Sentences with phrase «makes house churches»

Officially, the Yarovaya law requires missionaries to have permits, makes house churches illegal, and limits religious activity to registered church buildings, among other restrictions.

The «Yarovaya package» requires missionaries to have permits, makes house churches illegal, and limits religious activity to registered church buildings, among other restrictions.

Not exact matches

Selena and Justin made major waves when TMZ reported that they were attending church together, grabbing breakfast, and going to her house together.

A court has rejected an appeal made on behalf of four Iranian Christian converts who were all charged with propagating house churches and promoting «Zionist Christianity».

Some believers worship in the state - sanctioned churches, but most still worship in so - called house or underground churches, which operate outside the sanctioned system — making them tough to number.

I talked with a lady just a few weeks ago who lives in Trego and I invited her to come to church, and she said she really wants to, but Sunday is the only day she has to get the things done around the house that she needs to, and so she can't make it to church.

The new church is made up of people who live in dirt - floored stick houses.

All of this church - based political activity makes me uneasy about casting ballots in houses of worship, especially those festooned with political signs.

Living in low - income housing, teaching free literacy classes to refugees, setting up basketball camps for bored inner - city kids: all of it had a few costs for me personally, sure, but the holy buzz of pats on the back from friends and church people, and the feeling that I was the only person really getting what Jesus was saying — this more than made up for doing without.

Hosted by local churches trying to compete with haunted houses during the Halloween season, Judgment Day Houses are designed to frighten participants into making commitments to Christianity by dramatically portraying the splendors of heaven that await them if they accept Christ the horrors of hell that will befall them if they don't.

Why do you see them selling stuff in church did Christ not say to the money changers my temple should be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.

The Episcopal church had too much money and power early in the twentieth century and, like the House of Hapsburg manifested in the person of Prince Charles of England (or I could make a bitter allusion to the Bush clan but will refrain), became dull - witted and boring without an infusion of mongrel ideas.

About a year ago, I met a man who is pastor of a church in my area that together made the decision to completely stop having meetings in their building and use it instead for housing and feeding the needy.

But the formal rupture with the church, in the belief that there could be a Christian house of learning bound by no communion to an actual church, made these activities inappropriate, and after a generation of increasingly awkward continuance they had to be eliminated.

In The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief (1994), Marsden offers an elegiac account of the way in which the effort by liberal Christians to identify Christian ideals with Western civilization may have served to make many church - related colleges and universities halfway houses on the way toward a secularity that Marsden sees as hostile to Christian influence.

But we can make life very miserable for said speakers by sit - ins / walk - arounds by their misguided church, hosing them down as firemen conduct fire drills in areas where these «speakers» spout their «stupidities», insti - tute a tax on all «houses of worthless worship» and sue them for false advertising of beliefs that are simply con games.

if i bomb ur house n my father comes to ur house n ask ur dad to allow him to make a church there, will he allow it?

One need only look at President Jimmy Carter, who went so far as to teach Sunday school at his local Baptist church, to see how a sitting president can make room for faith, said Balmer of Dartmouth, who counts among his many books «God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush.»

First Ultra of Southern California makes the Crystal Cathedral look like a house church.

I have some personal thoughts on your comments: «Thats why God made everyone responsible for the upkeep of his house so the world would see how we loved his Church and how he loved us in response.

It is our responses to the particular meeting houses — us, relative to those houses — that make the local church what it is.

An interesting story is developing in Russia, where an American Missionary is challenging a widely criticized law that makes certain «religious activities» like distributing Bibles, evangelizing and holding house churches,...

The «holy church has resolved itself into «meeting houses,»» and the meeting houses are not only plural but «in the making» (LWJ 123, 121).

Henry notes that of the almost 500 member synod (the three voting «houses» that constitute the Anglican Church's decision - making body) only 15 are from BAME heritage.

This promise was understood in the light of the resurrection (2:22)-- for then it was that the Church of Christ came alive to this new life and by the power of his Spirit was made the temple of God and the house of prayer for all nations (John 20).

Though most people would not think a church would make a good house, some of the older churches have a lot of style and historical character which is what some homeowners are looking for.

, the contemporary university makes the Catholic Church look like a Quaker meeting house.

