Sentences with phrase «comparing them to the church»

And there was a whole lot less back - stabbing and in - fighting going on in the bars compared to churches.

A large proportion of them came to this idea rather late, having sampled the pleasures of the flesh and presumably found them wanting when compared to Church meetings and, even as a committed Christian, I have to say — what are they on?

Not exact matches

In New York last year, the journalist Max Read compared Facebook to the EU, the Catholic Church, and a «faceless Elder God.»

Attempts to compare evangelical liturgical practices to those of more high church traditions are often doomed from the start because of the fundamentally different assumptions that undergird both.

What is his place in Heaven compared to someone who is an Alcoholic Christian and a big time gambler but doesn't go to Church and help the elderly?

So, with this incredible promise of healing why are our churches still so outnumbered by those who are hurting and defeated compared to those who are experiencing hope and some measure of health?

The Catholic Church does a great deal of work to help the poor and needy and comparing them to rednecks shows just how little you know about the Church's work.

The pope's personal preacher apologized Sunday for comparing fury over sexual abuse within the church to anti-Semitism.

Read your bible and understand it, then listen to your church leaders and compare, then you will find the truth.

As the church and our interactions with God are often compared to a marriage, I've come to this conclusion:

The government should not be permitted to create incentives for religious practice or belief (like giving favored status to religious organizations, as compared to other nonprofits), to facilitate the religious practices of some at the expense of others (like offering vocal prayers in public schools), or to accommodate one religion but not others with similar needs or problems (like limiting draft exemptions to members of traditional «peace churches») Within these guidelines, religious accommodations are fully in keeping with the First Amendment — albeit in conflict with strict separation.

Adeline, So, are you comparing the Catholic church to the White House?

I drive past multi-million dollar church properties filled with throngs of wealthy people (as compared to the peoples of this world, today) sitting on cushy chairs or pews, gazing out stained glass windows, and then arrive at my destination — the haunts of the homeless, many of whom have all they own in a backpack or in a shopping cart.

Around 62 % of people who regularly attend church are middle class compared with 38 % of working - class attendees, according to a new YouGov survey.

The church attendance drop does appear to be genuine, but small, when you compare rates at same age, but the prayer difference seems to be just an age issue: «Although Millennials report praying less often than their elders do today, the GSS shows that Millennials are in sync with Generation X and Baby Boomers when members of those generations were younger.»

In 2007, when Pew conducted its first massive assessment of the US religious landscape, researchers found that slightly more than half of evangelical church members (54 %) agreed that stricter environmental laws and regulations were worth the cost, compared to 61 percent of all Americans.

I'm amazed anyone can have that attitude and compare a church to a business.

Sit down and read just the red letters... you can just read the red letters in Matthew... and then compare and see just how much the present day church adheres to the teachings of Jesus.

This called over reaching... comparing Penn State to the Catholic church is demonic!

I would like to compare church membership with circumcision.

It's nothing compared to what many other people experience in the Church, but it's painful.

Przywara, however, should be compared to the early Barth of the Römerbrief, not the Barth of the Church Dogmatics.

Compared to the Catholic Church, American culture is adolescent.

Then, by looking at the existing manuscripts today, and piecing together what we have and comparing it to a modern Bible such as the NASB, it is not hard at all to see that the Bible that we hold in our hands today is the same doc.ument quoted by the early church fathers who researched and verified all that they could.

The Penn State matter and the Catholic Church (neither of which have I any reason to champion) parallel eachother so superficially that only someone ignorant about both could think them worth comparing.

Compared to the instructions for Passover, Scripture seems awfully cagey on this point which — according to the church hierarchy — is vital for salvation.

Professor MacCulloch was, indeed, soon to be observed putting himself about in the liberal media; and in an article in The Times he began an unusually spiteful piece by laboriously comparing the Church, in the wake of Pope Benedict's abdication, to the sandcastles he used to build as a boy at Clacton: «Quite suddenly there came a point where the waters» onrush became irresistible.

Regular church attenders made up more of the religious electorate overall (49 percent, compared to 42 percent in 2012), likely mitigating his lower numbers among this group.

The test instrument described among the methods in this section is comparatively easy to use and score, and it provides a helpful way to compare the outlooks of both different churches and different people within a single church.

«A Georgia woman named Nirvana Jenette claims she was kicked out of church for breastfeeding, the pastor ordering her to nurse the baby in the bathroom and calling her behavior «lewd,» comparing her to a stripper...»

Gay marriage is nothing compared to the starvation of children in countries that are overpopulated because of the Church's ban on birth control and abortion.

The distance between the moral principles which the Church proclaims and — leaving aside for the moment the question of the Church's pastoral office — which alone can be propounded doctrinally, and the concrete prescriptions by which the individual and the various human communities freely shape their existence, has now increased to an extent that introduces what is practically a difference of nature as compared with earlier times.

Take a moment to listen and begin to hear about ancestor worship, the growth of the church on the mainland compared to the slower growth in Taiwan, and a bluegrass concert.

Ephesians 5:22 - 33 compares the relationship and union of a husband and wife to the union of Jesus and his Church.

Church was like my parents or my brother and sisters: not to be compared with possible alternatives or weighed in the balance but simply to be acknowledged as a given of existence.

The present situation in the Church may be compared to a college with a new president who has new ideas on education and other subjects.

When we compare ourselves and our current situation to the soul - crushing poverty of the first - century church, perhaps our question should not be «Do I have to give?»

When I talk to my good friend who is a very conservative Catholic who views taking communion as sacred and every crumb is representative of Christ's body and not one crumb will drop... then compare it to how we do it at church... everyone ripping bread from the same loaf, crumbs everywhere, kids spilling the «wine»... does it really matter... is one more right than the other... one upholds church law on how communion will be performed versus our laid back version.

The Jewish temples collect a miniscule amount of money compared to the Mormon and Catholic churches.

But, if I were to go to your new church, the following would make it a lot more appealing to me as compared with my other options for church:

After two stints in subordinate roles in church and quite a bit more in sales, he remarked that churches can operate in funny ways compared to business.

But compared to the population at large, members of mainline churches were significantly less likely to be single parents age 40 and under, young single adults or married couples without children.

Why not compare the Catholic church to LA police department and Boy Scouts of America?

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 can not compare today to then for I have never known God to be silent in my life or the churches I have be apart off.

to compare a cardinal in the Roman Catholic church to a used car salesman desecrates used car salesmen.

for the modern «church - court» has no power of global excommunication, only the power to read, to think, and to «be more noble» and compare everything to the scriptures.]

How can we read about this veneer - like faith and not shudder as we compare it to the broad, wide and often equally shallow thing that passes for Christianity in so much of our culture and in so many of our churches?

An Alabama church has come under fire for comparing Republican Senate candidate Judge Roy Moore to Jesus.

Thus recently Pope John Paul II repeatedly stressed in his address to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that the revelation of Christ is «definitive and complete» and that non-Christians live in «a deficient situation compared to those who have the fullness of salvific means in the church».