But it can be
done by gifted, experienced book buyers.
When we watch them play, we are seeing amazing things
done by gifted individuals.
Not exact matches
Don't worry, with a little creativity and $ 55 or less, you can still get a great
gift by February 14.
If shoppers don't use their
gift cards
by the expiration date, then the cards will lose their value.
«All three of my kids are
gifted and so I didn't notice anything
by comparing them to each other, because they were all
gifted,» Terri said.»
If you're not sure what your leadership
gift is, begin
by asking colleagues, friends and family members for their opinions of what you
do best.
By enabling bitcoin payments for
gift cards, the Gyft - BitPay partnership essentially opens the door to let bitcoin fans indirectly spend the digital currency at numerous stores that don't currently accept bitcoins themselves.
I can't be totally certain here, but I suggest that all major state insurance regulators should send Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner, and Hank Paulson some really nice
gifts, because had AIG's life companies failed, the state guaranty funds would have been hard pressed to come up with something north of $ 10 billion
by surcharging the other insurance companies
doing business in each state.
Did you know that you can earn
gift cards simply
by walking into stores?
Jesus said; I will show you my faith
by my works: Faith without works is dead: (There is no life) = If we have the Faith of Christ (a
gift from God) then we will have the works that go with it that is evident of our faith; the works will testify to our faith, then
do we produce fruit that will remain: If our heart
does not convict us to
do what is right according the written word, then we are not in faith: Our hearts are far from the life of Words of our Lord penetrating into our hearts because our hearts are wicked; even Paul who said; follow me as I am of Christ; how was that??? In and
by the Holy Spirit, even Spirit of truth as Paul takes us through the Words of the Lord to have us established in the truth: The Word of our Lord is as refined silver, 7 times in the fire: Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith, to them who believe: In the Bible one's «belief» and one's «behavior» are often compared.
Christians, on the other hand, believe that we will be in the presence of God the Father and Jesus Christ solely
by our faith in Christ and what He alone
did by dying on the cross and rising again on the third day, so we believe it is a free
gift of God and it doesn't just come after all we can
do as Mormons believe.
I am not bashing Mormons but I fee sorry for them that they can not enjoy the true freedom of salvation they are trying to buy their salvation
by good works you don't need to
do that its a free
gift
At our service we go
by what
gifts do you have.
We don't move forward
by leaving the past behind, but
by mining our tradition's wisdom for
gifts that speak to us today.
I am happy that Ms. Egan didn't give up her
gift after being so shamed
by her professor.
The free
gift of forgiveness is not earned
by any works humans can
do.Why
do not people comprehend this.
If I went
by the free
gift idea (universalism) then I don't really to think nothing more of the teachings, right?
The disciples on the road to Emmaus
do not understand until they encounter the Risen One in the Eucharist, the great
gift of paschal life, offered
by the new Temple, the divine Presence, himself.
He also suggests that the eschatological prospect entertained
by Jesus is a later addition, and notes that it has nothing to
do with the
gift of bread and wine.
I believe that its important to see inner wisdom and the council of friends and wise and knowledgeable people... but God, if he / she exists created us — right... oh yes w / brains... we should be honoring that
by using them... I can imagine if God exists every day he is saying to himself / herself «why
do people keep asking me for things I have not control over, or really could care less about (people are asking for a new shinny house to replace their perfectly fine house while millions are homeless around the world, hungry, sick, etc.)... why are they not using the
gifts and skills they have».
Then free will, considered
by the Bible the greatest
gift of «God» and the thing that set humans above all His other creations
does not exist.
Craig that was exactly my understanding however if we believe that in that traditional sense a person could lose there eternal life
by there actions
by not walking in the Lord which i
do nt think is right as eternal life is a free
gift from God not based on works.Jeremys definition is that we are saved
by faith in Jesus Christ to eternal life.I believe the term salvation has the meaning to be saved not necesarily to eternal life but saved from ourselves Christ gives us the power to be transformed into his likeness or to be Christ like.In the eternal picture our actions determine how we are rewarded from God although its not the motivation of the reward but because we love the Lord.regards brent
Yet if Luther was right and humanity can not storm heaven with its understanding and strength, then doesn't the mystery of glorious light — «the Holy Ghost has called me
by the Gospel and illuminated me with His
gifts» — take us into a predestinarian darkness?
