Sentences with phrase «on returning to church»

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On a personal return, you can deduct up to 30 % to 50 % of your adjusted gross income, with the amount depending upon the charity's IRS category.Organizations such as churches, schools and private - operating foundations fall into the 50 % category; veterans» and fraternal societies are in the 30 % category.

The most senior Vatican official to be charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis will return to an Australian court on Tuesday to learn whether he must stand trial on charges that he sexually abused multiple victims decades ago.

With the credit crisis cutting into the potential of its $ 8.5 billion of assets, the Church of England plans to hire an investment director to help it get the most return on its money.

Boethius said, on December 19th, 2008 at 8:08 pm Well we could all repent and return or convert and return to the Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox churches.

One small example of this in our neighborhood is the urban farm one of my friends and mentors started to provide jobs to «returning citizens»: It required the city to help give away land and clear vacant property and some startup capital from a local farming company, but it is based on the church's understanding of the needs of the people and explicitly tied to the concept that faithful believers can help disciple and encourage people who have been incarcerated for harming others, walking them through the transformative process.

Born in Basel, in 1886, he had returned at the end of his university career to be the minister of the church in the little town of Protestant Aargau, north of Lucerne; and there, during the war period, he had preached on Sunday mornings before the good peasant folk, to the antiphonal booming of guns in near - by Alsace.

Moore calls on male church leaders to return to the scriptures and address biblical interpretations that lend themselves to gender violence.

Mike, if you didn't leave your previous church under a cloud then it's very likely you will receive a great welcome on your return... it can be overwhelming though as people crowd around you to say they're so glad you are there etc..

When I returned from church on Sunday I found a note to call James Reston in Washington collect.

In their opinion the Church needed to return to a «pure» religion based on scripture alone, sola scriptura.

Americans, in return, offered valuable council to Rome on the Church's initial reaction to the terrible abuse crisis.

After serving on the pastoral staff of one of the most progressive evangelical churches in the country, Brian and his wife Carrie took a big step of faith and returned to Dayton to launch The Mission — a new community of Christ - followers committed to loving God and loving people.

Brian and Alden... let's not forget that the early church believed in the imminent return of the Lord... it appears somebody was wrong... how wd that belief affect the message on what was to be accepted as the gospel in the interim?

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.

We have heard William Miller's call to the faithful to prepare for Christ's coming on October 22, 1844; Jehovah's Witnesses» declaration that Christ returned invisibly and spiritually in 1914; and Herbert Armstrong's prediction that the end would come in January 1972 — an announcement that led many members of his World Wide Church of God to sell their possessions in preparation for going to Petra (Wadi Musa) in Jordan, believed to be a place of safety for the elect.

Now that she is feasting on the natural Jesus, she will never return to the artificial, additive - filled church from which she came.

I thought straight away this is a joke as scriptures tell us only the father knows the time of his sons return and hes keeping it to himself he hasnt even told his son yet.Mark 13:32 This a mystery isnt God all knowing and isnt Jesus God it is a mystery.Yet I like that that is the case because it proves that the father is not the son and the son is not the father they are separate yet they are one just like the holy spirit.I have come across denominations that believe the father son and holy spirit are the one person i asked them how they can say that when Jesus was baptized we see 3 separate persons.We have enough information to know that we are in the last days the signs are present and increasing.Ever since Israel became a nation the countdown has begun.The verse the enemy will come like a thief in the night i have heard preached many times and i believe the preachers have got it wrong because they preach it from the view for the church to get there act together or you will miss out.This view is incorrect because if you are a born again believer following him in obedience and relying on the holy spirit you are not walking in darkness but are walking in the light so you will not be caught unaware as those who are sleeping this is a warning for those who are sleeping or walking according to the flesh they are in darkness.Remember the 10 wise virgins the ones who were alert and keep refilling there lamps went in with the bride those who slept were left behind and so it will be when the Lord returns.Now is the time to prepare our hearts and lives to be ready for his return.It is an exciting time to be living and we are to live in the expectation that the Lord could return at any time brentnz

As I clambered bleary - eyed onto the plane to return to my home and Protestant church in London, I knew the Catholic Church was on fire and I needed to wachurch in London, I knew the Catholic Church was on fire and I needed to waChurch was on fire and I needed to warm up.

I wrote about this back in the chapter on cancelling the church service, but what if the teaching time took place in the busses and vans while a church was driving to a place of ministry, and then continued afterwards, when returning?

With all the talk about Catholics leaving the Church because of the crisis, I'd like to go on record as one ex-Catholic for whom the crisis has been the occasion to return to the Church.

Returning from a meeting on «the future of the church» Nick Page is flung into the future, to the year 2040, where he is given the chance to find out for himself.

As I moved on to a pastorate in Tottenham, north London, I studied for a masters» degree in cross-cultural mission at All Nations Christian College and then returned to Spurgeon's to do a qualitative research project on multicultural church under their Doctor of Ministry programme.

Returning from a meeting on «the future of the church» Nick Page is flung into the future, to the year 2040.

But this was in effect the swan song of the Q community, as it was absorbed into the gentile - Christian church, except for holdouts who returned to the baptist movement or to emergent normative Judaism, or became small Christian sects that we, on the winning side, call heresies: the Ebionites, meaning the «Poor,» or the Nazarenes, claiming Jesus of Nazara.

