The El Dorado Furniture BLUCard includes a $ 100
gift offer with your mailed welcome kit, and the card itself offers convenient monthly payments, special savings for cardholders, and access to special private events.
Not exact matches
During the holiday season, athletic apparel manufacturers can target customers
with a bounce back
offer to encourage
gift buyers to shop for themselves in the New Year.
Finally, it included a
gift certificate, along
with an invitation to a VIP tour of one of the chain's stores in order to discuss its
offerings with a knowledgeable member of their staff, and a promise to revisit the product
offerings as per my friend's original suggestion.
Sapira is
offering $ 150 off its mattresses and giving away free $ 50 Amazon
gift cards
with every purchase.
We thought Boomerang could grow quickly by
offering free
gift cards while making money from selling higher - value
gifts, but no one really engaged
with paid options.
And small, free
gift cards have become «super ads» — that is, they
offer high rates of conversion, naturally go viral and they're profitable for both Boomerang and the retailers we work
with.
Although Adventureseek.com has partnered
with major outdoor retailer REI, as of this writing that alliance primarily consists of a link to REI.com and a limited - time
offer for a
gift certificate for merchandise on the site.
Walker wasn't ready to name which
gift cards will be
offered; however, he did say Upside is working
with Blackhawk, one of the largest
gift card suppliers in the United States.
After several years of dealing
with thrifty consumers, retailers have gotten the message and even high - end department stores such as Nordstrom, and specialty stores like Pottery Barn and Crate and Barrel, are
offering a wide range of
gifts that cost less than $ 25.
For instance,
gift shops may showcase seasonal
offerings along
with wrapping paper, cards and even shipping options for the customer's convenience.
In 2008, Kare created virtual «
gifts» for Facebook that you could buy and send to a friend,
with new
offerings daily, based on a sixty - four - by - sixty - four - pixel grid.
Small amenities are expected from all airlines, but KLM
offers premium flyers something unique: An end - of - flight
gift of a Delft Blue miniature Dutch house filled
with Dutch gin.
The majority of business cards come
with a points or miles - based rewards program that
offer you a choice of redemption options — including travel, merchandise and
gift cards — in exchange for your miles or points.
May not be combined
with any other
offer / discount (unless specified), including invitation credits, promotional
gift cards and / or special discount links.
How Canadian charities
offer pre-emptive
gifts to potential donors, and then follow up
with a healthy dose of guilt
Showing appreciation can be as simple as calling the individual
with a personal and heartfelt thank you, sending a
gift card to their favorite local restaurant, or
offering a day off after finishing a long and exhausting project.»
His ability to marry the concrete
with the spiritual in a pop song is a
gift that he has always
offered us, but perhaps never so freely.
With each
gift we are
offered a way to shift the weight of our heart in an unaccustomed direction.
Love Is Our Mission, a preparatory catechesis on family tied to the Catholic Church's upcoming World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, begins exactly as it should:
with Jesus revealing that being created in the image and likeness of God means being created to
offer others the
gift of ourselves.
Second, the measure of our discipleship is our evangelical effectiveness in
offering to others the
gift of friendship
with Christ that we have been given.
11.6, Luke 12.8 f., are, like the kerygma's call for decision
with regard to his person, «at the same time words of promise, of grace: at this very moment the
gift of freedom is
offered the hearer».
He knew that the greatest
gift we could
offer to God was not our words, not our ideas, not our projects, but a heart ablaze
with the fire of love.
Westerners too, reared on the Bible
with its denunciations of «idolatry», felt little sympathy
with Hindu devotion and some would refuse the
gift of prasad, a sweet which after being
offered to the god is given to the devotee.
Sometimes lavish
gifts are
offered with a great show of outward rectitude.
Reason is a
gift from God so that we can choose
with our free will to accept the light and life
offered or reject it which ends in death and darkness.
He
offers us the
gift of eternal life — of living forever
with Him in heaven if we accept Him as our Lord and Savior.
