Sentences with phrase «provided by the church»

Obama's accommodation proposes that Church authorities who run hospitals, schools, and other facilities will be entitled to tell their employees that the health care insurance provided by the Church does not cover contraceptives, the «morning after pill,» or sterilization, but that the health insurance company that covers the Catholic institution will be free to contact the employees of that institution and inform them that they are entitled to «free» coverage of these things from the insurance company in question.

This is the same man who rejected his lavish apartment provided by the Church to live closer to his congregation, passed on an offered chauffered limousine to take the bus, and cooked his own meals despite being offered a cook.

I enjoy participating in Christian activities provided by my church.

is for certain church self - funded death benefit plans treated as life insurance that pertain to a plan or arrangement provided by a church for the benefit of its employees and their beneficiaries, directly or through an organization.

IRC 7702 (j) is for certain church self - funded death benefit plans treated as life insurance that pertain to a plan or arrangement provided by a church for the benefit of its employees and their beneficiaries, directly or through an organization.

Couples that belong to a church or synagogue can request assistance through the church; usually the service is provided by the church's minister or rabbi.

Organized, supervised activities, such as sports, Scouting, the arts or recreational programs provided by churches, schools or agency youth clubs often protect teenagers from negative peer influences.18

Not exact matches

Lauren, if this is what you meant by needing to provide answers, well churches are really good at providing these types of answers.

Since young adults perceive evangelical Christianity to be... «unconcerned with social justice», it's a shame that more evangelical churches don't know about the Just Faith program, which provides «opportunities for individuals to study and be formed by the justice tradition articulated by the Scriptures, the Church's historical witness, theological inquiry and Church social teaching» (from jusfaith.org/programs).

I'm sorry for your experience but my family was rescued by the Church, fed and provided, and protected from criminal regimes.

The church assist its members and non LDS in their genealogical work by providing names they have collected form multiple resources around the world, via various data bases.

The Church's approach is to help people become self - reliant by teaching skills and providing resources for a self - sustained life.

He refused to believe that Vatican II, the ecumenical council he had experienced as a powerful work of the Holy Spirit, could only lead to permanent incoherence and division in Catholicism; and by providing an authoritative interpretation of the Council, John Paul II's pontificate energized the living parts of the Church and made Vatican II the launch platform for the new evangelization and for the Church's rediscovery of itself as a missionary enterprise.

In the letter, which I couldn't find online, he begins by «reiterat [ing] my uncompromised commitment to the Magisterium of the Church in all its fullness, including the Church's unambiguous teaching on homosexuality,» providing a number of examples.

What I have to wonder is, if we, as a Church, trust God to work and bring people to Him, or if we feel like we have to «help» by providing all these material possessions (which in the end are meaningless, the money spent on them might be better spent on improving the community, providing food for hungry, support for ministers and overseas missionaries).

The founding fallacy in the new church was a «defective ecclesiology» that provided for governance by a lay majority, dominated under a quota system by minorities and feminists, in which theologians were marginalized and issues of race and gender took precedence over traditional ecclesial and confessional concerns.

ACN is helping local Church leaders to stand up for people's rights by providing support at the Inter-Religious Dialogue Centre in Khulna.

I mean, we all know by now that most of the things the church provides: worship, teaching, connection...

You can't provide ONE piece of independent (not created by the church) information that isn't vague and can be interpreted numerous ways that proves the catholic church is «the real church».

The Church should stop inducing guilt by encouraging people to read the Bible and instead provide people with the education required to understand the Scriptures.

The Catholic Church has helped frame this year's election by strenuously opposing a rule in President Obama's health care law that requires insurance companies to provide free contraception coverage to nearly all American employees, including those at Catholic colleges and hospitals.

Parochial schools are supported by church funds in addition to tuition, not tax dollars, providing in many areas a reasonable alternative for working class and middle class parishioners and removing these millions of students from the public education system paid for by taxpayers.

Our church is not perfect by a long shot, but we are striving to provide a church home for the hurting and the searching.