My husband was a Lutheran pastor David, a hopscotching ministry that started 30 years ago, evolved from industrial pastoring into a consulting career, returned to the ministry when my 24 - year - old daughter was killed, taking on two churches and undergoing some excruciating experiences.

As already alluded to, the way inwhich Church teaching on homosexuality is handled in this programme is a real problem to which I will return.

Church of Iran pastor Yousef Nadarkhani was returned to prison on Christmas Day to complete the remainder of his three - year sentence — that is, 45 days of it.

They were too use to being picked up by their church buses and driven right up to the doors to vote, and returned home before their soaps came on.

A busy doctor stopping by on a Friday morning to return a book to the church library — how often does that happen?

And that «return» (often called ressourcement theology) was not a matter of pious nostalgia but of intellectual adventure: a movement that sought to enrich the Church's reflection on her own nature and mission at a moment when theology risked falling into a sub-discipline of logic — something dry and abstract, detached from the explosive good news of the Gospel.

Although I believe that modern Christians can be instructed by biblical perspectives on church and family, I am not advocating a return to some earlier time when the church may seem to have been more faithful.

Returning to the scene at First Church, Newton, we might note that the homily on suffering and hope is based on the lectionary and set in the flow of a classical liturgy with attendant paraments and garb, all departures from the informalities of First Church's free - church tradChurch, Newton, we might note that the homily on suffering and hope is based on the lectionary and set in the flow of a classical liturgy with attendant paraments and garb, all departures from the informalities of First Church's free - church tradChurch's free - church tradchurch tradition.

«Miracoulsly» God gave them the victory - in return they hold a church service every day on the 16 of December - a day I refuse to preach on or celebrate.

People who try to go back and do what was done before (like churches to try to return to the «early church days»), are like actors who, when they get to the end of act 4 in they play, rather than start in on improvising act 5, decide that the best thing to do is just repeat act 4.

Following Bonhoeffer's exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, he gives an exposition of Matthew 9:35 - 10:42.39 Short vignettes are drawn of the harvest (the people are without a shepherd, without relief, deliverance, and forgiveness) for which one must pray for laborers; the call of the apostles (who are given power stronger than Satan's and are bound together only by their choice and call); the work (fulfilling their commission to preach, traveling as messengers of the King, living in «royal poverty,» warning men of the urgency of the times); the suffering of the messengers (as Jesus was persecuted so the messengers will be, but they are forewarned; because Christ will return the disciples are not to fear man, or to be gullible in thinking that «there is good in every man «40); the decision (man's eternal destiny is determined by his decision on earth for the devil or for Christ); and the fruit (the disciples are fellow workers having as their goal the «salvation of the Church»).41

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The opening of the document clearly indicates that the demand for human freedom in society expressed in part through constitutional limits on government prompted the council fathers to return to the Catholic Church's treasury of sacred tradition.

We shall return to Jeremias's work on the parables again and again, for it is epoch - making in several respects, but for the moment we want only to call attention to the consequences of this work so far as a general view of the nature of the synoptic tradition is concerned the success of Jeremias's work demands that we accept his starting - point, namely, that any parable as it now stands in the gospels represents the teaching of the early Church and the way back from the early Church to the historical Jesus is a long and arduous one.

They are attended by students coming from many church groups who return on graduation to their denominations.

CNN: Romney tax returns shine light on Mormon tithing Although many Americans may have wondered just how much money Mitt Romney makes and how much taxes he pays in the lead - up to the release Tuesday of his tax documents, there was little suspense around how much he gives to his church.

In Kazan, on the mid-Volga, Catholics converted an ordinary apartment into a chapel after the secular authorities refused to return their nineteenth - century church building, which had been converted into a wind tunnel for aviation research.

When the plate returns nearly empty, the pastor starts pouring gasoline on the church floor, lamenting, «I never thought I'd have to do this again.»

It was very useful to find Katie offering concrete suggestions on how one might go about inviting lapsed Catholics to return to the Church.

Here we return to the emphasis upon the more inclusive church — inclusive of people in the suburbs and inner city, of all races, of people of many different opinions and on both sides of most conflicts.

But it must be understood that by this insistence on a direct return to the great Act of God on which Christianity is founded, I am by no means implying that all modern churches have lost their vision or reduced the revolutionary Good News to dull orthodoxy.

But for many churches in the «90s the return to the tradition of the church catholic will mean an increasing reliance on the historic experience of the church at worship.

The church - on - campus model is not a reactionary call for a return to pre -»60s «glory days» or to an outdated worship style or study method.

My faith has power and authority, it is tangible and very evident to me, I have seen healings, not imagined, I have experienced the literal power of God knock me down as a sign and wonder, I have experienced joy unspeakable to the point that I could not stand it and could not stand up anymore, My God is very real and all powerful and shame on you brothers and sisters presenting a powerless gospel to a lost and dying world, REPENT CHURCH and return to the true church of the book ofCHURCH and return to the true church of the book ofchurch of the book of acts.

When we returned to the U.S. after this term of service, I could not sympathize with the church people who were quite concerned about the significant decrease in the number of UMC missionaries on the field.

What we need to do is to return to the Biblical principles on how the church should be (such as being a community of love, being a light and salt for the world, being united in Christ, etc, etc.) We donâ $ ™ t need new principles.