Sentences with phrase «other high church»

All because Constantine and other high church councils decided to develop a giant doctrinal statement / creed...

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Given that its figures do not include Cardiff where rough sleeping is highest, as well as other parts of Wales, the 18,000 hours is just a snapshot of what Welsh churches are doing for people who don't have anywhere to live.

However, constituency meetings, especially those at the higher levels of the organizational pyramid, have proved unlikely to act independently because the system for choosing delegates (who are appointed rather than elected) has ensured that the vast majority hold leadership positions in the church or other church - paid positions.

His church and ours, along with some other ministries here in the city, collaborate to do an urban high school camp every summer.

I generally write with an evangelical audience in mind, but as others have rightly noted, it's not just evangelical churches losing young adults, but also Catholic churches, Orthodox churches, and Mainline Protestant churches... sometimes at even higher rates.

Specifically Christian persecution has included the burning of churches, forced «reconversions» to Hinduism, bomb threats, distribution of threatening literature, the burning of Bibles, several high - profile rapes of nuns, the murder of priests and other Christian workers, desecration of the Cross and statues of the Virgin Mary, and destruction of properties at Christian schools, colleges, and cemeteries.

Australia's longest - running royal commission - which is the country» highest form of inquiry - has been investigating since 2012 how the Catholic Church and other institutions responded to sexual abuse of children in Australia over 90 years.

It was the cardinal's (and other Church higher - ups) decision to cover up the abuse.

As soon as I turned 13, she presented me with my first tube of cherry - red lipstick and my first pair of high heels — three - inch heels they were in those days, and I thought them not only uncomfortable but incredibly hideous — and from then on made me go to church thus shod and painted, indistinguishable from the other eighth - graders whose arms hadn't had to be twisted.

A church bus carrying dozens of high school students and adults has crashed near Atlanta, killing one person and injuring several others.

The few people I know who attend mega churches here in San Diego tell me that they go because: 1) They like the their pastor's preaching (Most of those pastors have radio ministries) 2) They like the other high class guest speakers 3) They like the bookstores, cafes and so on the church has 4) They can blend into the crowd

The devil has blinded the leaders of the churches of today when they serve carved images of the flag of any nation... In Exodus and Deuteronomy God said, not to serve or bow down to any carved image in the likeness of heaven above or in the likeness of the earth below... When you pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are pledging your allegiance to the carved images of the flag... The founding fathers made carved images in the likeness of heaven above and in the likeness of the earth below and set the carved images on a flag and the flag is high and lifted up on a flag pole... Some nations are serving the stars, the moon, and the sun, and others are serving the eagle, the bear, and the tree... The U.S. is serving the stars of heaven and the eagle of the earth... Canada is serving the leaf of a tree... Mexico is serving the eagle and the serpent... When you put your right hand to your heart or to your forehead, and pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are committing fornication with the carved images of the flag, God calls this IDOLATRY... The mark of the beast in the right hand or forehead is spiritual and identical to when you put your right hand over your heart or over your forehead... There is no way to go around God and the carved images of the flag, unless the devil has blinded the minds of the believer, like when he deceived eve and Adam in the garden of Eden.

Wayland and the other reformers saw the church as a principal source of the conservative resistance they met in their efforts to open higher education to intellectually capable students.

Mommsen notes, as have many others, that the resisters were drawn chiefly from the churches, the army, and the higher levels of civil service.

One sees by this measure, as by others, that for the oldline churches it was the higher growth rates of the 1950s that were unusual, not the relatively lower ones that set in after the early «60s.

Because Azalea is a specialist project, they train their staff to a high standard, but the temptation for other churches can be to just give it a go.

It was true both of the religious sects like the local church and the pale thin - armed bespectacled atheists of the Larouchies, Randians, and other groups I ran into when I did editing work at certain noted institutions of higher learning.

U.S. Supreme Court justices, for example, have been called «the nine high priests,» and the sacredness imputed to the Constitution and other artifacts of the legal order are often commented upon.102 No single church evokes the breadth of respect enjoyed by the Supreme Court.

Previous Pew Research Center studies found that Hispanic Christians attend church more regularly than their white counterparts, and black Protestants are retaining young churchgoers at higher rates than any other group.

Secondly, he has received a good deal of praise and support internationally for this document: Archbishop Mauro Piacenza, secretary of the Congregation for Clergy wrote to congratulate the Bishop for carrying out what the General Directory for Catechesis had called for following the publication of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and expressed his hope that it «will become an example for other Dioceses in the country»; dioceses in Australia, America, France, Canada and Malta have asked for copies; the Catholic Truth Society in London has published the document following high demand.

Teens report a higher or comparable degree of Christian orthodoxy and confidence in the church when compared to their parents or other adults.

Those in the spiritual - but - not - religious camp are peddling the notion that by being independent - by choosing an «individual relationship» to some concept of «higher power», energy, oneness or something - or - other - they are in a deeper, more profound relationship than one that is coerced via a large institution like a church.

That being said, this moment happens to be a very good time to bring out a book that contains such documents as Leo XIII's Libertas Praestantissimum, Pius XI's Casti Connubii, and John Paul II's Veritatis Splendor, since the doctrine of these and other classic encyclicals is being contradicted regularly nowadays, even by those in high places in the Church.

The churches would continue in such a plan to have much diversity, but with freer passage back and forth for both ministers and members, a far higher consciousness of Christians representing traditions other than one's own, an arena for mutuality in mission.

The local church is, further, because it speaks an idiom of human language, an instance of human society that distinguishes itself from many other kinds of societies by the high proportion of language it spends on struggle and grace.

