Sentences with phrase «if people in his culture»

There are so many registrants at the brokerage, the salesman doesn't even know who owns the brokerage and doesn't care, stating that if people in his culture can't get a real job, they go into real estate; hundreds of them, perhaps thousands now grand - fathered, many well - educated.

Not exact matches

If a candidate makes it through a résumé screening and has survey results that suggest this person can fit into a role at Bridgewater, he or she then has a «life / culture» interview before possibly participating in a discussion group portion.

In the course of the fascinating discussion, which ranges from Houston's early computer obsession to his ideas about building a successful startup culture, Houston boils down his advice for ambitious young people into an incredibly simple if slightly quirky three - part formula: a tennis ball, a circle, and the number 30,000.

If you create a culture where people love coming to work and are moving in the same direction, you will land where you set your heights.

Stress to them that the culture and values are important, they're one of the main reasons people stay with the company, and if the candidate is serious about that culture and values then they'll have absolutely no problem fitting in and thriving in.

«If you put a lot of smart and able people in the same space, give them what they need and remove barriers, magic happens,» says Daniel Weinand, Shopify co-founder, and chief design and culture officer.

Trump is the absolute, sort of, final arch of celebrity culture that we saw beginning in 1984 when he rose to now, when the reality show ethos has just reached its apotheosis, if you like, and he is that person.

As planet Uranus makes a move, travel is in the stars and if you have a chance to mix and mingle with people from different cultures, you can progress in some way.

If you're hiring people to fit into what's actually an unscrupulous, harassment - ridden «bro culture,» odds are you'll be alienating many prospective employees who don't fit into the demographic boxes of young, white, and male — or those who simply prefer to work in a more professional environment.

«Most people think you should try to hire givers,» says Grant, «but the data suggests that if you want a culture of givers the most important thing is in fact to screen out takers.

People bring different things to the table, but if they all define success in a way that shares in your mission, values and culture, it will help fuel the fire for your company.

The phrase «social justice warrior» has become a pejorative, much as «PC culture» was mocked in the»90s — as if over-earnest young people are the worst thing.

Building a new business takes more than technological skills and creative genius — it needs people, and if you're going to create a great culture as well as a great product, those people need tending to in a plethora of different ways.

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In fact, the Tanach is very clear to the Jews that the only covenant they have (and will ever have) is the one pounded out between G - d and the Jews on Mt. Sinai (which, if you read the fine print AND the NT is allowed to be understood / interpreted by designated leaders in the Jewish society; Jesus believed those people to be the Pharisees and told his JEWISH followers to adhere to Pharisee teachings... the Pharisees were the honorable, compassionate end of the theology spectrum in the first century instead of the bad rap they get from a mis - reading of the NT (done generally with no comprehension of Jewish culture or historyIn fact, the Tanach is very clear to the Jews that the only covenant they have (and will ever have) is the one pounded out between G - d and the Jews on Mt. Sinai (which, if you read the fine print AND the NT is allowed to be understood / interpreted by designated leaders in the Jewish society; Jesus believed those people to be the Pharisees and told his JEWISH followers to adhere to Pharisee teachings... the Pharisees were the honorable, compassionate end of the theology spectrum in the first century instead of the bad rap they get from a mis - reading of the NT (done generally with no comprehension of Jewish culture or historyin the Jewish society; Jesus believed those people to be the Pharisees and told his JEWISH followers to adhere to Pharisee teachings... the Pharisees were the honorable, compassionate end of the theology spectrum in the first century instead of the bad rap they get from a mis - reading of the NT (done generally with no comprehension of Jewish culture or historyin the first century instead of the bad rap they get from a mis - reading of the NT (done generally with no comprehension of Jewish culture or history).

«R.M. Goodswell Christians would have you believe that they were singled out by the Romans... other cultures and peoples faired poorly when encountering the empire... heh... even being roman didn't buy you a pass sometimes in ancient rome... if they felt they needed fresh bodies for the arena, you became fodder.

