Sentences with phrase «of gifts he had received»

And finally, a quote from the comments section of an article I read when researching teacher gifts: «One year my husband brought home another large box of gifts he had received from his early elementary - aged students for Christmas: a couple of fun ties, several boxes of chocolates and chocolate - covered cherries, mugs, ornaments, gift cards, items related to his hobbies, homemade treats, and many lovely cards and notes from students and families.

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According to CNNMoney.com, in an article written by Jessica Dickler, about 60 % of consumers say that they would like to receive a gift card rather than a traditional present.

Both Prince George and Princess Charlotte have received many gifts from the public all over the world, and as royal children, they must accept all of these gifts graciously, no matter what they are.

Ask for help, in part because you realize the person who provides you with that help will automatically feel greater self - respect, self - esteem, and self - worth, because they've received one of the greatest gifts of all: knowing they made a difference in another person's life.

In the 1920s, it was common to give newly - married couples gifts of silver, china, crystal, and linen, but, since there was no way to keep track of who bought what, couples would often receive many of the same gifts.

So every year they get an avalanche of gifts from the practices who have received their referrals.

When I receive a gift, I have to decide what old item I'm going to get rid of.

Let's say you do want to give (or hint strongly that you'd like to receive) a monetary gift, but not cash — something more interesting, less likely to be spent idly, and with a chance of growing at more than zero - point - something percent.

A landscape architect, Karen sits on the board of New York's High Line public park, which Ackman money helped build; and Human Rights Watch, which has received major gifts from the couple.

The top tier would be the next of kin of the 17 slain victims, who would receive the largest gifts.

The Haskayne School of Business has received a $ 1 - million gift to launch the Global Business Futures Initiative.

Toronto, June 15, 2005 — The University of Toronto's Joseph L. Rotman School of Management has received a significant boost in its quest to revolutionize business education with a $ 10 - million gift from the Canadian Credit Management Foundation (CCMF).

National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) today announced it has received a $ 350,000 gift for the organization's Centers of Excellence (COE) initiatives.

DBA has served as an unpaid board member for the International Life Sciences Institute of North America and has received payment for board membership from Kraft Foods and consulting fees, grants, and / or unrestricted gifts to his university from Kraft Foods, Kellogg Company, PepsiCo, Jason Pharmaceuticals, and McNeil Nutritionals.

I am certainly proud of my involvement in launching the firm's global donor - advised fund, GIFT, which has received over $ 1 billion in contributions and distributed more than $ 400 million in grants since 2000.

While the adult child might think that receiving money from a parent to help out with a financial crisis is a great gift, I think that the biggest gift I'd like to impart on my child is the gift of financial literacy.

Gifts like this — and I've received a number of them over the years — have taken on increasing importance in my life.

They expressed their gratitude over a Tweet stating: We're overjoyed to announce that the FSF has received an extraordinary gift of 91.45 Bitcoin from the #PineappleFund, valued at $ 1 million!

So this is what I got from reading this article: god is all everything but can't or won't stop bad things from happening... he's ok with suffering and will very generously comfort us from the suffering that he provides, all you have to do to receive this gift of comfort is to live with the suffering until the day you die.

I will pray for everyone posting here today, and ask that God will reveal Himself to you and that soon you all will ask Jesus into your hearts and receive the gift of salvation, if you have not done so already.

What you have to lose is the genuine and profound meaning in THIS life that you are distracted from by religion with its dishonest promises of eternity, with its abundance of gifts that you are said to receive only after you die, when it is far TOO LATE to validate the claims.

And if we believe the promise, if we believe what God has said, if we believe in Jesus for eternal life, then we have received the free gift of grace.

They had NOT received the gift of faith.

God has offered us salvation by His grace, and the rest of Ephesians 2:8 - 9 tell us how to receive this incredible gift of salvation, this regeneration, resurrection and reigning that comes from Jesus Christ.

Each of us has received gifts from the Lord; we are all accountable for their exercise» including the exercise of faith.

