Sentences with phrase «with points of light»

Verified Volunteers is backed by Sterling Talent Solutions, one of the world's largest background screening companies, and partnered with Points of Light, the world's largest organization dedicated to volunteer service.

Over 5,000 US Points of Light have been awarded and both President George H. W. Bush and President Barack Obama have publicly supported the partnership with Points of Light UK which honours shining examples of volunteering across the country.

«We began with points of light in the sky, and with the application of new instrumentation, the physics breakthroughs of the last century, and computers, we took those points of light and turned them into a narrative of star life.

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The conversation was described as light - hearted and short, but vigorous — with White House officials pointing to a broader strategy behind the thinking of not firing the director.

I should also point out that if you like the idea of controlling lights with your voice but don't want an Amazon Echo, Hue bulbs also work with Apple's HomeKit, so they can be controlled through Siri.

I built a career around the marketing of good deeds, working with a lot of great organizations, from Points of Light to Share our Strength, led by Billy Shore, who I think is probably one of the originally nonprofit entrepreneurs.

Aren't we all just points of light and energy that are cosmically interconnected to each other through the miracle of space and time, with LinkedIn nothing more than a vehicle for enabling those connections?

As Cosmopolitan points out, you can also simply order a vanilla bean frapp with two pumps of pumpkin sauce for what they call a «lighter version.»

To give a point of comparison, the iPhone 7 Plus, with a display 0.4 inches smaller, is only 2 grams lighter and 0.2 inches thinner.

And then second, with regard to pricing and also in light of the really short volatility we've seen in the commodity complex the last couple of weeks, should we be thinking of your pricing decisions as wholly decoupled from commodity price volatility at this point or is there flexibility to move within the ranges that you've outlined?

This puts them far ahead of schedule compared with the restoration effort after Hurricane Wilma in 2005, where 3.2 million of Florida Power & Light's customers lost power but only 13 percent had the lights back on at the same point after the storm.

Bud Light is so bullish on «Dilly Dilly» that it is making the made - up medieval beer toast the focal point of three new ads that will climax with a 60 - second Super Bowl spot.

While exterior revisions last year fell under the category of mid-cycle refresh — new headlights with four - point daytime running lights, door handles without recess covers,

Expect Zuckerberg to point to all of the announcements the company has already made since the Cambridge Analytica story came to light — things like rewriting its terms of service and cutting ties with outside data providers it doesn't know if it can trust.

In addition, Calgary - based Crescent Point Energy Corp. confirmed months of speculation that it had built up a sizeable land position in the Duvernay formation, spending roughly $ 112 million buying up 335,000 acres in the play, with deposits of light oil, natural gas, liquids like butane, propane and pentane.

Pull down the idols of the tribe, debunk the status of the proud and powerful, desanctify the saints and desecrate the holy places: as the blinding sunlight of their glory fades, the gathering dusk reveals a hundred thousand points of lesser light each with a glory of its own.

I recall quiet Saturday mornings, walking with my father block to block, as he pointed out the landmarks no one else knew: the spot where the Third Avenue El of old stopped (he pointed out the supports hidden beneath the black asphalt); the apartment house where another close - knit family lived in cramped quarters, the three boys studying in dim lights under their mother's watchful eye to become a lawyer, a doctor, and a priest (and later a bishop); and the double spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the place of my parents» wedding and the baptisms of their three boys.

I have a friend that believes that Muslims an Christians worship a different God so I get the «Evangelical» point but to ban someone for showing solidarity with Muslims in the light of recent events is yes, I agree rejecting someone just as Jesus was rejected for identification with the marginalised.

(I apologize to those that dislike metaphors, but I almost can't communicate if I don't get to use them, and as insufficient as they at times are, they are very close to the language of what I believe, because you can't really explain or define someone into believing... you can only live out your beliefs in a way that you share with others, and when given the opportunity shine a light, or point a direction, or walk along with someone for a bit).

Who can forget him turning over the tables but can you understand how your choice of words with saying you learn to pointing the finger and Jesus doing the same can paint you and Jesus in a bad light?

Could it be that you have been experiencing some cognitive dissonance with being a believer and a high view of scripture whilst advocating the pointing finger where the bible here places such action in the same light as oppression.

Various procedures would have been used by him in order to revise his text, the most important being the insertion, at various places in the original manuscript, of passages expressing his new vision, at times a few lines, at times even whole sections, with the intention of leading his eventual readers to interpret the whole context in the light of the point of view of the inserted materials.3 Ford proposes that Whitehead did modify his original manuscript accordingly a number of times before its publication in 1929, with the result that the final version of Process and Reality is actually the outcome of the superposition of texts from successive redactional strata over the original stratum made by the manuscript of the summer of l927.4

Directly relating my Bible reading with my longing for relationship with Him... sitting alone in my living room, no worship music, no lights, no bulletin, no 3 points... it was really a blessing, and felt a lot more like worship than most of my Sunday morning experiences.

And, as in all «good southern religion,» there is heat and fire, with the blinding light of Jesus pointing us heavenward.

