For it is the Resurrection alone that gives
us sure hope of a life to come.
But they are at peace, for though in the sight of men they may be punished, they have
a sure hope of immortality; and after a little chastisement they will receive great blessings, because God has tested them and found them worthy to be his... But the just live for ever; their reward is in the Lord's keeping, and the Most High has them in his care.
And the prophet's
sure hope of Israel's re-creation, of her restoration again to life and meaning, is climaxed in the stirring description of the overthrow of Gog — Babylon no doubt for Ezekiel, but certainly in subsequent centuries again and again the oppressor, the most conspicuous contemporary source of injustice and brutality and all human anguish, whose overthrow must precede the reign of God in history, the establishment of his just rule among men.
They can choose to study for a job or career with almost
sure hopes of employment.
So sadly, some idiots made
sure the hope of «home» was perhaps still a little in the future as ugly clashes took place halfway down the Trevor Brooking stand — effectively sullying the great man's name.
Not exact matches
Adam Legge, the director
of the city's chamber
of commerce, noted in an interview later that the Calgary business community perhaps were not feeling the grip
of the
sure hand they were
hoping Notley would possess.
Whoever is managing TMZ.com is clearly a fan
of duct tape, Band - Aids,
hope, and prayers, because it
sure doesn't look like there is a solid plan behind their stack.
I'm
sure many
of us are
hoping that the sooner Governments release the grip on services and utilities, and stop hiding behind the «national security» banner, we might actually start seeing some
of the world's most intelligent companies being allowed to do what they do best, innovate.
But make
sure you talk with your partner at the beginning about what they
hope to get out
of the business at the end.
But, entrepreneurs
hoping to land their own licenses will also have to make
sure that they have the approval
of their local county or municipality, and the Los Angeles Times notes that most
of the cities in California have still not approved recreational marijuana sales.
Now I'm
sure that it's more than a little frustrating to all those folks waiting in the wings or right outside the office —
hoping that their request or project is still on the top
of the pile — or worse yet, getting ready to dump some new problem in their boss's lap.
Maybe that's true, maybe it's not — as a father
of two young daughters, I
sure hope not.
A contribution to the college fund
of a friend or relative is unlikely to be appreciated by kids
hoping for a Wii U, but it
sure makes parents happy.
I think the most you can do is
hope for the best and make
sure your money — most especially your 401k or other retirement cash — is well diversified among US and foreign stocks, bonds and a big buffer
of safe cash.
«I'm worried that a lot
of people have invested a lot
of hope in G.D.P.R., and I'm not
sure it's going to deliver,» said Ben Scott, a senior adviser to the Open Technology Institute at New America, a think tank based in Washington.
So if you are
hoping your bond holdings will act as a shock absorber during times
of volatility, it is worth reviewing your particular holdings to make
sure they are positioned to play the role you
hope they will.
Debt leveraging is depicted as the easiest and even the
surest way to accumulate wealth — going into debt to buy assets whose prices are being inflated on credit, or to spend in the
hope of paying out
of rising and more easily earned future income.
Project Loon is still an experimental technology and we're not quite
sure how well it will work, but we
hope it helps get people the information and communication they need to get through this unimaginably difficult time,» Alastair Westgarth, head
of Project Loon, says in a blog post.
I
hope you have the most amazing vacation, because I'm pretty
sure you haven't stopped moving since our days
of PR school, and you've definitely earned the break!!!
We
hope that as customers
of Coinsecure, you'll stand by us on this hour
of want by offering us with the help as we diligently work to make
sure that all
of our buyer's funds are recovered and to go away no stone unturned.»
When I showed one
of those memos to an evangelical friend, he said: «I
sure hope this doesn't get circulated in the evangelical world!»
I
sure hope your mind is more reasonable when you are doing the science part
of your job.
I
sure hope to see a similar article discrediting the entire Jewish religion on one
of their most holy holidays.
Reality... his bones would have been produced and marveled at as proof that he did not resurrect the Jewish leaders at that time for
sure would have produced them... providing
of course that they were available... why do nt you take the time to study, read the evidence for yourself before spouting like so many other bitter atheists (that I once was for many years)... give love a try you might enjoy it, it gives live meaning and true purpose, everything finds its place in Christ... I
hope you find
hope some day...
