Sentences with phrase «year teaching book»

The classroom teacher, Ellen, had been teaching at the school full - time for four and a half years; this was her fourth year teaching Book Club.

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In his first major book in 20 years, the motivational guru wants to teach you how to master the investment game.

Planet Fitness CEO Chris Rondeau shares what more than 25 years of working at the same company has taught him and the only leadership book he's ever read.

I have taken issue with some of Robert Kiyosaki's teachings for years and have found it difficult to explain to people how it is a great book but a horrible one at the same time.

you believe in a narrow view of a god based on ancient fairy tales and that if you adhere to the teachings of a supposed son of god you will go to disneyland in the sky forever... which is damm ridiculous... I consider myself an atheist but I am aware of the possibility of a creative force which created the universe... but that god chatted with people 2000 years ago and brought out a book is childish and stoopid!

We have learned to love via our own abilities and not that as taught by a 2000 year old book.

Buddhism (in its true form) provides a guide to the elimination of suffering, not deity worship; in fact never talks about God or gods in the sense the west does... FYI Buddha was born 630 years before Jesus, and it is proven that Buddhism traveled from eastern India all the way to Syria and the Middle East via the Silk Road... i am quite sure Jesus had heard some of his teachings... some of the things that Jesus says are a direct reflection of the eightfold path from buddhism... Jesus was the greatest salesman of all time... sold the most books in history... he really honestly does nt deserve worship but an Academy Award

The subjects they teach each year are: Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon, and Early church history.

For several years I taught Great Books classes to college undergraduates, and the European focus of the four - semester sequence (the first part was called «Roots of Western Thought») illuminated issues of which Augustine made the first consummate exploration: personal identity, individuality, the inviolable and incommensurate self.

Faith and Faithfulness: Basic Themes in Christian Ethics by Gilbert Meilaender University of Notre Dame Press, 211 pages, $ 22.95 This veteran of forty years of teaching no longer selects books for courses that fit into some tightly conceived outline but rather picks classics» or worthy....

In fact, I have tried to keep silent on certain issues over the years, but the problem, or maybe I should say the benefit, of teaching through books of the Bible the way I do, is that I can not avoid certain issues for long.

i am a 17 year old who thinks that the Koran is a lie how does it speak the truth the Bilbe is more truth then any other book so the real quesion is what does your book teach you the Bilble the truth says that Gays are not right they are wrong

Doomsdayers aren't hurting Christianity, Mr Jeffres, as much as people like you are; you stole books from the Wichita Falls public library because they were trying to teach the children of gay people that their parents might be normal, loving human beings, and you accompanied it with a media campaign that raised $ 1 million that same year for your church through bigoted, close - minded sermons.

In twenty years of university teaching, poring over footnotes in journals devoted to the study of footnotes, attending conferences in which small increments of knowledge are swamped by large swathes of ignorance, and reading unimportant books about the important books that I haven't had time to read, I retained a longing for the ideal of the collegiate life.

... yeah suzy and others... I just happen to realize that when monkey devolving didn't quite work out on paper it all changed to single cells and from the slime off of the worlds garbage can and so on... I just happen to know more than you think... In another ten or twenty years the science books will all have a new teaching... the Bible has been around and hasn't changed one word in over two thousnad years..

Let me read it like a ten or 12 - year - old would — what would be the obvious teaching of this book?»

A Faith For All Seasons By Ted M. Dorman Broadman & Holman, 391 pages, $ 27.99 Coming out of years of teaching at Taylor University, a Christian school in Indiana, this book, written by a Protestant, evidences an admirable ecumenical and historical reach.

According to the ancient Book of Jasher which is mentioned in Joshua 10:13 and 2 Sam 1:18, Chapter 9, Abram went to Noah and Shem at the age of ten, where he remained for 39 years and was taught the ways of the Lord.

In the prevailingly liberal churches for years now few books have been written, few sermons have been preached, few church - school classes have been taught in which sin as sin against God has been the central theme.

Also like the grandmaster's primer, this book covers an impossible amount of ground in barely 300 pages — in this case, the most fundamental teachings of a two - thousand - year - old faith, written to address intellectuals and non-intellectuals, fellow believers and unbelievers alike.

So you refuse to believe in the solid evidence of millions of years of bone fossils showing that all species, including humans, have evolved... and instead you choose to believe a book written a thousand years ago by a group men just trying to teach a few morals?

In the years since that day, our lives have grown to include some of the very things that used to look heroic to us on the outside: preaching, writing books, community development, social justice work, teaching, leading, stages, travel.

His years of teaching in the classroom and making presentations to non-Muslim groups clearly inform the structure and content of his book.

On the Sabbath, they taught the Bible in such a way so that the Penteteuch, which is what we call the first five books of the Bible, was taught straight through every three and a half years.

