Sentences with phrase «used by marriage»

Both the approach used to model money arguments and the empirical results can be used by marriage therapists and financial counselors to help couples understand and improve the benefits received through marriage.

The advice and treatment used by marriage therapists and counselors is evidence - based, meaning that it has been tested and proven to be beneficial.

The techniques used by marriage counselors are primarily aimed at improving communication between two partners.

Recommended for use by our marriage counselor and we try to use the word tracks to each other and do exercises together.

Not exact matches

The same argument was used by southern states to defend segregation during the Civil Rights Era, but state's rights factor into issues as diverse as same sex marriage and speed limits.

The marriage between hardware and software can then be used by app developers to create all kinds of interesting apps, including those that place 3 - D objects in the real world.

Smaller brands are finding the support they need by forming what used to be considered unholy marriages with food conglomerates.

Even when they had the White House (George W) and both Houses of Congress the GOP never even introduced, much less voted on, any bill banning abortion, allowing prayer in school, banning gay marriage or any other of the wedge issues they use to attract a certain mentally deranged segment of the population to their side by pretending to defend those things that are important to Christian conservatives.

This article is an adapted excerpt from Debra's new book, Choosing Marriage, and is used by permission.

McKnight does not agree with same - sex marriage nor the policy of the two colleges, but he objects to the language of «gospel» being used by Union to justify its withdrawal.

(i) a woman's right to choose; (ii) teaching evolution in school; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (v) gay marriage; (vi) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» by theists (vii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (viii) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (xi) population control; (x) buying alcohol on a Sunday; (xi) use of condoms and other contraceptives (xii) stem cell research.

Marriage vows, even secular ones, used to invoke the promise to remain united «for richer or poorer, in sicknes and health» until parted by death.

In this one (http://www.patheos.com/blogs/tonyjones/2014/03/06/how-mark-driscoll-gamed-the-publishing-game/), he drew attention to how «Mark Driscoll and his church hired a firm that used a thousand different credit cards and thousands of individual names — the names were supplied by the church — to drive Driscoll's marriage book onto the bestseller lists.»

So using this deductive reasoning set forth by this 28 %... God supports gays and gay marriages.

A guide for use by couples and in marriage enrichment groups.

This week I happen to be trying to figure out why, when a man consecrates a woman (a prerequisite to full marriage), he may, if he chooses to consecrate her monetarily (two other methods, by document and by intercourse, are available), use either hard currency or an article of equivalent value.

due to some crazy religious beliefs out there in the world i.e. marrying off young children and marrying genetic kin, the government can't ever allow religion to dictate marriage policy, so have your ceremonies and deny same - gender couples to marry in your church but bluntly stated your crying and foot - stomping will accomplish nothing, marriage isn't a religious thing it is a civil rights and equality thing, thus if the religious win by denying same gender cuples their civil rights to equal treatment under the law, then don't be surprised when others use those same grounds to deny you your rights under the law.

I'm just saying if the poster wants to talk about heterosexual relations are a requirement for healthy kids, start by working on the social problems these hypocrites have created and stop using it to prove that Gay Marriage is bad.

We are all being hoodwinked by politicians on the issues of gay marriage, abortion, contraception, and any other slimy goop that they can use to divide us just to get votes.

Critics further insist that terms like «commitment,» «vulnerability,» and «care» as used by the new reformers are, when compared to the vows demanded in the marriage rite, both extraordinarily limited in their content and vague in respect to the matter of duration.

THAT makes gay marriages inherently detrimental to society, the VERY same argument used by pro-gay to prohibit polygamy, which BTW, is ALSO being proposed as an alternate definition of marriage.

The late 1970s were filled with «excessive and over-the-top drug use,» as described by one Scorsese biographer, and he would have four different marriages end over the span of 1970 to 1995.

The psychological impact inside marriage of excessively limiting se.x could be quite harmful, and the health impact of accidental pregnancy by using imprecise methods for occassional se.x are much higher than the affects of any form of birth control.

This is especially true in marriages in which the spouses have used the children as a primary way of relating or as a means of avoiding intimacy (by always having the children between them as a buffer).

Voluntary family planning programs typically subsidize, advertize, or otherwise promote the use of modern contraceptive technologies by sexually active couples (usually but not always partners in marriage).

@Mark by the Middle River: He personally funded the caimpaings of republican candidates, using the ideasl of family values, in an effort reverse same - gender marriage in his state.

The approaches and methods here suggested can be used as resources by individual parents and by ministers and other leaders in planning parent training groups and marriage enrichment events.

As for the conclusion of Aidan O'Neill QC, that schools will be within their statutory rights to dismiss staff who refuse to use stories or textbooks promoting same - sex marriage and that parents who object to gay marriage being taught to their children will have no right to withdraw their children from lessons, does that sound at all unlikely, given the cases of the Strasbourg four, which were considered by the European Court of Justice in September?

