Sentences with phrase «other christian families»

Plus it's a fun way to connect with other Christian families.

Pastor Bhim Nayak, head pastor of Banjara Baptist Church, and fifteen of his church members were singing Christmas carols and visiting with other Christian families when they were attacked.

Not exact matches

Those who speak out against abortion and family practice and at the same time support cuts in education, school lunch funding, decry reasonable control of weapons and other programs that help children can not call themselves Christians.

Even though I grew up in a strong Christian family and studied theology in college, I realize it is as likely a story as many others.

He frequently cites the work of Frank Furstenburg and Arlie Hochschild, two sociologists of family and gender relations whose views are by no means ideologically conservative, and he avoids value - loaded language, especially when it comes to describing the mainline Protestant churches whose leadership has, by and large, capitulated to the secular - elitist acceptance of extramarital sex, abortion, homosexuality, and other practices that conservative Christians view as inimical to moral life and family health.

In this case the Christian families are being discriminated against and it is no more right to discriminate christians than others.

The Christian Right wants public money to be used for private religious education (vouchers), buildings and services to be used for private religious purposes (this article), and they want subsidies in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions of other sorts, and they even want to destroy Aid to Needy Families so they can drive people into seeking help at their private religious «missions» where you are not allowed to eat unless you are a Christian, and so on.

i would say bringing harm to children or young people would be a definite... but yet the right wing «christians» can somehow justify dropping bombs on civilians... but sometimes maybe bombs have to be used to protect us or others, just like a person may need to use gun to protect himself or his family..

I was raised Christian and I know my Bible, my father and grandfather were both ministers and, most other Sundays, I attend a «real» Church with my family.

With the help of aid agencies such as Christian Aid, Tearfund and many others, families are more likely to survive conflict and to get back on their feet once the fighting is over.

They seem to be mostly about priest abusing little boys, Westboro Baptists saying God hates the families of fallen soldiers, politicians deciding that women now need two (not just one) unnecessary medical procedure before they can be allowed to make decisions about their bodies, and Christians telling couples who want to legally commit their lives to each other that they aren't allowed to do that.

Anne Frank and her family together with other 6 million Jews were murdered in Europe by the Nazis and other Europeans for the very fact that they were Jewish and not Christian.

He had no other immediate plans than to continue in this semirural pastorate near his family's home, but an unexpected call from the Monroe Street Christian Church in Chicago turned his course toward far broader horizons.

I'm sure many families were torn apart as some remained pagans loyal to Rome, or remained Jews while others became Christians.

While personal relationships could form across confessional lines» families hired servants from other communities, for example» and while some religious leaders encouraged respect and compassion for members of other faiths, the relationship among Christians, Muslims, and Jews was hardly a model of cooperation.

And when your family are Christians there are plenty of other motivations to apply the label to yourself.

Most are just enjoying a fun day with the family (a wonderful Christian practice), and many others of us are remembering the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ (the most important event in human history).

In a statement released by the FCO, his family said: «We are all deeply saddened by the loss of Ian, a loving father, husband, and devout Christian, who dedicated much of his life in the service of others.

But Christians affirm that in fact God works through other means, the worldly means of politics, economics, family life, and so forth.

A Christian Pakistani family visiting other family members to celebrate Easter was shot dead on Easter... More

As a student, Lin led what the Harvard - Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship calls a «family group,» a small group devoted to Bible study and praying for others.

I hope that he and his family and supporters take this with Christian love; It is my sincere hope that he gets his just rewards and that the afterlife treats him the same way he treated others in this life.

Whatever it is the Christian men are doing to abuse their women and families and make the women attack each other is very rotten, too.

Faiez's family left their home in Mosul when extremist Islamic group IS took over the city, giving Christians and other minorities a chilling ultimatum: convert, leave, or die by the sword.

Others will conclude that families in their community seek and need programs with a Christian emphasis, as well as with educational and custodial functions.

This is exactly where the problem in this country lies, knowledge of one religion (the practiced theology of your family or household) and assumptions and criticisms on others... Christians hatting muslims, Jewishand musims disliking each other.

Over time, the availability of family - related growth groups will make it acceptable to confide in and learn from others in the Christian community.

