Sentences with phrase «as fathers become»

This sets a challenge for policy makers, particularly as fathers become more involved in child care.
And as fathers become more entrenched in their roles as co-caregiver, they're less willing to hand off that role when a marriage breaks down.»
Fortunately, the Minnesota Fatherhood Initiative found that men who succeeded as fathers became less inward - focused and developed a greater ability to nurture and care for others.

Not exact matches

One man would later be known as the «Father of America» while the other would become synonymous «traitor.»
Campaign Contacts with Foreign Persons When it became apparent that my father - in - law was going to be the Republican nominee for President, as normally happens, a number of officials from foreign countries attempted to reach out to the campaign.
Fathers, grandfathers, and other strong male role models have the powerful influence to shape us into who we are become as adults.
Increasingly, fathers are becoming more involved as caregivers, sometimes sharing this role fifty - fifty with mothers.
Jeff Bezos was candid on stage, and he was happy to talk about his upbringing, the decisions he makes as a father, and his perspectives on becoming an entrepreneur (both in space and here on earth).
Produced by Ryan Seacrest, the show, Becoming Us, focuses on a Chicago teen whose father has come out as transgender and is in the process of becoming Becoming Us, focuses on a Chicago teen whose father has come out as transgender and is in the process of becoming becoming a woman.
As she became aware of the injustices committed under Stalin's direction, she deplored them:» [My father] knew what he was doing.
With the great success enjoyed by SQC in Japan, and through his own abilities as a teacher and promoter of quality control and related management approaches, Deming became the iconic figure in the field, the «father of quality control.»
Hoping to emulate her father's huge upset in the 2002 presidential elections, in which he progressed to the second round of voting before losing to Jacques Chirac, Le Pen started campaigning for the 2012 presidential elections almost as soon as she became party leader in 2011.
His business mentor he dubbed rich dad, and his biological father who was a teacher and a high ranking official in Hawaii government poor dad, simply because as they aged, his father's finances became more unstable and the business mentor more stable.
As the journalist Nina Munk wrote of her father: «The more impossible the situation, the more single - minded he becomes
As a father of two, I «m encouraged to see this become a priority for the school board and the provincial government.
I do tend to keep a low personality profile these days... As a father and sole provider for my household I've become relentlessly focused on building value through links.
Jeff joined the organization as a market analyst and historian under the mentorship of his father in 1990 and became editor - in - chief some years later.
We can become gods, but» as the Church Fathers put it» only by the grace of adoption, for divine immortality does not belong to us by nature.
But until we come to the end of ourselves then we are going to do and say what we want, even as it was with me: It's one thing to be a heathen, even as I was, but a whole other ball game to set our hearts on God and His truth; yet, that can only come when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of our own lives and we just give up, we know then who has given up by the one they advocate for, even has given place to: Paul said; with my heart I want to do what is right, but my flesh does what I hate: This is when God's grace is sufficient, because our hearts are right with God, but our flesh is not: There is a war going on within these temples, therefore; even as our flesh wins out to do what we hate, our hearts are set on God and His ways which has been established in the Word of Truth, which then causes us to stand and speak forth what we believe, even as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed in us this needs to be, as we come up in His glories even for a better resurrection for them who believe: The heart wars against our flesh, even as Christ wars against the man of sin within: For out of the abundance of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead of Christ, one has become a teacher of lawlessness, he then advocates for the man of sin: Many who have come out of religion has done this, as they went from one mountain top «from the extreme right» of self exaltation (Religion) to the other mountain top «to the extreme left» of the (Heathen) and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the other, and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down of all who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ in us overcomes that man of sin (Adam) through theses valleys of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and when we are rent in two, we stand on His word of truth, so we too can become one with Him, even as Jesus is with our Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you Father; in Jesus Name Alexandria
My late father told me during the early 90's that those youth who faced some shock such as an emotional shock, they become extremely religious... so if that is true then imagine what shocks has the Arabian Spring brought and what shocks will keep on coming to all those MidEastern countries...!
A perfect father surely becomes angry at his disobedient children, but he's not going to roast them alive because of it — and any earthly father who does is soundly and rightly condemned as evil and / or insane.
As personally revolting this is (after becoming a father), I am still a pro-choice supporter, because my children grew up in a loving home.
The whole world seemed to come and go through the doors, and slowly my father moved us into the church and up to the balcony, as seats became available.
That Church with an unbroken line of leaders affectionately called «Pope» meaning «father» (Just as the Apostle says that he has become a «father» to many Christians.)
I recall quiet Saturday mornings, walking with my father block to block, as he pointed out the landmarks no one else knew: the spot where the Third Avenue El of old stopped (he pointed out the supports hidden beneath the black asphalt); the apartment house where another close - knit family lived in cramped quarters, the three boys studying in dim lights under their mother's watchful eye to become a lawyer, a doctor, and a priest (and later a bishop); and the double spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the place of my parents» wedding and the baptisms of their three boys.
I also chose to be known as Father Wil when I became a priest so that the male priests and I would have the same title — which in that church they also used for God.
The concept of once saved always saved takes a bit to get your head around but Gods grace is greater than our sin and greater than our good works it just takes faith in Jesus Christ to recieve Gods grace.In saying that to continue to sin as a christian is like playing with fire you will be burnt.Paul talks of the sexual immorality in corinthian church of the son and father that were sleeping with the same wife they were excommunicated from the church the members were not allowed to even eat with them until they repented.There are consequences for our actions.The other side to this is that if you continue to sin as a christian you are not walking by faith but walking by the flesh and are really backsliding.In the backslidden state you also become powerless and open to attack by satan as long as we walk in the flesh he can influence us to get worse not better.If we are walking in Christ satan may still try to tempt us but we are empowered by the holy spirit and overcome him and our faith increases.Both are saved by grace but one is powerless because of sin versus saved but an overcomer having been set free from sin i think this is what Paul was trying to explain.It is better to be an overcomer than overcome by sin.brentnz
