Sentences with phrase «simple church in»

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Shane Claiborne, a founding pastor of The Simple Way, a church in inner city Philadelphia, believes that our hope should be found in an alternative candidate, one that's not on the ballot for 2008.

In his sit - down with Oprah, Lentz explained why his simple Gospel message is connecting with so many people and why his church does things differently.

The founding fathers almost got it right, instead of simple separation of church and state, they should have clearly stated that there is no place for religion in the modern world.

The Huffington Post says that he «never lived in the ornate church mansion in Buenos Aires, preferring a simple bed in a downtown room heated by a small stove on frigid weekends.

Plain and simple, but atheists are so afraid of christian opinions they have become an activist church in themselves.

As a result, we tracked almost 3,000 new prayer initiatives in April alone, ranging from simple prayer meetings in churches that would never normally gather to intercede, right through to 24 - 7 prayer rooms in rural congregations that never imagined they would ever in 1,000 years manage to pray all night — let alone enjoy the experience!

Since Jesus Christ did not lie to the Apostles and His Church is still standing after 2000 years it is very simple to see who has the proper interpretation of the Bible... the Church that compiled the Bible... collecting the inspired scripture from amongst many scriptures and placing the Books in the Bible.

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But their chief wisdom about the family seems to lie in this simple statement from the former Lutheran Church in America: «The family appears in many forms in different times and places.»

I've been devastated to find that satan has planted himself so firmly into the church and is leading people away from the truth about who Jesus is and what He did on the cross, and keeping Christians from prayer and evangelism, focusing instead on attacking believers and turning them from simple faith in Christ to Calvinism.

Roberts's simple but powerful idea may get the church to revolve, turn around, and carry out its ministry in a fundamentally different way.

The reason the church adapted some of the symbolism and practices from their surrounding pagan culture is an interesting study, but the simplest explanation which makes the most sense to people today is found in our own culture.

Although simple and, in a certain sense, practical, for me this moment is rich in meaning: the Archbishop will call me by name to serve Jesus and the Church in St Andrews and Edinburgh, confirming aloud the calling I heard in my heart many years ago.

The reason that most institutional cover - ups happen in the church is not simple institutional protectionism.

I find in the Bible a simple church, without hierarchy.

More often, within otherwise orthodox circles, this teaching seems to be downplayed in favour of a simple reassertion of Church teaching or an encouragement of reverent liturgy, crucial as both of these are.

Over at iMonk last week, Chaplain Mike wrote a lovely post about how, after a period of wandering through the denominational wilderness, he found a home in an ELCA Lutheran church «with a simple liturgy, wonderful music, a healthy and grounded pastor, a hospitable congregation, and an emphasis on Christ, grace, vocation, and other Lutheran essentials that answered questions I had been turning over in my mind for years in my evangelical settings.»

I vote NO to the mosque... not now, not ever... They already have enough churches in NYC... This is being done for spite, plain and simple... get over it and go somewhere else... I hear the middle of Harlem is in need of a few places to pray

why don't we just follow the simple example set in every muslim nation and allow them to build their mosques and «community centers» when they allow churches and synagogues to be built inn their countries.

This debate has caused great division in the church, but there is a simple solution.

«I think part of the appeal for some in the house church movement is the desire to return to a simpler expression of church,» said Ed Stetzer, a seminary professor and president of Lifeway Research, which is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.

There is this tendency in some churches to simplify everything and make it a simple list of rules.

Even someone who is no triumphalist can in certain circumstances lament that at such and such a point even the simplest principles which the Church proclaims were disregarded.

and knowing that «going deep» so to speak on theology isn't her typical move, I figured I would take a read and see if perhaps she had changed somehow in the years since we worshiped at the same church every week, or if this was merely a simple «It's all good with Jesus, so judge not, and so on» type post / statement.

To fill the gap left by a weakened church, people are not only experimenting with both new and ancient forms of the spiritual and psychic life; they are searching for religious books that deal with the complex problems of society in personal, direct and simple ways.

The simple solution is keep it in your homes and churches and respect the fact that you reside in a Secular country.

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Live sacramentally: teach yourself and the people in your church simple prayers of gratitude for what others have done for us.

Many Protestant groups in America are actively trying to recapture the message as Christ delivered it and to live that simple, clear message out as the early Church lived it.

