Sentences with phrase «by visiting church»

In addition to Riverside's large multiracial congregation, some of its pews were always filled by visiting church folk from around the country.

The New Jersey lawmaker continued campaigning for Jones on Sunday by visiting churches with the candidate in Birmingham.

For example, save points are rare — in most games, you only come across them by visiting churches or castles, and you can't save on the overworld map.

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She ended a 2009 visit to China by attending services at a state - sanctioned church, having a conversation with women's rights activists and doing a short Web chat.

And Pence's request to visit Bethlehem and tour the Church of the Nativity has also been denied by religious leaders.

A Church Army employee has completed an «exhausting» challenge of visiting each London Underground railway station in one day, after being inspired by a ministry which helps homeless women.

Peter Hawkins of Yale Divinity School writes about his recent visit to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, which is controlled by the Latin Catholics, Greek Orthodox, Armenians, Syrians, and Copts who have been vying with one another for centuries.

By visiting the sick, organizing the church and developing an urban ministry, the pastor imbued the members of the congregation with a new sense of confidence in their value to one another and, in particular, to the neighborhood.

He was informed by the church's minister that he would never be welcome in the latter's house, nor would the minister ever visit him.

John Paul is apocalyptic, obsessed with martyrdom and with the Virgin Mary, and, worst of all, self - important: «The pope himself seems to think the whole church depends on him — on his being saved by the Virgin of Fatima, on his living into the new millennium, on his visiting every Marian shrine, on his Stakhanovite canonizing, on his re-definitions of every truth, on his creating a like - minded episcopate....

His visit follows three days of violence in the capital, Santiago, over claims of abuses by the Catholic Church.

If you believe you need to be part of an institutional church, by all means visit others and choose which would be the best fit for you.

It hardly required it if it was to be carried by his messengers and read by them as from him in the assembled churches they visited.

The lesbian couple that visited and were rejected by eleven churches before finding one that welcomed and valued them.

In particular, we may note that there are three points at which the Kingdom teaching of the synoptic tradition tends to differ both from Judaism and from the early Church as represented by the remainder of the New Testament: in the use of the expression Kingdom of God for (1) the final act of God in visiting and redeeming his people and (2) as a comprehensive term for the blessings of salvation, i.e. things secured by that act of God, and (3) in speaking of the Kingdom as «coming».

One day in 1960 a group of church leaders from the U.S. headed by Shoki visited Bangkok.

According to research was carried out by ORB International, 85 per cent of the population will visit a church over the course of a year.

Perhaps encouraged by the example of Pope John Paul II's tireless journeys in search of a new church order, Jakovos and Demetrios have embarked on a series of visits to ecclesiastical capitals, ancient and modern.

Undaunted by criticism, or even cease - and - desist letters from his superiors, he continued to preach with excellent results, adding thousands to the rolls of churches in the regions he visited.

This church at Colossae, a hundred miles east of Ephesus, was never visited by Paul, but he was concerned about the Christian groups everywhere.

Wrapping up his first pastoral UK visit, the Coptic Church leader Pope Tawadros II has been welcomed to Clarence House by the Prince of Wales.

• When the Pope visited Georgia last November, observers noted that President Edward Shevardnadze welcomed him by speaking of Christian unity while the head of the Orthodox Church limited himself to comments about better relations between countries.

It means we could visit each others churches, worship and serve side by side, and continue to respect and love one another, and not bicker, despite our disagreements.

In São Paulo I visited a magnificent health clinic for low - income people that was sponsored by a Pentecostal church, and I visited another congregation that sends out 12 buses every night filled with members who offer soup and blankets to people living on the streets.

While the government has sold land at fair market price to a few Christian groups, the Church of Pakistan has been unable to build because irate Muslims keep tearing down foundation stones, the most recent incident being the defacement of an inaugural marker unveiled by Archbishop Robert Runcie of Canterbury in a spring 1990 visit.

Apparently their church was founded by a known con man who perpetrated yet another con on all these gullible «followers» by pretending to find some plates in the ground or something, then claiming the age - old «I was visited by an angel».

What we discover through the Team Visits is that now steps are being taken by many churches to «accommodate» the presence and participation of women.

You know, please rest your conscience here as you read I am not an authority AT ALL as youll come to see, My lord has pulled me out of church the holy spirit filled church where I recieved Christ, and told me to visit ALL churches, oh and by the way 6 years ago The Lord asked me to open an out reach food pantry and safe haven for the needy, in the city that we live in, anyway this journey was humbling, God always shows me I am the stinker, that its my flesh that wars against the spirit, So many people are worried about satan, and demons or bad freinds or family or other religions, Yeah it makes you wonder 1st is it the same bible Im reading Jesus said it is finished!

