Sentences with phrase «who accepted the gift»

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However, those who don't accept the gift of Christ will probably miss out on great things in this life and the next.

If they will accept His gift, believe in Him, then, they, even those who murder and molest babies, will be cleansed from their sins and can live together with Him for eternity.

Praise God for his peace and grace for all who can accept his gift of eternal love.

if i buy all of you magic sky daddy believers a one way ticket to meet him in heaven right now, will you kindly accept this gift as an offering to the population of earth who can think?

We can thus accept with humility the special gifts mediated to us through those who are His homosexual children, our brothers and sisters whom we can not and would not disown.

I think God is more intersted in helping us to discover who we are, to accept who we are, to love who we are, then we can truly be a gift to others.

When we trust God, when we accept the gift of mercy and love that God gives us in Christ, we become free to be who God created us to be in the first place.

Since there is only one God, idols are nothing; so long as the Christians offered thanksgiving to God for the meat, they could accept it without any qualms of conscience, as a gift from the hand of the One who opens His hand to satisfy the desires of every living thing.

This attitude is at complete variance to that behind Natural Family Planning (NFP), wherein a couple who have reason to space their children accept the gift of sexuality exactly as it is stamped in the human person by God and do not treat their fertility as a problem to be expunged by technology.

The mentally healthy person is the productive and unalienated person; the person who relates himself to the world lovingly, and who uses his reason to grasp reality objectively; who experiences himself as a unique individual entity, and at the same time feels one with his fellowman; who is not subject to irrational authority, and who accepts willingly the rational authority of conscience and reason; who is in the process of being born as long as he is alive, and considers the gift of life the most precious chance he has.

A given foundation may grant a million dollars to a certain college, but it is a particular representative who speaks for the foundation and it is a human counterpart who graciously accepts the gift in behalf of the college.

We do know the plan to prosper and bless those who accept God's gift and we know God has never failed on a promise.

We then can accept who we are in Christ with all our gifts, talents as well as flaws.

It is a power in the heart of the believer here and now - the essence and attraction of Jesus (cf. Jn 4, 1 - 42) as pure gift to those who will accept him.

I recognize that faith is a gift for those who are willing * to accept it.

God accepts whatever we bring to the God / person relationship — our physical and spiritual condition, personality, connection to reality, our participation in relationships, talents, inabilities, cognition, knowledge, ignorance, life journey, spiritual journey, walk about, wandering, seeking, questioning, questing, acceptance of God, rejection of God — and our emotional and mental status: hate / love, anger / peace, sadness / happiness, hurt / health, feeling lost and abandoned / feeling found and included, agitation / serenity, apathy / passion, confusion / clarity, fractures / wholeness — all of this, all of whoever we are and have ever been and every action committed or ever contemplated and every thought we ever explored or entertained or that flitted through our mind — all of this, we bring to the God / person relationship and God accepts the totality of who we are and every component that comprises who we are — as a gift.

One minute you want to insist there is no works involved because God grants the gift of faith to some and not others as he sees fit (somehow without this meaning He has chosen who is hell - bound), and the next minute you want to insist that people who are going to hell are going there because they refused God (somehow without believeing in God, and the right God, and then accepting this God is someone not a work, even when it is someone a person who have to do in their own strength against their own inherent sinfulness).

The believer who accepts God's special revelation for the gift is is, and seeks to discover truths from God's natural revelation, in the deserved humility of our weaknesses is the true scientist indeed.

Too many have accepted the popular «neo-orthodox» idea that contemplation and mysticism have no place in the Christian life; on the contrary, they have a real place and an important one; and for those who may be called by God to this particular mode of communion with him, there is a great blessing and a wonderful gift.

While there are some people now living in heterosexual marriages who once perceived themselves to be gay, there are millions of gay and lesbian persons who have accepted their sexual orientation as a gift from God and live productive and deeply spiritual lives.

It makes me very sad that Christians and churches that welcome the perspectives and the gifts offered by other faiths, and by people of no acknowledged faith... and those who recognize, acknowledge and journey through their doubts, questions, etc. are too often pushed (and allow themselves, ourselves) to be pushed to the extreme fringes and accept our voicelessness within a context where faiths and faith groups are often identified by the narrowest, most exclusive vision.

Those who do not accept the gift, the death sentence will follow through.

Paul seems to indicate that while giving the double honor is not required, if a particular elder devotes time on his nights and weekends (after he has worked his regular job) to study and preparing quality Bible teaching for those who gather, then if someone wants to give him a gift of appreciation, the elder has the right to accept it.

Calvinists, however, interpret Romans 3:11 (THERE IS NONE WHO UNDERSTANDS, THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS FOR GOD;) in a wooden literal why in an effort to help prove their concept of total depravity (that fallen mankind does not have the inherent free will capacity to accept or reject God's call / drawing, commands, instructions, promises and gifts).

[21] We come to see that at the heart of the sacramentality of the word of God is the mystery of the incarnation itself: «the Word became flesh» (Jn 1:14), the reality of the revealed mystery is offered to us in the «flesh» of the Son... The sacramental character of revelation points in turn to the history of salvation, to the way that the word of God enters time and space, and speaks to men and women, who are called to accept his gift in faith.»

