Sentences with phrase «church as fire»

Emil Brunner's statement «Mission is to the church as fire is to burning» is apropos.

Not exact matches

That case dealt with two members of the Native American Church in Oregon, who were fired from a drug rehabilitation clinic and denied unemployment benefits for eating peyote as part of a religious ceremony.

But fired up as I was about porn culture and sexual violence, and questioning attitudes towards women in the Church, I felt bombarded by messages about conservative «biblical womanhood» that I couldn't identify with and that didn't seem to do anything to challenge the injustice I saw.

The people who resisted the Civil Rights movement in the south, many of whom used religious arguments, people who classified Blacks as animals, were degraded and debased by their own actions: turning fire hoses on children, setting dogs on peaceful marchers, lynching, firebombing churches...

His prayers were answered last September, less than three years after the fire, when the Macedonia First Church of God in Christ opened the doors to its new worship facility, built on the same site as the previous building.

But while our communities and churches certainly benefit from photographers, artists, writers, musicians, artisans, chefs, carpenters, fire - fighters, hard - laborers, entrepreneurs and small - business owners, those who have found themselves in a corporate gig have just as much to contribute to both the Church and the Kingdom as any other talented individual.

If the Church claims to represent God on earth, then we expect Godlike behaviour, otherwise, as in any viable organization, God should fire them because they are not representative of corporate policy.

In closing arguments, Assistant US Attorney Nathan Williams mocked Roof for calling himself brave in his hate - filled journal and during his confession, saying the real bravery came from the victims who tried to stop him as he fired 77 bullets at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church.

More than 100 militants entered the village just as Sunday church services started, opened fire and started attacking people with machetes.

The concept of once saved always saved takes a bit to get your head around but Gods grace is greater than our sin and greater than our good works it just takes faith in Jesus Christ to recieve Gods grace.In saying that to continue to sin as a christian is like playing with fire you will be burnt.Paul talks of the sexual immorality in corinthian church of the son and father that were sleeping with the same wife they were excommunicated from the church the members were not allowed to even eat with them until they repented.There are consequences for our actions.The other side to this is that if you continue to sin as a christian you are not walking by faith but walking by the flesh and are really backsliding.In the backslidden state you also become powerless and open to attack by satan as long as we walk in the flesh he can influence us to get worse not better.If we are walking in Christ satan may still try to tempt us but we are empowered by the holy spirit and overcome him and our faith increases.Both are saved by grace but one is powerless because of sin versus saved but an overcomer having been set free from sin i think this is what Paul was trying to explain.It is better to be an overcomer than overcome by sin.brentnz

This weekend, 26 people were killed and at least 20 more were injured when a gunman opened fire on the congregation of a small community church as they worshipped during a Sunday morning service.

Having grown up as part of a conservative evangelical church, I was taught as far backas I can remember to tell people about Jesus, to tell them that by inviting Him intotheir hearts, they would be saved from the fires of Hell and instead spend eternity inheaven with Him.

Residents around the church, who woke up to the commotion just after midnight on 8th March, rushed to extinguish the fire as the suspects fled on motorcycles.

If this positive view of celibacy is conveyed, «then we shall see the most distinguished among the younger generation fired up with the inspiration to feed the flock of God... and their deep hearts will grasp the whole idea of the Church and accept it into themselves as a living power» (p73).

Sixth Circuit affirms that the parachurch has same religious right to hire and fire as churches do.

A poor woman has been hailed as a hero after she died challenging a gunman who opened fire at a church... More

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.

They classify churches, synagogues, and temples as «civic» or «voluntary» associations in the same league as «schools, recreation leagues, Boy Scouts, and Camp Fire.»

What the Church knows as the descent of Christ into Hell is not, according to Blake's vision, a descent apart from the body, but rather a descent into the very depths of bodily repression, a descent that is only consummated in the identification of Jesus» «Satanic Body of Holiness» with the totality of the cosmos, and its consequent presence as the redemptive fire of passion throughout the whole body of humanity.

As I clambered bleary - eyed onto the plane to return to my home and Protestant church in London, I knew the Catholic Church was on fire and I needed to wachurch in London, I knew the Catholic Church was on fire and I needed to waChurch was on fire and I needed to warm up.

As the fires penetrated more deeply, scores of people hidden in the church's catacombs were burned to death.

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.

I think we should take away all the catholic church's bowl game wins for the past 14 yrs and fire the pope as well as anyone else that covered up abuse.

I wished for years that Jack Schaap would shut up or resign or get fired or be put away because, as this disgusting video of him ranting against women reveals, he was harmful to the church and women and men.

Incidents such as Carly Fiorina's repudiation and firing of her maid, along with Sharon Angles» campaign commercials depictions of Latino men illegally crossing the border, have helped to mobilize Latino churches for voter registration drives.

