Sentences with phrase «of presenting the church»

The role of a women in the church is special and to them alone is the responsibility and the privilege of presenting the church to the angels, man can not do this.

The Church, however, has not been «conspicuously succesful in its relations with the press» - the blame for which is commonly placed either (by Catholics) on the anti-Catholic bias of journalists or (by journalists) on Church leaders incapable of presenting the Church's story in a proper light.

Through the vitality perceived within evangelical programs, a viewer who is dissatisfied with the functioning of his present church may come to associate vitality with evangelical churches as a whole.

Not exact matches

This book is a collection of essays and talks presented by Greenleaf as he attempts to apply servant - leadership to the fields of education, business, foundations, churches and government.

According to the Patriarch, the Council «will address internal issues of the unity and administration of the Church, but also matters such as relations with other churches and faiths, in order to present a unified voice and credible witness for the life of the world.»

While you are at it our great government spent billions on Katrina clean up yet 96 % of the real work came from charitable organizations and yes churchs were the biggest releif and work force present.

Rise of militant atheists... But present Western Europe doesn't deserve having church buildings anyway...

Three priorities presented themselves to Castro: (1) Since the world is experiencing a resurgence in religion, and the decline of faith in modernity, the churches must resolve theological and philosophical questions: Is the Spirit exclusive, and the Christian faith unique, or is the Spirit (he?

Catholics hold that the Church is the body of Christ, a sacramental and mystical communion in which Christ is truly and effectually present and through which his justifying and sanctifying grace is mediated.

When division within that magisterial voice became evident and pronounced, where could one turn for the authoritative voice of the church in the present moment?

Also in circles such as the World Council of Churches, environmentalism was patched on to the quilt of peace and justice, and presented as a seamless garment of progressive commitment.

While Evangelicals greatly respect the way in which the Catholic Church has defended many historic Christian teachings against relativizing and secularizing trends, and recognize the role of the present pontiff in that important task today, they believe that some aspects of Catholic doctrine are not biblically warranted, and they do not accept any claims of infallibility made for the magisterial teachings of popes or church couChurch has defended many historic Christian teachings against relativizing and secularizing trends, and recognize the role of the present pontiff in that important task today, they believe that some aspects of Catholic doctrine are not biblically warranted, and they do not accept any claims of infallibility made for the magisterial teachings of popes or church couchurch councils.

This way of telling Luther's story is quite conservative in its effects, even though it presents Luther as a radical, for it makes the present division of the Church seem normal and inevitable to us.

A postmodern critique of the Catholic Church would find less grist in current controversies than in modern elements already present in the Church: the substituted vernacular mass, or the presence of national flags on church dChurch would find less grist in current controversies than in modern elements already present in the Church: the substituted vernacular mass, or the presence of national flags on church dChurch: the substituted vernacular mass, or the presence of national flags on church dchurch daises.

With prayer and quietness of spirit, we must sincerely present our perceptions of the Church to God.

He bought Christmas presents for his family and friends back home, including the wife of Martin Niemöller, a fellow Confessing Church pastor being held in a concentration camp.

It's unclear what the church was being used for before Islamic State demolished it, because it appears on a list of churches presented to the US House of Representatives which were either «destroyed, occupied, converted to mosques, converted to ISIS headquarters or otherwise shuttered».

If the West is to recover from the crisis of civilizational morale in which it has been immolating itself, it is Christ who will help humanize the earthly city through the agency of the City of God, present in an anticipatory way in the counterculture that is the Church.

Next weekend (March 3, 4, and 5), the Drama Ministry of Oak Grove United Methodist Church will be presenting Marsha Norman's Traveler in the Dark.

HOWEVER, if this person was running for public office, instead of the «feel - good» story here, the media would vilianize this church for some inane belief that they would take wildly out of context and present it to the American public as the most fundamentalist extreme church ever to lay it's foundation on our shores.

Moreover, it was difficult to explain why the church could forge new confessions of faith in the sixteenth century but could not do so in the present.

It turned out that most of those present were former Catholics, each having «left the church» because of a marital irregularity.

I have spent 40 years in those Churches in lay ministry, I know the the real psychology at play, it comes clear in everyone of your posts and how you present it.

At present according to Peter Brierley barely a quarter of all English churches (27 %) have some sort of midweek activity.

Both the liturgical and theological traditions of the Church present to us certain things that must be said about God as revealed in Christ Jesus.

If you think that the media is incapable of hearing the music of faith and presenting it fairly and if you think that the Church has nothing credible to...

