Sentences with phrase «around a church with»

Who can be offended by someone walking around a church with a smartphone?»

«Who can ever be offended by you walking around a church with your smartphone?»

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The Church Committee exposed much of the program, with a full report from Congress stating: «The CIA currently maintains a network of several hundred foreign individuals around the world who provide intelligence for the CIA and at times attempt to influence opinion through the use of covert propaganda.

«The Church has a presence in most communities around the world, with a mandate to rescue the oppressed and defend the orphan and the widow,» he says.

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.

And the LCMS held an «International Conference on Confessional Leadership» last year in Atlanta, Georgia, with more than 120 Lutheran church leaders from around the world attending.

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.

I thank my Mormon neighbor fairly often still when I think of all the repairs and clean up their work crews did in my yard and in my house (and around practically every neighborhood on the gulf coast) with no obligation to join or even attend their church.

(You know the two twenty year old guys walking around in a suit with «The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints» written on a black badge, pinned to their suit!

The Catholic Church cherry picked whatever BS was laying around, written generations after the time of the supposed Christ and stuffed it into a book with contradictions on every page.

Yet surely the Church's role in any possibly humane Chinese future will be built around its steadfastness under persecution and its forthright defense of the human rights of all (including Uighurs, Tibetans, and Falun Gong devotees), not by reaching agreements with those who may well have harvested organs from Catholic dissidents, pioneering a new form of martyrdom.

Honestly, I'm not sure why most of them stick around with the rampant corruption and lack of morals that's gone on in that church forever (and continues to be allowed and covered up).

The Catholic church is still working from a middle ages prospective and has lost touch with the world around it.

The original ministry that I was affiliated with was part of a large neighborhood coalition that was built by / around the Catholic Charasmatic church.

Around 30 Muslims then went to Fr Hamel's former church to pray, where they received applause from Catholics as a show of solidarity with them.

Because, you know, with all the pedo - priests getting paid off and moved around, it's DEFINITELY the American nuns that are making the church look bad globally.

When I felt dissatisfied with the «church» in the past, I always looked around at all the people I know.

Not one word about the man, what he loved to do, how he lived his life, nothing... just promotion of the catholic church and the lead priest prancing around in his robes with a microphone like a freakin rock star.

As for Romney being qualified: he was educated at Harvard with law and business degrees, he has managed hundreds of people in his church callings, he fixed a bankrupt Olympics, he started business that were very successful, he turned around businesses and later helped turn his state around while governor.

The fact that this «church» has been around so long and has been able to get away with all of its MANY atrocities just goes to show you how high up the corruption goes.

With the blessing of his bishop, Grey left the pastorate to organize on two fronts — in the churches of Illinois and with other antigambling groups around the counWith the blessing of his bishop, Grey left the pastorate to organize on two fronts — in the churches of Illinois and with other antigambling groups around the counwith other antigambling groups around the country.

«On atheists being afraid of the power of the church, so a hundred years ago or so, they started calling themselves scientists, and spreading around lies they claimed as facts, backed up with statistics to complicated for the average man to verify for himself.

Now there are reports of meetings springing up around the country in Runcorn, Leeds and Portsmouth with local churches eager to see God move in a similar...

Too lazy to look into right now... but didn't capitalism form around the time Luther broke away from the Catholic church, with the Protestant Reformation?

There were around 60 artists gathered in his Art House, a converted church that doubled as his home; a venue with a recording studio attached.

A few years back i was being led by god to help some homeless people.I'll tell you about the first homeless lady.my girls and i were driving by a liquor store and i seen a girl a lady sitting next to her cart.god showed me through his eyes the hurt she was living with.he spoke to my heart and said, don't pass her up.i turned around whent back and asked her if she was hungry.she was in shock and said yes.god told me to tell her that she is loved.she started crying and had me call her family so she can go home.anyways after that i joind a church and told them and asked to start a homeless ministry.i was told yes and all of a sudden i started getting pushed aside and they took over the homeless ministry.i feel lost and hurt.now i feel like god is telling me to leave the church.i quit going out with the group because of what happened.i don't know what to do.now i feel lost.

I talked with a lady just a few weeks ago who lives in Trego and I invited her to come to church, and she said she really wants to, but Sunday is the only day she has to get the things done around the house that she needs to, and so she can't make it to church.

Around 62 % of people who regularly attend church are middle class compared with 38 % of working - class attendees, according to a new YouGov survey.

Thousands of congregations around the world — from Lutherans to Anglicans, to Presbyterians, to members of the United Church of Christ and other denominations — stick with this calendar as a way of pulling the days» focus around a common theme.

``... [the] gulf between the Church and the scientific mind... widens with each generation, and modern means of diffusing knowledge by the press, radio, and film, have brought us now to such a pass that the Christian, and especially the Catholic, whose beliefs are enriched in their religious manifestation by the ceremonies and practices of a most ancient past, finds himself considered the initiate of a recondite cult whose practices are not only unintelligible to men around him, but savour to them of superstition and magic.»

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

But this is taught in many churches, that those who do not agree with specific church doctrine / dogma are not healthy to be around.

He told Premier: «We've become used to Pope Fracncis changing the way that we associate the Vatican and how it interacts with the churches around the world.

Wherever you find people that are willing to not just be self - centred but live for serving, and those that will unite — not around their preferences or their opinions, but around a common purpose — and those that will live with a vision that outlasts themselves, I think that church is going to be successful.

Too often the dissolution of a church is messy business, with hurt feelings, accusations, and blame circling around the whole affair like hungry vultures.

The church also partners with a local rabbi from time to time for conversation around Hebrew Scripture and offers a variety of Bible study / book club options.

Most of one pastor's congregation is tented around the church, along with a clinic manned by a doctor without a nurse or medications... just his hands and a stethoscope with an ocean of compassion.

And my faith tells me that before an anxious church bent Jesus around the shape of ancient predictions, he was content with the lilies of the field.

It sounds obvious, but Powell says when a church is putting the life of Christ forward, it's reflected in how they engage with the non-church community around them.

Mike and Kerry waited nearly two years to adopt J. T., now two, who romps around our church's playground with Hailey Kerry, whom J. T. calls «Daddy,» is his legally adoptive father, while Mike («Papa» to J. T.) is his loving, stay - at - home — although not legally adoptive — parent.

Are you happy with the church you're at, or is it time to look around a little?

The Church objected to democracy throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, aligning itself with repressive political regimes around the world.

Best Analysis: Ed Stetzer with «Empowered Non-Staff Leadership Marks Church Planting Movements Around the World»

«Church» has become some strange and perverted mix of money, power, authority, and celebrity with a little Bible and Jesus sprinkled around here and there to make it appear legitimate to some.

My life revolved so much around the church that I had nothing in common with people outside of it.

Perhaps, all the hullaballoo around the idea of church is created because words have been mistranslated or replaced with others to promote an agenda.

On the modern road to Jericho, which runs around the bottom of the Mount of Olives, is the Roman Catholic church, with a small, reverently tended garden beside it containing some old, gnarled olive trees.

So let us keep our priorities straight: the place to begin is with baptism; God's grace drives and sustains the church and our works, not the other way around.

As someone who has worked with and around a variety of churches from 75 to 3000 + people over the last 10 years in several parts of the country, I can attest that many of the issues you presented in the cartoons are definitely not rare.

Around 40 Church of England congregations will try out the electronic hand - held devices in response to concerns fewer people now carry coins and notes with them.