Sentences with phrase «living in a profitable way»

So, for example, if your hear a pastor saying, «You have to take up your cross daily and follow Jesus in order to go to heaven when you die,» you can look in the text he is preaching from (maybe Matthew 16:24 - 26 or Luke 9:23 - 26), and see that Jesus is talking about saving your life (which is NOT the same thing as receiving eternal life) by living in a profitable way here on earth (cf. Luke 9:24 - 25).

Not exact matches

So in the end, it seems that 2 Timothy 3:16 is saying that Scripture is the voice of God, the breath of God, even the whisper of God into our lives in a way that makes it profitable even for us today.

The ideology devoted to encouraging consumption wants to shrivel our imaginations so that we can not conceive of living in any way that would be less profitable for the dominant corporate structures.

Determined to start a successful business and help cultivate a better way of life for conventional essential oil farmers in disadvantaged Indian villages, Mudar began the enormous task of organizing these laborers and directing them toward a more profitable agricultural pursuit: growing certified organic plants, which by their very nature command higher prices than their conventionally grown counterparts.

Well - intentioned but outraged in only a general sort of way, The Whistleblower tells the story of how the United Nations, the United States State Department, and a private military company (The name of the real - life counterpart has been changed in this telling) worked in tandem with different motivations (survival, to avoid blowback, and to maintain a profitable contract) in an attempt to hush up a sex trafficking scandal in Bosnia - Herzegovina in the years after the Bosnian War.

I wanted to comment on an another limiting thing that stands in our way: the misconceptions about marketing: «The marketing is always about fooling the people», «If the piece is good it does not need any marketing (it sells itself)», «I don't have money to invest in marketing campaigns», «When you live from the sales of your art, you'll inevitably will end up doing what's profitable and your art will be corrupted»... I am not inventing them!!

This show covers the importance of integrity in a landlord's life and is filled with actionable tips for dealing with tenants in an ethical — yet profitable — way.