Sentences with phrase «from running the church»

It is intended to prevent the state from running the church, and the church from running the state.

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In exchange, they say, Gross helped the operator of Coin.mx, Anthony Murgio, take over a small credit union Gross ran from his church.

When our fore fathers came up with the idea of seperation of church and state it wasn't to keep religion out of the government it was to keep the Church from running the goverchurch and state it wasn't to keep religion out of the government it was to keep the Church from running the goverChurch from running the government.

In the historical Christian Church's liturgical calendar, the four weeks before Christmas are Advent — the Christmas season runs from Christmas Eve until January 6 (the 12 days of Christmas).

Hours earlier, Maj. Gen. Qassim Atta said in a press conference broadcast on state - run Iraqiya TV that 15 «Arabs» - in Iraq, a euphemism indicating they came from outside the country - were responsible for three deadly attacks in Baghdad in recent months, including a bloody church siege.

The day's festivities will be run entirely by volunteers from Connect Network - a network that brings Christians, churches and communities together to help transform Sunderland.

I hope the Vatican doesn't going back to their glory years or else I'm going to have to run and hide out of reach from the catholic church, probably to Argentina like the Nazis....

Revd Eleanor Hancock, from the Carlisle Deanery in Cumbria, used to be in an abusive relationship and now runs support programmes in her church.

Obama's accommodation proposes that Church authorities who run hospitals, schools, and other facilities will be entitled to tell their employees that the health care insurance provided by the Church does not cover contraceptives, the «morning after pill,» or sterilization, but that the health insurance company that covers the Catholic institution will be free to contact the employees of that institution and inform them that they are entitled to «free» coverage of these things from the insurance company in question.

No, it is not fair and does not look anything like Jesus when they must have their way, and if they don't they bully and try to run their victims away from their churches and church friends.

You are not going to find a church that tells you its okay to live in sin, and to celebrate it, (and if you do I'd recommend you run from it).

Unfortunately, the youth group was run by a couple who were well organised and enthusiastic until anyone didn't agree with them when they would push out that person from the church by being unkind and cold shouldering them.

He saw his wife (bride) run from the church, unharmed, naked & unashamed.

In the following extracts from those I spoke to there was a surprising amount of agreement between the Christian entrepreneurs, which can be read in full in the book If Entrepreneurs Ran the Church (SPCK).

The paralyzing guilt of imaginary memories of running away from his paternal role has landed him in church - inflicted purgatory.

Of course none of this means that we can run away from battles for the freedom of the Church and indeed of nonbelievers over the current attempts to impose a crude ideology on us all.

And I speak and have helped with organizing Christianity21 — a conference Tony runs — because I hope to help create a place where people from diverse Christian camps — such as Tony (who came from the Congregational Church and now blogs for a progressive platform) and me (who grew up in the Southern Baptist tradition who identifies as a moderate) can come and share ideas and interact respectfully.

In Zaporizhia in Ukraine, a Moscow - ran church has refused to bury a baby who was killed by a drunk man who fell from an eighth floor.

The group, which includes U.S. Cardinal Sean O'Malley from Boston, will examine ways to revise the Vatican constitution, Pastor Bonus, which sets the rules for running the Roman Curia, or church hierarchy.

The fact is, to get to «repentance» a person will need to come face to face with the reason they do need to repent — and way too many run away from church then and there.

It seems like they are now running the Catholic church like an efficient modern business, not from a profit perspective (although they seem to be doing quite well thank you), but from a marketing perspective.

Everything we are taught in the church promotes the notion that EVERYONE who leaves churchology is either wounded or running from God and in a backslidden state.

When I run into folks from past ministry, the inevitable questions come up, «So, what church are you at these days?»

Episcopalians come from the Church of England; which, Protestants like the Indians ran away from.

I'm convinced many of our problems with the church result from running away from difficult or uncomfortable situations rather than persevering through them.

In praise of a morning off from church in favour of, well, a rest: a rest from running around and going and showing up on time.

For two and a half years, Jones ran the clinic out of a Lutheran church with volunteer doctors and nurses from out of state.

Many homes are filled with relatives who have escaped from other parts of Iraq and churches are beginning to run out of space to house refugees.

I have been away from church now since 2001 (ran for my life and sanity but ended up 5 yrs.

Only once have been in a mega church but apart from living faith, find that we don't do large well... run things like a business and the few who are active lead the many who get lost in the whole thing.

i think steve martin may be best keeping away from any church i go to if your preaching rot someone needs to say it, and im sorry but waiting till a mid week bible study to voice that so as to not ruin the smooth running of your show do nt work for me, preaching needs to create room for doubt for questions etc. still room for a passionate shared vision.

As Phelps» daughter reminded me, there is a venerable American history of religious protests against the coercive power of the federal government, running from the anti-slavery and female suffrage advocacy of nineteenth - century evangelicals to the civil rights agitation of rabbis and members of the black church.

We came from an oppressive country where the state ran the church.

This is so we don't get into that whole church running the country problem that people came here for in the first place, to have freedom of and from religion if they choose to.

As Humanists UK campaign against the involvement of religious organisations in the running of state schools, they say this money from the Catholic church «represents inappropriate influence.»

There are things going on in the church I pastor that bother me; but then, I just don't run away from anything just because I might be bothered by it.

He wrote them on the run, so to speak, from prison cells, house churches, and byways of the Roman Empire.

He thinks that the recent swell in political interest is due to more churches getting involved in social action over the past 20 years, from running foodbanks with the Trussell Trust to working with Christians Against Poverty (CAP) in alleviating debt.

With several million submissions of names in FamilySearch each month, he says he persuaded the church to do computer runs more frequently to help prevent inappropriate proxy baptism requests from seeping through.

When they ran out of churches from the NAE list, they called friends, pastors or churches they had heard of through word - of - mouth.

It became abundantly clear my time with the church was drawing to a close when I received a call from one of my authorities informing me that I needed to run my articles and cartoons through them for approval before I posted them.

Go visit the Polynesian Cultural center in Hawaii (which is run by the Mormon Church) and you will see thet have a map showing emigration from south America to Hawaii.

Some churches are involved in community services, especially emergency - care services: crisis counseling centers, battered women's shelters and other housing for homeless women and young people — many of whom are running away from physical and sexual abuse.

The Truth is that if we run them out of the building we call the church, we will be running them off from ever being a part of the Bride of Christ.

The truth is, if the average Catholic had any idea what their church has been up to for the last 2000 years, they would run, not walk, away from it.

Ran across many interesting quotes from our founding fathers who are so oft cited today as deists who believed in separation of church and state...

Here's a reply Sojourners gave when they were pushed about their refusal to run an ad from Believe Out Loud that wanted to welcome gay families to church on Mother's Day... http://blog.sojo.net/2011/05/09/love-comes-first/

I'm thinking of you when I sit in church and I'm looking for you when I'm preaching from the stage now, and I'm thinking of you watching the rest of us run around striving, and I'm not sure how to fix it.

I could already hear the piano runs, the black and white spirituals, the gospel folk tunes from the hills, the glorious harmonies of the male quartets — it all welled up from my memories of hot, humid nights in the small, dimly lit churches of my youth.

Although most evangelical leaders have not supported Trump's run (including Max Lucado), he has gained endorsements from Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. and First Baptist Church of Dallas senior pastor Robert Jeffress.