«It was a stark reminder of the incredible bravery and
sacrifice being made by all our servicemen and women who put their lives on the line to keep us safe.
Look how many
sacrifices are made by mothers who truly love their children.
One unique and interesting aspects of this year's WASA is the kind recognition and appreciation of the supreme
sacrifices been made by the army personnel in the various theatres of operation in Nigeria, by Governor of Enugu State Rt..
In the end the ultimate
sacrifice is made by Chief Vick (Kirsten Nelson) who takes a 6 - month suspension in exchange for Lassie and Juliet getting to keep their jobs.
This is representative of an age of foolishness in which
the sacrifices are made by learners who desire and need to learn, but see no motivation in learning that stems from curiosity and a very human love of learning.
Not exact matches
The book shows «how we could cut emissions
by up to 50 percent without asking people to
make big
sacrifices,» Gates says, and he even claims it
's a relatively light read.
Other companies
are making financial
sacrifices to help those affected
by the attacks.
Yet the finish line for Price may
be when he can lift his own salary up to market rate —
making it easier for the company to replace him, if necessary, and show CEOs that
sacrifice by the boss
is only temporary when overhauling a company's wage structure.
Incase Sonic
Made by a company that
's famous for stylish iPhone cases and boasting the most fashion - forward design of any audiophile - grade headphones on the market, the unimaginatively named Sonics
are easily dismissed as
sacrificing function for form.
The source said the pay cap
was brought in to «deal with the mess we inherited from Labour» and acknowledged the «hard work and
sacrifice»
made by public sector workers, saying jobs had
been protected and the deficit reduced
by three quarters.
Though investors and analysts sometimes question fast - casual chains about the cost
sacrifices they may
be making by holding a firm line on their menus, Shaich isn't dissuaded.
In an era when cyber spying —
by China or the National Security Agency —
is a real concern for corporations, it
makes sense to have a phone that
sacrifices itself to save your secrets.
Though people liked to portray themselves as
making sacrifices for their business, they weren't, in fact, helping anybody
by not taking vacations.
«We all enter the program with busy careers and social lives, and then we inject 20 to 30 hours of homework and 16 hours of classroom time... and the only way we can accommodate the new demands
is by making sacrifices in droves.»
But on Monday he said, «The final straw came this weekend,» when Trump appeared on This Week With George Stephanopoulos and discussed how he
's made sacrifices for his country
by building and providing jobs.
Whether it
's salesman of the year, rookie of the year, or most improved, if you
're motivated
by recognition or contests, then ensure you frame your resolutions for 2018 around an incentive that
is worth
making sacrifices for.
The Province of B.C.
is willing to
make significant environmental
sacrifices for projects that will bring economic benefits to the Province of B.C.. On the other hand, they will block a project needed
by a land - locked sister province, a project that would benefit all of Canada, claiming that they
are doing so because they must protect the environment, protect the land from damage and reduce global warming.
By leveraging some advantages that our college provides in terms of housing and healthcare as well as
making some
sacrifices (to live in the student housing which not have great location and accommodations), we
are able to stay debt free and build our net worth.
2014.06.11 RBC donates to the Moncton Fallen RCMP Members Fund In recognition of the
sacrifices made by the fallen RCMP officers and to support their families, RBC
is donating $ 15,000 to the Moncton Fallen RCMP Members Fund...
In recognition of the
sacrifices made by the fallen RCMP officers and to support their families, RBC
is donating $ 15,000 to the Moncton Fallen RCMP Members Fund...
Situated near the heritage - designated site of the original D - Day landings, the Juno Beach Centre
is a permanent memorial designed to honour the
sacrifices made by Canadians during the Second World War.
It
was even more obvious the
sacrifice we
made by leaving our friendships in a place where the creative process would
be impossible.
