Sentences with phrase «give up things in»

Yesterday started Lent, a time leading up to Easter Sunday when many Christians give up things in their lives as a way of remembering Jesus» sacrifice.
I think two of the biggest fears of accepting the Lord and truly following His ways, are we are shown how our behavior is wrong and that we need to give up some things in our lives.
Of course marriage encompasses many other things such as child rearing but that is no excuse to not make time for sex, even if you have to give up some thing in order to make it happen.

Not exact matches

But even if these things don't show up in an obvious way, background checks are meant to give an overview.
Governor Stephen Poloz gave a speech in December about the three things that keep him up at night; NAFTA was not on the list.
And in a tense meeting with flipping «Odd Couple» Mark and Bryan, he makes that point very clear, telling the duo to give up the schtick and take things seriously.
And yet millions of people, from students to entrepreneurs, give up those hours in the misguided belief that they have more important things to do, Huffington said.
Investment in things like Pivotal takes time to come to fruition and they wanted us to give up and give money back to shareholders.
We're very disappointed that in order to fund the military, we had to give up things where we consider in many cases them to be bad or them to be a waste of money.
But if I had to choose just one thing I gave up that created a domino effect in my business, it would be the need to be perfect, the need to get things right from the get - go.
These cohorts can support a positive mood in the pitch meeting, give you encouraging looks and even bring up things you may have forgotten to mention.
«I was going to keep central in my life the things that I loved, and I wasn't going to give those things up until I needed to.»
The idea is that you can have it somewhere in your house and, using the wake - up word «Alexa,» constantly be asking it to do things like answer questions, give you information about a topic, or add things to your to - do list.
Yet, instead of giving up he did the one thing that so many immigrants have in common with entrepreneurs: he kept taking risks.
«The future is foreign markets, so the last thing you want to do if you are a coal company is to give up a U.S. seat in the international climate discussions and let the Europeans control the agenda,» said the official, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the issue.
Given that Amazon founder and warehouse - automation pioneer Jeff Bezos was the first to invest in Rethink, there's probably more to Baxter's future than picking things up and putting them down.
Whether it is getting up early, going for a run or checking in with a friend about your progress, find the things that give you strength and make sure you do them every day.
In a video she made laying out her own creative process, she confesses that she gave up on her first feature film when things got scary.
I look at myself in the past, who would say yes to things without knowing I couldn't deliver and then give up, as flaky and unreliable.
You give things up in the short term to be successful in the long term.
Some are even willing to give up things that are far more valuable to get it: their health, their time, their family, their self - worth, and, in some cases, even their integrity.
«One of the things that is interesting about the Zuckerberg gifts is he is giving to a community foundation which supports lots of different causes, instead of setting up his own foundation in his name. . .
«It is in your best interest to ask for enough time to properly give notice and wrap things up with your soon - to - be-ex-employer,» Meneghello tells Glassdoor.
«I'm not going to say at this point if that has manifested into weapons and that sort of thing, but certainly what they're up to there in light of their other activities gives us concern.»
Zuckerberg concluded: «The biggest things that have gotten done in the world tend to be done by people who primarily believe in a mission and are not trying to build a company; by teams, not by individuals; and by people who just don't give up
Trying to start the next Google / Yahoo / Facebook / Youtube or whatever by giving things away and hoping to become a 1 in 10,000 + success is crazy, especially considering what you give up to get there.
All foreign businesses, including U.S. ones, that operate or at least try to in China will likely tell you the same thing: it's extremely frustrating, and they have to give up a lot for questionable gain.
You need to give yourself the time to let these ideas come up because it deals in the confusion and images and very subtle things
Bitcoin can currently handle up to 360,000 transactions per day given current limitations built into the technology, according to Jorge Stolfi, a computer science professor from Campinas University in Brazil, so there's some headroom left before things bog down.
«You have to give things up» in order to reach different aspirations, Brand said.
Nice analogy... the kids grow up and give up the Teddy Bear, and replace it with God so they can sleep better at night knowing there's no bogyman out to get them... and that Teddy (er... God) would protect them from things that go bump in the night.
Kids grow up and give up the Teddy Bear, and replace it with God so they can sleep better at night knowing there's no bogyman out to get them... and that Teddy (er... God) would protect them from things that go bump in the night.
Gary wrong again, Gary wrong again: I was a guest before this on this blog: Even check out Martin Zender; The World's most outspoken bible scholar facebook; You will find me there; he knows me, and his crew knows of me; Father has others too that have been with me for years that are not in my city through their ministries also that have come up along side of me, but I do not want you to come against them as they have their own trials to overcome, therefore; no names given there, they also know me and my testimony: I am God's workmanship therefore, I was brought up in Christ along side witnesses as His testimony: Gary; this is going to be shocking, but because God does not inform you of a thing, means to me, that He has kept very much from you: Now why would that be?
