Sentences with phrase «father losing a son»

by Walter Chaw So here's the thing: there's something really powerful about the archetype of a child losing his father and finding a mentor and, on the flipside, of a father losing a son and finding an apprentice.

Not exact matches

Trump's son Eric also cited the Washington Post report in an October interview with ABC after he was asked whether his father would accept the results of the election if he lost.

«Today we lost a great man, father, son, and brother who always stood up not only for his clients, but also for what he knew was right,» Fegan's family said in a statement through spokesman Terry Fahn.

«My father would come home in a foul mood after losing at blackjack and other card games,» Lee wrote, «and demand some of my mother's jewelry to pawn...» His mother not only saved her jewelry from her feckless husband but also ably raised her four sons and one daughter, selling cakes baked from tapioca when flour and money grew scarce.

Yesterday, my daughter & son lost their father.

The father of the prodigal invites his elder son to join his celebration just as others in the Bible seek a lost sheep or a lost coin.

It is characterized by its owner's generosity and mercy, which parallels that of a father who waits for his lost son, and a king who invites guests from the streets for the wedding banquet.

That is certainly true of this story, which explicitly incorporates the Prodigal Son parable on several levels, not only the relation of the fathers to their lost sons, but Kumalo as an elder brother who hates his younger brother, John, a prodigal.

Both sons are prodicals what God is teaching us through the parable is revealing the intents of our hearts there sinful.The younger son wanted the worldly pleasures that was where his heart was at at least he is honest.The older brothers heart was no better because it was all about him it wasnt out of love for his father that he stayed on the farm but that by his works he would gain all that his father had.If he loved his father he would have known how his father would have responded to his brother and he himself would also have been happy to have seen his brother alive again.In the back of his mind he is worried that he may lose more of his inheritance and feels threatened and that is why he responds in the way he does.His heart hasnt changed at all even though his brother has come back from the dead.

Furthermore, the «older son» is the worst kind of «lost son» because we think we have stayed with God our Father, when in reality, we have gone into the far country of religion, which allows us to look down our self - righteous noses at everybody else who is not good enough, smart enough, or disciplined enough to truly live for God.

Instead we could imagine God to be a Woman who seeks out each lost coin until it is found, or a faithful and patient Father waiting to throw a party for the return of his son.

The older son is a lost son as well, and he too has turned away from his father.

There is a skill and diplomacy to know how to put aside the cultural expectations and still live out Christ's love and generosity much like the father in the story of the prodigal son - both sons and the father knew the cultural rules, but when it came down to it, the father, who had much to lose, put aside those cultural burdens in order to love lavishly.

22But the father said to his servants, «Bring quickly the best robe and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet; 23and bring the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry; 24for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.»

As the whole story suggests, Abraham, newly a father of the promised - son - of - the - covenant and newly the founder of a new nation, understood that the true father and true founder must devote his offspring and his people to something higher than offspring and peoplehood, even at the cost of losing them.

@Chuckles: The analogy of father / son is not apt at all because the lessons god tries to teach us get lost when people enter heaven.

In effect, Jesus on the cross experiences the agony of being temporarily forsaken by the Father, while the Father in the same moment experiences the anguish of being separated from his Son, hence of losing his own identity as Father.

There is hope for the father that lost his lil son.

More like a fast than a feast, it bears little resemblance to the meal which the father prepared for the lost son.

The current language debate is just one more indicator of how much the church lost when it got caught up in the philosophical / theological Christology debates, and replaced the name of Jesus with the titles Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

If a younger son was trained, the father would lose his powers.

When the father, who has been waiting and watching, catches that first distant glimpse of the returning son; the father rushes out to retrieve the lost son, to embrace the found son, to shower the returning son with generous hospitality, and to begin the celebration.

The father expects even the elder son to rejoice at the prodigal's return; God expects all men (even the Pharisees) to rejoice at Jesus» mission to the lost.

The son was never lost to the Father, the son was only lost to himself.?

