Sentences with phrase «church stands today»

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Today in the West it is possible for a young man and woman to stand in expensive wedding attire in a flower - decked church in confusion as to what they are actually doing.

In comparison with the breadth and depth of the intellectual, economic, cultural, social changes of today and tomorrow in the secular sphere, however, which also contribute to determine the task of the Church, it must even be said that the Church in its aggiornamento proceeds very slowly and cautiously, so that there is more reason to ask whether it is reacting sufficiently quickly, courageously and confidently to the future which has already begun, than to fear that it is sacrificing too quickly and in too «modernistic» a way what is old and well - tried and has stood the test.

It's entitled «The Church of the Left,» and it argues for an important shift in the understanding of where religious objectors stand today after the Indiana affair.The shift goes back to the Bill of Rights....

Standing out as the single most important instruction Jesus left his closest followers in the Great Commission, it is arguable that today's Church has only a vague notion of how it should be done and a disjointed strategy in place to achieve that goal.

The LCMS — national in scope, not regional as its name might suggest — today stands as the largest confessional Lutheran church body in North America, with just under 2.1 million members.

The confessional Lutheran church today may be poor and weak, but it stands as the true heir of the Reformation.

all I can think of today is what I saw in yesterday's news, about the former paratrooper turned preacher at an Independent Fundamental Baptist church just outside Ft. Bragg, N.C., that told his congregation they should break their sons» wrists if they catch them doing the «limp wrist», or give him a good punch... and all the kids that have committed suicide because other kids have picked up on messages like this and bullied them till they couldn't stand it anymore... we are the only bible some folks will ever read, and if they get this kind of message, well, who'd want to be with a group of people where you are grudgingly tolerated, if not outright hated, and all this in Jesus» name... it also says that the churches will do just about anything to keep people obedient and unquestioning, so they will continue to give, and so the big donors will continue to give, so that the doors at Monster Megachurch can be kept open, and the lights on... David, this is one of your «less is more» toons here... a minimum of elements that says so much....

Then I stood around, feeling sorry for myself, feeling like a terrible mother because the tinies usually love church and today, of all days, of course, well, this.

The reporter, microphone in hand, stood in front of St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church and said, as I recall his words, «And so today there was a memorial service for the slain civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King.

They segregate churches before slavery and till segregated today and an idiot talk about who wouldnt stand for the pledge of alegence.

«We wouldn't see them when we go to Westminster to protest; when ten people had to sign [an open letter] to speak about the Church's stand on same sex marriage, to which some of us are today being persecuted, they were nowhere to be found.

This was the critique that the neo-evangelicals brought against the fundamentalist church, I think it stands quite well today.

Jefferson in his many words is todays paul by basically testifying to a lost society by preaching «The heart «that is what God wants not the shell which will rott away.I can stand with this truth until the day I die because I also have had disagreements in my church about this same topic.I dispise religion and encourage salvation which come from having a relationship with Jesus.Many may ask how do i have a relationship with him?by simply asking God through prayer, not what we know as pray but simply given up and telling God he win.That is what being righteous means saying «lord your're right and i will believe and obey that.Last i will like to thank jefferson for this clip, becuase for so long I have been feeling like todays churches in not like the first churches.They are stuck into their four cornered walls preaching to those who already obtain the word and people who already think they are perfect, but what about the weak and the sinners who we are suppose to love, go after, preach to, help and deliver the same way as Christ camed for the sinners so do we also be like him.Jefferson basically telling all us young people and old no matter who have suffered in the world, the church, or no matter what party or the past that there is hope and «God wants that person» not the sin but the person.Jefferson wants us to know that God can become personal with us and we do exist or can exist in the christian world not because we are perfect but because «he is perfect and he saw our broken spirits and rescued us!

I'd love to see a serious politician today stand up and say «I don't go to church, and I'm not sure if there's a God», and see what the fallout is.

No, the fact remains that the Christian today who chooses the orthodox image of Christ is making a wager in which he stands to forfeit all the life and energy of a world that is totally alien to the Church ’s

The church was packed and Communion went on a very long time, and at the end everyone sang out «Jesus Christ is risen today,» except for those who never sing, of which Immaculate Conception has few, since so much of the parish is Filipino, Italian, and WASP (in this case standing for White Anglo - Saxon Papist.)

It is this commandment, in obedience to which Allen refused to let white men make a mockery of the Christian faith, that stands today as the God - given birthright of the black church.

Where do you think the Catholic church would be today it they had taken a strong stand against slavery or military conflict?

The Abbey Church of St Foy — a UNESCO World Heritage Site — still stands today, with much of the construction originating from the eleventh - century.

Originally a smaller church built to commemorate King Olav II of Norway, who had died 40 years before, then later canonized as a saint, it has undergone a series of restorations to make it the enormous Romanesque and Gothic structure that it stands as today.

The chapel stands today behind the church.

Today the four - storey tower is simply a reminder of the grand church which once stood here and is surrounded by the ruins of eight chapels, four altars, a convent which still has visible cells and numerous tombstones with legible carvings.

Cusco's Main square it's the heart of Cusco since Inca Empire times when it was called Huacaypata, today is impressive to be standing at the Plaza de Armas, looking the mountains and the churches.

Today, Dellwood Mall has been renamed Kingsway Mall, and still stands despite some modifications to house a Church and Family Dollar.