Sentences with phrase «point the conversion of»

Their high points were ridiculously high (a 50 - 7 win over Texas, 40 - 10 over West Virginia), and even at the end of the regular season, when attrition was taking a toll, they came within a two - point conversion of beating CFP semifinalist Oklahoma in Norman, then outlasted Baylor in a monsoon.

Came within a two - point conversion of going to overtime with Texas A&M in that 59 - 57 loss, and sadly can not have Johnny Manziel play defense for them, either.

We kidded around with San Ramon Valley quarterback Clark Baker and linebacker Tristan Sinclair about their team, which returns multiple starters from a group that came within a made two - point conversion of beating mighty De La Salle - Concord last season.

The panoramic photo - assemblages take as their starting point the conversion of a 1960s public sanatorium into a luxury hotel, as well as the changes to Israeli society that this process makes visible.

Not exact matches

A conversion increase of a few percentage points could result in thousands of dollars (or hundreds of thousands) in new revenue.

They've added features in the last few months that point to the fact that they are increasing the amount of attention they give video: view count, embedding options, video for website conversions.

They can analyze thousands of data points relating to deal conversion and distill them down into actionable information.

The IRA contribution is always permitted (as long as there's earned income), and at that point it doesn't actually matter whether it's a deductible contribution or not, because the net result after Roth conversion is always the same — $ 0 of AGI, and $ 0 of tax liability!

Direct marketing has always been well - suited for digital advertising; the point of the ad is to drive conversion, and digital is very good, not only at measuring if said conversion occurred, but also at targeting customers most likely to convert in the first place.

Even better, have some specific conversion in mind, as what's the point of all this traffic if you have no real business - driving conversions?

@ fimeilleur the carl sagan reference was more relevant before it became obscured by all the other posts.no one said any thing about a death bed conversion, that is something you assumed, (when you assume you make an ass of u and me) whether you believe in God or not is irrelevant, you will ultimately confront God, at that point in carls case after death you will know!.

God met Paul during the lowest point of his life and pursued a relationship with Him that would eventually allow for the conversion of many others.

Now, as a descendant of BOTH sides of «Americans» (White & Native) I just wish to point out that AMERICA ain't got a pearly clean reputation for not FORCING Christian conversion or die!

Bill points out that this concept of the fatal power of the disease, provided by Silkworth, became in AA a powerful deflationary tool, shattering the ego at depth and laying the subject open for conversion.

Whereas Metz focuses on the passion of Jesus, process theology would want to point to the power and relevance, at different times and places, of the Exodus, the Jewish prophets, the resurrection and the conversion of Paul.

Fact - checking site Snopes was quick to point out that this is yet another phony story about the deathbed conversion of an unbeliever.

It would, from my point of view, constitute a conversion to following Jesus.

On a third crucial point we also found ourselves in genuine consensus: «evangelism,» in the Wesleyan spirit, must speak of justice as earnestly as of justification, of Christian nurture and discipline as emphatically as of conversion, of Christian social action as boldly as of personal salvation.

Dialogue can never be an attempt at conversion, nor can it occur if one party assumes an objective ultimacy or a superiority for his or her point of view.

The real problem lies at the point of the fourteen years that Paul says elapsed between the visit he made to Jerusalem after his conversion and the time he argued privately with Peter, John, and James.

In the second part, we shall point to the specific conditions in India which has made inter-religious conversion an issue of communal politics and shall also look at some aspects of the history of the controversy whether the solution lies in depoliticising religious conversion or in outlawing it.

Only a stopping of conversion will be «a starting point for harmony in society and for lessening mental insecurity, fanaticism and prevalent climate of confrontation».

Since freedom of propagation and conversion involves not only matters of religion, but also of culture and political ideas, any restriction at this point will affect the fundamental rights of the human person in general.

I mean sure there will always be conflict but conversion to another religion at gun point sort of defeats the whole purpose.

At least half of his life after his conversion in 193 was spent as a member of the Montanists — to the point of founding his own North African version, one destined to last to the time of St Augustine — and the Montanists, we must remember, were not simply separated from communion with the Catholic Church: they were indeed, as St Thomas Aquinas says of Tertullian himself, actual heretics.

