Sentences with phrase «church did of course»

The Catholic Church did of course have scientific tests to prove a woman was a witch: You see, witches burn because they are made of wood, which floats in water like a duck, so if she weighs the same as a duck on the church's superaccurate scales that don't move at all, then she is a witch!

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The New York Times cited anonymous sources involved with The Birth of a Nation as saying that Fox Searchlight does not plan to change course on its promotion of the film, which includes plans to have Parker tour U.S. universities and churches as the public face of the movie.

Tired of being bugged by all that endless chatter, everyone is welcome, try us for thirty days, no dogma, no cash offerings required, no churches to attend (your local bar will do especially on Fridays), of course buyijng a T - shirt wouldn't kill you and would help spread HIS word.

JWH: Of course one of the greatest tragedies of the Church in contemporary society is that the poor are among us and we don't talk about iOf course one of the greatest tragedies of the Church in contemporary society is that the poor are among us and we don't talk about iof the greatest tragedies of the Church in contemporary society is that the poor are among us and we don't talk about iof the Church in contemporary society is that the poor are among us and we don't talk about it.

Of course it brings up my question... why does a church need laws anyway?

Of course, there are things we need to learn about family and God that does come from the scriptures and church and prayer and revelation.

Of course, the church folk don't know that I am in costume, but I've seen enough to be afraid to take it off.

You say that you don't see Jesus in the churches — I don't know what churches you have been to, but there are definitely churches that do well in representing and teaching Jesus Christ (not all churches of course) HOWEVER... if you think you will find perfection in a human being, you must know that your kidding yourself.

Of course it's not fair to say this represents all churches, but it does tell us what many people think when they see such a sign.

Of course this article doesn't address ALL the reasons people leave churches or even Christianity as a whole, but it just so happened to express almost all of my reasons for leavinOf course this article doesn't address ALL the reasons people leave churches or even Christianity as a whole, but it just so happened to express almost all of my reasons for leavinof my reasons for leaving.

comments show Internet as church for atheists The Internet has become the de facto global church for atheists, agnostics and other doubters of God, who of course don't have bricks - and - mortar churches in which to congregate.

I hope y» all fall as much in love with this guy as you do with that Jesus» fella — the more of you in Church on Sunday the less folks on my golf course.

Unless of course you beat your children; stop your wife from speaking in church; don't eat pork; don't work on Sunday; etc etc etc..

You can do so, of course, and call it your church and be very comfy indeed.

It may be that in the course of history certain dimensions of saving truth become obscured and must be recovered but it is impossible for a theologian to stand apart from tradition and begin his work ab initio; to do so would be to cut himself off from the Church, which is the source sine qua non of theology, and to deny the historical givenness of Revelation.

• This reminds us of something Pope Benedict has written: «It is of course always difficult to adopt a sober approach that does what is possible and does not cry enthusiastically after the impossible,» he told the Bundestag in 1981 (it's published in his Church, Ecumenism and Politics).

I still think we should still go to the church... or maybe a meeting where all the believer can learn from each other, strengthening each other, pray for each other etc, and of course, to worship God together... It is true that sometime I feel that I do not learn many thing from the sermon, but, many times, I learn by going to the church, knowing that I will not learn something from the preacher, humble myself to still listen to God and worship Him,,,, it is such a blessing to hear others testimony about how God works in their life, it is such an encouragement to see people open up their problem, then, we can pray about them..

If one holds that during the course of human history a process of development and refinement in the Church's understanding of Christ has taken place, this does not mean that one is rushing headlong into a position of historical relativism that is ultimately corrosive of the objectivity of our faith.

Now this, of course, is done to a considerable extent by great Bible societies who act for the churches — one of the early interdenominational activities of the various divisions of the church.

All this was done, of course, without the authority of Rome or the national episcopate, and after the collapse of communism the Church tried to straighten out the resulting confusions.

Of course, he also has admitted to driving his truck through several churches and doing jail time for drunk driving, but that just the kind of guy Jesus chooses as his propheOf course, he also has admitted to driving his truck through several churches and doing jail time for drunk driving, but that just the kind of guy Jesus chooses as his propheof guy Jesus chooses as his prophet.

Of course many will say that we shouldn't comdemn the entire Catholic church just because a few priest and lay persons are pedophiles; I meam you don't throw out an entire bushel of apples just becuase most of them are rotten do yoOf course many will say that we shouldn't comdemn the entire Catholic church just because a few priest and lay persons are pedophiles; I meam you don't throw out an entire bushel of apples just becuase most of them are rotten do yoof apples just becuase most of them are rotten do yoof them are rotten do you?

Of course, it might become quickly obvious that most of what the church required from you as a pastor was really not that important after all, and no one will do iOf course, it might become quickly obvious that most of what the church required from you as a pastor was really not that important after all, and no one will do iof what the church required from you as a pastor was really not that important after all, and no one will do it.

Besides, even if the passage says only the pastor should give, why do you teach the church to shout at their pastor in the course of worship?

Of course, because he was baptized into the Catholic Church doesn't mean he really bought into it.

