Sentences with phrase «at my church today»

Thanks for your encouraging words... and I too will look forward to your comments, Mike, following your attendance at church today.

We had a young homeless man (22) show up at church today.

They look at churches today where people know a lot of the Bible, or where a lot of evangelism is getting done, or where the pastors have built a large following, get the sermons aired on the radio or published in books, and decide that these pastors must have figured something out about preaching.

I've been a Christian for many years and at church today told a friend and she is telling her employer, a dermatologist.

At church today they said we will all be given a chance to shine this week.

You guys, I'm serving at church today helping to lead worship.

Not exact matches

I wonder if he was around today (at a time where the church is becoming more and more accepting of committed gay relationships), if he might have a different mission... one that includes fighting religious persecution of gays.

I opened my mail box today and happily found a package with Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (Viking, March 2010), a monumental work by Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University and author of The Reformation and Thomas Cranmer, both highly acclaimed....

Although the Autocephalous Church and the Kiev Patriarchate united briefly at one point, and there was later talk of a reconciliation with Moscow, Patriarch Jarema today remains hostile to Moscow as well as to Filaret.

«lhe Council established the main elements of Catholic culture as it exists today, and among those elements is the resolute assertion that «There is indeed one universal church of the faithful outside of which nobody at all is saved, in which Jesus Christ is both priest and sacrifice.»

Arguably the foremost decision unanimously agreed upon at that assembly of church heads was the convocation of a Great Council in 2016, tentatively planned to be held in the Church of Haghia Irene — the site of the second ecumenical council of 381, which completed the «creed» recited by most Christians church heads was the convocation of a Great Council in 2016, tentatively planned to be held in the Church of Haghia Irene — the site of the second ecumenical council of 381, which completed the «creed» recited by most Christians Church of Haghia Irene — the site of the second ecumenical council of 381, which completed the «creed» recited by most Christians today.

On its last day, a key figure in the hierarchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Paul of Chernobyl and Vyshgorod, led a blessing service for Yanukovych and his clique at the Kyev - Pechersk Lavra, notoriously assuring him, «Today you carry a heavy cross, and the Church will be with you to the end, just as Simon of Cyrene helped carry the cross of Christ to Calvary.»

These were values openly espoused by your church at one point and continue in one form or another against specific groups today.

(5) The most urgent ecumenical dialogue between Russia and Rome today must focus on a new generation of Russian Orthodox thinkers: those who, having looked hard at the crisis in Ukraine and their Church leadership's propaganda activities on behalf of the Putin regime, have concluded that Russian Orthodoxy needs a new theory of Church - and - state — and should develop one in vigorous conversation with serious scholars of Catholic social doctrine.

one only need look at the Church ih China today and it's growth under Communist persecution to get a mirror image of what it was like for first through third century Christian's as well as Revelation 6:9 - 11 then 14 - 17 nine through elven are the martyrs and 14 through 17 is a glimpse of judgment for men of war!

At the same time, we recognize that, during the past five hundred years, the Holy Spirit, the Supreme Magisterium of God, has been faithfully at work among theologians and exegetes in both Catholic and Evangelical communities, bringing to light and enriching our understanding of important biblical truths in such matters as individual spiritual growth and development, the mission of Christ's Church, Christian worldview thinking, and moral and social issues in today's worlAt the same time, we recognize that, during the past five hundred years, the Holy Spirit, the Supreme Magisterium of God, has been faithfully at work among theologians and exegetes in both Catholic and Evangelical communities, bringing to light and enriching our understanding of important biblical truths in such matters as individual spiritual growth and development, the mission of Christ's Church, Christian worldview thinking, and moral and social issues in today's worlat work among theologians and exegetes in both Catholic and Evangelical communities, bringing to light and enriching our understanding of important biblical truths in such matters as individual spiritual growth and development, the mission of Christ's Church, Christian worldview thinking, and moral and social issues in today's world.

Officials from both sides have said that the conversation will be focused on topics of shared values and priorities, but prior to the visit, Vatican Radio — which, according to USA Today «is considered an official organ of communication for the church «-- released a story addressing U.S. policy issues at odds with Vatican teaching.

Hence there are Church members today who continue to summon and teach at every level of Church education the racial discourse that black people are descendants of Cain, that they merited lesser earthly privilege because they were «fence - sitters» in the War in Heaven, and that, science and climatic factors aside, there is a link between skin color and righteousness» Mormon scripture specifically referencing race includes (from the Book of Mormon): 1 Nephi 11:8 1 Nephi 11:13 1 Nephi 12:23 1 Nephi 13:15 2 Nephi 5:21 2 Nephi 30:6 (1830 edition) Jacob 3:8 Alma 3:6 3 Nephi 2:15 Mormon 5:15

Were they intended for the Roman Church at that time and not to the reader today?

One in 10 Christians think sport is «an idol that many people worship in society today» and more than half said it's okay to play sport on a Sunday, so long as they're engaged in their churches at other times during the week.

If you'll be eating lunch at your desk today, you might enjoy watching one of these videos: A «Dan Rather Reports» feature on» Church and State: Separation Anxieties» includes an hour - long panel discussion with Judge Michael McConnell, Holly Hollman, Prof. Richard....

