Sentences with phrase «means of your story given»

Your piece of writing can dwell on any theme, topic or concept presented by means of your story given your personal narrative essay.

Not exact matches

When assessing the value of a story, consideration is given to those that are consumer - friendly and still maintain the integrity of the show — meaning, don't be overly promotional.

If Jesus existed (and that is not a given since his name means «salvation,» he's probably an allegorical character), and if the stories about his visit to Jerusalem early in the reign of Pontius Pilate are true, he died because he was an anti-Roman insurgent, probably involved in a Zealot uprising over the use of the Temple treasury to finance the construction of an aqueduct.

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

I mean what I say about walking the line — totally giving you the benefit of the doubt and the right to share your story, and considering Tony innocent» till he's proven guilty in... I don't know what.

It wasn't just about the subject matter — although it's tricky to write about such a tender and intimate time in a person's life, to tell your own story while still holding space for stories that are so different than your own, to attempt to shepherd people well in the liminal spaces of their faith journeys — but it was also just the season of life with being pregnant with our fourth and then giving birth and suddenly having four tinies between the ages of 9 and newborn meant I had a lot less time with a lot less energy (and even less sleep!)

Hauerwas and the other essayists are on firmer ground when they write of the importance of holding on to the Christian story, which gives meaning to individual stories and provides «rich resources to make possible friendship between the elderly and, perhaps most important, becoming and remaining friends with ourselves as we age.»

Thus, like Luke, Matthew embodies in a Resurrection story the conviction of the Church that the raising of Jesus from the dead, as the Lord of all men, meant that its task must be to witness to him and to preach him as Lord to all the nations, although, as Acts shows, the realization that the gospel was meant for all nations, and not only for the Jews, came gradually as a result of further revelation, and could not have been an instruction given at Easter.

If you choose to give a book full of old stories weight and meaning in your life, more power to you!

These characters and their stories contribute to the stream of meaning that gives order to our world and that poses the possibility of a new, more adequate world.

This correlation between little story and big story, between life story and the story of the universe, is fundamental to the whole storytelling enterprise as a way of giving meaning to man's life.

The Gospels end with the resurrection of Jesus; and it needs no great penetration to see that their whole story is leading up to this conclusion, which alone gives meaning to it.

Each story gives the reader a tangible experience in what it means to step into the Kingdom of God in a very real way.

They know that religous sectarian myths explain and give meaning to their lives and that life is not all about them, that there is a bigger story and that the whole purpose of the journey is to find our place in that Big Sstory and that the whole purpose of the journey is to find our place in that Big StoryStory.

«A devotional reading of the story considers it to be an overflowing container of life - giving meaning and, as such, engages in an imaginative interaction with it,» he writes.

Luke valued these synchronisms not only as a means of giving his narrative a chronological and geographical orientation, but also as a way of expressing his conviction that the story he is about to tell has a meaning for this world.

Some texts — like the story of the donkey — have to be tortured in order to yield the desired meaning, though given the pervasive interest in deliverance, any passage that can be linked, however tenuously, to «loosing» is too good to be ignored.

but thats not what i'm talking about... i am discussing the god you claim to worship... even if you believe jesus was god on earth it doesn't matter for if you take what he had to say as law then you should take with equal fervor words and commands given from god itself... it stands as logical to do this and i am confused since most only do what jesus said... the dude was only here for 30 years and god has been here for the whole time — he has added, taken away, and revised everything he has set previous to jesus and after his death... thru the prophets — i base my argument on the book itself, so if you have a counter argument i believe you haven't a full understanding of the book — and that would be my overall point... belief without full understanding of or consideration to real life or consequences for the hereafter is equal to a childs belief in santa which is why we atheists feel it is an equal comparision... and santa is clearly a bs story... based on real events from a real historical person but not a magical being by any means!

The images, stories, and words of Scripture so permeated my life that they gave meaning and direction to my own story and helped me make sense of things.

It is the element that gives shape and meaning to the rest of the story of God's ultimate purposes.

Othello gives an account of wooing Desdemona by means of the stories he told of perilous adventure and suffering in exotic lands: «She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, / And I lov'd her that she did pity them.

(I couldn't tell another person asking for some money to feed their children that we cant give them anything (because its policy) when we have 6 plasma screens hanging on our stage — I know the story of the costly perfume etc but I don't think this means that it is OK to have expensive toys and NOT look after the poor).

And like Genesis, it is a story told not out of academic interest in recovering the distant past and retelling that past for its own sake alone, but because the subsequent scenes of that history, including every «present» scene, are given sense and meaning only when viewed against this formative, exciting, and in every way remarkable first scene of the Exodus events.

For the rest, we can only suggest that thirst must often have been a critical problem in the wilderness years; that names of people and places were subjects of acute interest because the name was deemed to be appropriate in meaning to the object named; that Israel may, therefore, on occasion have renamed a site (or, by a greater or lesser modification in sound, given the old name a new, Hebrew meaning) significant for her own experience there; and that Massah and Meribah represent the merging of two similar stories.

the bulk of the immaterial comes in fact out of Israel's ancient past, transmitted first orally and given... written formulation (first) by the Yahwist... Nor do we mean to say, then, that the story of Joseph came into being as a messianic message with the intention of treating Joseph as a messianic figure.

One meaning of the story is that our immediate world is a gift freely given by ultimate reality (Yahweh), and that our response to this gift should be one of gratitude and stewardship.

