Sentences with phrase «of losing my son»

In his commentary on these verses, Walter Brueggemann asks us to consider these sons of Abraham in contrast to Jesus» parable of the lost son.

But there is no such statement after the parable of the lost son.

This is radical statement, but that is what the parable of the lost son teaches us.

The Parable of the Lost Son in Luke 15 indirectly answers this.

And following the heartbreak of losing her son, she says one of the hardest things for her was in the aftermath.

This woman, Nancy Donley, had the great misfortune of losing her son to E. -LSB-...]

It's billed as the hangout - flick master's first proper road movie, a 2003 - set drama about three Vietnam veterans who reunite after 30 years after one of them loses a son in the Iraq War.

Shawn wants Jimmy to feel the pain of losing a son before taking Jimmy's life.

Like his 2011 film Take Shelter, Jeff Nichols «Midnight Special was born out of fear, specifically the fear of losing his son.

It also includes a link to a youtube video animation to the parable of the lost son, and links this to the topic of war and peace for students to consider how religious teachings may be applied to modern day dilemmas.

A simple 30 page presentation retelling Jesus» parable of the lost son.

There is a reason why God is portrayed in the Parable of the Lost Son as a generous man who throws a party when his younger son repents of riotous living, while the older son (representing the Pharisees) is portrayed as a miser.

Highlighting a completely different approach were Amy and Ryan Green, creators of That Dragon Cancer, a game based on their experience of losing their son to childhood cancer.

So she kept on, though the pain of losing her son is still present after nearly a year.

Also attending the launch were Aboriginal family members who have been affected by suicide, including Norma Ashwin who spoke recently on ABC TV about the pain and grief of losing her son.

Bereavement Through Addiction was founded in 2009 by two parents, Joan Hollywood and Paul Craig, as a result of their experience of losing their son.

In Luke 15 we get a picture of God's empathetic understanding of the lost son.

Not exact matches

A marathon spectator named Carlos Arredondo, who had lost one of his sons in the Iraq war and the other to suicide, was attending the marathon to support a runner honoring his sons.

And she saw another son run and lose: Jeb Bush, who was governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007, lost his bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination ultimately won by Donald Trump.

But somewhat lost in all of this business wheeling and dealing is the fact that the balance of power in medicine is shifting: Armed with their body's own endless stream of signals and a smartphone, many individuals are getting the information they need to take charge of their health and wellbeing — or, in the case of Theresa Beech, whose 13 - year - old son was lost to cancer two years ago, to help total strangers search for a long - elusive cure.

Ana Rodriguez, founder of Miami - based Tribute Code, lost a son three days after childbirth.

Trump's son Eric also cited the Washington Post report in an October interview with ABC after he was asked whether his father would accept the results of the election if he lost.

Yet compared to the thousands of parents, siblings, and spouses who have lost family members or friends, we were fortunate in that our son managed to cheat death twice by being resuscitated from overdose.

«My father would come home in a foul mood after losing at blackjack and other card games,» Lee wrote, «and demand some of my mother's jewelry to pawn...» His mother not only saved her jewelry from her feckless husband but also ably raised her four sons and one daughter, selling cakes baked from tapioca when flour and money grew scarce.

Mr. Adelson, who lost a son to a drug overdose, opposes the legalization of marijuana for any use.

A killer's family shook their heads at the mother of a murdered Geelong teen who told a judge she had lost her will to live after her son's...

I began to look beyond the cursing, and hear the substance of their hearts: an ego hurt by a son failing in elementary school, finances were so low they felt threatened of losing their car, anger that they hoped to change the world but only worked in a taxi, and so forth.

Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

Judas is the son of perdition and the son of perdition is lost.

We have some quick stories about Abraham traveling around with sarah every where, occasionally screwing stuff in the name of good, almost killing his son in the name of god, selling his wife up the river a couple of times in the name of god, sounds awfully predictable and robot like to me, and yet you have odysessus, a constant lost hero trying to make his way back to his wife penelope and struggling with his own morality, journeys, trials and ultimate success.

It was a religious community and a bunch of loving people who helped Lucas deal with his CP and find meaning and joy in his life, and also helped a man who lost his son get through life in this cold and uncaring universe.

John 17:12 - «Those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition.»

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings — nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much, If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds» worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And — which is more — you'll be a Man, my son!

At the age of 2, first our son, Zeke (now 6), and then our daughter, Anna (now 5), began regressing — that is, they started losing skills they had gained, and retreating into a teary bubble of fear and confusion.

Later that day we met with a group called the Mothers of the Martyrs, women who had lost sons and daughters to the revolution and to the continuing struggle along the border.

Second, Luke 19:10 states, For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

The father of the prodigal invites his elder son to join his celebration just as others in the Bible seek a lost sheep or a lost coin.

It is characterized by its owner's generosity and mercy, which parallels that of a father who waits for his lost son, and a king who invites guests from the streets for the wedding banquet.

Though Israel began with the position of being the adopted son, they lost it through disobedience and rebellion.

While nobody wants to lose a son or daughter (or any family member for that matter), the pain of it would be significantly lessened, it seems, if we knew that we would receive our lost loved ones back within three days, and they would be fully healthy and whole and would never suffer or die again.

That is certainly true of this story, which explicitly incorporates the Prodigal Son parable on several levels, not only the relation of the fathers to their lost sons, but Kumalo as an elder brother who hates his younger brother, John, a prodigal.

Furthermore, even when parents know they will be reunited with lost loved ones in the future, Jesus was only in the grave for three days, while parents who lose a son or daughter have to wait the rest of their life.

Are you aware of any other explanations that Christians sometimes give for whether or not God knows what it is like to lose a son?

For even if He eternally experiences the crushing sorrow of losing a child, He also eternally experiences the joy of being with His Son for eternity, and the even more thrilling experience of His Son rising from the dead.

As anticipated, I had the time to do it in September, I did not write the review becausee all of your books were stored in my son's tablet, and I lost them all when the board died.

Instead, demonstrate and share the love of Jesus to a broken and lost world, a Jesus that most certainly is not the Son of the god that Phelps claimed to follow.

Concerned to express the challenge of the major aspect of this divine activity, the forgiveness of sins: Lost Sheep, Lost Coin, Prodigal Son.

When Jesus went to the home of Zacchaeus, Luke tells us that Jesus justified his action by saying that «The Son of Man [meaning «I»] came to seek and to save what was lost» (Luke 19:10).

Put aside your foolish christian god and Odin will temper his son's wrath... You live in the land of ice and snow... you are Odin's children... you have simply lost your way...

If losing an only son is so much of a sacrifice, why wouldn't God just impregnate another human woman or two?