Sentences with phrase «by congregants»

There is no doubt that it was the same protests by the congregants that eventually culminated in this avoidable deaths caused by stampede», he said.

They asked 1,000 senior pastors of Protestant churches around the country if someone within their organization had embezzled money — which is largely tithed and given by congregants — and a shocking 9 percent said yes.

We've had medical equipment donated by our congregants and have had many doctors donate their time to serve.

LA Times: Crystal Cathedral: Judge approves sale to Diocese of Orange A bankruptcy judge chose the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange as the buyer of the Crystal Cathedral for $ 57.5 million after an emotional hearing in Santa Ana on Thursday night, despite pleas by congregants and others that the 56 - year - old ministry stay where it is.

This 20th - century jar, inscribed by a congregant from a Rome Baptist church, is coated with plaster and embedded with seashells, cast figures, ceramics, glass and other objects.

Not exact matches

Megachurch minister Joel Osteen, who delivers a live sermon in front of 40,000 congregants every single week, was once crippled by stage fright.

By Vivienne Foley, CNN New York (CNN)- Pastors and their congregants took to the streets of New York on Thursday to protest and to pray for Mayor Michael Bloomberg to reverse a ban on religious groups» use of public schools for worship service, scheduled to go into effect February 12.

Several congregants approached him afterward to say that they, too, felt that they'd acted against God by looking at porn.

The phrase «radically inclusive» was used by one congregant to describe the parish.

(CNN)- A New Jersey church - already a bit different in that its three congregations gather weekly at two hotels and a middle school - put a new spin on the collection plate Sunday by having congregants take cash - filled envelopes from the plate in hopes that the money will be put to charitable use.

While preachers and rabbis publicly regard their ex-gay congregants as heroes and champions, ex-gays are often ridiculed and judged by the very people that demand they change.

* When «The Sympathy Card» gets played, there's a tendency to silence anyone who blurts out, «Hey, whaddyuh mean by this [executive elders / troublesome congregants / spiritual wife / legal wife] stuff?»

Miller said pastors who are afraid of angering congregants by talking about touchy economic issues ignore the Gospel.

When I got to the synagogue, I was greeted by elated parishioners who needed a tenth congregant to complete their quorum and asked me to preside over the reading of the Torah.

Today's successful Evangelicalism, putatively the stronghold of orthodoxies, often finds its congregants lured by «health and wealth» or «signs and wonders» gospels which, in Butler's terms, manipulate the supernatural in hardly conventional forms.

Have leaders and congregants become so programmed by ecclesiastical tradition as to be sincere yet misguided in a way that makes Christian community and worship unattractive or even repulsive and not just to people outside of the church.

There are multiple stories of Edwards delivering the sermon at churches throughout the American colonies, and afterward there being fingernail marks indented into the back of the wooden pews, left by terrified congregants.

For me as a Pastor I was never more lonely then surrounded by Church leaders and congregants, matter of fact the loneliness was worse the larger the group.

To gather her data, Harding plunged into Falwell's evangelistic empire in Lynchburg, Virginia, by attending worship services, mingling with congregants, visiting Falwell's Liberty Baptist University and interviewing other pastors.

As congregants entered any one of the church's five locations throughout Music City, they were greeted by smiling Facebook employees inviting them to laptops where they could learn to use technology to connect with other church members.

Can she meet the needs of congregants who make a living by their wits and come no closer than the local supermarket to the ultimate sources of sustenance?)

When I got to the synagogue, I was greeted by elated parishioners who needed a tenth congregant to complete their....

At 5:30 p.m., the deputy consul general of Israel in New York, Amir Sagie, visits the Hudson Valley and is joined by Assemblywoman Didi Barrett to tour Vassar Temple and meet with temple leadership and congregants, 140 Hooker Ave., Poughkeepsie.

«If Albany will not give us the changes we need, if Albany will not strengthen rent regulations, if Albany will not pass a mansion tax, if Albany will not protect us, then here's what I think about any tax breaks for condominiums, luxury condominiums, any tax breaks for developers who are not going to create affordable housing — I say end those tax breaks once and for all,» he told congregants at First Corinthian Baptist Church in Manhattan, according to a recording provided by a spokesman.

Mrs. Ambode was angry that the priest did not accord her due recognition by anointing her before the other congregants.

«It's the exact opposite and I think it's disingenuous of him,» de Blasio told reporters after speaking to congregants inside Kehilat Rayim Ahuvim in Manhattan, according to a transcript provided by his press office.

Many pastors reported that congregants were falling into sinful behavior by participating on sites that were not that reputable.

What is most fascinating — and unfortunately least explored by «All Saints» — is the culture and plight of some of the church's newest congregants, a group of needy political refugees from Myanmar, formerly Burma.

After Ruth's father - the man who had been the founding prophet of the colony - is brutally murdered by his brother in a bid for church power, her mother remarries, becoming the second wife of another faithful congregant.

I encourage Church leaders who have enough financial sense to be able to know when something financial «feels funny» to gather their elderly congregants, and tell them to call you if they are tempted by slick - talking salesmen to make them part with money.

Called «Many Heavens, One Earth,» the meeting is intended to generate commitments for actions by religious organizations, congregants and countries that could reduce emissions of greenhouse gases or otherwise limit the human impact on the environment.

Business crime insurance can help cover losses if robbery, fraud, forgery or theft is committed by staff, volunteers, congregants or others.

Their ministry has been a great resource and support for many of our pastors and their congregants by providing sound clinical counseling from a biblical perspective.