Of course, the church has done a great disservice to the world when it teaches that God is in absolute control of everythinOf course, the church has done a great disservice to the world when it teaches that God is in absolute control of everythinof everything.

Of course this is just another case where you think your church has it right, and all other Christians who don't hold the same view are wrong.

apparently you don't take the Word (logos) very seriously, however your definitely on the right course in Daniel and creation mathematics might give you a better clue here the 70 weeks are matched to the ministry, death and martyr of steven to start the church age 7 year long week.

Usually, of course, when the person hears that we do not currently «attend church,» they immediately invite us to attend theirs.

Over the course of the next year, how many people did we add to the church?

While none of these features are inherently wrong, (and can of course be used by good people to do good things), these days I find myself longing for a church with a cool factor of about 0.

Whether you are a proponent of organic church, house church, mega church, or even if you are «Done» with church, this course will help all of us live in love and unity as we follow Jesus into the world.

This different origin of the Church's authority does not, of course, exclude, but rather implies that her ministry is possible only within the sanctified people of the redeemed and that it does not confront them from outside.

This, of course, does not mean that there; is, avoidably as well as unavoidably, much that is «undemocratic» in the Church, if for no other reason than that the baptized children must slowly be led by the Church to a free and responsible decision of personal faith without which no adult can be a member of the Church in the fullest sense.

But if that is done by the Church's magisterium, it can only be through propositions which are not themselves absolute dogma but serious and valid items of knowledge (in varying degrees, of course, and of very many different kinds), but knowledge which in principle is subject to revision and capable of improvement, and which can be deepened, clarified, given greater discrimination, improved in this or that respect, or even abandoned.

Of course, we will not gain the rights and benefits (or suffer the losses — I have been part of «religious» weddings conducted by churches for elderly couples who did not want to lose retirement benefits if they had a marriage recognized by the state) of a civil marriagOf course, we will not gain the rights and benefits (or suffer the losses — I have been part of «religious» weddings conducted by churches for elderly couples who did not want to lose retirement benefits if they had a marriage recognized by the state) of a civil marriagof «religious» weddings conducted by churches for elderly couples who did not want to lose retirement benefits if they had a marriage recognized by the state) of a civil marriagof a civil marriage.

We don't know, of course, whether group involvement was the source of their increasing interest in the church, or whether they were already becoming more interested in the church and this interest spurred their group involvement.

Although the «institutionalized format» of church seems to have almost run its course, I don't believe that «the church» is finished.

Of course ---- if you don't have passion for the church you pastor to become full of grace, mercy, etc. because you reject having a vision as a pastor, well, oOf course ---- if you don't have passion for the church you pastor to become full of grace, mercy, etc. because you reject having a vision as a pastor, well, oof grace, mercy, etc. because you reject having a vision as a pastor, well, ok.

The churches have happily been able to do some pioneering in urban centers, which of course needs to be continued.

Once the shock wore off though, I realized that money abuses and issues, while endemic within churches, still only account for a portion of the many ways in which churches have wounded people and thus there is undoubtedly plenty of people in search of a safe place who do not have any of the same issues that I have with linking money and spirituality, so really you were only excluding a certain portion of people from safety by attaching a price tag to it, those for whom money issues are a sticking point and of course those who simply don't have the extra funds to commit.

Had I been in a local church for most of my ministry, I suppose I should have done what has been done by my able and insightful friends who have followed that course; namely, worked it through personally and professionally, realized that the ministry is a unity, although one of complex functions, and from then on kept publicly quiet.

You of course know the the Catholic Church DID try to force left - handed students be right - handed until very recently.

«Of course there is nothing I can do about war,» the pastor of a small church declareOf course there is nothing I can do about war,» the pastor of a small church declareof a small church declared.

Of course, being the church as you are, you don't have to pay for gigantic buildings, state - of - the - art sound systems, 17 pastoral staff members, and carefully groomed landscaping on a 150 acres of tax - free church propertOf course, being the church as you are, you don't have to pay for gigantic buildings, state - of - the - art sound systems, 17 pastoral staff members, and carefully groomed landscaping on a 150 acres of tax - free church propertof - the - art sound systems, 17 pastoral staff members, and carefully groomed landscaping on a 150 acres of tax - free church propertof tax - free church property.

nah — they believe that grocary store bread and wine becomes the flesh and blood of a dead Jew from 2,000 years ago because a priest does some hocus - pocus over it in church of a Sunday morning; that a being reads my mind whenever I pray and intervenes to change what would otherwise be the course of history in small ways to «answer my prayers»; and that I will survive my own physical deathand live happily ever after if I follow some rules laid down by goat herders in Bronze Age Palestine.

Makes sense that churches should try to be more culturally relevant to attract new parishioners, of course this does nt make their truth claims any more believable.

And of course we * are * Church in that we are all parts of the Body of Christ; it's not just somewhere we go or «do».

He wasn't talking about me, of course, but he said that the big problem in the church today is that people read the Bible, they don't like what they read, and so they reject what the Bible clearly teaches because they prefer their own theology over the theology of the Bible.

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