Sentences with phrase «christian families in their home»

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And yes, I was raised in a Christian home, with extended family that shares my faith.

Nine Christian families living in Rafah near Egypt's border with Israel left their homes on Friday after Islamist militants made death threats and gunmen attacked a Coptic - owned shop.

A programme by a Christian organisation to find family homes for volunteers at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow to stay in has been so popular even the waiting list is full.

Isaac grew up in a devoutly Christian home, and his family was extremely involved in the church.

He had no other immediate plans than to continue in this semirural pastorate near his family's home, but an unexpected call from the Monroe Street Christian Church in Chicago turned his course toward far broader horizons.

Two Christians in my family, a husband and his wife, denied Christ in their home because they were displeased by something God did in their lives.

Thompson grew up in a fundamentalist Christian home and his acclaimed 2003 autobiographical graphic novel Blankets tells not only the story of his first love but also his coming - to - terms with the Christian tradition of his family, culminating in a crisis of faith.

Bethany Christian Services works in eight states to assist refugee families with services like language training and transportation, and also places unaccompanied children in foster homes.

Eight Christians were killed in the mob violence, including six family members burned alive in their home.

Soon after, about 100 Christian families fled their homes in the Sinai Peninsula amid a string of murders.

Even as a Christian family, we found the search for a new church home in our new community daunting.

An exception has been made this year after the wives were nominated in a letter noting that they have «bravely supported their husbands on the path to Christians unity: in the process they have surrendered financial security and family homes while having to support their families at a time of great stress and uncertainty.

The entire world would be Christian within a few generations if the gospel was only lived out in our homes and with our families.

A new stage of devoted motherhood began, where all her commitment, creativity, religious and educational experience combined in creating a loving family home with a distinctly Christian ethos.

And when it comes to «family values,» we're weary of battles to «protect» marriage from gay couples, when so many young evangelicals have grown up in broken homes, witnessing our parents divorce and remarry at rates just as high as in the non-evangelical world (more than 33 % of marriages among born - again Christians end in divorce, the same as in the general population).

Hold off on giving 70 year old benefits based on Judeo Christian family model that does not exist in a godless union (i.e. the little women stays home for life and daddy is the head of the family and the bread winner) to both new forms of marriage.

Families forced from their homes after the blaze in Latimer Road, North Kensington, have been offered shelter at the Latymer Christian Centre and St Clements Church which are both nearby.

Faiez's family left their home in Mosul when extremist Islamic group IS took over the city, giving Christians and other minorities a chilling ultimatum: convert, leave, or die by the sword.

For me and my family, however, things are quite different (even though my wife, too, grew up in a Hebrew - Christian home).

The distinction between the nuclear and traditional family was also blurred in the recent report on human sexuality by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) titled Keeping Body and Soul Together: «Although many Christians in the post-World War II era have a special emotional attachment to the nuclear family, with its employed father, mother at home, and two or more school - aged children, that profile currently fits only 5 percent of North American households.»

Later on, Christian families set up paradise trees in their homes as symbols of redemption through the birth of Christ.

A troubling situation is unfolding in Pakistan, where five Christian families have reportedly been forced to flee their homes in the village of Sukheki in the Punjab province.

Everywhere they will be a little flock, because mankind grows quicker than Christendom and because men will not be Christians by custom and tradition, through institutions and history, or because of the homogeneity of a social milieu and public opinion, but — leaving out of account the sacred flame of parental example and the intimate sphere of home, family and small groups — they will be Christians only because of their own act of faith attained in a difficult struggle and perpetually achieved anew.

She had already learned how to forge a conservative alliance between traditionalist Catholic and evangelical Christian women, and she deftly enlarged the coalition to include Mormon and Orthodox Jewish women in a decade - long battle in which the stakes, as she defined them, were the home, the family, and traditional faith and culture.

The Protestant reference to the family as «a little church» can lead, in practice, to the church being regarded as an extension of «the Christian home.»

Yeah, and I remember how when my kids were small and being «dragged» to church every Sunday morning, afterwards there would always be tension in the car on the way home, and there would be a fight over something trivial, and I would wonder what the «happy» Christian family was all about.

Writers of family - life literature in the church now advise parents about the way that the faith of children develops in «the Christian home.»

Change in the family may be experienced as the end of «the Christian home» because family values have been so closely related to religion in the United States.

This presupposes that adults in the family know Christian principles and are able to live them at home.

As John Snow, a professor of pastoral theology, points out, the Christian family was seen in the New Testament as an agent of the coming community of love and justice, a new kind of «kingdom»: «Its goal was not to make a house a home for a family but to make the world a home for humankind.»

The Association of Christian Counsellors warned that a significant increase in the number of families where both parents work is one factor behind a rise in mental health issues linked to home and work pressures.

Unless there is a new approach to the role of churches in relation to the family life of members, programs designed for «Christian families» will only reinforce unrealistic expectations about «the Christian home.»

The cross, as a Christian symbol, gets you right to the idea that a guy whose family was in the building trades in some colonial backwater left home to become an itinerant preacher, was put to death in a particularly shabby way, and turned out to be God Incarnate.

The «family pew ethos» institutionalized in late - Victorian Protestant spirituality depended on an unquestioned belief that Christian faith is most powerfully nurtured in the Christian home, while knowledge about the Bible is best learned at church.

With a few notable exceptions, most congregations are still organized as if the premise of «the family pew» is true — that church members are Christian because they learn Christian attitudes at home, knowledge of the Bible in Sunday School, and attend worship regularly.

Only in a tradition where adults continue to refer to the family life of individual church members as «the Christian home» would pastors, educators, and theologians have continued to believe for so long that parents are more important than the church is to the faith of children.

In Part 3, describes the role of church leaders in planning educational programs that are supportive of members of traditional and nontraditional families, but not dependent on «the Christian home» as the primary agency of Christian spiritual formatioIn Part 3, describes the role of church leaders in planning educational programs that are supportive of members of traditional and nontraditional families, but not dependent on «the Christian home» as the primary agency of Christian spiritual formatioin planning educational programs that are supportive of members of traditional and nontraditional families, but not dependent on «the Christian home» as the primary agency of Christian spiritual formation.

Threats by Muslim extremists against Coptic Christians in the past year have forced scores of Christian families to flee their homes in Dahshur and the Egyptian border town of Rafah.

and if someone stays at home with their family [also Christians], and meets other Christians occasionally, are they not in the Church?

We were in the home of our son and his family, joining in a farewell party for a Christian pilot.

Little has been said in this chapter about the foundations of Christian family life in the form of faithfulness to the Church, family worship, grace at meals, the practice of individual prayer, the atmosphere of Christian devotion that pervades the home.

The ensemble of marriage, family, home and church preserved Christian kingship in a world of democratic republics.

«We were Christmas and Easter Christians,» Henry recalled, «We had no family prayers, no grace at table, no Bible in our home.»

My hope is that Jesus, The Gentle Parent: Gentle Christian Parenting will release Christian parents from the hold these punitive, graceless ideas have over mainstream Christianity so that they can study and pray and listen for God's leading on their parenting journeys, and I hope that the next generation of children raised by Christian parents will spend their childhood having the concept of grace lived out in their homes and families.

CLASS, an independent and non-denominational K — 12 Christian home education program, is a pioneer of the modern home school movement and has helped well over 100,000 families to get started — and succeed — in home schooling.

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He worked as a pastor for two years at Christian Fellowship Church in Geneseo, N.Y., before he was transferred in 1978 to Arlington Heights, where he became pastor to a dozen families who gathered every Sunday in his home for fellowship and Bible study.