Sentences with phrase «burned by a church»

how many books have been burned by the churches?

My goal is to have a wide variety of contributors — from Evangelical Christians to Atheists to those who may have been burned by the church.

He said he'll go to church with me, he was burned by a church once or he's really open to spiritual things, so it's only a matter of time, right?

I guess I've been burned by a church bureaucracy that insisted on controlling what members studied, and on and on.

Not exact matches

But the company «supersized the concept and put it on steroids, L.A. - style,» leading thrill - seekers on a 25 - minute tour past gothic castles and burned - out churches, complemented by a maze overrun with monsters and maniacs.

This article is about an entire congregations church being burned down to the ground by racism and then being rebuilt with faith.

Also the church followers grew and they spent 50 million $ $ to buy land and build a monumental cathedral dedicated to the Carnival Pastor, (which was much later burned down by fellow countryman.)

In Nigeria 80 % of Christian churches have been burned down by Islamic rebels.

After the inferno that burned up more than sixty men, women, and children, a Waco resident carried a sign: «Is Your Church Approved by the ATF?»

In Catholic memory, these reformers were radical, transgressive schismatics condemned by the Church and burned — Wycliffe after his burial and Hus, famously, while very much alive.

(Dr. Browning didn't contemplate the possibility that, without Jesus, there would have been no iconoclastic destruction of Scotland's ancient and beautiful Catholic churches, or no mass burnings of «witches» by his forebears in the kirk; but that, perhaps, would have been cutting a bit too close to the bone.)

The Butchering of non mohammedans and church burning by mohammedans are taking place daily from islamic state in Asia to Middle East.

«We are deeply concerned by religious violence in Nigeria, including the burning of churches and the killing and persecution of Christians,» Trump said in a joint press conference with Buhari.

After being burned by a string of fiery, painful church experiences, I understand the common struggle.

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.

That's what the Klansmen always say when they burn a church attended by black people.

Many people are controlled by churches because they are terrified of going to hell to burn forever.

Joe and Jane (who are not Christians, as evidenced by a previous conversation in which they brag about drinking alcohol and having sex), go straight to hell, where they are told by Satan (played by one of the church deacons) that they are destined to spend eternity burning in the Lake of Fire.

A typical message I heard while listening to radio broadcasts in northern Nicaragua accused the Sandinistas of «burning churches, kidnapping Nicaraguan children and sending them to Cuba, stealing land from campesinos, creating internal food shortages by sending Nicaragua's food to the Soviet Union, and killing old people in order to make soap.»

The Western church burned most of these texts, as they were threatened by them.

If thats not enough they burn church, they trash walls outside temples by obscene grafiti.

The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fulttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory with stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.

According to Doeme, no fewer than 500 Catholic priests have been killed by the militant terrorist group, and 250 churches have been burned down.

It is this kind of «hate - speech» which led to the burning down of 77 churches in Norway by militant atheists and which at the most extreme end of the atheist movement leads to comments such as this from the Church Arson website «Any intelligent Antichrist methodology at that point will involve a consolidation of strength, public education in the ways of science and logic for our individual members, and actions taken against the remaining believers.

By again becoming hospitals for «pre-Christians» and the «un-churched,» these churches are miraculously attracting legions of burnt - out church brats.

As opposed to the thousands and thousands of billboards & church message boards every 50 ft with their snarky comments pushing their beliefs and quite often attacking non -(Jesus) believers and / or science directly or indirectly, all the millions of people that like to go around constantly «sharing their beliefs» about how everyone who believes differently is gonna be tortured and burned for eternity, or the countless attempts by local, state, and federal government officials to push laws based on those beliefs and to favor those beliefs all over the country.

It's like saying that a church attended by africian americans having been burnt to the ground by bigots and then having the KKK say, «we didn't do it, but since it happened we want to build a meeting place there.»

(CNN)- The pastor of a Florida church says his congregation has decided to call off the burning of the Quran that was to be held Saturday - the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attack on the United States by the al Qaeda terror network.

William Tyndale who made the 1st English translation of the Bible was strangled and burned by the Catholic Church (the then religio - political government or the woman who rides the beast in the book of Revelation).

More to the point... if a community were to do everything right, and discovered the church building burnt to the ground by lightning one Sunday morning, I wd hope the response wd be,» Look at all the room we have for parking.»

After Hus was burned at the stake in 1410 by the emperor, Sigismund, the Hussite spirit animated the Czech nation, giving birth to a small countercultural church that survived underground for centuries as the Bohemian Brethren.

