Sentences with phrase «early church years»

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In the early years of Celebration, the theater held church services every Sunday morning as the town waited for a place of worship to be built.

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.

Earlier this year I was the lone Reformed speaker at a conference of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod.

Earlier this year, Department of Health and Human Services finalized plans that would require church - affiliated organizations to offer private health care that would include contraceptives.

The real travesty is that out of the early Roman Empire emereged the Catholic church which in the past 1000 years has doe more to persecute followers of Christ then any other group.

Forty some years ago William Frend wrote «Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church».

5) the early years of this country were highly infused with politics in the church.

The Vatican's failure occurred despite the establishment of safeguards established four years earlier to deal with the growing abuse scandal inside the Catholic Church, they said.

The subjects they teach each year are: Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon, and Early church history.

I first picked up the book a few years ago in hardcover and thought it was extremely useful then as really the only somewhat reliable source of early church history.

A few years ago Pope Benedict XVI gave a series of lectures on the early church fathers, and they have been collected into a book: Church Fathers: From Clement of Rome to Auguchurch fathers, and they have been collected into a book: Church Fathers: From Clement of Rome to AuguChurch Fathers: From Clement of Rome to Augustine.

I find it interesting how mega-church prosperity teachers want to talk about the very early days of the church of mega-crowds — without talking about their scattering — and how the persecuted church grew in people's homes and catacombs (I like the rhyme) for the next 300 years — until Constantine — the true father of many mega-church ministries.

Since my early days as assistant at my teacher Edmund Schlink's Ecumenical Institute at Heidelberg and afterward during many years of regular ecumenical discussions, especially with Roman Catholic theologians, I became increasingly aware that Christian theology today should not limit itself to some narrowly defined confessional loyalty inherited from the past but should help to build the foundations of a reunited, if to some degree pluralistic, Christian church that should become more and more visible within the foreseeable future.

I watched the tension flee from their faces as I described what amounted to the least common denominator of church involvement — the kind of behavior in God's people to which I had accommodated myself years earlier.

Meanwhile, the Church in Philadelphia is undergoing a painful downsizing, as newly installed Archbishop Charles Chaput announced in early January that 48 Catholic schools (both elementary and high schools) will be closed and / or consolidated at the end of the present academic year.

Church officials removed the video earlier this year.

Four years earlier the other two households had left, angry with each other and the church over a vote at a session meeting.

Perhaps I should have said it was a Catholic Tradition for almost 400 years, because there were many heresies that the early Church had to contend with.

During the early years, however, Jose and I practiced a parenting style consistent with what we were learning in church — negative emotions were «bad» and somehow needed to be avoided or at least taken care of quick.

Back in the early seventies, at one church I was at, there was a vigerous debate about increasing the budget for soap for the ladies bathrom from $ 5,000 per year to $ 10,000 per year.

I don't call myself «Christian» anymore, because I definitely don't believe most of the basic tenets of the church that have been put forth for two thousand years from the time of the early church fathers, through the development of the Eastern Orthodox patriarchs, and that have been kept by both Roman Catholic and Protestant churches.

Not direct «Paulinism,» then, but the leaven of Paul's teaching influencing the common faith of the earliest church in the West, and hence affecting the tradition as it came to Mark some years later — that is what we may reasonably look for in Mark's Gospel.

This is the reason why, earlier this year, Eric and I helped start the Groups Matter campaign: to encourage churches to embrace the essential components of healthy groups and, in turn, equip them to develop their leaders, launch new groups, and feed their people with solid Bible study experiences.

During these early years, he immersed himself in engaging and contemplating all things Israeli, and was outspoken whenever he perceived Church bias against Israel.

Years later, Constantine told his friend Bishop Eusebius (c.260 - 340), the most eminent of early church historians, that in the early afternoon, as he was praying, he had a vision of a cross of light in the heavens bearing the inscription «Conquer by this».

Women and the Church were among numerous groups and Anglican leaders to congratulate the current Bishop of Crediton Rt Rev Sarah Mullally on news she shall succeed Rt Rev and Rt Hon Richard Chartres KCVO, who retired earlier this year.

I was surprised because I am trained as a scholar of the New Testament and early Christianity, and for thirty years I have written extensively on the historical Jesus, the Gospels, the early Christian movement, and the history of the church's first three hundred years.

