Sentences with phrase «stories of you stumbling»

Not exact matches

Another type of entrepreneurial story that rivets audiences is when the protagonist accidentally stumbles onto a path to success.

Martin Saunders asks: why do so many major films seem to stumble into the central story of the Christian faith?

Have you ever been flipping through the channels on a random Saturday afternoon, stumbled upon Shawshank Redemption on basic cable and spent the next two hours watching the harrowing story of Andy Dufresne?

You seem to have highlighted particular sins as though some are worse than others all sin leads to death not just the big ones because we all are sinners.All have gone astray none are righteous.I believe the worst sin is pride idolatry is the first commandment we set ourselves as Gods.Regardless of what the sin is, our hearts are condemned by our pride.It wasnt the sin of homosexuality or sexual deviance that destroyed sodom.It was there pride and it is one of our biggest stumbling blocks in our christian walk or it certainly was for me.We look at the story of the adulterous woman and we think adultery is a terrible crime but the story is for our benefit to show that we all are sinners that Jesus does nt condemn us but came to save us.And when Jesus says go and sin no more he was not only talking to the woman but everyone else that was around judging her for her sin its a universal message that we all need to see that we all are condemned because of our sin that Jesus came to save us and that we turn from our sin and follow him.Because he is the way the truth and the life.brentnz

When I try to describe the spirit - filled life of living loved, I resort to metaphors and stories: I'll stumble through the words of John 15 about life in the vine or say phrases like «live and move and have our being» and sometimes I talk about Isaiah or maybe shepherds and sheep who know His voice, but usually I am left saying «it's like this...» and then I am only bearing witness to the Spirit's movement in my own life and the Love who transforms me.

The rest of us will just have to stumble along finding meaning in our friends, relatives and all the other things that have actual meaning as opposed to empty feel good stories that can only be seen after death.

On every Lenten journey many people stumble over the paradox of the Christian story.

These stories bear little resemblance to the narratives of my own or the ones I've stumbled across in my community.

Go all the way back to Genesis and read stories of people who stumbled as they faithfully walked with God.

And on the other, his is a story of what it meant to be Jewish as the continent stumbled out of the first world war, then marched into the second.

You can't pick up a copy of The Wall Street Journal or Popular Mechanics or The Plumbers Friend without stumbling over a story on jogging.

After a week of talking quite a bit about synthetic food dyes (namely, the FDA's decision not to require food dye warning labels, even though dyes exacerbate hyperactivity in some kids), I was happy to stumble on this story.

While tooling around the Internet one day I stumbled upon the story of Sara Salo, a public health advocate in Bend, Oregon who is going to be biking across the country to bring attention to school food reform.

I was researching something online yesterday, and I stumbled into a number of stories about networked video baby monitors getting hacked.

In the interview, which took place almost five days after Facebook first tried to get out in front of the Cambridge Analytica story, Zuckerberg continuously stumbled over his words and looked caught off guard («I think technology is increasingly a trend in the world,» he observed).

You could say the story of its demise began 14 months ago, when two observers near Kislovodsk, Russia, stumbled across a dim, fuzzy object while they scanned the sky near the constellations Cancer and Gemini.

As it happened, I'd written a science fiction story that seemed like it might fit — it was about a couple of researchers working in a dusty lab who stumble upon a universal cure for cancer (you remember I said science fiction, right?)

That was the story for these five women until each stumbled onto an unexpected surprise: a new kind of workout that not only got her body in motion but was actually fun, too.

When Bigtree began investigating the story of the CDC Whistleblower and the fraud perpetrated by the CDC, he soon realized that he had stumbled upon a story of corruption and deception beyond any he had ever seen.

But let me tell you the story of how I stumbled upon this unbeatable formula and the research behind it...

If you follow me on Instagram and happen to stumble upon my Insta Stories, you know I love sharing a lot of songs that I'm currently listening to.

Both start with an unknown traveler stumbling into a story of world - ending proportions.

Among Passions Network's thousands of success stories, one of Michael's favorites is a story he stumbled upon accidentally.

Everyone wants that fairytale story of how they met their future husband or wife, but in the fast - paced world that we live in today the chances of just stumbling across your soul mate are much more slim.

The sheer power of these stories carries The Kennedys even during the occasional stumbles that result from trying to pack 40 years of history into five and a half hours of programming.

It stutters and stumbles as Welles submerges Tarkington's story in a mess of radio and stage technique.

Evidently inspired by true events, The Men Who Stare at Goats stars Ewan McGregor as Bob Wilton - an unassuming reporter who stumbles upon what he believes to be the story of his life after encountering a former soldier named Lyn Cassady (George Clooney).