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie can
make you live forever if you accept a blood
sacrifice and symbolically eat his flesh and drink his blood, and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that
is present in humanity because a woman
made from a rib
was convinced
by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree:
makes perfect sense
A big magic fairy man spoke a spell and then there
was earth and light before stars and then a snake talked to a woman and then the big magic fairy man had to
sacrifice himself to himself to appease himself
by exploiting a loophole in a plan he
made himself because of an invisible disease (sin) in an invisble body part (soul) so that he doesn't have to torture us forever in the big fire pit he
made even though he doesn't want anyone to ever go there but he just can't help himself.
It
is the spiritual reality of our sin, created
by it as a natural consequence of our free will — and something God never intended for us to go to, to the point of total self -
sacrifice to us to help save us from our own self -
made doom.
I know we
are all built differently,
by personally, I wouldn't
sacrifice the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ, to
make one person in my community feel comfortable.
Regarding your second fold, God Himself
is unchanging; it
is out of His Grace that He kept renewing His Covenants with man who could not keep and broke them until He (God)
made the «Ultimate Provision» for our redemption
by the «Ultimate
Sacrifice» of His only begotten Son, the «Passion of the Lord Jesus Christ,» the «New Covenant,» the «Good News» — Salvation, hence, the method of redemption
is what changed.
«For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never,
by the same
sacrifices that
are continually offered every year,
make perfect those who draw near.
Its production has
been somewhat limited
by the natural reticence of society to
make sacrifices for the afflicted.
God
sacrificed himself to himself to exploit a loophole in the plan he
made himself that he himself caused to go south
by providing a choice to people who didn't have the knowledge of good and evil to know that
is was evil to choose to eat of the tree.
It tells you that no matter how many mistakes you
make, how many bad things you do you can avoid any and all eternal consequences for this simply
by believing something, with no penalties, no retribution, no
sacrifices, nothing; just believe in Jesus and all
is forgiven.
After all, it
is argued, the Romans themselves did not appear to take it seriously (Vespasian's famous deathbed joke, «I think I
am becoming a god» seems to indicate as much): it could only
be believed
by those who
were either insane, such as Caligula, who went so far as to
sacrifice to himself daily and
made his beloved horse a high priest of his cult, or irredeemably barbarian and
by implication, stupid, such as the Britons of Colchester who built an enormous temple to the Divine Claudius.
We
are saved
by faith,
made whole, corporately and individually,
by God's holding us to God's own breast
by the love and
sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
What
makes the New Testament household codes powerful and countercultural
is that they actually challenge those hierarchies
by instructing all members of the household — even the masters, who in that culture held unilateral authority over their slaves, wives, and children — to imitate Jesus Christ in their relationships
by modeling his self -
sacrificing love.
Don't let me get carried away
by my own lusts and lose sight of this beautiful relationship we have that
is only
made possible through Jesus
being the
sacrifice.
Many believe that the first
sacrifice was carried out
by God Himself in Genesis 3:21 which says that God
made tunics of skin for Adam and Eve so that they could
be clothed.
«Jesus Christ, our Lord and God, when he
was about to offer himself once on the altar of the Cross to God the Father,
making intercession
by means of his death, so that he might gain there an eternal redemption, since his priesthood
was not to
be extinguished
by death, at the last Supper, «on the night that he
was handed over», left to his beloved Spouse the Church a visible
sacrifice, such as the nature of man requires,
by which the bloody
sacrifice achieved once upon the Cross might
be represented and its memory endure until the end of the age, and its saving power
be applied to the remission of those sins which
are daily committed
by us.»
Thus, in the very things most characteristic of the religion of ancient man, namely altars,
sacrifices and temples, the prophets of Israel took the first steps in the direction of their abolition, for YHWH,
being wholly different from the ancient gods, neither required the old cultic offerings, nor did He dwell in a house
made by hands.
If that
was true, there would
be no need to tell people about how sinful and deepicable they
are, how they need to
be «saved» and how they can
be «saved»
by believing there
was a human
sacrifice made on their behalf a long time ago.
Its availability has
been somewhat limited
by the natural reticence of society to
make the ultimate
sacrifice for the afflicted.
