Sentences with phrase «church by his wife»

My cousin was led to church by his wife.

De Blasio was joined at the church by his wife, Chirlane McCray, who spoke before him.

Not exact matches

The wife submits to her husband, as in the first part of Paul's dictum in Ephesians5, and the husband fulfills the second part of Paul's injunction by laying down his life for his wife as Christ did for his Church (which might have been what Paul had in mind in the first place).

The same way that it was used in Ephesians 5:25 - 26 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing [a] her by the washing with water through the word,

For converts like my wife and «reverts» like me, the fact that contemporary American Catholicism is led by the likes of Chaput, Dolan, George, Lori, Cordileone, Gomez, and O'Connell, «JPII men» shaped by the theology of Benedict XVI and full of the joy of Pope Francis, is a large part of the reason why we are in the Church today and not in the wilderness.

Neither Joseph Smith or Emma Smith, his only wife, are buried on land possessed by the Mormon Church.

When we decided to leave that church, I was told by the pastor's wife that we could not be friends anymore because I wasn't committed to them, that I had been like a «live - in girlfriend» because I had been fellowshipping with them and had decided to leave them.

(25) «Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church, and delivered Himself up for her, (26) that He might sanctify her, cleansing her in the bath of water by means of The Word; (27) IN ORDER THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT TO HIMSELF THE CHURCH IN ALL HER GLORY, NOT HAVING SPOT OR WRINKLE OR ANY SUCH THING, BUT THAT SHE MIGHT BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH.»&Church, and delivered Himself up for her, (26) that He might sanctify her, cleansing her in the bath of water by means of The Word; (27) IN ORDER THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT TO HIMSELF THE CHURCH IN ALL HER GLORY, NOT HAVING SPOT OR WRINKLE OR ANY SUCH THING, BUT THAT SHE MIGHT BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH.»&CHURCH IN ALL HER GLORY, NOT HAVING SPOT OR WRINKLE OR ANY SUCH THING, BUT THAT SHE MIGHT BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH.»»

Church women's meetings were held in parishioners» homes and announced privately by phone to prevent the wife of the «outsider» minister from attending.

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

«The strong affection which a husband ought to cherish towards his wife is exemplified by Christ, and an instance of that unity which belongs to marriage is declared to exist between himself and the Church.

Husbands and wives are to see more clearly what God meant marriage to be, by looking at a picture of Christ's relationship with the church.

Last week, Kong Hee and five other leaders of his 17,000 - member City Harvest Church (CHC) were found guilty by Singapore's charity commissioner of siphoning $ 35.9 million in church funds to support the singing career of Kong's wife and church co-founder, Sun Ho, in the United States andChurch (CHC) were found guilty by Singapore's charity commissioner of siphoning $ 35.9 million in church funds to support the singing career of Kong's wife and church co-founder, Sun Ho, in the United States andchurch funds to support the singing career of Kong's wife and church co-founder, Sun Ho, in the United States andchurch co-founder, Sun Ho, in the United States and Asia.

I have heard teachings that a marriage will only properly illustrate Christ's relationship with the church when the husband steps fully into his leadership role and the wife responds by joyfully placing herself under his authority.

If you have a moment today, please stop by A Deeper Church and read Mary DeMuth's post today entitled «The Sexy Wife I Can't Be.»

The history of our salvation is marked by a feminine presence that responds actively and fruitfully to God's initiatives: first Israel, which is presented throughout the Scriptures in feminine terms (as the daughter of Sion or, in those times when the prophets urge her to repentance, as a faithless wife); then Mary; and now the Church (the bride of Christ).

Ephesians 5:25 - 27 ESV — Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.

«Therefore the Church gives thanks for each and every woman: for mothers, for sisters, for wives; for women consecrated to God in virginity; for women dedicated to the many human beings who await the gratuitous love of another person; for women who watch over the human persons in the family, which is the fundamental sign of the human community; for women who work professionally, and who at times are burdened by a great social responsibility; for «perfect» women and for «weak» women - for all women as they have come forth from the heart of God in all the beauty and richness of their femininity; as they have been embraced by his eternal love; as, together with men, they are pilgrims on this earth, which is the temporal «homeland» of all people and is transformed sometimesinto a «valley of tears»; as they assume, together with men, a common responsibility for the destiny of humanity according to daily necessities and according to that definitive destiny which the human family has in God himself, in the bosom of the ineffable Trinity.»

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, 26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.

2000 years of tradition and all books of the Bible which are divinely inspired do not mention «a wife» The current canon was adopted at the Council of Trent by the Catholic Church and it is also accepted by Protestant faiths.

Father Neuhaus compares this man's struggle to that of a hypothetical fellow church member tempted to betray his wife by sleeping with his secretary.

I cynically suggested to my wife that this was subliminally designed as a membership drive... Like so many churches they are expending massive time and money on programs to bring people in the front door, while they lose even more out the back door by not truly loving or caring for the people who are already there.

