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On Palm Sunday 45 people were murdered in Egypt, many of them Christians, after two separate suicide bomb attacks at different churches in the country.

I have attended probably 60 or 70 different churches in my lifetime and find that this is the first church that actually puts Jesus first and studies the Bible (the word of God).

It's been a long hard road belonging to 4 different churches in that Spirit filled denomination.

An approach that has great potential for consciousness - raising within ordinary congregations is fulfilled by a group in Chicago which convenes its handicapped members once a month at a different church in the Chicago area.

When I see more than 20 different churches in South Florida from different denominations raise enough money to cover all of the medical expenses of the Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooting victims, I see the church working as it was created to.

If we could just get along we wouldn't «need» a thousand different churches in a metro area.

In his role as president of the Massachusetts Conference of the UCC, Antal said he spends each Sunday preaching at a different church in the state and tries to incorporate climate change into roughly every other sermon.

It hit home because our family stopped going to church about 10 years ago after a wonderful pastor moved on to a different church in a different town.

Not exact matches

Our communities are full of people in different seasons — and that is one of the most attractive aspects of the church.

My parents are of different Christian denominations and when they wanted to get married, neither of the churches would perform the ceremony as inter-denominational marriages were considered to be «doomed to failure» — especially as neither of them would agree to raise their children in one or the other's church.

More religious claptrap, read some history and find out that santorums lot (the catholic church) executed whole societies in south America simply because those poor ignorant people had a different religion.

Then why do I, a man that has been inside a few churches in his lifetimes solely for the purpose of absorbing the lovely architecture of lovely buildings across the globe in different societies, know more about world religion than you do and the rest of your flock?

For one to say that building a Mosque near ground zero is wrong is no different than someone saying they don't want a Christian church being built somewhere because someone close to them died in a Christian cult bombing or suicide like Jim Jones or Timothy McVeigh, or to say they don't want a Catholic church to be built because they or someone they care about was molested by a priest.

Facing the very different challenges posed by the sexual revolution, we can learn from this sad episode in the Church's history.

It made me wonder if we are trying so hard to be different, to be unique, that we've placed ourselves firmly in the center of all discussions of church and worship.

I was singing in church for so long, I wanted to sing about something different.

I mean, people might know who was gay, but often people in churches think they know everyone else's sin, so that doesn't seem much different.

The Mormons are no different from other denominations in at least one major way; that is, they interpret the Bible differently than others - BUT so do all churches.

In 2012, I was part of a group of women who founded the Christian Feminist Network, a move that was greeted with immense positivity from women of all ages and from different church backgrounds.

In the LCMS church that I was raised, Christianity was considered the completion of Judaism, not an entirely different religion.

«But now that we have a little say in the attitude of the church, we're taking a different approach,» Gyorke continues.

In some places they are flat out told they are not welcome in church, and there are different rules for theIn some places they are flat out told they are not welcome in church, and there are different rules for thein church, and there are different rules for them.

The Church recognizes that Russia is composed of many different ethnic and religious groups, and that individuals should be free in matters of religion.

He argues that the criticism of the archbishop's words — mine and the Greek Orthodox Church in America's — only expresses a different understanding of history from his.

Since these two were raised in different states and went to different churches I have to believe this is an underlying current in all Mormon churches.

Theological liberalism has split one church after another — to the point that the theologically liberal in different churches often have more in common with each other than with the more orthodox in their own churches.

(CNN)- A New Jersey church - already a bit different in that its three congregations gather weekly at two hotels and a middle school - put a new spin on the collection plate Sunday by having congregants take cash - filled envelopes from the plate in hopes that the money will be put to charitable use.

Particularly, in a city like this, the south side churches and political headquarters aren't much different.

When I was 25, I was in my third job in as many years — all in the same area at a church, but the responsibilities were different each time.

He also said that he didn't see a place in the church to foster interracial dialogues to deal with the vastly different understandings of the verdict by many whites and blacks.

It is no different in the church.

Twenty - five is the perfect time to get involved in a church you love, no matter how different it is from the one you were a part of growing up.

Mankowski, who holds quite different views on ordaining women, agrees with Weakland that it would have been much better if the writers of the pastoral came right out and said what they mean by lamenting the sins of sexism in a hierarchical church.

Now imagine a different ending to this story: Rather than going to a payday lender, you share your story with people in your church.

Christian charity Housing Justice Cymru found churches in the Caerphilly, Newport and Swansea areas served the destitute at 20 different centres across the period, amounting to that time.

But what makes the Obama mandate for the coverage of contraception by Catholic employers different» in both its original form and in the so - called «accommodation»» is the directness of the Church's financing of contraception, abortifacients, and sterilization.

However, for a Church pastor the context of considering these things is quite different, and writing about these things provokes a very different response in people.

It is interesting that Christian have thousands of different churches, numerous versions of The Bible, some Non-Trinitarian churches, and the Douay (Catholic) version of the bible with books Protestants do not believe in.

The Catholic Church once played a more central role in the lives of American Catholics, the study says, but now finds itself serving distinctly different groups.

A symposium of church leaders, law and justice professionals and academics of different races has taken place in Westminster looking at ways to tackle the problem.

I'd love for some of the songs to be picked up and used in churches; I think it may be bring a slightly different feeling or aspect to worship than they are used to.

So tell me John, if a group meets in different homes, they don't rent or own a building, the pastor actually has a J O B, and does not live off of the congregation (community), and no one «tithes» but gives gifts individually to the poor, the fire dept, the food bank, individually, not pooling their money together in one place, why would any church community want or need a budget?

The practices and beliefs of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints is very different from the FLDS and other religions that practice polygamy, and the polygamist lifestyles recently being represented in the media in no way reflect the lifestyle of active members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints.

Believing in God and knowing there is a higher power is so different than going to a church and getting wrapped up in the politics in a church.

Christianity as a whole, is very confusing, because so many different churches claim to beleive in Jesus... we have the baptists differing with the catholics, and the catholics differing with the escopalitans, and then we have the lutherans differing from the methodists, and then we have the born - agains differing from everybody else on this earth.

I will agree, if people are strugging in a church because they are «different,» that is a shame, and may well be sin on the part of those who are causing them trouble just because they are differnt.

Over the years, (I am now in my mid - 60's) I have had to leave 4 different churches because of issues of «bullying»... usually from those who were in positions of of great «power» Lay - leaders, Bishops, administrators, choir - «Masters», and even pastors and now my own Priest.

In a calmer, more reflective tone years later, Madison expressed satisfaction that the idea of separation of church and state that he promoted and built into the 1st Amendment allowed those with different beliefs to flourish:

Understanding this new perspective on church is as difficult today as it was in the days of Jesus for Jews to understand a different perspective on Sabbath, but the basic principles seem to be the same: Church, just like Sabbath, is not supposed to be a bunch of human traditions which have become legalistic laws by which to judge one another's spiritual matchurch is as difficult today as it was in the days of Jesus for Jews to understand a different perspective on Sabbath, but the basic principles seem to be the same: Church, just like Sabbath, is not supposed to be a bunch of human traditions which have become legalistic laws by which to judge one another's spiritual matChurch, just like Sabbath, is not supposed to be a bunch of human traditions which have become legalistic laws by which to judge one another's spiritual maturity.

But I believe that in the place of the legalistic Sabbath traditions, we have substituted in a different burden: church.