Sentences with phrase «gifts have become»

In this world of ever increasing rates of asthma and allergies, organic baby gifts have become a very popular choice.

Uncle Charlie couldn't possibly have known what his gift would become.

In the nearly 11 months since then, his gift has become known in shorthand as «the Annenberg Challenge.»

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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.

Nostalgia for the 1980s and the 1990s has peaked in recent years, as evidenced elsewhere in the fashion world with a denim comeback not to mention listicle upon listicle on BuzzFeed, reboots of countless nineties sitcoms from Boy Meets World to Full House (or original takes on dated themes like Netflix's Stranger Things), or even the release of the Nintendo NES Classic Edition that immediately became The Gift of the 2016 holiday season.

The company is «bringing together technology and art to rethink children's book publishing, resulting in beautiful personalized books that have become a go - to gift for kids and parents,» according to Isaacs.

The point is that as our society has become more technical than ever, gifts that don't use technology at all have become more rare, thus being more memorable.

If the IRS views it as a gift because there was no intention to repay it, then the lender becomes subject to the federal gift tax rules and will have to pay taxes on any amount in excess of $ 14,000.

Branded gift cards have become an essential part of doing business and reaching more customers.

«To the extent that Japan devalues, the nature of its trade with its neighbors is one in which Japan is selling lots of capital equipment that they need, and capital equipment becomes that much cheaper, that would be a gift to its trading partners,» says Richard Samuels, Ford International professor of political science and director of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

If you read the sentence, the words — who the child in the mother's womb will be — mean what his / her life will lead him / her into becoming which kind of human, that is, what kind of temperament, attitudes, talents & gifts, and such that human will have.

When she is young, almost every small girl imagines that she too has the natural God given gift to become a great hair artist.

We become ourselves, as infants, by learning to love and to speak, and we have language in particular as a gift from other people.

You have changed and I have changed: that's one of the best gifts we have given each other over the years, room to change and evolve and become more fully ourselves.

«For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.»

Although it took the sensitivity of John Paul II to draw out the role of woman here more explicitly, this is nonetheless the key anthropological insight of the Second Vatican Council: the human person has been created so as to become a gift of self.

I have seen those gifted with humility and grace in the church become church poopy, and find it sad.

As has become tradition here, I've included some ideas below for gifts that give back.

The gifts poed out on the church by the ascended Christ have as their final goal that «we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ» (vs. 13, NIV).

To me, his gift in life is helping to save Catholicism, which is having many problems retaining members throughout the world, especially in Europe, maybe he should become a religious leader and leave politics to people who actually understand the focus of the nation and the world aside from Lucifer.

At first, I assumed the gift would just become a part of me.

And when your standing before God is stripped of being interesting or powerful or obvious or better - than, when your place in the Kingdom of God becomes ordinary and pedestrian, that's when you begin to finally receive the love of Christ as the free and wild and generous gift of abundance that it has been all along and then you begin to see that Love showing up in the craziest and most ordinary of places.

There is overwhelming biblical scholarship for the full equality of women and that the interpretation of scripture to exclude women from roles by gender (rather than gifting) has been found to be rooted in patriarchy, an ancient worldview that became intertwined in the growth and doctrine of the church.

For as soon as something passes into someone else's hands, it is marked by their character, by their usage; it has become something different in a sense, insofar as the gift - giving succeeds in establishing understanding between giver and recipient.

I wonder if the» problem» of biblical illiteracy would fade somewhat if all believers at the gathering together of the church were able to exercise their spiritual gifts instead of being a captive silent audience to the same person, week after week, year after year, lecturing on the bible until the bible becomes associated with dry boring sermonising.

But perhaps one can derive a more encouraging lesson from the success of the slogan «Be Like Mike»: many people wish to be as gifted and as disciplined as Jordan is as an athlete, and their hopes and dreams are informed by an image of what they would like to become.

Our gifts become universal when we display them in the world of music or athletics, but we have no gifts to offer in decision - making, reorganizing, restructuring.

It means, that through the gift of faith, trust and salvation, we have become saints, that is redeemed.

But by those who have become sensitive to the fact that their freedom is a gift of God's self - absenting, a new and invigorating relationship of love and gratitude, and one of deep, mature dependency as well, may take over their lives and shape them into the new creation of which St. Paul speaks.

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.

