Sentences with phrase «early gifts of»

If your group is thinking about participating in Giving Tuesday, the effort first organized last year to create a national day of philanthropy on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, you really need to know one thing: are these NEW donations or just early gifts of money your supporters were planning to make anyway?

If your group is thinking about participating in Giving Tuesday, the effort first organized last year to create a national day of philanthropy on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, you really need to know one thing: are these NEW donations or just early gifts of money your supporters were planning...

Give them an early gift of your love and friendship and time and attention.»

Consider this an early gift of 2013.

The post has been updated to reflect the correct information about the earlier gift of three works by Thornton Dial.

Not exact matches

Even if it's just a chance to win something small like a gift card or early access to the new feature, it will make a huge difference in the number of people who actually participate.

The good news is that if time gets away from you, many of the major retailers offer buy online, pick up in store options, which let you bypass the holiday shopping crowds and grab your gifts as early as the same day you ordered them.

Only a couple of weeks earlier in October, Henry Kravis of KKR (KKR) made a $ 100 million commitment to Columbia Business School, a pledge thought to be the third largest gift ever handed over to a business school.

In early September, Google estimated that 15 percent of searches for holiday gifts and product information in 2011 will come on mobile devices this Black Friday.

Many orders are returned even earlier; Optoro reports that 45 % of customers return their unwanted gifts between December 26th and 31st.

The resulting list claims to rank the hottest gigs for the coming year and amounts to a little early holiday gift for those in search of a stable career.

The holidays are busy enough, buy yourself this early holiday gift and enjoy the perks of your business run smoother and spend more time with your family, friends, or alone with some peace & quiet.

I fully admit $ 100k was a gift & early inheritance, then then rest was from saving W2 income, lived with parents a couple of years, luck, and pouring almost all savings into a high cap commercial real estate deal.

Earlier this week, Malaysia's attorney general said the payment was a gift from the royal family of Saudi Arabia and cleared Najib of any wrongdoing.

Trump gave U.S. steel producers a big gift in early March by imposing tariffs of 25 percent on steel imports from most foreign countries.

Give the gift of early morning...

I was recently gifted an original copy of an early critical review of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

I got in my car, which had a full tank of gas, and having filled my tires earlier in the week at a gas station (where I bought some gum), I drove to the mall, bought some toys, clothes, music, and other gifts, had a cup of coffee, stopped at the food court for a bite to eat, then drove home, checked my answering machine, which had a message from the dentist about a checkup, which reminded me I should probably schedule a haircut in a week or two.

A late gift for the holidays — in addition to providing more info on what Quality Score is (as Andrey blogged earlier this month), Google has been conducting a test of showing the Quality Score for your PPC ad keywords inside your AdWords account and some information and screenshots have been posted on DigitalPoint.

Again, many Calvinists look at this verse and notice that a few words earlier, Paul mentioned faith, and based on this, argues that «faith is the gift of God.»

As early as the fourth century these gifts were enumerated in a prayer for the Spirit that was part of Christian rites of baptism (and later of confirmation).

Early Pentecostals further believed that the gift of tongues which had been restored to the church bestowed actual languages which would enable them to speak in the languages of the nations.

Underprivileged and foreign students who are nursed along through their first years often make remarkable strides and justify some of the «gift Cs» they were given early in their academic careers.

Indeed, perhaps we have found in the season's mood of anticipation the first, even the best, gift of Christmas, the one we get to open early.

But in making the gift of the Spirit a part of their public proclamation, the early Christians did not intend to rest their case upon essentially incommunicable inward experience.

The literature of the early church overflows with joyous thanksgiving for Jesus Christ and the gift of his gospel.

The idea of communal affirmation for gifts or vocations dates back to the early church.

We give water, McDonald's gift cards for $ 5 each (a great place to go in the early morning cold for a cup of coffee), sleeping bags, socks, easy to open / no preparation required food, and small SUNSCREEN packets!

The author's final chapters lay great stress on the work of the Holy Spirit in Christian healing; and many of the verses from the Bible that early AAs studied can be found cited by Hickson in these chapters — verses from the Gospels, from Acts, from James, from Corinthians, from Ephesians — and others dealing with the «gifts of healing.»

They formed the ACN early last year as a «confessing» association of Episcopal dioceses and congregations that, its Web site says, expects «the appearance among us of the fruits and gifts of the Spirit.»

But if this gift of his Son was, in some way beyond the early church's or our own understanding, a satisfaction of God's justice, it was even more manifestly an expression of his love.

Early liberal responses to the new sexual freedom of youth had a tendency to present sexuality as the good gift of God without exploring general biblical guidelines for responsible sexual expression.4

About 850 B.C. some writer in the Southern Kingdom with a marvelous storytelling gift either wrote out for the first time, or compiled with such changes as his own personality prompted, a series of stories relating the early history of his people.

Early Palestinian Christian tradition understood baptism as an eschatological reality binding believers to the eschatological person of the Messiah, conveying them into the end - time reality of the Kingdom, bestowing on them the eschatological gift of the Holy Spirit and the forgiveness of sin, and incorporating them into the company of those redeemed by the Christ.

