i preached at Northwood a couple of months
ago during their church planting focus.
Not exact matches
Evangelicals who are «Pro-Israel, Pro-Palestine» are reminiscent of similarly well intentioned and naive
church activists of thirty years
ago who eagerly advocated peaceful accommodation and disarmament
during the Cold War.
Remembering with pleasure our meeting in Washington some years
ago, I am prompted to write by what I once hoped was a common concern for the unity of Christ's
Church and a shared commitment to bridging the chasm that opened between America and Russia
during the Cold War.
I'm not a scholar on this, of course, but I remember reading that this all started just a few hundred years
ago, and more or less aligned with the
church's rejection of alchemy under pressure from the growing influence of the Enlightenment (
during which they tried to suppress Galileo, formed the horrors of the Inqusition, and more...).
The head of the Anglican
Church in Ireland has linked events in Gaza to World War One
during a service to commemorate Britain entering the conflict 100 years
ago.
The authoritative word given by the Holy Spirit to the
Church at the defining and pivotal moment of Vatican II nearly fifty years
ago was especially «made incarnate» in Britain in September, 2010,
during Benedict's apostolic visit: to seek unity with our separated brethren in the other Christian confessions, to affirm all that is good and true in secular culture without in any way watering down our witness to the truth of the fullness of the Christian faith, to declare without apology that the Catholic patrimony of faith and reason working in harmony remains a gift that the twenty - first century desperately needs if it is to avoid self - destruction, and which it neglects or dismisses at its own peril.
In view of this analysis, it is not surprising that Humanism has not become the challenger of the
churches which it promised to be
during the short period of its flourishing a few years
ago.
I'd told a story
during my sermon last week that happened at a
church conference years
ago.
David, Years
ago, when I was still in
church,
during a particularly open «men's» meeting, in which I was probably the youngest (mid 20's), I blurted out that I had a problem with sexual lust.
A hundred years
ago,
during the boom days of logging and tanning, the local population sustained those
churches, one in each tiny hamlet.
TYSON HALL first cottoned on to his younger brother Tanner's iconoclastic streak more than a decade
ago,
during a Christmas pageant at Northridge Lutheran
Church in the boys» hometown of Kalispell, Mont. «This was epic,» Tyson says.
Then there was Cabrera's speech, a stream - of - consciousness that sounded a lot like one of the Sunday sermons he offers up
during services at New Life International
Church on Morris Avenue, the church he founded 20 year
Church on Morris Avenue, the
church he founded 20 year
church he founded 20 years
ago.
The city's Sandtown - Winchester neighborhood, where Gray lived and where I grew up many years
ago, had been on my mind a lot
during the days leading up to the trip, and I felt distant as we boarded the bus and started our ride to the
church from downtown.
I've had a soft spot for Peter Bardazzi's work ever since I saw it at the Bobby Redd Project Space / Bushwick
church during open studios a few years
ago.