Sentences with phrase «come to the churches of»

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Hala Moddelmog, who was president of Church's Chicken in the 1990s and Arby's from 2010 to 2013 — two Atlanta - based fast - food empires — said Goldman's announced expansion in Atlanta didn't come as a shock.

Her decision to leave the church comes the same week the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction barring the Obama administration from implementing a policy of deferring deportation actions against more than 4 million undocumented immigrants.

Abbott's comments come a day after one of the pastors, Robert Morris, told news outlets Abbott had reached out to him and nine other churches to build support for the legislation.

I don't spend time in my study figuring out how to save the world, how to grow the church, how to get more money out of people's pockets, how to promote this church's ministry, how to enthrall our people more with sexy worship music, how to make myself more awesome before my people, how to get more people to hear about and come to our church.

It was heartening to see the Evangelical Alliance come out in support of No More Page 3 earlier this year, asking all member churches to do the same.

To think of how the church treats homosexuals hurts me... in many instances they are barred from even coming in the door.

While any fair - minded high - church reader of Ross's work should be able to finish this book with a greater understanding of evangelical liturgical practices, I am not sure that he will come away from this book feeling more sympathetic to low - church evangelicalism.

I visited churches filled with new believers, many who came out of animist or Buddhist upbringings, often alone in their families, to confess faith in the risen Christ.

If you were asked to picture the regular attendees of an average local church, a few things might come to mind: You might think of a quaint, middle - class family who...

When our fore fathers came up with the idea of seperation of church and state it wasn't to keep religion out of the government it was to keep the Church from running the goverchurch and state it wasn't to keep religion out of the government it was to keep the Church from running the goverChurch from running the government.

These brief statements of faith and «shadow confessions» are wholly inadequate to handle the coming cultural storm or indeed to guide day - to - day catechesis within the churches themselves.

While the leaders of several local Orthodox Churches have expressed their reluctance to attend the future Council, the main resistance presently comes from the Patriarchate of Moscow.

I came from Holy Trinity Brompton and I wasn't wholly familiar with the structures of the Church of England I think it would be safe to say.

«The Christian Church has started to realize that we're sexual, too, and we are just as visually stimulated as men and we look at porn,» said Crystal Renaud, author of the recent book «Dirty Girls Come Clean,» a memoir about her own addiction to porn.

I keep coming across wonderful paradoxes like these «What I am sick of is those who continue to deny that priests should have due process, accuse and broad brush all priests» «Sounds like you go to a Church.

And that camel - owner can bring all his camel - owning friends and they will give their tenth - plus offerings to The Church of the Great Needle and soon enough there will be a new building program to construct a fanstasmagoric «Golden Needle with Multiple Eyes» so that more camels can enter and then more camel - owners will come and soon there will be a vision for a bigger and better «Platinum Needle with Multiple, Rotating, Identity - Protected Eyes» and soon there will be a name change to «The Church of the Sharpest Needles in the Greatest Sewing Machine the World Has Ever Seen» and everyone shall stand amazed etc., etc., etc...; ^)

They indicated that they were asking themselves, and would be considering further, «Has the time come for the Orthodox churches and other members to review their relations with the World Council of Churcheschurches and other members to review their relations with the World Council of ChurchesChurches?»

I care about the church — so I hope to attend some of these meetings, as they come up!

He frequently cites the work of Frank Furstenburg and Arlie Hochschild, two sociologists of family and gender relations whose views are by no means ideologically conservative, and he avoids value - loaded language, especially when it comes to describing the mainline Protestant churches whose leadership has, by and large, capitulated to the secular - elitist acceptance of extramarital sex, abortion, homosexuality, and other practices that conservative Christians view as inimical to moral life and family health.

This is all about control with religion and it has to stop.Gay people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight people getting married.People are so full of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.

I think that in the long term I would love to see a church where we can all, regardless of how we understand our identity, come to worship our Creator and learn to love each other.

We're talking about love relationships not the titillation of nerve endings As to who can or can not hold a leadership position or who can or can not teach in a church, I think it comes down to morals not legality.

Men who meant well did more harm to the reputation of the church in the eyes of history than any good that might have come of their actions.

