Sentences with phrase «brought upon the church»

«I apologize for my error in judgment and feel shame for the disgrace I have brought upon the church and myself,» Archbishop - designate Salvatore Cordileone said in a written statement.

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Gods judgment rest upon all the corporate and local churches temples, tabernacles, TV evangelists, ministries and congregations ever for all their false teachings and deeds, and God does not want any of His people to suffer the spiritual plagues which are being brought upon them.

Peter and Paul worked within imperfect systems because any outright challenge to the law of the land would bring persecution down upon the Church in great number.

Again, the Pope's intention is to free the Church from an over-dependence upon doctrine in order to find a pastoral approach that will bring the Church closer to people.

I was brought here by the Florida Dove's Church man of God upon his threat to burn the Quran and what I found was that all here were cursing and few being moderate or defending and found that the majority who were cursing to be either atheists or similar while those defending were those of Heavenly faiths.

The church might be called upon, in his famous phrase, «to fall into the spokes of the wheel» to bring the machinery of Nazism to a stop.

The spiritual abuse heaped upon me and many others at my last church was not a joke, but my play on the words non-committed and committed was an attempt at one — which just goes to demonstrate that no matter how miserably the church treats a person, the Spirit can sustain that person's soul and even bring him / her back around to joy and a lighthearted attitude.

And even if one can construct a theoretical rationale for doing so, as Romanus Cessario does, it was wildly imprudent of Pius IX to take Edgardo from his parents, given the scandal it brought upon the Catholic Church, a scandal that continues to this day.

Out of all the sins the sin of fornication and immorality — if left to prosper in a church with no one speaking against it — will bring down damnation upon that church — The church can be in the world the same way a boat can be on the see but the world in the church will sink the church the same way the see in a boat will!

He left home at a very young age to escape the abuse brought upon him from YOUR church of pedophiles and the mother who made him go to church.

The Church teaches forgiveness and calls upon her people to bring sinners back into the fold and help them reconcile with the Community.

He brought with him his agents - and satan himself, the deceiver of all mankind - sat in on Vatican II and maneuvered all the outsiders to come in and distort My doctrines and distort the truth... You will speak out and say that satan is in the Church, My Church upon earth.

If clergy and laity are called upon to remember that they «are in the church not for our own sake but for the mission to which God has called us,» [48] then does baptism bring with it the mission imperative?

The complex and pressing demands made upon Protestantism by the rising industrial and urban society have brought with them a renewed awareness of the role of the church as a ministering body in which both lay and ordained ministers are called as servants of the gospel, not only in the church but also in the world.

Where extension theology can exceed the standard approach in experience - gathering lies in the whole person approach; since students remain in their usual life context and work in their church during the week, the things that happen to them can be continually built upon in the study time and brought into the discussions.

Laymen lost jobs and brought suffering upon their families because they confessed church membership.

Wishing to remove from the minds of your Eminences and of every true Christian this vehement suspicion justly cast upon me, with sincere heart and unfeigned faith I do abjure, damn, and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally each and every other error, heresy, and sect contrary to the Holy Church; and I do swear for the future that I shall never again speak or assert, orally or in writing, such things as might bring me under similar suspicion.

How often we are still tempted to bring influence to bear upon secular powers by calling on the church to speak with some kind of authority through its leaders and councils.

Once the Church had claimed to be the body of Christ, it had already set upon the imperialistic path of conquering the world, of bringing the life and movement of the world into submission to the inhuman authority and power of an infinitely distant Creator and Judge.

The approach of many conservative churches has been to cop out at this point with the rationale that it is the church's responsibility to bring people to Christ and that once they have been converted they will take it upon themselves to work for justice in society.

The Jesuits, intent upon bringing the Orthodox Church into communion with the Roman Catholic Church, offered implacable resistance.

The study brings out and develops such theology and so gives us a good opportunity to discuss ideas which have made and are likely to continue to make a big impact upon the Church.

Kabel I am a mulish and I live in US, I actually had church people knock on our door and asking us that Jesus, peace be upon him, love you and give us booklet to study and read, they even brought bible in my language to read... we had to tell them we have our own believes but they kept insisting... the came several times within months in our house and each time my mom would invite them and serve them tea...

When Bob Cratchit brings the little crippled boy home from church on Christmas, he says to his wife: «He told me, coming home, that he hoped people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.»

In Venetian Curiosities, acclaimed novelist Donna Leon recounts some of Venice's most intriguing tales: an elephant brought in for Carnival wreaks havoc upon the city before seeking refuge in a church, the city employs prostitutes in an attempt to prevent homosexuality, innocent men are mistakenly condemned to death, a gambler bets the family palazzo.

You soon find that it was the Healing Church, worshipers of Lovecraftian Horrors and administrators of Blood Healing, who have brought this pox upon the city.