In her best - selling 2014 novel California, Edan Lepucki briefly describes the fictional Plank College, a free two - year liberal arts program that centers around a Great Books curriculum while teaching its all - male students how to farm.

At the time of the research, Cone's book was used to teach the first - year courses in both «Mission and Ministry» and «Introduction to the Old Testament.»

A lot of venues are booked up months or even years ahead 2 / / Choose a venue that does it all for you: food, teaching, and kids» and youth work.

In fact, it was Anne herself who specifically recommended in her journal and teachings that one should read a book about the life of Christ each year, and study the Gospels, Acts, and the other church epistles daily.

And for those going into the secondary teaching, or who'd just like to get a sense of how American teenagers really are when asked about serious things, I'm sure the book he wrote based upon his years of teaching, Meetings at the Metaphor Café, is very much worth reading.

And at that time, after 8 intense years of immersion in that book and teachings about it of a particular flavor, I had to lay it down and not look at it for 2 years.

I have 20 years clean... I also teach the AA Big Book and the 12 Steps at two recovery centers.

For many years, traditionalist thinkers have promoted the teaching of a set of core texts — the «great books» — as a vital element of a liberal arts education during a time when demands for multiculturalism led to the dismantling of a number of traditional programs of study.

Reared in the most privileged of circumstances in Florence and Munich, Dietrich von Hildebrand fled the Nazis in 1933, edited an anti «Nazi newspaper in Austria until the Anschluss, and finally arrived in America in 1940, where he taught philosophy at Fordham University for many years, writing numerous and widely appreciated books on philosophy, ethics, and Catholic thought.

Jesus the Son of Marry (Peace and blessings be up on him) is known today to the Christian world as it is being described by John, Paul, Luke and others... whatever the way these human imagined him became the faith... record shows that the first book of NT was written at least 60 - 80 years after Jesus the son of Marry was taken away from this earth... and these writers used their vision as a weapon to get it to the brain of mankind... also there are debates among the Christian scholars that no one knows who is the writer of some of the gospels... someone else wrote it and used the names what we see today... i.e. no one knows when and who and how the Hebrew chapters were written... despite of lots of controversy on this, Christian scholars uses them to teach others...

My book Once Saved, Always Saved became the foundation for what Michael and I have taught all over the world for the past twenty - five years: the concept of reward and inheritance, persistent faith as being different from saving faith.

Two years ago the book The Fatherhood of God in an Age of Emancipation (Westminster, 1983); one year ago the forthcoming Inception and Formation of the World Council of Churches; and now this manuscript about the problem of teaching authority in the church.

For 1500 years, Christians outlawed atheists from the universities, or any teaching careers, besmirched their reputations, banned or burned their books or their writings of any kind, drove them into exile, humiliated them, seized their properties, arrested them for blasphemy.

In such a way, they taught through the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible) in about three years.

I have been reading, teaching, and writing A LOT these past several years on the violence of God in the Bible, and this book also provides the beginning place for understanding these violent, bloody texts in Scripture.

In the first 300 years of the church, as the Gospel spread rapidly around the globe, it was customary and normal for churches services to be held almost every night of the week, and the main thing they did in these church services was teach the Word of God book by book, chapter by chapter, verse by verse.

Furthermore it is to be noted that through the years that have passed since 1936, Professor Daniel Day Williams, Professor Bernard M. Loomer, and Professor Bernard Meland, all three teaching in the United States, have written extensively in theological journals and occasionally in books, all of them engaging in this same task of employing the main tenets of process - thought for the explication of Christian faith.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Tinder, who for many years taught political science at the University of Massachusetts, wrote a book some twenty years ago called Tolerance: Toward a New Civility.

This year we made and are going to distribute a «Pursuit» book, a spiritual growth handbook that teaches six spiritual disciplines, including bible study (why to do it, how to do it, etc.).

My daughter, a vegetarian for years, gave me several of your books, and you taught my to really enjoy eating this way.

Reading the steps laid out in a book triggered my visual memory of her teaching me those years earlier.

I know I've shared off and on through the years my struggle with shyness and challenge in speaking, teaching workshops, or book readings and such.

The Tiny Potty Training Book is a filtered compilation of all the best potty training instruction out there, plus non-coercive wisdom from my experience teaching infant potty training for the past 5 years.

Each book (one for each month of the year) is designed to teach British children about the fruits and vegetables that grow in their country during that particular month.

My 7 - year - old daughter is as drawn to physical play, from playing tag and climbing trees to building forts and making tunnels in the sand, as her brother... while my 9 year old is more likely to be found reading books to her brother, guiding him on how to plant the beans in the garden or teaching him how to use the insect net.