Beautiful buildings in which to worship are not meant as
gifts to the world but as
offerings to God;
offering not the mediocre but only the best, it is a material
offering, just as we try to
offer the best body (which is called by Him His temple) to Him, the difference being that He builds up in us the best temple in which to reside, Could more people have been fed
with the money spent on building a church or a cathedral; maybe.
First go and make your peace
with your brother, and only then come and
offer your
gift.»
It is as if someone
offered us,
with his left hand, the
gift of love; and then,
with his right hand, made a fist at us and said, «If you won't accept love, I'll knock you down».
I'm going
with the free
gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ
offered to me by the creator of everything who knows exactly when we will die...
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.
For example, he says God's
gift of eternal life and you assume that he means that the
gift is
offered by God eternally
with no possibility of revocation.
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.»
Worship, as a characteristic action of man the religious animal, consists in the
offering of self to God and the returning
gift of enhanced life, in communion
with God, for man.
The claim of Christian belief is not first and foremost that it
offers the only accurate system of thought, as against all other competitors; it is that, by standing in the place of Christ, it is possible to live in such intimacy
with God that no fear or failure can ever break God's commitment to us, and to live in such a degree of mutual
gift and understanding that no human conflict or division need bring us to uncontrollable violence and mutual damage.
With this thought I take Christmas in stride and as a official opportunity to thank those closest to me for their enduring patience, love, respect, and dignity that they provide me,
gifts are
offered but not in the spirit of Christmas but to provide a tangible memory for when I am no longer living.
Indeed, if one were invited back to dinner immediately, the very next night, and presented
with the same menu, one would be
offered not a
gift but an insult.
Here the figures of speech, the examples selected, and the persons addressed all belong to the villages of Galilee — the savorless salt thrown into the street, the one lamp that lights the whole household, the village blasphemer
with his string of profanity and terms of abuse, the temple pilgrim
offering his one
gift, the village judge and the jailer, the local ruffian swift to strike, the king's man or garrison officer who compels the peasant to carry his baggage or to yield up his own cloak, the sinner's field wet
with the same rain that falls on his righteous neighbor's, the local tax collector, the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, the child asking to be fed, the fruitful trees and the unfruitful, the wise and foolish house - builders.
This same
gift of an instant sermon seems to be
offered by Ephesians 3:18, «power to comprehend
with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth».
The article described how the «billion dollar industry» was opposed by many local pastors who feared «that
with worship - by - tube, the living room sofa is supplanting the pew and
gifts mailed to televangelists are taking the place of Sunday
offerings.»
H. Richard Niebuhr suggests that these sources
offer to faith, among many other rich elements, the
gift of an image that makes intelligible what would otherwise remain unintelligible: «By revelation in our history we mean... that special occasion which provides us
with an image by means of which all occasions of personal and common life become intelligible.
Pope Benedict floats the idea that the sign of peace could anticipate the presentation of the
gifts «as a significant reminder of the Lord's insistence that we be reconciled
with others before
offering our
gifts to God»; this has already been taken up at the international Mass at Lourdes.
Therefore, if you bring your
gift to the altar, and there recall that your brother has anything against you, leave your
gift there at the altar, go first and be reconciled
with your brother, and then come and
offer your
gift.
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.
What to do when a person
with nothing
offers us a
gift?
Yes, the
offer of eternal life by grace through faith originated
with God (we will look at the so - called «
gift of faith» of Ephesians 2:8 - 9 in the next post), but the fact remains that the way to be transferred from death to life is not by waiting for God to regenerate us, but rather by believing in Jesus for eternal life.
If someone freely
offered $ 1 million to a homeless person — or even to another millionaire — it would be ludicrous to say that the recipient of that
gift somehow earned the $ 1 million because they received it
with gratitude and joy.
He would present that
gift of himself to us, so that we could
offer the service of our lives in union
with him.
We should witness to that «Yes»
with a joyful heart, recognizing that the example of joyful Catholic families is the best
gift we can
offer a world marked today by the glorification of self - absorption.
In so doing, Christ
offers something on our behalf that could never be expected or required, Christ
offers the «over and above»
gift that clears the slate and brings sinners into reconciled relation
with God.