Sentences with phrase «losing their son emilio»

Ana Rodriguez, founder of Miami - based Tribute Code, lost a son three days after childbirth.

Had he lost his son forever?

Mr. Adelson, who lost a son to a drug overdose, opposes the legalization of marijuana for any use.

It was a religious community and a bunch of loving people who helped Lucas deal with his CP and find meaning and joy in his life, and also helped a man who lost his son get through life in this cold and uncaring universe.

Later that day we met with a group called the Mothers of the Martyrs, women who had lost sons and daughters to the revolution and to the continuing struggle along the border.

It is characterized by its owner's generosity and mercy, which parallels that of a father who waits for his lost son, and a king who invites guests from the streets for the wedding banquet.

Crossing Church in Elk RIver, MN under Eric Dykstra, I believe this church to be a cult - one that I lost my son to for far too long, he is now «home» with his family, thank God!

Specifically, they wanted to know if God knew what it was like to lose a son.

While nobody wants to lose a son or daughter (or any family member for that matter), the pain of it would be significantly lessened, it seems, if we knew that we would receive our lost loved ones back within three days, and they would be fully healthy and whole and would never suffer or die again.

So when viewed from this perspective, the claim that God knows what it is like to lose a son seems rather hollow, does it not?

But even if this view is true, it still doesn't allow God to experience what it is like to lose a son.

So in this post, I will look at two traditional explanations for how God knows what it is like to lose a son, and I will also explain why I reject both explanations (which might also be why atheists and other people reject these explanations as well).

That is certainly true of this story, which explicitly incorporates the Prodigal Son parable on several levels, not only the relation of the fathers to their lost sons, but Kumalo as an elder brother who hates his younger brother, John, a prodigal.

Nevertheless, there are two popular answers I have heard which attempt to explain how God knows what it is like to lose a son.

In his commentary on these verses, Walter Brueggemann asks us to consider these sons of Abraham in contrast to Jesus» parable of the lost son.

Sometimes this question is asked this way: «How could God know what it is like to lose a son if He knew Jesus was just going to rise from the dead three days later?»

Furthermore, even when parents know they will be reunited with lost loved ones in the future, Jesus was only in the grave for three days, while parents who lose a son or daughter have to wait the rest of their life.

Are you aware of any other explanations that Christians sometimes give for whether or not God knows what it is like to lose a son?

After all, He also knows what it is like to lose a son.»

«What do you mean God knows what it is like to lose a son?

Furthermore, the «older son» is the worst kind of «lost son» because we think we have stayed with God our Father, when in reality, we have gone into the far country of religion, which allows us to look down our self - righteous noses at everybody else who is not good enough, smart enough, or disciplined enough to truly live for God.

They had eternity together before God lost a son, and eternity together afterwards.

We are like His long lost son.

The older son is a lost son as well, and he too has turned away from his father.

Oh, we're in the far country, and our wanton living looks different than it did for our younger brother, but we are lost sons nonetheless.

But there is no such statement after the parable of the lost son.

I mean, Rick and Kay Warren [the pastor of Saddle Creek Church and his wife who lost their son Matthew to suicide] are an incredible example of choosing to use their platform, their audience, their voice to say, «Hey, this conversation needs to be had.

If you look at Jesus» stories, He talks about lost people, lost coins, lost sheep, the lost son.

This is radical statement, but that is what the parable of the lost son teaches us.

More like a fast than a feast, it bears little resemblance to the meal which the father prepared for the lost son.

The Parable of the Lost Son in Luke 15 indirectly answers this.

When the father, who has been waiting and watching, catches that first distant glimpse of the returning son; the father rushes out to retrieve the lost son, to embrace the found son, to shower the returning son with generous hospitality, and to begin the celebration.

The three stories of the Lost Sheep, Lost Coin, and Lost Son are not about evangelism, but about discipleship.

... I've never understood the book of Job... (G) od and satan make a bet... on a man... the man loses everything he tirelessly worked for, in the end (G) od wins... and although he's lost his sons, his wife, his financial security, and probably still has pustules all over his body, Job is happy too?

Later still, he almost lost his son and another daughter in another car accident.

And now she has lost her son as well.

It's been nearly a year since Saddleback Church pastor and bestselling author Rick Warren lost his son to suicide, and now he is calling the Church to begin to long road of clearing misconceptions about mental health and taking the plight of the suffering seriously.

I have lost a son.

He restores the lost son's self - esteem even though it has not been earned by any performance.

He lost a son to suicide and sought out psychics, seances, etc... Eventually he got lost in the wilderness of Judea on some kind of strange journey.

And the father in the parable, by adorning the lost son in the regalia of royalty, removes any need for shame.

When my wife and I see news reports about the deaths of young people, as we did after the grisly slaughter at Virginia Tech last April, we inevitably think back to June 1999, when we lost our son, Daniel.

The most common view on these parables in Luke 15 it that the lost sheep, lost coin, and lost son all refers to unbelievers, and Jesus goes out and finds them, and brings them back to Himself.

The same is true of the Lost Coin and Lost Son.

«Young man, you ever lost a son?»

He says he has finally finished mourning his lost son.

When the Pharisees and the Scribes murmured saying, «This man receives sinners and eats with them», Jesus in reply told the parable of the lost sheep, the lost coin and the lost son.

Since losing our son, we've hurt and recoiled from one another countless times.

If God had prevented World War I — a senseless war, the only real accomplishment of which was to plant the seeds for World War II — the overall balance of good and evil would have been greatly affected for the millions of people who lost sons, husbands, brothers, or friends in that war.

I lost my son when an avalanche swept him over a cliff.