The significance of the
sacrifices was to see our sinfulness and turn our hearts back to God and that
is made clear with the death of Christ.The animals though could not remove our sin that
was only possible through Christ as God he could remove sin in the past present and future as he
is outside of time and space not like us.So there sins in effect
were covered
by Jesus as well in the old testament as in the new
by Gods we just did nt see it.The example of abraham able enoch they all
were righteous they
were justified before God.Enoch walked with God and
was no more that sounds like the rapture to me so the holy spirit
was present in that age just like us.We see that God has always
been at work to bring life and to bring mankind to salvation.
Study of Scripture through the filter of man's biases results in the type of man - centered ideas proferred
by Baden, like «God learns to accept their inherently evil nature», and humans «
are the only species that can give him what he wants — which, in the view of Genesis,
is bloody, burned animal
sacrifices», and «it
is, rather, our job to
make ourselves uncomfortable that he might
be appeased.»
What God
is looking for
is repentence and a turning to him rather than a turning away from him.God instituted the animal
sacrifices to show just how bad sin
was so we would
be sorry that we greived him.For us to
be made right there has to
be a choice to turn from sin and follow him and out of that decision there should
be a desire to walk in his ways.Under the old law part of that obedience
was to
make offerings however it
was by faith in God that
made the person righteous and not the blood of animals.
By stating that no
sacrifice for sin
is left in Hebrews 10:26, the author of Hebrews
is making a very similar point to that
made in Hebrews 6, namely, that the Hebrew Christians came to recognize that the Levitical sacrificial system did not grant them eternal life or forgiveness of sins.
Come on get real samson old testement its in there wilful sin my definition
is walking away from the Lord and doing opur own thing knowing what you should do but still do what you want to do.In the life of Samson WE SEE Gods forgiveness and the
sacrifice is the same as today repentence we
are saved
by the grace of God if we turn from our own way.He
was disobedient to his parents and to the Lord his heart
was no different from ours wilfully disobedient he chose sin over the Lord all the time sleeping with prostites and lying with foreign woman going his own way and yet God saves him not only that he
was Gods chosen instrument to deliver his people.The sad part
is his term
was only 20 years if he had walking in the ways of the Lord he should have had that ministry for 40 years that
is the term of completion.We cut ourselves short when we choose sin over the Lord which
is an idol
by the way.We all have those areas in our lives that we keep to ourselves thats wilful they
are our demons and our comforters.Until we surrender all to the Lord we can not
be overcomers and will
be influenced
by satan like samson it
is clear warning to us wilful sin or
making sin an idol in our lives has consequences better to serve the Lord with all our hearts even though samson did nt for much of his life God still showed him his grace and faithfullness.You can also see wilful sin in the Life of David yet God saves him but not all
were saved in the life of saul as he wouldnt listen to the Lord and kept walking according to his flesh.
The struggle against this tendency to
make the keeping of rules independent of the surrender to the divine will runs through the whole history of Israelite - Jewish faith — from the prophet's protest against
sacrifice without intention and the Pharisees» protest against the «tinged - ones» whose inwardness
is a pretence up till its peculiarly modern form in Hasidism, in which every action gains validity only
by a specific devotion of the whole man turning immediately to God.
Stirred
by the example of the martyrs who died rather than deny their Lord, Christians today should
be prepared to
make sacrifices for their faith.
Why did we take the privilege of
sacrificing him as an offering or
were we repeating the crime of the Sons of Adam when Cain killed his brother in jealousy about some
sacrifice offerings that
were made and
was accepted
by God for Cain's brother but not to Cain him self?
If modern liberal education
is to provide for the nurture of free men, it must regain the ideal of generality which characterized the traditional liberal arts, but it must do so without
sacrificing the variety and scope
made possible
by modern advances in knowledge.
Cheap products
made in China flooding the global market
are manufactured
by foreign joint ventures at the
sacrifice of numerous women workers.