Sentences with phrase «handing him books about»

One of my favorite examples she provided was her response when Michael moaned about hating to read: She cued into his interests, handing him books about sports and the sports section of the newspaper.

Not exact matches

For example, you might have an interesting conversation with someone about a book, and when you see them again a month later, you show up with the book in hand.

As William Strauss and Neil Howe put it in their seminal book Generations (almost anybody pontificating about generational cohorts is channelling Strauss and Howe, even if they don't realize it), «More than anyone, they have developed a seasoned talent for getting the most out of a bad hand.»

Traditional answers often focus on various sectors and involve more or less hand - wringing about their rise and fall, but according to the author of a forthcoming book on entrepreneurship and economy, there is another, better way to view our economy — as one single ecosystem, a sort of one - sector economy that interacts as a unit much like a forest and which should be nurtured as it grows and recycles itself.

«One could describe it as if Ikea grabs you by the hand and consciously guides you through the store in order to make you buy as much as possible,» Johan Stenebo, a 20 - year veteran of Ikea, wrote in his 2009 book, The Truth About Ikea.

While thought provoking, the real value of the book comes from the practical, templated framework the authors provide for designing your own category that includes a clear articulation of the problem at hand, creating a memorable name for a category, and developing a unique point of view about the current and future of the category.

«If the New Democrats are serious about their policy book, I don't think they're going to hand them over to Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein, just»cause,» says former party official Ian Capstick, who identifies himself with what exists of a right flank of the NDP.

If, on the other hand, he somehow got a glimpse of the fact that I am calling for a biblically grounded and distinctive Christian political philosophy, then he should have seen that I do not merely «come precariously close» to trying to do such a thing; that is precisely what the book is about.

Get a simple blank book and fill the first few pages with happy thoughts about your relationship, clippings of people from magazines (replace their heads with your significant other's), silly hand - drawn pictures, poetry, etc..

5 Vine Deloria, Jr., in his book, God is Red (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1973, 78), is very clear about the need for a new vision and understanding of the task at hand.

Apparently, you get Thom Rainer to write a book about it, and get 23 prominent church leaders and seminary presidents to endorse the book, and then price the book in such a way so that scared church leaders all over the country will buy hundreds of copies of the book so they can hand it out to all the people in their «Church Membership» classes.

Jen wrote one heart - needed, beautiful book about being God's hands through hospitality called Just Open the Door, and I highly recommend it.

We go to church, we participate in leadership meetings to shape the conversations of our communities, we pray for our friends, we make meals, I write posts and articles and books about God, we wash our minivans, we set up the sprinkler for the neighbourhood kids and hand out freezies to hopeful hands, we go to work, we talk about the people we know.

And I felt like Chris articulated much of how I feel about that little yellow book, and even my own ongoing work: I want to create the pipeline, to build the bridge, to hold out my hand and say walk a while with me and see for yourself.

Our «early traditions about Jesus» (to use the title of a little book by the late Professor Bethune - Baker) are not interested so much in what has been called the «biographical Jesus» as they are concerned with what Jesus did and said as he was remembered by those who believed him to be their Lord, the Risen Messiah, and who were therefore anxious to hand on to others what was remembered about him.

Then she claims some unspecified «simple logic of cause and effect» (talk about a hand - waving argument), wherein an effect must have a cause, but a first cause can just be, and must logically be the God of the book of Genesis.

black framed glasses... check Kafka book in hand... check PETA t shirt... check regurgitated rhetoric to spout about God not being real... check... oh yeah, I'm one kewl dude!!!!!!!

Once we grasp this, it becomes clear how we can accept with rational confidence the canon which the church hands down to us, even though many questions about the origin, circulation, and stages of acceptance of the various books remain unanswered.

On the other hand, W J. Fuerst writes: «It is fruitless to try to establish that this book teaches us about theology, or God's love, or even man's love.

if anyone wants to get an idea read the books (true story) about the master forger who conned the leaders into buying his forgeries, murdered several people who discovered what he was up to, and accidentally blew off his own hands with one of his pipe bombs.

The books andwebsites on pregnancy cheerfully describe the development of «the baby», my midwife talks about listening to the baby's heartbeat and at the 12 - week scan, the time at which the majority of abortions are carried out, I lay in a darkened room and watched as my baby's head and spine and tiny hands were pointed out on a screen.

A «cluster of monotheism's core ideas,» which Rauf short - hands as the «Abrahamic ethic,» drives the book's thesis, showing what's right with both Islam and the U.S. and offering suggestions about how American Muslims and the U.S. government may become forces of healing in the larger Muslim world.

