidence in Divine providence, and what it means to follow Christ.

The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening.

I'll end with this: For the kingdom of God is not food and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit; he who thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men.Let us then pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

And he speaks nowhere more beautifully, more eloquently, and more persuasively than in his «upbuilding discourses.»

Kierkegaard had written and published eighteen of these discourses, in sets of two, three, and four (republished in one volume in 1844) before he wrote Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions and Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits.

Through the upbuilding discourses, the individual is to test himself by thinking along with the author.

Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits shortly followed the publication of Concluding Unscientific Postscript.

As a needlewoman who has woven a beautiful cloth for sacred use, but who would be distressed if someone were to see her artistry instead of the meaning of the cloth, so the author of the upbuilding discourses would be offended if someone were to praise his eloquence or find fault with it.

There are two apt citations of Kierkegaard's Repetition but none of the two «upbuilding discourses» on Job 1, all of them published the same day.

We need to believe that the upbuilding of the faith of the people is a task worthy of giving our lives.

Fortunately, the church has the means of focusing Christian minds and upbuilding the community: the sacraments.

First, it is to fail to see that the creatures, including you and me and whatever else is not God, have their own degree of freedom and their own capacity for choices that may be good or bad, upbuilding or destructive.

Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions by søren kierkegaard princeton university press, 181 pages, $ 39 Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits by søren kierkegaard princeton university press, 442 pages, $ 45 Kierkegaard presented these two books of discourses to his....

This conviction could shape covenanted communities of faith, and thereby influence both the character of persons and the structures of public institutions to upbuild, broaden, awaken and guide the conduct of life.

«I have felt that Vanderbilt University was Methodist, not in the sense that Methodists made it, but in the sense that it was a great trust committed to the Methodist Church to be carried out, not for selfish ends, but for the good of society and the upbuilding of Christ's kingdom.»

The Board's response was meticulously generic: «Dedicated in the beginning of its history to the union of education and religion, it proposes in the future, as it has done in the past, to make the upbuilding of character its chief task.

Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits.

We are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every joint with which it is supplied, when each part is working properly, makes bodily growth and upbuilds itself in love.

15:2), and upbuilding (Rom.14: 19; I Cor.14: 3; II Cor.12: 19), all words with the same Greek root.21

He had praise for Luther's role in providing inspiration for creative and meaningful activity in socialist Germany — an impetus for Christians and non-Christians alike in the upbuilding of a socialist state.

The primary function of Zionism today is to stimulate Jews in the Diaspora who possess a sense of adventure and are proficient in one or another field of endeavor to come to Israel and contribute to its upbuilding.

She declared in The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today (E. P. Dutton, 1923) that society would be enhanced «if the civil wars of civilized man could cease and be replaced by that other mental fight, for the upbuilding of Jerusalem.»

The positives, therefore, will be an awareness of others and a sharing of life with them, an augmenting of personal identity and integrity, an upbuilding in healing and caring, concern for the others that will not permit cruelty or carelessness, and a stress upon the wholeness of each in the grouping — and with all these, a joy in being together which makes the common life delightful and aesthetically fulfilling or harmonious.

Thus all that is upbuilding, expressive of love and tenderness, eager for the right, concerned for justice, informed by courage, able to establish sound relationships and sound dealings — all that manifests beauty and that speaks of truth — all this is the working of God, who moves in the world by the Word and from that world receives the Amen of responsive conformity through the Holy Spirit active in the creation.

There we have an example of congregational care and discipline that joins together for the upbuilding of the Christian community.

It is little wonder that in 1874 Beecher could say, without embarrassment, «Our churches are largely for the mutual insurance of prosperous families, and not for the upbuilding of the great underclass of humanity.»

In the church as the body of Christ the cross came to mean the extending of self - denial to incorporation into a community where the personal religious quest of each member was subordinated to the upbuilding in love of the whole.

Postmodern theology will be oriented to the upbuilding of human community, and community with the natural world as well.