Sentences with phrase «by a local church on»

The ones with the tulle skirt were by a local church on a corner and cars were going by like crazy.

Not exact matches

«Attendees will have an opportunity to respond to the Gospel Evangelistic message, be encouraged by Fort Bragg Chaplains and trained counselors from off post Churches and on post Chapels, and then be offered ongoing Biblical Spiritual Resiliency training at our military chapels and local churches,» the information sheChurches and on post Chapels, and then be offered ongoing Biblical Spiritual Resiliency training at our military chapels and local churches,» the information shechurches,» the information sheet said.

Tired of being bugged by all that endless chatter, everyone is welcome, try us for thirty days, no dogma, no cash offerings required, no churches to attend (your local bar will do especially on Fridays), of course buyijng a T - shirt wouldn't kill you and would help spread HIS word.

But rather than putting such local churches back under the supervision of «Prop,» put them into trusteeship under the supervision of a reconstituted and re-staffed Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization — just as a failed company that goes into Chapter 11 bankruptcy is supervised by a trustee until such time as the company can stand on its own feet again.

The country has long been considered a model of tolerance, but religious tensions in the past few years — including the demolition of 20 churches, protests over attacks on Christians by Islamist extremists, and a law requiring minority religious groups to collect signatures from local majority groups before building churches — highlight the country's increasing struggles to maintain harmony between its religious groups.

Browsing the new arrivals shelf at your local theological library, you're now as likely to find titles by the Catholic dogmatician Matthew Levering, the Orthodox historical theologian Paul Gavrilyuk, and the Reformed theologian Kevin Vanhoozer on why we need to continue to speak, with the early Church, of God's inability to suffer — and of God's voluntary assumption of our human nature, in Jesus Christ, in order to share, and thereby overcome, our suffering — as you are to find another volume on God's suffering in the divine nature itself.

The Massachusetts Proposals, 1705, advocated by Increase Mather and his son Cotton, represented an attempt to exercise discipline on all pastors and churches at some point beyond the local congregation.

It sounds good to say «spend less on a building and send the extra money for mission endeavors instead», but in reality that amount money would not be received and sent out by the local church otherwise.

By pairing practical ministries of coaching, career counseling, and mentoring along with the Truth of who Jesus is, regardless of the season of life in which we find ourselves, I believe that the local church can have a real impact on the largely unreached twentysomething population.

Every fall, I and several hundred of my high school - aged peers would gather in the auditorium of the local Baptist church and watch the play unfold: Characters Joe and Jane and Mike and Michelle are on their way home from prom when their car gets struck by a drunk driver.

Had I been in a local church for most of my ministry, I suppose I should have done what has been done by my able and insightful friends who have followed that course; namely, worked it through personally and professionally, realized that the ministry is a unity, although one of complex functions, and from then on kept publicly quiet.

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.

By the end of the book we are exhorted to intone the Jabez prayer every morning, to tape a copy of the prayer on our Bible, day - timer or bathroom mirror, and to pray the prayer for our «family, friends, and local church.»

For that reason, I don't go to church anymore... and, because I wouldn't wish what happened to me on any friend or foe, I too often catch myself being a vocal «church anti-witness», undoing the work towards increasing attendance that so much effort is put into by local pastors.

The small church, with its straight - backed pews, could seat about a hundred, and on most Sundays it was fairly full, said Mr. Mall, the 67 local members complemented by students and visitors: four or five families were well - to - do; they drove cars to church.

The local church is, further, because it speaks an idiom of human language, an instance of human society that distinguishes itself from many other kinds of societies by the high proportion of language it spends on struggle and grace.

A tradition of local governance that resists both a supine dependence on Washington, D.C. or dominance by remote corporate interests; a patriotism that believes in the noble possibilities of the American experiment; vibrant churches and church leaders who remind us that life is more than our economic or political self - interest» it's not surprising that Lauck finds these features of Dakota life attractive.

Hey Jeremy, here is a link to a manuscript by Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum on «The Local Church» and he has a subsection in the manuscript entitled «The Role of Women in the Local Church», I will be interested in your thoughts.

Previous surveys by LifeWay Research showed only 33 % of Protestant pastors and their churches were actively involved on the local level in assisting immigrants in 2011.

Whatever form it takes, the abuse of power by a Christian leader, whether in a local church setting or by someone with an international platform enhanced by TV exposure, can have a deep and corrosive impact on the faith of individual believers.

Instead of skirting the issue, much of the heat the catholic church is taken would probably be alleviated by simply just requiring those in power to report abuse to local authorities and levying swift and severe punishment on those who condone and cover up abuses.

The Churches of Christ have insisted on leaving missionary work to the initiative of the local church, and any joint efforts are typically coordinated by the elders of a large or particularly active congregation.

It is personified by Dr Evan Harris, the Liberal Democrat MP who lost his Oxford seat at the last election substantially because local church members drew voters» attention to Dr Harris» ulterior motives on a variety of issues from abortion to euthanasia.

It was Wheeler who was asked to write the closing chapter, assessing the import of congregational studies for the future of the church, of the upcoming book reporting on the findings presented at the Atlanta conference (Building Effective Ministry: Theory and Practice of the Local Church, to be published by Harper & Row in early church, of the upcoming book reporting on the findings presented at the Atlanta conference (Building Effective Ministry: Theory and Practice of the Local Church, to be published by Harper & Row in early Church, to be published by Harper & Row in early 1983).

Societally alienated persons are far too often rejected by the local congregation and responded to, if at all, primarily in terms of a «mission» on the part of the church to these groups — to alcoholics, the mentally retarded, the physically disabled, returnees from mental hospitals, the violence - prone, former prisoners, and the aging.

