Sentences with phrase «redemptive story»

«I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories,» says Walker.

Remember our friend Jim LePage, whose Word series captured some of the most beautiful, compelling, bizarre, troubling, violent, and redemptive stories from the Bible in stunning poster - style images?

God may not give us answers to why we're still single, but that doesn't mean there isn't an amazing redemptive story in the making.

Looking back at Spider - Man 3, Franco's redemptive story as Osborn was one of the lackluster film's better parts, and he is often praised in a largely praiseless outing for Raimi.

I especially recommend Lily and The Octopus to people who understand the powerful bond between dogs and their owners, but really, I think anyone who enjoys emotionally authentic and redemptive stories filled with humor, heart and imagination will find this a satisfying read.

When he died on March 4, 2016, we lost one of the last of a generation of Southern writers whose humorous, riveting, sad, terrifying and redemptive stories captured the ragged ways families fall in and out of love and hope.

Kara once stated the following: I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories, even though people want them and strive for them.

With bold and twisted characters like those of Flannery O'Connor or Frederick Buechner, Worgul weaves a rich and redemptive story that captures the spirit of its gritty, urban setting as well as any American novel that is deeply rooted in a place.

In this experience I find my habits of thought and even my personal crises challenged and confronted by a whole new order which we have called God's redemptive story.

He was part of a redemptive story that extended — another Cullmann theme — through time and eternity.

I have decided (for now anyway) that how we do a thing is as much a part of the redemptive story of God as the conclusion of it all.

If we genuinely believe that the redemptive story contained in the Bible is not just our story but the world's story, then we have reason, not to keep it to ourselves, but to proclaim that news with urgency and enthusiasm and to live accordingly.

It is a redemptive story precisely because it is complex.The characters are complex.

We were commissioned to reflect biblical principles in the middle of secular culture, pointing to God's redemptive story.

She has decided to live out the redemptive story of the gospel with her life and every day she invites all members of the SPU community to live in that story with her.

McKnight believes that the mutuality (or egalitarian) view taps into the «oneness - otherness - oneness» theme of the Bible's redemptive story that he introduced earlier in the book.

He finished the game with 34 points, 10 assists, and six rebounds, and on any other night his redemptive story would have been the focus.

Many watching the film find in it a redemptive story about a mother's relationship with her child.

Furthermore, while it is a redemptive story, Danny Collins does not suggest that going back to your roots and reconnecting with your family is a miraculous solution to life's ills, as Danny's fears and insecurities, as well as those of the people around him, continue even with the possibility of resolution and redemption.

Morrison films this redemptive story — which thanks to a bumpy screenplay from Melissa James Gibson has a couple hard - to - swallow moments — with a dusty gray palette that suits its characters and masquerades the story's more obvious sentimentality.

Where Martin Scorsese's first foray into both 3D and children's narrative justly cleaned up in all the technical categories, on the small screen there is less disguising the frailties of a redemptive story adapted from Brian Selznick's breezeblock novel.

As its title would suggest, «Goliath» is a redemptive story about an unlikely hero rising up against a daunting foe.

I, Tonya is not about glamorizing the actions taken by her and others, nor is it a redemptive story of a misunderstood celebrity.

Based on the true history of Town Line, New York — the only town north of the Mason Dixon line to secede from the Union — readers are treated to a heartbreaking and redemptive story that captures both the ugliness and beauty of life during the Civil War.

Out of the ashes of Mimi's deeply troubled history, Julia MacDonnell gives us a redemptive story of the family bonds that break us and remake us.

I like the redemptive stories of lives — look at who Jesus had as disciples, who followed him, who doubted, betrayed — and even though they believed.

Thanks to a documentary underwritten by the Kirkpatrick Foundation, The Dogs of Lexington, tells the redemptive story of shelter dogs, prisoners, and people.

«I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories, even though people want them and strive for them.»

For the trajectory, the researchers noted whether they were reading a redemptive story (i.e., the story starts out negative and ends positive) or a contamination story (i.e., the story starts out positive and ends negative).