Sentences with phrase «life of the church takes»

In this context, the witness of the collective life of the Church takes on a special healing power: in the liturgy, in Christian marriage, and in the witness of authentic religious life.

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Instead, it is in the control of a higher power that cruelly takes the lives of tens of thousands of Americans every year — and this ideology becomes even more absurd when you consider that we are supposed to have a separation of church and state.

Benedict spoke on the Transfiguration of Christ, one of the key moments in Jesus» life on Earth, when, according to the church, he took three disciples to pray on a mountain.

The Autocephalous Church was suppressed in the early 1930s, when Stalin engineered the famine and political repression that took the lives of millions of Ukrainians.

The public sacramental life of the Church is now seen as the locus of assurance, of certitude, the place where an entirely undialectical salvific communication takes place.

This emphasis on beauty in the liturgical life of the Church is another reason Evangelical Catholicism takes sacramental preparation and adult catechesis so seriously.

Churches are created by man... a form of socialization of a belief but faith is within you and you take your faith with you wherever you go in life or after.

Beware the Mormon who smiles and will not answer — he has taken the oath of Blood Atonement — agreeing to sacrifice your life if secrets are revealed, okay to slit my throat if I am deemed a sinner by the church because that is the only way to save me.

Then, like my wife's, my life began to change and ultimately I ended up leaving journalism, which had been my life, and taking a 60 percent pay cut to going on the staff of a church.

The Church, however, has consistently taught over the centuries that the direct and intentional taking of innocent human life, as in abortion, is a grave and intrinsic evil.

It is a very helpful guide to the formation of conscience with respect to questions raised in voting and other political activity if, in fidelity to the Church's teaching, one recognizes the «intrinsic evil» of taking innocent human life in abortion.

As with much of church life, there is a great spectrum of what takes place.

The Catholic Church, to take one prominent institution devoted to the defense of human life from conception until natural death, makes no «theological» argument about the nature of the life in the womb.

NO, the only book that is that for me is the Bible, but I did take some of the insights to heart and am applying them to my life, my relationship with Christ and my role in my church.

shrewdly aligned with the American ethos of individual success and self - fulfillment, mainline churches have courageously taken unpopular stands, confronting head - on the diversity of American life, the depth of our social problems and the intellectual challenges to belief.

Some observers think that the feminization of the church, evident in the declining percentage of men taking part in church life, will be aggravated if inclusive language is employed or, worse, if a woman is called as pastor.

But afterwards they take their church clothes off as well as turn their church minds off and prepare to live their «regular» lives the remainder of the week.

While he maintains hope for its future as a reform movement within the church, he fails to observe that evangelicalism has taken on a life of its own outside the church.

One of the secrets of the swift access the new theology has found into the life of the Continent is that it takes its beginning from the scene in the local church rather than in the university library.

A few years back i was being led by god to help some homeless people.I'll tell you about the first homeless lady.my girls and i were driving by a liquor store and i seen a girl a lady sitting next to her cart.god showed me through his eyes the hurt she was living with.he spoke to my heart and said, don't pass her up.i turned around whent back and asked her if she was hungry.she was in shock and said yes.god told me to tell her that she is loved.she started crying and had me call her family so she can go home.anyways after that i joind a church and told them and asked to start a homeless ministry.i was told yes and all of a sudden i started getting pushed aside and they took over the homeless ministry.i feel lost and hurt.now i feel like god is telling me to leave the church.i quit going out with the group because of what happened.i don't know what to do.now i feel lost.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

Ignoring the warnings of American bishops that American teenagers would not likely be very interested in listening to what the Church had to say, John Paul called down an outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the 800,000 youth who gathered with him in theMile High City, taking as his theme the words of Our Lord in John 10:10, «I came that they might have life.»

The Waldensian church was founded by Peter Waldo in the 12th century after he gave up his possessions and took up a life of poverty and preaching.

Where are today's counterparts to the giants who gave us the ecumenical building blocks toward unity in faith and order, life and work of the church: Visser t» Hooft, Niles, Nygren, Lilje, Newbigin, John XXIII and others who took Jesus» prayer to heart?

St. Francis championed the Church's sacramental life, but the drama of his imitation of Christ took place in the world, not within the Church's sanctuary.

«I want to suggest that we make taking a sabbatical from church an accepted, if not encouraged, part of the Christian life for lay people.

In the past few years, violent men have taken innocent lives in places including a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, the apartment of a Muslim family in North Carolina, a black church in Charleston, and just last week, a gay nightclub in Florida.

CNN: My Take: This is where God was in Aurora Rob Brendle is the founding pastor of Denver United Church, a former associate pastor at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, and the author of «In the Meantime: The Practice of Proactive Waiting.»

As mystics and missionaries, heroic martyrs and courageous founders of religious orders, in public life as sovereigns or in quiet service in convent or school, the Church's women saints are testimony to the fact that Mother Church takes legitimate pride in her daughters.

