Sentences with phrase «about being in the church»

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According to Jeffrey Augustine, author of the blog The Scientology Money Project, the church has a book value of $ 1.75 billion, about $ 1.5 billion of which is tied up in real estate, mostly at its headquarters in Clearwater and in Hollywood, Calif..

The average commercial property tax rate in America is 1.940 %, which would mean that the church is getting out of about another $ 20 million annually in property taxes, based on the estimate that it owns $ 1.5 billion in real estate.

While most of us think about our time in 24 - hour blocks, Vanderkam thinks that «anything you do once a week happens often enough to be important to you, whether it's church, a strategic thinking session at work, your Sunday dinner with your parents, or your softball team practice.»

Scientology TV will likely result in very little for the Church of Scientology except to mislead its parishioners into thinking that Scientology is growing and has surmounted decades of withering revelations about the corrupt and abusive practices of this «pay as you go» business that masquerades as a cChurch of Scientology except to mislead its parishioners into thinking that Scientology is growing and has surmounted decades of withering revelations about the corrupt and abusive practices of this «pay as you go» business that masquerades as a churchchurch.

Last fall someone in my church told me about the job fair (Opportunity Fair and Forum) and that companies were hiring on the spot.

Hello, you're entirely right to be very critical of harmful things going on in churches, this is what love is all about.

Most blasphemy must be 90 % correct to infiltrate the Church... Its not mentioned on your two intro lines, and is only mentioned in half a line at middle but, its gays at church that this is aChurch... Its not mentioned on your two intro lines, and is only mentioned in half a line at middle but, its gays at church that this is achurch that this is about..

If you are claiming to be in the «body of Christ» and the «institutional» church is not, maybe you have something to offer about who Christ is, what he did and what it means, and you might be able to do it during the week where the west commemorates it.

But fired up as I was about porn culture and sexual violence, and questioning attitudes towards women in the Church, I felt bombarded by messages about conservative «biblical womanhood» that I couldn't identify with and that didn't seem to do anything to challenge the injustice I saw.

WHY do they believe that their God is so concerned about whether or not they listen to musical instruments in church on Sunday, get dunked or sprinkled in ceremonial water, speak in a tongue as some kind of sign... to whom ever, read from the correct translation of some long lost ancient books, etc, etc?

My problem about Obama support of Gay marraige is with the churches in America, People kill people you never see the Churches come together and dischurches in America, People kill people you never see the Churches come together and disChurches come together and discuss it.

The increase in the number of churches (between 1990 and 2000) was about one - eighth of what is needed to keep up with population growth.

Then why do I, a man that has been inside a few churches in his lifetimes solely for the purpose of absorbing the lovely architecture of lovely buildings across the globe in different societies, know more about world religion than you do and the rest of your flock?

Certainly we can tell others at the water cooler and in our churches what we believe about issues like this, but it's important that we talk and listen and trust God to help us wrestle through the seeming contradictory pros and cons involved.

For one to say that building a Mosque near ground zero is wrong is no different than someone saying they don't want a Christian church being built somewhere because someone close to them died in a Christian cult bombing or suicide like Jim Jones or Timothy McVeigh, or to say they don't want a Catholic church to be built because they or someone they care about was molested by a priest.

Why are you listening to black clerics over this issue, Blacks are having more kids out of wed lock than whites, they are also like white, living in sin, but the church's say nothing about having babies without a husband or sitting in church and living in sin, talk about glass houses, and besides the marriages are Cival marriage not religious marriage, what a bunch of hipocrites..

He's on one side of a long - standing debate in the church about how to build a decent society.

People ask me about what's happening at church or in our youth group in the same way they ask another person who's into motorcycles about his bike.

You are right of course about things not being apparent until one gets more involved in the church.

«When I go (to church) tomorrow and sing a hymn, I'm singing about that very fact that I have hated God this past week in my actions,» she said.

«Why would we not - in the context of church - speak about something that he was not bashful about?»

How about we get some LARGER FONT LARGER GRAPHICS front - paged stories on Romney being a Bishop in the Mormon church who had some pretty abhorrent policies before 1980, while Romney was a member, including the exclusion of black men from the priesthood up until Mormons were pressured to remove that provision in 1978.