In its wake, alleged victims of sexual abuse are suing the archdiocese and other high - ranking church officials because the report states the archdiocese knowingly withheld the identity of predator priests.

Considering that church attendance and religion in general are on the decline, the survey's other finding may be somewhat surprising: Just 17 percent say they never pray (though that number too, is a new record high)...

The Humanitas Award and others such as the National Council of Churches «annual Film Awards, the Christopher awards to productions «affirming the highest value of the human spirit,» and the Southern Baptist Abe Lincoln Awards, encourage producers, directors, and writers to devote time to their craft which the media industry itself, because of its profit considerations, simply does not reward.

On the other hand, Edith knows that one member of the committee is bringing magazines that advertise electronic products for «changing the way your church worships» through the use of video and light projectors, high - tech sound equipment, and even a glass pulpit!

The Council, some believe, renounced the high claims previously made for the Church and put Catholic Christianity on a plane of equality with other churches and religions.

How well are the churches addressing the tensions felt in the minds of many educated Christians who internally hear two choruses: on the one hand, the voices of their pastor and Sunday school, the scriptures and tradition; on the other, the voices of their high school science teacher, their college biology professor and the science section of the New York Times?

And the simple fact is that in an era when nearly everyone assumed that communism had come to stay, it was not simply a few isolated Polish Catholic priests like Wielgus whobelieved that there had to be some degree of cooperation with the institutional manifestations of communism; it was the Church at the very highest level of all, in Rome itself: for the assumption that communism was a permanent reality and therefore had to be dealt with was the very foundation of Paul VI's Ostpolitik, the most famous and the most ignoble manifestation of which was Pope Paul's betrayal (there is no other word) of the Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty, who was stripped of all his offices and replaced by a Hungarian Primate whose remit (faithfully accomplished) was to establish cordial relations with the communist regime of the deeply unsavoury Janos Kadar.

My small group leaders and then other leaders in the church I grew up going to (which was as relaxed in their preaching as you can find (Presbyterian)-RRB- would confirms this to other high school guys and girls my age that unless he chose to believe in Jesus as the Son of God by the time he died on his deathbed he wouldn't join my Mom and sisters and I in heaven.

Neville you are quite right it is a process of growing i do nt believe Jeremy is saying we should sit there like a lump of clay and do nothing.But rather than doing something thinking that that will add to the work of Christ is pointless.We are expected to walk by faith but alot of what is expected from the church or others are dead works and are done because the church expects us to do them.The way around this is to say no just do what the Lord wants you to and please him put him first.That way you are still walking by faith and growing in Christ rather than wasting time just trying to keep something going that needs to die so that Christ can be elevated to the highest position.brentnz

The document was sent to all member churches, asking them «to prepare an official response to this text at the highest appropriate level of authority, whether it be a council, synod, conference, assembly or other body.»

There are signs of a growing public concern in America, too, where a much higher percentage of the population is connected with one or the other of the churches.

In the traditionally middle - class black neighborhood of Chatham, for example, the decline in high - paying industrial jobs has important ramifications for Carter Temple (Christian Methodist Episcopal) and the other thriving African - American churches.

Other persons, including high officials of the Church, have said that Liberation Theology is dying.

We are siblings in Christ to love and encourage each other, but the damage the church at large has done in their good faith attempts to «keep people in check» is incalculably higher than loving them and entrusting them to Jesus who knows how to reach our hearts.

Every Church in the United States of America who pays their tides and offerings at a congregational building where they have worship service, also pays the same high taxes as the other 99 % ters.

We didn't submit to a hierarchical, manufactured belief system that made certain men outside our church higher and holier than others.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

He shows how the Tractarians (and others) in the 1820s and 30s believed the Church to be in a condition of spiritual torpor, whereas after the split within the movement between the so - called Xs and Zs in the wake of Tract 90 and the radical takeover of The British Critic, the Zs (Newman's opponents) tried to create a picture of acontinuous stream of living High Church belief and devotion linking the 18th century Non-Jurors and Hutchinsonians to their own «Old High Church» segment of Tractarianism.

The church also has its own high school, medical centers, kindergartens and other social institutions.»

The problems you cite in the Roman Catholic Church and other Christian churches exists within every segment of our society, too, usually in much higher numbers.

In fact, many of them find it expedient to pay lip service to other religious creeds and maintain nominal ties with churches that enjoy a high degree of prestige in the community.

Brother Martin's spirit soared and remained high as the friars processed out of the church to the refectory along the other side of the cloister garth, for supper.

Australia's longest - running royal commission - which is the country's highest form of inquiry - had been investigating since 2012 how the Catholic Church and other institutions responded to sexual abuse of children in Australia over 90 years.

Basing certainty on the institution of the church is also possible in other communities — among high - church Anglicans, among their Lutheran cousins (especially in Scandinavia), and of course in the Eastern churches.

Out of the other I could see the church — the Church of the Tears of the Blessed Virgin — and beyond the church were the mountains, hovering high in desperate grandeur, heavy green for miles, then hazy blue into the bluchurch — the Church of the Tears of the Blessed Virgin — and beyond the church were the mountains, hovering high in desperate grandeur, heavy green for miles, then hazy blue into the bluChurch of the Tears of the Blessed Virgin — and beyond the church were the mountains, hovering high in desperate grandeur, heavy green for miles, then hazy blue into the bluchurch were the mountains, hovering high in desperate grandeur, heavy green for miles, then hazy blue into the blue sky.