The authoritative word given by the Holy Spirit to the Church at the defining and pivotal moment of Vatican II nearly fifty years ago was especially «made incarnate» in Britain in September, 2010, during Benedict's apostolic visit: to seek unity with our separated brethren in the other Christian confessions, to affirm all that is good and true in secular culture without in any way watering down our witness to the truth of the fullness of the Christian faith, to declare without apology that the Catholic patrimony of faith and reason working in harmony remains a gift that the twenty - first century desperately needs if it is to avoid self - destruction, and which it neglects or dismisses at its own peril.

Go visit the Polynesian Cultural center in Hawaii (which is run by the Mormon Church) and you will see thet have a map showing emigration from south America to Hawaii.

A previous church I was a part of was visited by a lesbian, a co-worker of one of the members.

It so happened that the pastor of the church visited the group that morning, and, impressed by the beautiful litany, inquired where she had found it.

The irony is that all this is ultimately self - defeating, as has been shown by our media's preparedness to pounce upon weaknesses in the Church, not least in the lead - up to the Pope's 2010 visit to Britain.

The Faith Alive group in Southampton has in the past decade initiated Alpha courses, an ecumenical programme sharing ideas about leadership, formation and outreach methods with other denominations, a city guildhall event with a Catholic inspirational speaker and prayer teams, a city mission, an introductory programme for «new seekers», that is people interested in the Church and who might wish to continue with the RCIA, displays outside a church on a main road and a manned gazebo to provide information and resources to passers - by during the papal visit, and the Anchor catecheticscourse making use of the «way of beauty» for evangelising parishioners, seen as a primary tChurch and who might wish to continue with the RCIA, displays outside a church on a main road and a manned gazebo to provide information and resources to passers - by during the papal visit, and the Anchor catecheticscourse making use of the «way of beauty» for evangelising parishioners, seen as a primary tchurch on a main road and a manned gazebo to provide information and resources to passers - by during the papal visit, and the Anchor catecheticscourse making use of the «way of beauty» for evangelising parishioners, seen as a primary target.

In Europe this is symbolized by the churches «having become empty shells, visited only as objects of architectual interest, and in the United States by the growing chasm between what churchgoers profess and how they act.

Answering the most common objections raised by sceptics who visited his Manhattan church it (again) invited comparisons with CS Lewis» Mere Christianity.

Often these orphanages are funded by generous donations, foreign aid budgets and visits from church groups but the supply supersedes the «demand», therefore keeping children in homes and sometime kept intentionally undernourished.

Quite a number of times this year visits to the Church of Scotland have been stopped by this... https://t.co/uI8NvmBvoE

A letter written by M. Mary John, president of the Dalit Christian Liberation Movement, to Pope John Paul II during his 1999 visit to India speaks volumes about the treatment meted out to dalit Christians within the churches of India.

Despite Pope Francis's unprecedented visit to a Pentecostal church and apology for past treatment of Pentecostals by Catholics, many Italian evangelical leaders remain concerned about how evangelicals in the United States (and other nations) are cozying up to the popular pontiff.

I've visited the Church of the Nativity twice, and both times — though grateful for the experience — I was struck by the ugliness of the place and, especially, the rudeness of the resident monks.

He tells the story of visiting a church led by a Ghanaian friend and being one of just a few white faces in a congregation of 400.

Today Jews walk by it daily and when Pope John Paul II visited the Synagogue of Rome on April 13, 1986 and spoke within sight of it he called the Jewish people «our dearly beloved brothers» and said that in discovering her «bond» with Judaism the Church was searching into her own mystery.

Jason Denison, worship pastor at Journey and a member of the July visit team, said his church needs their Mission by Faith partners because of the Haitian believers» faith.

He was required by his church leadership to go visit her and convince her it was best to leave her money to the church, and god would provide blessings for her young children.

Journey sent a five - person team to visit in early July to continue assessing needs and ways they can support Mission by Faith church and to continue deepening relationships between the new partner churches.

Catholic organizations have no problem paying non-Catholics to work for them and those non-Catholic's can take that money that was paid to them and pay for an abortion, go gambling in Vegas, buy medical marijuana, buy condoms or even visit a Nevada «Chicken Ranch» if they want to, all funded by the Catholic Church, but don't you dare tell the Church they have to pay into a healthcare system where some employee's may choose to use those health benefits to pay for contraceptives?

Since I last wrote on this subject, in the period approaching the Pope's triumphant visit (which, like many others, I was very concerned that this issue would be used by the Dawkins / Tatchell coalition to wreck) work has continued within the Church to understand the problem.

At a Council, the Pope signs as Bishop of the Catholic Church because he has jurisdiction in any diocese which he visits and can officiate at marriage and ordain to the priesthood legally, ex iure, by virtue of his office.

2 Blessed John Paul, on a visit home to Poland after becoming Pope, knelt and prayed by the font in the church at Wadowice, where he was baptised.