In virtue of that gift, by leading a life according to the Spirit, the spouses are capable of rediscovering the particular gratification of which they have become sharers.

It was, both figuratively and literally, a conversation, a special kind of conversation both stimulated and presided over by someone who might just in his way have become one of the country's most gifted conversationalists.

Finally, once we've rediscovered the real Bible that's been hiding beneath the modern apparatus and are now faithfully receiving God's gift, we are likewise free to accept his invitation to become new communities committed to living out God's story in our own world.

I feel this debate is at a standstill and you guys can argue all nite on this one but there are women who were preachers healers miracle workers and had mighty ministrys because God was with them there is no doubt about that.They moved in the gifts of the supernatural.I am just saying this for those women who feel they have a calling on there lives to preach.Dont let others put you in a box God does nt put us in boxs he helps us to become all we can be in Christ.

A man who has a talent, a gift, whether on the piano, or with words, or in politics, or whatever it is, uses that talent to become somebody.

Adam and Eve in the perfect Garden choose the deception of that tree of knowledge to become wise like God rather than accept the gift of God which they always had.

And through those eyes, they can recognize what gifts they have been given in the people who, however flawed, have become their pastors.

«This manifesto calls for the «removal» of the Mormons for, among other things: ``... inviting free (Blacks) from other states to become «Mormons,» and remove and settle among us... and one of the surest means of driving us from the country; for it would require none of the supernatural gifts that they pretend to, to see that the introduction of such a caste...»»

Before, Jesus had been offered as a gift to a small segment of humankind; now he had become a gift for all.

Paul argues that we do not have a licence to sin.because of grace If christians continue to sin and grieve the holy spirit they clearly arent walking by faith or abiding in Christ.There has to be an ongoing repentence in the christians walk that leads that person to become more like Christ.It is true that salvation is a gift of grace received by faith however the word also says that we called to walk by faith otherwise it is impossible to please God and if we love him we follow his commands not willfully disobey.If we do nt continue to abide in Christ and turn from sin then i think we can risk Christ saying to us that he never knew us.Like everything that God offers us we must meet his conditions that are only possible in Christ..

The Spirit is the gift of God, and the man who has it becomes God - controlled instead of self - controlled.

To answer your question — As someone who has been extensively mentored by people who are very gifted in inner healing and as one who also administers pastoral counseling, I believe that I've become perceptive to things that might not be aware to others.

With time this arrangement becomes an intolerable burden, for no one member of the body has the gifts and graces necessary to carry out the whole ministry of nurture and mission for the church.

As each and every saint discovers their spiritual gifts, heart, abilities, personality and life experiences, it will become clear to them and to others what sort of ministry God has prepared for them to do (Eph 2:10).

Thus in 1829 John Henry Newman — still at that stage an Anglican — affirmed that Christians become entitled to the gift of the Holy Spirit «by belonging to the body of his Church; and we belong to his Church by being baptised into it».24 And more than a century later, Michael Ramsay, Archbishop of Canterbury in the 1960s — whose meeting with Paul VI in the 1960s was a central moment in the ecumenical movement of that era — took a generally Catholic approach to baptism, if expressed in a somewhat vague, «Anglican» way: «The life of a Christian is a continual response to the fact of his baptism; he continually learns that he has died and risen with Christ, and that his life is a part of the life of the one family.»

It is a gift given to us not just to have children, but to become one with each other.

In this latter area Martin found time to become closely acquainted with a selection of classical authors, long sequences of whose work he had off by heart, due to his remarkable gift of memory.

However much we may wish to assert the goodness and even the playfulness of sexuality (I remain persuaded that we both may and must assert this against all defamations of God's gifts), we must not forget that we assert this in the face of a fallen condition in which sexuality has become perilous, fraught with the temptation to do violence to one another.

Adam, Grace can provide the strength to survive being misunderstood and persecuted without becoming cynical and bitter; but it is not yet «sufficient» until it has open up the minds and hearts of those who judge and persecute empowering them to see and appreciate the gifts of those who do not fit the common profile for normalcy.

«Thus, also in our century, the Lord, the Holy Spirit, has given us new initiatives with new aspects of Christian life: On being lived by human persons with th ``... If the movements are really gifts of the Holy Spirit, they integrate and serve the Church, and in the patient dialogue between pastors and movements a fruitful form is born, in which these elements become edifying elements for the Church of today and tomorrow