Neville i liked what you wrote some really good points and churchs today are still making a difference in society though society is becoming more secular.My thinking is as the world gets darker and as it moves away from christian principles the light of Christ in believers will grow proportionately brighter.We are here to make a difference we are in the the world but not of the world.In Christ we have been given life and light to share with those in darkness so that they might have there freedom.brentnz

I think you'll find that the «December» celebration predates the Roman one; with the passing of the shortest day of the year (a real low point in the year when many thought the world might run out of light and therefore end.)

The revelation of the Francis pontificate, from my vantage point, is that too many of the Church's leading lights are not merely liberal in the sense of doubting Humanae Vitae or feeling that the Church might treat gay Catholics with more Christian charity.

The point can be dealt with in the present context because the coming into existence of the spiritual principle in the first man, and the coming into existence of any individual man, are necessarily related and the two occurrences throw light on one another.

Peter Whittle pointed out in the September Standpoint magazine that «If faced with a group of gang members playing music unbearably loud in the car next to them at traffic lights I personally know of nobody - nobody, from Daily Telegraph reader toGuardian reader - who would risk asking them to turn it down... but it's not just the gang culture.»

He points us to the story of the Emmaus Road as epitomising the way the Christian should read Scripture «Only by walking with Christ, by re-interpreting all things in his light, with him, crucified and risen, do we enter into the riches and beauty of sacredScripture» (p. 82).

This sounds like a warmed - over thousand points of light crap George HW Bush came out with many years ago.

Just as it would be impossible to replace with definitions such words as» home,» or «light,» or «music,» or to make the meaning of such words clear to someone who had never himself experienced the realities to which they point, so it will always be impossible to replace with definitions such terms as «the grace of God in Christ,» «peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,» or the great story in which these phrases have their only possible context.

Socrates» protest against compromise with the truth remains a point of light in the human pilgrimage just because the same issues persist in every age.

This only happens occasionally in the book but prevents the reader sharing in the deeper revelation and love of God that is occurring at that point in salvation history, especially in light of the New Testament, and raises the question that if the person in Scripture who is experiencing this unique relationship with God didn't really understand God, then how can we?

To carry through the process of rethinking the account of actual occasions and eternal objects in the light of the full doctrine of God will be in line with the direction in which Whitehead's own thought was moving at this point and will also alter in subtle, but at times important, ways the precise form of the doctrine of God.

In the light of that with critical engagement, it would be to onus on the character to prove his point about «God» not changing, to provide evidence and make therefore a reasoned proposition for what he claims to be true so it can be considered.

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

A Christian community is, as Gustafson points out, bound to be concerned not only with its inherent system of values but also with their transformation in the light of Christian ethics.

[4] The point around which he constructs his work is to see «Jesus in the light of his communion with the Father, which is the true centre of his personality; without it, we can not understand him at all, and it is from this centre that he makes himself present to us still today.»

In any case, our inquiry at this point must ask what sort of «theology for the social gospel» will square with the eternal truths of the Christian faith and thus be adequate to throw light on the decisions required of our time.

In the light of that claim, it is reasonable to attribute the New Testament's use of the phrase «the Jews» to the point of view of an era when the church was in conflict with the Jewish community, hence to conclude that the anti-Semitism in the New Testament is incidental.

-- Suppose there lived a man in the immediately succeeding generation who combined in his own person a tyrant's power with a tyrant's passion, and suppose that this man had somehow conceived the idea of concentrating his entire time and energy upon the problem of bringing the truth to light on this point, would this constitute him a disciple?

This light pasta dish proves the point that common, everyday ingredients can be leveled - up with a little bit of culinary creativity.

The original bar is 340 calories with 19 grams of fat; this lighter version is just 149 calories with 5 grams of fat (4 points plus).

From this point you can do two different things: you can put the contents of the pan into a blender or food processor with the rest of the gravy ingredients (1 1/2 C. Light Coconut Milk, Nooch, and Liquid Aminos) and pulse a few times for a smoother consistency; OR just add the rest of the ingredients to the pan for a chunkier gravy.

In the light of considerable pressure to address these issues, Mondelez and other multinational chocolate companies began to engage with ethical certification to the point where most branded chocolate bars in the UK carried at least one logo.

This vegan eggplant cacciatore is made with melt - in - your mouth slabs of roasted eggplant simmered in a light white wine tomato sauce with savory mushrooms, garlic and bell peppers.At some point when I was growing up my mom discovered chicken...

Three large center chandeliers created with cascading mother of pearl discs are a focal point of the restaurant which offers an intimate dining experience achieved by ample space between tables and artful lighting.

Constellation is the number three beer company in the U.S. with high - end, iconic imported brands including Corona Extra, Corona Light, Modelo Especial, Negra Modelo, Pacifico, and Ballast Point, one of the most awarded craft brewers in the U.S. Constellation is also the world's leader in premium wine selling great brands that people love including Robert Mondavi, Clos du Bois, Kim Crawford, Meiomi, Mark West, Franciscan Estate, Ruffino and Jackson - Triggs.

I always made a point to have dinner with my kids regardless of how busy we were we took the time to sit down... and light candles!