«To have Greg Louganis back in USA Diving and just being an athlete mentor means a lot for all of us athletes to know that we have an Olympic legend just giving us his wisdom, sharing his stories and who better person to have than Greg.»

I mean we've given ownership of one of our largest ports to the Chinese on a 99 yr lease FFS, and the only reason they don't own a majority of our Telco is the media got wind of it and ran the story and the politician who originally signed off on it realized that it's not a very smart career move that close to an election

It's a step up from the lower middle class that I started life in, so don't give me your sad sob story about being born into a family of modest means.

Not sure, if this is undetAnd, labour spent more than the Tories in 2005 75 % of labours spending in 1997 came from the private side, and recall 1979 when the closed shop meant everyone had to joina Union, that union had to give money to the labour party, we knew the next election would be the most vicious since 1992 ′ we win the campaign, lost the election that time, The Tory press isn't as strong as it was then, the tories haven't got lost of «extremist» stories about labour they had thrn to smear us now, They're a smaller party not just cos of Ukip, But labour has a lot of keen strong members, and it'll come doen to 70 or so marginal seats what happens, while not losing our working class votes in Newcastle, birmingham Luton Rotherham, Scotland, and if they're not abstaining, or voting Ukip, we have to ask why they're voting tory

All of which means that story number 2 about Henry Kissinger in a music video for arthritis research is of course TOTALL... Y BOGUS; however, this years Nobel Peace Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus, the creator of the Grameen bank that gives out micro-loans really has launched a music video aimed at raising money to build eye hospitals in Bangladesh.

All of which means that story number 1, about intelligent design advocate Ben Stein giving the commencement address at the University of Vermont, is TOTALL....

And in what some might consider a miracle — or just a made - up story — we managed to locate questions that the «late Dr. Adam Oransky, who gave his life rescuing six frostbitten Sherpas from an ascent of the Catskills without oxygen last August,» according to Yosemite's editorial, meant to ask Spears.

There are countless examples of people who have decided to give their biggest challenges a new meaning, but for me, the most inspiring story is that of Nelson Mandela.

My test showed T was at 200 and my doc would not give my a scrip for trt said it would make my mean and angry, also had a pounding heart, felt like it was coming out of my chest,, long story made short went to another doc, got my script and in 3 days my heart stopped pounding after 3 months strength has came back along with more energy

In spite of some «horror stories» that have sprung from adult dating online, that doesn't mean that it's not worth giving it a shot, all it means that while that «perfect stranger» is trying to sweep you off your feet — never let your guard down until you really know the person.

In «The Departed,» Scorsese once again puts us on the mean streets of... Boston... to tell the story of Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio), an undercover cop given the difficult and dangerous task of getting tight with Irish mob boss Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson).

Whatever Life of the Party needs its star to be, it gives us — frumpy, hot, weird, normal, kind, mean, humiliated, heroic, limber, uncoordinated, sexy, unsexy — in the desperate hope that you'll latch on to some nugget of McCarthy - patented brazenness and you'll laugh, as if story and cohesion meant nothing.

The teens I know accepted the combat as a given, while their elders, bewildered, and looking for a little meaning, interpreted the story as a representation of how kids felt about the competitive traumas of high school; or as a metaphor for capitalism, with its terrifying job market and winner - take - all ethos; or, more simply, as a satiric exaggeration of talent - show ruthlessness.

The film follows Tomas over twelve years in his attempt to give his life meaning again, just as much as it follows Kate and Christopher until the latter is 17 years old and finally decides to face the man he met only once before, on that fateful evening... Every Thing Will Be Fine carefully and precisely tells a story of guilt and the search for forgiveness, and the fact that it is not time that is a great healer but the courage to face up to things and to forgive.

Carey Mulligan's wardrobe was far too bright, and far too fashionable (for the period) given the setting was Dorset - «200 miles from London» - and in those days several days» travel away - and she was supposedly of very limited means at the start of the story.

The only praise that I can give the film is that setting most of the story in Gnarnia was a good idea, as being in a fantasy land means that most anything can happen.

Blunt Force Trauma has so much potential, yet this slow burner falls into the trap of a clichéd Hollywood love story, intertwined with two people both wanting to give meaning to their futile lives.

I suppose that, given the talent of all involved, that the story isn't meant to be taken strictly at face value.

Unlike many other building games that means there is a full - blown world - saving story - driven adventure plot, but if you just want to create things Dragon Quest Builders gives you a decent amount of freedom to do that too.

The story of a journalist Chuck Tatum (Kirk Douglas), who is stuck in a rut until he comes across a disaster that gives his life meaning.

The film attempts at being a meditation on growing old, and what it means to different people at different stages in their lives generally ring true.Various dream sequences, including a cameo part for a «Miss Universe» played amply by Madalina Ghenea, give us a sense of Fred's insecurities despite his outwardly confident manner.But it is in the relationships where the story doesn't feel so true - and Harvey Keitel's character feels particularly under - done.

All the bright lights and big stars seem meant to serve as background to the story of Trumbo's blacklist years, to give a sense of when and where he worked.

Books are, in general, driven largely by characters and background story, which give a depth of understanding and meaning (when done right) to the events that eventually come into play.

She was the phantom thread that was meant to not only finish the garments of Reynolds life, but to seal in his story by giving him a story to tell.