Frankly, as long as the church is fully independent and not using government money for the affected jobs, I believe they can hire or fire anyone for whatever reason they wish.

But we can make life very miserable for said speakers by sit - ins / walk - arounds by their misguided church, hosing them down as firemen conduct fire drills in areas where these «speakers» spout their «stupidities», insti - tute a tax on all «houses of worthless worship» and sue them for false advertising of beliefs that are simply con games.

Now, if we could just get the church to admit that Easter is a fraud originated by James as a power grab in the early church... It back - fired on him, however, as the disciples followed Peter.

I've been in full time ministry, got fired, struggled for decades with my self - identity as a construction worker to raise a family, and ended up joining a Church where I had a snowball's chance in hell of getting ordained but still held out hope, but it has never happened after 14 years now.

Families of the victims accompanied black and white hearses in limousines as fire marshals and sheriff's deputies shepherded hundreds more - some in funeral attire, others in everyday clothes - to the service in Floresville, Texas, about 12 miles from the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, where the shooting occurred.

These are difficult days for many of us as we figure out how to follow Jesus or be faithful while the culture is changing and church is shifting and politics is enraging and the world seems on fire.

The gunman, Devin Patrick Kelley, began firing into the church as John Holcombe's father Bryan an assistant pastor, ascended to the pulpit.

The vocation of St. John as the apostle of the Divinity of Christ's one person has fed and powered the true development of the doctrine of the Church at all times, not least in the first centuries in which the true doctrine of both the divinity and the humanity are hammered out in great Councils, and the concepts are refined in the fires of contrary heresy against either the full Divinity or the full Humanity of Christ.

While on fire, the worst thing we can do as the church is cut and run for our lives, thinking somehow the fire will be blown out by our running away.

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!

And so when a church suffers, one may see the strange reality of that church caught on fire as God transforms its people into the salt of the earth.

The Bible is useful... as a fire starter to burn down c hristian churches on Sunday full of c hristians.

For example, if someone were to assert that as he read the Bible the Word of God commanded him to set fire to a «heretical» church, the community of faith (and the political community as well) would insist that this is no Word from God at all, and that the man is not to be honored as a prophet or mystic but to be treated in a mental hospital.

Is it reasonable to interpret a «troublesome» congregant who «leaves» [insert air quotes] such an «abusive» church as having «fired» their former pastor?

The Spirit is like fire, deceptively polite in its dance atop the wax and wick of our church candles, but wild and mercurial as a storm when unleashed.

Neighbors of the Providence Road Baptist Church — where a sign advertises «old time religion» - say Pastor Charles Worley is known for being over the top, with one neighbor describing him as «fire and brimstone» whose views are out of sync with much of the surrounding community.

first, I don't see hell fire and brimstone preaching used as an evangelistic tool by churches.

Fudge was fired from his publishing job when he refused to recant his views on hell, but has found opportunities to minister in Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Adventist, Episcopal and nondenominational churches as well as in Independent Christian Churches and numerous varieties of Churches ofchurches as well as in Independent Christian Churches and numerous varieties of Churches ofChurches and numerous varieties of Churches ofChurches of Christ.

Any of these names makes sense in terms of the church's emphasis on the «fire» of God's presence and baptism in the Holy Spirit, a fire that is burning away the dead underbrush of cultural Catholicism; on the outward expression of this personal experience, especially glossolalia; and on the inner work of sanctification, which preachers describe as the process of being conformed to Christ or Christ being formed within us.

Church members were ticketed to ensure seating, but others had to find fragments of nourishment where they could, with some sneaking into already packed balconies through fire escapes and other evasive subterfuges, and with Fosdick's own seat filled by a standee as soon as he entered the pulpit.

This Church has fired a well known music composer as choir director because he prayed and was «too spiritual» at choir practice, Fired an amazing organist (who played with one hand because of a disability) for reasons unkfired a well known music composer as choir director because he prayed and was «too spiritual» at choir practice, Fired an amazing organist (who played with one hand because of a disability) for reasons unkFired an amazing organist (who played with one hand because of a disability) for reasons unknown.

I may not be as fired - up as chief but I do agree that the Catholic Church adds unnecessary complications to things.

CNN: Congressman draws fire for calling evolution, Big Bang «lies from the pit of hell» A U.S. congressman is attracting attention and criticism for an online video that shows him blasting evolution and the Big Bang theory as «lies from the pit of hell» in a recent speech at a church event in his home state of Georgia.

Again and again Popes and Church councils condemned such crude practices of administering justice as trial by fire and water and by battle.

Such freedom can be allowed in the Christian Church precisely because any questionings as to the manner in which the divine fire came into the world in Jesus Christ, and any analysis of the essential significance of that coming, can not deny the fact that the fire did come and that it is burning still.