It is far more popular in many churches to get together and pray
about a need in the community than it is to get together and actually do something
about a need in the community.
Reach out to local hospitals, assisted living centers, psychiatric hospitals, detention centers, or schools to find out
about needs in these communities for licensed counselors with your skills, look into working with other therapists in the area, or open a private practice.
Not exact matches
Still, there is some debate
in the venture capital
community about whether the overall
need for capital is greater at the Series A stage (where rounds are typically between $ 5 million and $ 10 million) or at the next stage, Series B, where bigger amounts are required.
A senior Western diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, acknowledged that the international
community - and
in particular, the Europeans -
needed to do more to voice their concerns
about Iran's behavior.
Many people argue
about what
needs to come first
in order to create an entrepreneurial
community — ideas or capital — but it's a chicken - and - egg debate, says Brad Whitehead, president of the Fund For Our Economic Future, a program that pools funding for entrepreneurs from various philanthropic organizations across Northeast Ohio.
We also have an extensive referral franchise network filled with industry professionals to help clients get the expert advice
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Whether it is through study and work experiences abroad, learning more
about Asia
in the classroom, or even engaging with newcomers
in our local
communities, our government
needs to help us be more proactive
in stepping out of our comfort zones.
Arlene this is an excellent suggestion that I've been thinking
about myself for some time now... we
need to get the international
community and those involved
in the Paris Climate Accord to pressure Trudeau
about his responsibilities to that Accord... Trudeau is all
about his international reputation and photo ops so this is where we
need to hurt him and have him pressured... he's no climate leader but wants the international
community to believe his falsehoods and his hypocrisy
needs to be exposed... how do we make this happen imminently??!!! Obviously it's out there but we
need international pressure now..
If we do
need to move
in the direction of giving asset price and debt developments more weight
in the conduct of monetary policy than hitherto, we
need to educate our respective
communities about these issues.
While users»
needs are being right
in the centre based on Zuckerberg words: «I'm serious
about doing what it takes to protect our
community», advertisers can help but wonder where does this leave them?
There is a
need for a massive re-think
about how we build
community, rural and urban
communities that are resilient, healthy and work towards strengthening self - reliance
in the face of climate change.
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If I was going to be perfectly honest with myself and with God — I
needed to examine all the evidence out there and take an honest look at what was being said
about these scriptures and
about the gay
community in general.
You are doing better but learn more
about leadership principles and how parishes are composed and ran by many people to meet the
needs of the members but also the needy with
in the
community.
I think Christians,
in general, don't know jack squat
about the gay lifestyle /
community nor do they really take the time to understand... their scripture says this and that's all they
need (blatant ignorance — but that's life)... even those scriptures are up for contention as noted earlier by Trey.
I am the first
in line to step up to the plate to help someone
in need (a friend told me
about a homeless man living under bridge
in a small town of 1500... everyone knew he was there; police, mayor and other
community members, though NO one did a thing, I personaly went bought a sleeping bag and 100.00 worth of food, storage bags and toiletries and whatever I thought he may
need and this is the first time brought up.)
A church is supposed to be the combined efforts of EVERYONE
in it to serve their
communities, not an exclusive group that sits around talking
about their own
needs.
I don't know what
community you live
in, but where I am from its the Christian folks
in the
community that are the most proactive
about making things happen for people
in need.
Even as an introvert, I
need vital and good friendships — I find it impossible to write with any real authenticity
about community if I'm not ENGAGED
in community.
Now, if the material
in the gospels has been used and to some extent adapted to the changing
needs of the early Christian
community and it is written
in the light of the belief that God had raised Jesus from the dead, there is room for much difference of opinion
about what Jesus actually said and did.
In any
community, out of consideration for others I know to adapt it's not all
about me and there is
need for sensitivity to the environment.
The theological conversation
about interfaith relations is important, Cragg accepts, but he thinks there is an equally urgent
need to move beyond theological propositions and to be informed by what he calls «a
community of reverence,» «a converse of soul»
in joint prayer and worship.
March 22 is World Water Day, an event created by the U.N. to raise awareness
about the importance of access to clean water — and the
communities in desperate
need of it.
There is no
need to theorize
about why the Bible has authority when one finds oneself living
in a
community in which that authority is presupposed and which is constantly being renewed through the simple experience of its operation.
This power came
about because the FCC, which is charged with making certain the airwaves are used to meet the
needs of the entire
community and that all issues of importance to citizens are thoroughly aired, has failed
in its task.
Speaking
about the timing of the walk so close to the General Election results, Linda Corrigan from the worldwide Christian
community Maranatha told Premier: «Surely our nation
needs the Body of Christ to give united leadership
in these uncertain and turbulent times, especially following the recent atrocity
in the city of Manchester.»
Jaclyn Miller writes a column for RELEVANT
about the
need to have a place where sex can be discussed honestly and openly
in the Christian
community.