Ultimately it is through Jesus that those who love him will see God as he really is and become utterly like him, so we can live the life of heaven together with Jesus in the indescribable joy of the Holy Spirit, which is what God the Father wants for us.
Doug WAS my Pastor but I had begin to realize this was all becoming bullshit and began attending mass with my parents as support as he was mostly an absent father and husband at that point.
Minna Proctor addresses the problem of vocational discernment as a double outsider: an agnostic daughter describing her father's unsuccessful attempt to become an Episcopalian priest.
He pointed out that «it isn't always easy today to speak about fatherhood and, not having adequate role models, it even becomes problematic to imagine God as a father
It is still a woman's right to view her fetus as her developing child if she so chooses, and we guys are not immune to getting swept away with the excitement of becoming fathers.
First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)
Therefore, to become as «perfect» as our Heavenly Father, we must focus on the greater questions: How do we give perfect impartiality of blessings upon those that are evil and those that are good?
In becoming a model, it has engendered wide - ranging interpretation of the relationship between God and human beings; if God is seen as father, human beings become children, sin can be seen as rebellious behavior, and redemption can be thought of as restoration to the status of favored offspring.
As to when it becomes a «child,» I'll leave that up to the mother and father as I consider that to be a philosophical designatioAs to when it becomes a «child,» I'll leave that up to the mother and father as I consider that to be a philosophical designatioas I consider that to be a philosophical designation.
Powell accordingly takes his reader through varying accounts of the Trinity in Barth's Church Dogmatics, where Barth finally settles on a view that stresses God's inherent otherness: «God exists as the in - between of the Father and the Son; here God enters into and becomes that which is radically opposite God.
The crude superstition of man's prayer as a means of instructing God or altering his intention was overpassed and praying became both congruous with the Christian idea of God and effectively powerful in spiritual result — «Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; remove this cup from me: howbeit not what I will, but what thou wilt.»
Since we were raised in the church we have become used to the Holy Father's beliefs being proclaimed as the dogma of the Church.
After lunch, Father Ed settles down to talk to me about his remarkable spiritual journey to the Ordinariate — the structure set up by Pope Benedict to allow former Anglicans to become Catholics, bringing with them some of their Anglican traditions — and about what he sees as its particular mission, to revive authentic, English spirituality in the Catholic Church.
This was for Augustine and for all the Church Fathers not only an act of philosophic rationality, but also a confirmation of Christian piety as they ascribed to God all power, all completeness, all perfection of every kind.4 Most important for our consideration was their conviction that all temporality, change, becoming, and passivity signify lack of perfection.
So far as many of his hearers were concerned, and certainly so far as the ones to whom the parable was particularly addressed were concerned, at this point the son becomes dead in his father's eyes and any self - respecting Jewish father would have spurned him had he returned in such disgrace.
With God the Father setting the pace and God the Spirit enabling as we go, the church in its local congregational expression can become the body of the Son whose full ministry continues to unfold in the congregation's midst, not as our doing, but as Theirs.
This slave is the Father's eternal Word, whom God has vindicated, and so ten thousand immemorial certainties are unveiled as lies: the first become last, the mighty are put down from their seats and the lowly exalted, the hungry are filled with good things while the rich are sent empty away.
Abraham resists the suggestion, partly out of disbelief, partly out of his attachment to his firstborn; but the reader is given to understand that, to overstate the point, Abraham is here with Ishmael undergoing basic training, as it were, just practicing to become the father of Isaac.
A Jew who became a swineherd became a Gentile; he could no longer count the king as his father as could the son in Rabbi Meir's parable.
Thus the scripture writers speak of God anthropomorphically and God becomes a father with two bewildered sons in Jesus» parable or as God was for my grandparents, a lawyer and a doctor.
Then we are doomed, but for the ongoing mercy of our beautiful Father, who knew, we are not born from above as he was, but were born of sin, to become like him, by his Spiritual process, and at the same time remain uniquely ourselves with a preserved DNA, now fashioned in heaven.
I thought straight away this is a joke as scriptures tell us only the father knows the time of his sons return and hes keeping it to himself he hasnt even told his son yet.Mark 13:32 This a mystery isnt God all knowing and isnt Jesus God it is a mystery.Yet I like that that is the case because it proves that the father is not the son and the son is not the father they are separate yet they are one just like the holy spirit.I have come across denominations that believe the father son and holy spirit are the one person i asked them how they can say that when Jesus was baptized we see 3 separate persons.We have enough information to know that we are in the last days the signs are present and increasing.Ever since Israel became a nation the countdown has begun.The verse the enemy will come like a thief in the night i have heard preached many times and i believe the preachers have got it wrong because they preach it from the view for the church to get there act together or you will miss out.This view is incorrect because if you are a born again believer following him in obedience and relying on the holy spirit you are not walking in darkness but are walking in the light so you will not be caught unaware as those who are sleeping this is a warning for those who are sleeping or walking according to the flesh they are in darkness.Remember the 10 wise virgins the ones who were alert and keep refilling there lamps went in with the bride those who slept were left behind and so it will be when the Lord returns.Now is the time to prepare our hearts and lives to be ready for his return.It is an exciting time to be living and we are to live in the expectation that the Lord could return at any time brentnz
He writes: «The Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father's only son.»
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