Sentences with phrase «evangelical churches in»

«More recently, we have worked with others to tackle the growing problem of some evangelical churches in the UK promoting «miracle cures» for HIV through prayer, anointment and other methods.

Many evangelical churches in Russia currently experience discrimination under unevenly applied laws.

Affinity, a group of evangelical churches in the UK have responded to this case, saying they agree that prayer should not be filmed.

I googled «evangelical churches in Vancouver», and began emailing each one.

• 91 % of Christians admit they do not consider the immigration issue through a faith perspective • Immigrant churches are the fastest - growing segment of evangelical churches in the U.S.

Several projects are under way to try to involve evangelical churches in the movement, but so far these efforts have not been very successful.

After serving on the pastoral staff of one of the most progressive evangelical churches in the country, Brian and his wife Carrie took a big step of faith and returned to Dayton to launch The Mission — a new community of Christ - followers committed to loving God and loving people.

Nearly four years after refugees from Pakistan began showing up at evangelical churches in Thailand, church members were overwhelmed.

Terry Jones, the pastor of a tiny evangelical church in Florida, announced plans to burn the Muslim holy book on the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

I got the address of an evangelical church in Paris.

In recent years, he has been outspoken in his opposition within the Evangelical Church in Germany to any approval of homosexual relations.

The issue of women's place in the church and family provides us another illustration of the general problem facing the evangelical church in America today.

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.

A denomination of about three million, the Evangelical Church of the Rhineland is one of twenty Lutheran, Reformed and United Protestant groups that make up the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD).

The evangelical church in America is deeply invested in purity culture.

Such declarations were proposed but defeated in the Evangelical Church in (West) Germany in 1958 and 1982.

If you've attend a church service at an evangelical church in the last year, you've likely encountered what has become a staple of Sunday mornings across the country: wood panelling, weathered looking pallets or shiplap behind the pulpit, accented by exposed, hanging light bulbs.

Directly or indirectly, this philosophy of ministry - church should be a big box with programs for people at every level of spiritual maturity to consume and engage - has impacted every evangelical church in the country.

Dr Rev Sameh Hanna, associate pastor at the Evangelical Church in Cairo told Premier the «secret» to remaining joyful.

If that name is confusing, however, consider the Evangelical Church in Germany (Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland), which is not a church — it's a federation of Lutheran, Reformed, and United churches — and is generally what in the U.S. would be considered a mainline denomination rather than an evangelical one.

Recently, a pastor at an Evangelical church in New York City (we have them) told me about a young man in his congregation who had joined an online dating site.

The White Evangelical Church in the US may indeed see no evil in worshiping the Heavenly Father, while see the face of Political Power.

Nowhere is the missionary invasion more evident than on the island of Hispanola, where I recently served as a pastor in the Dominican Evangelical Church in the city of Barahona in the Dominican Republic.

In another study, conducted among members of a large evangelical church in the South, we were able to determine exactly who misreported their attendance.

So I agreed with the confession of guilt that representatives of the Evangelical Church in Germany formulated in Stuttgart in September 1945.

I asked a business director at a large evangelical church in Pittsburgh about changes they were making, and he said, «We don't see other churches as our competition.

The evangelical church in America thinks if we just get the «right» people in office, then all will be well.

William Cook, 50, a Franklin Square Republican who serves as an associate pastor of an evangelical church in Old Westbury, said corruption «cuts across both parties» and was contributing to the «high cost of living» on Long Island.

The GBC reported that the active members from the leadership of the two major political parties, the NPP and NDC converged at the Dabala Parish of the Global Evangelical Church in the Volta Region to mourn Madam Gladys Amavi Amehoho, the mother of businessman, Alfred Woyome.

President Akufo - Addo said this at a thanksgiving service to climax the Men's National Delegates Conference of the Global Evangelical Church in Ho.

They have been loaned from the Peace Library and Antiwar Museum of the Evangelical Church in Berlin as a complete display, pinned to easily transportable frames — the kind you see in schools or libraries.

Not exact matches

Pence, an evangelical Christian who had planned to highlight the plight of Christian minorities during his trip, will not meet with Palestinian Christians or with officials from the Coptic Christian church, who declined a meeting in response to the U.S. move.

Whether his mix of theological orthodoxy and evangelical piety centered in unmediated grace has a future in the Episcopal Church of this country is, to say the least, uncertain.

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.

Significantly, however, the liberal mainline Protestant churches, which had grown to resemble and imitate the surrounding secular society, have declined in membership while growth continues in the evangelical and Catholic churches that have created communities of deeply shared meaning.

But in the early primary state of South Carolina, with voters scheduled to go to the polls on Saturday and candidates working the state furiously this week, local evangelical pastors are using their influence to rally church members towards salvation, not electioneering.

As an atheist, I prefer Catholicism to evangelical / fundamentalism, the Catholic church while having some rough spots with science, arts, and literature in the past has made strong efforts to co-exist with the science / educated community (they were some of the best scientists, writers, artists, etc).

An evangelical caucus, formed early in the Assembly, issued programmatic recommendations to the policy committee, and, at the conclusion of the Assembly, released a letter to churches and fellow evangelicals regarding their experiences.

What the Evangelical church needs is a fresh outpouring of the Holy Ghost, just like in the book of Acts, where daily, thousands recognized their need for Jesus Christ as the only person who could save them from a Christ-less eternity.

Later, DeMoss talks about being turned off by the evangelical street preachers he'd seen on the street corners there, preaching to Mormons in town for the church's annual general assembly.

I describe myself as a «former evangelical» for many reasons, not the least of which is I have an adult gay son who is not welcomed in lots of churches (neither is he welcomed by Muslims or those who practice B'hai Faith).

The popular evangelical blog Crosswalk.com recently ran an article headlined «How many porn addicts are in your church?»

By developing the theme of the Holy Spirit's work in the church through both word and sacrament, Ross is able to lay a foundation that explains much of what is done in the evangelical liturgy.

She talks about religious persecution by state churches yet like so many evangelicals she really means that the evangelicals should be the state church in America.

In her book, Melanie Ross has provided us with an affectionate framing of evangelical liturgical practices that will surely bring a greater and much - needed clarity to the conversation between evangelicals and high - church Christians, if not a greater sympathy.

«Jesus Christ's Church has universally rejected Mormonism's Anti-Trinitarian theology and its claim that mortals may become God,» David Shedlock, a contributor to the evangelical blog Caffeinated Thoughts, wrote in a post this month.

And it is true that I have rejected the church institution as currently practiced among the extreme Evangelical Protestants in the US.

Kieran Turner from the Evangelical Alliance in Scotland on how churches can heal divisions in the country.

In one of Ross's most effective chapters, she argues that low - church evangelical liturgy has taken many of its cues from the Gospel of John, while more high - church traditions have tended to look toward the synoptics.

But for all its diversity, the Assembly was far from «representative» of the church; most of the world's Christians who are found in Catholic, Pentecostal, and evangelical fellowships would find little of the familiar in Canberra.