Sentences with phrase «accepting gifts as»

if i buy all of you magic sky daddy believers a one way ticket to meet him in heaven right now, will you kindly accept this gift as an offering to the population of earth who can think?

Although it is pretty easy to accept gifts as a new parent, buying a friend or family member a present when they become parents can be tricky, especially if you are looking for something unique.

He contended further that, President Mahama had purely noble intentions when he accepted the gift as «he had in mind clearly what he was going to use the gift for and that the gift was meant to be used by the state.»

CHRAJ however noted that, the President breached the gift policy, when he accepted the gift as Vice President in 2012.

Not exact matches

Both Prince George and Princess Charlotte have received many gifts from the public all over the world, and as royal children, they must accept all of these gifts graciously, no matter what they are.

Mary Baldwin University's Program for the Exceptionally Gifted accepts girls as young as 13 and about 20 girls enroll in the gifted program each year, making up around 10 % of the campus population, CorinneGifted accepts girls as young as 13 and about 20 girls enroll in the gifted program each year, making up around 10 % of the campus population, Corinnegifted program each year, making up around 10 % of the campus population, Corinne said.

It has also gained acceptance, with a small but growing number of retailers now accepting it as payment, including Starbucks and Amazon (for gift cards).

2) I am paying just over an additional 500 per mth as it is now, but again, I don't want to take from «investments» to pay off a mtg. 3) That's also been investigated but if I were to do that I would a) exceed the free gift law, b) the person would have to accept the $ from me (going through an acct.)

Less than a year ago eGifter began using BitPay to accept Bitcoin as a payment option for gift cards.

See how Judas dealt with Jesus his years on earth — read the Poem of the Man God — a journey presented to us as a great gift but not accepted.

As long as evangelism is the focus, God will continue to bless it... Shoe box gifts are distributed along with The Greatest Gift of All, an illustrated booklet that gives a clear presentation of the true meaning of Christmas... After the shoe boxes are distributed, we also provide follow - up materials to give children further opportunities to accept Christ and grow in their faitAs long as evangelism is the focus, God will continue to bless it... Shoe box gifts are distributed along with The Greatest Gift of All, an illustrated booklet that gives a clear presentation of the true meaning of Christmas... After the shoe boxes are distributed, we also provide follow - up materials to give children further opportunities to accept Christ and grow in their faitas evangelism is the focus, God will continue to bless it... Shoe box gifts are distributed along with The Greatest Gift of All, an illustrated booklet that gives a clear presentation of the true meaning of Christmas... After the shoe boxes are distributed, we also provide follow - up materials to give children further opportunities to accept Christ and grow in their faith.

-- V.Sullivan, but as long as we work out our own salvation, he will be sorry for not even accepting his free gift of salvation that Christ so humbly and loving offers him and everyone else.

EEOC is trying to make the case that while the vast majority of Jehovah's Witnesses would never accept employment as a gift wrapper continuously wrapping birthday and holiday gifts, their JW Client's personal religious beliefs allowed her to do so, thus the only legal issue is their client's personal religious belief against wearing the Santa Hat and Apron.

God will never take that gift away from us, but just as we had the freedom to accept it or reject it in the first place, we also have the freedom to reject it at a later date.

When the Spirit has used the law as it is intended, to reveal unrighteousness, and a person gives up trying to be good and accepts the gift of grace, what can the law now.

To the best of my understanding, the deposit of faith clearly affirms the following: that God desires the salvation of all and offers the real possibility of salvation to all; the offer can be accepted or rejected and, if accepted by faith, such faith is recognized as the gift of God; if the offer is knowingly, freely, and definitively rejected, even at the very last moment of life, one goes to hell, which is eternal; but the deposit of faith does not tell us clearly that anyone is in fact eternally damned.

I agree it is not our job but the quote in the bible is meant as a warning that Jesus WILL separate the wheat from the chaff and that it is important to accept his gift of salvation.

He dwells within the logic of the «player,» freely accepting the limits (of We's game) as gifts?

So the marriage contract or covenant means that each spouse undertakes to give his or her own self, and each undertakes to accept the self - gift of the other, as she or he actually is.

Since there is only one God, idols are nothing; so long as the Christians offered thanksgiving to God for the meat, they could accept it without any qualms of conscience, as a gift from the hand of the One who opens His hand to satisfy the desires of every living thing.

Salvation is a free gift from God to the human race, but each individual human has to make the decision to accept Jesus as their Savior.

This attitude is at complete variance to that behind Natural Family Planning (NFP), wherein a couple who have reason to space their children accept the gift of sexuality exactly as it is stamped in the human person by God and do not treat their fertility as a problem to be expunged by technology.

We are saved by God's gift in the ministry and death of Christ as we accept these gifts in a humble and penitent spirit and dedicate our lives to God.

Because God is communicating to mankind through the Scriptures in the Bible in a style that reeks with an obvious understood implication that the hearer / reader, mankind, has the inherent ability to accept / believe or reject His call / drawing, commands, instructions, promises and gifts (some folk briefly refer to it as man's free will), I let the concept of mankind having this inherent ability be the precedence.

