Sentences with phrase «on running the church»

Practicing sabbath has allowed me to loosen my grip on running the church.

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They have taken on the toughest customers by rolling CareMessage out in the most underserved communities, some of which include charitable clinics run out of the back of a church or free clinics affiliated with a medical school.

The murderer on - the - run preacher in The Apostle who founds a church where class and status make no difference, a congregation of displaced misfits who are poor and poorer, dumb and dumber, black and white, male and female, and fatter and fatter still, is telling people who need to hear (because they can't read) what they most need to know to turn their lives around: They can be saved, despite it all, if they believe in Jesus and «Holy Ghost power.»

Hours earlier, Maj. Gen. Qassim Atta said in a press conference broadcast on state - run Iraqiya TV that 15 «Arabs» - in Iraq, a euphemism indicating they came from outside the country - were responsible for three deadly attacks in Baghdad in recent months, including a bloody church siege.

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.

The Catholic Church's position on artificial birth control has NO basis in the teachings of Christ... it was not an issue then... the teaching is solely based on the opinion of the men running the church who claim «divine inspiration»... BULL... they wanted people to have more kids so they could contribute more money to the church so that the so - called «princes of the church» could maintain their princely life - Church's position on artificial birth control has NO basis in the teachings of Christ... it was not an issue then... the teaching is solely based on the opinion of the men running the church who claim «divine inspiration»... BULL... they wanted people to have more kids so they could contribute more money to the church so that the so - called «princes of the church» could maintain their princely life - church who claim «divine inspiration»... BULL... they wanted people to have more kids so they could contribute more money to the church so that the so - called «princes of the church» could maintain their princely life - church so that the so - called «princes of the church» could maintain their princely life - church» could maintain their princely life - style.

Manor House was run by the Irish Church Missions group, which particularly focuses on evangelism.

The Rev. David L. Norgard, who is openly gay and is chairman of the national church's Standing Commission on Evangelism, says, «I'm thoroughly convinced, and hold it as a point of faith, that in the long run people are turned off by a church that excludes.»

«We don't have any explanation of what «gay lobby» means,» said Rocco Palmo, a Vatican watcher who runs Whispers in the Loggia, a website on Catholic news and church politics.

Two years later, in 1999, they were invited by the Church of Christ in Thailand to begin work there, regenerating a church - run community centre that was on the brink of clChurch of Christ in Thailand to begin work there, regenerating a church - run community centre that was on the brink of clchurch - run community centre that was on the brink of closure.

So they run away and bash the church and the leaders on the way out the door.

The church's former leader, Warren Jeffs, was on the run until his 2006 arrest, and the raid on a Texas ranch in 2008 prompted allegations of forced marriages and child brides.

I'll be honest, when the commercials for the church used to run on tv the way the minister and his wife looked reminded me so much of Jim and TammyFaye Baker.

For one example, there are books on going through grief, and often grieving groups run in the community or church system.

She says the residents «think somebody owes them something,» and complains that they spend money on expensive hairstyles, makeup and leather coats but won't pay a token fee to send their children to a weeklong summer camp program her church runs for the benefit of inner - city youngsters.

I once worked for a lady who ran a charitable organisation on behalf of a Baptist Church (madam moneybags but refused to tithe), the following are excerpts that I had to live with for 6 years to earn a living:

The Barna Group recently ran a survey on the cities that had the highest percentage of churchgoers who attended mega churches.

Spoke - tell that to the majority of Christians who are quick to hate Muslims and other religions... tell that to the Christians who still falsely believe that America was founded on Christianity — tell that to allthe Christians who are still in denial about Pedophile running around in the Catholic church — Christians are as silly as they come

The Pope does not run the whole Church on a daily basis; that is done by the bishop in each diocese.

The Pope does not run whole Church on a daily basis, that is done by the bishop in each diocese.

Of course none of this means that we can run away from battles for the freedom of the Church and indeed of nonbelievers over the current attempts to impose a crude ideology on us all.

Because of this scientificinconclusiveness perhaps the Church's teaching on monogenism may turn out in the long run to be the only information we shall ever have.

I do not believe that any church has the right to run a hospital or a university on a religious basis outside of chapel and perhaps counsel.

Andy Peck hosts «The Leadership File» on Premier Christian Radio and runs courses on personal and church evangelism at CWR, Farnham

Please run a story on how the mormon church works.

Andrew came on, unidentified, and dogmatically stated that a church should be run like a business and challenged David with a veiled threat «does the vineyard know what you're doing?»

On the modern road to Jericho, which runs around the bottom of the Mount of Olives, is the Roman Catholic church, with a small, reverently tended garden beside it containing some old, gnarled olive trees.

Many outside the church view us as modern day Puritans — social control freaks who want to impose our morality on them and to oppress people by running roughshod over human rights.

A Church of England vicar on the run after being sentenced to three - years jail time for sexually assaulting... More

In praise of a morning off from church in favour of, well, a rest: a rest from running around and going and showing up on time.

On Sunday mornings, they got to run wild with their friends in children's church and eat donuts and color pictures.

I don't want to go on and on about this but over the years I have observed that one of the biggest causes of ridiculous antics in the church and the rise of various cults has been people running away with ideas about eschatological events which are nothing more than pure imagination.

Keep in mind that this smug attack on the Catholic Church first ran in April.

It's like a church running a program for black folks — telling them that even though they are black, they shouldn't act on that blackness.

Yea, bad things happen in some Churches, but to run screaming, I ain't goin to Church no more cause «I am so tired of platitudes and statements by christians that mean absolutely nothing...,» and all the other excuses, well, you pat them on the head, and say, «Oh you poor thing, I feel your pain.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, who traveled last week to Brazil with the pope for World Youth Day, said the massive turnout - estimates ran as high as 3 million - and ecstatic crowds likely gave Francis hope that he would «revive the church on his home continent of Latin America.»

He wrote in a statement: «Particularly in areas where community resources have been stretched to the limit, the activities and services run by churches provide a lifeline to those in need, so it is important that we continue to champion the work our nation's churches continue to deliver locally on a national scale.»

And these people that run this church think they are on their way to heaven.

In the early twentieth century, the government set up Indian schools on reservations and asked the churches to run them, which they did.

The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fulttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory with stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.

«We are stressing now on guarding churches,» Adil Labib, the governor of Alexandria, told state - run Nile TV.

There are things going on in the church I pastor that bother me; but then, I just don't run away from anything just because I might be bothered by it.

He wrote them on the run, so to speak, from prison cells, house churches, and byways of the Roman Empire.

In an article on «Group Dynamics in a Local Church,» Philip H. Anderson asks rhetorically: «Are we so sure that the committee which ignores the feelings of individual members in order to get a job done is the most efficient and productive in the long run?»

That's how I ran into your material on the church!

What makes for creative and effective witness on the frontiers of Christianity usually isn't what's needed for the daily running of the institutional church.

How on earth will any woman feel warmth and love at Church when people are over run with patriarchal ideas of what a woman «should be», when societies all over the world have different cultural aspects of what is considered «appropriate wear» for women.

More people would get on gov run programs and handouts which would in turn drive up your taxes to pay for those services that the churches once provided.

Why does CNN always run stories that always take a negative stance on the Catholic Church.

A Church of England vicar on the run after being sentenced to three - years jail time for sexually assaulting a 15 - year - old boy in India, is believed to be somewhere in the UK.