Within a local area, numbers of churches will tacitly accept an ecumenical answer by simply pointing out that «signing» for the deaf is carried on at one or more specific churches in the city, and deaf members in a church where such signing is not practiced are in effect invited to the church where it is, even though that church may be of another denomination.

Those who agree GOD doesn't exist I want you all to march to your local churches and stand on your so - called truth by proving your points.

This way of doing college and university ministry will require rethinking not only by campus ministers and their boards,, but by local congregations and judicatories, all of which need to understand that the church on campus is an extension of — not an annoyance to or a competitor with — the local church.

I remember that on several occasions my talk to a local church group was repeatedly interrupted by tirades about Red China and Angela Davis.

Pittenger also discriminates among the various kinds of response to Jesus: rejection «by the authorities of Church and State,» «puzzlement on the part of local religious leaders,» «the acceptance of the common people who heard him gladly,» and «the utter loyalty and devotion found in the circle of his disciples» (CR 76f).

However, much of the funding that used to be channeled to national churches through mission boards is now being spent by local churches and judicatories on their own hands - on mission projects.

«As church leaders, you may be approached by your local or national media outlets to make comments on Dr. Carson's candidacy, in particular as it relates to his membership in the church,» read a statement posted by the Adventist Review.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan cChurch; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan cchurch and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan churchchurch.

The magazine also studied a «Here's Life, America» campaign in Indianapolis and Fresno, a multi-media evangelistic campaign based in local churches and drawing heavily on personal contact by telephone.

There are several ways in which religious programs on television may be effective in building the membership of local churches: One is by the addition of new members, the other is by the reactivation of old ones.

This behavior is reinforced by the broadcasters» general lack of emphasis on the centrality of the local church to Christian faith and their apparent unwillingness to channel persons who contact them toward involvement in a local church or to encourage local church members to establish contact with the respondent.

Hilton in his study of the use of television worship services by the members of the lrvington Presbyterian Church found that 9 percent of the members of that church have stayed home on occasion to watch television worship services rather than gone to the local church to worship, and 3 percent of the members said the television worship services had caused them to be less involved in their local cChurch found that 9 percent of the members of that church have stayed home on occasion to watch television worship services rather than gone to the local church to worship, and 3 percent of the members said the television worship services had caused them to be less involved in their local cchurch have stayed home on occasion to watch television worship services rather than gone to the local church to worship, and 3 percent of the members said the television worship services had caused them to be less involved in their local cchurch to worship, and 3 percent of the members said the television worship services had caused them to be less involved in their local churchchurch.

Religious programs act as a functional alternative to the local church, thus decreasing attendance and involvement by reinforcing the social tendency toward the individualizing of religious experience at the expense of its corporate expressions, and placing a burden on the religious broadcasting organizations which they are not equipped to handle.

After acrimonious arguments about the judges and about the reporting of the debate; after a tedious procession to church, a new twelve - part Mass, and a long droned out and largely inaudible introduction by a local academic, the debate finally got under way on 27 July between Eck and Karlstadt in the great hall of the Pleissenburg Castle.

Other symptoms of this new spirit are to be found in the increased interest in the common worship of the academic community, though this is by no means universally evident; in the widespread and intensive discussions of faculties about the purpose and organization of the course of study; in the experiments that are being carried on to relate the work of the seminary more intimately to the work of other church agencies, particularly to the local churches.

Right now I'm looking at becoming a member of a satelite - campus that meets on the Westside of our city, and am encouraged by the focus of being the church in our local area and having resources of the «parent» church.

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

I participated in my local Trunk or Treat event, which is put on by a church here in town.

, Mark Molden writes «What Mark Chester has written in this book delivers a rescue plan for dads like me, which if implemented by the local church, could have a «nation changing» effect on family life across the UK».

«Let's call this push for increased influence in schooling for what it is: a cynical attempt by the church to «stop the rot» and boost its numbers both through the evangelising of children and through the quite shameful practice of requiring parents to sit on pews simply to ensure their children can get a place at a local school.

He thinks the party's current stance on solving 21st - century problems is as outdated as «trying to overhaul an Apple MacBook with a spanner» and says decisions should be made by members networked via the internet rather than in local party meetings in draughty church halls.

Governor's language does not protect church - related agencies from denial of funding by state and local government agencies to provide charitable and health services, or allow them to make hiring and benefits decisions based on religious beliefs.

Terzungwe Samuel Ali and Shimakyaa Iorkyase, President General and Secretary of Mdzough U Tiv, in a press statement in Kaduna said, «In their quest to resist the anti-open grazing legislation already operational in Benue State and take over the State as threatened on 23rd October 2017 and reported by the Leadership Newspaper of 24th October, 2017, on 1st of January 2018 at about 10:00 am, Fulani Herdsmen mindlessly attacked peaceful and harmless Church Goers in Gaambe - Tiev, Ayilamo and Turan in Logo Local Government Area.

Local parents and community activists organized through the nonprofit organization Advocating For Change met at the First Baptist Church of Spring Valley at 7 p.m. on the evening of January 7 to address problems faced by students in the East Ramapo School District.

BY MICHAEL RICONDA Local parents and community activists organized through the nonprofit organization Advocating For Change met at the First Baptist Church of Spring Valley at 7 p.m. on the evening of January 7 to address problems faced by students in the East Ramapo School DistricBY MICHAEL RICONDA Local parents and community activists organized through the nonprofit organization Advocating For Change met at the First Baptist Church of Spring Valley at 7 p.m. on the evening of January 7 to address problems faced by students in the East Ramapo School Districby students in the East Ramapo School District.