Sentences with phrase «return them to the church as»

«We are extremely keen to recover these items and return them to the church as quickly as possible.»

Squinted at in another way, Kenyon's life follows the arc of the classic conversion narrative: early churchgoing, adolescent rebellion, and return to the church as an adult.

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On a personal return, you can deduct up to 30 % to 50 % of your adjusted gross income, with the amount depending upon the charity's IRS category.Organizations such as churches, schools and private - operating foundations fall into the 50 % category; veterans» and fraternal societies are in the 30 % category.

As members of the baby boom generation become parents, they have returned to church with their children.

Investment for return (as Rodney Stark relates in The Victory of Reason) largely occurred against the grain of Church teaching, the Spanish Scholastics being largely ignored, and it was Calvin's application of biblical law to trade and commerce that created the competitive tension under which a millennium of misapplication and resultant economic suppression could begin to be corrected.

The reform of the Church since the pontificate of Leo XIII has involved a return of the Church's book to the people of the Church as a special means of encounter with the living God.

This piano ballad plays as a mid-tempo melancholy piece about resolve, and just as you think you have this song pinned, it changes ever so slightly, and then Menomena pulls a few tricks form their hat and returns to that same church service found in «Muscle»n Flo».

A priest has asked thieves who stole a ciborium as well as a tabernacle, chalices and other sacred items from a church «to repent and to return what they have taken.

I became a Christian at age 13 when I went to a well - known church camp in upstate New York and was threatened with the imminent — as in «all the signs are there; it may just happen tonight» — return of Christ.

The Church relishes in the liturgy as the «high point» of Christian worship, but does not the Christ remind us, «if our brother has something against us, we are to leave our gift at the altar and go be reconciled first and then return?»

The thing that interests me about this article as that the author is expecting someone to fix the church for Millenials so they will return.

Next year, I will return to the Archdiocese to be ordained as a priest and live out the rest of my life in the service of the Church in our part of Scotland.

The church as we know it did not begin until after Christ returned to heaven.

But unlike other films with more direct Christian messages, churches are much less likely to buy out theaters in bulk as they did for «Son of God» and «God's Not Dead,» a move that brought those films big returns at the box office.

Mike, if you didn't leave your previous church under a cloud then it's very likely you will receive a great welcome on your return... it can be overwhelming though as people crowd around you to say they're so glad you are there etc..

Lasting about as long as a church service, a good movie transports you to another realm where art of story and the magic of special effects allows you to experience an alternate reality that can help provide perspective or inspiration once you return to the real world.

«Then at least,» I wrote at the time, «left to ourselves, we will be able, under the guidance of a new Holy Father (who will, I hope and pray, see it as his aim to complete the work of the pontificate which has just come to such an unexpected end), and with God's help, return in the light of a new Eastertide to the business of building up the Church once more, free of the attentions of the roving media protagonists who so rarely care a jot about what, for a week or so, is currently attracting their fitful attention.»

It isn't until I sit down and do my work again that I return to the rest of my life — homemaking, raising children, community, church, school, marriage, all of it — as my most true self.

But she eventually returned to help lead the church into maturity as faithful and loving followers of Jesus Christ.

In the Bible he often refers to his bride as being his church when he returns!!

As far as whether she and her fiance would ever return to the church, she said, «I won't say never, but it's going to take a while.&raquAs far as whether she and her fiance would ever return to the church, she said, «I won't say never, but it's going to take a while.&raquas whether she and her fiance would ever return to the church, she said, «I won't say never, but it's going to take a while.»

Brian and Alden... let's not forget that the early church believed in the imminent return of the Lord... it appears somebody was wrong... how wd that belief affect the message on what was to be accepted as the gospel in the interim?

Today teachers of prophecy talk about satellite communication, space travel, television, world communism, the breakdown of the family and of church authority, abortion and the re-establishment of Israel's nationhood as all pointing to that return.

My dad's response was that if I didn't want to go to church because I didn't believe any more, then he guessed they would be returning the bike they had already bought as my Christmas present and that there wouldn't be any point in me participating in the family Christmas celebrations.

I thought straight away this is a joke as scriptures tell us only the father knows the time of his sons return and hes keeping it to himself he hasnt even told his son yet.Mark 13:32 This a mystery isnt God all knowing and isnt Jesus God it is a mystery.Yet I like that that is the case because it proves that the father is not the son and the son is not the father they are separate yet they are one just like the holy spirit.I have come across denominations that believe the father son and holy spirit are the one person i asked them how they can say that when Jesus was baptized we see 3 separate persons.We have enough information to know that we are in the last days the signs are present and increasing.Ever since Israel became a nation the countdown has begun.The verse the enemy will come like a thief in the night i have heard preached many times and i believe the preachers have got it wrong because they preach it from the view for the church to get there act together or you will miss out.This view is incorrect because if you are a born again believer following him in obedience and relying on the holy spirit you are not walking in darkness but are walking in the light so you will not be caught unaware as those who are sleeping this is a warning for those who are sleeping or walking according to the flesh they are in darkness.Remember the 10 wise virgins the ones who were alert and keep refilling there lamps went in with the bride those who slept were left behind and so it will be when the Lord returns.Now is the time to prepare our hearts and lives to be ready for his return.It is an exciting time to be living and we are to live in the expectation that the Lord could return at any time brentnz

As I clambered bleary - eyed onto the plane to return to my home and Protestant church in London, I knew the Catholic Church was on fire and I needed to wachurch in London, I knew the Catholic Church was on fire and I needed to waChurch was on fire and I needed to warm up.

