Sentences with phrase «what gives your story»

The Holy Spirit included this not so small detail because it is what gives this story its object lesson for the church and it explains the significance of the question the eunuch asks Philip, «What prevents me from being baptized?»

What gives the story resonance is the tenderness and sacrifice and even innocence del Toro reveals amid the savagery.

Not exact matches

You can give an audience statistics, but stories are what will get people engaged.

There are, of course, limits to this truism, otherwise there'd be even more celebrity gossip «stories» out there than there already are, but for the most part news outlets like to give people what they want.

«They were responding to the material, they were very excited to meet us, but they really just weren't in the position to give us what the story needed,» Demos said.

It doesn't matter what you're selling; you have to know the buyer, and you have to give him a story that builds an emotional attachment to the product.

In this highly personal interview, Branson reveals stories about his childhood that give an insight into what drives and motivates him today, and how he built the Virgin brand.

But given that there were 301 gold medals given out in London 2012, each with a different story for how it was won, it's next to impossible to say what any given medal is truly worth.

They gave me exactly what I needed very quickly, respected my time and explained things in a very quotable way, they are going to come back to you for future stories.

Many entrepreneurs are unclear about the right path to take when raising money for their new business idea, and due to the attention given to venture capital - fueled success stories in the news, many ambitious entrepreneurs set their sights on becoming the next Evan Spiegel (or Snap) without enough thought about what is the right path for them..

He knows exactly what you're grappling with as a green company and gives you permission to tell your story.

Every client will expose the loan broker to new stories and interesting businesses, giving insight into what truly drives our economy.

We hear about her story, what she's learned and advice she would give others.

These contacts give him the real story — when others only get what the investment banks want them to see.

Given that oil is down at the moment with the news out of Middle East, what would take oil to move materially to US$ 50 would be some supply outage coming out of this story, or a military conflict between Iranians and Saudis.

No More Page 3 is uncompromising in its judgement of what some consider a British institution, condemning the messages The Sun gives out to children and explaining how jarring it looks next to stories about rape and domestic violence, which supposedly display a more supportive attitude towards women's issues.

Oh come on!!!!!! Can't you do better than CNN... give us the whole story... what kind of bagel was it?

And if you refer to Bible stories without giving the reference, many modern people don't know what you are referring to anymore.

It doesn't matter what the format or genre, give me a good story and I'm hooked.

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

If you think I am wrong, then why don't you give me your name and what city you live in and I will run a story in the local paper that you are a s3x offender who has been harassing local children, and maybe even run a story on the national news about it.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

On her blog, and in this wonderful book, Sarah does what all good storytellers do: she gives us permission — permission to laugh, permission to question, permission to slow down a bit, permission to listen, permission to confront our fears, permission to share our own stories with more bravery and love.

Another reason why this conversation is important, and how what Julie is doing (speaking her story) is bringing good into the world, is that it is giving others on this thread the courage to tell THEIR stories.

What better gift to give the whole family this Christmas — than the wonder of the full love story of Jesus?

I even got questioned for detracting from the thread, though my intent was to offer my personal struggle with what the thread eventually evolved into, while feeling for genuinely for Julie (based upon her willingness to divulge to a public blog her side of the story), and while questioning all along what really happened given others» pov on all this.

I mean what I say about walking the line — totally giving you the benefit of the doubt and the right to share your story, and considering Tony innocent» till he's proven guilty in... I don't know what.

I love the way CS Lewis explained that ``... He (God) sent the human race what I call good dreams; I mean those queer stories scattered all through the heathen religions about god who dies and comes to life again and, by his dead, has somehow given new life to men.»

What is there in Keen's analysis which makes his play - therapy theology - particularly given his acceptance of the death of God (i.e., his rejection of the Christian story as rendering life ultimately meaningful)?

Whether advocating giving oneself over to the ecstatic and wonderful, or telling one's story, or doing what feels good as «body - minds,» Keen's prescriptive therapy is broadly centered in the experience of play.

What the preacher has to do is to make sure the congregation experiences the story as fully as possible — by giving the context of the story.

Given what I know about young adults today and the adolescents that are now moving into young adulthood, I find Wuthnow's story here entirely convincing.

