Sentences with phrase «church gave its support»

The Church gave its support too eagerly, they should have read between the lines, and made sure the president's words were truthful not pulled out of his «evolving» box.

Not exact matches

Solution: Either Jesus returns and straightens up, or God gives us a new powerful pious monarch who destroys the current evil power elite, and supports again the Christian Church.

So conservative Protestants have lower levels of wealth because they're giving their money to support the missions of the church.

A truly ecclesial biblical scholarship supports the Church's evangelical mission by giving new power to Catholic preaching, Catholic catechesis, and Catholic evangelism.

His idea of balance was to give equal time to opinions supporting and opposing the Church's teaching, leaving readers with serious doubts as to which side America was on.

I'm sure a devout follower would gladly give support to his / her church without being asked, but by making it policy that you HAVE to?

«Given the benchmarks established by international law and universal legitimacy, and in light of the support offered by the Christian Church in the Holy Land, we believe Palestinians should also have a state that they can at long last call home.

And it confirms my desire to help and support people who give up church.

The statement called for understanding, forgiveness and spiritual support of homosexual persons; expressed opposition to «the unjust and unkind treatment given to homosexuals by individuals, society and the church»; and pledged to minister to homosexuals and «to help them to change their life style in a manner which brings glory to God.»

But how do you tell church members that to truly follow Jesus, they have to attend church, give their tithes, support the church leadership, and serve in church programs?

Look, being a church member has nothing to do with sitting in a pew on Sunday morning, listening to a sermon and praying for your pastor, giving your money to support a local church budget, and making commitments to serve on a church ministry program.

no... never did Darwin support a creator... infact quite the opposite... he attended a church with is religious wife but never gave credence to a creator.

Their support for the Catechism of the Catholic Church, their thriving seminaries, their young priests, and their joyful presence at great international Catholic gatherings, have all contributed to renewal and given fresh hope to the Church.

The book's title, The Birth of the Trinity, in fact understates the support it gives to the claim that the doctrine of the Trinity was not developed by the Church on slender foundations, but is found with significant richness in the New Testament.

IF Jesus was actually a real person he would be dismantling the current Catholic Church in Rome and giving all this money to support these overpriced golden churches out to the poor people who are dying the streets while Francis» double - chins smack together as he chortles and drinks wine.

Other churches are fighting on different fronts: Beacon Church Brixton has seen many young men give their lives to Christ and come off the streets thanks to the passion of a teacher in their congregation; Ecclesia Church is partnering with an education charity to provide support for young people excluded from school; and Emmanuel Pentecostal church has organised successful youth events where Christian ex-offenders share their testimChurch Brixton has seen many young men give their lives to Christ and come off the streets thanks to the passion of a teacher in their congregation; Ecclesia Church is partnering with an education charity to provide support for young people excluded from school; and Emmanuel Pentecostal church has organised successful youth events where Christian ex-offenders share their testimChurch is partnering with an education charity to provide support for young people excluded from school; and Emmanuel Pentecostal church has organised successful youth events where Christian ex-offenders share their testimchurch has organised successful youth events where Christian ex-offenders share their testimonies.

For instance, Chapter 15 on the laity begins with a broad discussion about how the Church grew, covering the establishment of monasteries and convents, Mass in Latin, the removal of rood screens and the history of the Reformation; while Chapter 16, on Our Lady, goes through the titles given to her, in order to answer criticisms that these titles and honours can not be supported by Scripture.

Can not the church, for once, be the vanguard of the coming age and give at least its moral support to an unrecognized prophet?

You're right, the Pope and Bishops won't ever give up their power willingly, so it's up to Catholics everywhere to stop supporting the blatantly hypocritical, chauvinistic, pedophile transferring machine called The Church.

In the Vineyard I was in there was an expectation to «tithe», to give 10 % of one's income to the church using a passage from Malachi to support teaching about it.

But his grace also gives us the responsibility and the power ourselves to belong to those who do not only want to be supported by the Church, but who themselves help to support her with courage, confidence and patience.

Some of us do not choose to give to support the causes traditionally supported by many churches, such as properties, staff and programs, but rather choose to give to those who have not.

For instance, the response should be directed toward the support of the institution itself — giving money, ushering, church administration, the kinds of roles that provide the advantage of available handles and the measurable satisfaction in being able to make some obvious contribution.

In remarks at a September 25 United Church of Christ gathering Simon acknowledged that, while his support of military force in the Balkans and elsewhere meant that he was «a Quaker of not particularly good standing,» he was «still willing to give first consideration to peaceful alternatives.»

So while it is true that the Israelites gave somewhere in the vicinity of 30 % of their crops and herds to support the work of the Levites, this is not at all equivalent to tithing to support the church today.

