Sentences with phrase «rather as messages»

We need to stop thinking about the anxious thoughts as indicators or evidence that something is wrong but rather as messages from the soul.

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Although it may be easier for some professionals to quickly hit «delete» rather than actually reporting a message as spam, continuously hitting the trash button can take up more time than you think.

When the plans for the Status - 6 leaked in 2015, the Brookings Institution characterized their appearance on camera as deliberate messaging rather than sloppy work.

Just keep the three tips listed above in mind as you write your copy, and you'll be on your way to boosting your marketing message response rates sooner rather than later.

If a key goal of empowerment marketing is to recognize women as intelligent consumers and communicate to them as such, marketers should use this approach in a way that honors their company's message rather than simply jumping on a bandwagon.

That sparked a flurry of dealmaking in messaging, as smartphone users worldwide increasingly use Web - based services to communicate rather than paying for text messaging.

When Weisberg and Zakin, both former NBC producers, founded The Skimm in July 2012 out of their West Village apartment (they were roommates), they chose prosaic e-mail as the medium for their message, rather than try to develop an app or Web destination.

Treasuries and the Dollar were in the epicenter of the post-Fed action, as expected, but as the central bank's message was rather confusing, markets reacted in a mixed and volatile way to the first rate hike of the new Fed Chair.

As I wrote earlier this month, the NDP subtly shifted their messaging over the past few months, focusing on launching new programs and projects that they argue will «make lives better for Albertans,» rather than trying to out - flank the conservatives on economic issues.

If in doubt, do not click on links presented in any message you think is suspicious, rather attempt to authenticate any requests via trusted communications channels such as calling a company representative.

If, as some persons maintain, Christianity was a total transformation of the message of Jesus — a doctrine about Jesus rather than Jesus» own teaching — then it is of paramount importance to see how and why this transformation took place, or rather, first of all, whether the theory of transformation is true.

It is therefore quite significant that a recent article by Bultmann seems to be by implication a defence of Ksemarm's position against an initial criticism by the Barthian Hermann Diem: Diem had maintained that when all is said and done Käsemann has presented Jesus as only proclaiming «general religious and moral truths» about «the freedom of the children of God», rather than a message in continuity with the Church's kerygma.

The convergence model represents human communication as a dynamic, cyclical process over time, characterized by (1) mutual causation rather than one - way mechanistic causation, and emphasizing (2) the interdependent relationship of the participants, rather than a bias toward either the gisource» or the «receiver» of «messages.»

But this does not exclude, it rather implies that prophecy and vision remain in the Church as an actualization of the permanent message of Christ.

Am not anti-Christ nor Anti-Jewish just like all Muslims am a monotheist so must be rather Anti-Polytheists & Disbelievers... but believe me it is not hatred but rather pityness for the innocents and hardness towards the wicked transgressors... Guess that is all about it unless few of our brother got the message wrong!?! Since we learned from the Quran verses that there will be in paradise from the Jews, Christian and others from other beliefs... and since God forgives any thing else other than to assign for him partners as polytheists do, then that means many of Christians and Jews are monotheist towards God although might show otherwise of fears from dominant doctrine... As it seems few Christians have realized some how they were wrong some where, then had to introduce that Trinity to correct it to show as if monotheist but made another mistake by having God the One Divided into Three then and remained Divided as Three as now and for eternity...as polytheists do, then that means many of Christians and Jews are monotheist towards God although might show otherwise of fears from dominant doctrine... As it seems few Christians have realized some how they were wrong some where, then had to introduce that Trinity to correct it to show as if monotheist but made another mistake by having God the One Divided into Three then and remained Divided as Three as now and for eternity...As it seems few Christians have realized some how they were wrong some where, then had to introduce that Trinity to correct it to show as if monotheist but made another mistake by having God the One Divided into Three then and remained Divided as Three as now and for eternity...as if monotheist but made another mistake by having God the One Divided into Three then and remained Divided as Three as now and for eternity...as Three as now and for eternity...as now and for eternity...!?

The task of the didaskalos is to defend the difference between the organic fidelity of our interpretation now and the meaning of the message then as well as to oppose other «adaptations» or «applications» which rather constitute betrayal.

It seems that the earliest preaching of the resurrection made no attempt to describe the appearances, but rather proclaimed the fact of the resurrection as God's reversal of the disgrace of crucifixion: «the death of Jesus is interpreted as Israel's No to the proclamation of Jesus and the resurrection as God's Yes, his validation of Jesus» message.

His message that through Jesus we have come to know God's justice as love rather than as wrath has deeply shaped our understanding.

One does not «correlate» the Catholic faith to something else, or «recontextualise» the faith to some new cultural condition, but rather one «interrupts» the non-Christian culture with the message of the divine mediatorial office of the person of Christ as expressed so powerfully in the Letter to the Hebrews.

When society supports the terminally ill in committing suicide — by not engaging in suicide prevention for them as we do for other categories of suicidal people, and by legalizing access to lethal means — it sends the insidious message that the lives of the dying are less important and less worth protecting than are those of the healthy, and even that their families (and society) may be better off if they die sooner rather than later.

If the majority of society put half of the effort into developing their intellect and forming their own beliefs that many put into living a life controlled by what any random man who claims they are spreading God's message, perhaps people would actually come to their own conclusions rather than simply accepting the ones presented to them as the one and only truth.

mzh, why does your omnipotent being rely on something as primitive as a book to get its message out, rather than use more modern and more direct means?

Traditionalists who like to see morality as a series of rules with messages about bending one's will creakingly into line with stern teachings will not like this book very much — or, rather, they will like it, and they will know it makes sense, but they will try very hard to dislike it because it presents the Catholic and incarnational message in a John Paul II sort of way.

