Sentences with phrase «around church for»

As a woman who's been around church for more than 50 years I absolutely agree with your assertion and all 10 points.

If you have been around church for any length of time, you know how damaging and destructive this can be, not only on the congregations, but also in the pastor's life and family.

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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.

Then we got into the limo to bring us to the church and she was getting mad at someone for passing around champagne, because she thought someone would spill on her dress.

Mark Ledwidge, a senior lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University, agreed that many individuals got swept up in the Obama craze and that this hope for change created «expectations around Barack Obama» that «were highly problematic.»

Hillsong has chapters all around the world and is known for its casual, concertlike approach to traditional church services.

In Altman's view, people who have criticized those ideas for businesses have cast the entrepreneurs behind them as «heretics,» like how the Catholic Church sentenced Galileo to house arrest for (correctly) saying the Earth revolves around the sun.

If you're interviewing for a position at the Vanderbloemen Search Group — a Houston - based firm that staffs churches and other faith - based organizations — don't be surprised to receive a text message asking a quirky question of sorts around 10:00 in the evening.

Right now, our giving centers around two children we've «adopted» through World Vision, a local family we sponsor for Christmas and our local church.

I have been encouraging friends to attend — I've never been in a church that felt healthier for me or the people around me (okay — my kids are resistant, when we don't go regularly, but it seems very healthy for all the people I know and love who attend).

I got booted out of my chosen church (for being queer) and tried shopping around.

Itâ $ ™ s okay for you to look at how that church expresses itself every day in the people and events around you.

The Church welcomes you into community around the world, and through a shared hope in Christ, certainly clings to «particular expectations for the future» when Christ returns.

The fact that the church has been around for two millennia might not be a testimony to its long - suffering patience.

And he's relying on friends from both camps in preparing for Sunday, when Gross will use the Super Bowl as a way to get churches around the country talking about pornography, a subject he calls «the elephant in the pew.»

So... maybe the facts about early church martyrs are sketchy, and maybe they are not, but there's no disputing that Christians today are persecuted around the world for their beliefs.

The original version, contained the line «So heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss,» which for some reason, caused a stir in churches around the country.

For example in 2013, the Taliban attacked a church in the city of Peshawar, around half an hour's drive from Charsadda, murdering 127 and injured around 250.

The scientific community, for the most part, accepted Copernicus» theory, but the church took a long time to come around.

You do not need to blindly follow a priest or a church for the answers on what GOD is, just live and pay attention, it is all around us.

«We're a trusted organisation and we exist to serve and care for those around us, so I think in many ways the church is in a unique and special place for this.

The church, however, should be free to build itself around a quest for God's vision for their world, plans / goals of working towards it, expectation of change lives and conformation to the will of God.

Mr Faure was ordained by Richard Williamson, who was kicked out of the church for denying the extent of the Holocaust, around two weeks ago.

These, I suggest, are the essentials around which we can unite, and beyond which we must grant liberty for differing opinions about issues relating to the future of Israel, the chronology of the end times, the nature of the priesthood, the practice of the gifts of the Spirit, church governance or even (dare I say it?)

So I asked the pastor one Sunday how he figures out what to spend the donations on around the Church and how much to keep for his own expenses and he said «Well, I take the money box out to the parking lot Sunday afternoons and throw all the money recieved that day in the air, I figure what God wants, he keeps...»

For as I noted in a toast at the anniversary dinner the Maleckis» sons had arranged, the network of now - not - so - young friends that had gathered around Karol Wojtyla — men and women who resolutely refuse to think of themselves as something special — had in fact helped bend the history of the Church, and the world, in a more humane direction.

Harrison says: «The Church is often blamed for a lot, but there are many countries around the world where churches play a huge part in bringing peace and hope, and helping people recover.»

I believe it was Citizens United for the Separtion of Church and State that sought a court injunction against issuing explicitly Christian license plates there, but they managed to finagle a way around it.

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.

You can also poke around on your Nook or Kindle — there are e-books there written for the faithful that give a detailed insight into the cult - like thinking (well, poor choice of words, a favorite LDS saying is, «the thinking is done», but you catch my drift) that's used to control their people from a very young age to find «the world» unbearable and the church to be a haven, etc..

National Porn Sunday is a national effort for healing and accountability in churches around the world.

There's millions and millions of churches on every street corner, and you're begrudging them one little meeting where they'll actually be around like - minded individuals for a few hours?

The Catholic Church, which is the basis for Santorum's wackjob beliefs, once condemned Copernicus for asserting that the Earth revolves around the sun in the same way that they condemn Obama for supporting birth control and abortion today.

The trustee agency would recommend to the pope replacements for failed bishops and nominees for empty sees, drawing candidates from around the world who had demonstrated success in enlivening a sclerotic or corrupt local Church.

«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.

She slanders anyone who has paid for large projects in the church as just throwing their weight around and showing off, (she does the same, then demands the church pay her back, whereas the others were truly charitable).

Funny how we all judge the priest of the Catholic Church and are quick to point a finger... Ever think that this is all our fault for letting our world get so ugly... Yeah don't get me wrong it makes me mad to think that someone I am supposed to be able to trust can turn around and do this to young boys.

I was also in a number of other church camps for extended stays, i.e., Baptist, Methodist, Episcopal, Evangelical Free, Calvary Chapel when I was moving around the country.

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The website offers the latest news on preacher's scandals around the country, and bills itself as an advocate for exploited church members.

Celibacy does mean that a priest can be more easily moved around, and no doubt it does cost the Church a lot less money, but it is not entered into for these purely pragmatic reasons.

If it's not careful, the Church is going to find itself in the same predicament as they exclude so many people, both men and women, that there may come a day that they look around for capable leaders.

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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

Today if you look around, you will see that another issue has become a problem for the church and the Bible believers.

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.

We are not alone as many of our friends and churches around the world are also interceding fervently for us.

A spokesperson for the conference said there was no way to tell how many parishes addressed the issue this weekend, but said after receiving multiple queries from dioceses around the country, they posted a draft letter on an internal website for churches to adapt and read to congregants.

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.

Recently several pastors and seminary students told me that they will do «whatever it takes... to be effective in ministry... to turn their church around... to work for the kingdom.»