Don't think of this kind of
sacrifice as a burden — think of it as a way to invest in your relationship!
Not exact matches
Besides saving students thousands off of their cumulative student debt
burden, this payment strategy sets the stage for future personal finance skills — such
as budgeting, and making small
sacrifices in the present that will bring big rewards in the future.
Just today in Philadelphia we had another priest / monsignor indicted for molesting little children and / or covering it up, and we need to share the «
sacrifice», I mean we need to share the
burden of the legal bills and financial settlements to keep it
as quiet
as possible.»
When sin is viewed
as a
burden, people want to be relieved of this
burden, and so this leads them to send it away through
sacrifice.
It was not they who had borne the
burden of patient endurance and
sacrifice, walking,
as it were, in a «burning fiery furnace.»
However, once God opened up my eyes that I deserved damnation
as a sinner, I finally surrendered and accepted the atonement of Christ
as sacrifice for my sin by faith, and a heavy
burden was lifted off my back, and I have a clean conscience before God, and I also felt the power of God saving me from my sins.
What I am against is the use of Scripture
as a defense for the practice, especially when these passages are used to lay
burdens of guilt on others if they don't give more, tithe more, and «joyfully»
sacrifice more.
The NSB report acknowledged these
sacrifices as «costs to the students in lost opportunities they might otherwise have pursued, the quality of life during the educational period, and the debt
burden incurred while pursuing a degree.»
Besides saving students thousands off of their cumulative student debt
burden, this payment strategy sets the stage for future personal finance skills — such
as budgeting, and making small
sacrifices in the present that will bring big rewards in the future.