Sentences with phrase «great story of the church»

Even after a season of my life when I walked far away from our traditions, gathering the greater story of our Church and history to myself, I now find myself corkscrewing back over and over again to the teachings of my childhood, the songs, the practices.

Not exact matches

It's so obvious — which is great because they don't want it to be obvious, but to those who pay attention it's easy to see, — it's great because it discredits many of the critical stories on the Church that's out there...

So, the next time you feel yourself nodding off in church, remember what your God has done, and remember that you are part of the greatest and most exciting story that has ever been told.

And here is where the Church's great communal story offers its aid: for it is the responsibility of the «many members of the one body,» who collectively celebrate and enact that story, to guide each individual member into paths, into life genres, that harmonize with the great melody of God's redeeming work in His creation.

The story of Cain is irrelevant to countries whose great leaders go to Church and kneel before Christ without missing any Sunday.

But Williams reports that being an observing participant is both possible and rewarding.3 Diligent members of a local church can learn a great deal about its language and story.

The bible was commissioned and agreed upon by the Romans, and was in fact a collection of a greater number of stories, letters, etc, that were decided by church leaders in Nycea if I remember correctly.

In Phoenix, an older man approached the signing table, and with great difficulty choked out the story of a beloved son, a fundamentalist church, a suicide.

For in creation, in the call of Israel, in the life and work of Christ, and in the pouring out of the Holy Spirit on the church we find the great defining events of all histories and the story around which we must in our turn orient our lives.

Brown is of the opinion that the story in the Acts of Thomas is fabricated to assert Edessean independence of the «great church» and to prove its orthodoxy.

True story from a pastor friend of mine: apparently the day after his paternal great - grandfather's death, the local priest dropped by Granddad's house... and the first words out of said priest's mouth were, «how much money did he leave to the church?»

As Burleigh demonstrated in Earthly Powers, the great story of modern times is not how the Church allowed itself to be manipulated by the modern state but how the Church stood up» imperfectly, often ineffectively» to that state.

If through greater sensitivity to its stories a local church better discerns its constitution and mission, the effort of narrative analysis will have a significant result.

Using fictional stories about my attempt to become the world's greatest fisherman, I reveal some of the flaws in the church's attempts at world evangelism.

Plus I might publish my story of a church split one day and they're a great read!

The story is told of a church in Philadelphia which at one time had a succession of great preachers and found itself with an incumbent who, after one year, had not measured up to the quality of preaching that the congregation expected.

how does fair, unbiased CNN, AKA ACNN (Anderson Cooper News Network) pick and choose stories as noteworthy... a comment is made by a very elderly priest, probably not quoted properly, and is «front page news» on CNN's website... this same man (priest) has written many great books, done a lot of great charity work in the poorer parts of New York and nothing is ever posted on the website... but something is said incorrectly and its published... is this fair, is it right, is it unbiased or is the motivation to make an entire Church lokk bad and let the anti-Catholic screwballs have their heyday in hateful posts... I didn't see this wonderful netwrok post anything about the disgusting, bigoted and hateful attacks, written by the liberal left wing media elites, like Maureen Dowd, against Rep. Paul Ryan and his Catholic faith... it's all acceptable to you liberal HYPOCRITES!

Expressing a new realism about Christian history that is shared by many reflective Christians in our time, Hendrikus Berkof writes, «To a great extent official church history is the story of the defeats of the [Holy] Spirit.»

And it will also be crucial to emphasise the fundamental unity that should exist between man and woman, male and female, the centrality of marriage not as a mere socially useful arrangement that might finally one day come into its own again, but as part of God's original plan «from the beginning», the great fact that the whole story of our redemption is a marriage story centred on Christ the Bridegroom and his Church, the Bride.

Great episcopal figures of the antebellum period — for example, the Irish liberal John England of Charleston, and the pugnacious John Hughes of New York — were «fitted» into the Carrollingian story line (if I may be pardoned the neologism) even as their distinctive styles and the accomplishments of their episcopates stretched the boundaries of the «Carroll Church.»

The story of the early church shows us the great cultural movement of Christian communities which transformed the culture of the Roman Empire.

Essential as abstractions are to the analysis of the congregation, however, a greater use of story is today required to round out an understanding of the local church.

In the Acts of the Apostles the word «church» does not occur before a summary which concludes the story of Ananias and Sapphira (a story reflecting the kind of discipline to which Matthew alludes); in it we read that «great fear came upon the whole Church» (church» does not occur before a summary which concludes the story of Ananias and Sapphira (a story reflecting the kind of discipline to which Matthew alludes); in it we read that «great fear came upon the whole Church» (Church» (5:11).

What is said and enacted in the church must be with the greatest exactitude and faithfulness and exclusivity the story of creation and redemption by the God of Israel and Father of the risen Christ.

Because whenever I feel down, whenever I miss my Dad, not only can I reach for one of his stories, and have him speak directly to me once again, but I can remember that Dad was in that place too, and that if he were here now, he would be telling me about the time he submitted a book called «The Michael Enigma» about the position of churches called St Michael around Great Britain -LRB-??? Yes really!)

We don't want to give the impression that the film is purely a comedy, it's far from it, dealing with the great Catholic Church scandal of the Magdalene Sisters who were forced into near - slave labor and separated from their children (Peter Mullan dealt with similar stories in his underrated directorial effort «The Magdalene Sisters «-RRB-.

Our guide will share stories about Hawaii's royal family while pointing out famous landmarks associated with the kingdom's former rulers including Iolani Palace (built by Hawaii's last king), Kawaiahao Church, and the statue of King Kamehameha the Great who united the Hawaiian Islands.

A problem could arise with biblical literalists, but one could address that by suggesting that some fictional stories have great value in teaching some lesson or illuminating some aspect of the «human (or other sentient being) condition», and also address actual historical events in the translation of the bible — or one could be more abbrassive and ask «do you believe deaf people can't be saved» (see one of Paul's letters, and the history of the Catholic Church)-- oh, you don't — so when you said you were a literalist, you were speaking figuratively?»