Sentences with phrase «living during the church»

This is another proof, by the way, that these virgins are not Christians living during the church age.

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It assembles every four years and determines ¯ after deliberating and voting ¯ what The United Methodist Church is to teach and practice, and how the church is to order its life, during the next quadreChurch is to teach and practice, and how the church is to order its life, during the next quadrechurch is to order its life, during the next quadrennium.

But they are leading lives of such spiritual incoherence that their own integrity should compel them to seek reconciliation through the sacrament of penance, and to do so before affirming a fuller communion with the Church than they in fact enjoy by receiving Holy Communion during Mass..

In large cities like Moscow or St. Petersburg, hundreds of thousands of people live in residential areas that were constructed during the Soviet period and therefore have no churches.

The African reality of a wholistic as opposed to a secular and a sacred life, the place of the black church as sole as well as «soul» refuge during slavery, and the gift of oratory made the preacher the symbolic head and heart of his people.

Here are some specifics on how this «always worship together rule» has now infiltrated our lives: Fred occasionally teaches Sunday School at my Baptist Church; I fully participation in his faith community's services and rituals during Hindu festival weekends.

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.

Yet for the next several years, through my baptism, my church wedding (yes, to the Christian who gives gifts of underwear), through my continued efforts to write poetry, and even during my first bout of seminary education, I went about my life tense with the secret that I did not know how to pray as I ought.

This is now being properly researched by historians like Dr Foa, who insists that, as a result, we can be sure that the «more recent image of the aid given to Jews by the Church arises not from pro-Catholicideological positions, but above all from thorough research into the lives of Jews during the occupation, from the reconstruction of the stories of families or individuals.

A sea of Catholic devotees jostle for position as they try to touch the life - size statue of the Black Nazarene as it arrive at the Quiapo Church during the annual procession in honor of the centuries - old icon of Jesus Christ in Manila on January 9, 2013.

As it is, he really only spends one paragraph talking about this, but Jesus emphasized such outward - focused love during His ministry, and the church at large could benefit from more of a reminder that the Kingdom of God is not just about loving one another, but is also about loving and serving those who live in darkness and fear.

You are even picketing outside of churches and sending people in to invade them during their worship services, violating their sacred space, because they don't live up to your «standards».

We saw, especially during the pontificate of Blessed John Paul II, how Mary has been reintegrated into the life of the Church.

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.

During the week, we will talk to local leaders, workers living here permanently helping local churches, and also some of those who came with me.

What is remarkable is that, during a period in which the church persecuted Christian heretics in large numbers and Christian fought one another in terrible wars over theological differences, no scientists lost their lives for overturning the established worldview of Christendom.

During this church age, there is balance between living with the state of mind that Christ could return at any moment, but also living with the understanding that we must prepare for the future as if He will not come in our lifetime.

In his fiction, the church exists on the periphery of the community's fellowship, and exhibits what philosopher Norman Wirzba calls a «disincarnate form of Christianity,» a kind of gnosticism, isolated and disconnected from where the people live their lives during the week.

«The assumptions that have governed our understanding of Christian history during the past several centuries were all formed in the European context where the church was identified with the cultural and religious majority and attention was focused largely on its institutional life,» Shenk writes.

Robert Bellah «s study of the roots of American democracy led him to conclude that during the nation «s early life «the real school of republican virtue in America... was the church.»

This approach has applicability to a wide range of problems which normal church members encounter during the «common ventures of life.»

The African reality of a wholistic as opposed to a secular and a sacred life, the place of the black church as sole as well as «soul» refuge during slavery, and the gift of oratory made the...

This subject can be reflected in terms of the overall approach of the Church to human and social life, and in relation to the specific phenomenon as it has developed during the 1990s, after the fall of the soviet Empire.

They followed a deeper conversion of life brought about when he learned from a pamphlet picked up randomly from the back of a church about the extraordinary miracle of the sun witnessed by several thousands during the Fatima apparitions of 1917.

We should not forget the history of those who tried to revive the life of the imagination in America after life began to drain out of the Protestant Churches; how America virtually ignored a Thoreau, a Melville, and a Whitman during their lifetimes; how Poe was driven insane, Henry James into exile, and Hart Crane into suicide.

The Church saved 700,000 Jewish lives as a whole during World War II.

Learning to Live in the Father's Affection by Wayne Jacobsen — During my years of self - imposed exile from the Church, particularly the institutions of church, I leaned heavily on Lifestream Ministries, in particular The God Journey podChurch, particularly the institutions of church, I leaned heavily on Lifestream Ministries, in particular The God Journey podchurch, I leaned heavily on Lifestream Ministries, in particular The God Journey podcasts.

