The event offered over 20 workshops on topics such as «A Biblical Theological Foundation
for Creation Care» to «Faith Principles of Creation Care» and, of course, our specialty «Environmental Stewardship».
We need to rediscover the scriptural basis
for creation care, engage our planet's daunting problems and propose solutions most Christians are comfortable with.
Not exact matches
Value should always be defined around the customer, and in a well functioning health
care system, the
creation of value
for patients should determine the rewards
for all other actors in the system.
Before Kid President, Brad made all sorts of videos as a side hobby, and nobody seemed to
care much
for his
creations.
Inova was able to finance the
creation of this network through the joint venture, and it is now experimenting with new ways of paying the network's doctors so they bear more responsibility
for the overall effectiveness of the
care they deliver.
The Provincial Government has also pledged an investment of $ 20 million in 2017 - 18
for child
care funding, to support the
creation of up to 2,000 new, additional, child -
care spaces.
They are perhaps most well - known in the community
for their $ 20 million donation to the VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation — the largest donation in the foundation's history — which led to the
creation of the Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health
Care Centre, one of the top facilities of its kind in Canada.
Initially sold as a bonus to Canadians
for balancing the federal budget, the Conservative Party is now touting the benefit cheques as tonic
for a suddenly sputtering economy and as a job -
creation plan The government is now touting their recently enhanced universal child -
care benefit as tonic
for a faltering economy and as a job -
creation plan.
In the areas of families and health, the Party notes that it has increased childcare subsidies; funded the
creation of additional childcare spaces; approved funding
for new hospitals in Sherwood Park and Grande Prairie, the Edmonton clinic, and the South Calgary Health Campus; and approved $ 280 million
for 832 continuing
care beds to meet the needs of an aging population.
- retirement savings and income - Pre-59 1/2 72t Calculations (avoiding penalty tax)- college savings and 529 plan illustrations - college cost and tuition data - Coverdell education savings - risk profile questionnaires and quizes - model portfolio illustrations - asset allocation and portfolio optimization - portfolio management and value tracking - 401 (k) retirement savings - Cost of waiting to save - Effect of Taxes and Inflation - Estate Tax Estimator - Finding Money
for your savings goals - Health Savings Account (HSA) illustrations - Historical Hypothetical Portfolio Performance - Impact of Inflation - Life Insurance Needs Analysis - IRA Eligibility (all types of IRAs)- IRA Savings and Goal Analysis - IRA Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs)- IRA to Roth Conversion - Long Term
Care Insurance - Lumpsum Distributions vs. Rollover Distributions - Model Portfolio
Creation and Comparisons - Mortgage Amortization - Net Unrealized Appreciation of Employer Stock - Net Worth Estimator - New Value Calculator - Pension / Defined Benefit Income estimates - Portfolio Allocation Rebalancing - Portfolio Optimization and «Advice» - Portfolio Return Calculations - Paycheck Tax Savings - Required Minimum Distribution calculations - Retirement Budget and Expense Planning - Retirement Income Analyzer - Retirement Savings Estimator - Risk Tolerance Profile - Roth 401k - Roth Conversion - Roth v. IRA illustrations - Short Term Savings goals - Social Security benefit estimates - Stretch IRA / Legacy IRA illustrations - Tax Free Yield calculations
- retirement savings and income - Pre-59 1/2 72t Calculations (avoiding penalty tax)- college savings and 529 plan illustrations - college cost and tuition data - Coverdell education savings - risk profile questionnaires and quizes - model portfolio illustrations - asset allocation and portfolio optimization - portfolio management and value tracking - 401 (k) retirement savings - Cost of waiting to save - Effect of Taxes and Inflation - Estate Tax Estimator - Finding Money
for your savings goals - Health Savings Account (HSA) illustrations - Historical Hypothetical Portfolio Performance - Impact of Inflation - Life Insurance Needs Analysis - IRA Eligibility (all types of IRAs)- IRA Savings and Goal Analysis - IRA Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs)- IRA to Roth Conversion - Long Term
Care Insurance - Lumpsum Distributions vs. Rollover Distributions - Model Portfolio
Creation and Comparisons - Mortgage Amortization - Net Unrealized Appreciation of Employer Stock - Net Worth Estimator - New Value Calculator - Pension / Defined Benefit Income estimates - Portfolio Allocation Rebalancing - Portfolio Optimization and «Advice» - Portfolio Return Calculations - Paycheck Tax Savings - Required Minimum Distribution calculations - Retirement Budget and Expense Planning - Retirement Income Analyzer - Retirement Savings Estimator - Risk Tolerance Profile - Roth Conversion - Roth v. IRA illustrations - Short Term Savings goals - Social Security benefit estimates - Stretch IRA / Legacy IRA illustrations - Tax Free Yield calculations
And since we are not owners but merely caretakers of this world and its people — its Wealth is neither ours to Keep OR to Give — as the hands and eyes of God in the world we simply
care for the
Creation of which we are a part.
«We're learning; we're taking our role as custodians seriously, and we are very much
caring for the environment and God's
creation.»
Was the call to
care for creation one of those instances?