Director and co-screenwriter (along with Chris Gerolmo, Allison Burnett, and Michael Bortman) Rod Lurie tells the uplifting tale of a sports writer who almost lost it all before stumbling into the story of a lifetime in this uplifting sports - themed drama starring Josh Hartnett and Samuel L. Jackson.

Jerry Maguire is the story of how Jerry, cut loose from his identity, gently stumbles into a new kind of life.

The Haunting is a superior ghost story that still doesn't overcome the stumbling - block of the whole subgenre: if there's any chance for a rational explanation for weird events, anything non-supernatural is as least as credible as the supernatural conclusions everyone is so fast to embrace.

Contemporary viewers will find the story to unfold unusually slowly, as young lovers Gail Berke (Bisset) and David Sanders (a shaggy, moustachioed Nick Nolte, in his first major starring role), vacationing in Bermuda, stumble across the wreckage of the Goliath, a World War II - era munitions freighter laden with vials of medicinal morphine and a variety of more traditional booty.

A journalist stumbles across a story she wrote when she was 13 that forces her to re-examine her memories of her first sexual relationship.

Starring George Clooney, Britt Robertson, and Hugh Laurie, the film tells the story of a teenage girl who stumbles across a mysterious pin that opens the door to a futuristic world, and the hermit inventor she crosses paths with, who may know much more about her discovery than meets the eye.

«Mud,» written and directed by Jeff Nichols («Take Shelter»), is ostensibly an adventure story about two teenage boys who stumble upon a charismatic outlaw on an island in Dewitt, Ark., but it's also a very specific type of coming - of - age story.

Despite Winslet's stunning cowgirl fashionista, The Dressmaker is a whole lot of weirdness packed into a story that stumbles around like an emotionally - inept drunk.

It's Brad Pitt leading a cast of otherwise expendable characters in an entertaining ride, but with a flimsy story and special effects that actually make the zombies less scary than when they're being played by stumbling extras.

Kaurismaki proved himself a master of simple, affectionate, minimalist portraits with little dialogue and plenty of wry, dry humor with Shadows in Paradise (1986), a story of numb service industry survivors (Kaurismaki favorites Matti Pellonpää and Kati Outinen) who stumble through a relationship without ever losing their hang - dog expression.

The project began when author, journalist, television veteran, and filmmaker David Stenn was working on a book about star Jean Harlow, who died mysteriously at 26, and stumbled upon the story of Patricia Douglas, a Douglas with a much more tragic relationship to the film industry than Last Vegas star Michael.

The film is based on the true story of Margaret Humphries, an unassuming social worker and family woman who inadvertently stumbles upon the untold story of child migrants, who, having been told their parents had died, were piled into massive ships and brought to Australia where they endured hard work and often abuse.

Nightcrawler tells the story of Lou Bloom, an eccentric young man who stumbles across the career of freelance photography in Los Angeles.

Wiseau remains an intentionally mystifying figure as the story is told through the eyes of straight man Greg, but Sestero isn't a strong enough character to carry the story next to Wiseau, and it stumbles several times into formulaic, clichéd territory that renders it forgettable once the end credits roll.

So — to borrow the language of Eliot's countrymen — prepare to be gobsmacked by the terrific British import Their Finest, a smart, funny, and moving period story of a woman (Gemma Arterton) who stumbles into a job writing WWII propaganda movies.

The film tells the true story of a young German soldier who during the final weeks of World War Two runs away from the Wehrmacht but eventually ends up committing mass murder while impersonating a Captain with the help of a uniform he happens to stumble upon while trying to survive after deserting his army unit.

It's got something to do with the lack of a human grounding: the only other time Pixar stumbled was with its similarly bleak A Bug's Life (that picture resorting, like Cars, to racial caricature as its primary tentpole), which is also the only other time the company has neglected to ground its story with homo sapien ballast.

They stumbled a little with «It's Kind of a Funny Story,» but everyone can stumble when your taste seems to be as omnivorous and diverse as theirs (they've done a drama, a sports film and a mental illness comedy so far).

Make the kidnappers the protagonists and tell the story of a trio of ne'er - do - wells who stumble into a life - changing crime.

Trollhunters follows the story of Jim Lake Jr., an ordinary teenager, who stumbles upon a mystical amulet, inadvertently discovering an extraordinary secret civilization of mighty trolls beneath his small town of Arcadia.

The series will tell the story of Jake Epping (Franco), «an unassuming divorced English teacher who stumbles upon a time portal that leads to -LSB-...]

Kurosawa's story about a sexual assault and murder — told from the perspective of people who either participated in the events or stumbled onto them — is a «poem... that changed my perception of what is possible in film,» Altman says.

Some reporters for Forbes.com, the online version of Forbes magazine, stumbled on to the lack of information about any of the organizations or people in the article, bringing much heat to New Republic editor to get to the bottom of Glass's story, and decipher whether Glass embellished the facts, or worse, made it up altogether.