In this symbolic vision, donations as well
as sacrifices make sense and are useful in themselves.
Not exact matches
As the engine that
makes all Dyson's vacuums effective, it couldn't be shrunk down any further without
sacrificing suction power.
Incase Sonic
Made by a company that's famous for stylish iPhone cases and boasting the most fashion - forward design of any audiophile - grade headphones on the market, the unimaginatively named Sonics are easily dismissed
as sacrificing function for form.
Still, Gaudet notes that to truly
make it work
as an entrepreneur or business owner in Turkey, you might need to
sacrifice some of your independence.
Think and talk about why you're
making this
sacrifice: the hope that your weekend business will ultimately lead to a more fulfilling life
as a full - time entrepreneur.
«
As a consumer I wasn't
making any
sacrifice,» he says.
According to the study, millennial parents are most likely to report having
made sacrifices to increase their savings, including cutting back in big spending areas such
as dining out, vacations, and entertainment.
Though people liked to portray themselves
as making sacrifices for their business, they weren't, in fact, helping anybody by not taking vacations.
Budget six to eight months to earn more and
make lifestyle
sacrifices such
as taking on a roommate, cutting down meals out and extraneous expenses to help you save.
There are thousands of servicemembers who identify
as transgender in our military and they have all
made sacrifices to protect our national security.
As a leader, you will need to
make personal
sacrifices that benefit your employees.
As an entrepreneur, you
make sacrifices because of the certainty of your success.
We refer to this approach
as Sustainable Investing which can allow investors to
make a positive impact without
sacrificing competitive potential performance opportunity.
- At the same time, both Iran and Iraq must
make sacrifices for Saudi Arabia to accept the deal, Iran takes opposite view, insisting Saudi should cut more,
as it boosted output most in recent years: oil producers that raised output in past years while Iran was subject to sanctions «will have to shoulder a bigger share of the output drop and accept more responsibility»: oil minister Bijan Zanganeh
By leveraging some advantages that our college provides in terms of housing and healthcare
as well
as making some
sacrifices (to live in the student housing which not have great location and accommodations), we are able to stay debt free and build our net worth.
Besides saving students thousands off of their cumulative student debt burden, this payment strategy sets the stage for future personal finance skills — such
as budgeting, and
making small
sacrifices in the present that will bring big rewards in the future.
As taxes and costs rise, promised green jobs fail to materialize, and few others in the world
make these
sacrifices, Canadians may soon start demanding a new approach that puts affordability on par with sustainability — and political accountability.
With unprecedented access to Buffett, Schroeder crafted a sensitive, personal and insightful profile, focusing even more on him
as a person than
as an investor — and detailing the remarkable
sacrifices he
made along the way.
A week after the Whopper
Sacrifice application
made waves for its creative (and aggressive) use of Facebook friend removals
as a way to spread the application, Facebook has forced it to disable the app's functionality, according to the developer.
It does not mean settling for what's second best because a group of people, the majority of which are not willing to
make the ultimate
sacrifice of putting themselves in harm's way for others, are thinking about themselves
as individuals and putting that ahead of the majority best interests.
Presidential oratory provides much of the supporting evidence for McDougall's ideas about civil religion, from President William McKinley's implication that the United States had not so much conquered Cubans
as it had ministered to them («Are we not
made better for the effort and
sacrifice, and are not those we serve lifted up and blessed?»)
Will you attract others that will
make as big of a
sacrifice as you, if not bigger?
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie can
make you live forever if you accept a blood
sacrifice and symbolically eat his flesh and drink his blood, and telepathically tell him you accept him
as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a woman
made from a rib was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree:
makes perfect sense
It is the spiritual reality of our sin, created by it
as a natural consequence of our free will — and something God never intended for us to go to, to the point of total self -
sacrifice to us to help save us from our own self -
made doom.
