Sentences with phrase «of reaching the lost»

Teaching churches focus on training Christians, but do a relatively poor job of reaching the lost.

the unexpected work of reaching the lost hearts and souls of those abandoned.

Not exact matches

Those that succeed know that they can't lose their cool under pressure, and they know that as long as they can stay buckled in, they'll eventually reach the escape velocity of exponential growth.

Sure, the lovey dovey holiday hasn't lost its momentum — in fact, Valentine's Day sales reached an all - time high of $ 19.7 billion in 2016.

«One thing I learned: If you don't respond to something controversial like this immediately, you lose the audience and the attention of the people you are trying to reach,» Opiah says.

Through a network of volunteers, Miracle Messages does just that, by letting people film video postcards to reach out to family that they've lost touch with.

After reaching a remarkable level of versimilitude, console video games are now losing ground to simply rendered, cheaply made games played on wireless devices.

WESTFIELD, N.J. (AP)-- A love letter lost in the walls of a New Jersey home has reached a World War II veteran 72 years after it was written.

The cyclone is expected to lose much of its punch over land but meteorologists warned it could reform again if it reaches the warm waters of the Gulf of Carpentaria, 250 km (155 miles) from the coast.

And, of course, if you're on an «all or nothing» crowdfunding website, you have a bigger chance of not reaching your goal and therefore losing all the funding you do attract.

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

«Some of our international students, if they're not aggressively reaching out and building that network and exposing to the business community, and only leveraging very narrow resources, they might lose their dream.»

Then a combination of buzzy tech announcements, better - than - expected sales of the electric Chevy Bolt, a far - reaching EV strategy, and some tough calls by CEO Mary Barra (mainly selling the money - losing Opel division) finally moved the Wall Street needle.

Of the governors who lost seats, the Academy does not announce which had run for re-election and which opted not to run or had reached their limit.

Greene expects to lose $ 173,000 on sales of $ 1.6 million this year and hopes to make money in 2001, when sales are projected to reach $ 4.7 million.

As a result of their own incompetence and / or inflexibility, combined with the shifting sands of the digital - media market, they have lost their grip on the audience that both they and advertisers are trying to reach.

Within three weeks of the vote, the S&P 500 reached record peaks; the Stoxx 600, a broad Europe - wide index, made up almost all of the 11 % it lost immediately after Brexit; and Britain's FTSE 100 index was flirting with a 52 - week high.

Canada's Research In Motion (RIM) has lost a contract dispute over the use of Nokia patents in a case which could halt sales of its BlackBerry phones if it does not reach a deal to pay royalties to the Finnish company.

Approximately four to 10 percent of food purchased by restaurants is lost before reaching the customer.

It's also important to mention that if your benefits are withheld because of the earnings test, it could permanently increase your benefit once you reach full retirement age, so this money isn't exactly «lost.»

Today the Ethereum community reached a consensus and implemented a successful «hard fork» of the Ethereum blockchain, which provides for the return of funds that were previously lost as a result of the exploitation of the DAO.

We've been losing that sense of reaching out because we've been on the receiving end for so long.

I'm charging every single device we have, planning to go through them one at a time when we lose electricity and can't reach the rest of the world.

Most social updates get lost after reaching a small fraction of your audience.

While organic reach is never going to be what it was even a few years ago, using the hacks above can help you recover some of what was lost.

One night, over dinner with Hsieh and his friends at Carson Kitchen, a new high - end restaurant in what was once the rundown John E. Carson hotel for men, I lost track of the conversation, reached for a pork slider, considered sipping my Fernet shot, and suddenly realized they were fiercely debating how to explain to me a Holacracy concept called «circle elections.»

Plus, you can even pause and reboot the system when you've reached the maximum number of lost trades for the day.

The Biotechnology cohort has finally broken out and reached a 52 - week high while making up much of the lost ground during the pummeling from both sides of the political isle during the 2016 presidential race.

It was not uncommon for entire loads of fruit to be lost (ripen) before they reached their destination.

But he is most certainly another fallible human being, like the rest of us, who is reaching the lost.

Reaching out may involve giving financially to a reputable charity, volunteering in a clean - up effort, praying for the families who've lost loved ones or maybe a combination of all three.

