Sentences with phrase «raised in holiness»

For those raised in holiness and pentecostal circles, what occurred in the 1980s was all too familiar because the issues had been debated in the 1950s and 1960s.

I know many people raised in holiness churches who'd load their kids up and take them three towns over to see a forbidden movie so that no one in their church would find out.

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R. R. Reno has written eloquently: «By clarifying what God has done in the person of Mary, the Church raises our eyes toward the highest goals, teaching the faithful that human flesh is capable of remarkable feats of holiness — even to the point of sinless perfection and fellowship with God in our flesh.»

They not only challenge the consensus of several decades but also suggest the historical conditioning of Holiness theology, raise questions about the varieties of theologies in the New Testament, and focus issues about the historical and theological relationships between Holiness and Pentecostal traditions.

As the Nazi's raised hell in the Holocaust in Europe in the 1930s and early 40s, his holiness Pius XII stood silently by... Fast forward to the epidemic of priestly pedophilia, covered up and stone - walled for decades by the Holy See.

Raised a Southern Baptist, Grady became a charismatic in college, attended an independent charismatic church, then was ordained by the Pentecostal Holiness Church before being drawn to the conservative Episcopal parish.

With strong emotion he called us» Americans searching for the roots of liberty, Eastern Europeans so lately liberated» to the authentic path of freedom and holiness, centered in the sacrifice of Christ, and raised the host to unite our group in a bond far stronger than argument.

His Holiness raised his voice in an eloquent appeal for the basic principles of justice, charity, and hospitality for refugees of whatever religion or race, thrust from their countries by shameful persecution.»

It has been the joyful experience of the Church inevery age to raise up through God's grace sons and daughters outstanding in holiness, and remarkable too through the influence of the miraculous in their lives.

I ask Your Holiness to do all you can to raise your voice in defense of the Orthodox Christians in eastern Ukraine who, in a situation of increasing violence on the part of Greek Catholics and schismatics, live in daily fear.»

But thirty - two years later such distinction had so faded that Bishop McKendree could answer that «God's design in raising up the preachers called Methodists in America was to reform the continent by spreading scriptural holiness over the land.»