I know what panic I felt approaching a man who'd lost his wife of many years, both of whom were members of my church; or the man whose very young brother had died months earlier: Was it too late to say something?

Of course, this whole week has served as a profound reminder of the truth of James» instructions to the early church: «Now listen, you who say, «Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.»

I haven't heard any new theological thinking from the Emergent church that couldn't be found in mainline theological seminaries ten years earlier.

If the early church could hold together communities made up of Jews and Greeks, slaves and free, men and women, circumcised and uncircumcised, tax collectors and zealots, prostitutes and Pharisees, kosher believers and non-kosher believers, those who ate food sacrificed to idols and those who refused, I guess this evolution - accepting, hell - questioning, liberal - leaning feminist can worship Jesus alongside a Tea Party complementarian who thinks the earth is 6,000 years old and that Ghandi and Anne Frank are in hell.

Upon the failure of the Temple, the early church in effect returned to tents, for «Christianity had no identifiable places of assembly for at least two hundred years.

He visited the church earlier this year, preaching to a warm and receptive crowd as part of a tour for his latest book, What We Talk About When We Talk About God (Collins).

There is a 43 % drop in Christian church attendance between the teen and early adult years, he says.

Paul became a follower of Jesus within 2 - 3 years after the ascension, He was a contemporary of Peter, John, and James in the early church.

As one who was a pastor during the «60s and early «70s I find it relatively easy to identify the issues faced by the church in those years which generated the most controversy and which from an institutional standpoint resulted in the greatest losses.

Mr. Fangmeier recently took early retirement after 22 years on the staff of the Division of Homeland Ministries, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

In my earlier years I would have thought that love of the church requires benign silence on such issues.

Given the latest medical data concerning the distinct characteristics of the fetus and its ability to survive outside the womb at a startlingly early age, it is little wonder that in the past few years several of the denominations that once took a more open position on abortion have retreated somewhat: the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is now studying the issue; in a 1980 statement on social principles, the UMC moved to a more qualified position; the Episcopal Church and the recently formed Evangelical Lutheran Church in America seem to be in the process of toning down their earlier positions (or those of a predecessor body) The Lutherans defeated a resolution in their 1989 Assembly which would have been consistent with the liberal position of the LCA predecessor body, and a 1988 Lutheran - Episcopal dialogue report refers to the fetus as «embryonic humanity» with claims on society.

It is smaller than the gap discernible in the 1920s, and only slightly larger than those for the «40s and «50s (see Yearbook of Amen can and Canadian Churches for the years 1920 - 1984)(I have made these calculations without including one denomination on the Carroll graph — the Lutheran Church in America — whose antecedents in earlier decades are too complex for reliable figuring.

Our earliest COPIES of these in our possesion are about 100 years after the death of Christ, but these letters were copied and distributed throughout all the early churches.

According to the Mail on Sunday, Archbishop Justin held the conversation with Meghan Markle before he baptised the 36 - year - old into the Church of England earlier this month.

It is time for the church to reassert its guidance in the lives of its adult members, for they are as much at the mercy of a captivating culture as were the members of the early church before the invention of the church year.

Moreover, the events of the New Testament took place during a relatively short period of time, and during these years the mission of the Church captured the necessary attention of the early Christians.

Speaking during it he said: «It is literally heartbreaking to learn of the attacks on Christians and on the churches where they gather, such as the mindless, brutal destruction of the Armenian church in Deir el - Zour earlier this year.»

The Episcopal congregation had suffered membership losses 14 years earlier when some conservative members left to start their own church, also called the Church of the Resurrection, in nearby Glen church, also called the Church of the Resurrection, in nearby Glen Church of the Resurrection, in nearby Glen Ellyn.

Thus the early years witnessed the planting of the Christian Church in America.

The six ages, each spanning 350 to 400 years, are The Early Church (30 - 330), The Age of the Fathers (330 - 650), The Dark Ages (650-1000), The Middle Ages (1000 - 1450), The Protestant and Catholic Reformations (1450 - 1789), and The Modern Age (1789 onwards).

Paul wrote to the church in Corinth, reminding its members of the offering they had begun collecting a year earlier for the Jerusalem church.

And, of course, the all - male clergy is a nearly two - thousand - year deviation from the spirit and intentions of the early Church.