Sentences with phrase «needs sacrificial»

On domestic affairs Labour needs a sacrificial lamb to show it is ready to make some tough decisions.

Even with an 8 man «pen, they'll be need a sacrificial position player on the mound at some point this season.

Not exact matches

Pastor Ryan Schneider, who married them and who leads a Bible study in which they participate, tells FCA Magazine that Nic's sacrificial support of Elana, prioritizing her training and her needs above his own, is «the perfect picture of a husband loving his wife like Christ loved the church.»

A sacrificial mythos need not always express itself in slaughter, after all.

We need to qualify «sacrificial giving».

Man's love is fragmentary and corrupted and needs God's sacrificial love to perfect it.

This is because her life radiates beauty: through her hospitality to friends and strangers alike, through her joyful laugh, through her care of those in need, through her passion for education, through her love of framing things on film through the lens of a camera, through her ability to be patient with her doofus husband, through her genuine love for God, through her sacrificial generosity to those with less than we have, and even through her stubborn refusal to let me get away with any of my trademark snark.

Moses and angels are responsible for the Law and its sacrificial system — which is a reflection of human thinking, not God's need or want for blood sacrifice.

It will fall to the elders or the most experienced to lead in prayer or chant; some of the younger members may be charged with providing whatever is needed for sacrificial purposes.

Now, through Jesus, people no longer need the temple, the sacrificial system, or the priesthood to approach the Father, but can approach Him directly, having already received the forgiveness of sins without condition.

There would be no need for any sacrificial system.

We need to comprehend the first link if we are to understand something of the process by which sacrifice was displaced from an actual bloody ritual practice to a metaphor for moral action, such that we can now say «he was very self - sacrificial» and not mean «he offered his body to Aztec priests.»

There is no question such a word is needed today, particularly in the sacrificial and discipleship - oriented way I am describing...

Even the Christian truth of sacrificial generosity in the story of Santa Claus needs recovering and re telling: a bishop who helped the poorest of the poor.

He needed his self - sacrificial love of his virgin wife, he needed his tender care for the infant Jesus, and, most of all, he needed his decisiveness and holy fear of God for prompt and courageous action.

The Beatitudes reveal the attitudes, or character, needed to become a transformative presence in society and go far beyond the demands of the Decalogue which are based on self - interested moralism; not self - sacrificial love.

Once it was a hardheaded, self - sacrificial, outward looking concept which looked to the well - being and needs of others.

We all need encouragement to exercise a new vision of the public good, and to join with others in sacrificial efforts to achieve that good in concrete ways, ranging from providing housing for the homeless to parks for everyone and enriched educational environments for disadvantaged children.

We need to salute these brothers and sisters as the courageous overcomers they are, and examples to all of us of sacrificial obedience.

But Jesus did need to die, and He needed to die in a bloody, violent, sacrificial way.

With death «demythologised» there is no original sin, because death is no longer a punishment for disobedience, and no Fall and hence no need for redemption or for a sacrificial and atoning interpretation of Jesus» death.

One need not deny the value of martyrdom in certain instances, or the selflessness of sacrificial death that is sometimes involved in trying to live a life of love, or even at times of pacifism (as a strategy, without believing in it as an absolute principle).

In other words, the sacrificial system was partially intended to meet the physical needs of others who would have gone hungry otherwise.

Personally, I think that the person who is making $ 25,000 a year here in the states, and is barely able to pay their rent, but nevertheless gives $ 1000 a year to help others in need, is way more sacrificial than the men and women that get all the worldly praise and recognition.

What the Californian woman needs is some old - fashioned, sacrificial Christian love — someone to be her friend, to keep her sons sometimes, perhaps to help out financially.

The priest and the organizers of the Liturgy have to be self - sacrificial: they need to allow the Church's Liturgy (not «my» Liturgy, or «our» Liturgy, or the «Liturgy» of a single group) to speak for itself.

We face there one of the basic principles of creation, vicarious sacrifice: any salvation from human need dependent on someone, who does not have to do so, voluntarily caring enough to identify himself with the needy and give his sacrificial all for their help.

I don't see why women need to be the sacrificial lambs.

Responsive parenting is truly a picture of God's sacrificial, unconditional love in that, as we respond to our children where they are, («This is how God showed His great love for us, that Christ died for us while we were still sinners [emphasis added]» Romans 5:8) comforting their cries, guiding their choices, providing for their needs, encouraging their individuality, we are, moment by moment, day by day, sacrificing our lives for them.

Modeling God's sacrificial love in our parenting is reflected by making parenting choices based on our children's needs, not our convenience.

More generally, gender stereotypes are used to justify women's unlikelihood to speak up: the general perception of women as instruments whose function is primordially to be used, as passive sexual objects than as active subjects, as bodies and faces that should be looked at and evaluated on the basis of demanding aesthetic criteria, as sacrificial mothers or as empathetic persons mainly attuned to other's people needs, is not very compatible with an assertive form of communication.

There is a hefty dose of politics fueling the antics — it can't be happenstance that the studio is named Capitol — as well as a dialectical subtext on the need for dreams to keep reality humming along, with Mannix the willing sacrificial lamb that keeps it all going to keep the illusion in place.

These kills earn sacrificial points, which you'll need along with gold to access new weapon upgrades.

So if you design the columns and beams to be larger than they need to be just for structure, a sacrificial layer turns into non-combustible char, protecting what is underneath.

Citizens then need a range of options for change without feeling dictated to or appearing too sacrificial.

It appears that Ms Aitken is using CREA / MLS as a sacrificial guinea pig, so to speak, in order to further her own agenda (every new political appointee needs one, «else why is one on the job?)