Sentences with phrase «free church in»

The neighbors in the Hickory Meadows Community Group relentlessly opposed a parking lot proposal that would have razed nine properties for the Orchard Evangelical Free Church in Arlington Heights.

Anthony and DeDe were part of a group who founded the Hope Evangelical Free Church in Mason, Ohio.

They attend Grace EV Free Church in La Mirada.

Swindoll was then a relatively unknown pastor at First Evangelical Free Church in nearby Fullerton.

Several Protestant statements — for example, the Mennonite General Conference's 1977 statement, the Church of the Brethren's 1984 declaration and perhaps the Lutheran Free Church in Norway's 1979 declaration — have condemned abortion.

The voluntaristic system of the free churches in North America, it has been said, has tended to transform their officials into merchants who offer all sorts of wares so that as many customers as possible may be attracted to their ecclesiastical emporiums.

Not exact matches

The Pope plans to hire a top global accounting firm to look over the Church's finances, and he's set up a «Working - Party for the Economic Future,» composed of some of the top Vatican bodies, in order to create a plan for the city - state to free up more money for helping the poor, according to Bloomberg.

They have taken on the toughest customers by rolling CareMessage out in the most underserved communities, some of which include charitable clinics run out of the back of a church or free clinics affiliated with a medical school.

«I accompany with prayer the positive success of the Inter-Korean summit last Friday and the courageous commitment assumed by the leaders of the two parts to carry out a path of sincere dialogue for a Korean Peninsula free of nuclear weapons,» the Catholic Church leader told pilgrims gathered in Saint Peter's Square on Sunday.

Trey — I would have a very hard time attending a church where Cindy and I weren't recognized as a couple, treated as a couple, and not only free, but comfortable and even encouraged, to be ourselves, just like any other couple in the church.

Some in the church were with him but not enough to make sure he is free to tell the world.

Before the Muslim conquests (it is interesting that papacy and Islam were established at the same time around 600 a. D.) there was a great Christian Church in the Roman Empire or later Eastern Roman Empire with a lot of free bishops.

The USA is a place that is free from any kind of religious classification and official religious sponsorship, primarily because the founding fathers didn't want the church to have control on par with that of the church in England.

I love it that in our church people feel free to be sad and cry and others come to them and offer comfort.

If anyone here is sick and tired of all the silliness and nonsense in religion today and want a real church, I invite you to check out mormon.org where you can talk (not to a paid professional), but to ordinary members who volunteer their time for free because they just believe in serving and want to answer your questions.

I for one enjoy free will to research the Universe and push for the big answers that the church can only have faith in.

The Church recognizes that Russia is composed of many different ethnic and religious groups, and that individuals should be free in matters of religion.

It can only be met by a robustly evangelical Catholicism that proposes the gospel in a compelling and courageous way, and that insists that public authorities permit the Church the free space to be itself, make its gospel proposal, and offer the service of charity to others.

The Anglican Church currently maintains 1 in 4 schools in the England and if it successfully bids to create 125 free schools by 2020 that ratio will continue.

Should churches, in partnership with the county health department, offer free medical check ups?

Without the old confidence in the faith and the intellectual foundations of the Church, the room itself fades away and slips from existence — leaving only the window: a strange, free - floating pane of glass, hanging somehow in mid-air.

I never felt free to be who I am in church because according to what they teach in the Bible I am cursed, have a demon, or something else.

China's urban churches will be a major force in its democratization, for a free society requires a civil society capable of standing up to tyranny and the abuse of power.

The Harvard president said she would allow the black Mass to continue, citing the value of free expression on campus, but planned attend a prayer ceremony Monday night at St. Paul's Church in Cambridge.

We are free to believe in anything we want in our private homes and in our churches and there is a separation of church and state was created so one religion can not have power to say what's moral and who can and can't prey.

Philip Larkin's «Church Going» comes to mind: Yet stop I did: in fact I often do, And always end much at a loss like this, Wondering what to look for; wondering, too, When churches fall completely out of use What we shall turn them into, if we shall keep A few cathedrals chronically on show, Their parchment, plate, and pyx in locked cases, And let the rest rent - free to rain and sheep.

This nation, the U.S.A. was born from religious folk in Europe wanting to be freed from the over taxations of both the Churches and their Governments.

In ignoring Augustine's reflections on virtue in On Free Choice of the Will, the contemporary church misses an indispensable resource for reconstituting moral visioIn ignoring Augustine's reflections on virtue in On Free Choice of the Will, the contemporary church misses an indispensable resource for reconstituting moral visioin On Free Choice of the Will, the contemporary church misses an indispensable resource for reconstituting moral vision.

