Sentences with phrase «mean today if»

How can captivity, a great biblical theme, have any meaning today if we treat incarceration as nothing more than «serving time»?

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That means they give executives the right to buy a number of the company's shares at today's prices, even if they appreciate in value in the near future.
If your company is operating the same way today as it did when it was first launched, then you are stagnant, which means you are losing business.
By pure logic, if the expected return, meaning the real cost of capital, is really 8 %, then today's P / E must be not the a sustainable number as the bulls argue, but an ephemeral peak that's set to fall sharply.
Its staff posed the following question: If the U.S. created a tax code that eliminated virtually all personal and corporate tax breaks, and also required that the plan be revenue neutral ---- meaning that receipts in 20 years had to match the numbers forecast today ---- how low could rates go?
If you can tweet today in 280 characters, maybe it will be much longer in a few months or by 2019, which means Twitter is really just another blogging platform.
«If equivalence plays a much bigger role than it plays today then we need enhanced equivalence, that means putting on the table how does this equivalence work,» he told Reuters during a visit to London.
The fact that companies today are building most of their value pre-IPO versus post-IPO (if they IPO at all) means that investors who don't have access to high - quality venture capital and other private opportunities are missing out on considerable gains.
«If your brand doesn't mean something to people, you are not going to thrive (or survive) on the Internet today.
There are no vacuums left in today's world of social media, which means that, if you're not talking about your products and driving the discussion as much as possible, someone else will be.
At the point the growth began to slow, the multiple would contract, meaning that even if its earnings do grow 600 % in the next few years, if it becomes subject to the law of big numbers - that ever increasing amounts eventually forge their own anchor - the result would be a market capitalization substantially similar to today, leading to no increase in the stock price over a long period of time.
yields will hit the highs on close end of the day... equity markets setting up to be slammed tomorrow maybe but today they have run over weak shorts in the face of rates... the federal reserve see's this and again will wonder if they are behind on hikes, strong data, major expansion in credit, lack of wage growth rising bond yields and ballooning debt... rates will go much higher and equities will have revelations as to what that means for valuations
If Jamie Dimon were in prison today for the crimes he committed in 2012 it would mean the nation was serious back then about the future good and welfare of society.
This means that if a two percent inflation target reflected a proper balance when it first came into vogue decades ago, a higher target is probably appropriate today.
While there is a strong correlation between growth in gross domestic investment and growth in real GDP, the slope of that relationship is only about 0.2, meaning that even if the growth rate of real gross domestic investment was driven from the recent growth trend of zero all the way back to the previous post-war growth rate of 3.5 %, the overall impact on real GDP growth would only be about 0.7 % annually, placing the level of U.S. real GDP about 2.8 % higher 4 years from today than it would otherwise be.
Longer loan terms mean lower monthly payments, which could benefit you today if your budget is already tight.
If the Zillow Home Value Index for your county is $ 215,000 today and was $ 210,000 yesterday, this means that a typical home in your area is worth more today than yesterday.
But combining longer life expectancy with low interest rates means that a person starting to save today would have to set aside much more to generate the same retirement income as a person who began saving 25 years ago, if both wished to retire at the same age.
That means if you take all the coins that are out there and you multiply it by the price of one coin you'll come up with about $ 70 billion in the price of one bitcoin today is about 4400 dollars or somewhere in that in that realm.
Well, to kick things off, it is important to mention the fact that during the last five years, bitcoin's value has increased with around 25,000 %, which means that if you would have bought the digital currency in the past, you may have been able to earn 250 times more than your initial investment today.
Fan counts mean little if there is no engagement so read these though and put them into action today.
This means that if you bought a T Bill which matures in one year, and pays an interest rate of 2 %, you would pay $ 98 today in order to get $ 100 back in 1 year.
If you are 30 years old today, that means your retirement dollars can be put to use for decades to build the kind of world you want to live in.
But what if the mean value for interest rates has itself shifted to a much lower level such that today's term structure is the new normal?
That means he needs to have about $ 800,000 in retirement savings to retire today and live comfortably if he's able to get 6.5 % yield off his nest egg each year.
That means if I had simply pressed the enter button, today I could sell all 100 bitcoins for $ 245,996.00, or the value of a nice house.
If you've got an investment property that you plan to sell and you know there'll be a huge capital gains tax bill coming up, tax - loss harvesting now when the markets are down means new, cheaper investments purchased today and a nice tax credit that can be used in the future.
Actually few months before what is happening now in my country I saw big flood flooding over the city but not in to my place of my living... although people were some screaming and some as riding it smiling but all were being washed away... then have asked a freind about it who said it might mean no much money or business will be coming to me which I doubted if it meant that, but today I know what it was about...!
If I were looking for a college today, it certainly would mean a lot.
If that is so it can mean nothing else but that he is in hell today and always will be, for if he could / would ever make into heaven by whatever means, it would certainly be «good» for him that he was borIf that is so it can mean nothing else but that he is in hell today and always will be, for if he could / would ever make into heaven by whatever means, it would certainly be «good» for him that he was borif he could / would ever make into heaven by whatever means, it would certainly be «good» for him that he was born.
