Sentences with phrase «with scripture on»

Love your living room with the scripture on the wall!!

She envisioned a big piece of art with scripture on it.

«With Scripture on iPhones and iPads, believers can bypass constraining religious structures — otherwise known as «church» — in favor of a more individual connection with God.»

Not exact matches

Come on, I have had debates with Atheist but I have also had to pretty much break up potential fights between two persons of Faith over an interpretation of a scripture.

It's not that I don't feel like I can, I can... but is that in the vocabulary of the one who I worship, if it's not then why would I as His Son want to take on what is not His, my Father's nature... The versions of the Bible I've read seem to think that words are powerful and speaking them is an action and can even change physics if used properly... Again, the scriptures speak for themselves and circumventing the topical study with christiany cliche come - backs doesn't answer or annul anything that the Word has to say on the matter.

So, by your reasoning, if «People put so much importance on words» (implying that they don't matter and we shouldn't take thought of how we use them) then I ought to be able to sing along with the lyrics from pac's «hit»em up» with my black friends, curse in a kindergarten class as well as a corporate meeting for my boss... what impression would a client have of my boss if I were cussing in a professional meeting or at a charity event... it doesn't add up, it's a cop - out rebuttal... trying to find loopholes or applying «human reasoning» like» ll take a swearing guy who's helpful» doesn't change Jesus or scripture it's just setting up a what - if scenario and trying to allow that to in some way justify your stance when again, that doesn't change The Holy Spirit or His heart in those who have been born again... the verses (inspired by His own Spirit) speak for themselves.

Many on here may think that I take offense with anyone who holds to a traditional interpretation of scripture stating that * all * homosexual expression is sinful.

If we read Scripture with a mind and a heart that is listening for His personality, His presence and His encouragement on the page, we will hear Him.

You don't want to try to understand the scriptures, and if you did, then you would know how wrong you are But, its more fun to twist things in your mind, so you can co = meback with your old and worn out «fouls» on everything.

On Luther's side, the final break with the Church authorities came in the wake of Leo X's bull of November 1518; in that document, as Luther saw it, Leo arrogated to himself the power of defining Church teaching without accountability to Scripture, the Fathers, or the ancient canons.

Since Christianity is based on the Bible, it is inconceivable how one can reconcile progressive attitudes towards gender equality with what is written in scripture without being an extreme semantic acrobat and moral contortionist.

In many ways, it is at odds with waiting on the Lord, seeking God in silence and solitude, and meditating on Scripture.

The scripture dealing with Judas having been better off not being born, simply relates to the shame he will feel in due time when he is resurrected on earth to find earth's billions acknowledging him as the betrayer of the world's saviour, yikes!!

In this engagement with Scripture, Evangelicals and Catholics are learning from one another: Catholics from the Evangelical emphasis on group Bible study and commitment to the majestic and final authority of the written word of God; and Evangelicals from the Catholic emphasis on Scripture in the liturgical and devotional life, informed by the lived experience of Christ's Church through the ages.

While Greene's project is an ideal way to reinvigorate one's Bible reading (as I hope will be the case with my copy) or introduce readers to Scripture for the first time, it won't ultimately prove as effective in helping us read Scripture theologically and spiritually, with and for the Church, as the editions you and I already have on our shelves.

D0C — just curious; is your casting aspersions on people's intelligence, your baiting people with deliberate rendering of scripture out of context, the mocking of Christianity with childish poems, just accidental?

I was no longer the unfortunate single woman who everyone tried to «save» by setting me up with every Tom, Dick and Harry at church or sending me Scriptures on how to brave this romantic dry season.

If you want to say that two men or two women is an abomination then you might want to read some more of that scripture and you would find puting two seeds in the same hole, working on sundays, wearing cloths with more than one color and lots of other dumb things are mentioned in a list why do you all foucus on just one part of that list it has lots of abominations that we all do every day

In the Jewish scripture, a form of indentured servitude is recognized and strictly controlled with set time limits on such service (seven years) as a method of discharging bankruptcy.