Lots of ego there, but little to no
care for his
creation.
Another's that I feel some inclination to
care for the
creation and not use the resources it takes to bathe all the time and to produce, ship, package food and so on.
The beauty of God's
creation points me to Him, and as a result, my instinct is to
care for it, not to use it and discard it.
«While there are small marginal groups within evangelical Christianity who are often quoted in the press in opposition to climate change action, almost all major global evangelical bodies including the Lausanne Movement have declared their commitment to
care for God's
creation and to serve the poor affected by climate change impacts.»
The next place where we can find some emphasis on
caring for creation is in the teaching of children.
We have recognized that humanity is one part of a much larger
creation for which God
cares.
The church as yet hardly knows what it means to implement its renewed teaching of
caring for creation.
But as we become more conscious of these matters as part of
caring for creation, we can recognize the need so to build as to free our congregations from dependence on fossil fuels
for heating and cooling.
We all teach that the world is God's
creation and that we are called to
care for it.
And there he found the fundamental belief that is needed, the conviction that we are to
care for the
creation.
Our existing institutions, including the church, have not been structured around
caring for creation.
Thinking from the perspective of
caring for creation in both its human and natural aspects, if it is serious and clearheaded, can be of immense value.
The book is entitiled
Caring for Creation: an Ecumenical Approach to the Environmental Crisis.
The test of the authenticity of faith is the
caring and loving quality of the life of the community, its service to others and its commitment to the struggle
for justice and integrity of the whole
creation.
Set aside debates of land rights —
for Christians the DAPL controversy is fundamentally about
creation care.
It seems my affinity
for Sufjan Stevens, NT Wright, and «
creation care» earns me a Christian Hipster Quotient of 85/120, according to this (absolutely hilarious) quiz at HipsterChristianity.com.
Yet, the verse begins, «Let us make man in our image, after our likeness...» Human rule of the animal
creation and the natural world should mirror what I believe to be God's loving
care for all life.
Likewise, his commitment to counter the effects of human wastefulness and
care for the earth can be celebrated by all Christians who believe God entrusts us with the
care of his
creation.
I think we uniquely offer the marriage of the heart and head in worship, a unique liturgy and approach to scripture, and a sacramental worldview that implicitly
cares for creation.
It seems to me that one way we get there is through deep and serious empirical study, so that we can determine with some reasonable degree of confidence whether the Eden Conservancy Project — and the general conservation strategy it represents — really is a good way
for those of us who want to
care for God's
creation to invest our resources.
God, in turn,
cares for his
creation with a concern that is not merely collective, but — as Noah's selection of the animals reveals — extends to each distinct thread of the tapestry.
That message is built around three doctrines:
creation (God made the world and declared it good), stewardship (God gave us the responsibility to
care for that
creation), and restoration (God's plan is to restore the
creation).
This is after all a «green - letter edition,» in which «verses and passages that speak to God's
care for creation» are «highlighted in green.»
The disturbing selections — which, to give the editors full credit, are faithfully green - lettered — suggest that the whole idea of «God's
care for creation» is far more complex than our usual pieties indicate.
If God is the God of all, and not just a tribal deity, then God has made provision, not necessarily known to us,
for the healing and
care of all his
creation, and not simply our little part of it.
-- Green - letter edition: Verses and passages that speak to God's
care for creation highlighted in green — Contributions by Brian McLaren, Matthew Sleeth, N.T. Wright, Desmond Tutu, and many others — A green Bible index and personal study guide Recycled paper, using soy - based ink with a cotton / linen cover
For them the phrase intentionally suggests that all earthly creatures are parts of God's
creation, that all are recipients of God's
care, and hence that all merit our own appreciation and moral regard.
While
creation care is a frequent target
for the issue exclusionists, this is a domain full of potential common ground.
A gentle reminder: Why did God wait
for 4.5 billion years before he created man to take
care of his
creation?
God does not alter in his faithful
care for his creatures; he is always and everywhere the supreme Love which moves towards, with, and in the
creation.
The simplistic gospel of being saved from earth
for a home elsewhere in heaven has been replaced by a grand narrative of God's redemption story that encompasses social justice,
creation care, and a fresh vision of the mission of the global Church.
Caring for creation should not be framed in a right - left dichotomy.
Join Micah Challenge along with John Mark McMillan and other Christian artists as we seek to take
care of God's
creation as an act of worship and as an act of compassion
for the love of our brothers and sisters around the world and
for the love of our creator.
So bountiful hath been the earth and so securely have we drawn from it our substance, that we have taken it all
for granted as if it were only a gift, and with little
care or conscious thought of the consequences of our [ab] use of it; nor have we very much considered the essential relation that we bear to it as living parts in the vast
creation.159
We talked with Mitch Hescox, the president and CEO of the Evangelical Environmental Network, which works to «educate, inspire and mobilize Christians in their effort to
care for God's
creation.»
Now if we suppose that God
cares for the whole of
creation and that human history interacts with all the other processes taking place on this planet, we view the global industrialization that is celebrated by Stackhouse and McCann quite differently.