Yes, I would like to subscribe to Premier Christianity by credit card and receive the next 12 issues of the magazine for # 42.00 (UK only, if you are outside the UK, click here) and I am willing to forgo the free gift.

«Each of you should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms... Be generous with the different things God gave you, passing them around so all get in on it: if words, let it be God's words; if help, let it be God's hearty help.»

Since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, they are justified by his grace as a gift through the redemption which is in Jesus Christ, whom God put forward as an expiation by his blood, to be received by faith Martin Luther believed that the theology of this text was...

Ruth was kind enough to send me the originals — one of the sweetest, most humbling gifts I've received as a writer, and which, in the spirit of eucharisteo, I received with thanksgiving.

We can see that in human beings and many other creatures, the power to bring about new life has been divided into two collaborating halves — the male which prompts the gift of life, and the female which receives, actively responds, nurtures and brings forth the fruit of life itself.

Before we have been baptised Grace is the Gift which draws us into personal relationship with God, knowing Him more as our «Environer», preparing us to receive Faith, developing our natural need of him so that the Holy Spirit Himself may dwell within us.

I would persist in the face of evil, and my body through the Spirit would receive God's gifts and fruits, including the gift of healing.

When Psalm 68:18 says that he received gifts from men, it has in mind this idea of the king receiving a portion of the spoils of war that the army had brought back, so that the king could then turn around and give gifts to men who were not able to go off to war.

In our September editorial we looked at some implications of the idea of truth as a» gift received» (CiV, 34 & 77) but apart from Stratford Caldecott and Tracey Rowland, very few have taken up this profound idea from Pope Benedict's encyclical (See our November Road from Regensburg).

He said in verse 7 that each one of us has received a grace gift from God.

Historically, he is right — kings did give some of what they had received as gifts to others, and since he is quoting from the Targum, he is accurate in his quotation as well.

If water baptism was all that was important and necessary for salvation, there would have been no need for the disciples to wait in Jerusalem or receive the gift of holy spirit.

Sadly, I say this as a sinner who still struggles with pride, but for me that's just a reminder of how underserving a magnificent gift I've received.

The city of Newtown, Conn., has received so many good - will donations from the national public that its officials have gone on record asking everyone to stop sending gifts.

Most AG members have personally experienced these gifts: 65 percent claim to pray in tongues; 61 percent have personally experienced divine healing as a result of prayer; 55 percent regularly receive definite answers to specific prayer requests; 32 percent say they are regularly «led by God» to perform specific acts; and nearly 30 percent believe they have been used by God to prophesy.

She also relates practical and theological insights from acquaintances and scholars who have likewise tried to receive each day as the gift of God.

As Christians, I don't know if I'd call it a «responsibility» or «job», but it's our opportunity to have received such an amazing gift and out of our love for our creator, we cherish, admire, and protect it, and glorify Him by doing so.

While there are many texts which tell readers how to receive eternal life by faith alone, the vast majority of the Bible is intended to encourage and inspire those who have received eternal life to live in light of the free gift they have already received.

If the article above was written by a grown adult about the existence of Santa Claus, and if that argument was essentially based on asserting Santa Claus» existence based on faith and the popularity of the Santa Claus myth, then anyone would be justified in scorning those beliefs, especially when that argument extends to declaring that recent findings confirm the existence of Santa (after all, children are still receiving Christmas gifts).

Death has no longer any power over us as we who believe have received the gift of eternal life.

Other forms of ministry occur as we use whatever natural & spiritual gifts we've received to bless them, without condemnation.

I will celebrate the birth of Christ on Christmas and I am buying presents and anticipating to receive presents in honor and remembrance of the greatest gift we have been given by God.

«Each of you has received a special gift, so like good stewards responsible for all the different gifts of God, put yourselves at the service of others» (I Pet.

He being exalted at the right hand of God, and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, has poured out that which you see and hear»; and it includes also an assurance that those who join the Christian community «receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.»

Their experience of adoption has given the Robertses a special understanding or what it is like to receive God's gift of grace in Jesus Christ.