Sentences with phrase «other stories serve»

Other stories serve explicitly to raise the consciousness of the community to the situation and meaning of particular persons, groups, and institutions.

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For now, Facebook Stories is only available in Ireland, which has also served as a testing ground for some of the company's other recent projects, including a beta version of Direct.

Bachelder's story, documented in her book, Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others, is the most compelling case study to showcase the power of servant leadership to reinvent a company from the inside out.

An early effort to bring order to the chaos of the Internet, Yahoo served as a sort of Yellow Pages for the web, with human editors selecting links to news stories and other sites.

The story of Jesus is basically God coming to Earth to serve others, not be served.

For as long as his story has been told — which, historians tell us, is longer than any other book in the Bible — Job has served as a patron saint of the downtrodden.

So seeing stories like this and others where people report that they aren't getting promoted because they aren't christian make me worry about the state of the military that I take pride in having served

If you can't share a story of the healing grace of God then you'll probably serve the Kingdom wonderfully in some other manner!

If Jesus embodies God's dreams for the world, then citizens of the Kingdom start by imitating him — by eating with the people he ate with, by telling the sort of stories he told, by healing and forgiving, by serving and praying, by resisting the temptations of power and money and violence, by breaking down religious barriers, by loving enemies, by showing humility and grace, by overturning some tables and dining at others, by being obedient to the point of death.

With these and other complications and problems, no wonder some have concluded that the whole story of the supper is not the record of an event that was remembered and celebrated, but the cult myth of a rite that it served to explain.

The adaptation (starring Hugh Jackman, Rooney Mara and Amanda Seyfried among others), serves as a darker take on the classic tale as well as a sort of Captain Hook origins story.

One of the things I really appreciated about Jeff's book is that he points out through story after story that finding others to love and serve does not require us to go to a different country.

It is perhaps no accident, given her remarkable story, that Toni Ginés - Rivera has dedicated her life to serving other wounded people.

For it serves to assure the reader that the story of suffering and defeat to which it is the immediate prelude has for its other side that eternal weight of glory which Christ attained through His passion.

For us, we gather to discuss Scripture, to encourage each other, to hear each others stories of where we saw Jesus working, to work alongside each other as we serve the community in Jesus» name Then we each depart to follow Jesus in our everyday day lives, to find opportunities daily to love our neighbors.

Our partners and pals and Significant Others, The people who work in the Caring Professions, The service that pays for my therapy sessions, The Muppets and Smurfs and of course Mr. Rogers, The U.S.C.C. and Los Angeles Dodgers, The lady who serves as our story - time reader (At present) the Senate Majority Leader, Delores in day - care, Ms. Sands in ceramics, Francesca who networks my fam» ly dynamics, Picasso and Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion And Ronald McDonald and Richard Mcbrien, Miss Piggy and Kermit and Bozo and Bartok, Corita and Gloria Steinem and Starhawk, And Rudolf the Reindeer and Santa's ten elves But best of all most of all, god is our selves!

While we all know painful stories of friends and family who were victims of injustice, spiritual abuse, and unhealthy environments, it is possible to thrive as we use our gifts to serve Jesus and bless others.

Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz

Phrygian to me i sense that you are struggling with issues in your mind that you cant reconcile and these issues are affecting what you believe in your heart and therefore your faith in God.I had something similar happen to me recently regarding the story of the demon possessed man at one point the demons begged Jesus to cast them into the pigs does that mean that Jesus was implicated with the work of satan.It cast my mind into doubt and then i began to question who God is.I prayed and sort the holy spirit for an answer the answer i got was that Gods character never changes he is always holy righteous and sovereign why else would satan ask for his permission.So the answer was that he allowed satans purpose to prevail so that we can see that satans intention is always to destroy it may well have been that the pigs were his anyway.As they were for the gentile nations who offered the pigs to their demon Gods.Just as satan can not change who he is the destroyer the thief the liar God can not change who he is when we realise that despite what we see going on in the world God is still the same yesterday today and forever.The time is coming when those that have hurt others will be judged for there wickedness as we serve a holy and just God.Just as it was in the times of Noah so it is with this this generation that as the wickedness reachs its zenith then the Lord will return to judge the nations.He is coming again and we need to be ready it is not a time to be caught sleeping.brentnz

Priest is the other side of the story, an admiring portrait of priests who exemplify a joyful fidelity in serving God and His people.

These are stories of people who felt that «going to church» was inhibiting their walk with Jesus, and so left the institutional church to follow and serve Jesus in other ways.

The researchers are demonstrating that television promotes consistent values, attitudes, and beliefs which serve the functional needs of those who control and use the medium: «Commercial television, unlike other media, presents an organically composed total world of interrelated stories (both drama and news) produced to the same set of market specifications.»

Along with serving as a sponsor of her popular exercise program, the two entities are working on a variety of activities designed to reach the general public with the «other side of the carb story.»

Everything he said has come true, and every other rumour and speculation that we were served up by the media was nothing but eyewash, dreamed up to keep you buying their papers and clicking on their stories.