The ethos of the early Church is a mentality of direct and living union with God, the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, who operates with a transforming power through ministers and through matter, through sacramental signs which are causative outwardly of the gift they effect inwardly, and especially through the Eucharist [18].

Largely absent from The Thanatos Syndrome is the redemptive humor of Percy's early work, in which he discerns that his own satirists need satirizing, that the gospel is not a divine stone flung angrily at the world, and that faith is God's comic gift rather than our own stern decision.

Of course, the early church appropriated it, like the rest of their customs for different «Christian» holidays: holly, candles, gift - giving for Christmas, rabbits, lambs, eggs, the hiding of eggs, chickens, for Easter, etcOf course, the early church appropriated it, like the rest of their customs for different «Christian» holidays: holly, candles, gift - giving for Christmas, rabbits, lambs, eggs, the hiding of eggs, chickens, for Easter, etcof their customs for different «Christian» holidays: holly, candles, gift - giving for Christmas, rabbits, lambs, eggs, the hiding of eggs, chickens, for Easter, etcof eggs, chickens, for Easter, etc..

The gift of the Spirit completely changes the decision - making process in the early church.

But while this is the first occurrence of the word, that for which the word stands is obviously present earlier, in nuclear form among the apostolic group and explicitly in the story of the gift of the Spirit at Pentecost (Acts 2).

Anywho, earlier in the week he tried to pass off a pair of sandals he picked up from Costco (and called me about first asking if I wanted or needed or liked, and then my size) as my gift.

Earlier this year (way ahead of the trend), my best friend sent me one of my favorite gifts ever — an adult coloring book.

Well, as said earlier, things usually have a way of working itself out so they might be gifted something come Playoff time.

The passage of time has robbed sports legends of their gifts at too early an age — Sandy Koufax diagnosed with traumatic arthritis, Bobby Orr skating on a ravaged left knee.

Nothing like one underachiever blowing smoke up the ass of another... we know that Ozil has some incredible technical gifts, but to be considered the best you have to bring more than just assists to the table... for me, a top player has to possess a more well - rounded game, which doesn't mean they need to be a beast on both ends of the pitch, but they must have the ability to take their game to another level when it matters most... although he amassed some record - like stats early on, it set the bar too high, so when people expected him to duplicate those numbers each year the pressure seemed to get the best of our soft - spoken star... obviously that's not an excuse for what has happened in the meantime, but it's important to make note of a few things: (1) his best year was a transition year for many of the traditionally dominant teams in the EPL, so that clearly made the numbers appear better than they actually were and (2) Wenger's system, or lack thereof, didn't do him any favours; by playing him out of position and by not acquiring world - class striker and / or right - side forward that would best fit an Ozil - centered offensive scheme certainly hurt his chances to repeat his earlier peformances, (3) the loss of Cazorla, who took a lot of pressure off Ozil in the midfield and was highly efficient when it came to getting him the ball in space, negatively impacted his effectiveness and (4) he likewise missed a good chunk of games and frankly never looked himself when he eventually returned to the field... overall the Ozil experiment has had mixed reviews and rightfully so, but I do have some empathy for the man because he has always carried himself the same way, whether for Real or the German National team, yet he has only suffered any lengthy down periods with Arsenal... to me that goes directly to this club's inability to surround him with the necessary players to succeed, especially for someone who is a pass first type of player; as such, this simply highlights our club's ineffective and antiquated transfer policies... frankly I'm disappointed in both Ozil and our management team for not stepping up when it counted because they had a chance to do something special, but they didn't have it in them... there is no one that better exemplifies our recent history than Ozil, brief moments of greatness undercut by long periods of disappointing play, only made worse by his mopey posturing like a younger slightly less awkward Wenger... what a terribly waste

Jackson's delivery came in triplets when he got excited, always falling downhill off a big first syllable, the perfect blend of two gifts he received early in his life: a burly accent straight out of Roopville, Georgia, and a polish added by years as a broadcaster in radio and television.

Wenger who had been a God, morphed, under the temptation of huge salary assurances and supreme power gifted to him by an owner and a board without honour and crucially, any understanding of modern football, into a tinpot dictator, ageing and descending into early onset dementia, rather like Robert Mugabe.

After calls to «spend, spend, spend» over recent seasons, Arsenal look to be treating their supporters to an early summer gift in the form of the 23 - year - old.

If Wenger can, and we know he can, win the EPL and Europa by May / June of 2018, then he would have given Arsenal and its board, a very early Christmas Gift!

Having gifted Leicester an early lead with their latest example of self - sabotage at the back, allowing Claude Puel's side to defend deeper and time - waste from then on, it was starting to feel like one of those afternoons for Jurgen Klopp where his charges do absolutely everything, but the decisive bit in the final third.

However, now is the time when Bolton have no excuse cards to use up as a home fixture with Blackburn Rovers is an early gift wrapped present from Santa himself for those Reebok wearing Bolton fans to pick up a vital set of three points, points that would enable them to drive away from the point craving bottom pack.