Currently, it seems to me that the house church model has the fewest barriers to this, but I see encouraging signs of attractional churches making genuine steps toward a more missional mindset.

An agreement has been reached to continue to house the painting in the church when it reopens with allocated days when it will be made visible for the public to see.

In 2011, 100 of those house church leaders made it to Seoul, South Korea, where the Lausanne Movement held a special conference for them.

While the Affordable Care Act always offered religious exemptions to churches and houses of worship, other religious employers had to make a case for themselves.

He raised armies, successfully withstood the attacks of the Lombards, the latest of the Germanic barbarians to invade Italy, made his authority respected in Italy, Sicily, Gaul, Spain, and North Africa, attempted to curb the abuses in the Church in the Frankish domains, inaugurated the Roman mission to Britain, preached frequently, endeavored to enforce clerical celibacy, prompted monasticism and improved the quality of life in some of the houses which were lapsing from their professed ideals, and was the author of voluminous writings on theology that were long standard in the West.

As is well known today (at least in the academic circles of the black church), Richard Allen is commonly considered the father of the black church because of his refusal to be a member of a congregation where white Christians were making the house of God an instrument in the dehumanization of black people.

For it looks as if our Church allowed the DCSF gracefully and quietly to make what seems like an implicit partial retraction 13 days later in the House of Lords.

Yesterday was about as homespun as they go;) Ate breakfast at home, went to church, came home for leftovers, went to an open house, took Maggie to the park, made some fun food items, cleaned the house, worked on laundry, switched summer — > fall / winter clothes, and made dinner!

My girls were making a dessert to bring to a friend's house for dinner while we were all trying to get ready for church.

I'm a Spanish speaking, supper cooking, sporadic house cleaning, sometimes swearing, to do list making, stroller pushing, diaper changing, SAHM & skin care selling, God fearing, church going, independently thinking, family loving, not always perfect, hooked on blogging, husband loving, health food nut & junk food junkie, first & now second time mommy.

The substantial financial earnings made by individual Church of England Bishops from their privileged place within the House of Lords have come under scrutiny, leading to further calls from the British Humanist Association (BHA) for their removal as a part of the impending reforms to the upper chamber.

During his near 16 - year residence at the London house, Franklin made many friends who were disdainful of the Church of England's doctrines as outlined in its 39 Articles.

The Secretary of the House of Bethel Ministry, Stephen Osei, narrating the incident to Citi News «The regional Minister came to our church and he said we were making noise as it was time for him to sleep.

Since the Rabsky Group began to push for the rezoning last fall, rowdy protesters — wrangled by North Brooklyn community groups like Churches United for Fair Housing, St. Nicks Alliance, Make the Road and Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A — have shut down and disrupted a slew of public meetings.

«After the voting, both candidates had 19 votes, making it a split, so the electoral officer decided that the house should take a breather for an hour and return to vote for the second time, but this declaration of the votes by the electoral officer did not go down well with the youth who had gathered at the back of the church building.»

The Secretary of the House of Bethel Ministry in Kumasi, Stephen Osei, has denied claims by the Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah, that the church was making excessive noise, for which reason he caused the arrest of their pastor at midnight on Saturday during a live service.

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Police sources said top brass made a «centralized decision» about a month ago to ask precinct commanders to visit churches and other houses of worship.

Sarsour served as emcee for the 5,000 - strong rally and musical celebration called «Rise Up: Immigrant Rights and Workers» Rights,» organized by the New York Immigration Coalition, Make the Road New York, New York Teamsters and Churches United for Fair Housing.

Made up of two computer clusters housing a total of 200 processing cores, NEIL is programmed to organize its database into three categories: objects (such as computer or Corolla), scenes (alley or church) and attributes (blue or modern).

We either are at church and then off to my grandmothers or being lazy in the house but we never make plans or go anywhere on a Sunday unless its a special occasion.

After church, my family is coming over to our house for lunch and my Mimi is making her famous banana pudding.

During a beautiful crisp but sunny Winter's Day on the 26th November 2016, my partner and I made our vows to one another at the alter at the beautiful St John the Baptist Church in Worcester Park, and then celebrated at the stunning Grade II * listed Fetcham Park House.