We who live near the processing companies and know the REAL story, totally support the product, eating it and wanting it served where we, our children and other family members and friends eat!

SNA is constantly promoting school meal success stories to our members so they can learn from their peers in other districts, and we provide training and educational resources to help them improve the meals they serve.

I'm actually finishing a piece for another online publication specifically regarding the food served in daycare centers and your story is eerily similar to the ones I heard from other parents - right down to the vanilla wafers!

I have served as an undergraduate independent study supervisor at the University of Texas for Kit Aldrich (anthropology: birth stories); Edith Ellwood (sociology); Jennifer Haas (anthropology: childbirth in Cameroon); Adam Ford (religious studies: labyrinths); Margaret Wardlaw (in - hospital birth centers), Laurel Ripple Carpenter (Burlington — the anthropology of reproduction) and many others.

The author's reflections on her childhood, along with others, will remind you of your own childhood and serve as great stories to share with, and inspire, your children.

Throughout the year, we tend stay away from celebrating our selves during other holidays, choosing to focus on what those days mean for our family or what we can do to serve and love others, but birthdays are another story.

In particular, local media attention matters: it's often easier to get than national coverage, it lets you leverage your local activists and it can lead to much broader distribution of your story if it gets on a newswire (even local blogs can help, since they may be disproportionately read by elected officials and other opinion leaders and can also serve as a source for national blogs — see this article for details).

Former Arsenal defender, Emmanuel Eboue has opened up about his life story to serve as a lesson for other African players.

Yes, grad students like to complain about their advisers because grad students like to complain, but I think these stories serve a positive purpose: They allow other graduate students to think, «My adviser isn't the greatest, but at least he or she doesn't do what that person's adviser does.

Recently, other preprint servers have been or are being developed to serve other fields including biological sciences, chemistry, and medicine (see the News story on p. 1344).

But Nixon, whose mother also survived breast cancer, decided to tell her story when she realized it might serve as an inspiration for other women at risk.

Coupled with a deep desire to serve others, her quest to translate these stories into healing protocols took her on a colorful, dynamic, and unconventional path to mastering the healing process.

I want to say again, that each of these 39 people are winners in my book and I sincerely thank them for sharing their stories which will serve to inspire countless others - you are all heros and role models!

At the Critics» Week — where, in the interest of full disclosure, I served on a competition jury comprised of three other critics and the South Korean director Lee Chang - dong — the highlight of an unusually strong lineup was Take Shelter, the second feature by Shotgun Stories director Jeff Nichols, an acknowledged Malick acolyte whose new film shares a producer with The Tree of Life as well as a leading lady, Jessica Chastain (reportedly at Malick's personal recommendation).

It joined a handful of other curiosities I was glad to catch at all: Peter Bogdanovich's labored sex farce She's Funny That Way, Saverio Costanzo's jaw - dropping vegan - momma horror story Hungry Hearts, David Gordon Green's messy Manglehorn and its confirmation of Al Pacino's embrace of grumpy old manhood, and (prior to its HBO airing) the two - part serving of Olive Kitteridge, a darkly comic, stingingly apt anatomy of depression across decades of marriage, as portrayed by Frances McDormand (Olive) and Richard Jenkins (long - suffering dear Henry).

The «Sherlock» TV series keeps many details of the original series — for example, it still makes sense for John Watson to be a doctor who served in Afghanistan as he was in the original stories — but other plot points are updated for the show, with cell phones and other technology often used by the criminals whom Sherlock and Watson are hunting and by the pair themselves.

Other performances of note include Bill Paxton and Riz Ahmed, both serving key roles to move the story along.

While the opening scene, which serves only as back - story and general reasons as to why it takes so long for Raleigh (Charlie Hunnam) to return to the Jaeger game, is fluff for the film and even in the moment felt unnecessary as opposed to just being retro - actively less awesome than the other greater action sequences.

It feels like a start, maybe, but would have been so much better served as a story told from a perspective other than that of male outsiders like Lucas and Moore, who turn their heroines into unconvincing femme - bros.

In King's stories, their existence always serves to highlight the cruelty and arrogance of the tolerated white American male, and perhaps no other King protagonist is more unsympathetic than the main character of Thinner.

Some stories simply serve as brief cold opens to episodes, while others unfold in 2, 3, or 6 part installments.

Armie Hammer, meanwhile, serves as the other half of the love story at the heart of Call Me By Your Name, a grad student whose wit and tenderness captivates Elio.

They are very much related and feed into each other as the film addresses the differences between past and present and the fine line between reality and fantasy with one fictional story even serving as a metaphor for another.

(The only other director with multiple entries in the Top 10 is Docter's Pixar colleague Unkrich, who directed «Toy Story 3» and served as co-director on «Finding Nemo» and «Monsters Inc.»)

They're all quite complex and interesting in their own right, but they serve little purpose in the story other than to be sounding boards for Brian and Neil.

You know, a cohesive plot, solid acting and effects that serve the story... not the other way around.