Sentences with phrase «for churches»

Therefore, I think it is important for churches to establish at least unwritten laws concerning the way it treats its individuals.
For all churches, large or small, my exhortation is to think biblically about how the church might make much of Jesus, multiply and grow disciples, and, ultimately, die and be forgotten.
Therefore, I think it is important for churches to establish at least unwritten laws concerning the way it...
Full disclosure: I'm starting another website, and while it is not a church, it is built for churches, and I am trying to decided whether I should have a doctrinal statement or not.
If he were Prime Minister footballer Joey Barton would call on religion to be «privatised» and for churches to lose state support.
We are in a time of reckoning for the churches.
And it would be a further miscalculation for churches to try to borrow a sense of particularity from the fervor of a particular social or political cause.
As to thousands of pastors using the book, I got that off of one of the Rainey's websites, or maybe it was some other source for churches that were planning to use this book.
The exception is for CHURCHES, are you seriously saying you don't see the difference between a church and Hobby Lobby?
I for one hope for a little evolution is on our way because I think there is a place for churches in our future.
What bugs us is that you get tax exempt status to further your make believe world while we pay the taxes for you churches.
Given the enormity of the present problem and its obvious urgency for all segments of society, it should not take another 20 years for the churches to begin getting their theological act together.
One of the least effective, and usually counterproductive, ways for churches as institutions to care is to take political positions on bow such problems are to be remedied.
It should be explained to Muslims, for example, that, if they are allowed to have mosques in Europe, it is normal for churches to be allowed in their countries.»
«The Two Shall Become One Flesh: Reclaiming Marriage» (March) is a clear articulation of the importance of marriage in Christian theology and the need for churches to remain faithful to Christian teaching.
Mary I would think that with churches all donations are tax deductible and the church does not pay taxes... the tax payers have in actual fact still paid for this as they do for all churches.
He explained: «I think there is a lack of information out there, there is a lack of support for Churches who want to tackle mental health issues in their congregation.
Most people today are constantly communicating via social media, so shareable online content makes it easier for churches to join the conversation.
As grand as that is, less than five percent goes to international work, leaving 95 percent in our own country for our churches, university endowments and symphonies.
She was hired by the DEMs to do this and take the attention off Obama's mandate for churches to give free pills and rubbers Grow up people look at this for what it is a political stunt
How often have we heard criticisms of the carbon - copy, mass - produced factories and gymnasiums that pass for churches these days?
«I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches.
-- Revelation 2:26 a, 28b «I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches.
The term refers to a civil, legal contract in terms of government and something spiritual for churches and other religious groups (and yet other things for other cultural groups).
Politicians in Mississippi, Michigan, and Virginia have gone so far as to plead for the churches» help in reducing the welfare rolls.
The NAE and other evangelical elites, often speaking for churches, have pivoted into a larger menu of political issues, even though lacking unequivocal scriptural and church teaching, and, no less important for Protestants, lacking consensus or even majority support from their own claimed constituencies.
For churches, he also offers some practical suggestions: train ministers to better help families, mentor young couples, and encourage couples especially when they have young children or are empty - nesters.
Provo is home to «the largest missionary training center for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints.
The Movement said that the Bank für Kirche und Caritas eG — which translates as Bank for the Church and Caritas — was one of the first Catholic banks to turn its back on fossil fuels.
Its cofounder, Marc Andreessen, was deemed «tomorrow's advance man» by The New Yorker — «an evangelist for the church of technology.»
Scientology TV will likely result in very little for the Church of Scientology except to mislead its parishioners into thinking that Scientology is growing and has surmounted decades of withering revelations about the corrupt and abusive practices of this «pay as you go» business that masquerades as a church.
Alaina was the youngest of four, «the light of that family's life,» said Stephen Smith, an area stake president for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints.
Does the world actually set the agenda for the church, or is the church led by the Spirit, who blows and moves wherever he wills?
It's interesting that the Quebecois don't have much use for the Church, possibly for the same reason the French did not.
I started looking for a church where the Mass is conducted in a more quiet way.
A loose jumpsuit is good — especially if it has been embroidered with the hip church logo on the upper right shoulder and contains pockets for church invites and approved tracts.
The wife submits to her husband, as in the first part of Paul's dictum in Ephesians5, and the husband fulfills the second part of Paul's injunction by laying down his life for his wife as Christ did for his Church (which might have been what Paul had in mind in the first place).
Not only for me and my involvement with them, but for the church's existence.
It was a stunning fall from grace for Law and a rare step for the church, which deeply resists public pressure but could no longer do so given the scope of the crisis.
They lie, cheat, steal, molest children, all under the guise of working for the church.
Agreed — interpretation is 1/2 the battle — and I have many doozies about things being mis - interpreted for church cred.
Then why did it take 500 hundred years for the Church to admit that Galileo was right.
Together we can hear the heart of God for the church and the heart of the church for God.
Third: What your new parishioners know instinctively and you don't is that you have been trained for a church that doesn't exist.
«He had advocated for the church to allow gay and lesbian leaders, campaigned against California's same - $ - e-x marriage ban...»
In his toast this past Thursday night on the eve of the Holy and Great Council, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, the first among equals of the bishops of the Orthodox Church, expressed his sympathy for the Church of Antioch, which is suffering in the face of militant Islam.
I don't want to give money to pay for the church building, etc..
Discovering truth about God's Kingdom and freedom has already moved us closer to God's plan for His church.
Is the discipleship agenda for your church being set at 8.00 am each day on Sky channel 671?
This has huge ramifications for the Church.
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