Your sins are already forgiven, no one goes to Hell because they did not ask for forgiveness, a person goes to Hell because when they have passed the age of innocence, and have come to the Knowledge of the Gospel, or they have learned that Jesus died for their sins, and that He gives us salvation freely because He loves us more than we love ourselves, and we have to make a choice to accept or reject this free gift, if that individual accepts Jesus as their Savior, then they go to Heaven, and if that individual rejects Jesus, then they go to Hell.

He offers us the gift of eternal life — of living forever with Him in heaven if we accept Him as our Lord and Savior.

The wrench in all this, is God graciously gives you all this as a gift, but since we have free will, we have to choose to accept it.

Mary was a welcome contrast, accepting him as he was, wanting to be with him, and lavishing gifts upon him (Mark 14:3 - 9).

Israel's present relatively ordered existence is the creation of God out of former disorder and is to be understood and accepted as his creative gift in fulfillment of his free promise to the patriarchs.

The mentally healthy person is the productive and unalienated person; the person who relates himself to the world lovingly, and who uses his reason to grasp reality objectively; who experiences himself as a unique individual entity, and at the same time feels one with his fellowman; who is not subject to irrational authority, and who accepts willingly the rational authority of conscience and reason; who is in the process of being born as long as he is alive, and considers the gift of life the most precious chance he has.

That is why, I believe, we ought not identify the categories of «sexual identity» with sexuality itself, as though the categories were fundamental and fixed; as though they too were gifts to be accepted and valued without question.

It is as if someone offered us, with his left hand, the gift of love; and then, with his right hand, made a fist at us and said, «If you won't accept love, I'll knock you down».

This account was established in 1843 to accept gifts, such as bequests, from individuals wishing to express their patriotism to the United States.

If we are able to accept the difficult circumstances that we experience in our families as gifts from God for our conversion, then there is hope.

We then can accept who we are in Christ with all our gifts, talents as well as flaws.

It is a power in the heart of the believer here and now - the essence and attraction of Jesus (cf. Jn 4, 1 - 42) as pure gift to those who will accept him.

Because God is communicating to mankind through the Scriptures in the Bible in a style that reeks with an obvious understood implication that the hearer / reader, mankind, has the inherent ability to accept / believe or reject His call / drawing, commands, instructions, promises and gifts (some folk briefly refer to it as man's inherent - free - will capacity), I let the concept of mankind having this inherent ability be the precedence; and I interpret difficult passages that can possibly be interpreted to appear contradictory to that precedence (of mankind having inherent - free - will) in light of mankind having inherent - free - will capacity.

Holly its not about how we feel its the decision you made to accept Jesus so you are saved and you are now part of Gods family and the body of Christ.The enemy likes to play mind games to make us doubt our faith especially as a new believer.The word tells us that when we believe in Jesus we are saved.John 3:16 Personally i do nt believe we can lose that as it is a free gift not based on what we do right or do wrong.As he died for us while we were still sinners..

In the third paragraph I, upfront, indicated my bias as to what I believe is the Biblical precedence which is that fallen mankind has the inherent - free - will capacity to accept or reject God's call / drawing, commands, instructions, teachings, promises and gifts which biased my interpretation of John 6:25 - 71 — and my interpretation indicates that section of Scripture can be understood (interpreted) to be consistent with the precedence I mentioned.

By accepting it as a task, we experience it as a gift.

True, the free act by which God's self - communication is accepted is itself the gift of God and can only be realized as grace.

For me it is not about an argument or debate with you people, it is about putting Jesus's Salvation forward as to gift to whom ever shall choose to accept it, and be saved in Jesus's name, so that he may not perish eternally.

He shows Sam and his family the point of accepting all that befell them as God's gift.

It is a gift that I accept and affirm to the extent that I live life as fully, joyfully, and productively as I can.

God accepts whatever we bring to the God / person relationship — our physical and spiritual condition, personality, connection to reality, our participation in relationships, talents, inabilities, cognition, knowledge, ignorance, life journey, spiritual journey, walk about, wandering, seeking, questioning, questing, acceptance of God, rejection of God — and our emotional and mental status: hate / love, anger / peace, sadness / happiness, hurt / health, feeling lost and abandoned / feeling found and included, agitation / serenity, apathy / passion, confusion / clarity, fractures / wholeness — all of this, all of whoever we are and have ever been and every action committed or ever contemplated and every thought we ever explored or entertained or that flitted through our mind — all of this, we bring to the God / person relationship and God accepts the totality of who we are and every component that comprises who we are — as a gift.

One minute you want to insist there is no works involved because God grants the gift of faith to some and not others as he sees fit (somehow without this meaning He has chosen who is hell - bound), and the next minute you want to insist that people who are going to hell are going there because they refused God (somehow without believeing in God, and the right God, and then accepting this God is someone not a work, even when it is someone a person who have to do in their own strength against their own inherent sinfulness).

In reality, accepting and appreciating the hundred dollar bill benefits and strengthens our relationship since I was giving it to you as a «gift.»

And yet, as the biographer's documentation bears witness, both father and mother showed themselves surprisingly accepting and indeed generous parents, people aware of their son's gifts and (as seen in their decision to send him into psychoanalysis) able to go outside their world to offer him help.

Non-Catholic soldiers often appreciated the tactile nature of Catholic devotion and eagerly accepted gifts of medals and rosaries, even if they saw them as no more than lucky talismans.

If they are able to accept their singleness as a gift or a special calling, they will let none of their energy or love go unused.