Sentences with phrase «best gifts we have given»

You have changed and I have changed: that's one of the best gifts we have given each other over the years, room to change and evolve and become more fully ourselves.

EDITOR»S CHOICE: Getting Boudoir Photos Taken Was The Best Gift I've Given Myself from Scarlett Ballantyne of ScarlettBallantyne.com (Scary Mommy — Club Mid)

I prefer delicious foods I can eat every day, and the best gift I've given myself this year is a giant tub of duck fat (plus one in the freezer for backup).

That in mind, we've set the bar high by asking a handful of our favorite beauty industry insiders about the best gifts they've given to and received from each other.

Not exact matches

Our goal was to create a consumer - gifting platform that would let Facebook friends give each other real - world gifts from the best local businesses.

But even after you have corrected for such mismatches and the employee continues to be unsuccessful, it's time to let them go - and, at the risk of sounding harsh it's, the best gift you could ever give them.

Though for most of my life I was the kind of person who just gave out gift cards, I've realized in the last year or so how much social capital can be gained by being a good gift giver.

I declined as I didn't want to profit from this gift I was given, but as I know from the story of the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4 that the Lord uses testimonies to draw others to Himself, so at my own expense I had my testimony printed at a local print shop for a few hundred dollars, and am distributing it with New Testaments to people as the Lord leads.

But I do believe we all need to take a look at our lives, and understand the responsibility we have: to use well the gifts God gave us, to step in to the call he commanded us and to reach the people He entrusted us.

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.

He's an exceptionally gifted writer, and if you haven't given him a try, now would be a good time.

The book emphasises that God loves us - He loves his daughters, He wants them to be happy, He has given them gifts and He values their appearance and their laughter and their desire to do good things.

Historically, he is right — kings did give some of what they had received as gifts to others, and since he is quoting from the Targum, he is accurate in his quotation as well.

These riches would be given as gifts to the people, and be used to provide better roads, better armies and more food, etc..

We have been given the gift to choose between good and evil.

On the other hand, you can not ignore your responsibility to steward well the gifts God has given you.

He continues, «For the Christian, this is a distorted sense of freedom that denies life as a gift of God over which we have been given stewardship as with other good things.»

Abraham Lincoln said, «I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.

I know I can easily be impressed and think well of someone if I hear they've given a very large gift to mission or ministry.

As with Murray and those who insist that the founders «built better than they knew,» what the founders may have meant is less significant than what they actually gave us and how that gift was destined to be received in an emerging culture infused with voluntaristic, nominalist, and mechanistic assumptions about God and nature.

Indeed, on the basis of Matthew 25, ordering our attention and overcoming our addiction to distraction has everything to do with our ability to recognize Christ in one another and to learn what it means to be the body of Christ, a people formed by habits of good attention, giving and exchanging the gifts of attention in a world of distraction.

There are four specific spiritual gifts God has given to various Overseers (see chapter 4) so that they can better shepherd the church.

Sabbath has been the single best gift that we have given to our marriage, our kids and our relationship with God.

If it really has been «done to death,» then I can think of numerous topics that have been done many times more than this topic (at least where I'm at and interact): faith, hope, love, prayer, fellowship, giving, good works, christian unity, salvation, grace, faith healing, being culturally relevant, the gospel, the resurrection, religion vs. relationship, tithing, worship, reverence, christian music, legalism, old vs. new covenant, Paul's conversion, miracles, gifts of the spirit, sign gifts, tongues, nativity, the disciples, crucifixion, materialism, mysticism, new age, atheism, i could probably list about 50 more if I thought about it.

The call will take you where God wills it, and I feel that it might well be in a form of Ministry using the gifts you have been given.

However, after saying all this, one must add that alcohol, properly used, is one of the good gifts that God has given to His children.

The German Roman Catholic philosopher Robert Spaemann has expressed this point very well: giving food to those in need, he observes, can occur as a one - way gift from those who have to those who have not, or it can occur in a feast, where all eat together.

They have the ability to reach people who might not otherwise be inclined to think about spiritual things, and I actually think it's healthy to acknowledge the fact that our talents — be they athletic, academic, musical, entrepreneurial, or whatever — are gifts from God that compel us to be good stewards who give glory to Him.

Adam had blamed God for his good gift («the woman you gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree...»); he will learn the goodness of God's gift of food by the pain it costs him now that it is no longer sheer gift from heaven to earth, but is earned by hard labor and pain from ground that is cursed.