But until we come to the end of ourselves then we are going to do and say what we want, even as it was with me: It's one thing to be a heathen, even as I was, but a whole other ball game to set our hearts on God and His truth; yet, that can only come when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of our own lives and we just give up, we know then who has given up by the one they advocate for, even has given place to: Paul said; with my heart I want to do what is right, but my flesh does what I hate: This is when God's grace is sufficient, because our hearts are right with God, but our flesh is not: There is a war going on within these temples, therefore; even as our flesh wins out to do what we hate, our hearts are set on God and His ways which has been established in the Word of Truth, which then causes us to stand and speak forth what we believe, even as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed in us this needs to be, as we come up in His glories even for a better resurrection for them who believe: The heart wars against our flesh, even as Christ wars against the man of sin within: For out of the abundance of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead of Christ, one has become a teacher of lawlessness, he then advocates for the man of sin: Many who have come out of religion has done this, as they went from one mountain top «from the extreme right» of self exaltation (Religion) to the other mountain top «to the extreme left» of the (Heathen) and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the other, and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down of all who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ in us overcomes that man of sin (Adam) through theses valleys of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and when we are rent in two, we stand on His word of truth, so we too can become one with Him, even as Jesus is with our Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you Father; in Jesus Name Alexandria
Given that natural selection has held up since Darwin's time and wonderfully explains what we see and do in the lab and things like why it's hard to treat viral infections and why there are an increasing number of antibiotic resistant bacteria, I don't expect it to change much in the next 10 years.
some things mention here I think are just responces to the fact that there are christians that have messed up and given people opportunity to look at it in the negitive.
20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse: 21 because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four - footed beasts, and creeping things.24 Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves: 25 for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due.28 And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, covenant - breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful: 32 who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them.
Guys All this proves is that YHWH had varied tastes in his pillaging and genocide, and liked to change things up, giving his Hebrew goons different instructions as the mood suited him.
So my understanding of giving up your life in order to have life is in letting go of and grieving the loss of things in your life that you have and have maybe even been beneficial for you for a while but are hindering you having life in its fullest.
But given the post-Benedict turbulence in the Church, which begins to resemble the chaos of the post-conciliar 1970s that Ratzinger rightly deplored (and did much to repair), it would have been useful to get some clearer answers from Last Testament about the months that led up to the papal transition of 2013 — and the reasons why things had come to such a state of affairs before Benedict XVI took the decision to step down.
Giving up on doing such things because it is deemed to be too difficult, ineffective, cumbersome, shaming, paralyzing, pointless, or whatever could be better interpreted as a loss of faith in the Savior Jesus Christ and his power to change us, and an absence of the Holy Spirit which seals us unto holiness and eternal salvation.
I do not think that the answer is in the negative and that the thing to do is to give up the search for transcendence as a myth and surrender oneself to some present and quite physical experiences.
I've all but given up on good things happening for me in this living hell called life.
After all, as Paul writes in Romans, «He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all» how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things
In other words, if the church has lost its purpose, the best thing may be for it to give up its facility and let somebody with a purpose use the space for the glory of God in a new congregatioIn other words, if the church has lost its purpose, the best thing may be for it to give up its facility and let somebody with a purpose use the space for the glory of God in a new congregatioin a new congregation.
Ephesians 5:25 - 27 ESV — Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
The times I have gone out and given blessing bags to the homeless and prayed with them have always ended up blessing me in the end... one in particular was an elderly man who when we gave him a hug... oh man you could tell that was the one thing he really needed... He just began to weep... I would suggest getting outside your comfort zone and do it... I promise you you will not regret it!
Nevertheless, I will order Jacobsen's book to see what he has to say, even though I've pretty much given up on finding answers to these sorts of things in books.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, 26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.
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