And if burying bin Laden at sea and in accordance with Muslim law satisfied Muslims and indeed the rest of the world that's conscientious of other people's customs or culture, than so be it.

Even if the Bible doesn't condemn wine, wouldn't we be better off in today's culture — where it seems more people are likely to abuse alcohol than to enjoy it responsibly — to forgo it completely?

Our culture doesn't want to accept what is biblical, tithing especially, and actually we should be meeting daily as in Acts, not twice a week, but let me tell your living in dream world if you think people in the church are somehow serving away after they leave.

You're not helping people if you're not alienating them,» said Miller, the Gudorf Chair in Catholic Theology and Culture at the University of Dayton in Ohio.

Yesterday, when I spotted Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdene on the cover of People Magazine with the headline «THE HUNGER GAMES» in bold white letters, I couldn't help but wonder if Suzanne Collins set all of this up to remind us of how closely our culture can resemble that of The Capitol — what with our excess, our reality shows, our glorification of violence, and our compulsive need to shove every good story through our celebrity - obsessed media machine.

If you think about it today we use the work sodomite (I am not saying I do) in culture to indicate people who perform certain sexual practices.

First, if a congregation is even in the remotest sense Christian and not totally a reflection of the culture, its church musicians feel the gnawing sense that simply meeting people's needs is wrong.

These are the very energies that must be synthesised in a unity of wisdom if any absolute meaning and last goal is to be offered for human striving or affirmed of the human person in a modern culture.

But if such critique is to be effective, like all cross-cultural communication, it needs to be in terms the culture recognises and from people whom it is perceived appreciate and understand the culture.

I suppose unless I'm already a believer I will need to pay a believer a nice sum of money in order and take a class in order to understand why a covenant that carries the penalty of death if this god is not worshipped is changed because, help me here (well of course unless god can speak for himself - I guess I have to ask those who have studied his word that he gave only once 2000 years ago to another culture), so after this covenant he came down and became a man in order to give people grace so he doesn't kill them if they don't worship him?

Furthermore, this culture war has presented people like Justin, and people like Cindy — a mom who contacted Justin in a panic after learning her son was gay, knowing that her church was the last place she could turn if she wanted her son to feel loved and supported — with a dangerous false dichotomy: It's gays vs. Christians.

Though people may describe themselves by using terms like «gay» or «queer» which are commonly used in today's culture, as Christians who believe in man created in the image of God, we should ask if these cultural terms are, in fact, true ontological categories of the human person, in accord with the blueprint of human existence.

If people's taste in culture reflects their values, how many teenagers will value the self - centered and spiteful perspective that Swift embodied this year?

In hindsight we see that if the gospel had not been preached in terms of Hellenistic culture, it would not have won the minds and hearts of most of the people in the then - known worlIn hindsight we see that if the gospel had not been preached in terms of Hellenistic culture, it would not have won the minds and hearts of most of the people in the then - known worlin terms of Hellenistic culture, it would not have won the minds and hearts of most of the people in the then - known worlin the then - known world.

Hollinger thinks our intellectual culture would be healthier if we had today people such as Robert Ingersoll, a brilliant atheist who in the early twentieth century toured the country lambasting religion.

If we really follow Jesus, He leads us to love those that many of the religious people in our culture hate.

He spoke of the prestige of science in our culture and the corresponding lack of respect for religion («If it's a science programme it's a documentary, if the subject's politics there's a debate, but a religious programme, unless it's hymns for granny, will have people talking about their feelings»If it's a science programme it's a documentary, if the subject's politics there's a debate, but a religious programme, unless it's hymns for granny, will have people talking about their feelings»if the subject's politics there's a debate, but a religious programme, unless it's hymns for granny, will have people talking about their feelings»).