Touchstone provides a forum where Christians of various backgrounds — Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox — can speak candidly with one another on the basis of a shared commitment to the Great Tradition of Christian faith as revealed in the Holy Scriptures and set forth in the classic creeds of the early church.The term «mere Christianity,» of course, was made famous by C. S. Lewis, whose book of that title is among the most influential religious volumes of the past one hundred years.

The Jesus approached scripture with a mythological imagination that relied as much on intuition as logic.

5:20 - 21 and 1 John 4:1, to not quench the Spirit, to not despise prophecies, but to examine all extrabiblical revelations according to biblical criteria and test all persons, like the noble Bereans in Acts 17, who «examined the Scriptures daily to see if this were so,» the Calvinists / MacArthurites deleted my post of my testimony on SO4J's FB timeline — because it threatened them, and they knew I am telling the truth about an awesome dream of Jesus in 1973, as I emerged from a traumatic childhood with a mother who had worked the Ouija board when I was 11.

Again, other Christians do this with our favorite beliefs: We'll claim our views are wholly based on scripture, but in fact our favorite proof - texts are cherry - picked, and least - favorites are dismissed, wholly based on our theology.

It's refreshing to read through Bessey's spiritual and theological narrative peppered with thoughtful and insightful reflections on interpreting Paul's biblical stance on women, and a beautiful litany of women in scripture and world history whom God has equipped and used to further God's purposes in the world.

I've been doing some thinking and reading on all of this, and hope it continues to fit with Scripture as I read and study more.

He concludes with an important point: ``... the Reformers» insistence on the authority of scripture made several important points, but left many other matters open for further discussion.

Gambling your soul away on a guess based on ancient texts out of fear of torture doesn't sound logical at all, especially considering how many other versions of the scriptures have been found and conflict with today's bible.

If you end up at unbelief it is you who will cast off salvation / JESUS as Esau did (He cast off his inheritance) The «work» of a Christian begins with Faith to recieve Christ, maintaining faith (done by allowing the santification process, walking on all the warnings of the scriptures of things to avoid and things to add to faith).

On occasion I have come into contact with those Christians (and I do beleive them to be Christians) who feel that CALVINISM must be the truth from Scripture... and they look at me with what amounts to almost sorrow when I tell them that I have no time for Mr. Calvin and his «Institutes»... here are just a few reasons why:

«Hooker's insistence on «reason» was therefore not at all a way of undervaluing scripture,» says Wright, «but rather of ensuring that the community which based itself on scripture could have an appropriate healthy life and growth, not blundering forward as it were in the dark, but moving ahead by the light of reason, itself informed by scripture and in harmony with the natural law which stemmed from the creator God in the first place.»

The Gospel Paul mentions in 1 Cor 15 4 is that Jesus was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve is the Gospel is the same one revealed to those to whom Jesus had preached.

It was hardly the only part of the speech where Obama was speaking «Christianese» — employing a lexicon familiar to evangelical Christians, who put a premium on quoting Scripture and communing directly with the Holy Spirit.

But even identifying these two very consequent decisions does not explain how in Lutheranism, of all places, the authority of Scripture could be so undermined and why in Lutheranism, with its strong theology of God's orders of creation and preservation, anyone could hope to get away with proposing that sexual arrangements be judged on quality not kind.

If we look at Scripture and history, we see that the reason God's messengers get condemned and criticized and killed is because they never go with the religious status quo, but instead, call on the religious people to repent and change their ways, and abandon the foolish and empty chase after religious rituals and regulations.

The purpose of the Faith Movement, in harmony with the Trust Deed of the Faith - Keyway Trust (registered charity # 278314 in English Law) made on July 13th 1979, is to advance the Catholic Faith in the modern world, by working together to attract many to discipleship of Jesus Christ in a living, sacramental practice of their faith, and above all, through this same activity and as the means to achieve it, humbly to offer within the Church a new development of, and further insight into, the Catholic Faith which she herself teaches us through Scripture and Tradition.

