Sentences with phrase «given purpose by»

Mimika is passionate about empowering and equipping others to fulfill their God given purpose by sharing the message of God's love and grace with a world lost in negativity.

Dogs 4 Disabled Veterans would like to help lower the numbers of euthanized dogs and give them a purpose by bringing them together with disabled veterans who desperately need them.

«We are taking cutting - edge technology fresh out of research labs and giving it purpose by applying it to real - world problems of enormous importance for access to justice.

Not exact matches

For all the problems under Jung's watch at Avon, she did articulate a powerful purpose for the company: that Avon empowers women around the world by giving them an earnings opportunity.

Given how far the pendulum has swung, Levy believes it's time to reassess what we accomplished by removing the public purpose requirement and making the corporate structure so easy to access and maintain.

But companies without an inherently inspiring mission can give millennials a sense of control and purpose by increasing transparency and demystifying bureaucracy.

From the beginning, Apple has employed its own computers for technical purposes, from quality control on the production line (every completed micro system is given a final check by an Apple computer) to software evaluation.

No warranty, express or implied, as the accuracy, timeliness, completeness, merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose of any Moody's credit rating is given or made by Moody's in any form whatsoever.

The firm, created for the sole purpose of lobbying Taseko to replace two directors and give it a say in key company decisions, had no choice: by the meeting's cut - off date for advanced voting, with 50 % of the votes in, shareholders had voted a resounding 94 % against the dissident's proposals.

However, given the uncertainties caused by the financial crisis, the Harper Government introduced the «risk adjustment factor» in its October 2010 Update of Economic and Fiscal Projections, whereby the average of the private sector economic forecasts for nominal GDP was adjusted downwards for fiscal planning purposes.

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I understand your article Kerry and how family can be and should be a support in birth, in living and in death, however so many people on this earth do not get to experience that... so many times families are torn apart or kids are abandoned and marriages ruined by one thing or another, so we must realize who gave us life, what purpose he gave us life for!

When you read through the Bible chapter for chapter one will get a broader view or the full context about what happened, maybe where it happened why it did happen and for which purpose it happened but: «All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:..»

At one point, for example, Carter describes beautifully the creedal portions of the Catholic belief in the sacraments, only to end by claiming that «the entire purpose of the sacraments was to give an outward sign of belief.»

For this purpose, they escalated the consequences of rudeness to bring it into categories that were already given serious attention by the law.

Urban Eagles teaches them that God has a plan and a purpose for their lives by pointing them to Jeremiah 29:11: ««For I know the plans I have for you,» declares the Lord, «plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

The modern study of economics was started by Adam Smith, a Scottish philosopher who emphasised the practical and gave almost no thought to men's higher purposes.

The third phase of the Emmanuel program consisted of the «friendly visitors,» whose purpose was «to give to the environment of the patients care similar to that provided for their bodies by the physicians, and for their minds by the clergymen.»

Rather those who do so, believe in reason and hope and purpose and are given strength to endure by faith and appreciation in something greater then ourselves.

Wendy and I want to thank everyone who participated in the Change Their Story campaign, either by giving money or by becoming aware of the child sex slavery problem here in the United States and purposing to get involved in some way in the future.

More was a man who stood by his principles in an issue unworthy of martyrdom, while Bonhoeffer stood to the death for a purpose worthy of giving one's life — to rid a country of tyranny.

«You will know them by their fruits,» said Jesus, and the fruits of continuing acts of self - commitment are plain in lives made whole and right, given purpose and meaning.

In order to understand the simultaneous givenness and otherness of purpose, one may have two options: first, sometimes my own purposes conflict and I am at odds with myself, and sometimes this conflict can not be resolved except by giving up one purpose or the other.

But if we are concretely impeded by something in what is immediately given, the otherness of purpose, then is this otherness the purpose of some being beyond what is immediately given?

God knows us only by inference and construction, and our purposes only as an otherness of purpose in what is given to God — in their disvalue, their fallenness.

In particular, the denial that epistemology is wholly prior to ontology; the denial that we can have an absolutely certain starting point; the idea that those elements of experience thought by most people to be primitive givens are in fact physiologically, personally, and socially constructed; the idea that all of our descriptions of our observations involve culturally conditioned interpretations; the idea that our interpretations, and the focus of our conscious attention, are conditioned by our purposes; the idea that the so - called scientific method does not guarantee neutral, purely objective, truths; and the idea that most of our ideas do not correspond to things beyond ourselves in any simple, straightforward way (for example, red as we see it does not exist in the «red brick» itself).

The idea of a God who not only sympathizes with all we feel and endure for our fellow men, but who will pour new life into our too languid love, and give firmness to our vacillating purpose, is an extension and multiplication of the effects produced by human sympathy.

The purposes of the Law were brought to an end by the coming of our Life giver, who offered himself in place of the sacrifices in the Law, and was led like a lamb to the slaughter in place of the lamb of propitiation... He gave his blood for all mankind, so that the blood of animals should not be required of us.

But I would just mention them, namely the science - based technology which gives power to humans to control and engineer with material, social and even psychic forces to achieve purposes and goals for the future chosen by humans; the revolutionary social changes produced by the revolts of the poor and the oppressed in all societies; and the break - up of the traditional religious integration of societies and their reintegration by the State.

