Sentences with phrase «more than his church»

Maybe your «community» is becoming more like a cult following, more than a church that has goals and vision for the future?

Community belonging and being a member of the Body of Christ is so much more than church attendance and membership, and too often, we've forgotten that, or we act like it isn't true.

But Christianity does not feature anywhere in the gospel, any more than the church's mission, theology, structures, pastoralism and evangelism in Africa.

But we never got labor organizations to contribute any more than the churches; and indeed, in this financial respect, they may in fact be quite similar.

When in all actuality the church should not seek to dictate to the state what it can or can not do any more than the church wants that dictated to it from the state.

I would never give money to a religious organization that doesn't pay taxes — that is like giving money to my kids — and they need it more than the church... I think faith is a wonderful thing for a lot of people — including myself (I have faith in myself)-- I just wish others would keep their «faith» personal, and out of politics and government.

Washington (CNN)- Few issues divide the Supreme Court - and the country at large - more than church - state matters, and arguments before the Supreme Court on Wednesday involving a workplace discrimination lawsuit against a Lutheran church proved especially touchy.

Years later, when Gov. Perry actively supported the death penalty and cuts in government programs for the poor - positions that clashed with the more progressive stances of the United Methodist Church - some fellow Methodists speculated that Paint Creek's cultural conservatism shaped the governor more than his church did.

Hoekendijk's concern was that the mission of God was more than church extension — and he was partially right.

Their concern was that the mission of God was more than church extension — and they were partially right.

we think we know more than the church and even more than God.

It's weird to me to hear the word bubble being used, mainly from people in areas like this, to describe the large hubs or the «elite coasts» when being where I am now I can easily go into a grocery store and be the only white dude in there, and drive past more than a church for christians, mormons, jehovah's witness and seventh day adventists on my way there.

I think it's fair to say that's what a fiction writer is most often drawn to — tumult of one kind or another; and in that sense the family in the last quarter century seems to me to be among the most fascinating of human social or economic inventions — more than business or real estate, no matter what Tom Wolfe says, more than the church or the law or the hospital.

Two of the world's largest platinum mines lie just outside Rustenburg, earning it the nickname «Platinum City», which is hardly a fair description of the city that started out as little more than a church and farming community centre, named as a «place of rest» that still manages to retain its small town atmosphere.

Not exact matches

The church - affiliated schools that in 2014 and 2015 obtained exemptions to a law that prohibits sex discrimination in educational settings collectively enroll more than 73,000 students, the Human Rights Campaign said in a report published Friday.

Last week, HBO released a documentary on the Church of Scientology (COS), called Going Clear, which was watched by 1.7 million people (not counting those who streamed online), more than any HBO documentary in nearly a decade.

Loreto, 42, was among more than a dozen undocumented immigrants who took shelter inside a network of activist churches last year.

Her decision to leave the church comes the same week the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction barring the Obama administration from implementing a policy of deferring deportation actions against more than 4 million undocumented immigrants.

Church concedes that MacroFab charges more per unit than overseas manufacturers, but his model allows for production runs of as few as one unit.

Hours after a gunman killed more than 20 people in a Texas church, Sen. Chris Murphy issued a scathing statement blasting his colleagues in Congress for accepting money from gun lobbyists and what Murphy said was not doing enough to prevent the attack.

May was in Kelowna Saturday to speak to more than 300 people at the First United Church.

It is becoming one of the most omnipresent aspects of American life: More households subscribe to Prime than attend church regularly.

Mr. Harper was elected with 71 % of the vote, more than 10,000 votes ahead of United Church Minister Bill Phipps, his NDP challenger.

Members of the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas, where more than two dozen worshippers were killed in a November 2017 shooting, attended the event.

I know that some might say that short - term mission trips are nothing more than glorified vacations for rich youth groups (and in some cases, they would be right), but I've seen short - term missions serve the Church in incredible ways.

Yet those so insistent on stamping political correctness on the churches and being guided by praxis apparently find themselves more comfortable with the spirits of the age, or the «new age,» than with the paraclete.

The institutional church is so often like Satan... longing to be worshipped and obeyed; teaching that obedience to one scripture is more important than balancing them all; luring us to abuse our power to make a difficult path chosen by God into a simple solution of no new spiritual growth (Matt 4).

Regrettably, however, most Orthodox Churches seem to be retreating into a stifling, sheltered and safe provincialism, which they explain — or excuse — as attending to internal affairs, which in turn are reckoned as more important pastorally than concerns for collaboration or collegiality.

I don't see Christians as more honest, more faithful in marriage, less violent, more giving, more polite, or more anything than the millions of people who are indifferent to religion and who only go to a church if there is a wedding or a funeral.

Then why do I, a man that has been inside a few churches in his lifetimes solely for the purpose of absorbing the lovely architecture of lovely buildings across the globe in different societies, know more about world religion than you do and the rest of your flock?

Either I wasn't old enough or I was in the military and don't stay in the church for more than 3 years.

Why are you listening to black clerics over this issue, Blacks are having more kids out of wed lock than whites, they are also like white, living in sin, but the church's say nothing about having babies without a husband or sitting in church and living in sin, talk about glass houses, and besides the marriages are Cival marriage not religious marriage, what a bunch of hipocrites..

The problem I have is that these «churches» using these schools are not paying enough to even cover the cost of the overhead of opening the building for them, and that if any group other than a Christian church tried to use the facilities for religious services, they would more than likely be denied.

Where I am, the church is «the last frontier», and I think that is more than enough to make our approaches different.

And the LCMS held an «International Conference on Confessional Leadership» last year in Atlanta, Georgia, with more than 120 Lutheran church leaders from around the world attending.

Having lived with a servant of the Word for more than fifty years in three Lutheran churches, I have this question: Why is it that the «white, middle - class, traditional, orthodox theologians» being told that their understanding of the church is no longer relevant, are told this by «white, middle - class theologians?»

Active (that is, regularly churchgoing), married conservative Protestant fathers have more one - on - one interaction with their children than do mainline Protestants, conservative Protestants who seldom attend church, or the religiously unaffiliated.

Adolf Hitler was not a Christian, his commitments to the Catholic church were no more sincere than his commitment to Czechoslovakia.

I was lucky enough to find the church that accepted me and my beliefs as different from the mainstream but valid and no more right or wrong than anyone else's beliefs.

Just one of our catholic churches alone has more members than the entire athiest organization lmao.

Regarding numbers of men vs. women in churches — I've heard that more women than men attend churches but it is not my current experience.

Fresh concerns are being raised over the welfare of Eritrea's Tewahdo Orthodox Church leader, who has been living effectively under house arrest for more than ten years.

You attend church every week, you go to small group, maybe you even read your Bible regularly, but it's started to feel more like a routine than like worship.

Of the major religions, the only one more absurd than the Mormon church, and clearly made up, is Scientology.

Yes, I whole heartedly dissagree with even the existence of the Catholic Church (though they are good for a laugh), something my Catholic wife and I have frequent conversations about (interestingly enough, I know WAY more about the tennets of her faith than she does).

Just my opinion that the evolution debate on behalf of churches does more harm than good for the congregation.

, John Madison; «Lighthouses are more helpful than Churches», Benjamin Franklin

Given that there are more people enslaved than ever before... if the Church is not somehow engaged in the fight to rescue the poor and oppressed, can we really say that we know God at all?»

Personally, I've discovered that a «Just Say No» motto to church intimidation IS more effective than they want you to know.

There are still some kinks to be worked out with all churches, of course, but at least it's more of a progress than what I am reading and seeing back in North America.