Sentences with phrase «poor as church»

It was our first wedding anniversary, poor as church mice, we were «frugally» celebrating it.

The benefits Personal Property Coverage offers you are great, but the most important of them is that you will not find yourself poor as a church mouse should something bad happen to your property.

I know many indie authors are poor as church mice, but still, don't go cheap on your covers.

Ugly as home made sin, poor as a church mouse, older than dirt, can't dance and do not like cats, but beneath this plain exterior lies one of the world's great lovers.

then hang the man, take his M O N E Y.... that will do it, make him as poor as a church mouse.

Not exact matches

The center says it was founded in 1986 as a «total concept church for the rich, the poor, the young and the old.»

Therefore, the poor mental health (highly - prevalent depression) does not stem from a lack of exercise, smoking or drinking as required by the LDS Church Word of Wisdom dictates.The church leaders do stress to get married early and to have lots of chiChurch Word of Wisdom dictates.The church leaders do stress to get married early and to have lots of chichurch leaders do stress to get married early and to have lots of children.

Suppose a poor graduate student who is need of some extra income gets a call from a church that is interested in hiring him as an administrative assistant.

The abandonment of the church in the city centre gave rise to secularism among the poor as needs were not met by the church.

As a new benefit cap comes into force, a coalition of churches is warning poor children will be hit the... More

If these CHRISTians, as they like to be called, just stayed in their churches, helped the poor, stopped spreading hate — the kinds of things their boss said they should do, we wouldn't be bothered as much.

Last year he wrote in The Telegraph that the Church was too obsessed with issues such as sexuality, to even notice the concerns of the poor it should be serving.

It's not a negation of truth or absolute truth, it's just a recognition that we might be as confused over things as our kin in the faith who chained up Bibles, burned the bones of reformers, tossed bombs into the basements of black churches and burned crosses on the front yards of black people, who ignore the plight of the homeless and the poor while we struggle to decide between the 36 and 72 inch plasma screen tv.

My church reaches out to help the poor in America and other countries as well.

Affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Jones had a ministry in Indianapolis that was praised as a model of interracial service to the poor.

The moment the Christian churches begin Attuning themselves properly to Jesus Christ and Preaching His eternal message of LOVE for Everyone, Without Conditions, and Teaching about the Afterlife as God has promised us there is, and Teaching about the laying - on of hands to heal the sick as Jesus did, and begin truly Sharing their money with the poor as Jesus did, THEN you will find people flocking back into the church.

The Christian church, of which I am apart, has done a poor job as a whole conveying who Christ was / is... but not all churches.

I'd absolutely love to hear stories of churches (defined as institution) who have decided to live simply and share their wealth with the poor.

As a Catholic and a conservative I find it important to give to the poor on a regular basis, whether giving directly to my church, to Goodwill, or other non-profit agencies.

The CNI - SBSS, the SYNODICAL BOARD OF SOCIAL SERVICES (SBSS), was conceived as a response of the Church to the whole issue of poverty and related social justice for the poor and exploited as against the prevalent ethos of relief and charity.

As in the Middle Ages, so also later, the churches have had institutions to help the poor and have tried to moderate their oppression by the rich.

And far many more benefited as the Church aided the poor, treated the sick and helped assimilate wave uponwave of immigrants... Neighborhoods were anchored by parish churches, and by parochial schools that still serve as models of education.»

As the industrial revolution created a new kind of exploitation of the poor by the rich, many in the churches protested and attempted to mitigate the suffering.

But we always did a poor job of reaching unbelievers, as do most churches who follow this model.

I am thinking here of Jubilee 2000 which was launched by the Christian Churches, in an area many of us would find a little too limited, since they propose debt cancellation only for the poorest countries and not for countries such as Brazil or other economically important countries.

As the bishops developed ways to make this concern front and center in the church, a passion for the poor began to «seep out of the churches» into the horizons and practices of the empire.

As with the poor of Israel, those who used the court of the bishop and attended his church also expected to call upon him, in time of need, for justice and protection,» Brown writes.

Brown delighted this reviewer with his appreciation of the Psalter and would delight any right - minded Calvinist with his appreciation of Karl Barth's statement in Church Dogmatics IV, 2: as a poor man, writes Barth, Christ «shares as such the strange destiny which falls on God in His people and the world — to be the One who is ignored and forgotten and despised and discounted by men.

Then, too, Christians are convinced that the church can no longer play its traditional role in regard to the poor — the role of assistance, partial response, individual aid, palliative measures — because, as they see it, the problem is no longer that of the poor individual but of the system; and to ameliorate the situation of some poor people is in fact to reinforce the system, and to end injustice for one individual is to refrain from combating social injustice.

IF Jesus was actually a real person he would be dismantling the current Catholic Church in Rome and giving all this money to support these overpriced golden churches out to the poor people who are dying the streets while Francis» double - chins smack together as he chortles and drinks wine.

A proper understanding of the context reveals that pastors can not use this verse to encourage greater generosity in tithing, but instead, the pastor should give sacrificially from his own income to help the poor and needy in the church, as well as those who partner with him in the ministry.

It is a romantic heresy to suppose that once the poor and the oppressed are ministered to with charity and justice, we in the church have done as much for them as God could wish.

The author should also have touched on the religious leaders who use the church as their personal stepping stone to greater wealth, telling us the poor shall inherit the earth while they're being chauffeured around in their limos, driven to their multi-million dollar mansions or to their private million dollar jets.

A poor woman has been hailed as a hero after she died challenging a gunman who opened fire at a church... More

As it turns out, very little of the 51 % of the church budget for «missions» goes toward serving the poor and helping the needy in the community.

Torture and public trials resulted in burnings at the stake of poor and working - class women viewed as symbols of rebellion against the ruling church.

You will go to church and ask the priest who may or may not have abused little boys, whether you have committed a sin yourself, will ask for forgiveness, will give money to the church as for some inexplicable reason the house of god needs donations from the poor and desolate, and you will go home and feel good about yourself for being so committed to a statue.

Collections for poor saints (widows, orphans, crippled etc.) 1Co 16:1 - 2 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.

A tithing church will be able to influence public policy issues such as housing for the poor and equal - employment opportunities.

The fiscal integrity of the black church and community depend on biblical ethical principles such as working together, loving one another and caring for the poor.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

SugarKube says help for the poor should come from the church and my guess it is because that gives him the option as to whether or not he helps.

If the day of the formally established church ever ends once and for all, then transnational religious movements may be increasingly valued and supported and perhaps can be more effective as peace agents if they remain institutionally poor and weak.

The bishops have Pajeros, the educated laymen are frustrated and drop out of church life, and the poor Christians are left to serve as sweepers.

Such an arrangement would bring in as major players those financially poorer churches who have greater spiritual resources to share.

The great problem with governments and economic systems that are built upon the wealthy supporting the poor is that they masquerade as being the biblical model, the form of taking care of the poor that was practiced by Jesus and in the early church.

Under ordinances forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, churches have been taken to court for refusing to hire a homosexual as church organist or as teacher in the church school, ministries to the poor have lost their funding when they refused to tolerate homosexual behavior within their programs, and a Jesuit university was required to give recognition and support to a gay rights group.

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.

The Church has always felt that economic injustice occurrs due to the lack of free markets worldwide as the world's most poor live in socialist countries.

To «evangelize the poor» is thought of in terms of conversion to the Church, but seldom includes the liberation of the oppressed and setting the captives free as Jesus proclaimed in Luke 4:18.