Hence why there are so many problems today, because the Arabs can't get over the fact that they attacked Israel and not only lost but were pretty much within reach of being annihilated, hence the treaty between Egypt and Israel.

Get lost in people's eyes today and in swaths of sun on any afternoon, and lose track of time and get lost in a good book, and smile abundantly, till your cheek hurts, because you are alive after all, and you have time to feel wind on your face and you have time to reach out to one person and remember how we all belong to each other and each of us gets a place to belong and the abundance of your life is not measured in the ways you gained — but in what you gave away.

The Parent has been waiting and watching because the Parent knows that some day that lost child will reach the inevitable conclusion of the unavoidable journey, the last mile of which always brings the child home.

The CLC mention also that it was Tom Evans who reached out to them: «Having already lost appeals to the Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights, Mr Evans contacted the Christian Legal Centre in early April — under a month ago.

Thus, because the ultimate objective, the totality to which my nature is attuned has been made manifest to me, the powers of my being begin spontaneously to vibrate in accord with a single note of incredible richness wherein I can distinguish the most discordant tendencies effortlessly resolved: the excitement of action and the delight of passivity: the joy of possessing and the thrill of reaching out beyond what one possesses; the pride in growing and the happiness of being lost in what is greater than oneself.

When the erosions of age begin to leave their mark on my body, and still more on my mind; when the ills that must diminish my life or put an end to it strike me down from without or grow up from within me; when I reach that painful moment at which I suddenly realize that I am a sick man or that I am growing old; above all at that final moment when I feel I am losing hold on myself and becoming wholly passive in the hands of those great unknown forces which first formed me: at all these sombre moments grant me, Lord, to understand that it is you (provided my faith is strong enough) who are painfully separating the fibres of my being so as to penetrate to the very marrow of my substance and draw me into yourself

The amount of money spent by western Christian organizations to reach the lost with the westernized version of the gospel is appalling.

church planting that was birthed out of a desire to spread the gospel and reach a lost world through new churches.

I am 60 years old, grew up in a very legalistic cultic church, been part of several church leaderships, served as pastor of a start up church, read and went to many, many, many church growth conferences, wanted to reach the lost, always trying to find the best structures, the best form of church, and what type of bells and whistles will attract people to church.

Only Christ knows what is in a persons heart, this pope is reaching out to the lost in a positive way with the message of Christ love, which is very important as there are many lost souls that need to hear the message of Christ's love, hope, forgiveness and eternal life that is available only in Christ Jesus.

Whenever the Church has abandoned the notion of beauty, it has lost precisely the power that it hoped to cultivate — its ability to reach souls in the modern world.

But with one proviso: that the world in question shall have reached a stage of development so advanced that its «soul» can be detached without losing any of its completeness, as something wholly formed.

This illusion of the double is unavoidable after a man has lost his connection with a Thou, writes von Weizsäcker, for the state of aloneness that he has reached then is unbearable.

In the top panel of the figure, every time the line reaches 1.0 or 0.0, an allele has been lost forever.

Millions of women are mutilated when they reach puberty, many little girls have lost their faces and eyes on their way to school just because they are trying to learn how to read and write, the minimal education, yet they are still punished.

Through the actions of its legislature and the relevant regulatory agencies, Illinois sets numerous conditions on that use: myopic people have to wear glasses or contact lenses while driving; people with retinitis pigmentosa are forbidden from driving at night; teenagers must reach a certain age and demonstrate certain skills before they obtain driver's licenses; people with a habit of driving after knocking back a dozen Budweisers lose their licenses.

Former president Jimmy Carter challenges a gathering of Christian leaders to follow Paul's example — to be drawn to Christ thus drawn closer to one another, to follow Christ, the Prince of peace, and reach to out to the lost and alleviate the suffering of others.

To summarize our lesson for today: Paul reminds us that the vast Christian world needs to rise above divisive controversies and heal our differences; to adhere to the basic and undistorted gospel message («We are saved by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ»); to draw close to Christ and therefore to one another; and to follow our savior Christ, the Prince of Peace, in reaching out to the lost and alleviating the suffering of others.

Those teachings has reached and spoiled the Arab and non Arab Muslim youth as well by having it shoveled to their mouths targeted through TV series plays and Internet facilities... am from the generation of the 60 «s can no longer understand our youth whom we lost after 80 «s...!