Sentences with phrase «grind against the church»

Yes I'm sure you've read things on the Internet and listened to others with an axe to grind against the church, but I sincerely ask that you go to lds.org to learn for real, unless you have no true interest and are only out to sow hatred and contempt.

The fact that billions of people choose the moral code described by the Bible should come as no surprise unless you have an axe to grind against The Church.

Not exact matches

But informing the whole is the image of Scripture as a painting, with Jesus the incarnate Word as the «ground» against the «background» of the triune God, and the Church and cosmos in the «foreground.»

On this ground, too, we should think twice before taking the years around 1960 as a standard against which the current vitality or impotence of the churches is to be measured.

He said that if anybody had come there with torches, with an axe to grind against the old church, to please leave.

Over against what he perceives to be Weigel's giving too much away to Protestant ideas of communion as personal friendship and encounter, Cavadini reasserts the sacramental priority of grace as grounded in the connection between Christ as primordial sacrament and the church as sacrament (the Totus Christus).

I think we can have a Mosque or Islamic center at ground zero when we can build a Christian church in Mecca or when Mullahs issue a fatwa against the Taliban for murdering a pregnant women for «adultery» or killing doctors trying to help the Afgan people or for cutting the ears and nose off a young 13 year old girl for trying to run away from an abusive «husband».

Highlights for me included: 1) Belcher's call in Chapter 3 to find common ground in classic / orthodox Christianity (the Apostle's Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed) which, if applied, would dramatically reduce some of the name - calling and accusations of heresy that have been most unhelpful in the discussion between the emerging and traditional camps, 2) Belcher's fabulous treatment of postmodernism and postfoundationalism in Chapter 4, where he rightly explains that when talking about postmodernism, folks in the emerging church and the traditional church are using the same term to refer to two completely different things, and where he concludes that «a third way rejects classical foundationalism and hard postmodernism,» and 3) Belcher's fair handling of the atonement issue in Chapter 6, in which he clarifies that most emergering church leaders «are not against atonement theories and justification, but want to see it balanced with the message of the kingdom of God.»

Maybe you have slept through the recent fiasco but anyone who doesn't have their stuck up the churches ass or in their buybull knows that what is happening isn't due to him attempting to tax the rich but more so due to the republitards putting his back against a wall every step of the way... they are the ones screwing your country in to the ground, not Obama.

If the State says we can not allow religious symbols on public ground, then the church should be allowed to have leniency against rules that tells them that they need to actively do something they feel strongly against.

But, in support of diocesan employees faithful to the magisterium of the Church, I would not want Faith readers to get the wrong impression from Mr Hester's letter as to what is really being achieved on the ground, against all the odds.