In those cultures where polygamy was common it was not always the consensual agreement many would like to believe and if you know people who grew up in those households you can here some serious stories of strifIn those cultures where polygamy was common it was not always the consensual agreement many would like to believe and if you know people who grew up in those households you can here some serious stories of strifin those households you can here some serious stories of strife.

Is it not at least equally likely that if you keep telling people that they lead meaningless lives in a meaningless universe you might just find yourself with — at best — a vacuous life and a hollow culture?

If you'd like to get together with serious - minded people who want to talk about religion, culture, and public life, please get in touch.

Lawrence K. Frank, a leader in the mental health movement has observed that if a community's mental health program is to draw on the strengths of our culture and to have meaning for the majority of people, it must be presented as more than a psychiatric proposal.

A different people in a different culture needs to develop different laws if they are going to curb the dangerous and selfish behavior of their own people in their own culture at their own time.

But we also have to decide if the people who hold such views can be protected by the so - called tolerant culture as they seek not just to hold those beliefs in secret, but also dare to utter them in public — even on a sermon tape fifteen years ago.

You've got it in one: it's a comparison to something «not that flattering» (obvious understatement: if we lived in a culture in which dead people and graves were seen as unclean, and I said that you are like a whitewashed grave, simultaneously calling you dead AND a hypocrite, i think you'd be pretty peeved).

Add to this mix a handful of international students, most likely from a Middle Eastern, Islamic culture or from an Asian society in which people deem it strange to share any religious conviction, and we have an assembly that we could address only if the miracle of Pentecost touched our tongues.

Although I am not too sure what the difference between the serbs and croats were in the Bosinan wars if it was not orthodox v Catholicism as I am not sure how else a divide between the people could be formed (the official croatian language is almost identical to the Serbian language (with a few exceptions) and the culture seems quite similar).

If they are from a biblically conservative tradition they are likely to use selected references to sexuality, marriage, and family to communicate the ideals of God in a way that will encourage and motivate people to strive for the ideal.6 This didactic use of the Bible fails to distinguish the radical difference between family life and the religious practices of ancient and modern cultures.

If we understand baptism as a «full identification» then passages like Romans 6:4 can have meaning and significance for all people in all cultures at all times; not just for the segment of the world that practices burial.

If culture is the way people think and feel and behave as a people, and if spirituality is the way we live out the life and teachings of Jesus in this particular culture at this particular time, then the questions for thinkers, writers, theologians, and religious professionals must become: What cultural realities are challenging the Gospel noIf culture is the way people think and feel and behave as a people, and if spirituality is the way we live out the life and teachings of Jesus in this particular culture at this particular time, then the questions for thinkers, writers, theologians, and religious professionals must become: What cultural realities are challenging the Gospel noif spirituality is the way we live out the life and teachings of Jesus in this particular culture at this particular time, then the questions for thinkers, writers, theologians, and religious professionals must become: What cultural realities are challenging the Gospel now?

It is my conviction that if a theologian doesn't know the culture and times well enough to speak and write in ways that people understand, then the theologian doesn't know the first thing about theology.

«That said, if the churches do not take the opportunity now to «advocate» and «teach» why same - sex marriage is wrong for everyone (i.e., harmful to children, to the couple, and undermining of a culture of marriage), religious people should not expect to find a lot of sympathy for their right to exercise their religious freedom to dissent from same - sex marriage,» Esbeck told CT. «In other words, church leaders no longer enjoy the luxury of not teaching biblical marriage, as much as large numbers of the laity don't want to hear it.

She didn't act as if hostile powers would somehow defeat the Holy Spirit, and she never allowed an ungodly culture to shake her: «Truth does not depend on the people around us, or the place we are in.»

I can't say for sure if I think being gay is a choice or decided by nature, but it TO ME it seems like most gay people come from a dysfunctional family or didn't fit in with their all american peers and found comfort in the gay culture.

If so, Christians and other religious people should view the situation realistically and give up on the cultural illusion that serious religion will just fit in with the common culture.