Except... real life conversation doesn't happen in text blocks.
Not exact matches
Shira Abramowitz, the director of content on the community team at Summit,
does this by framing event topics as if they're
living room
conversations.
You don't get included in
conversations about movies, trends, family
life — the world outside work.
Tailored beauty ads are unlikely to
do any harm (except perhaps to less digitally savvy lipstick manufacturers), but the idea that we may soon be
living in information bubbles so finely crafted as to suit our very personalities and bombarded with political messages designed to push our specific buttons, has worrying implications for civic
conversation.
Kurtz brings together eight to 15 clients for
conversations that focus on questions like: How
do you feel money influences your
life?
Playboy's decision to accept payments in bitcoin and ethereum doesn't
do much beside put its brand in the cryptocurrency
conversation, and make
life a little bit easier for users that prefer to pay with digital currencies.
In a blog post clarifying its policy, the company said its televisions
do not monitor
living room
conversations, but they
do send voice data to Nuance Communications, the recognition technology provider, to evaluate and improve the feature.
Some sports fans clearly relish the idea of being able to combine a love of football with
live Twitter
conversation — something that the service
does well around major sporting events.
From our first telephone
conversation, I knew Bonnie would
do an outstanding job she certainly
lived up to our expectations.
However, I
do understand the concern of the professor that the
conversation extend beyond the person's family into the subject of salvation and eternal
life.
When we reduce this complex and important
conversation to two «sides,» as though it were some kind of college football rivalry, we
do such an injustice to the Bible, to Christian history, and to the millions upon millions of real people whose
lives and whose futures we are discussing.
There's a way to
do it as a
life of invitation as opposed to seeing your changes as a need to slam doors in people's faces and shut down
conversations.
I have heard thousands of prayers in prayer meetings that are genuine, heart - felt, meaningful,
conversations with God about Who He is, what He has
done, and how we would like Him to help us
live life and serve Him better.
After only a few
conversations it was evident that a catechetical approach — one in which I would ask what an informant understood about some credal tenet such as the Trinity or salvation —
did not plumb the richness of that member's perception of
life.
I can't guarantee that you will like Holy Rollers, but I'm pretty sure it will start an interesting
conversation in your
living room, as it
did in ours.
So if that is the case, why
do I have such a humanitarian heart, compassion to those that are even of evil
doing, forgiving to those who
do wrongs against me, and why is my
conversations on issues in my
life with Christ the utmost civil and peaceful?
I would strike up a
conversation, then say «you don't know me but I'm a Christian and God is going to share with me about your
life» I don't mean simple things like «you have the flu» or «Headaches», but deep, personal things that others couldn't know or even guess.
It calls us to uncomfortable
conversations with people who don't look like us, talk like us or
live like us.
I didn't want to see him, but the Ammas and Abbas that I had spent all my time working on and with whom I had many
conversations on prayer kept saying, Look, the goal of the Christian
life is love of God and love of
The church needs to have a more critical
conversation about which parts of economic
life contribute to freedom and which
do not.
By entering into
conversation with texts from these traditions and considering perspectives largely forgotten by modernity, participants will discover truths that will enable them to
live better
lives and confidently propose alternatives to those in our age who wish to
do likewise.
We had a long
conversation before we went off to the meeting, and the maxim he gave for taking a decision in one's
life has stayed with me ever since: «Positive for peace» — that is,
do that which gives you the deepest peace in your innermost self.
If he wants to invite people to believe in Jesus for eternal
life, let him
do it in one of his numerous speaking engagements, or in personal
conversations with friends off the field.
They might argue even (against Paul) that
doing such things sends people to hell, rather than seeing references to the «Kingdom of God» or «Kingdom of Heaven» as Jesus used them, as being about out
lives here and now and what we might accomplish as we follow Christ (to which a «beneficial»
conversation is much more fitting).
With a few exceptions teachers and students
do not engage in a denominationally restricted discussion but participate in a Protestant and a Christian
conversation or debate about the ultimate problems of faith and
life.
«I don't know if it is going to become the paradigm for organizing the theological curriculum, but I
do know that the congregation is interesting enough, varied enough and goes deep enough, and has the kind of inescapable connection with the
living stuff of the church, that it can at least be the source of very interesting
conversations.
Yeah you're going to hell because you believe the Earth is older than 6000 years old... but the guy who commited sin all his
life, cruicified on the cross next to Jesus went to heaven after a few minutes
conversation with Jesus that didn't include how the universe was created.