Officially, the Catholic Church instructs, «The existence of the State of Israel and its political options should be envisaged not in a perspective which is in itself religious, but in their reference to the common principles of international law,» in the formula given in «Notes on the Correct Way to Present the Jews and Judaism in Preaching and Catechesis in the Roman Catholic Church» (1985).

The Church's understanding of Sunday, from the apostolic era to the present, is comprehensively set forth in John Paul II's 1998 apostolic letter Dies Domini (the Lord's Day).

From the start it's about controlling what you here, say and act in the presents of the church.

Paul wrote to existing churches and to pastors on a variety of different topics, and one does not present an air of confidence if one is telling a lie when he knows very well that there are witnesses who saw the same things that he saw, and could call him out should he tell a lie.

As long as what is being presented by the CHURCH is the Image of God and not the Facade of Man.

Given the enormity of the present problem and its obvious urgency for all segments of society, it should not take another 20 years for the churches to begin getting their theological act together.

The churches have also misunderstood the six «creative» days seen at Genesis 1, stating that each «day» was just 24 hours long rather than what the Bible rightly presents of each «creative» day as being several thousand years long.

What might this mean for the present discussion about the place in the church of homosexually oriented believers?

(25) «Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church, and delivered Himself up for her, (26) that He might sanctify her, cleansing her in the bath of water by means of The Word; (27) IN ORDER THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT TO HIMSELF THE CHURCH IN ALL HER GLORY, NOT HAVING SPOT OR WRINKLE OR ANY SUCH THING, BUT THAT SHE MIGHT BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH.»&Church, and delivered Himself up for her, (26) that He might sanctify her, cleansing her in the bath of water by means of The Word; (27) IN ORDER THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT TO HIMSELF THE CHURCH IN ALL HER GLORY, NOT HAVING SPOT OR WRINKLE OR ANY SUCH THING, BUT THAT SHE MIGHT BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH.»&CHURCH IN ALL HER GLORY, NOT HAVING SPOT OR WRINKLE OR ANY SUCH THING, BUT THAT SHE MIGHT BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH.»»

The center is but one of several church - related groups around the country responding to the present need outside the «normal» mainline church channels.

However, at present I sense that it is a root of bitterness that is fueling your discontented attack against local churches.

The idea's presented in this article does not embody the biblical ideal of the church as a community.

If present trends continue, the Palestinian Christian community, which claims a historic continuity dating back to the first disciples, will disappear from the Holy Land, leaving behind nothing but museums or shells of churches.

Can the churches enlarge the ranks of the clergy while maintaining the present high level of lay leadership?

It is in one sense natural that church leaders such as Kirill would wish to promote a Russian World that transcends the political boundaries of present - day Russia.

In Ephesians we are presented with a stark reminder of the early church's understanding of the power of the risen Christ, who was placed by God «far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.

Humanae Vitae (1968) talked of the procreative and unitive meanings of the marital act as governed by «two divine laws» which were in harmony, and the relevant teaching of the Church is often presented in terms of these two equal «polarities» and their inseparability.

Alexander III, following the ancient tradition of the Church declared that «After a lawfully accorded consent affecting the present, it is allowed to one of the parties, even against the will of the other, to choose a monastery (just as certain saints have been called from marriage), provided that carnal intercourse shall not have taken place between them; and it is allowed to the one who is left to proceed to a second marriage» (III Decretal., xxxii, 2).

Meanwhile, the Church in Philadelphia is undergoing a painful downsizing, as newly installed Archbishop Charles Chaput announced in early January that 48 Catholic schools (both elementary and high schools) will be closed and / or consolidated at the end of the present academic year.

What «Effective Christian Education» shows most effectively, however, is the fraudulence of what is presented as the «scientific» study of religion — and the credulity of church leaders who can not distinguish between Christian faith and liberal sentimentalities.

I was determined to present a little cross to everyone at church that night in honor of Palm Sunday and the commencement of Holy Week, so the two of us spent the afternoon painstakingly folding the six - inch leaves into tiny green crosses.

He argues that churches may have unwittingly increased the number of women seeking terminations by the shame and secrecy surrounding unwanted pregnancies and failure to present viable alternatives.

But these churches are not able to present a sufficiently convincing vision of what faith is, or of purposes worth living for, to evoke more than fragmentary commitment.

If you're a church leader wondering why some sermons are not delivering what you hope they will; an evangelist who wants to present faith in a way that connects; an employee wanting to persuade your boss; or a young person preparing for an interview, then mastering the five prompts of the Centre Brain is essential.