I recently was approached by a wife in our church that I do not have a close relationship with and never have.

The New York wife of a Presbyterian pastor, for instance, gave up the strict regimen of Weight Watchers in 1972 to form 3D (Diet, Discipline, Discipleship), advertised as «a Christian counterpart to national weight - watcher programs» and expanding to more than 5,000 churches and 100,000 participants by 1981.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

I remember how my wife died gasping for air in a New York tenement owned by a member of a church.

Last I knew, the only person who ended up well in the entire mess was the first husband of wife # 2, who found a wonderful wife and remarried surrounded by family, friends and church.

Reasons given by Unitarian Universalists there for leaving other churches were along the line of «couldn't believe dogma, but wanted community» (ex-Methodist), «could not accept Jesus myth» (nominal Episcopalian), «my wife and I could not reconcile the Christian theology with a rational approach to life» (nominal Presbyterian).

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.

Alpha's North American initiative is directed by former management consultant Alistair Hanna, whose wife, Nancy Hanna, has led Alpha as a pastor at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in New York City.

Unlike the bookish Oxford don, Keller is an urbane and culturally savvy communicator, as evidenced by the growth of Redeemer Presbyterian Church, which he founded in New York after moving to the city with his wife Kathy and their three children in 1989.

While none of Jesus Christ's 1st century Christian leaders ever involved themselves in politics to the point that they ran for public office, after they all died out those men Jesus said would sneak into the church did sneak in and did get involved with political leaders and in just a couple of centuries the Holy Roman Empire was the old Roman Empire whitewashed to appear to be something of God's and both the church and the State being led by the very same man, Pontifex Maximus who had his own wife killed for proving that his trinity doctrine was horsepucky.

Also, one book my wife and I read this past year which sounded eerily familiar to what we have personally experienced, was the fictional «novel» by Wayne Jacobsen and Dave Coleman, So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church warns that lust always threatens sexual love, also the love between husband and wife: «the union of man and woman becomes subject to tensions, their relations henceforth marked by lust and domination» (no. 400).

However the Church can not impose the will of God by force, and never should have, even though «this means for the Church to be reviled and bruised... like the poor wife of a dour husband, but never to leave him.»

This meant that a man, if approved by the Church, might have several wives, and in some cases have the use of another man's wife.

So long as the law requires I go through your silly little ceremony to take care of my wife when she is in the hospital the silly little ceremony needs to be controlled by the government, not the church.

Whether we do it as part of a church ritual or not is another question — my wife and I and two of our children were all baptised as adults at separate times in the sea by friends and family, and one child only in a church ritual.

My friends and family were not shadowed and publicly «hushed» by pastors and their wives at church.

Those who insist otherwise effectively deny what is noble and holy about being wives and mothers (biological and spiritual) and thereby slight the importance of the feminine (mother Church) in the plan by which God intends to redeem His creation.

An example for the Church in this time perhaps is the wife Peter writes of, who converts her husband «without a word» by her behavior.

Fair disclosure requires that I mention that my wife, Barbara, was a faculty member at Hope College during some of the period described in the book and that she (by then teaching at Maryville College in Tennessee) and I were resource people at a national consultation on church - related colleges, where we talked with Simon and many others.

They believe the shooting spree by 26 - year - old Devin Patrick Kelley in Sutherland Springs was driven by a rift in family relations, adding that the mother of Mr Kelley's wife attended the First Baptist Church.

One of the ways in which a church program can enrich husband - wife relationships is by providing sound education for marriage beginning with high school youth.

Technically speaking, it is biblical for a woman to be sold by her father to pay off debt (Exodus 21:7), biblical for her to be forced to marry her rapist (Exodus 22:16 - 17), biblical for her to remain silent in church (1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35), biblical for her to cover her head (1 Corinthians 11:6), and biblical for her to be one of many wives (Deuteronomy 21:15 - 17).

In the Christian family, wives submit to their husbands as they would submit to Christ and husbands submit to their wives the way Christ submitted to the Church by giving his life for it, keeping in mind that we are all part of one Body.

Let's not forget that, technically speaking, it is biblical for a woman to be sold by her father to pay off debt, biblical for her to be forced to marry her rapist, biblical for her to remain silent in church, biblical for her to cover her head in prayer, and biblical for her to be one of many wives.

As well as sharing in God's work of creating people, husbands and wives also have a share in God's work of bringing them to salvation, bringing them into union with Christ in the Church by getting them baptised, bringing them to be fed by Christ in the Eucharist and to be cared for by him in the other sacraments; bringing them to know and love God through teaching, prayer, bible reading and example.

And the union of husband and wife in marriage can only be like the union between Christ and the Church by sharing in it.

To claim that church and wife are one and the same is to also say that Jesus wasn't skillful enough in his use of language to avoid confusion in the minds of regular people and so must be interpreted by the professed learned such as yourself in order for us mere mortals to grasp their true meaning, thereby revealing a flaw in this god's claim of being all - knowing and all-wise.