On the other hand, it gave a basic signpost on the way: the great truths taught in scripture are indeed the way of salvation, and those entrusted with the teaching office in the church have no right to use that office to teach anything else.&raquOn the other hand, it gave a basic signpost on the way: the great truths taught in scripture are indeed the way of salvation, and those entrusted with the teaching office in the church have no right to use that office to teach anything else.&raquon the way: the great truths taught in scripture are indeed the way of salvation, and those entrusted with the teaching office in the church have no right to use that office to teach anything else.»

He knows the Vatican II documents on Scripture and the liturgy; he obviously continues to study and to refresh his insights with additional research into the Mass and its theology as laid out in the Catechism.

The relevant loci are the creation story, the Sixth Commandment, Ephesians 5 with its meditation on marriage as a sacramental sign of the union of Christ and his Church, the end of Revelation with its depiction of the marriage of the Lamb, and the whole narrative stream of Holy Scripture that assumes the heterosexual monogamous norm, despite the fact of royal and patriarchal polygamy.

He said nothing of a book that would combine the old covenant scriptures with the account of His life on earth and letters that were written to people who lived under the law, that people who have never lived under the law would have to try to discern and apply to their lives until He returned, or they died.

The author quotes scripture and closes with the following statement: «Maybe this Christmas season, we can reflect not so much on whether or not Jesus was white and instead consider what it meant for him to be called the «light» of the world.»

Teaching, on the other hand, is an interactive discussion with a group of believers about specific texts of Scripture, which are explained and applied within the group.

I think that every Bible should have a big «STOP» sign on the first page along with that passage of scripture letting the reader (or potential reader) know that this book is not for everybody, but only for those that have been enabled by God to read and understand it.

It is based on prejudice and an outright refusal to examine scripture with integrity.

If the characteristic mark of hermeneutical theology is its interpretive stance, especially in regard to texts — both the classic text of the Judeo - Christian tradition (the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament) and the exemplary theologies that build on the classic text — then heuristic theology is also interpretive, for it claims that its successful unconventional metaphors are not only in continuity with the paradigmatic events and their significance expressed in this classic text but are also appropriate expressions of these matters for the present time.

According to Enns, we would do well to learn a few things from the Jewish readers of Scripture whose emphasis in engaging the holy text is «not on solving the problems once and for all but on a community upholding a conversation with Scripture with creative energy.»

The apocryphal stories, in some instances, were understood to be «Gospel truth» on par with accounts found in Scripture.

With all their laudable effort to understand the integrity of the Scriptures, both Old and New, and to insist on the basic unity of the Bible; with all their recognition of the place of Jesus within the setting of Jewish piety and religious thought, these scholars sometimes fail to see that the very truth about God which the Bible as a whole affirms, and above all that which the New Testament says about Jesus himself, can be smothered by sheer biblicism and thereby made meaningless for those to whom the gospel should be a living, vitalizing, and contemporary messWith all their laudable effort to understand the integrity of the Scriptures, both Old and New, and to insist on the basic unity of the Bible; with all their recognition of the place of Jesus within the setting of Jewish piety and religious thought, these scholars sometimes fail to see that the very truth about God which the Bible as a whole affirms, and above all that which the New Testament says about Jesus himself, can be smothered by sheer biblicism and thereby made meaningless for those to whom the gospel should be a living, vitalizing, and contemporary messwith all their recognition of the place of Jesus within the setting of Jewish piety and religious thought, these scholars sometimes fail to see that the very truth about God which the Bible as a whole affirms, and above all that which the New Testament says about Jesus himself, can be smothered by sheer biblicism and thereby made meaningless for those to whom the gospel should be a living, vitalizing, and contemporary message.

study scripture with your heart set on finding God.

Following on the British government's decision in favour of promoting English rather than Oriental or Vernacular education in India, and to seek the help of private agencies in the task, the Missions started Christian colleges for imparting education in Western culture and modern science with the teaching of English literature at the centre of secular courses and spiritually interpreted by the teaching of Christian Scripture.

My relationship with God is not predicated on an extremely literal, inerrant understanding of Scripture.