We also have examples of how missionaries have taken along with them the Western family pattern, identifying it with Christianity, and treating people living in polygamous societies mainly with church discipline.

It is clear from all this that it will be one of the great duties of the Church to take perhaps more account than before of the moral questions confronting the Christian in his daily life and to approach them frankly and courageously.

Most of you that have been a part of my life the past 10 years know that I have struggled mightily with the nature of corporate church, even taking several years «off.»

That was the century when, during two terrible years, the Black Death killed more than a third of the population from Iceland to India, returning four more times before the era was up; when gangs of terrorists roamed and plundered Europe without hindrance; when the Hundred Years War took on a life of its own, frustrating efforts to end it, «an epic of brutality and bravery checkered by disgrace»; when new weapons and errant knighthood brought an end to chivalry; when widespread peasant revolt was answered by terrible aristocratic repression; and when internal scandal robbed the church of its ability to comfort and save.

My church, though not perfect, does better job than most of living up to the proverb, «It takes a village to raise a child.»

I grew up in the church all my life but I was following God's path, I didn't want to let God take control of my life but then at one point of my life I was going through a lot, stuff that a teenager shouldn't be going through but then I told God that I want him in my life to take control and to write out my path not me and right when I said that I felt happiness, I felt love, I felt and I still feel (what God wants me to do) that I have a purpose in life.

The message of Our Lord and St. Paul in the Scriptures, and that of the Church's tradition throughout history, is simply this: «Let those who can take religious life take it.»

While respecting the universal principles of the Church, the Christian by his own conscience and his own inquiry, which is a duty incumbent on him as an individual, has to seek for the concrete prescription by which he will shape his own life and endeavour to contribute to determining the actual form taken by public life.

Bultmann incorporated what he regarded as the results of these previous inquiries, but his own scholarly interests took him in other directions, for he was not moved by the old fascination with historical research, the life of the church in society, or the life of Jesus.

In response to this concern, it is said that the Boisi group is only taking the initiative in a restructuring of the governance of the Catholic Church that will, in its successive phases, expand to include democratically elected representation at every level of the Church's life.

Warehouse 242 grew out of a Sunday school class at Charlotte's Forest Hill Evangelical Presbyterian Church «that just seemed to take on a life of its own,» Hahn tells me.

Pentecostals range from the most developed Assemblies of God churches (increasingly taking on the shape of wider Protestant church life) through southern Holiness - Pentecostal churches, the intensely sectarian «Jesus only» unitarian Pentecostals, and large black and ethnic churches, to the uncharacteristic extremes of Appalachian «snake - handlers,» all too often the only public image of «holy rollers.»

Jeremy thanks for your comments alot of this i never really thought about before until you provoked me to seek the truth in the word it is what we all should be doing finding the truth for ourselves God wants to reveal mysterys if we are open to hear.If we have been christians awhile we just take the word of whoevers preaching or whichever clip we see on god tube its knowledge but not revelation.Because the story sounds plausible we tag that on to our belief for example for many years i believed that the rich young rulers problem was money so the way to deal with that problem is to give it away and be a follower of Jesus sounds plausible.Till you realise every believers situation is different so the message has to be universal.So the reason its not about money because it excludes those that do nt have it and does nt make room for those that do have it but do nt worship it.The rich young ruler was not a bad person he lived by a good moral code but he made money his idol he put that before God.The word says we shall not have any idols thats a sin and a wicked one.In fact there wasnt any room in his heart for Jesus that is a tragedy.So when we see the message is about Idolatry we all have areas that we chose not to submit to God thats universal everyone of us whether we are rich or poor.I believe we are unaware that we have these idols what are some of them that was revealed to me our partners our children our work our church our family i can sense some of you are getting fidgetty.

Most of us who read this will soon take our journey to a house where the promises of God come true and new life comes into the world, for so we can describe the church of which we are a member.

The public acknowledgment by a Pope that certain actions taken in the past by members of the Catholic Church were in error, and caused damage to others which needs to be repented by those members of the Church now living, appears to be largely, if not completely unprecedented.

The Catholic Church in Ireland has responded to the announcement of a new referendum on abortion rights by urging people to be «courageous» and take a «principled» stand for the sanctity of life.

Arguably one of the most important and influential physicists, astronomers, inventors and scientists to ever live, Galileo took a non-literal approach to Scriptures that the Catholic Church of the 1600s interpreted to mean that the Earth was the center of the universe.

But unlike the typical media - take on such churches, this is not the focus of their life together.

On the question of taking a human life, for example, the church has always distinguished between killing and murder, murder being the morally condemned act, and killing the physical act which is not always wrong.

It takes the lives of St Francis and «poor» Clare and examines why they had such a revolutionary influence on the Church.

It also means that churches and religious schools and seminaries must take a new and completely different view of the profound role television is assuming in our culture, unless they are prepared to abdicate their own role as the place where people search and find meaning, faith and value for their lives.