That was the dilemma after praying and seeking the Lord he shows me a couple of things one is God calls the shots not satan satans demons bow to Gods authority and must get his permission so they beg Jesus to send the demons into the pigs.Jesus allows it so we can see satans purpose is always to destroy life.God is still the same yesterday today and forever he is the giver of life.We do know that the pigs were owned by the gentile nations and may well have been offered or about to be offered to there gods which would mean they would belong to satan.Like the example Jesus said about taxes should he pay them and he said give to caesar what is caesars.Or the other option was that it showed Gods mercy to the man that had been healed by delivering him of the demons and he was also protecting the people in the area from the influence of the demons.So God is still the same he is unchangeable and definitely not bipolar.I would say if anyone was bipolar in this situation it is David and he like us struggled with the same choice to walk according to the flesh or walk according to the spirit of God.brentnz

Our purpose was to encourage New York City to give permanent recognition to its Muslim community by adding two holidays observed by Muslims to the public school calendar: Eid ul - Fitr, which celebrates the end of Ramadan, the sacred month of fasting and Eid Ul - Adha, which celebrates the end of the Hajj, the yearly pilgrimage to Mecca.

It may be insight into the divine mysteries, the nature of Ultimate Reality, and of the laws governing the existence of the cosmos, of society, and of individual lives; or the gift of restoring into wholeness broken physical or spiritual health; or the ability to develop, by teaching and in other ways, the hidden possibilities in one's fellow men, and to give direction and purpose to their lives.

Sandel contrasts this «voluntarist» view with a «cognitive» one, in which «the ends of the self are given in advance... [and] the subject achieves self - command not by choosing that which is already given (this would be unintelligible) but by reflecting on itself and inquiring into its constituent nature, discerning its laws and imperatives, and acknowledging its purposes as its own.»

29 This generalization is possible because of the specific content he assigns to the christological aim: «The aims given to Jesus and actualized by him during his active ministry were such that the basic vision of reality contained in his message of work and deed was the supreme expression of God's eternal character and purpose.»

The intention of divine purpose and meaning was frustrated by pride, by the rejection of given order.

Arguing that «the marriage institution did not develop to deny dignity or to give second class status to anyone,» but rather «to serve purposes that, by their nature, arise from biology,» attorney James J. Bursch described the push to legalize same - sex marriage as the desire to «take an institution that was never intended to be dignity - bestowing, and make it dignity - bestowing.»

To cite two texts: In a 1929 article, «Birth Control: The Perverted Faculty Argument», Henry Davis says, ``... the contraceptive act between a husband and wife is mortally sinful, chiefly, it would seem because it is a grave abuse of a faculty, a gross perversion of a means — the act of marital intercourse - which is given by Nature, that is, God, to man for the immediate purpose of generation».

In the area of Gospel and culture, in contrast to the basic understanding of the Gospel as represented by western missions, which was to all intents and purposes a non - negotiable given, the evangelicals speak of the necessity for churches in the non-western world to find indigenous expression of Christianity in ways appropriate to people's culture and traditions.

He writes, therefore, to»... insist and protest in the Lord that you must give up living like pagans, for their purposes are futile, their intelligence is darkened, they are estranged from the life of God by the ignorance which their dullness of heart has produced in them.»

Instead, I am calling the church to fulfill the mission and purpose given to it by Jesus Christ.

The purpose of Christ's death, according to Mark, is «to give his life a ransom for many»; (Mark 10:45) his blood is the «blood of the covenant which is shed for many»; (Mark 14:24) yet Mark does not elaborate the principle or explain how it was that «the many» were to benefit by Christ's death.

Even the humbling of sinners by the revelation of God's judgment and wrath against sin has as its purpose the religious awakening of sinners that they might be drawn toward the self - giving goodness of God revealed in Jesus Christ.

True peace is achieved only by living in conscious connection to our Environment, to Christ our Bread of Life, the Prince of Peace: synthesising all the elements of human life around the Person who gives them existence and purpose in the first place.

By giving the alcoholic a purpose in living, a sense that he is an important part of a God - given plan to help others, one provides a positive reason for not drinking.

Man is a meaning - giving animal; can it be that he is also an animal who is found by meaning — meaning that illuminates his darkness and gives dignity and purpose to his little day in this vast world?

He gave up his project of marriage, became a priest, founded at Jerusalem, where he went to dwell, a mission of nuns for the conversion of the Jews, showed no tendency to use for egotistic purposes the notoriety given him by the peculiar circumstances of his conversion — which, for the rest, he could seldom refer to without tears — and in short remained an exemplary son of the Church until he died, late in the 80's, if I remember rightly.

Who are we to judge what God does or allows he has his reasons who can fathom his ways he sees the end from the beginning and is not limited to time or space like we are.Does God want anything the answer is Yes he wants a relationship with us that is why he sent his son because he had a purpose in creating us.However the wages of sin is death in this scripture alone regardless of what happens here we all deserve to die God could have wiped us all out with another flood for who of us is worthy.It is by grace that we live and yes bad things do happen to good people just as it does for the wicked is it to test our faith i do not know but i do know that God gives us the grace to endure through trials and difficulty and that all things do work for Good if we love him..

If we look at these two examples there is a common thread - the technology appropriated by the culture gives expression of that culture and, in the case of the Coke bottle, the technology may even be used for purposes other than its original intent that give expression to the culture in which it is embedded.

It needs laymen who are called by God for the purpose, trained with all the wisdom and sophistication experience can give, and who are willing to take the risks of using the forms of power available to them to do the works of love.

But James gave Royce's idealism a pragmatic twist by pushing Royce to ask not what the source of thought is — the old bogeyman of epistemology — but what purpose thought serves.