As Christians, we strive to
live out a
life of worship in whatever it is that we
do — through our
conversations, our interactions with other people, the way we spend our free time and, of course, through our work.
I believe that God whispers to me that the Day Nursery I run from my house with my daughter is a church in His vision of Church — a place built on love, supporting staff children and families, yes a business, but one run for love, providing wages to
live, to support charities too and to enable me to have a break every now and then — but God is not yet overtly mentioned other than in 1:1
conversations where I share my faith (more than I ever
did in Church).
What was striking to the outside observer in these events was that the inevitable interdisciplinary
conversations dealt primarily with the transformations of traditional patterns of
life — transformations that seem to some so glacially slow that everything should be
done to speed them up, and to others so incredibly rapid that people and morality were getting lost in the swirl of change.
When you read the Gospels, how
does Jesus»
life and teaching specifically come into this
conversation?
The Faith Movement has large youth gatherings — but much of the real work is
done more personally — the eager questions asked after a formal talk, the sacramental encounter in the confessional, the one - on - one
conversations that run on late and tackle some of the great issues of faith and of
life's purpose.
This was before the pall was cast over social
life by the dreary anti-smoking orthodoxy, and I'm convinced that the enveloping smoke had much to
do with the liveliness of these
conversations.
A great
conversation to have early and often is, «So where
do you see your
life going?»
Not only will I never get to read most of them, but even if I
did, they wouldn't help me develop relationships or have
conversations with most of the people I interact with in
life.
And maybe one reason orthodox culture has lost its standing in the world's ongoing
conversation about how to
live well is that it
does not affirm this instinct as it should.
Yet outward
life aspects seem to show that I am
living more by the Spirit and in fact have had way more opportunities to have
conversations about how I think and decide what to
do in line with my connection with God.
I know you don't either, I am just saying that as people start to
live naturally with their neighbors, normal and natural
conversations seem to start happening.
But I like the way Jeremy and Bob start the
conversation out --- «
Do you know that Jesus gives eternal
life to all who believe in Him alone for it!»
Here's a few Mormon factoids (dem darn facts is really painful) 1) J. Smith was a convicted con - artist on numerous times (non-post Mormon cult creation) 2) He said God is 6» 2»
living on the planet Kalob on the other side of the galaxy (at the time the extent of The Universe was believed to be the Milky Way Galaxy — and oh, how convienient it could not be proven otherwise at the time) 3) Science proved since E. Hubble there are billions of galaxies (
did Smith's personal
conversations with Jesus and God limit to a narrow Universe?)
Despite his own monastic formation, this eloquent preacher to the turbulent, variegated «audiences» of the two Eastern capitals was certain that monks were not the best fitted for the role of priests, but rather those «who, though having their
life and
conversation among men, yet can preserve their purity, their calm, their piety, and patience, and soberness, and all other good qualities of monks more unbroken and steadfast than those hermits
do themselves.»
Over delicious Cuban fare at the IMF food court, our two - hour
conversation began with jobs and
life in DC, and slowly transitioned to
life dreams and the importance of
doing what we truly believe are important to us.
I should also make it clear that I don't befriend all homeless people, just the ones I pass on a regular basis because I feel like it's my duty as a human to extend any act of kindness I can — whether it's a big ass grin or a cup of coffee or an hour long
conversation on aforementioned bench in the dead of winter — to the people who appear in my
life more days than not.
Greg and Scott engage in a
conversation about the art and process behind producing a
live, weekly podcast show, plus divulges in some of the BBQ
do's and don'ts he's gleaned over the years.
The Portuguese tactician
did not go into great detail about what he said, but admitted he could not relay the
conversation live on TV because so much of it would be censored out.
Welcome to the internet mate, you cant really compare the two periods... don't worry these fans you speak of most likely wouldn't have these types of
conversations in real
life.
I want a frank, open, and honest
conversation with her to make sure I've not missed something but time is passing me by too fast and I don't want to go to my grave feeling I wasted my entire
life.
Having kids — what kids
do to an adult
life already in lotion, what they
do to a romance, to your couch, your car, your time, your money, most of all your art — had been the constant bass line thrumming through our
conversations in the months before I got pregnant.
Surely they would save
lives with these
conversations but
do they have the time?
After several
conversations and real -
life practice, when she comes crying to you down the road about one of these scenarios, you can empower her by asking her what she intends to
do to solve the problem.