To this day there is a brass box in our bedroom that served for years as «the
gift of gold» borne up the aisle, as
did two of our pottery jars, both of them filled
by the congregation's imagination with frankincense and myrrh.
They Pray for the problems of the world and I mean all the problems, much like the Convents, instead of being a cynic you might just be glad that there are people who care this much,
by the way that life you claim for yourself is not really yours, it belongs to God whether you want to recognize Him or not, you
did nothing to give yourself life, its His
gift to you hopefully you in your arrogance will not waist it.
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.
Again,
does this mean that Jesus was chosen
by God to sovereignly receive the free
gift of eternal life from God?
By the deliberate choice of evil, the first generation of human beings
did not just lose «preternatural
gifts», they tore themselves away from their true source of control and direction, damaging their own integration and ontological harmony as creatures of body and soul.
Sex in the Plan of Creation Holloway, in keeping with the Scotist vision of the Incarnation promoted
by this magazine, argues not simply that the coming of Christ was part of the plan of creation but that the division of the sexes was planned as the means
by which the Incarnation would be possible: «God
did not fashion sex «for loving» but that the Incarnation might be the
gift of creation from the potential of its own resources for the enfleshing of God».
Ephesians 4:7 - 10: And regarding the things you
do NOT have in common, praise Jesus for those, because He made you all different
by giving you different
gifts.
«Taken up to heaven she
did not lay aside this saving office but
by her manifold intercession continues to bring us the
gifts of eternal salvation....
It is instead a penitent approach to a God who gives life freely, and who not only
does not profit from the holocaust of the particular, but who in fact fulfils the «sacrifice» simply
by giving his
gift again.
I'm not a deist and that model
does fit and I think interventionist is poor theology and goes against the «Every event is a
gift from God» model set
by Augustine and echoed in the Reformation.
It is the experiential insight that gives succor to man's deformed yearning (sehnsucht) for perfection in life, and it reveals to us that «God can not be contained within reason, because what he
does goes beyond reason,» therefore the initial anticipation of the revelatory act / reality is signaled
by the existential realization that God's «unnecessitated» love for us as created being, both corporately and individually, makes transparent «God's
gift of Himself.»
As Christians, I don't know if I'd call it a «responsibility» or «job», but it's our opportunity to have received such an amazing
gift and out of our love for our creator, we cherish, admire, and protect it, and glorify Him
by doing so.
This is
done by individuals giving of themselves and sharing the love of Christ through the
gifts of their labor and wealth.
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.
i
do nt know wheather you are still living in Law or Grace, but thats what i encourage you to find out, cause nothing seem to make since, when your still trying to live under the Law, you must except the free
gift of righteousness
by grace through faith, if not, you will always come under condemnation, I experience this for years, Oh Thank God I Am Free, Read Romans, Galation, and ephisans, and Hebews
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.
Weil: «We
do not obtain the most precious
gifts by going in search of them but
by waiting for them.»
Then, too, it will presumably be possible to leave it an open question whether the history of human descent as known to us
does or
does not possess features which only after the Fall of the first man can be thought of to some extent as a predominance of his pre-human past and of his environment, over a sensitivity to the world around him no longer protected
by the
gift of integrity, and over his lack of adaptation to a particular milieu.
Paul said that we believe
by faith alone — a
gift from god, i.e nothing we
do ourselves.
