Sentences with phrase «from visiting churches»

There is plenty to do in the city center, from visiting churches and shopping at the large weekly market to touring distilleries and watching rugby.

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A Tampa Bay Times investigation from 2010 discusses how, for years, the church avoided paying a 5 % occupancy tax for members who visit their facilities until Pinellas County Tax Collector pressed the issue five years ago.

Right now I can travel a bit from here and visit my mom's old home church.

I had the delight of going immediately from Canberra to Singapore, where I visited friends who are serving the church there as seminary teachers and preachers.

Officials from both sides have said that the conversation will be focused on topics of shared values and priorities, but prior to the visit, Vatican Radio — which, according to USA Today «is considered an official organ of communication for the church «-- released a story addressing U.S. policy issues at odds with Vatican teaching.

For one month, I visited churches that looked completely different from mine.

If you want to know more about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints, please visit http://www.lds.org Find out for yourself and not just based on what others said who also might be listening from others.

And yes, it has its «dirty» and «sweaty» moments, from hospital visits to consoling families who have lost a loved one to church maintenance «work days.»

A couple of years after I accepted my best position as minister, serving as pastor of a church in St. Anne, Illinois, my parents came from Mexico for a visit, During their stay my father, who had recently turned 80, suffered a minor stroke that paralyzed the left side of his body.

But here, too, there is little that is actually new, although there is detail that confirms what shrewder observers of Vatican life pieced together after the events of early 2013: that Benedict XVI's poorly - planned 2012 visit to Mexico and Cuba convinced him that he could no longer travel; that he believed the Pope must be present at World Youth Day 2013 in Brazil, a conviction that became the terminus ad quem driving the timing of the abdication and what immediately preceded it; and that, contrary to speculations that have become more lurid over time, Benedict's concern about his increasingly frailty, which fuelled his concern that he would be increasingly unable to give the Church what she deserved from a pope, was the sole motive behind his decision to renounce the Oice of Peter — not Vatileaks, not concerns about financial and other corruptions inside the Leonine Wall, not blackmail.

A cold has been steadily passed around since we travelled to visit my husband's family for American Thanksgiving so we'll likely be staying home from church to spare everyone else a...

A cold has been steadily passed around since we travelled to visit my husband's family for American Thanksgiving so we'll likely be staying home from church to spare everyone else a miserable week or two.

Like the part about women - blaming and shaming combined with the pastor digging up offenses from the past, referencing an emotional distance he feels from us as we leave, citing his own pastoral involvement and authority in the decisions of our lives up to this point, threatening to talk to the pastor of the church we're visiting to share his «concerns,» and suggesting that I'm just a weak mess of emotions and that's why I can't handle the life - sucking horror that has become sundays at this church.

So serious did matters become that the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church issued a public warning in 1798 that unless America turned from deistic infidelity, God would assuredly visit his wrath upon it.

-- some missionaries may have a lifestyle that is more common to their home culture than appropriate, but I know many others that have made financial and personal commitments that impress me and should not be ignored; I think we should continue to honor that — the reality of the $ 10K that we all would want to invest in local evangelists often is only available after a «loo - see - visit» (or more) from a Western missionary who returns «home» for fundraising; that maybe sad, but is the reality — one serious issue to address in the African churches is the «colonialism» that is imposed -LRB-!)

It hardly required it if it was to be carried by his messengers and read by them as from him in the assembled churches they visited.

The illustrations show no scenes from the Pope's childhood, but simply views of the churches and towns visited, and the only pictures of the Holy Father are those with — yes, here they are again — our author and her friend well to the fore.

In particular, we may note that there are three points at which the Kingdom teaching of the synoptic tradition tends to differ both from Judaism and from the early Church as represented by the remainder of the New Testament: in the use of the expression Kingdom of God for (1) the final act of God in visiting and redeeming his people and (2) as a comprehensive term for the blessings of salvation, i.e. things secured by that act of God, and (3) in speaking of the Kingdom as «coming».

She explained: «Occasional visitors are very often visiting churches that are miles away from where they live, so being fed back to the church where they've picked up the card isn't necessarily the best thing.

One day in 1960 a group of church leaders from the U.S. headed by Shoki visited Bangkok.

What man is amid the brute creation, such is the Church among the schools of the world; and as Adam gave names to the animals about him, so has the Church from the first looked round upon the earth, noting and visiting the doctrines she found there.

Undaunted by criticism, or even cease - and - desist letters from his superiors, he continued to preach with excellent results, adding thousands to the rolls of churches in the regions he visited.

When a delegation from the United Presbyterian Church of the United States visited Brazil in 1977, we had the opportunity to have a long interview with the missionary Manoel de Mello, now deceased, who was the founder and president of the Brazil for Christ Church, one of the largest Pentecostal denominations in the country.

If you visit twice, they will probably take you out for the «coffee talk» and lay things on the line about what to expect and not expect from the church.