I'm
sure there are many like me who believe that we have deep faith and call Jesus friend and teacher, but I have to say, I can only
hope that my arms and hands could show that kind
of mercy and love.
I
sure hope the next time Bill Maher makes one
of his insulting, snarkiy, sleazy comments the media and the Left (that's sort
of redundant) go as ballistic.
We might ask in turn how
sure the course really was, but as to the first question, I know what answer Neuhaus --- a man who lived every day in the
hope of the resurrection --- would have offered.
The only pearl worth casting before a corpse is the
sure and certain
hope of the resurrection.
Now that we're learning more about the widespread coordinated attacks on Christians and other targets (the death toll is at least 162 in this Associated Press report), I
sure hope to see more in - depth coverage
of what's happening there.
She told Premier: «We should make
sure we don't avoid the tricky passage in the Bible... there's a lot
of hope for people who feel suicidal in the Bible.
I am
sure working for Catholic Charities was not as lucrative as the doctor had
hope... and way more work than he was used to... having been retired and not used to working so hard... he probably felt like he was a volunteer instead
of a salaried person, poor guy!
Sure, truth and the object
of our
hope do exist very much outside
of us, but faith depends on us in some sense.
To be
sure, under the influence
of social solidarity, Hebrew
hopes of the future were in the beginning centered on an undying nation upon earth, but when
hope outgrew this early stage and resurrection from Sheol became a Jewish expectation, it took
of necessity the form
of an individual return.
«the waning political influence
of the movement is now more than apparent» I
sure hope so.
@Mark, I feel like the world would be a much better place, if instead
of hoping that they had believed in the right afterlife, people
hoped that they had lead a good life, and tried to make
sure that they did.
It was only in God that believers could be
sure of a «
hope and a future» (Jer.
If you still aren't
sure what to make
of evolution or if you have always been suspicious
of it, I
hope these ideas will inspire you to at least give the theory second chance.
Holy impatience is the fruit
of patient love which believes all,
hopes all, bears all, which is not embittered but forgiving, which can wait and is prepared to sow a seed which others will reap, which gives without being
sure in advance that it will also receive.
If you're not
sure how to pray for our country as we enter into an unprecedented era
of leadership, we
hope this book will be an excellent resource.
I can see how one can look at this idea and look at the following examples in Hebrews 11 as «Because they were
sure they would get this reward, they did this thing» but as the author points out in verse 39 that they didn't get what they imagined they would, so if we understand faith as «being
sure» it would turn out that it is «being
sure»
of something and being totally wrong — instead it makes more sense to understand Hebrews 11:1 as saying that «faith is a realization (or actualization)»
of our
hopes, a realization that the author points out is greater than we could expect and be
sure in.
I'm not
sure, but I hold lightly any
of my thoughts, and
hope centuries
of thinkers before me don't mind that I have borrowed and corrupted theirs?
Be
sure to check out Fail: Finding
Hope and Grace in the Midst
of Ministry Failure.
Tobit's declaration that funding one's heavenly treasury is the only
sure way to secure
hope for a day
of distress seems to be little more than wishful thinking.
I would
hope that no Christian pastor would fail to recognize that that completely shameless triumphalism — and with it an utterly sincere and unrestrained hatred
of suffering and death — is the
surest foundation
of Christian
hope, and the proper Christian response to grief.
I
sure hope that the Christian influence and all the false worshiping
of a sensationalized book that is re-written every twenty minutes has passed.
and
hope that won't be difficult after all the King and the Kingdom are a good valuable friends and Allies
of the USA although am not
sure about their relation with Pakistan if still any respect remains between both countries.
(«She
sure hoped Lucy Page and Gloria got a load
of Jojo's anxious body language.»)
Either way, make
sure you follow the way
of love and
hope as revealed in Jesus rather than the way
of fear.
Being pregnant isn't an IOU for a child, it isn't a
sure thing, and whether or not someone else decides to go through the diffuclty process
of hoping and making it through those steps is THEIR decision.
All we can be
sure of is that he believed in a real world in which was already realized what could only be
hoped and prayed for here.