Sentences with phrase «good number of churches»

His son has taken steps away from his daddy dearest and raised up a good number of churches to yes fleece his sheep by introducing state of the art issues such as holographic imaging and stage lights and props made to «impress» his emotionally dysfunctional masses all seeking a little societal excitement!

Not exact matches

Mark lives in Salem, Oregon, where he serves on the school district budget committee as well as a number of church boards and committees at the local, state, and regional level.

Specifically, the Commission on Religion and Public Life called for the number of bishops to be cut from 26 to 16, to allow clerics from other major religions in Britain to be represented, as well as other strands of the Church currently which are excluded, such as the Roman Catholic Church and Black - majority churches.

The Catholic church is actually pretty good on science, as are a number of Christian denominations.

He told Premier: «Church is the number one place where it starts, I think the credibility of the church, the power of the church, the history of the church, I think it is the church's responsibility because they have the good news, they have the tools, they're right there in theChurch is the number one place where it starts, I think the credibility of the church, the power of the church, the history of the church, I think it is the church's responsibility because they have the good news, they have the tools, they're right there in thechurch, the power of the church, the history of the church, I think it is the church's responsibility because they have the good news, they have the tools, they're right there in thechurch, the history of the church, I think it is the church's responsibility because they have the good news, they have the tools, they're right there in thechurch, I think it is the church's responsibility because they have the good news, they have the tools, they're right there in thechurch's responsibility because they have the good news, they have the tools, they're right there in the Word.

Here's the thing — you can find any number of Stepford-esque church members who will attest that they and the folks they know are «just good people», etc. (and I, too, know many very pleasant and admirable Mormons), but that doesn't address the creepy facts related to the administration of the overall organization (which is by no means a true non-profit, BTW).

The numbers may reflect not only the changing roles of women in the church over that time period, but in society as well.

However here is a link I left off that previous list referencing a large number of well recognized and qualified scholars and church leaders.

That document had a number of well - known evangelical signatories and, Wilkinson argues, served as a «watershed document» in setting the tone for current climate change discussions in the evangelical church.

«I want to invite you all to join me in considering a number of disputed questions that we urgently need to answer for the well being and vitality of our local church.

In all our American communities, and in increasing numbers of communities around the world, churches are inevitable, and whether they are good or bad, efficient or inefficient, intelligent or superstitious, Christlike or bigoted, is one of the most important questions in the world.

(ENTIRE BOOK) This book is addressed to both believers and unbelievers and examines a number of areas of religious thought and practice including an approach to intelligible religion, the fundamentals of religious experience, the existence and nature of God, the problem of good and evil, the meaning of the supernatural and of future life, the significance of Christ, the Church, the Bible, miracles and prayer.

The number of Christians remains small, but Christian schools (kindergarten through university) and leaders are disproportionately influential and Christian churches are a well - established part of the present scene.

The largest Pentecostal body, the Church of God in Christ estimates its total membership at 3 million, and there are uncounted numbers of persons affiliated with less well - known church groupings and thousands of free - standing congregaChurch of God in Christ estimates its total membership at 3 million, and there are uncounted numbers of persons affiliated with less well - known church groupings and thousands of free - standing congregachurch groupings and thousands of free - standing congregations.

Through the Network, the church has access to a large number of child - care providers well aware of the problems caused by our national policy of child «care - lessness.»

No less a mathematical authority than Alonzo Church, in his review of the second edition of volumes II and III, claims that in the whole of volume I (over 700 pages of closely argued mathematical logic introductory to the theory of cardinal numbers) and together with volumes II and III (themselves enormous tomes) one gets «cardinal numbers, relations and relation - numbers, series, well ordered series and ordinal numbers, and finally the continuum of real numbers» (BAMS34: 237).

Whether we are speaking of pastoral psychology as a more or less loosely organized body of principles which informed the daily work of increasingly larger numbers of ministers educated in the better seminaries, or whether we are talking about pastoral psychology in its more professional manifestations in the form of institutional chaplaincies or church - related counseling centers, the sociological origins of the movement tended to render it ineffective in relating to the specific problems and life - styles of the poor.

The number 12 may well be significant: there were twelve tribes in Israel, and the disciples are to be the beginning of a new Israel, the new people of God, the church.

In Britain, numbers attending church have been decreasing continually in the postwar period, but there too there still seems to be a desire to have some kind of «spiritual» outlook — often involving a pick - and - mix approach to eastern religions as well as Christianity itself.

The African indigenous church gatherings tend to be smaller, but the total number of different African independent church groups has multiplied well beyond 3,000, representing millions of blacks.

Evidence that the drive for meaning is still alive and well in contemporary society is to be found in a number of current social movements (interestingly, some of these groups find it convenient to use church facilities as their meeting place).

A subsequent visit with Father Innocent Good House, rector of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Fort Yates, North Dakota, leads Balmer to reflect that there are a number of affinities between Christianity and Native American religions.

If the church wanted «to salvage American Catholicism,» he wrote, it would be well advised to retire «a considerable number of mitered birdbrains.»

Members of the staff have participated in conferences of educators of the American Baptist Convention, the United Church of Canada, the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, the Disciples of Christ, the Presbyterian Church, U.S., and the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. With the advice of denominational leaders and others they compiled a list of pastors regarded by their colleagues as «good ministers» and entered into correspondence with a number of them, chosen so as to make the whole group representative of the denominational pattern.