Chris Pratt, a father himself to a four - year - old son, lost his father while he was filming for the movie Jurassic World to multiple sclerosis.

To him, a concerned father explains the party in these words: «For this my son («your brother» in v. 32) was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found» (Luke 15:24) Our present concern is to notice only the arrangement, the movement of ideas.

And the father in the parable, by adorning the lost son in the regalia of royalty, removes any need for shame.

My hearer, there was many a father who believed that with his son he lost everything that was dearest to him in the world, that he was deprived of every hope for the future, but yet there was none that was the child of promise in the sense that Isaac was for Abraham.

It is the intention of this article to examine the reasons why these two theologians held their opposing views, and also to indicate the Holy Father's position in this matter, in specific relation to the Mass. «For the Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

I once was lost now I'm found what a awesome thought thank you Lord for my Salvation that even though my robes were dirty and stained you as the loving Father called me forgave my sins and now call me son.

The prodigal son not only spent the wealth given to him by his father, his state in the world was dead and lost.

Jesus tells us God is a relentless shepherd, and in the next two parables we discover God as a crazy woman tearing the house apart through the night in search of one missing coin, then a loving Father gazing out on the horizon and running into the distance at the first sign of his lost and wandering son.

His parables reveal a close and sympathetic observation of everyday life: the farmer's sowing and reaping, the shepherd and his flock, the house built on the rock, the leaven in the dough, the lost coin and the lost sheep, the father's joy in the return of a wayward son and the elder brother's peevish jealousy, the mother forgetting her agony for joy that a man has been born into the world, the workers standing idle in the marketplace because no one has hired them, and many other instances.

His father, Lafayette, broke out in laughter when asked to describe how his son responded to losing as a child.

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Little's father, Gary, is a veteran of the recruiting process who saw his older son, Chris, lose a scholarship offer from Wyoming when a coaching change was made after the 2013 season.

And no, that did not happen in the US but the UK where midwives are so well trained and so compassionate as to feel that a father who lost his son to a preventable death with midwives was a bother with his pecky insistence that risk mattered.

«Unfortunately, it's not just my father who loses his life, but a lot of people lose their lives because people are in a hurry,» said Corey Lulling, the son of the victim.

A father may cringe watching his son cry after losing the baseball game or a mother may usher her daughter out of dance class at the first sign of tears.

There are so many things that cause LM Supply - I had problems since day one... partially due to ending up being rushed to an operating room after having my LO b / c of excessive loss of blood - to being so STRESSED out b / c my father was sick w / Cancer and I was his caretaker as well as STRESSED b / c my son was losing weight... I can write a book on everything I did from advice on here to going to a lactation consultant.

Johnson's father rejected the claim that his son was motivated by career considerations, saying that the decision could be «career - ending» if the Brexit camp loses the referendum.

We lost my father, Mario Cuomo, who was a great governor for twelve years of the great State of New York and I think most sons probably think of their father as a hero but I certainly did.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Garner family who now join the ranks of the families of Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin, and Mike Brown who have not only tragically lost a son, husband and father, but have now been denied justice.

In a 40 - minute address, Cuomo spoke of his father's complexity, his toughness, his fondness for arguing, and his sometimes combative relationship with his own son, who would go on to win the office Mario lost in 1994 as he sought a fourth term as the state's highest elected official.

It's a time to think about families who just lost their father, their husband, their son, and we just met those families.

Fish won the Democratic primary, and although his father crossed party lines to endorse his son, he lost in the general election to Republican Sue Kelly.

So, both father and son Espada lost their seats and the battle lines between them, the party and the Díazes became fixed for years to come.

The same conference gave a standing ovation to Mark and David Geier (father / son team) after they faced legal troubles including Mark Geier (the doctor of the team) lost his license due to ethics violations.

i am father, but lost custody of my son in a court battle after the divorce.

After losing a major fight, a professional MMA fighter returns home from Vegas, where he reunites with various individuals from his past - including a father / son duo who recruit him to engage in their daring bank heists.