Tim i found it liberating to just do what the Lord wants you to do i work within his boundarys and yes i attend church and enjoy it.I love the people and i love hearing the word and worshipping the Lord even if others are still bound up with traditions thats not my walk thats theres.My focus is to do what the Lord wants me to do.There have been times i have said no to the pastor he does nt understand why i choose not to lead the worship.i query him as well regarding the idea that its not just performing a function because there is a need our hearts have to be in the right place so that the Lord can use us but he did nt understand where i was coming from and thats okay because of that i just said no until my heart is right i am better not being involved in leading.But i am happy to be an encouragement to others in the worship team i havent wanted to be the leader i have done that in the past.So my focus has been just the singing and being part of different worship teams i think the Lord has other plans as the groups i am in seem to be changing at the same time i am aware that i do nt to worry about change as the Lord knows whats best.I used to be quite comfortable leading the music but that was before when i was operating in my own self confidence and pride.The Lord did such a huge change in my life that i lost my self confidence and that is not a bad thing at all as my spiritual growth has been incredible.The big change was my identity moved from me and what i could do to knowing who i was in Christ and that he is my strength and confidence.Now i know that without him i can do nothing in fact i am dependent on his empowerment through his holy spirit all the time in everything.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music at another church i attend multiple churchs although i attend two regularly one has services in the morning and one has services in the evening so the two do nt really clash.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music its been two years since i did that and i was worried on how i would go.All i can say is that it went really well and because i stepped out in Faith the Lord really blessed the morning to the congregation.The difference is knowing that i serve the Lord with the gifts he has given me but my heart has to be right and when i do it in his way it builds up the body and it brings glory to him.May the Lord continue to show you what he wants you to do even though others may not understand your reasons i just want you to know that you do nt have to pull away completely just work within the boundarys that the Lord gives you and do nt feel pressured by others expectations to do anything that feel uncomfortable.Be involved just as you feel lead by the holy spirit even if it is in a very minor way take small steps.regards brentnz

This means that there are certain types of s.ex acts that abuse and misuse the good gift of s.ex that God gave...» OK I can never understand when x-tians say «God has a plan».

They have been all give to us for good uses by the Creator of heaven and earth, who gave such people and their gifts to work together.

, and not that He hasn't already given us the best gift of all, «Life» and then gave us a map as to how to live it wholesomely, a healthy way to live, with peace, and righteousness for all, but we refused it.

Early in my own discipleship, I was privileged to attend a class that taught one how to explore what particular gifts one had been given and how to work within the Body by focusing on those and also understanding how members with other giftings functioned best.

And God has a harsh rebuke for those of us who do not put the gifts we have been given to use for His good purpose.

if, therefore, ye being evil, have known good gifts to give to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to those asking him?

We French Pentecostals had it good... we were given «The Act of Marriage» and told to enjoy this gift within a holy union of course... and we sure did... boy, oh boy... bliss, joy, ecstasy... all that waiting made worthwhile... this is why being single again is so hard on me... but I have come to realize I never want to have love without sex and I never want to have sex without love...

Sex between husband and wife is good, it's an act of affirming the gift of marriage that God has given you.

Somehow we've bought into the lie that the giving and receiving of expensive gifts is the best way to express love.

When children have birthdays, I imagine that all of us try to give good gifts to our children, some of them were asked for, and some were not.

But since we have this gift, we have to unwrap it as best we can in the presence of God who probably gives it as a different gift for each of us????

But in airing our grievances, even with the best of intentions, has the next generation of believers forgotten about the beautiful gifts God has given to us in Christian community?

Martin it is not by works that we are saved but by grace that none should boast.Works do not get us us closer to God but good works come from a heart that loves God and desires to please him.John 3:16 is clear if we believe in Jesus Christ we shall have eternal life it is based not on what we do or have done but by the grace of God that has been poured out upon us because of Jesus Christ.God always gives us assurances or promises the condition to receive eternal life is to believe in Jesus Christ as the one who has saved from our sin.Personally i believe that the continued walk will determine our reward from the Lord again its not based on our effort but a trust or faith in God.This does not effect the gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ.

As I've gotten older, I've learned to give myself the gift of going with the flow, and it feels so good.

I was given your book as a gift and my mum thinks it would be good idea for us to try this way of eating!

But the best part about giving chocolate for gift is that you don't have to worry about whether he will like it or not.

I expect to make a few more batches of these through the fall and then the holiday season — not just to give out as gifts, but to keep around the house as well, in the hopes that if I have them around snack on I'll be less inclined to consume my supply of Halloween candy or holiday gifting cookies.

I've actually given out loaves of bread as «thank you» gifts before, and they were very well received!

I only ask because it seems like it would be a good idea to make bread to go with my jam and give it has gifts at Christmas but an hour a loaf would make it difficult to make many to give as gifts.

I wouldn't even know where to begin to thank her for giving us ALL the gift of good health.