According to the Oxford Times, she wrote in a newsletter: «I am not usually a grumpy person but I have been overwhelmed by the numbers of tourists coming through the church and the fact that so many of them seem unaware that this is a sacred space.

«St. Sofia is the ultimate prize when it comes to churches in the whole former Soviet Union,» said Serhii Plokhy, director of Ukrainian church studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.

So anyone who is at all interested in the welfare of the church and wishes to have a voice in its health is welcome to come.

We have people who come to church in jeans, we have people who will shout out «Hallelujah» if the like what is being said, or repeat the chorus of hymns.

And if you say you are not trying to destroy, then I ask you, did you start the church you are a part of, or did you come to the church as a new pastor and are now trying to deconstruct?

One of the first things that comes to my mind, I must admit, when I am faced with a difficult situation in the church, is, «What effect will this have on our income?»

In fact, everyone I know who has either come into the Church or returned to it in the last 20 years has done so because of all the things that Charles Reid would reject and call «right wing,» things that are in fact unclassifiable by such ossified and brittle ideological categories.

Precise statistics on the number of adherents within each church are difficult to come by.

Leaders from Israel's three main churches have come together to support the restoration of a shrine marking... More

I am free now from the bondage of mans church and all the controling rules it imposes, free to create and just be which was my original intention when I chose to come forth into this time / space reality.

Steve, actually Matt 16:28 which you are referring to does not mean his second coming but the establishment of his kingdom which was the church.

This way asks my community to renew its focus on serving and loving without an expectation of more people coming to our church service.

On Luther's side, the final break with the Church authorities came in the wake of Leo X's bull of November 1518; in that document, as Luther saw it, Leo arrogated to himself the power of defining Church teaching without accountability to Scripture, the Fathers, or the ancient canons.

One of the chief themes of the narrative theology that came to prominence in the Anglo - American world in the late 1980s and early 1990s was the centrality of communal experience to the life of Christ's Church.

Absent a true understanding of what the liturgy is, grounded in a firm grasp of what the gospel is, those who «come to church» do not grow in living faith.

Ruth Percival, 30, gave birth in a downstairs bathroom of the vicarage in Freckleton, Lancashire and her father, James, 66, the then vicar of Holy Trinity CE Church, came in to help.

The Reformers vigorously protested what they viewed as deviations from biblical teaching, but they never used Scripture to undermine the Trinitarian and Christological consensus of the early Church embodied in the historic creeds that had come down from patristic times.

But for now, I would rather be part of a Christ - centered megachurch full of programs where people are coming to know Jesus as Savior, than part of a church of any size where they are not.

Of course, there are things we need to learn about family and God that does come from the scriptures and church and prayer and revelation.

i beleive there is good out there, and as a Mom i want to make sure i live me life in a way that will make my daughter proud of me so i will introduce Church to her and i will teach her the commandments because whether or not Moses came down from the mountain with two tablets in his hands they are a good starting point to instill good morals.

When I came to the realization about theological concepts acting as a substitute for a relationship with God, I started to see and hear that kind of stuff all over the place in church.

you're right the church probably will be there long after any of us cease to exist but it stands to reason that it is going down... as more people come to the realization that the belief in a deity is not necessary to live, the less need there will be for a church to exist.

Only two of the moms come to our church.

For Evangelicals, the Church as the one body of Christ extending through space and time includes all the redeemed of all the ages and all on earth in every era who have come to living faith in the body's living Head.

I don't think God would think less of them... I don't have to go to church every Sunday to have a relationship with God... I can sit in my backyard and listen to the birds and the wind and have peace and serenity and a conversation with him... The whole point is, we are not the ones that are supposed to judge anyone... that's his place... not ours... when judgment day comes, he will be the one to say welcome, or turn us away...

I'm currently reading the book, When bad Christians happen to Good people bc i've been there & have come full circle... Life church helped me to see that many of us mistakenly put our faith in other Christians instead of God, but pple are sinners & will fail us at some point.

Such ill - defined relations worked reasonably well for a considerable time, while the mechanism that kept Catholic institutions tied to the Church was a powerful cultural feeling for Catholicism (enforced by the tuition payments and donations that came from the members of that culture).