''» will, inevitably, be used to punish religious bodies that do not recognize any such thing as same - sex «marriage»: by taking away their tax - exempt status, denying their ministers the legal capacity to act as witnesses of marriage under civil law, or both.

And beyond the «clobber passages», marriage in the Bible is interpreted extremely poorly by literalists and the same sort of selectivity is used to say that marriage is only between one man and one woman.

* (3) Affirming the couple by helping them recognize their strengths and assets; encouraging them to use these assets in developing a mutually - actualizing marriage.

The term «Woman» used by Our Lord when addressing Our Lady at the marriage feast of Cana and mentioned by Joanna Bogle in her article in the Nov / Dec issue needs to be carefully understood.

After a couple has learned to use the 1MM, to satisfy their mutual heart hungers (deficiency needs), their understanding of what they need in order to continue to grow may be broadened in these ways: (1) Discussion in counseling, or in a group, of the various ways in which one's own marriage growth is enhanced by becoming a positive influence in the growth of others.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer thought that the idea of vocation had been deeply misunderstood, especially by those among his fellow Lutherans who had used the concept as a way of vindicating the status quo and validating such institutions as marriage and wage labor as preferable to all other social or economic arrangements.

I just mean that maybe Christians can compromise by acknowledging that laws evolve and change and to accept that gays want the same rights as married people and to be respectful of that and maybe gays can compromise by not insisting to use the word «marriage» but instead use the word «union» or some other word or phrase to describe their relationship.

On that supposition, my main point is that the use (however longstanding) of the term remedium concupiscentiae to signify an end of marriage has had a profoundly negative effect on married life, inasmuch as it suggests that lust is «remedied» or at least «legitimised» by marriage; in the sense either of automatically disappearing once one marries, or else of no longer being a self - centeredelement hostile to the growth of married love.

This can not be discarded in determining the definition of marriage since it is a fact of life, which has been recognised by every society in history that has used marriage as a social institution.

Here are some of the types of growth groups currently being used by churches — grief recovery groups; divorce growth groups; preparation for marriage and early marriage enrichment groups; creative singlehood groups; parenting skills groups; solo parenting groups; mid-years marriage renewal groups; creative retirement groups; parents of handicapped children groups; support groups for families of terminally ill persons.

One of the main arguments used by advocates of gay «marriage» is that the current definition of marriage (as pertaining exclusively to man and woman) breaches the principle of equality and thus discriminates against same sex couples.

He gave up his project of marriage, became a priest, founded at Jerusalem, where he went to dwell, a mission of nuns for the conversion of the Jews, showed no tendency to use for egotistic purposes the notoriety given him by the peculiar circumstances of his conversion — which, for the rest, he could seldom refer to without tears — and in short remained an exemplary son of the Church until he died, late in the 80's, if I remember rightly.

Here's another, scarcely less oratorical in character, from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: the title of this document (another wonderful example of Vatican bogus academic language when what is needed is a competent journalist used to writing informative headlines) is «Considerations regarding proposals to give legal recognition to unions between homosexual persons» (2003): The Church's teaching on marriage and on the complementarity of the sexes reiterates a truth that is evident to right reason and recognised as such by all the major cultures of the world.

We have seen in particular how these laws are used by the government in an attempt to compel citizens to sacrifice their deepest convictions on marriage and what it means to be male and female, people who serve everyone, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, but who can not promote messages, engage in expression, or participate in events that contradict their beliefs or their organization's guiding values.

The sex relation between a man and a woman was instituted by God for marriage and for marriage only; any other use of it is a sacrilege.

TA and gestalt therapy methods for use by couples to improve their marriages.

Whichever is right» whether marriage is or is not a purely private matter in which the state has no abiding interest» the deeper and more immediate danger of the marriage issue for Christians is its potential use by gay activists to undermine the autonomy of the Church and other religious entities.

A guide to emotional, sexual, and spiritual intimacy, for use by couples and in marriage enrichment groups.

The use of role playing to act out a marriage conflict chosen by the whole group can help couples learn to use Transactional Analysis as a practical tool (see above, Chapter 4)

Downing's examples include: the Church's stubborn marriage to geocentricism, the brutal persecution of the Anabaptists by Protestants for believing that confession should precede baptism, the use of Scripture to support owning slaves and marginalizing women.

Marriage used to be considered the common, and yet individual, worthwhile adventure to which each one is called; and a large part of one's adolescent life was guided by the call to prepare for such a sacred venture.

Because God's grace is at work in marriage, Jesus teaches us that our marital unions are capable of lifelong fidelity, signified by the prophet's use of marriage as an image of God's enduring covenant with Israel: «I have loved you with an everlasting love» (Jer.