We believe that the ultimate mission of the Church is to bring people
into a living relationship with God and each other, through Jesus Christ.
I will deepen the understanding of my incorporation into Jesus at my baptism and how this brought
me into a living relationship with all my fellow baptised in Heaven and on earth.
Through the Lord's Supper and through its teachings and its symbolism the Church strove to bring successive generations
into living relationship with its Lord.
Not exact matches
In the countless conversations I had with the younger Jerome, I was struck by their
relationship: how much Jerome appreciated his father's advice, really listened to it, and then in some way implemented it
into his business and his
life.
Bezos said that the
relationship between his work
life and personal
life is reciprocal, and that he doesn't compartmentalize them
into two competing time constraints.
When my clients started adding joy breaks
into their daily routines their income increased and
relationships improved as they cultivated a
life of happiness.
Though the Moscow - Islamabad rapprochement is in its infancy, and it is neighbor China that is filling the growing void left by the United States in Pakistan, a slew of energy deals and growing military cooperation promise to spark
life into the Russia - Pakistan
relationship that was dead for many decades.
Google's new social - networking endeavor is about trying to gain valuable insights
into people's
lives and
relationships.
Rather, Google's new social - networking endeavor is about trying to gain valuable insights
into people's
lives and
relationships.
Just like you can seal off a damaged or leaky section in a ship to prevent it from sinking, you need to isolate the different parts of your
life — your business, your
relationships, or your finances — so that they don't spill
into each other.
A look at how a food truck and a veterinary practice are making virtual
relationships online that translate
into real -
life dollars.
In addition, when we garden with others, and when we further enhance this activity through developing a community garden or donating some of our bounty to a food bank, we feel a sense of belonging; we bond with our peers — which in turn can lead to supportive, collaborative, and nourishing
relationships, both personal and professional; and we tap
into a sense of meaning and purpose in
life, by helping out those in need.
To the extent that the denominator is supposed to reflect an established standard of
living, other important considerations that mediate the
relationship between earnings and
living standards come
into play.
The latest pits his 61 - year - old daughter, Shari Redstone, whose
relationship with her father had run hot and cold over the years but who's recently worked her way back
into his
life, against two of her father's longtime friends and lieutenants, Viacom board member George Abrams and C.E.O. Philippe Dauman.
Tapping
into the Millennial generation as they begin their adult
lives, as with previous generations, is important for brands hoping to establish lifelong
relationships with their customers.
CETA will breathe new
life into our
relationship with Europe.
Another area where today's business investments have a direct
relationship to tomorrow's climate impacts is in long - term capital expenditures, which will
live well
into the middle of the century and beyond.
This is in part because people often self - select
into undergraduate and graduate programs that have social groups with interests closely aligned to their own, which generates both a higher level of interaction and longer -
lived relationships.
Looking
into their
lives, especially Laurie, my guitar teacher, they were often hurting due to the betrayal of their partner and insecure about the durability of their
relationship.
There are plenty of times in the Christian
life that we are called to invest and pour ourselves
into others without expecting anything in return, but the outset of a romantic
relationship is not one of those times.
The purposes of this
relationship are (1) the mutual loving support of husband and wife and (2) their loving service of
life by bringing children
into the world and raising them to be virtuous and productive.
Three Christian charities - HOPE, LICC and the Bible Society - came together to publish «The Servant Queen, and the King She Serves», which provides rare insights
into the Queen's
relationship with God and how it's affected the other aspects of her
life.
To maintain its dependency scam, revenue flow, nd unearned privileges and tax dodges, religion tries to force itself
into every aspect of
life when dying is a time to bask in the glow of loving human, real
relationships... and perhaps make a few apologies... like for wasting others; time with ignorant, self - servinge proselytizing.
The government doesn't need to recognize marriage (I don't give a hang if they don't recognize my
relationship with my wife); the government doesn't need to run public schools (and get
into the fight about whether evolution truly explains the origin of species and the origin of
life).
One man, now
living in a permanent committed
relationship, told of his struggles with guilt and self - acceptance and said: «Accepting Christ and becoming openly gay have changed my just plain sexuality
into love - expressive sexuality.»
Part of the shocking revelation that Jesus brought us is that God doesn't just want us to go to a happy, peaceful place, but that he's inviting us to enter
into a familial
relationship with Him and as His children we will
live with Him, do things with Him and and work with Him (and consequentially each other, forming a body that is One).