With all the talk about Catholics leaving the Church because of the crisis, I'd like to go on record as one ex-Catholic for whom the crisis has been the occasion to return to the Church.

The difference is that Rome as a Christian Church, and can be revived by returning to the Word.

As I moved on to a pastorate in Tottenham, north London, I studied for a masters» degree in cross-cultural mission at All Nations Christian College and then returned to Spurgeon's to do a qualitative research project on multicultural church under their Doctor of Ministry programme.

Left - wing critics who had adopted Auden as their poet laureate now deplored his return to the church.

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.

Only as the Church recovers the reality of faith can it return to the debate and put sexuality into context as one part — and not the whole — of the Christian life.»

I know many that leave will later return to the church, i have seen that as well, but if they don't I will love them the same.

But surely, Paul could as easily be arguing the need for a return to the regnant pattern after a false application of Christian freedom in the young church as he could be proclaiming that which was at variance with his culture.

Kenny Johnson... it appears that Paul, Peter and the early church also thot that the world as they knew it was soon going to end, that Jesus wd return and the long awaited Kingdom / Day of the Lord wd soon come to pass.

As already alluded to, the way inwhich Church teaching on homosexuality is handled in this programme is a real problem to which I will return.

I'm getting more and more rabid about psalm - singing, and if the church as a whole would return to it — as we're clearly commanded to do — I think that would train us in what to sing about.

To suggest that such a change would be a return to the ghetto is to say something not so much about higher education as about the Catholic ChurcTo suggest that such a change would be a return to the ghetto is to say something not so much about higher education as about the Catholic Churcto the ghetto is to say something not so much about higher education as about the Catholic Churcto say something not so much about higher education as about the Catholic Church.

The new name is a return to what the church was called when General Lee served as senior warden in the 1860s.

Dala... Ever notice how once the tyrant is overturned that all of those that followed his cruel orders often go running back to their respective religions; the churches reopen and goodness and love return to their hearts as if the attempted genocides never happened.

's «program» (as it was reported by Frank Amos to John D. Rockefeller, Jr. in 1938), it does illustrate Mel's awareness of the confusion that was set in motion almost as soon as Wilson returned from Akron in the summer of 1935 and fell back into the arms of his Oxford Group friends in New York, the counsel of Rev. Sam Shoemaker at Calvary Church, and the bizarre «higher powers» mentioned in the writings of Professor William James.

Following Bonhoeffer's exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, he gives an exposition of Matthew 9:35 - 10:42.39 Short vignettes are drawn of the harvest (the people are without a shepherd, without relief, deliverance, and forgiveness) for which one must pray for laborers; the call of the apostles (who are given power stronger than Satan's and are bound together only by their choice and call); the work (fulfilling their commission to preach, traveling as messengers of the King, living in «royal poverty,» warning men of the urgency of the times); the suffering of the messengers (as Jesus was persecuted so the messengers will be, but they are forewarned; because Christ will return the disciples are not to fear man, or to be gullible in thinking that «there is good in every man «40); the decision (man's eternal destiny is determined by his decision on earth for the devil or for Christ); and the fruit (the disciples are fellow workers having as their goal the «salvation of the Church»).41

According to an analysis of his tax returns by the San Antonio Express - News, the Republican Perry has given half a percent of the $ 2.68 million he earned as governor to churches and religious organizations.

According to the Rolle declaration the true relation between the church's mission and the obligation to be one, can be found only as we return to Christ Himself.

We shall return to Jeremias's work on the parables again and again, for it is epoch - making in several respects, but for the moment we want only to call attention to the consequences of this work so far as a general view of the nature of the synoptic tradition is concerned the success of Jeremias's work demands that we accept his starting - point, namely, that any parable as it now stands in the gospels represents the teaching of the early Church and the way back from the early Church to the historical Jesus is a long and arduous one.

The electronic - church preachers, taken as a whole, represent the call for a return to «traditional» values, a call that has occurred in the early stages of each Great Awakening in America.

As Dean Hoge, Benton Johnson and Donald Luidens have documented in Vanishing Boundaries: The Religion of Mainline Protestant Baby Boomers, many young church members have departed, never to return.

The return to ancient faith and practice is increasingly seen as a way forward in churches polarized by worship wars and theological intransigence.

All too often these issues are handled «in house» in a church - centered attempt to avoid public scrutiny and to bring the matter to a close as quickly as possible so that the church can return to more «productive Gospel work».

Some of us took the return of the tabernacle from remote corners of the Church to the center of the sanctuary as a physical sign that things in the Church had bonded to the right axis.