Sentences with phrase «denominations as»

CAMI recognizes Christian denominations as well as other groups and individuals hold differing views of marriage.

This service allows people to buy 24K 999.9 gold for denominations as low as Re 1.

They are issued in the same denominations as Series EE bonds but pay interest according to an earning rate that is partly a fixed rate of return and partly adjusted for inflation.

Bonds can be purchased in denominations as little as $ 50, and as high as $ 10,000.

You can purchase many bonds in denominations as low as $ 1,000.

As evangelicals, have we perhaps transferred that dogma to the Bible, resulting in the splintering off of countless denominations as each claims its interpretation as God's own?

He pointed the church men and women toward the upper echelons of their denominations as places to begin their funding drive, at the same time insisting that they also set up a dues - paving system for area congregations that would cost each, depending upon size, from $ 500 to $ 3,000 a year.

But the conviction that denominations as such should not support particular political parties is equally widespread.

It is a sort of compliment to them that they regard their denominations as important enough to fight over.

Partly out of a rejection of a priestly description of ministry, and the absence of a tradition of vested clergy among such denominations as Baptists, Congregationalists and the Society of Friends, Protestants have largely rejected sacred vestments.

After a similar survey, Ron Sellers of what was then Ellison Research said that Protestants are as «loyal to their denominations as they are to their toothpaste.»

Such denominations as the Methodists, Baptists, and Disciples have shown an increasing interest in graduate theological education, and various denominational splits and new movements have apparently created the need for more institutions.

Commenting on the NCC's first assembly meeting in Denver, Colorado, in late 1952, Charles Clayton Morrison, then a contributing editor, defended the council as an «artifact, which does not belong to the nature of the church,» but which nevertheless deserved support from denominations as a vehicle for moving away from the divisions within the church caused by «human contrivances» (January 7, 1953).

Angela, I agree that there are a lot of problems in western denominations as the result of poor leadership but we can not blame it on that or leave it at that.

For other people (and denominations as well) Daniel, Ezekiel, Revelation, II Peter, and Jude, are much more used than Isaiah, Romans, or Mark.

(0ne school characterizes its attitude toward other denominations as magnanimous; another recognizes only two church bodies — one of these in Europe — as soundly Christian; some denominational programs for the development of theological education move easily from praise of the ecumenical spirit to exclusive concern for the advancement of the denominational ministry.

First of all, I do not think that today there is or should still be a controversy between the Christian Churches and denominations as to whether freedom exists in salvation and justification and whether the theology of man should or should not describe him as a free being.

Can't the same be said of other denominations as well?

We have Gay and Lesbian churches and Bishops and ministers in other denominations as well.

This may be true of our oldline denominations as well.

The Alliance, which has 20,000 individual members, 3,500 churches, 700 organisations and 79 denominations as members, has a council of reference made up of more than 80 church leaders and leaders of Christian organisations from around the country.

Within such denominations as the United Presbyterian Church, the United Methodist Church and the Episcopal Church, there exist important and influential groups going counter to denominational leadership.

As a historian of spiritualities, I tend to see the Protestant split into many denominations as a bona fide parallel to the medieval and postmedieval multiplication of orders and spiritual ways.

They would move on to found such «Oneness» denominations as the United Pentecostal Church and the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World.

I am a theologian who recognizes the influence of Wesley in my own work and who sees the potential of Wesley to help the United Methodist Church and perhaps other Wesleyan denominations as well.

(Ash Wednesday services are becoming more popular among other protestant and evangelical denominations as well.)

I pictured the different denominations as on the rim of a wheel, with Jesus as the hub: as we get closer to Jesus, we get closer to one another.

There are, in essence, as many Christian denominations as there are self professed Christians.

It gained the support of the denomination as a whole, and I am sure that it had an impact in many congregations.

But the decline of the denomination as a whole called for different responses.

I'd like to point out that the writer is not unique, and as member of AA for over 20 years, I have known people to get sober in AA from every religion, denomination as well as other atheists, agnostics or non-believers.

Had Blumhofer used the restorationist framework to interpret the history of the denomination as she did its prehistory, the work would have been even more illuminating.

I think every mainline denomination has a [usually] minority movement that stands against the direction the denomination as a whole is taking.

Of course, there are subtleties in each denomination as well as personal spirituality aspects to consider.

Another problem arises from the church's increasingly local identity: If laity care less and less about the denomination as a larger entity, then clergy will be the guardians of denominationalism.

«Our younger generation is not nearly as loyal to the denomination as our older individuals.»

Their pews contain nearly as many who grew up outside the denomination as «cradle» members.

Rather than dismissing another denomination as too stiff or too emotional, you can learn from brothers and sisters who worship differently than you do.

Rather than stay at Yale and work toward his doctorate, Niebuhr accepted the appointment by his denomination as pastor of Bethel Evangelical Church in Detroit, Michigan, in 1915.

The second type of religious community was first described by J. M. deJong, «The Denomination as the American Church Form,» Nienw Theologisch Tijdschrift 27 (1938): 347 - 388, as denominations and declared to be the American church form.

In case you are still following this thread, for the record, National Sunday Law was written by «a» Seventh - day Adventist, not the denomination as a whole.

The tendency to regard a denomination as the ultimate environment in which the school carries on its work or as at least the last society to whose purposes reference must be made is on the wane, as has been pointed out, in most of the seminaries and Bible colleges in the United States and Canada.

Chappell also recommends pastors in this movement to partner together to diminish and eliminate the possibility of fallen pastors being shuffled from one church to the next (something I have sadly seen happen in my denomination as well).

He is the editor of Adventist Today, a progressive, lay - owned journal, and has served in various administrative posts for the Adventist denomination as well as an adjunct professor atAndrews University.

Because I see my denomination as a home and not a prison, I welcome the opportunity to encourage other Christians in their pursuit of God's kingdom activity in this world.

If you are a single Christian who is looking for someone who has the same faith or same denomination as you, then being involved with Christian Mingle is the right thing to do.

You won't just find someone of the Christian religion, but you'll find people who follow the same denomination as you.

The searches are refined and you can even use further filters to select a suitable Christian mate who belongs to the same denomination as yourself.

First, we need to find the value of CHF 50 in Japanese yen, and since the account is the same denomination as the conversion pair's base currency, all we have to do is multiply the amount risked by CHF / JPY exchange rate (85.00):

Perhaps our denomination as homo sapiens is appropriate after all.