Rather, I want to emphasize the alienness of the Christian message as a whole: This savior, whom the Gospel proclaims, is an intruder, one who breaks into human reality like a «thief in the night» — unexpected, unrecognized, indeed unappealing.

For example, when we hear that «he is as sharp as a tack,» or that «she is as bright as a penny,» we understand these as coded messages rather than as the literal truth.

While Cobb eschews, admirably, what he regards as the unjustified and pejorative understanding of Pharisaism, he contends that «Jesus» message is presented over against Pharisaic Judaism rather than directly in relation to the prophets themselves.

Contemporary pastoral care theory and practice, by contrast, seem to bear the message of hope, liberation and the coming Kingdom of God only as alternatives to hopeless suffering rather than as a horizon of meaning within hopeless suffering.

In fact (and somewhat ironically), the missionary enthusiasm present in The Christian Message for the World — an enthusiasm engendered by liberal Christian expectations of the rapidly evolving «Kingdom of God» — is today represented more consistently by conservative and so - called «evangelical» Christians, who look to the twenty - first century in rather the same way the Liberals looked to the twentieth: as «The Christian Century.»

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

Christian books and conferences tend to perpetuate the idea that a woman's worth should be measured by the details, rather than the message, of Proverbs 31, and like the magazines in the checkout line, often focus on fitness, domesticity, beauty, and success as ways of earning the favor of God and men.

That said, if pentecostals and charismatics like me want the church and the wider community to treat our message seriously, rather than dismiss us as frauds or fools, we need to acknowledge that a culture of embellishment and exaggeration pervades some aspects of «revivalist» ministry.

The biblical theology to which he refers emerged after World War II as a consensus with certain characteristics: (1) the Bible is assumed to be relevant for modern men and women; (2) biblical criticism is to be accepted; (3) the message of the Bible is a unity, if a unity in diversity; (4) revelation is historical encounter rather than right doctrine; (5) the biblical (Hebraic) mentality is distinctive.

Rather, he prefers to let his congregation submit questions, topics and issues they're interested in, and then he goes through them and uses those as the point of his weekly message.

Rather it would point to Christ as One who has underwritten the promise of God to renew all life... Such a view certainly leaves the possibility open for a person who had been witnessed to, to want to name the Name and become part of the historic community, the church, which is called to be faithful to the Gospel message among the nations.

Such material should be rejected as pornographic when its fundamental message is degrading and exploitative and when it treats sex as an object for use rather than as a medium of human relationship.

This message, however, does not mean, as it has often been interpreted, that the Judgment no longer means anything to him who believes in Christ, but rather that he alone survives the Judgment who has become a new man through faith in Christ, who has «passed from death to life» and hence belongs among those who «by patient continuance in well - doing seek for eternal life.»

Sadly religious people tend to give as a sort of payment for what the church does for them rather than to pass on the message to someone else.

Further, it drives home the message to employees and stakeholders that you are taking social responsibility seriously and treating it as a long - term strategic business element, rather than a short - term tactic.

As of yet, no one has productised packaging, it still remains a commodity and a medium, rather than a message.

Secondly, the messages delivered by all keynote speakers were uncompromising in their honest presentation of the reality that if Australia wants to have a secure food supply — and above all one based on a healthy diet, produced in ways that restore rather than further degrade soil, water tables and ecosystems — then business as usual is simply not an option.

So it'll come as no surprise that, upon receiving some rather passive aggressive emails / messages of all sorts relating to this blog in the last couple weeks, I got thisclose to meeting those notions of skepticism with something to the tune of «OMG.

Next time we as in us the fans believe that one of these meetings could be helpful we should have a petition (I would prefer signing a constructive petition rather than your usual should they go / stay are the good / bad) and get the petition / message to the players.

It also sets off a bureaucratic chain of events which backs up the message that fathers can treat parenting as optional, as health visitors talk to mothers rather than fathers, children centres build their services around what they perceive to be mothers» (rather than families») needs, schools fail to record contact details of fathers and, when a young person ends up in court for misbehaviour, magistrates hand down parenting orders to mothers rather than fathers, even when the father is resident in the household and present in the courtroom.

«Interestingly, [our] study did not find significant clustering of muscle - enhancing behaviors within schools,» said Eisenberg, which suggests that, «rather than being driven by a particular sports team coach or other features of a school social landscape, muscle - enhancing behaviors are widespread and influenced by factors beyond school, likely encompassing social and cultural variables such as media messages and social norms of behavior more broadly.»

«There may be certain messages that are more likely to encourage athletes to report concussive symptoms, such as focusing on short - term outcomes (concussions affect one's ability to play well) rather than long - term outcomes (playing with a concussion can cause brain damage).

They can bring home an income and be wonderful caregivers for their kids, but the message I was trying convey to you is that since we learn gender roles early on, it is to no surprise why as young boys, one would learn values that are geared more towards homeward stability and success, rather than other virtues, i.e. dependent behavior.

I believe it would be better for everyone if we stuck to the positive message rather than portraying formula as poison or formula feeders as the devil.

I do worry that the message that a bit of formula won't do any harm will get taken by some as a blanket response to poor breastfeeding and take us backwards in the attempt to normalise and support breastfeeding, rather than taking us forward

As we stated in the letter, our intent was to initiate a constructive dialogue in the hopes that we could «unite in a shared vision rather than engaging in divisive messaging.»

Yet the attempt to humanise some rather abstract messages by telling stories about ordinary people — such as «Gareth», whom Miliband had met while walking in Hampstead Heath — fell horribly flat.