During the last twenty - five years, church leaders have experienced the impact of a major cultural transition on the life of congregations.

During the last twenty years, changes in family life and in church demographics have rekindled interest in Christian nurture and in new progressive theories about human nature.

During his 1982 visit to Fatima, a year after the failed attempt on his life on 13 May 1981, Pope John Paul II said, «If the Church has accepted the message of Fatima, it is above all because that message contains a truth and a call whose basic content is the truth and call of the Gospel itself.»

The Catholic Church has a practice of «sainting» dead people who obtained a certain level of holiness during their life and who have at least two verifiable miracles to their credit.

Two nearby Methodist churches enjoyed better fortune during the time of Bigelow's affliction, and the people of Bigelow frequently base their self - assessment upon their sense that the programs in the two other churches are livelier and church life more opulent.

Here are four books which have not only stood the test of time, but had a great impact on the understanding of Christian doctrine to Christians living in the time shortly after Christ's ascension, during the Church's building period.

This is a song I wrote during a very dark night in my life and the life of my church.

Several factors contributed to this development, including developments in the mission field and the pressure from the younger churches for unity, experiences of the churches in Europe during the two world wars, the political situation in the West, the theological developments in Europe, and the ecumenical discussions on church unity in the Life and Work and Faith and Order movements and their influence on the missionary movement.

Forms of church government differed; but nobody except the Quakers challenged the notion that a religious local community needed a general overseer, no matter whether he lived in (like the Baptist preachers who farmed during the week) or out (like the circuit riders of Methodism).

(3) During the period of the formation of the tradition, the first few decades of the Church's life, there were men living and active in the Church who had been eyewitnesses and earwitnesses of the ministry of Jesus, for example, James, Peter and John, the «pillars» of the church in JerusalemChurch's life, there were men living and active in the Church who had been eyewitnesses and earwitnesses of the ministry of Jesus, for example, James, Peter and John, the «pillars» of the church in JerusalemChurch who had been eyewitnesses and earwitnesses of the ministry of Jesus, for example, James, Peter and John, the «pillars» of the church in Jerusalemchurch in Jerusalem (Gal.

You either believe because your parents made you go to church as a kid, or you were looking for answers during hard times and the thought of a better after life comforted you.

Rabbi Greenebaum is clearly a very intelligent man who understands the issue and appreciates the Mormon church's response to such a difficult monitoring issue... Helen Radkey clearly just hates Mormons (who spends that much time during their life looking for ways to attack any religion?)

During the 1960s a number of young persons in the United States tried their hand at living in communes, where — like the early Christian church — «They had all things in common.»

Baptismal catechesis had been an important part of the adult catechumenate in the first centuries of the church's life but had fallen on hard times during the Middle Ages.

At the end of the film Places in the Heart, all of the characters present during the movie gather together in church, those living and those who have died.

For it is necessary that the faith of the Church, as this has been articulated during the two thousand years of Christian history in the form of theological statements, should be made known to the people; it is equally necessary that the developed principles of Christian life, in respect to devotional practice and in terms of daily conduct, should be taught.

The first parable of each pair refers to those believers who live during this age — the age of the church.

Although this passage refers primarily to those people who live during the Tribulation period, we do know that even in this age of the church, when we serve others, it is as if we are serving Christ.

«The power of God,» writes Charles West, «the reconciling work of Christ, operates not in a church which meets on Sunday morning and perhaps once or twice during the week, not on the edge of the world, but in the middle of daily life, and thought.»

Where extension theology can exceed the standard approach in experience - gathering lies in the whole person approach; since students remain in their usual life context and work in their church during the week, the things that happen to them can be continually built upon in the study time and brought into the discussions.

Karl Barth, in his 1939 report to the readers of The Christian Century on «How My Mind Has Changed,» wrote the following concerning his theological pilgrimage during the 1930s: «In these years I had to learn that Christian doctrine, if it is to merit its name and if it is to build up the Christian church in the world as she must needs be built up, has to be exclusively and conclusively the doctrine of Jesus Christ - of Jesus Christ as the living Word of God spoken to us men.»

Read the book «The Cost of Discipleship» by Dr. Dietrich Bonhoeffer (a German pastor of the Confessing Church, who lived during the Third Reich).

Ah, the «consistent teachings of the Catholic Church on the sacredness of human life,» which the Crusades, the various Inquisitions, genocidal forced conversions during the conquest of the Americas, complicity in the NAZI - engineered Holocaust [against Jews, Gypsies, trade unionists, university professors, disabled persons, outspoken Protestants, and others], complicity in Vietnamese Catholic genocide against Buddhists, etc., etc., etc.,... all render consistently inconsistent!