Ongoing debates about the role of women in society and the Church show that Christianity and feminism have always been uneasy bedfellows.

Well, here I am writing about it again because it not only takes place in the church but in Christian movements such as Emergent.

It's one of the things that makes it possible for me to feel completely welcome in our church, to know I'm not alone in feeling there is an injustice here, and that this is something you feel very strongly about and are working on.

The fact is there are already plenty of churches in America, arguably the majority of them in this country, that emphasize social justice, acceptance of LGBT, and «letting science to its thing» — I'm talking about the mainline liberal churches.

I am a Christian who attends a Pentecostal church, but I'm pretty liberal in my views as well and don't always agree with my fellow Christians about certain heavier topics.

A comment was made that most churches don't preach Jesus... I find that frustrating because in most churches we hear all day long about Paul, what he has to say about «Christ», all feeling one step removed from Jesus by name, preferring to speak of Him by His title.

That takes me back to when I was about ten years old in a Penetecostal church.

MacIntyre is not naive about the tenacity of liberals to refuse to give Aristotle a hearing simply because Aquinas had so successfully baptized him for the Church: «It is safe to predict that to the vast majority of such protagonists it will seem preferable to remain in almost any predicament than to accept a Thomistic diagnosis.»

I was singing in church for so long, I wanted to sing about something different.

Later, DeMoss talks about being turned off by the evangelical street preachers he'd seen on the street corners there, preaching to Mormons in town for the church's annual general assembly.

This is all about control with religion and it has to stop.Gay people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight people getting married.People are so full of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.

Seeing as the last time Malachy's supposed prophesies was correct was in 1590, I don't think Pope Francis or the church have much to worry about.

A polemicist might well have salty things to say about this abdication of moral principles that Christians have held since the earliest days of the faith, but in Wilcox's mild and irenic diction the mainline churches are simply «accommodationist,» espousing what he calls a «Golden Rule Christianity» that honors tolerance, kindness, and social justice as paramount virtues.

It reflects the stultifying presumption that one must have a PhD in order to have informed views about what's going on in the Catholic Church.

And don't forget all the victims of Christianity's own Jim Jones... I'm certain you and all you Christian Extremists are in your churches, always trying to find ways to brainwash everyone into committing suicide like Jim Jones and have plans to blow up buildings like Timothy McVeigh and think about as well as act upon your perverted thoughts by molesting young boys... don't you?

Everything for me as a pastor is about creating environments for the Holy Spirit to move people along in their journey so that they become dependent on the life of God and not the organization of the church.

In the church I currently attend (male pastor but very open to female pastors) the numbers are about equal.

At one church in a poor area of Colorado, for example, they observed the pastor preaching: «It shouldn't be about health, wealth and prosperity here, but in the next place.»

It was in a bowling alley while half snooker that I asked a man I knew went to church about this thing that was going on inside of me about someone named Jesus.

In the churches I mentioned, with a younger congregation and artists the numbers are about equal.

I was thinking about this when I read that the Catholic Church in Italy is working to repeal that country's new Sunday shopping law.

She talks about religious persecution by state churches yet like so many evangelicals she really means that the evangelicals should be the state church in America.

We're talking about love relationships not the titillation of nerve endings As to who can or can not hold a leadership position or who can or can not teach in a church, I think it comes down to morals not legality.

CNN: Convention's Mormon speakers expected to shed light on Romney's faith life Mitt Romney is famously quiet about his Mormon faith, but his campaign has said that some of Thursday's speakers at the Republican National Convention will shed light on the candidate's role in the church — and that Romney may open about his faith, too.

Everybody in their comment seems to think church is about them, or should be about them, or should be about people in some way.

I'm speaking about my own faith only: To become a Christian, it must be your own choice.No else can decide this life style for you.I know many in the past and present have thought raising a child under the Christian label will save them for hell but in actual reality, the choice is their own not their parents etc.This life (being Christian) goes deeper than just believing.You have to consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family says.

It was offered tongue - in - cheek and was directed at the speculation about whether anything of substance will come out of the Council, but it expressed well the hopes and concerns held by the scholars of the Orthodox Church.

Although many Christians have suffered and even died in Ukraine, churches across the globe keep silent about what is happening.