When Paul returned from his third missionary journey to pay his last visit to Jerusalem he still retained the confidence of James and the Jerusalem elders (Acts 21:18 - 20), but the smouldering dislike of many of the church members for his teaching is apparent (Acts 21:21).

He claimed to have received a personal visit from God the Father and Jesus Christ who told him that all churches and their creeds were an abomination.

I have just started visiting your blog and do not know anything of your history but it seems to me that your church has a fantastic opportunity to bless & love those who separated from you.

Catholic pilgrims from around the world traveled to Brazil for the weeklong celebration and a chance to see the pontiff, whose visit was a shot in the arm for a church that has seen its share of scandal and troubles.

There are also reports from the island of Halmahera in North Maluku of Christian militia training to fight Muslims.Last week Konrad Raiser, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, in Geneva, called on the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, to make an immediate, investigative visit to the Maluku islands.

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.

One day this young girl from Japan visited our church with her host parents son.

The question is that I have been going to my church for almost all of my life and I have had the chance of visiting everything from Catholic to a Alternative lifestyles church in New York.

I recently came back from the southwest part of China after a visit there with an FCC (Friends of Churches in China) delegation from the United Kingdom.

Last month, the author, Christian Caryl, visited Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, where Chaldean - rite Catholics, refugees from ISIS's summer campaign, live in tents in a church courtyard: Continue Reading»

«Swaggart in shock resignation» (April 1988) read the headline of a story that reported how the televangelist Jimmy Swaggart had resigned from his church in Louisiana following accusations that he had visited a prostitute.

The prime minister's visit to China from 31st January to 2nd February comes as new restrictions on churches are due to come into force this week.

She attends a national meeting of bridal consultants where attendees can take a whack at a piñata representing «the bride from hell,» travels to Aruba to learn about «destination weddings,» and visits struggling downtown Hebron, Wisconsin, where a financially strapped Methodist church is marketing itself as a wedding venue called «Chapel on the Hill.»

In a statement, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt said it «excused itself from hosting» Mr Pence when he visits the Egyptian capital of Cairo on 20th December.

I can not help but think that a more inspiring spectacle for Mexican Catholics would be a visit from the actual living Pope a you know, the one who is actually in a position to affect church policies so as to help them.

Grady recounts stories of American evangelists who refuse to visit a church to preach unless a limo picks them up from the airport, takes them to a five - star hotel, and the church allows them to give time and attention during the service to an extended appeal for money or guarantees a hugely inflated ministry gift.

In the fall of 1972 teams of fact finders from the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church visited 91 of the 92 dioceses of that 3 - million - member cChurch visited 91 of the 92 dioceses of that 3 - million - member churchchurch.

Yep you are right, I moved down here in the state of Mississippi, north of Crystal Springs from Chicago when I was ten years old but still I visit once in a while, now it's twenty years and sad to not much has change, like the parts you said about non-whites discrimatory or rasicts at other non-whites, when I went to school here they treated me as a alien from another galaxy, they pick at my voice cause I didn't had that southern dialog, unlike them I said my words correctly, but not just me, they even hated at others who had better intelect I am not picking at them, It is what I went through all these years, Mississippi and mainly this small town of Crystal Springs see America in a crazy awful view, They don't like difference that even within they own race, ther not that politcal, when some one say God they got there vote, I don't to say much to waste your time, I still remember when I was ten years old I had a constanct back ground check on me to see were I really come from evn though I had the paper saying Chicago Illinois barely no jobs but a church on every street for a town barely under five Thousand, till this very day, they look at me like I am a alien, did you ever had that experiance down here damn my keybroad mess up,

Often these orphanages are funded by generous donations, foreign aid budgets and visits from church groups but the supply supersedes the «demand», therefore keeping children in homes and sometime kept intentionally undernourished.

There is Eugen Rosenstock - Huessy, who concluded that the three major principalities and powers on the earth were the government, the university, and the church, and he refused employed from all three; Karl Barth, who finally left the ministry and only visited different churches occasionally because he found it had become too sentimentally pietistic; and Thomas Merton, who finally became a hermit and only rarely assembled with his brothers.

Furthermore, even though the missionary may be exhausted from working overseas, they feel compelled to visit people in their homes and go speak in a myriad of churches just so that they can maintain their financial support.

Paul could safely assume that such teaching was given in churches outside his own sphere of influence, as appears from a place in his letter to the Christians of Rome a city which he had not yet visited.

The group I was with, mostly pastors from U.S. churches affiliated with the Willow Creek Association, visited church ministries in Nicaragua connected with Compassion International.

One autumn day a group of men from Ebenezer Church decide to visit Becky.

Most Rev Justin Welby went to the Zaatari camp, a short distance from the Syrian border, where he visited a church and a school.

Some time after his connexion [sic] with the Seminary he [Coit] became deeply anxious for the salvation of his soul, and after having given most pleasing evidence of a change of heart, was admitted to the church... He has not dared to visit his father's house since his profession of Christianity, as his life might be in danger from his father's violence.15