But, for all those problems, it was a beautiful chapter in the life of the Church, filled with simple faith, devotion, and sacrifice.

We have organic church, simple church, and missional communities, but even here, in most of the books and blogs I read about this, the emphasis always seems to be that the church is only functioning when the people gather in a certain place at a certain time, usually in a house on Sunday morning.

«There's no simple once - for - all resolution, Thomas, but there is an ongoing discussion — just as in every other area of the church's life and thought.

And hey, just for signing up, I send you a free copy of one of my ebooks, Skeleton Church, in which I suggest and clear and simple definition for the church which fits all types of church, and challenges all churches to get up off the pews (or out of the homes) and to follow Jesus into the Church, in which I suggest and clear and simple definition for the church which fits all types of church, and challenges all churches to get up off the pews (or out of the homes) and to follow Jesus into the church which fits all types of church, and challenges all churches to get up off the pews (or out of the homes) and to follow Jesus into the church, and challenges all churches to get up off the pews (or out of the homes) and to follow Jesus into the world.

Churchmen seemed to have no ideas at all on the subject (6) The earliest form of Christian marriage was a simple blessing of the newly wedded, «in facie ecclesiae» — outside the churches closed doors — to keep the pollution of lust out of God's house.

Rev Nigel Genders, the Church of England's chief education officer, said: «In the current education landscape small rural schools face some tough challenges which are not simple to resolve and are often expressed in negative termIn the current education landscape small rural schools face some tough challenges which are not simple to resolve and are often expressed in negative termin negative terms.

When a man isn't allowed to make a choice as simple as choosing what underwear to put on (because the Mormon church controls EVERY choice in their member's lives — including their underwear), he shouldn't be making choices for our country or creating laws on our behalf.

The foundation will exist as an entity in its own right within Church law, and Fr Trafny explains: «This is an important step, because we are moving from being a simple project to merge learning between the pontifical universities in Rome to being a new entity recognised by the Holy Father as a reference point for all dialogue involving science and faith.»

Though it is impossible to state a simple rule, considering the variety of situations in the mission churches, the following principles have to be observed.

In fact, the simple task of creating a Web site has forced some churches and perhaps a few denominations to ask themselves who they really are.

Van Gogh remained in the Borinage after the church withdrew its support, and he began his artistic career by making drawings of the simple life of the Belgian peasants.

It also notes that its summer camps «present the simple message of the Gospel as found in the Bible and teach Christian values without promoting nor condemning any denomination or church.»

I've personally come to believe that the simple act of our church community getting together intentionally just to party has enormous value in and of itself.

There are plenty of moral idealists in the church who confuse the issue by thinking that they can establish justice in a simple manner.

Fans and followers of The Simple Way would say that what you are doing is coming close to being the «Church of Acts» that is spoken about in many churches, but seen in very few.

They were wed in St. Edwards church, the formerly abandoned cathedral into which homeless families relocated in 1995, launching the beginning of the Simple Way community and a new phase of faith - based justice making.

The motu proprio, he insists, «compromises thecoherence of the Church's self - understanding and threatens to reduce the liturgy to a simple matter of individual «taste» rather than what it is meant to be: an accurate reflection of what we believe as Catholic Christians who live in the twenty - first century»: for that, of course is utterly different from what Catholic Christians who lived in previous centuries (and in the twentieth century before the sixties) believed: hence, the absolute indefensibility of what he calls «this medieval rite».

Furthermore, the simple fact of having to speak the vows in the wedding service means there is one, concrete, tangible moment when those married in the Catholic Church must assent, externally at least, to the ideals of Catholic marriage.

Do you mean to tell me that building a church and teaching sermons about Jesus in impoverished South American countries is somehow less effective than building family housing, teaching modern irrigation techniques, and demonstrating how even the simplest modern medicine and hygeine practices can save many, many lives?

To the church that not only believes what I say but follows me in the way I do it, I'll give a simple, uncluttered life that is hospitable to the wanderers and misguided, the hurried and harried men and women of this world.

For the use of those better placed than I, whose direct or indirect task it is to lead the Church, I wish to show candidly where, in my view, the root of the trouble lies, and how, by means of a simple readjustment at this particular, clearly localized point, we may hope to procure a rapid and complete rebound in the religious and Christian evolution of Mankind.