There are a limited number of instances where the parable in very much its original form made a point of significance to the early Church, even if that was different from the point originally intended by the historical Jesus, and in such cases the gospel form of the parable may approximate to the original, e.g. the Good Samaritan and the Prodigal Son.

A recent seminar in Religion, Drama and Literature at Drew University, held with the help of the Danforth Foundation under the auspices of the Commission on Literature of the National Council of Churches, attracted a good number of teachers of English.

When the church is consumed and possessed by mortgages, capital campaigns, membership numbers, qualifications for membership or deacon or elder, the variety and format of financial reports, redecorating, ordination policies, the proper delineation of committee responsibilities, the aggregation and strengthening and protection of church hierarchical authority, the preference for political associations and prominence instead of being a voice and influence for justice and compassion, seasonal vestment colors, the abandonment and refusal to acknowledge congregations who dare to be excited by their proclaiming and provoking and living and sharing the Good News, the continual choosing and preoccupation with better organization over better outreach, or what styles of worship are to be offered — then it is time for an earth - shaking, stone - rolling, curtain ripping, hurricane - strength, fiery and noisy transformational revolution that will resurrect the Good News in the body and spirit of communities and individuals.

As well as increasing the number of black and minority ethnic (BAME) clergy, the church also wants to attract more women and younger people.

Some of his good friends, as well as his critics, have chided him for a number of years for spending too much time on structural problems of the church and internal issues of ecclesiology; I would now predict a broadening out of various issues of religion and culture.

Large numbers of people in the Church are always better than empty churches, but the real question is the intensity of spiritual devotion and of commitment of those within the Cchurches, but the real question is the intensity of spiritual devotion and of commitment of those within the ChurchesChurches.

So probably, to properly apply the passage today, we would need to look at the number of people coming to a «church» for training, look at their level of prior training, and also look at how we could best teach those people.

The Portuguese Archbishop Menzes did his best to create a sense of evangelistic responsibility among the Indian Christians by preaching to the Hindus whenever he could, and the eighteenth - century Carmelites had a number of baptisms from the heathen every year, so much so that they had to defend their actions before the Raja of Travancore, but the Indian Church itself was not (L. W. Brown, op.cit., p. 173.)

He and his confessing Church well used the opportunity of Berlin Olympics to inform the maximum number of people about the situation of the Church in Germany.

By other markers as well, increasing numbers of lay Catholics seem detached from the central beliefs, religious practices and everyday ministries of their church.

The actual number by that date was probably not much more than a third of that total; furthermore, despite the good that existing centers have done and are doing, the plan's most imaginative features — those that would bring such centers into close contact with schools, churches, the police, and other responsible community organizations — are the ones that have been least realized.

Well after my experience with the Catholic Cult er Church there is a great upside to Atheism, you no longer have to deal with the Alpha Male Wan na Be's who abuse children and abuse their followers in a number of ways.

Christmas and the season of preparation that precedes it, the time of special penitence during Lent, Holy Week and above all Good Friday, Easter Day, the coming of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost: here is a regular round of observance that provides variety in such churches as observe it — and they are increasing in number, in all denominations.

And the Church in the West — Kelly writes from America and is well aware of how things are in Europe too — is losing numbers every year.

Pope John Paul was emphatic in teaching that» [t] he use of the infertile periods for conjugal union can be an abuse if the couple, for unworthy reasons, seeks in this way to avoid having children, thus lowering the number of births in their family below the morally correct level.This morally correct level must be established by taking into account not only the good of one's own family, and even the state of health and the means of the couple themselves, but also the good of the society to which they belong, of the Church, and even of the whole of mankind.

It would seem to me, that it is incumbent on the healthy community to send their numbers out to share the best parts of that church with other communities and cultures.

When asked about the huge number of churches that have teamed together, Cathy said: «It's good to have a common purpose, we've worked together before but city of culture has given the funding for some work... we know a lot more about what's going on across the city now.»

These sectarian as well as para - and extra - and occasionally anti-ecclesiastical developments have put a severe strain on a number of local congregations and church bodies.

With new life of the Spirit pulsating through the Churches, revivalism poured outward through home and foreign missions as well as a vast number of societies for benevolence and reform, not forgetting that the message was for all of life.

Revised yearly, the list ranks the 50 countries where Christians face the most extreme persecution based on restrictions on private, family, community, national and church life, as well as the number of violent acts.

After a year - and - ahalf in the role, Khan and a partner purchased a number of bankrupt Church's Chicken units and became vice president of operations and COO in 1997 of Best American Hospitality.

Albany Bishop Howard Hubbard, who accompanied Dolan into the Cuomo meeting, said a number of other topics came up, including farmworkers rights — a new one for the church, which is formally taking a position in support this year — and prisoners rights as well as low - income housing — all issues for which Cuomo was an outspoken advocate before he won the 2006 AG's race.

«With your numbers (2.5 million members as of December 2017 in Ghana), the Church of Pentecost is better placed to use its influential platform in the various communities to educate members on the need to fulfill their tax obligations.

In addition, a number of singles groups, churches, as well as special interest organizations in your nearby region are likely to have members you would want to see.

One of Tocqueville's major insights was that Americans have benefited from popular participation in the large number of churches, charities, clubs, and voluntary associations in our country, as well as in state and local governments, which stand between the individual and the national government in Washington, D.C.

A smaller number of our trainers train at boys and girls clubs, military (DOD) schools, as well as at churches and private and Christian schools.