There's something incredibly vulnerable about this story from both sides: what Thomas needs and what Jesus is willing to give to be known.

And though it may seem abstract, even small, I think this single thread of wonder — this thread of tireless thankfulness and awe at what he'd been undeservedly given, at what he saw in the beauty of creation and in the story of the Gospel — is what binds all of Lewis» work together.

They are alert to what is happening around them; they see and hear and give birth to stories.

I am just horrified that the other people in your story swept abuse under the rug but given my own family history, that is exactly what they do and I am still being punished for «breaking the code of silence.»

Then light was liberated, and then gravity created the first stars and galaxies, then billions of years later, a local star went supernova and seeded the local nebula with heavier elements, elements necessary for life, elements that were not created during the Big Bang, then the sun was born, then the planets coalesced, and billions of years later some primate wrote a story about how the Earth was created at the same time as the rest of the universe, getting it wrong because that primate did not have the science nor technology to really understand what happened, so he gave it his best guess, most likely an iteration of an older story told prior to the advent of the Judeo Christian religion.

Jeremy thanks for your comments alot of this i never really thought about before until you provoked me to seek the truth in the word it is what we all should be doing finding the truth for ourselves God wants to reveal mysterys if we are open to hear.If we have been christians awhile we just take the word of whoevers preaching or whichever clip we see on god tube its knowledge but not revelation.Because the story sounds plausible we tag that on to our belief for example for many years i believed that the rich young rulers problem was money so the way to deal with that problem is to give it away and be a follower of Jesus sounds plausible.Till you realise every believers situation is different so the message has to be universal.So the reason its not about money because it excludes those that do nt have it and does nt make room for those that do have it but do nt worship it.The rich young ruler was not a bad person he lived by a good moral code but he made money his idol he put that before God.The word says we shall not have any idols thats a sin and a wicked one.In fact there wasnt any room in his heart for Jesus that is a tragedy.So when we see the message is about Idolatry we all have areas that we chose not to submit to God thats universal everyone of us whether we are rich or poor.I believe we are unaware that we have these idols what are some of them that was revealed to me our partners our children our work our church our family i can sense some of you are getting fidgetty.

I think she took what the libtard producer gave her and didn't do her homework on this nom story.

The story, however, is his own graphic narrative, written probably between 85 and 95, and for the express purpose, he says, of giving an orderly and accurate account of what had happened.

Each story gives the reader a tangible experience in what it means to step into the Kingdom of God in a very real way.

Might what Lewis said about his space travel stories give us any clues about his fantasy writing in general: «No merely physical strangeness or merely spatial distance will realize the idea of otherness which is what we are always trying to grasp in a story about voyaging through space: you must go into another dimension.»

But what happens when it becomes obvious that this group was already in the partisan bag for one candidate in the rhetorical spin that they gave to the campaign issues and stories?

It is true that in other forms of the kerygma in Acts there is no such explicit reference to the Spirit in the Church, except in v. 32, which belongs to what is probably a secondary doublet of the story given in iii - iv.

A charming story about his impact concerns the so - called Serenity Prayer in constant use by the half - million acknowledged alcoholics in Alcoholics Anonymous groups throughout the world: «O God, give us serenity to accept what can not be changed, courage to change what should be changed, and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.»

Still, my conclusion is that creativity for Whitehead is likely to be shallowly understood until creativity in Bergson is more deeply understood — which it presently is not.65 Indeed, if Judith Jones is correct, Whitehead has left us without some of what we needed in order to give the full story; in particular:

Given that men wrote the stories and their bias can not be discounted, it's certainly reasonable to subjectively (though logically and rationally) remove what was undoubtedly subjectively (and illogically and irrationally) penned in the first place.

What William James said of feeling can also be said of story: «It is private and dumb, and unable to give us an account of itself.»

But an intelligent person will search for the answers, knowing he doesn't know, and THAT is what drives him to seek an answer, not blindly accepting the answer from someone who looks at a 2000 year old book, filled with 3000 year old stories and gives up after reading it.

«Victoria Why should we give a hoot what your nth translation generation book of crazy old stories says that your Jebus said?»