The point being that believers are sinners and they don't stop being sinners just because of conversion.

The crusades (still being used almost 1000 years later as an point of argument), were the response of Christian Europe to the Islamic conquest of the Middle East, and the forced conversions that took place.

He pointed out the contribution which the Evangelicals could make in the sphere of mission, their emphasis on conversion, and in their stress on the Bible.

He is also making Saul's violence the central issue of his conversion — an emphasis that Saul later confirms when he describes his pre - Damascus Road self as one who persecuted the believers to the point of death.

The points which we have been mentioning are intended to show that in consequence of his conversion Paul did not become someone completely different from the person he was before it.

That is why the concluding episode, the deathbed conversion of Lord Marchmain, is the denouement pointed to by the perceptive Cordelia.

This seems in fact to be the gist of his confession in A Sort of Life, where Greene contrasts his state of resolve at the time of his conversion with his condition more than 20 years later, at a point (which Sherry suggests remains characteristic of the present) when «continual failure or the circumstances of our private life finally make it impossible to make any promises at all and many of us abandon Confession and Communion to join the Foreign Legion of the Church and fight for a city of which we are no longer full citizens.»

Were we writing the story of the mind from the purely natural - history point of view, with no religious interest whatever, we should still have to write down man's liability to sudden and complete conversion as one of his most curious peculiarities.

As Scot McKnight points out, some conversions from evangelicalism to Rome may not simply be the result of a failure to instil theology.

[34] In an article entitled «The Concept of Conversion in the Ecumenical Movement: A Historical and Documentary Survey», [35] Ans van der Bent points out that «the time is overdue for the church to examine its doctrine of conversion carefully and to subject its language to the test of both theological and psychological enquiry.»

These texts and studies do not exhaust the various ways in which women were perceived, and their roles commented upon, by writers of the early church, but they offer points of departure for a discussion on the contribution of women to the life and witness of the early church without forgetting that the «ancient sources and modern historians agree that primary conversion to Christianity was far more prevalent among females than among males» [13] in the time of the early church.

Fishon... I think you may have misunderstood my last comment, but upon reading it myself, I'm less clear than I thot.Nevertheless, I agree with you and that was my point, most believers that I know or read about have their initial conversion experience long before they adopt developed doctrines of scripture.

Millions of observable conversions each year point to a process that brings a desired result.

Earlier Western missionaries felt a need to confront polygamy at the point of conversion.

Encounters like these brought Holly to the point of believing there was a God who fired the imaginative sense within her, but would eventually lead her to also investigate the beliefs of Christian poets such as Gerard Manley Hopkins and TS Eliot whose writing she connected with so profoundly: «I had a two - step conversion, first to belief in God then to belief in Christ.

And since you believe my conversion was false and my study of the Bible insufficient, there is no point in getting into a back and forth over the apocalyptic passages in the Bible.

How do we evaluate the case of Karanjia's conversion to faith in Christ and his fellowship with believers in Christ without conversion from Zoroastrian to the Christian community from the point of the theology of evangelism and ecclesiology?

This idea of mission for conversion had been criticized from various points of view.

The dark skinned Lamanites at one point worshipped a religion of warfare (confirmed by archeology of Mesoamerica) according to the Book of Mormon converted from their blood - thirsty religion and as a sign of their conversion to not return to their old ways buried their blood stained weapons and vowed to never shed blood again.

In the meantime the Quran makes a point to call for the destruction / conversion of all Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hinduists (and all others who believe in multiple gods) and unbelievers (atheists / agnostics).

Some to the point of «shes not saved» «false conversion».

An effective people - counting solution should allow a retailer to identify the number of people entering a store and compare that to the store's point - of - sale (POS) data for conversion rates.

At the FEFCO Technical Seminar, a key meeting point for the corrugated industry, Packaging Europe discovered how HP is driving the analogue to digital conversion in the corrugated packaging industry, and the success of its innovative PageWide C500 press using true water - based inks.

In a home game against Post University of Waterbury, Connecticut, the Tigers drew even, 26 - 26, with 10:45 left in the fourth on a 27 - yard touchdown reception by Wolfe, and a successful two - point conversion.

They would then connect on the 1 point conversion and led 7 - 0 going into the final minutes of the 1st half..