Sentences with phrase «evangelical leaders called»

Sergei Ryakhovsky, head of the Protestant Churches of Russia, and several other evangelical leaders called the law a violation of religious freedom and personal conscience in a letter to Putin posted on the Russian site Portal - Credo.

Christian Post: Iowa Evangelical Leaders Call on Santorum or Bachmann to Exit GOP Race «If you can't beat»em, then join»em,» seems to be the strategy of an Iowa pastor who only weeks ago asked former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum to withdraw from the Republican presidential primary before deciding later to endorse his candidacy.

Not exact matches

Today's Evangelicals leaders need to get back to being preachers of the word like they were called upon to do and leave the judging to the ONLY ONE who has the authority to sit at the right hand of God.

And Amnesty International, in a report released earlier this year, said «repeated calls by the Supreme Leader and other authorities to combat «false beliefs» - apparently an allusion to evangelical Christianity, Baha'ism and Sufism - appear to have led to an increase in religious persecution.»

Both politicians and so - called Christian leaders are stoking the anxieties of evangelicals to drive them into the voting booth or to drive them out of the culture, but as Henri Nouwen said, «Fear only engenders fear.

I think many evangelicals call him a cult leader because he denounces their prosperity cults.

When the Penn State scandal broke, prominent evangelical leaders were very, very quick to call for accountability, to call for change.

Andy Stanley, a prominent evangelical leader, said some in his congregation cheered when he launched a preaching series called «Recovery Road» to talk about politically touchy issues such as personal greed, the federal deficit and the sins of subprime loans.

Evangelical leaders supported Obama's call for comprehensive immigration reform, but that doesn't mean that the debate among political activists is over.

In recent months, we've seen a civil rights leader address an evangelical conference and clumsily call out the pro-life community for a failure to address racial injustice.

«Jesus» love and grace would have never resulted in such a hateful act,» said Jim Wallis, a progressive evangelical leader who advised Rauf about the meeting and helped organize the call.

The convention opens with a prayer from a Hispanic evangelical leader and closes with a benediction from a Catholic cleric who's sometimes called «America's pope.»

The Grahams and other super rich so - called evangelical leaders, have better be prepared for hell.

«Most evangelicals — leaders from all seven denominations — have expressed concerns,» Sergey Rakhuba, president of Mission Eurasia and a former Moscow church - planter, told CT. «They're calling on the global Christian community to pray that Putin can intervene and God can miraculously work in this process.»

«After 30 years of the so - called conservative leaders who have been elected by evangelicals, none of them thought to advocate for the repeal of the Johnson amendment, giving evangelical leaders political free speech,» Jerry Falwell Jr., Liberty University president and early Trump endorser, toldTime magazine.

«This thing» to which he refers began in the 1990s when a group of young evangelical leaders initiated a conversation (they still prefer to call it a «conversation» rather than a movement») about renewing the church for mission in a postmodern world.

He conjectures why leaders of larger churches feel less comfortable using the word evangelical: «As a church grows, the core becomes surrounded by larger concentric circles that Rick Warren called the «crowd» and «community».

In particular, evangelical leaders need to covenant together to avoid and publicly condemn name - calling, slanderous stereotyping, inaccurate, one - sided depictions of another's position, distortion of facts and an unwillingness to test one's views against others on the basis of Scripture.

Some ugly and foolish thoughts expressed in slovenly language were put forth by President Ronald Reagan when, during a 1982 conference with some eastern Carribean leaders, he called Marxism a «virus»; when, in 1983, he labeled the Soviet Union an «evil empire,» telling the assembled National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, that communism «is the focus of evil in the modern world» and that «we are enjoined by Scripture and the Lord Jesus to oppose it with all our might»; and when, while conferring in 1984 with 19 conservative and religious leaders, he vowed to fight the «communist cancer.»

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Many female evangelical leaders, for instance, talk of being called by God to pursue professional careers.

(CNN)-- An influential Christian leader is calling for the evangelical community to match the Catholic church's efforts mobilizing against the Obama administration's policy on contraception coverage.

However, it was Chalke himself who provided some of the headlines in the last ten years, as his views on penal atonement and homosexuality led to calls from some church leaders to have him removed from the Evangelical Alliance.

The reformation for which David calls is thus not one which requires a mere shift in doctrinal belief, something with which Evangelical leaders seem too often too easily satisfied; it also involves the transformation of a whole form of church life, one which he sees as starting in what happens in gathered worship on a Sunday and leads to a reorientation of thinking and living throughout the week.

Can you imagine: His Excellency, the leader of the Catholic Church in New York State, the President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, taking time out of his busy schedule to call a Protestant Evangelical Minister!

The so - called «Evangelical» Cornwall Alliance doesn't identify a single religious leader or a single religious denomination on its home page.

Evangelical pastors and ministry leaders calling for biblically - based and effective approaches to strengthen families and communities