Support groups are problematic given the church's traditional task, which I stressed at the beginning, of transmitting identity to new generations and maintaining identity across the life cycle.

Are you rejoicing in pastors who have given their lives to preach the gospel for whom their churches choose to support them through the salary structure, and not through anonymous love gifts or other means?

Some of them feel the poor are shamelessly pressured by the church into giving out of their poverty to support these buildings.

And despite the fact that Timothy was younger, Paul gave him some really difficult assignments: Paul leaves Timothy in Berea to support a church plant; he sends him to Athens; Timothy goes to Thessalonica; and then Paul sends him to Corinth.

Do the poor really want to give to support such buildings, or does the church give them the idea that doing so is what it takes to please God?

The knighthood is in recognition of the faithful and devoted service Mr Leach has given to supporting the mission of the Catholic Church through publications and media communication.

Though many social organizations and unions give support to such movements, church members form an indispensable segment of their constituencies, as the recent financial crisis involving the NAACP in Mississippi made clear.

Under ordinances forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, churches have been taken to court for refusing to hire a homosexual as church organist or as teacher in the church school, ministries to the poor have lost their funding when they refused to tolerate homosexual behavior within their programs, and a Jesuit university was required to give recognition and support to a gay rights group.

«Churches in Luton are absolutely fantastic in the level of support they give,» Ruth stresses.

English Puritanism developed an anti-absolutist ideology because it found a relatively strong popular base among the laity but was opposed by the state church, which was closely linked to the king who gave it patronage in return for ideological support.

Some church groups are primarily supportive - inspirational in their function — that is, fellowship groups give emotional support to their members.

Presidential candidates are supporting measures to increase charitable giving so that churches and...

Teaching children about the Scriptures was a revered calling, unlike today when it is given to people with no support or confidence from the church.

Their move to a Catholic church was taken as meaning only one thing: that despite the lip - service being paid by the diocese to the teaching that «non-celibate gay people should not be given Communion», the diocese of Westminster was in fact giving its tacit approval and support to a situation in which that was precisely what was happening, in a setting in which the Pope and the teaching of the Church were regarded with hostility and held up to conchurch was taken as meaning only one thing: that despite the lip - service being paid by the diocese to the teaching that «non-celibate gay people should not be given Communion», the diocese of Westminster was in fact giving its tacit approval and support to a situation in which that was precisely what was happening, in a setting in which the Pope and the teaching of the Church were regarded with hostility and held up to conChurch were regarded with hostility and held up to contempt.

Not even the opening papal address contained the salvos against liberation theology that the conservatives had hoped for (despite erroneous impressions to the contrary given by the New York Times), and the Puebla documents, though a mixed bag, gave ongoing support to the major concerns of this theology, particularly in the emphasis on the need for the church to make «a preferential option for the poor.

The author is trying to say lots of catholics leave the church but gives no really concrete facts to support it.

Churches are beginning to respond, especially by educating people through congregational programs and outreach support for community - wide care - giving services.

The groups have bridged differences between several people, opened individual counseling opportunities, let parishioners express «beefs» directly, and given the minister support in his ministry.21 I concur with Robert Leslie's suggestion that the most natural, unthreatening way to introduce personal sharing in churches is to combine this emphasis with study.

In unclouded joy, and in sheer sorrow, there remains always, as an experience, the presence and support of Christ - communally in the Church, personally in the individual life: «my peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you: not as the world gives, do I give to you».

You can't do just a few token deeds through your Church like we support some missions or this food bank, etc, things that make you look good, and give you reason to spout off about easily, but are not really much of a personal sacrifice.

Here again, as in the case of the monk - missionaries of the Roman Catholic and Eastern churches, it was chiefly those who were most earnestly devoted to the faith who offered themselves as missionaries and gave to the support of the societies.

As responsible members of the human family, we all should support governmental, United Nations, and church - sponsored efforts to help families in poor nations acquire the food, shelter, medical help, and education which will allow them to use their full God - given potentialities.

He has since given many signs of his support for the present pope; when many of his episcopal brethren were doing everything they could to undermine the motu proprio establishing the right to celebrate the «old Mass», he made clear his belief that the rite of John XXIII «is not a relic, not a reverting to the past, but part of the living tradition of the Church».»

The characteristic Greek conception of humanity and divinity fused and all but identified, which soon became the normative doctrine of the church, would have been impossible for Paul, and his words give no support to the supposition that he held it, For him a great gulf lies between both the pre-existent and the post-resurrection glory on the one hand and the earthly life on the other.

The first of these is the obvious fact that once the early church came to think as being a heavenly eschatological Redeemer (whether it used the «Son of Man» or not) it was inevitable that it should regard him as having thought of himself in that same way, even if nothing in the remembered tradition of his words gave specific support to that view.