2017 had its ups and downs but I'm the kind of person who rather reflects
on my blessings rather than my misfortunes.
Not exact matches
While it's natural to take a breath, reflect, and count your
blessings during the holiday season, it's still possible to also end your year with a feeling of real accomplishment, so that you'll start 2018
on a high note
rather than with a horrifically backlogged to - do list.
But
rather than actually change compensation, bank compensation committees generally relied
on workers inside the bank (i.e. risk management personnel) to
bless their existing plans.
in the day, s that jesus our lord was
on the earth (jesus) there was many people named jesus, just as among hispanic and central american peoples, it was a common popular name of many people, if you want to prove to your self that jesus was not married, look up what the apostle said,» i saw standing upon mount zion with the lamb 144,000, these are they that have washed thier robes and were not defilled with women, for they are virgins, jesus emphasised in parts the need and values of a husband and wife in a home, the two mary, s and the women that followed him and ministered unto him tells us the great importance of women, and women in the home, he wanted all married men to have thier own wife, in those days of so many years ago there was false prophets, storytellers, wild imaginations, he told us not to believe them, whether you are catholic, christian, islamic or any other, we can all take pride in the fact what the prohets, jesus and the apostles told us all fits jointly to gether, they were a work of love, to understand the christian bible correctly, islamic people are not rejected, but
rather they are a equal, the angel told hagar to return to her mistress, he also told her he would make ishmael a
blessing and his seed a great nation, regards
Most Western Christians, especially fundamentalists, define what it means to be human by the Original Sin, not the Original
Blessing — which is not only unbiblical, but puts the emphasis
on the human
rather than Divine action.
Rather, many of them pronounced
blessings on those statesmen who wished the vengeance of the victors
on the vanquished.
Recall the mottos of
Blessed Mother Teresa and
Blessed Pope John Paul II: focus
on faithfulness
rather than success, and be not afraid!
BTW I'm a pastor and I'd
rather have a congregation of people who are out there taking
on the difficult issues with the love of God than a huge congregation of people who like to sit around
blessing each other with their songs of platitudes waiting for God to yank them away by the hair.
Some countries such as Somalia are not finding essential foods to eat and survive the Famine and Drought while others pouring Fruits and Vegetables
on the streets as if unwanted or unneeded Rubbish
rather than thanking GOD for his
Blessings of their Prosperity;
I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave
rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused
on internal holiness and not
on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man,
rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the Law into one of assistance
rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists
on impartiality in the way we
bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».
Kenneth agree with you totally its not just adams and abrahams problem its us guys we give in to our wives to keep the peace we should learn that the best way is always Gods way not our way or mans way.That to me is the message behind the story.The issue is
rather than taking
on the burden of his wife Abraham should have taken it back to the Lord its in our weakness he strengthens us.In the end he did what any married man would have done in order to please his wife.We are no different we put our wives or children church work before the Lord just as he did and loo at the consequences that came from that decision the arab nations became a thporn in there side.In my mind we need to put him first always.When we please the Lord he will
bless us and our relationships when we do it our way there will be consequences.brentnz
We pronounce
blessing on those who believe as we do and judgment
on those who do not by the authority of God; but is that divine authority the authority by which Jesus spoke and taught: We believe that God is always
on our side and not
on the side of other; but is it not possible that God of Jesus may sometimes be
on the side of other
rather than
on our side?
This is what happens when theological formation is centered
on Original Sin (the story of the Fall)
rather than Original
Blessing (the Creation Story).
But, he must realize that he is
blessed to have the likes of Wenger and Hodgson as his coaches, who have been
rather patient with Wilshere's antics off the pitch and failure to live up to potential
on it.
While Barca may be
blessed with three outstanding attackers and fairly good midfielders there defensive line constantly make errors, which are not capitalised
on by their opponents in spain, it will be a
rather different situation playing against arsenal.
This year I chose to write Our
Blessing Tree
on the tree itself
rather than leave it blank as I usually do so that any guests we had over would know what it was.
Kabat - Zinn, Myla and Jon EVERYDAY
BLESSINGS: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting Hyperion, 1998 Written by the parents of three grown children, this book focuses
on the thoughts and feelings,
rather than the techniques, associated with parenting children of all ages.
Rather than take
on the patent fight directly, the government gave its
blessing to two drugs manufacturers who wanted to make a generic version of AZT.
The results were significant — individuals who focused
on their
blessings,
rather than their burdens or neutral life experiences, exhibited heightened well - being and positive affect.
Rather than believing the world should conform to our view, we have the ability to focus
on other things, such as counting our
blessings, enjoying the beautiful day, or marveling at what wonderful people we have in our lives.
Any other websites have to be manually put
on the approved list — although in the case of YouTube, you can only approve specific videos
rather than the whole site, which is both a
blessing and a curse.
At first I was one of the people
on the forum who was against it full stop, but now im thinking I will wait till it comes out to pass full judgement because it could be a good replacment for the Wii so both me and the wife can play
on the one console,
rather than playing
on the Wii if we want to play together, she is not much good with a controller
bless her.