We are told by Eusebius (c. 260 - c. 340), the «Father of Church History», that in the persecution in Lyons the bodies of the martyrs were deliberately burned, reduced to ashes and finally cast into the Rhone so that they would be deprived of all hope of rising again.27

The «Touchdown Jesus» statue outside Solid Rock Church in Monroe was hit by lightning and burned to the ground earlier this year.

Oh yes, that old antiquated law of holiday observance that must be obeyed or we shall receive 50 lashes, be subject to fines and imprisonment, brought before a firing squad, burned at the stake, and worst of all, face excommunication from the Church, as decreed by the Holy Roman Empire!

John Ortberg, author of Soul Keeping and senior pastor of Menlo Church in Northern California, encourages burnt - out believers first by validating what some church leaders often leave unsChurch in Northern California, encourages burnt - out believers first by validating what some church leaders often leave unschurch leaders often leave unspoken.

When Alex Harris arrived in Stafford, he was sceptical about pushing the Beacon Church towards a multisite model (he was put off by a past experience where the strategy had «crashed and burned»).

One thing is indisputable and that is that Fr Peter Gumpel SJ who listened as a boy in church to the 1937 Encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge (With Burning Sorrow) is not exaggerating when he states that it was that Encyclical (Pacelli revised the first draft by the archbishop of Munich, Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber) which so infuriated Hitler that it caused him to refuse to see or speak to anyone for three days.

Of course in the past the church has followed this up not with debate but by burning the heretic at the stake.

It was published three years before his death; the only copy of a subsequent manuscript was burned by a bishop of the Church of England as being too hot for the faithful to handle.

Ramihrdus of Cambrai (1076 or 1077)(lynched) Peter of Bruys († 1130)(lynched) Gerard Segarelli († 1300) Maifreda da Pirovano († 1300) Andrea Saramiti († 1300) Fra Dolcino († 1307)(never tried by Catholic Church), Italy Sister Margherita († 1307), Italy Brother Longino († 1307), Italy Marguerite Porete († 1310) Botulf Botulfsson († 1311), the only known heretic executed in Sweden Jacques de Molay (1243 — 1314), burned after conviction by a tribunal under the control of King Philip IV of France, France Geoffroi de Charney († 1314), burned with Jacques de Molay above, France.

actually many pagans survived and went underground and also in places where the reaches of the catholic church did not get For example a whole other half Europe two whole continents on the other side of the ocean etc Paganism was driven into near extinction by it's brother religion that came from the same roots but it was not at all eradicated The irony find is Christians were persecuted by the Roman empire before the rule of Constantine and then during the burning times persecuted witches and pagans (aswell as non-pagans for corrupted reasons) An oximoron and hypocritical religion

Almost every war was started over religion, remember how the catholic church burned people at the stake by the tens of thousands.

You can definitely limit the size of the church (in a healthy way) by making sure that you multiply small groups that grow beyond a specified size (18 - 20 works nice, at that point you are losing a degree of intimacy already) but more important you make sure that you cultivate the gifts needed to lead these groups — otherwise you end up with a bunch of small churches and a burned out pastor.

A relationship characterized by reconnoitering the frontiers of the secular where, both in the name of the church and outside of it, the gospel can be declared in new ways and with a new display of its power to build and transform to plant and to uproot, to burn and heal.

Churches or temples are sporadically burned by radicals or closed by local governments, while the central government is often passive.

A plan by the pastor of a small Florida church to burn Qurans on September 11, which has triggered worldwide controversy, is a «recruitment bonanza for al Qaeda,» President Barack Obama said Thursday.

Worry over what some observers have termed «Islamophobia» has also been heightened by a Gainesville, Florida, church's plan to burn copies of the Quran on Saturday, the ninth anniversary of the attacks on New York and Washington.

im tired too of going to church, i am 17 years old and live with my parents that are of this christianity at 18 i can leave house yeaaaaaaaa not having to go ever again to church, that means No more legalism, No more judging No more having to go to sunndays in crazy rainy days and burning hot days, No more having to be presioned by the church doctrine i can be able to get a girlfriend and have relations and happly get on with my life actually in my family all my cousins left church because they werent able to handle all of the church commands and so do i, we are no longer living in the monarchy kingdom times we are in the 21century and have the right to have freedom.

Spiritual apathy from being burned by our last church community can lead to disenchantment with the institutional vibe of a corporate gig.

It influenced some in high position in Church and State but within a few years was crushed by burnings and imprisonments.