Sentences with phrase «made few»

Based on the distinctions you made a few days ago between preaching and teaching, would the «sermons» you're referring to here be preaching or teaching?

While of the other two great surviving missionary religion, one, Buddhism, has long been practically stationary, and the other, Islam, has made few if any major gains in the past hundred years, Christianity, in spite of the many obstacles which beset its path, is still spreading.

What would you recommend in regards to your put up that you just made a few days in the past?

I made a few friends over there, but none closer than a boy about my age named Ken, who was positively giddy about the idea of freedom.

We made a few friends.

It has been said that whenever some older theologians got to a hard place they simply quoted a few lines of Wordsworth or Tennyson, thinking that ended the matter; or they made a few biblical citations as if that were the complete answer; or (at worst), when the attack was most fierce, they used the word «mystery» as a kind of «escape - hatch».

In preparation for the release of A Year of Biblical Womanhood (Thomas Nelson, 2012), Dan and I made a few «instructional videos» that highlight some of the more humorous elements of the book.

Once you know, once you've seen, once you've made a few friends, it's hard to pretend that it's not real anymore.

Essentially, it is just another book about how a pastor took a struggling church, made a few tweaks, and it is now a thriving mega church.

No... it's the other way around... Roddenberry believed and made a few bucks off of the idea while he was at it.

UPDATE: I made a few changes to my depiction of Jesus» response to the woman based on Matt's suggestion below in the comment section, which you should definitely read.

But sometimes I get the idea that, particularly with the younger folks, it's become something of a fad - like, they've read one Shane Claiborne book, changed their Facebook profile to «Christ follower,» made a few protest signs, and called themselves pacifists, without really wrestling with some of the challenging implications of this position.

This is a video I made a few days ago.

So I copy - pasted it into Word, made a few tweaks, and voila!

Your babies are all sleeping in their rooms, the windows are open, your husband is waiting for you at home, he's made a few promises, and your hair still smells like pool water.

I've made a few mistakes.

Beyond that, I made a few simple suggestions on my blog a while back.

Woolman made few accommodations with life; he walked great distances rather than ride «on animals groomed by slaves or in commercial coaches whose teamsters drove the horses too hard.»

It was very slow work and made few converts, but the intention of the ministers and people remained steadfast.

The plain truth is that white theologians, even those of the social gospel period, ignored the situation of oppression suffered by blacks and made few and superficial connections between their theology and the egregious evils of slavery and segregation.

You know the posts I made a few weeks ago about what would happen if your church closed?

He was strident and made few friends, but he raised the cry in a way that Vanderbilt could not stifle.

Teens made few references to traditional religious concepts such as justice, grace or resurrection.

Now that they're suddenly saying it isn't a metaphor because the author of this article made a few giant leaps in logic when connecting recent scientific evidence to some cult that's been around for a few thousand years.

It's a busy travel season for me, so I read Christena Cleveland's book, Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart, over a period of several months and mostly on airplanes, where I suspect my frantic underlining and audible «amens» may have made a few of my seatmates uncomfortable.

She was home - schooled for most of high school and made a few small appearances in movies like The Squid and the Whale, but music is what really grabbed her attention.

Everyone knows Francis's statement that the Church can't be «obsessed» about abortion, Terry Mattingly notes, but pretty much no one — no one who reads The New York Times, say — knows about a statement he made a few days later to a group of Catholic gynaecologists.

If he has made a few donations than good for him.

Mitch Daniels, former governor of Indiana and now president of Purdue University, has been so accused — but not at all credibly — because of some remarks he made a few years ago in an e-mail, while he was governor, about the tired old ideology pedlar Howard Zinn, whose widely used book, A People's History of the United States, Daniels called «disinformation.»

One big mistake that I've made a few times throughout my investing career is selling great stocks too early despite believing in the underlying companies» businesses over the long term.

I've recently made a few changes and additions so I figured it's time for an update.

That's why I dedicated this year as Mastery of Fear, which I made a few decisions to put me in an «uncomfortable» condition intentionally, such as committed to work part - time (living on half of the salary) to push me really go out get clients and keep the side business running.

We want to be supportive of alternative Bitcoin implementations and the teams behind them, but we feel Bitcoin Unlimited has made a few poor technical decisions.

While speculator HG Vora made a few bucks on its less than year - old investment, the financial fate of its two buyers can only be guessed at.

excerpt: «My Indo - American friend made a few other observations about the coverage that we're seeing, which is that he's not actually being treated poorly over there, and it's more that certain politicians and business leaders don't want to be associated with members of the Indian Cabinet, which is controversial in large swaths of Indian society.

Yale University recently released their 2017 annual report for the Yale Endowment, and while normally this would pass without much notice they appear to have made a few waves by continuing an ongoing feud with Warren Buffett.

It is confirmed that 500 Million XEM tokens have been stolen from the trade, primarily by Bloomberg's tech reporter in Tokyo, Yuji Nakamura, who's attended the press convention and made a few vital posts that permit us to higher perceive what was occurring throughout the convention.

He certainly wasn't going to be diverted from his mantra of responsible growth, which made a few appearances throughout the call.

I also wish that I could have made a few extra bucks in college studying marketing by helping entrepreneurs.

We've made a few bets that relate to that.

I have made a few small investments in Apple, Chevron, Johnson & Johnson and Disney, through a friend that is a Broker.

I have never been even remotely an expert either on iron and steel production or on the Australian economy, but recent action in the iron ore markets and a vibrant debate within Australia has, in the past three weeks, set me up for several planned and unplanned meetings with Australians — some old friends, some fund managers and bankers, some government officials — who remembered some of the comments I made a few years ago about Australia and iron ore and who wanted to discuss future prospects.

Coursera spokesperson Arunav Sinha confirmed the company had «made a few changes to how we are organized including some leadership changes» at the CMO, CFO and GC positions.

«Fortunately, I made a few small property investments, which I was able to get a decent return on, so there was enough cash in the kitty to explore my options.

I think you made a few good points.

You forgot Volvo — it was founded in Sweden and made a few people very rich as well.

The «Oracle of Omaha» might have an unmatched investment record, but that doesn't mean he hasn't made a few mistakes along the way.

However, Donald Trump's recent comments on the federal government's unemployment data, so reminiscent of those made a few years ago by former General Electric chief Jack Welch, deserve a rejoinder.

Since last month I've only made a few trades.

However, because of certain adjustments that are made on a monthly basis our suppliers understand that a payment may be made a few days late.