Those who regard the Servant example as perhaps a little strained and antiquarian may prefer to think about other cases mentioned in the book: the shipping clerk who dispatches land mines, or the nurse who hands instruments to a doctor who plans to use them for an abortion.

I worry about turning the Bible into a children's story book, about helping the tinies to engage with Scripture and wrestle and ask questions, and then I can't bring myself to read about Abraham's near - sacrifice of his son, Issac, on the mountain, no part of me could ever understand that obedience, I admit, I'd probably go to hell before I'd raise a hand to hurt my child, I don't understand it at all.

... but since you seem to think that God gets angry, and when I look to see how American Christians (that is, Fox News Christians) treat the least of these, my bretheren, then maybe... MAYBE... I'll change my mind about Christians... or I might just stick to that goats - on - the - left - hand story in that Book written by that guy who claims to be Matthew...

I can not bring my self to follow a book who has one through the hands of some of the most evil and corrrupt men in history, or follow men who preach about helping the poor while sitting on thrones of gold.

Excuse me righteous - in - Christ, you commented that you «have friends and family that are Catholics and believe that they can pray to Mary and other idols that were hand made by men... see the book of Isaiah, it teaches about idolatry.»

I remember the way he would tilt his head when he smiled, and the way he used his hands when he talked, and the brilliant conversation about a book only a little while ago.

What odd items the mind latches onto in moments of grief: the tilt of a friend's head, the way he used his hands when he spoke, an awful meal shared a decade back, a conversation about a book only a little while ago.

I have friends and family that are Catholics and believe that they can pray to Mary and other idols that were hand made by men... see the book of Isaiah, it teaches about idolatry.

What I think I'd like to do is to write about it here in a series of posts, hand - in - hand with these homeschool book posts, taking on what I think he gets right as well as assumptions about children, parenting, and education with which I take issue.

This is new territory for me, doing a book - length study of Jesus and the origins of Christianity, but I have read everything I could get my hands on, weighed all the scholarly debates, and hope my book will be useful to the book - reading public in explaining what we can really know, historically, about Jesus.

Hope you don't mind me referring to the Quran about many issues discussed but this is supposed to be the way of our lives as Muslims and to us this is our guiding light and that on judgment date who has the Book held in his right hand, he would be rewarded for it, and those appeared holding Book in his left hand will be punished for it?

On the other hand, books about Pentecostal history written by Pentecostals are often «romantic histories» that have a tendency to provide little critical reflection on the movement.

On the other hand, by taking account in Critique et Religion of previous attempts at synthesis, he allows for the point about what may already be considered as dismissed and for the elimination of a certain number of false ideas which would compromise the research to which his books invite us.

From now on when people ask me about my faith, I will just hand them this book.»

Justin Rushbrooke QC, for Sir Cliff, said the phrases «it wasn't just the hand of God doing the touching» and «guilty in my book» were an indication of the reporter's «mindset» about the story.

I've handed this book so far to 4 people who needed to hear that they are understood, and to watch someone model the very path they are on and yet still talk about church in a hopeful way.

so excited about ur new book, cant wait to get my hands on it very soon... my favourite cuisine would be anything middle - eastern but probably lebanese as top choice!

I am super excited about the new book, and hopefully one day I will get a copy in my hot little hands!

Oh my goodness — I am SO excited about getting my hands on your new book!

I was already excited about her new book when Heidi published a recipe sampler, but now that reviews and posts are popping up everywhere, I can hardly wait to get my hands on it.

I don't think I'm ever going to have that kind of time on my hands again, but I do make a conscious effort to spend moments doing nothing — not planning, not worrying about my career, not cleaning the kitchen or alphabetizing books.

I hope you don't mind but I posted about you + your new book, which I can't wait to get my hands on.

Throughout the book I chaperone you with tips about how to buy in bulk and provide shopping lists to have on hand for store visits.

I know this first hand, because sometimes, when I'm feeling all alone on this side of the world, and it seems as if my friends back home may have forgotten about me, in the same way that one may forget the title of their favorite literature book, I'm reminded that it takes two hands to clap.

Although those unsavoury comments he made about Baggies owner Jeremy Peace didn't exactly put him in Tony Pulis» good books, at the start of the season it did appear that Berahino was going to be handed a second chance at the West Midlands club.

There's no «right» way to arrive at a price yet oddsmakers typically have their hands forced to an extent by the market Rather than going rouge, hanging a line at -2.5 for a football game when other books sit -3 says enough about taking a strong position instead of just using pick and then being shocked when every public bettor and professional buries PK.

This is hands down, one of the best books on breastfeeding that educates you about everything, from equipment to sanitization, from how to carry the baby to how to feed.

Babies can learn to imitate the kissing hand well before they understand the whole story, so it's a nice family book about love.