Sentences with phrase «gifts to church colleges»

But surely another reason is the widespread perception among church people that gifts to church colleges are gifts to a generalized kind of «higher education» rather than a specific kind of «Christian higher education,» in which churches have some unique stake.

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The teaching that men are to be the «spiritual leaders» of their homes is found nowhere in Scripture, and yet I — along with far too many young evangelical women — spent hours upon hours fretting over this in college, worrying I'd never find a guy who was more knowledgeable about the Bible than I, who was always more emotionally connected to God than I, who was better at leading in the church than I, and who consistently exhibited more faithfulness and wisdom than I. (In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many of my gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «spiritual leader»!)

One more gift of the Churches to the nation was the small college.

She has willingly and without complaint given up every entire weekend of her three years of college to travel an hour from Seattle to help out with church and other needs, so she is truly deserving of a special gift like this.