She says that churches should BEND towards what people today want in order to allow their sin, to allow their desire to live
as we ought not, and to
make our selfish hearts even harder, to not realize
sacrificing self is not about the church
sacrificing the Message, but for people to turn to their own hearts and how hard they have become.
I'm a little disappointed that this «article» or blogging opportunity
makes mention of people giving things up for Lent
as if that's the only way a person is called to
make a
sacrifice during this period of the Catholic / Christian calendar.
After all, it is argued, the Romans themselves did not appear to take it seriously (Vespasian's famous deathbed joke, «I think I am becoming a god» seems to indicate
as much): it could only be believed by those who were either insane, such
as Caligula, who went so far
as to
sacrifice to himself daily and
made his beloved horse a high priest of his cult, or irredeemably barbarian and by implication, stupid, such
as the Britons of Colchester who built an enormous temple to the Divine Claudius.
That those animal
sacrifices were to learn of what was to happen when God would
make that
sacrifice and that that is why there is communion today
as a means to remember the
sacrifice God's beloved son had
made.
You mean
as part of what it means to
make sacrifices the greatest of which being God having to
make the greatest
sacrifice of all that unlike Abraham who was at the last minute spared from having to
make the
sacrifice of his beloved son Isaac, God on the other hand due to his love for all of us imperfect beings had to actually
sacrifice his beloved son.
It
makes sense why an animal had to die in place of a person
as a
sacrifice, it
makes sense
as to why Our Lord have himself
as a
sacrifice for our sins and undeservedly took our punishment (which was a painful and humiliating death)(what a loving Lord we serve!)
It is amazing what lengths we will go to so
as to
make sure we do not miss our favourite soap opera, or what
sacrifices we will
make to be able to have our annual holiday.
As Jephthah charged into battle with his countrymen behind him, filled with «the Spirit of the Lord» (Judges 11:29), he made a promise to God: «If you give the Ammonites into my hands, whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the Lord's, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering» (v. 30
As Jephthah charged into battle with his countrymen behind him, filled with «the Spirit of the Lord» (Judges 11:29), he
made a promise to God: «If you give the Ammonites into my hands, whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the Lord's, and I will
sacrifice it
as a burnt offering» (v. 30
as a burnt offering» (v. 30).
He is so after the offering of the
sacrifice, the
making of the sacrament,
as long
as the Eucharist is kept in churches and oratories.
«I wish to express my church's sincere and joyous preparedness to cooperate
as best they could with the government now ruling that had set itself that tasks of promoting the Christian education of the people, repelling ungodliness and immorality, developing readiness to
make sacrifices for the common good and protecting the rights of the Church.»
Taboos on eating fat and blood, (Leviticus 3:17) rules concerning clean and unclean foods, detailed directions concerning the dress of the officiating priests, insistence on ceremonial exactness in
sacrifice these and similar legalisms have
as part of their background and explanation the sense of sanctity and inviolability in things divine, demanding punctilious care to
make human relationships with them safe and profitable.
I can understand the admiration for someone willing to
make that
sacrifice,
as with our fallen veterns, but if given a choice I would not have them do it for me, and since I am a veteran, I
made the very same offer of
sacrifice.
In the end, animal
sacrifice was altogether substituted for human
sacrifice, and this provision, represented
as a merciful evidence of Yahweh's grace, was
made picturesque in the legendary story of Abraham and Isaac.
«Jesus Christ, our Lord and God, when he was about to offer himself once on the altar of the Cross to God the Father,
making intercession by means of his death, so that he might gain there an eternal redemption, since his priesthood was not to be extinguished by death, at the last Supper, «on the night that he was handed over», left to his beloved Spouse the Church a visible
sacrifice, such
as the nature of man requires, by which the bloody
sacrifice achieved once upon the Cross might be represented and its memory endure until the end of the age, and its saving power be applied to the remission of those sins which are daily committed by us.»
instead, ceremonial & judicial laws are abrogated because Christ FULFILLS them (i.e., Christ has
made us clean
as the ultimate
sacrifice, so
sacrifices wouldn't continue; in Christ, God will bring people from ALL nations to himself, not just Jews).