Obama's accommodation proposes that Church authorities who run hospitals, schools, and other facilities will be entitled to tell their employees that the health care insurance provided by the Church does not cover contraceptives, the «morning after pill,» or sterilization, but that the health insurance company that covers the Catholic institution will be free to contact the employees of that institution and inform them that they are entitled to «free» coverage of these things from the insurance company in question.

All Christians ever since, whether they are Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Protestant, or Free Church, have agreed on the central doctrinal statements expressed in this particular statement of faith.

For those of you offended by the church and its members» actions, feel free to go to the website «All Dead Mormons Are Gay» where you can convert any dead Mormon (except those that died in the Holocaust) from straight to gay for eternity.

I'm freer in Christ and so much abler to focus on Jesus by not going to «church.»

The Lutheran groups most likely to identify as evangelical are small and functionally free - church (the Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ).

More recently, theologians and church leaders from denominations that have historic ties with churches in the north have encouraged African Christian expressions that are free of northern acculturation, are faithful to the gospel and draw upon traditional African

Besides polluting the free flow of ideas, manipulations such as these are nothing less than subversive: they undermine the United States and its institutions — universities, the press, charitable groups, foundations and the churches — by exploiting the legitimacy they may inherently possess, in order to gain for insidious designs credibility which the CIA would not otherwise be able to command.

Moreover, in keeping with the Church's teachings on subsidiarity, free will and real love, it seems most if not all the issues raised in the letter questioning Speaker Boehner's faith would be more efficient, effective, just and respectful of human dignity if they were left to the individual, family, community or state level.

In response, the church decided that the best way to love their neighbors might be to offer free legal consultations and help completing paperwork.

I was also in a number of other church camps for extended stays, i.e., Baptist, Methodist, Episcopal, Evangelical Free, Calvary Chapel when I was moving around the country.

«To destroy our free schools, and perhaps our free institutions, has been for many years the constant aim of the extreme section of the Romish Church,» Lawrence wrote in his article.

But there can be specific Church forms of homophobia too: pressurising us to change our sexual orientation (although people who want to seek change in their orientation should be free to do so, and some find that their sexuality does change); saying that gay people will go to hell; not permitting us to work with youth or children (assuming gay people are more likely to be predatory or paedophiles); and holding us back from ministry roles.

The Catholic Church has helped frame this year's election by strenuously opposing a rule in President Obama's health care law that requires insurance companies to provide free contraception coverage to nearly all American employees, including those at Catholic colleges and hospitals.

Per experiences two decades ago, the underground churches in China are not necessarily got harassed by the Chinese government as long as you don't say things against its policy, not get the foreign influences in your underground, then you're as peaceful as anywhere else in the free world.

... switch from using a mac to using a pc and expect the same thing... or go back to religion and get the same shunning from the atheists that you got from whatever church that was that you blindly followed... now you get to be the poster child for atheists the same way a repentant drugged up rock star gets to be the poster child for church... except from the atheists» arrogant point of view, you went from uneducated, ignorant, bigoted, intolerant and stupid to being sophisticated, intellectual, open minded and free thinking... in their opinion you were formerly a stupid a s s...

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The concept of once saved always saved takes a bit to get your head around but Gods grace is greater than our sin and greater than our good works it just takes faith in Jesus Christ to recieve Gods grace.In saying that to continue to sin as a christian is like playing with fire you will be burnt.Paul talks of the sexual immorality in corinthian church of the son and father that were sleeping with the same wife they were excommunicated from the church the members were not allowed to even eat with them until they repented.There are consequences for our actions.The other side to this is that if you continue to sin as a christian you are not walking by faith but walking by the flesh and are really backsliding.In the backslidden state you also become powerless and open to attack by satan as long as we walk in the flesh he can influence us to get worse not better.If we are walking in Christ satan may still try to tempt us but we are empowered by the holy spirit and overcome him and our faith increases.Both are saved by grace but one is powerless because of sin versus saved but an overcomer having been set free from sin i think this is what Paul was trying to explain.It is better to be an overcomer than overcome by sin.brentnz

It also gave rise to pietist and free church movements in Scandinavia and latter - day reformers in Denmark.

Living in low - income housing, teaching free literacy classes to refugees, setting up basketball camps for bored inner - city kids: all of it had a few costs for me personally, sure, but the holy buzz of pats on the back from friends and church people, and the feeling that I was the only person really getting what Jesus was saying — this more than made up for doing without.

One person left our church because we put up a book and literature table, another because we had a free coffee and snack table in the foyer before the service.

I clearly stated that I knew it was David's right to moderate how he wanted, and I noted that I believe it is fair to talk about silencing in church systems, but I asked him to consider the damage and misinformation that a free - for - all like this can have when it takes a huge left turn into picking apart people's personal darkness from a far.

After I left prison, I was led into a church that taught «free grace» and a group of Godly men that welcomed me into their circle in spite of my own failings.