Sentences with phrase «terms as a blessing»

To live to be old was an achievement — a modest victory over death, and one often thought of in religious terms as a blessing.

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Also, while payrolls continue to chug along posting numbers that are about 2x of most economists BLs from a few years back, in percentage terms, their growth is decelerating, from around 2 % back in 2015 to around 1.5 % now, much as we'd expect as we close in on full employment, whatever that much - sought - after state looks like.

In particular, we may note that there are three points at which the Kingdom teaching of the synoptic tradition tends to differ both from Judaism and from the early Church as represented by the remainder of the New Testament: in the use of the expression Kingdom of God for (1) the final act of God in visiting and redeeming his people and (2) as a comprehensive term for the blessings of salvation, i.e. things secured by that act of God, and (3) in speaking of the Kingdom as «coming».

Here the term is being used as in the synoptic tradition to denote the blessings of salvation and is equivalent to eternal life.

While the term gospel is a non-technical term for any good news, the NT usage seems to define it as good news for everybody, whether Jew or Gentile, believer or unbeliever, regarding the benefits and blessings which come to us from the person and work of Jesus Christ.

You might be wondering about Mohammed (Peace and Blessings be upon him and all the prophets before him) and how he is viewed in Islam (and the Quran that was revealed through him) as compared to Jesus in terms of his status

Answer is in way son of blessed called, what is termed as father in book of hindu Mithra sim, savior ism bible.

There must be something other than loving, committed, long - term relationship that is necessary for God to bless it as a sexual union He accepts.

Anglicans may find some leniency in the term «informal prayer» as distinct from an official marriage blessing.

Some conservative broadcasters themselves see their growth solely within theological terms, as God's blessing on their sincerity and faithfulness to the Gospel.

I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal holiness and not on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the Law into one of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».

In the Western scholastic tradition this theology has been named «Scotist» after Blessed John Duns Scotus who frames the question in terms of the glorification of the human nature of Christ as the highest good of creation:

The untruth comes when «traditional marriage» is offered up as a term that defines a religious concept of a God - blessed union of a young man and woman who fall in love, get married with no prior sexual experience, have children and remain together into old age.

I hear what you're saying in terms of «God bless you» as trite, «Christian - ese» rhetoric; but when I say it, I mean it.

And as long as we can all come to terms with the fact the three little pigs» woes stemmed more from shoddy construction and being neighbors with a wolf blessed with extraordinary lung capacity than with their choice of materials, the preference for this environmentally and socially responsible building method should only continue to grow.

In that novel, the great Russian writer shows Ivan, Aloysha, and Dmitri as caught in this dilemma of choice; and they are appraised, in their personal quality, as blessed or damned, as we might put it, not by the arbitrary fiat of a deus ex machina, but by the ineluctable working out of what they have made of themselves, what they have become, as this is evaluated in terms of what in an earlier chapter we called whatever ultimately determines and assesses true values in the scheme of things.

Its designation as «eucharist» is only the Greek rendition of the Jewish term berakha, that is, blessing and thanksgiving over bread and wine.

Much, much later Israel was able to speak, out of God's love, in terms of love even for Egypt and Assyria (in time to become as cordially despised in the popular mind as Egypt): «In that day Israel will be the third with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth, whom the LORD of hosts has blessed, saying, «Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my heritage»»blessed, saying, «Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my heritage»»Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my heritage»» (Isa.

This incident does raise the alarm in terms of the security surrounding travelling teams in Turkey and in a country which has experienced political unrest in spells over the past few years, it may be seen as a blessing in disguise that proper contingency plans can now be put into place.

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Though Nana Addo is blessed to be 73 years now, members of Brong - Ahafo Patriots beliefs he would be facing challenges such as forgetfulness, indecisiveness and regular bodily pains, therefore it would be an honorable thing for him to step aside and support President Mahama to go for the second term.

Dwayne Johnson is making his starring debut, Steven Brand (as Memnon) comes straight from a crop of failed TV shows, director Chuck Russell is just coming off of one of the worst movies in 2000 (Bless the Child), and a script that had been rewritten numerous times by hacks that haven't made very much in terms of great screenplays.

Then, we'll follow a history - related fact as it enters the brain of an average middle schooler, weaving its way towards the blessed long - term memory.

Over the long term, these fluctuations will smooth out and of course as an investor in the accumulation phase, a strong Swiss franc towards other currencies is a real blessing (see also The day when my portfolio dropped by 15 %).

Hawken — whose earlier résumé spans the civil - rights movement, green business, and a number of successful books (most notably Blessed Unrest, his 2007 overview of the global - justice and sustainability movement)-- chose the term as a exercise in «the rectification of names.»

Long term care riders and chronic illness riders attached to your life insurance can be a huge blessing to your estate as an alternative to using estate assets to pay for long term care.