However irreproachably I lived as a monk, I felt myself in the presence of God to be a sinner with a most unquiet conscience... I
did not love, indeed I hated this just God... I raged with a fierce and most agitated conscience and yet I continued to knock away at Paul in this place, thirsting ardently to know what he really meant... At last I began to understand the justice of God as that
by which the just man lives
by the
gift of God, that is to say
by faith... At this I felt myself to have been born again and to have entered through open gates into paradise itself.6
This crazy baptism
by immersion stuff and laying on of hands
by the
gift of the holy ghost... Jesus never
did any of that stuff, man.
He may have called us but we responded and we cherish the
gift he offered to us
by doing everything possible to stay in relationship with him and be faithful, obedient servants.
In his sermon «St Paul's
Gift of Sympathy», 13 Newman describes the Apostle's love for Christians and stresses that Paul is so full of love for others that «in the tenor of his daily thoughts, he almost loses sight of his
gifts and privileges, his station and dignity, except he is called
by duty to remember them, and he is to himself merely a frail man speaking to frail men, and he is tender towards the weak from a sense of his own weakness».14 Paul knows that not only
do others need God's mercy, but above all others he himself has need of it.
The Book of Common Prayer had this meaning in view when it employs, in the course of the Prayer of Consecration in the service of Holy Communion, the words: «Wherefore, O Lord and heavenly Father, according to the institution of thy dearly beloved Son our Savior Jesus Christ, we, thy humble servants,
do celebrate and make here, before thy Divine Majesty, with these thy holy
gifts, which we now offer unto thee, the memorial thy Son hath commanded us to make; having in remembrance his blessed passion and precious death, his mighty resurrection and glorious ascension; rendering unto thee most hearty thanks for the innumerable benefits procured unto us
by the same.»
See John 20:30; Mark 16:17 - 20; John 2:11; Acts 2:22: («Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you
by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know»); Acts 2:43: -LRB-»... and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles»); Acts 4:29 - 30: «And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy hold child Jesus»); Hebrews 2:3 - 4: («How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him: God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will»); Romans 15:17 - 19: («I have therefor whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to Go
by miracles and wonders and signs, which God
did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know»); Acts 2:43: -LRB-»... and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles»); Acts 4:29 - 30: «And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy hold child Jesus»); Hebrews 2:3 - 4: («How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him: God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will»); Romans 15:17 - 19: («I have therefor whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to Go
by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know»); Acts 2:43: -LRB-»... and many wonders and signs were
done by the apostles»); Acts 4:29 - 30: «And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy hold child Jesus»); Hebrews 2:3 - 4: («How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him: God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will»); Romans 15:17 - 19: («I have therefor whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to Go
by the apostles»); Acts 4:29 - 30: «And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,
By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy hold child Jesus»); Hebrews 2:3 - 4: («How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him: God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will»); Romans 15:17 - 19: («I have therefor whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to Go
By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be
done by the name of thy hold child Jesus»); Hebrews 2:3 - 4: («How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him: God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will»); Romans 15:17 - 19: («I have therefor whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to Go
by the name of thy hold child Jesus»); Hebrews 2:3 - 4: («How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken
by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him: God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will»); Romans 15:17 - 19: («I have therefor whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to Go
by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us
by them that heard him: God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will»); Romans 15:17 - 19: («I have therefor whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to Go
by them that heard him: God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and
gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will»); Romans 15:17 - 19: («I have therefor whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.
One thing makes me feel very uncomfortable when I see parent fools their children
by lying to them that an old dude with the name of Santa will come and get you
gifts or anything you wish for... and they put things under the tree and make these poor children know that these are from Santa... and its being
done generation after generation... parents now were victimized when they were child
by their parents and they are repeating the same with their children and it is now in a loop and no one seems to be wanting to get out of the loop which is plain lie and very clear... but these poor children has nothing to
do as they under the custody of these parents...
Paul makes the same point, but even more emphatically, when he tells us it doesn't matter how right we are, how spiritually
gifted we are, how intelligent or wise we are, or even how much faith and service we display: if these aren't accompanied
by love, they are a noisy gong or clanging cymbal (I Cor 13:1 - 3).