Sentences with phrase «number of house churches»

In the past half century, the Protestant presence in Oaxaca has proliferated from a few isolated outposts to an impressive number of house churches, church buildings and Bible institutes.

A number of house churches quickly appeared in the city.

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Rt Revd Lord Harries, a former Bishop of Oxford and now peer, told Premier it «doesn't bother me at all» that the number of Church of England bishops in the House of Lords could be cut.

The explosion damaged the church and a number of nearby houses, police said.

Number 2 not going to church can be harmful to you not to them this is the problem with many Christians claiming they can serve God at home rather than going to the house of God it's not a social service you are doing when you go to Church you don't go for hypocrites they are not Christians they are wolves in sheep clothing your example of worship is always nchurch can be harmful to you not to them this is the problem with many Christians claiming they can serve God at home rather than going to the house of God it's not a social service you are doing when you go to Church you don't go for hypocrites they are not Christians they are wolves in sheep clothing your example of worship is always nChurch you don't go for hypocrites they are not Christians they are wolves in sheep clothing your example of worship is always needed.

Nuisance troublemaking against Christians goes on quite unnoticed in the smaller towns and villages, but the problem in Islamabad became a cause célèbre because a number of diplomats worship in the house parish that seeks to build a permanent church.

They were educated at convent schools, could rise to become prioresses or abbesses of great houses and were numbered amongst the scholars, Saints, mystics and martyrs of the church.

A subsequent visit with Father Innocent Good House, rector of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Fort Yates, North Dakota, leads Balmer to reflect that there are a number of affinities between Christianity and Native American religions.

The number of churches, synagogues and other houses of worship offering sanctuary has only trended upwards since the 1980s, and there are no signs of slowing.

^ 3 I think it was Frank Viola's research that implied that house - churches not only have more converts than non-house-churches, as a percentage of attenders, but also in absolute numbers.

The Speaker of the House of Commons has urged the Church of England to «get on» with plans to increase the number of black and ethnic minority clergy members.

Yes, it is a sort of extended house - church network, but I wouldn't be too surprised if they are not that much into counting numbers...

When public worship moved from the house church to the large basilicas to accommodate the growing numbers of Christians, worship settings became much more grandiose and formal.

Albany Bishop Howard Hubbard, who accompanied Dolan into the Cuomo meeting, said a number of other topics came up, including farmworkers rights — a new one for the church, which is formally taking a position in support this year — and prisoners rights as well as low - income housing — all issues for which Cuomo was an outspoken advocate before he won the 2006 AG's race.

According to Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) data, the number of buildings damaged reached more than 100, including houses, churches and schools.

The East Village has a number of interesting buildings remaining from Cambria's early days, including the Old Santa Rosa Church, the Squibb - Darke house, the Guthrie - Bianchini House, now the Cambria Historical Muhouse, the Guthrie - Bianchini House, now the Cambria Historical MuHouse, now the Cambria Historical Museum.

The village houses a number of quaint Byzantine churches that are fascinating to look around.

A number of celebrated paintings are included: Frederic Edwin Church's Niagara, Albert Bierstadt's The Last of the Buffalo, Sanford Robinson Gifford's Ruins of the Parthenon, Samuel F. B. Morse's The House of Representatives, Edward Hopper's Ground Swell, and Aaron Douglas's Into Bondage.