«teachers,» and «apostles»; who managed the staggering influx of widows and women into the Christian community by providing guidelines to ensure that Ephesian churches remained distinct from the pagan cults of the day, but who still expected trained women to prophesy, to teach, and to lead.

They were pretty damning, and my possession of them earned me a subpoena» served during a church potluck by a Texas Ranger who came with ten dollars cash provided by the State of Texas for travel expenses.

Moreover, the ministry of the churches, by providing such services to known undocumented persons, is criminalized under this law.»

«I beg your forgiveness, too, for the sins of omission on the part of Church leaders who did not respond adequately to reports of abuse made by family members, as well as by abuse victims themselves,» Francis said in the homily, according to a text of the statement provided by the Vatican.

The church system offers life, but I don't think it realizes how it actually provides that life by putting everyone to death, including Christ himself.

Four compounds have been prepared to provide immediate shelter, while 28 families have been settled in furnished apartments rented by the church.

As many have already pointed out, no one is asking the church and its businesses to compromise its beliefs by administering, issuing or providing these devices but rather, allowing for coverage in existing employee health insurance plans.

Yet such as it is — and the more certainly so, the more clearly we recognize just what the book is — it remains an extremely valuable document of primitive Western Christianity; though it by no means provides us with all we wish to know about the life and teaching of our Lord, or the life and teaching, activities, and beliefs, of the early church.

First, the church must acknowledge that it is not sustained by the services it provides or by anything it does.

This is especially true of the «fortunate old» — those who are healthy and surrounded by loved ones, who have a spouse and a happy marriage, and thus less need for the social supports that the church provides.

Michael Smith Foster in Annulment: The Wedding That Was... How the Church Can Declare a Marriage Null (Paulist, 1998) provides a careful explanation of how the Church abides by this norm even to the present day.

The church can help people remain stable in the midst of crises by providing a place for people to simply name their thoughts, feelings and fears without having to defend them.

True, the constitution of the Church does not provide an absolute guarantee that these charismatic elements which are given her by the freely acting Spirit of God are always accorded the necessary freedom for their development.

Buildings for the work were provided by the vacant churches left by wealthier people who were moving out of the disintegrating sections of the city.

By giving us a narrative arc that stretches from the earliest Church Fathers to Pope John Paul II and beyond, Roberts considers not only the ways in which these figures disagree with one another but how they provide resources for understanding sexual difference today.

According to their mission statement, «Together for Adoption exists to mobilize the church to care for orphans by providing gospel - centered resources that explore our adoption in Christ and its profound implications for the global orphan crisis.»

Will the bishops have the courage to use the possibilities provided by the Constitution on the Church with regard to the renewal of the diaconate?

Thankfully, it is not only the government realizing the extent of the porn epidemic but churches are starting to take action by providing small group studies and recovery programs, like the Conquer Series, that are designed to break the cycle of pornography and provide sexual discipleship.

The aid organization World Vision «is responding by partnering with churches to provide vital supplies and support.

A key challenge faced by the Church one which often goes unrecognised is that the Bible does not provide the final answer to a whole number of spiritual and moral issues with which society has subsequently wrestled.

The heartening reality is that the typical mainline church, by maximizing its advantages, can provide an environment that encourages this kind of continuing renewal.

, the creeds of the church universal, though not infallible, both provide temporary respite by alerting me to the time honored convictions of multitudes of believing persons before my time and make me pause before accepting innovations.

Hays provides the churches with the tools to discuss moral questions in a more flexible way by moving analogously and imaginatively from text to life and back again.

Ecclesiastical stated: «When presented with a list of services offered by churches around the country such as food banks, elderly support groups, parish nursing and dementia support, the research found that more than half (54 per cent) of those surveyed were unaware of the services their own local church provided.»

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.»

By saying this, I am trying to differentiate mission with the general understanding of the ministry of the church, which is «to provide for the inner needs of the congregation» [3] Thus, while ministry is understood broadly as that which the church provides for its members within its borderlines, mission concerns those beyond the church's boundaries.

It is a different way of looking at things, which leads to a different set of questions, which provide different directions, values, and systems for a church that wants to grow by multiplication rather than addition.