The message has been that Jesus the Son of God was crucified for the sins of the humanity and that Jesus raised from the dead by God brings Divine Forgiveness and Salvation understood as access to God; as free gifts to all who repent and accept Him as Saviour and join the fellowship of the Church of Christ.

On the other hand, Updike also presents genuine wise men like George Caldwell, who accepts the seasons of life as a gift from God, who finds fame, pleasure, and even wisdom to be vanity but who recognizes that all joy belongs to God.

According to an FBI affidavit McDougle, 22, accepted cash and gifts, including a car, from a Michigan gambler in exchange for helping to line up players who would affect the outcomes of Toledo football and basketball games.

We must accept the fact that City are not Arsenal who will gift a couple of goals to their opponents.

This time, it was West Ham's keeper with a dreadful mistake: Randolph made a mess of a simple cross, and the ball fell to the feet of Divock Origi, who gratefully accepted the gift.

Baby Friendly hospitals must also follow the WHO Code for the marketing of breastmilk substitutes, which includes neither accepting gifts from formula companies or giving them to the mothers.

Lt. Peter Salzone, who fired several bullets into his stomach, was a longtime associate of indicted Deputy Inspector James Grant, who along with other police officials is accused of accepting gifts and lavish favors from two allegedly corrupt businessmen with close ties to Mayor Bill de Blasio.

The Democratic county executive, who took office last month, announced «a zero - tolerance policy» for county employees involved with procurement or contracting procedures accepting gifts of any kind from county vendors, no matter how small.

«Those individuals — I'm not going to prejudge them; they deserve due process — but anyone who accepts personal gifts in the year 2016 is not paying attention to today's ethics standards or the ethics training I'm sure they were given along the way, or didn't have the wisdom to consult with a lawyer,» de Blasio said.

(CNN)- Jury selection was set to start on Monday in the corruption trial of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, who is charged along with his wife of improperly accepting gifts from a businessman while in office in exchange for promoting his company.

McDonnell had been convicted on corruption charges for secretly accepting more than $ 175,000 in gifts and loans from a local businessman who was trying to garner political favors.

CHRAJ's report follows a petition by the youth wing of the Convention People's Party, which demanded a probe into the conduct of the President, for accepting the gift worth GHc100, 000 from the contractor who was subsequently awarded some government contracts.

How can we expect a president who admits to accepting a $ 100,000 gift from a foreign contractor who was awarded a government contract through the efforts of the President, to have the courage and desire to stop his Ministers and other officials from dipping their hands into the state coffers?»

Balls believes this approach would hand a gift to the Tories who would say that Labour has accepted George Osborne's critique of the last government's handling of the economy.

Deputy Inspector James Grant, who retired last month while the probe was ongoing, was arrested at his home Monday for accepting gifts in exchange for favors from two businessmen Jeremy Reichberg and Jona Rechnitz, according to sources.

There are two key ways newcomers can avoid being raped in prison: Keep to themselves and don't accept unsolicited gifts from inmates who appear too friendly.

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, who took office last month, announced «a zero - tolerance policy» for county employees involved with procurement or contracting procedures accepting gifts of any kind from county vendors, no matter how small.

There's the investigation into corruption at the NYPD, where officers accepted gifts from two business who also donated handsomely to Mr. de Blasio.

While saying the officers who acted inappropriately «all should have known better,» de Blasio said Friday «I don't know what they were thinking and how they missed that obvious training that we're all given» about not accepting gifts.

Rechnitz, who donated to the mayor's 2013 general election campaign, is in the center of a scandal that has embroiled the police department, leading to the departure of several members of the NYPD brass amid allegations they accepted gifts from Rechnitz in exchange for doing favors for him.

Several high - ranking NYPD officers have been indicted on charges of accepting gifts from two businessmen who also happened to later become donors to Mayor Bill de Blasio — gifts including Christmas presents hand - delivered by the men while they were dressed as elves, and a private jet ride to Las Vegas that included an in - flight prostitute who went by the name Candi.

Pearce is one of 29 Arizona legislators (20 Republicans and 9 Democrats) who accepted illegal gifts from the Fiesta Bowl in the form of all - expense paid trips and free football tickets.

(CNN)- Former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell, once a rising star in the Republican Party who was considered potential presidential material, was indicted along with his wife on Tuesday on federal charges of accepting illegal gifts.

Present local law fails to reasonably preclude — and could actually enable — county officers and employees from accepting an overabundance of questionable gifts, skirting campaign contribution limits through the use of the LLC loophole, abusing their offices and taxpayer funded items to freely self - promote their personal names and images (or «brand»), and awarding contracts to those vendors who unabashedly pay to play in county government.

We've sat through an entire generation of fantasy and science fiction films about a protagonist gifted with extraordinary powers who first Resists, then Accepts The Call, which almost always involves saving the world, defeating a powerful villain, and re-establishing the status quo.