But this «Therefore» doesn't
make sense if you look a the end of chapter 11, where Paul has digressed in a lengthy doxology, which while it discusses intriguing mysteries of God and praises God, doesn't lead to the logical conclusion that we should present ourselves
as living
sacrifices to him, but if you read into that «οὖν» an «
as I was saying earlier», you can see that before the doxology he issued an important warning in Romans 11:22 — if God is willing enough to be so severe
as to cut of the natural branches (the Jews) he will certainly be willing to cut of the ones that have been grafted on (the Gentiles); Romans 12:1 - 2 is a very logical «therefore» to follow Romans 11:21 - 24.
The significance of the
sacrifices was to see our sinfulness and turn our hearts back to God and that is
made clear with the death of Christ.The animals though could not remove our sin that was only possible through Christ
as God he could remove sin in the past present and future
as he is outside of time and space not like us.So there sins in effect were covered by Jesus
as well in the old testament
as in the new by Gods we just did nt see it.The example of abraham able enoch they all were righteous they were justified before God.Enoch walked with God and was no more that sounds like the rapture to me so the holy spirit was present in that age just like us.We see that God has always been at work to bring life and to bring mankind to salvation.
I hope the grinding of teeth for eternity isnt
as bad
as it sounds for those who reject the
sacrifice Jesus
made to forgive their sins.
As a god who is, according to your belief, immortal and powerful enough to have created the Universe, the whole Jesus
sacrifice thing
makes absolutely no sense.
There was a temple to Jupiter in Lystra, and its priest fell in with the populace, bringing with them garlands and oxen to
make sacrifice to Barnabas and his companion Paul, believing
as they did that they were Jupiter in and Mercury.
The leaders within organized religions have
made people believe in images of angry gods demanding all sorts of
sacrifices «
as no one can live up to what that image wants of us».
Even though it does not describe vividly in Genesis 3 about God required
sacrifice to replace Adam and Eve sin, but God showed Adam and Eve how to replace them
as the one who should die because of their sin, by killing an animal and
make the clothes for them.
Come on get real samson old testement its in there wilful sin my definition is walking away from the Lord and doing opur own thing knowing what you should do but still do what you want to do.In the life of Samson WE SEE Gods forgiveness and the
sacrifice is the same
as today repentence we are saved by the grace of God if we turn from our own way.He was disobedient to his parents and to the Lord his heart was no different from ours wilfully disobedient he chose sin over the Lord all the time sleeping with prostites and lying with foreign woman going his own way and yet God saves him not only that he was Gods chosen instrument to deliver his people.The sad part is his term was only 20 years if he had walking in the ways of the Lord he should have had that ministry for 40 years that is the term of completion.We cut ourselves short when we choose sin over the Lord which is an idol by the way.We all have those areas in our lives that we keep to ourselves thats wilful they are our demons and our comforters.Until we surrender all to the Lord we can not be overcomers and will be influenced by satan like samson it is clear warning to us wilful sin or
making sin an idol in our lives has consequences better to serve the Lord with all our hearts even though samson did nt for much of his life God still showed him his grace and faithfullness.You can also see wilful sin in the Life of David yet God saves him but not all were saved in the life of saul
as he wouldnt listen to the Lord and kept walking according to his flesh.
Hence Jesus Christ, son of God, son of man, is able to
make the
sacrifice on account of men, and all of humanity, even though,
as God he was the offended one.
They took along with them four principal priests, who
made their laws and instructed them in their rites, and ceremonies and in the most superstitious, cruel, and bloody
sacrifices ever known,
as will be seen farther on in this account, where the
sacrifices are described in detail.
Why did we take the privilege of
sacrificing him
as an offering or were we repeating the crime of the Sons of Adam when Cain killed his brother in jealousy about some
sacrifice offerings that were
made and was accepted by God for Cain's brother but not to Cain him self?