Church leaders
need to proactively show their members how to serve and who to love
in the
community, not just preach and teach
about it.
ok i've decided — after soul searching and observing my and other's reactions to these religious blog news on CNN learning more
about religion from this alone and
about the mideast than from anywhere else
in my USA educated life i
need to be more tolerant of others having religious based governments THAT is what is confusing me — that religion are governments are not seperated that is hard for much of USA population to understand perhaps it is for me i think you would have to actually live
in a society like the mideast to truly understand it i mean — actually be part of the society the religious part is truly offputting — since most
in USA seperate church and state like — church is for faith and imagination and celebration and family and
community involvement and state is for protection and education and health and infrastructure, etc., for all it is hard to be serious
about religion — when the serious side of society is state it is hard to see religion being the serious side of enforcement — and the state enforcing the faith based side of society egad — doesn't god get lost
in all that?
But for this to come
about what is
needed is to first remake the Christian fabric of the ecclesial
community itself present
in these countries and nations...»
While Christians may disagree
about what role government should play
in serving those
in need, the Liberty University
community along with all Christians worldwide are united
in the belief that we, as individuals, should provide food and shelter to the poor.
But I believe that
in these sorts of situations, Christians
need to stop and listen to the LGBTQ
community and what they say
about Christian hatred.
Despite all their talk
about missions and evangelism, not a single one of the churches I was looking at were doing much to reach, love, and serve those
in their own
communities that
needed Jesus most.
I've often sat there thinking
about it, but
in the end I always get up and go
in, because there's enough love, enough
need and enough of Christ
in my local church
community for me to put up with the damage that institutions do to everyone
in them.
Modern evangelicals do
need to «bridge the gap» and speak more plainly
about their faith
in terms that everyone can understand rather than assume that what they understand among themselves will be automatically understood by those who are not of their
community when they speak to others
about their faith.
Of course the FACT terrorist apologists like yourself continue to lie
about is that the intelligence
community in a virtually universal judgment deemed the threat to be very real
in Iraq and the
need for war to be so paramount that the coalition formed was historic
in their unison.
The Apostle's Creed presents us with the Trinity (that is not all it presents, but just an example), which gives us the basic idea that the Gospel is
about community, which then
needs to be expanded through the teaching
in the church to explain social justice, kingdom living, responsibility towards earth - care, etc..
By turning to the Dominicans, I thought, critics could embrace all the salutary points Dreher had made
about the
need to withdraw from the world
in order to form Christian
communities, while also giving greater emphasis to the dominical command to make missionary disciples of all nations.
Since the early traditions were transmitted by various Christian
communities adapting them to their own
needs, and since Christian prophets claimed to speak
in Jesus's name, did not the Gospels reveal more
about those
communities than
about the historical Jesus?
In Practicing Our Faith we talk
about practices that address fundamental human
needs: honoring the body, hospitality, household economics, saying yes and saying no, keeping Sabbath, testimony, discernment, shaping
communities, forgiveness, healing, dying well and singing our lives.
«The African - American Christian
community does not
need to be concerned
about losing people to Islam,» says Calvin O. Butts III, senior pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church and president of the College of Old Westbury
in Long Island.
There is something clincalizing and dehumanizing
about clones, IVF, survival of the fittest, sleeping with everyone you have ever dated, genocide (last century — remember Adolf and Joe and the Chairman), and the scientific
community and the tech
community and the mature «brain lords» maybe
need to address and look
in the mirror why this is happening.
It is becoming obvious
in our time that we can not talk
about peace on a global scale without recognizing the
need for peace on the home front,
in the self,
in relationship,
in community.
Learning
about big
needs in the community usually includes some sort of «Needs Survey.&r
needs in the
community usually includes some sort of «
Needs Survey.&r
Needs Survey.»
It is up to the Christian
communities to analyze with objectivity the situation which is proper to their own country, to shed on it the light of the gospel's unalterable words and to draw principles of the church... It is up to these Christian
communities, with the help of the Holy Spirit,
in communion with the bishops who hold responsibility and
in dialogue with other Christian brethren and all men of good will, to discern the options and commitments which are called for
in order to bring
about the social, political and economic changes seen
in many cases to be urgently
needed.
It's become our name tag, our social media profile, our «This is everything you
need to know
about me» badge that we wear
in front of our peers or among our
community.
In this way, meeting a
need of the
community becomes
about meeting our own
need for recognition, honor, and glory.
It isn't
about human rituals but
about believing the Holy Messiah, Jesus Christ by name to the Christian
community did bear the sufferings for our sins, so that we, by repentance (turning away from our sins) and following
in the teachings of the Messiah to become the «new man
in him» can be forgiven, and given the great mercy and grace that we all
need,
in order to be saved, and not destroyed with all that is evil.
We must understand that if Christians and non-Christians differ over marriage, that difference does not lie
in their understanding of the quality of interpersonal relationship
needed to enter or sustain a marriage, but rather
in a disagreement
about the nature of marriage and its place
in the Christian and national
community.
We take care of ourselves — tending our sick, stabilizing our marriages, providing a much -
needed community for our members, worshiping enthusiastically on Sundays — but
about the «sickness of Joseph,» the tyranny
in our land, we care not at all, or so it must seem to those outside the church.