Christian 7, If something has not been achieved today, it doesnot mean it is impossible.
the problem is that ppl read the bible thats been translated, if you realy want to know what was said youll need to study hebrew... every letter has a meaning... every word isnt a perfect fit for english,, theres nuances and cultural differences that youll find,,, its a whole new thing to go back and look at the bible through hebrew eyes,,, they arent required to look like us,,, were supposed to look more like them,,, yashua was a jew,,,, all the apostles were jews, yashua was sent to the lost sheep of the house of israel, not the gentiles, paul took it to the gentiles, and he never stopped being and living as a jew, the laws are very viable today, but they do nt give salvation, thats what yashua did...
If Jesus were here today, those analogies wouldn't need to be as gender - specific — whether male or female — for us to get their meaning.)
heres a holiday that has maintained its meaning thru - out the ages, why... the JEWISH have reverence for the past, its lessons and people that taught them, the events that shaped the jewish culture... most of the rest have nothing worth remembering besides there past and since thats not held with any amount of importance the future looks bleek at best... we are what we are because of yesterday, and tomorrow doesn't exist if today becomes our deathbed!
What would be the reaction today if we used ethnicity as a means of pressuring people to fulfill their pledge to the poor?
Though the Church can, for example, abolish certain existing prohibiting impediments to marriage, of purely ecclesiastical law, if it considers this advisable in the changed situation of today, it by no means follows that it would be equally possible for the Church to revalidate and sanction any invalid marriage whatever, if the Church were only rather more liberal and understanding.
So, my wise thought today means this: No matter if you change the name from leader to elder — the DNA of a person is the DNA.
If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century.
To believe in creationism today, however, is truly absurd, and shows that some people will believe in anything if they think it means they will live forever.
I have not denied any Christian doctrines, but I might not care to repeat some of them, unsure of what, if anything, they mean in today's context.
To be oriented towards the coming kingdom means that we live today as if we were already in the kingdom of God.
Theology, if it is to explore adequately the meaning of play and its relation to the sacred, must «study the various biblical traditions and engage in the systematic hermeneutical task of appropriating the meaning of the biblical message for today's world.
Materialism used to be a theory; in this integration with the West, it is a fact... Before and during 1989 there was a genuine spirit, a true reform light, and our church was filled by no other means than word of mouth... But today, even if we put out 1,000 posters, we would not get so many.
If the Hebrews were, in fact, a «serious people» who viewed leisure as «folly» or at best an «impromptu» respite, then the «systematic hermeneutical task of appropriating the meaning of the biblical message [concerning play] for today's world» would be difficult, if not impossiblIf the Hebrews were, in fact, a «serious people» who viewed leisure as «folly» or at best an «impromptu» respite, then the «systematic hermeneutical task of appropriating the meaning of the biblical message [concerning play] for today's world» would be difficult, if not impossiblif not impossible.
That was the dilemma after praying and seeking the Lord he shows me a couple of things one is God calls the shots not satan satans demons bow to Gods authority and must get his permission so they beg Jesus to send the demons into the pigs.Jesus allows it so we can see satans purpose is always to destroy life.God is still the same yesterday today and forever he is the giver of life.We do know that the pigs were owned by the gentile nations and may well have been offered or about to be offered to there gods which would mean they would belong to satan.Like the example Jesus said about taxes should he pay them and he said give to caesar what is caesars.Or the other option was that it showed Gods mercy to the man that had been healed by delivering him of the demons and he was also protecting the people in the area from the influence of the demons.So God is still the same he is unchangeable and definitely not bipolar.I would say if anyone was bipolar in this situation it is David and he like us struggled with the same choice to walk according to the flesh or walk according to the spirit of God.brentnz
If «church theology» means the theology expressed in the preaching and worship of most Christian congregations in this country today, then a Gestalt of church theology would be appropriate for conservative evangelicals, but not for us.
That is also what happened to me I am 12 and the devil put it into my mind but I know it's not true and don't think it is and I was so scared because it happened like 2 days ago and I realized the problem is that you have to ask lord to free you this is the devil trying to make you miserable you need to have faith today I asked god to forgive me because I don't know why it came into my head and I didn't think god loved me but I told my dad what happened and he said that it is I felt you say notice say it to someone that it's the truth that is what it means and I felt god in me today and he took away all my bad thoughts and now I know I am forgiven all you need to do is captivate those thoughts and say god free me because if you have committed the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit it's not that god doesn't want to forgive you it is that the person that has done it made up there mind and they don't want forgiveness.
The fundamental question that Bonhoeffer poses before us is «If religion is no more than a «garment of Christianity» which must now be cast aside because it has lost its meaning in a «world come of age», if the real problem facing Christianity today is not so much that of religionlessness, but precisely that of religion, then what does all this mean for the church?&raquIf religion is no more than a «garment of Christianity» which must now be cast aside because it has lost its meaning in a «world come of age», if the real problem facing Christianity today is not so much that of religionlessness, but precisely that of religion, then what does all this mean for the church?&raquif the real problem facing Christianity today is not so much that of religionlessness, but precisely that of religion, then what does all this mean for the church?»
Really, if he was genuinely, I mean genuinely grateful for being clean and sober he wouldn't be blaming everyone else for the problems facing the world today.
(It must be acknowledged, of course, that few, if any, when they recite the creeds today, mean exactly the same as their fourth - century Christian forbears did.)
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