Sentences with phrase «working through scripture»

Ever since then, I have been careful to consult Jewish sources when working through Scripture, and sure enough, l always learn something new!

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It's up to us, the regular, everyday people in the trenches of real life to speak the truth and tell our stories about the work God's doing in our lives and what He's saying to us through the Scriptures.

There are those who would rather just «accept it in faith» and not actually think through the complexities of the work and Scripture God gave us to explore.

I am writing to attempt to work through the logic of what I feel, but am not sure I can prove from Scripture...

What they would say is, «You must follow our method: read and study scripture for all it's worth and let it do its work in the world, in and through you and your churches.»

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.

When I read the scripture I become convinced that the Kingdom is the leaven working its way through the dough, it is the mustard seed quietly growing into a large plant.

There is something divine about Scripture, and I believe God whispers to us through it, as the Spirit works through the Word to draw us closer to Jesus.

This year, we've set aside Mondays to discuss how to love the Bible for what it is, not what we want it to be, and right now we're working our way through N.T. Wright's Scripture and the Authority of God.

While much of it remains a mystery and I do not know how it will all work out in God's economy or in eternity, we know from Scripture that each person on earth is given enough revelation from God to respond positively to Him, even if this revelation is only through creation and conscience.

Some take the chronological approach, so that they begin with Genesis 1:1 and work their way through Scripture trying to piece all the ideas about God into one coherent picture.

The authority of scripture affects the work of God's kingdom, «at every level, from the cosmic and political through the personal,» says Wright.

Single, married, divorced, young, old, SAHM, working outside of the home with kids - we should be leveraging the gift of a multigenerational Church and the examples we see in scripture to see what we are doing aligns with what women have been doing all through history.

After the flood, we will begin to work our way through some of the violent texts in Scripture, until we eventually arrive at the Book of Revelation, and then conclude with a study on Hell.

There is great mystery in how this worked for Jesus, but if we read the actions of Jesus back into the actions of God in the Old Testament, and we see there how God took the sins of Israel onto Himself through the inspired revelation of Scripture, then this helps us somewhat understand how Jesus accomplished this for the sins of the whole world on the cross.

His knowledge of scripture, along with the tradition of Christian faith through literature, makes his work an invaluable preaching resource.

Gadamer, of how the inspired text, which we question in order to find its meaning and relevance, questions, criticizes, challenges and changes us in the process -» Some who today raise the proper question, whether there are not culturally relative elements in Paul's teaching about role relationships (an the material has to be thought through from this standpoint), seem to proceed improperly in doing so; for in effect they take current secular views about the sexes as fixed points, and work to bring Scripture into line with them - an agenda that at a stroke turns the study of sacred theology into a venture in secular ideology.

In fact, however, in the liturgy of the Presence it is we who are worked on through the scriptures and the prayers, we who get to be reconfigured and brought into the life of the changeless One.

I am afraid that I have not thought everything through well enough, or that I have misunderstood some central truth in Scripture, or that I did not grasp the right theological proposition in the right way, or that I am wrong about how faith works, or that I am wrong about the consequences of results of faith, or... or... or... or...

In the end, however, I do think that God is behind the writing of Scritpure and the translation of Scripture, just as He is involved in the teaching and application of Scripture, but I am still working through «how» this happens.

At its heart, the movement that undergirds these written reflections arose out of the gatherings and shared reflections of the oppressed poor themselves, in groups called comunidades eclesiales de base — communities of the Christian wretched who met together to study scripture in light of their own impoverished situations and reflect on how each one informs the other (praxis).15 But our access to their groundbreaking work is through the printed page, and so I proceed with a full awareness that the persons under consideration here are as much reporters as originators.

But language is what the poet has to work with, and so the poet is forced to take sometimes exaggerated, sometimes extreme steps to pierce the mundane, breaking up lines, using words in odd new contexts, relying on sound effects and packing the stanzas with sensuous images and fragments from scripture, and the common language of faith suddenly takes on new meaning through these odd juxtapositions.

When confusion and disagreement is the weapon the defense is to stop the name calling and bitterness and the counterattack is to approach the tough scriptures together one at a time and work through them meticulously with truth as your goal rather than an arrogant confirmation of your views (regardless of whether or not you are right).

Campus ministries should offer regular opportunities to study the Scriptures and the work of great Christian thinkers through the ages.

Who are we to judge what God does or allows he has his reasons who can fathom his ways he sees the end from the beginning and is not limited to time or space like we are.Does God want anything the answer is Yes he wants a relationship with us that is why he sent his son because he had a purpose in creating us.However the wages of sin is death in this scripture alone regardless of what happens here we all deserve to die God could have wiped us all out with another flood for who of us is worthy.It is by grace that we live and yes bad things do happen to good people just as it does for the wicked is it to test our faith i do not know but i do know that God gives us the grace to endure through trials and difficulty and that all things do work for Good if we love him..

They attend to scripture; struggle to discern the gospel's call and demand on them and their congregations in particular contexts; lead worship, preach and teach; respond to requests for help of all kinds from myriad people in need; live with children, youth and adults through life cycles marked by both great joy and profound sadness; and take responsibility for the unending work of running an organization with buildings, budgets, and public relations and personnel issues.

The grace of God and the work of the Holy Spirit are essential to the renewal of life through the Scriptures.

As of late, by using this key scripture, «For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision matter, but only faith that works through love», I have been able to better understand the life of Jesus on this earth.

And again, through the work of other scholars like Bultmann and Buri, with their frank recognition of the mythological element in the biblical story, we have come to see that the affirmations of Scripture have their abiding significance, not in spite of, but precisely because of their being stated in language which can only be described as highly metaphorical.

Most of the people I meet as I travel around the country are people who grew up in Church and who long, with every ounce of their being, to remain faithful to the Church and to Scripture as they work through these difficult issues.

The work which God had done through scripture in the Old Testament is done by Jesus in his public career, his death, and resurrection, and his sending of the Spirit.»

text in Scripture and want to know what it means, we too quickly turn to what others have written about this passage, thereby short - circuiting anything that God might have wanted to teach us through the illuminating work of the Holy Spirit.

This is the truth presented in Scripture, and this is the view of God which will help people work through their depression and anxiety about life without giving in to suicide.

Parenthood in my 30s led me to take up my spiritual journey, and after several decades of being active in Unitarian Universalism, in my 60s I have also come to think of myself as a progressive Christian as well as a UU — a return to the faith I grew up in, but on a different level, taking scripture seriously but not literally (and for me, serious literature can be scripture too, especially poetry, and scriptures of other faiths...) I am content to say God is a mystery, a word we use to point to all that is good and beautiful and healing, a creative energy at work that we can experience through our loving relationships, through art and music, through the pursuit of science, and in the «church» of nature.