So it was encouraging today to read what Paul Leader at his Perspectives blog wrote today: If there was one message I had for pastors and leaders of congregations, churches and gatherings it would be this.

If, in 1930, the government could have gotten $ 250 million by taxing church property (valued at $ 4 billion), then today, if our property value is only $ 500 billion, our taxes today would be over $ 31 billion!

I posted some church demographic sites over at GraceGround.com today, and as I was comparing stats from the various sites, noticed this: If you compare the previous two pages with this page, some interesting trends are revealed.

Today I still go to my church, but at a greatly reduced level of involvement.

I drive past multi-million dollar church properties filled with throngs of wealthy people (as compared to the peoples of this world, today) sitting on cushy chairs or pews, gazing out stained glass windows, and then arrive at my destination — the haunts of the homeless, many of whom have all they own in a backpack or in a shopping cart.

Since my early days as assistant at my teacher Edmund Schlink's Ecumenical Institute at Heidelberg and afterward during many years of regular ecumenical discussions, especially with Roman Catholic theologians, I became increasingly aware that Christian theology today should not limit itself to some narrowly defined confessional loyalty inherited from the past but should help to build the foundations of a reunited, if to some degree pluralistic, Christian church that should become more and more visible within the foreseeable future.

Today's Church, is a Vile, Tax Evading, Self - Serving, Cadre of loons who praise God by following none of His Tenets, and by looking down at those whom they should be helping up.

The church attendance drop does appear to be genuine, but small, when you compare rates at same age, but the prayer difference seems to be just an age issue: «Although Millennials report praying less often than their elders do today, the GSS shows that Millennials are in sync with Generation X and Baby Boomers when members of those generations were younger.»

The Patriot - News (Pennsylvania): Charges filed against pastor in mock terrorism raid at Lower Swatara church Dauphin County prosecutors today charged a church and its pastor after a mock «terrorism raid» in March.

And we look at church history and the churches and leaders we respect, not only in the US but globally, and what we see is that the overwhelming majority of Christians past and present continue to teach that these passages are very much applicable today.

I'm travelling today to speak at Northaven United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas on Sunday...

The November / December Gospel Today cover featured a sharply tailored Long, smiling confidently, with the headline: «Bishop Eddie Long At The Center of The Scandal That Rocked The Church World.»

His deep ecclesial sensibility, so at odds with the autonomy project that warps both Church and culture today, is nicely captured in an incident from his life.

Consider how the early church met in homes, how the underground church in the Former Soviet Union flourished before 1991 and how small groups of 2 — 20 + people are meeting together at coffee - shops or pubs today.

Just because you and a friend shared a mountaintop experience together at a church retreat 10 years ago doesn't mean you have a right to know their heart today.

(The way we «do church» today is at best ineffective, and possibly sinful.)

Then, by looking at the existing manuscripts today, and piecing together what we have and comparing it to a modern Bible such as the NASB, it is not hard at all to see that the Bible that we hold in our hands today is the same doc.ument quoted by the early church fathers who researched and verified all that they could.

Sometimes people today especially in church look at the poster child Christian.

Today a group of 65 church members spent considerable time at a Chinese buffet restaurant.

Any way say, Man of God respectable Terry Jones, of Florida's Dove's Church, maybe a day would come that the world and Muslims would thank you for your causing all these discussions to come out today's on this site blogs and many other sites blogs and to it leading to have more people religious discussions leading them read and learn more about Islam and the Quran many who's eyes had opened to reality converted to Islam or at least respect Muslims and their religion.

Today, however, her faithful members are asked whether they truly love the Church, accepting the change even though it appears strange at first, or whether by their secret or public protest they show that they have not really loved the Church herself, but only their idea of her.

We are still at war, of course, but the situation of the Church has materially altered, and I suspect that, by comparison to the burden the First Commandment lays upon us today, the defeat of the ancient pantheon, and the elemental spirits, and the demons lurking behind them will prove to have been sublimely easy.

For Christians, then, to recover and understand the meaning of the command to have «no other god,» it is necessary first to recognize that the victory of the Church in history was not only incomplete, but indeed set free a force that the old sacral order had at least been able to contain; and it is against this more formless and invincible enemy that we take up the standard of the commandment today.

Understanding Hinduism can help Christians recover their mystical traditions and allow the Church to communicate with people today at the level of experience rather doctrine.

For this had been possible in the early Church and exists even today at least in very rudimentary form in the institution of the so - called patronates and in certain rights of the congregations in some Swiss cantons regarding the appointment of their parish priests.

I am speaking today and tomorrow on Facilitating Church Planting Movements at Concordia University.

In addition to shaping Christian thought through his voluminous publications («Fundamentalism» and the Word of God, Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God, and A Quest for Godliness, to name only three of the most popular), he helped steer the flagship Evangelical magazine Christianity Today, spoke at countless Evangelical conferences and local churches, mentored hundreds of future pastors through his seminary teaching, and lent his name to the back covers of more Evangelical books than probably any other Christian endorser ever.

Today I'm pastoring at another church and have not asked for money once in this entire year that we have been there.

The myth of size assumes that small churches are de facto struggling, parochial, maintenance - oriented, at risk, and not able to compete in today's church marketplace.