«We are blessed with organisations such as the Evangelical Alliance, CARE, Christian Concern and others who seek to present the biblical case for marriage and family clearly and intelligently.»

Islam is a religion of peace and most of its practicioners are peaceful folks just trying to make it through life with their families just like christians, Buddhists or other beliefs.

so we can all stop judging eachother and start encouraging others starting with our own family, the word does say that you and your household will be saved, but thats to much like work its easier to play christian around your church you belong to and play follow the leader and go around telling people that God loves them tell them all about how they are sinners you know the bit, an thats it go home and freak out on your famliy members because their not save like you maybe they are and you cant even tell because they do nt measure up to your churches standards even though God says we have all fallen short and that our rightousness is filthy rags, we need to stop useing the word of God as though we think we know what were doing, do you really think that when God said I will give you all authority He ment you?

The writings of Harold Lindsell, Francis Schaefer, Bernard Ramm, Carl Henry, Clark Pinnock, Dick France, James Packer and others present a range of contradictory theological formulations on such issues as the nature of Biblical inspiration, the place of women in the church and family, the church's role in social ethics, and the Christian's response to homosexuality.

Unfortunately if I'm the Sophia in the picture, then the group on the other side is my family and other Christian legalists.

Other Republican hopefuls, Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition and such «cultural warriors» as Rush Limbaugh, former Secretary of Education William Bennett, and James Dobson, director of Focus on the Family, have claimed there is an encompassing social divide over morality and values.

Virtuous Christians respect and care for God's gifts and provide themselves, their families, and others with one of the most fundamental human goods — health.

Most Christians I know, including the Catholics, Mormons and others I know and have in my family, are not extremist, and practice and use their faith in ways beneficial to society in general.

A family of Christian people is sustained by the bonds of affection that transform it into a community of compassion... A family shaped by Christian principles is therefore not only a place of empathy where each one seeks to understand and honor the uniqueness of the other: it is a compassionate community of people who suffer with one another.8

There are not some who are Christians because they were really good people, and others who are Christians because they were born into a Christian family.

A Christian Pakistani family visiting other family members to celebrate Easter was shot dead on Easter Monday.

I love Christians, as much as I love my family, friends, coworkers and all other humans.

On the other hand, liberals writing about family life or sexual ethics know that «the family ideal» is not viable for Christians today.

To us, and most Christians, Phelps is dead wrong because he is hurting innocent people, but many Christians would picket a gay pride march, and many others would picket a family planning clinic.

Viewed from any other part of the world the differentiations between denominations which seem sharp enough in North America tend to fade away or, rather, are overshadowed by the family resemblances which bind the bulk of American Protestants together into a well - defined type as contrasted with Christian communities on other continents.

The writer of Ephesians instructs and encourages believers regarding faithful service to each other in the Christian community and in their families.

Most gun - owning Christians would say their gun works just as well for defending other people (their family, neighbors, etc.).

But watch this... if we who no longer sit in a pew on Sunday morning are also part of the family of God through our faith in Jesus, our commitment to follow Him, and our regular fellowship with other travelers on this road, then we too are part of the local and universal church, which means that when Wytsma criticizes us, he is criticizing «the church,» which means that according to his definition, he too is a terminal Christian and headed toward separation from God.

and if someone stays at home with their family [also Christians], and meets other Christians occasionally, are they not in the Church?

Noll and Nystrom next survey the international bilateral dialogues on matters of doctrine that followed in the wake of Vatican II between the Roman Catholic Church, on the one hand, and the various «world confessional families» or «Christian world communions,» on the other.

Religion paves the moral main street of a white - clapboard America inhabited by independent individuals who lend each other a helping hand to earn their own way, support their own families and worship their own God, instead of depending for handouts on a welfare state that regulates hardworking individuals out of existence and replaces Christian charity with legal entitlements.

Jesus stated that during our time period (that is called his invisible «presence» at Matthew 24:3, the KJV and other Bibles inaccurately reads «coming»), pseudo Christians or false Christians would be busy (along with the rest of the «world») with the mundane affairs of life, getting married, having children, eating and drinking, in which Jesus compared to the «days of Noah», and with the exception of Noah and his family, pseudo Christians would «take no note» that they were living during a critical juncture in human history.

In other cases, new Christians wait years before they are reaccepted into their families.