Sentences with phrase «begins after church»

Officials have ordered services to halt at the 1,000 - member Xiaying Holy Love megachurch, and demolition work has reportedly already begun after the church refused to tear down the large cross atop its 10 - story building.

Not exact matches

A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred, by George F. Will (Crown Archetype): America's premier political columnist begins his latest reflection on the National Pastime with some charming, autobiographically - derived advice for Catholicism: after recalling that he became a Chicago Cub fan at age seven, «when I was still not as discerning as one should be when making life - shaping decisions,» the elegant Dr. Will notes that «The Catholic Church thinks seven - year olds have reached an age of reasoning» and remarks, «The Church might want to rethink that.»

Considering that it took the Church about 300 years, long after they had made up their minds about theology, to start picking scripture to match that doctrine, and that the oldest known copt of the bible has over 27,000 «corrections» written all over it, how can you be sure that the New Testament isn't full of false doctrine to begin with?

After serving at the Monroe Street Church for several years, Morrison fulfilled a dream he had begun to develop when his intellectual sights had broadened during his last years at college: to embark on graduate study at the University of Chicago.

Given that time after time the discussion of priestly celibacy in the media and in many Catholic journals and books begins and ends with statements about the marriages of the apostles and the attempts to impose celibacy in the 12th centurymotivated by a desire to protect the Church's property and by a dualist denigration of marriage, it was definitely good news to link priestly celibacy with Christ and his loving.

After the Episcopal Church ordained its second openly gay bishop in 2010, Matthews began reading more and eventually embraced a theology that suggests gay Christians do not need to be celibate.

The church as we know it did not begin until after Christ returned to heaven.

After some negotiations with her parents she was received into the church as a teenager and there began a life of dedication to Our Lord.

Nearly four years after refugees from Pakistan began showing up at evangelical churches in Thailand, church members were overwhelmed.

Religious institutions began filing lawsuits in December after it became clear the administration would not provide an exemption for religious institutions that are not churches.

The Catholic Church began compiling «martyrologies» — lists of saints, typically martyrs — during the first centuries after Constantine.

After a perilous escape and difficult crossing, he and his friends managed to get to the U.S.. His case was taken over by a church social - welfare agency, and one of the local congregations began sponsoring him.

After a while I began to wonder who I was serving... the church (physical building), or Christ.

Rev Ishmael Tamras of the Assyrian Church of the East in London, says: «Immediately after our relocation we began building our churches and places of worship.

So they re-established the church according to their own gospel interpretation, preserving in Mormonism that strain — present from the beginning — which saw the church first as the Church of Christ and after that as the Church of Latter Day Schurch according to their own gospel interpretation, preserving in Mormonism that strain — present from the beginning — which saw the church first as the Church of Christ and after that as the Church of Latter Day Schurch first as the Church of Christ and after that as the Church of Latter Day SChurch of Christ and after that as the Church of Latter Day SChurch of Latter Day Saints.

While these churches are effective in attracting a nonchurchgoing population, the worship experience may begin to seem shallow after awhile.

After my wife and I married and began attending another conservative evangelical church, we were surprised to learn that «personal evangelism» was the new fad.

Quite frankly, it would be nice if the church people minded their own business after first recognizing where their business ends and others» begins.

Church attendance had ceased to be normal in most of Britain around the time of the 1914 — 18 war, and had begun to be abnormal after the 1939 — 45 war.

Catholic theology was generally based on the view that outside the church there is no salvation, though a gradual opening up towards others began after the «discovery» by Columbus of the New World in the Americas in 1492, and the opening of the route to the East after Vasco da Gama in 1498.

And it is only after he leaves, that the church begins to prosper!

After the baby was born, the mother did begin to attend church with her friend.

We should not forget the history of those who tried to revive the life of the imagination in America after life began to drain out of the Protestant Churches; how America virtually ignored a Thoreau, a Melville, and a Whitman during their lifetimes; how Poe was driven insane, Henry James into exile, and Hart Crane into suicide.

If, like her, they reached maturity before the crisis over Church authority that began with the birth controlcontroversy, they often have a kind of bred - in - the - bones Catholicism... Patty Crowley and her peers never doubted that the Church had something to say, but after 1968 they began to wonder whether it was interested in listening.»

I had left for several years and recently began attending again.not sure why and for how long.one thing, the «prophets» my former church one time were wailing «jesus is in the parking lot» maybe that is the place to be after all.

Van Gogh remained in the Borinage after the church withdrew its support, and he began his artistic career by making drawings of the simple life of the Belgian peasants.

Well word and tapes of my message went ALL over Czechoslovakia and the church PASTORS began to call me a heretic, and after that every door closed to me!

The Protestant Reformation began the necessary work of cleansing Christianity of the trappings of the Roman Empire that had crept into it after the church fathers got into bed with Constantine I. However, the Reformation stopped far short of completing that work.

In Walker's 1976 novel Meridian, set during the civil rights movement, Meridian Hill begins going to church after a long absence.

The Reformers, as wonderful as they were, still retained the Magisterial, hierarchical, building - centered approach to doing church which began after Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity.

After a year or so I began to teach them about, «GOD's PLAN» for His Church, and I gave the Early Church Pattern to them, as an example.

After the early experiments by individual persons, the group life of special dedication that we know as monasticism began to grow; so that nearly every geographical area had both local churches for people in general and special Christian communities for monks.

After all, the Church herself began with the Holy Family.

After my shaky start I began to enjoy going to church; it was interesting, I learned about the Bible and my faith, and sang my heart out.

Churches develop a culture so soon after they begin, that a deep, foundational change is just very rare.

I don't think we fully realised the huge problems in the Church until we were able to look back on them, after he had begun to teach and teach, and to bring about changes and new hope.»

After returning to America, she began taking instructions to enter the Church, which she formally did, in 1805.

After further study and prayer, Elizabeth resolved: «I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church: for if faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek it where true Faith first began, seek it among those who received it from God Himself.»

Ecumenism, long a concern of the magazine, flourished in the «50s, beginning with the high excitement before, during and after the World Council of Churches Assembly in Evanston, Illinois, in the summer of 1954.

But days later, after the emotions wore off, I began to realize that these men, all older than me, more mature, many leaders in their churches and in my church, not once did I ever hear before this, that any other men had a problem with sexual lust.

She begins by telling of the «church of the catacombs» in the Quiche region of Guatemala, where after the bishops, priests and sisters were driven out by threats and murder in 1980, Indian catechists hid the eucharistic bread inside tortillas and smuggled it in.

NEWARK, New Jersey (CNN)- As the sun rose the morning after Whitney Houston's death, congregants at the Baptist church where she began her singing career as a member of the junior gospel choir gathered to mourn, pray and share stories of the pop superstar.

Even after they have begun to recover, they find that they are not welcomed back into their church — some even say their minister and congregation have actively sought to keep them out of church.

After Brad and I married and moved to Nebraska, we began to attend a Lutheran church.

The Church «the Body of Christ» began at or after Pentecost depending on one's view.

After she grew frustrated at the lack of volunteers and involvement in her church, Kris began to fantasize about attending a newer and more active church.

Six weeks after landfall, I began helping churches across Mississippi and Louisiana that had been affected by the costliest natural disaster in US history.

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After years in the organization, we began to have an uneasy feeling about the way church was done.

Elaine Pagels begins Beyond Belief by recounting how, on a chilly February morning in Manhattan, she stepped into a church again after many years of absence.