Sentences with phrase «presented as a gift»

That makes these great for mailing (though perhaps not in the middle of summer, as there is some chocolate in these) or presenting as gifts.

If you freeze them just don't roll in the confectioners sugar until you are ready to put in containers to present as gifts or serve.

For centuries, farmers» wives all over the world have carried on the tradition of preserving food in jars, often presenting them as gifts, because nothing tops homemade goodies, right?

Every item is presented as a gift to mum, wrapped in tissue paper and encased in a beautifully embossed branded box as standard with no extra charge.

A delicious preserve made from storecupboard dried fruit - serve with hot buttered toast or present as a gift

Use up a seasonal glut of fruit in a tasty homemade preserve - store it for months or present it as a gift in a rustic hamper

Do you have any suggestions for decorative containers for presenting these as a gift?

This pair would be excellent if presented as a gift to someone, as the Chrysanthemum signifies a life of ease.

And although each retains its individuality, in general, we can say that the beautiful clothes and jewelry are loved by all Russian women, especially if they are presented as a gift from the man she loved.

In December of 1888, he cut off his ear and presented it as a gift to a prostitute.

Dog gets into a few messes (some involving the family cat, with the movie's anti-cat bias culminating in a scene of Bailey digging up the feline's corpse and presenting it as a gift to the family).

You might have students laminate their completed sketches to present as gifts to the subject of their sketches.

You will also have the option of purchasing a felt - backed «souvenir brick» to keep or present as a gift.

This piece was commissioned by a Kongo King and presented as a gift to Pope Leon X, who was a Medici Pope, and Rafael's great patron.

What the P9s are is the perfect pair of headphones to present as a gift — there'll be no mistaking their premium nature and there's no danger of the recipient hating the warm and friendly sound.

Package up this beautiful banner in the matching box and present it as a gift with the coordinating card.

Not exact matches

«So for one of my Christmas presents from Kanye, he gives me this little box with a Disney Mickey toy, Apple headphones, Netflix [and] Amazon gift cards and Adidas socks,» Kardashian says, as her camera pans over the box of gifts.

While children may not receive as many gifts as they would like, Santa is still able to give them a present when they wake - up in the morning.

There are moments when Creighton, a gifted salesman who presents himself as an avuncular yet ardent self - storage evangelist, seems to be selling everything but storage.

She described compiling a list of round objects — from watermelons to beach balls to basketballs — to paint on her pregnant belly for a series of novelty photos to present to her husband as a gift.

For a lot of parents, a cash gift is the preferred present for occasions such as birthdays, Christmas etc..

See how Judas dealt with Jesus his years on earth — read the Poem of the Man God — a journey presented to us as a great gift but not accepted.

As Evangelicals and Catholics we are agreed on what we have said together in the statement «The Gift of Salvation» and on what we have been able to say together in the present statement on Scripture and tradition.

She shouldn't have taken the job as a gift wrapper or she should've told them I can not wrap presents, it would be considered taking part in Christmas.

And Mordecai wrote these things and sent letters to all the Jews, near and far, who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, to establish among them that they should celebrate yearly the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar, as the days on which the Jews had rest from their enemies, as the month which was turned from sorrow to joy for them, and from mourning to a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and joy, of sending presents to one another and gifts to the poor.

Presenting myself to Christ as my Lord, I received the gift of the HOLY Spirit of God who lives inside this earthsuit with me, making my body a HOLY temple of the Spirit of God (1Cor 6:19).

Woody, as comedian Alvy Singer, presents his new girlfriend, Annie Hall (Diane Keaton), with two books on death as his first gifts to her.

It is to see God's gift of the creation as not only a word about the earth «in the beginning,» but also the affirmation that God is present now through the spirit, overcoming brokenness among people and their habitation.

In this sacrifice Christ, who has given himself for us once and for all, is presented as the Church's gift to the eternal God.

We also recognize time as God's gift when we respect the daily needs of the body, when we offer attention to the people and experiences of the immediate present, when we set aside a portion of each day for attention to God, when we remove impediments to the authentic use of time, and when we practice the sabbath, a practice that receives considerable attention in Bass's book.

The custom: Guided by a «star» from the east, three «wise men» are portrayed as presenting gifts to Jesus in a manger in a stable.

Wherever the Spirit of Christ, which as the eschatological gift anticipates God's new creation in history, is present in its ecclesially constitutive activity, there is the church.

Either it's there or it isn't» If in John Updike's recent fiction adultery is presented as a «grace,» it is fidelity that has that inexplicable quality for Marianne — it is all gift, not calculated as her sex life by the brink has been with Johan.

Israel's present relatively ordered existence is the creation of God out of former disorder and is to be understood and accepted as his creative gift in fulfillment of his free promise to the patriarchs.

Even in this «extreme» book, which attempts to call into question our ability both to know God's will and to predict our fate, we find two root affirmations common to the wisdom tradition, based as it is in creation: (I) God is sovereign, and (2) present life is to be lived in joy as God's gift.

Ministers also and the laity of the Church will know what is expected of those who hold this office For the present it is possible only to feel after and to describe in sketchy outline what this new conception is, a conception that we may believe is at least as much gift of grace as consequence of sin and perhaps more something produced by historic forces under divine government than the creature of human pride and fickleness.

Christians, however, may understand the decisiveness of Christ as the moment in evolution when God's promise and self - gift, which have been continually and creatively present to the cosmos from its birth, are embraced by a human being without reservation.

From the Christian standpoint, there is an obligation to present gifts as being from God and not from the agents delivering them.

Here Dowsing pulls few punches, presenting well the «children as gift», not burden or right, argument and is very clear on the immorality of separating the unitive and the procreative.

CNN: The Belief Blog's guide to kitschy Christmas gifts As shoppers scour malls and web portals looking for the perfect last - minute Christmas gift, we humbly present a few ideas of faithy kitsch.

(CNN)- As shoppers scour malls and web portals looking for the perfect last - minute Christmas gift, we humbly present a few ideas of faithy kitsch.

Early liberal responses to the new sexual freedom of youth had a tendency to present sexuality as the good gift of God without exploring general biblical guidelines for responsible sexual expression.4

It presents the claim of God to him and thus it identifies the forgiveness as divine, because it is pure gift, delivering man while judging him.

With particular pertinence to the present discussion, Levada, for all his considerable gifts, did not distinguish himself in his teaching, and his seeing to it that others taught, the Church's moral doctrine during his ten years as archbishop of San Francisco, a city commonly called the gay capital of the world.

It is not something already present because of having been inaugurated by Jesus in his own person as the Messiah.24 It is the supernatural, superhistorical gift of God to him who responds affirmatively to God in the ultimate — even eschatological decision of his own existence.

«He that believeth hath eternal life»; (John 6:47) «He that heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath eternal life, and cometh not into judgment, but hath passed out of death into life»; (John 5:24) «This is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ» (John 17:3)-- this conception of immortal life as a present gift, inhering in the quality of spirit that Christ bestows, is characteristic of the Fourth Gospel.

Man must build his existence upon that which is beyond his control and available only as God's gift (ubi et quando visum est deo), upon a world which is transcendent by being basically future, and present only as the eschatological miracle, the gift of transcendence.

I see the various media, Including TV, as gifts of God, with their present content as mixed blessings and — well, cursings.

Perhaps they would say that if an elite is defined as a group of highly competent, responsible people with a special gift for holding themselves to exacting standards, we have at present rather little in the way of an elite.

On the other hand, Updike also presents genuine wise men like George Caldwell, who accepts the seasons of life as a gift from God, who finds fame, pleasure, and even wisdom to be vanity but who recognizes that all joy belongs to God.