Far from surrendering to the self - obsessed therapeutic culture Hitchens decries, AA regularly brings thoroughly secular people
into an authentic personal
relationship with the
living God, and most of our meetings even close with a recitation of the Lord's Prayer.
A man is taken from among the people of God, transformed
into a
living icon of Christ and given back to the people in this new
relationship.
In a similar way, when we enter
into relationship with God who reveals Himself to us in Jesus Christ this will have real consequences for the way we
live our
lives.
The Fathers did not reflect on the exact causality of this process, but they constantly emphasised the fact of this
living relationship with Christ through «the mysteries» through which mortal men are incorporated — literally —
into the Divine
Life.
To the pain and sorrow and separation — death — so well known in this world, Jesus brought the possibility of
life with meaning,
life reconciled, that is, brought back
into right
relationship.
And there it remains, quietly weaving itself
into our pursuit of jobs, careers,
relationships and futures, and the entirety of
life itself.
Entry
into this
relationship of grace and faith involves the imitation of Christ, but this does not mean an imitation of the individual pattern of
life which was required of him by his unique vocation; it means the imitation of his total commitment to God, his obedience to God's will, and his attitude of unswerving love for others which was the fruit of his openness to God.
It is rather that in the incarnation of the Word of God humanity has been taken
into unity with God; human
life has been sanctified; and a way has been opened for all men in every century and in all circumstances to enter
into their right
relationship to the Creator (the
relationship of sons to their Father) through God's gracious approach to them in Christ and the response of trust and obedience which God in Christ evokes from them.
In acknowledging Jesus Christ as Lord, he acknowledges a new
relationship with
life into which he enters wherein he is enabled to receive
life as it is offered, as good and significant, and goes about man's proper business of
living it to the full.
Whether it's the athlete on the free throw line speaking truth to overcome the fear of missing the shot, the business executive repeating a helpful mantra before they walk
into a heated situation or a girlfriend repeating how worthy she is so that she can muster the courage to end an abusive
relationship, we all practice a form of self - talk in our
lives that helps us overcome the negative messaging we carry.
Healthy persons are spontaneous in their feelings, actively assume responsibility for their own
lives, accept mutual obligations in interdependent
relationships, are without emotional pretense, and are able to put themselves wholeheartedly
into the work, beliefs, and
relationships that are important to them.
It means inviting God
into the deepest parts of your heart, allowing His definition of love to permeate your
life and, in turn, your
relationships.
When things were rough in one
relationship, I was able to still engage in the rest of
life by simply putting it
into the proper box in my mind and leaving it there until it was time to address it.
But the truth is, when we only choose to engage in
relationship with people who are sure things, with people who fit easily
into our
lives, with people who don't require work, we lose something.
At the peak of that unfolding equation, matter is gathered
into ontological unity with directly created spirit to form human nature, which exists in direct and personal
relationship to God who is the
Living Environment of grace and providence for every human being and for mankind as a whole.
The group then divides
into two subgroups, led by the minister and her co-facilitator, for experiential and feeling - level sharing, including debriefing on such between - session assignments as: «Talk to three people about death, being aware of how they respond» or «Imagine that you have only a limited time to
live and try to say how this awareness influences your feelings about your lifestyle and present
relationship.»
There will be no future healing if a couple delude themselves, through a pastor's misguided attempts to provide loving support,
into thinking that their divorce is a momentary inconvenience which is best forgotten rather than a broken
relationship which will exert continuing influence on their
lives.
So the basic Christian affirmation is that God is both the creative energy in all things, whose sovereign rule includes the whole world in its sweep, and also the
living God who can and does enter
into relationship with creation.
If we face our anxieties in the context of an honest, growing faith and within
relationships of trust, it is possible to transform at least some of the anxiety
into motivation for
living life more fully and creatively.
While resolutions fail time and time again, start the year in pursuit of a
relationship that can bring wisdom
into your
life.
In taking this sixth step, Christians affirm that the «tendency toward the human and the humane (toward «Christ») in the ultimate nature of things» which has existed since the beginning of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order of
relationships just coming
into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of
life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestation.
I teach that evangelism is
living life as a relfection of Christ in such a way that we inspire those around us wither
into a
relationship with HIM or
into a deeper
relationship with HIM.
The point is that you're orienting your whole
life around a set of practices that puts you
into a kind of
relationship with the sacred, with God.
We have all entered
into relationships and decisions that have fallen apart and destroyed the
lives of people around us.