Sentences with phrase «return to a church at»

It's actually not that uncommon for atheists to return to a church at some point in their lives, particularly IF they were raised in a Christian home.

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Boethius said, on December 19th, 2008 at 8:08 pm Well we could all repent and return or convert and return to the Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox churches.

He was probably already at church and followed the directions of the worship leader to turn off all cellphones during the service... I'm sure He'll return your call later.

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.

Bonhoeffer's early and consistent resistance to the intrusion of Nazi ecclesial, political and military machinations is well known: his bold involvement in the Confessing Church, his directorship of the underground seminary community at Finkenwalde (from which time we have his book Life Together), his summons to costly discipleship, the increasing repression of the mid-1930s and his decision to return to Germany in 1939 (although he had the opportunity to become an exile in the United States).

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?»

Born in Basel, in 1886, he had returned at the end of his university career to be the minister of the church in the little town of Protestant Aargau, north of Lucerne; and there, during the war period, he had preached on Sunday mornings before the good peasant folk, to the antiphonal booming of guns in near - by Alsace.

The mother took shelter at United Church a day before she was supposed to return to her native land of Peru.

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.

«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.»

We want to make our church look like a quintessential English parish, to return traditional treasures to the people and to re-capture that distinctive English spirituality that was lost to the Catholic Church at the Reformation», hechurch look like a quintessential English parish, to return traditional treasures to the people and to re-capture that distinctive English spirituality that was lost to the Catholic Church at the Reformation», heChurch at the Reformation», he says.

Well considering Mormons are a cult at least he returned to a mainstream religion like the Catholic Church.

Upon the failure of the Temple, the early church in effect returned to tents, for «Christianity had no identifiable places of assembly for at least two hundred years.

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

The same kind of coordinated action could unite evangelicals with other Christians and concerned persons of goodwill to address the key social needs of the late 20th century — if not to solve them, at least to hold them before God responsibly in prayer to seek whatever measure of progress may be consistent with the church's task before the return of Christ.

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.

I don't want to assume that my path will always be toward / within / alongside the church, but at present, it is, and I truly appreciate your respect, and truly respect you in return.

They ignored the fact that after emancipation, all the African - American members had left to found their own church, that many of the men had entered the Confederate Army never to return, and that the community at large had been disrupted by the Civil War and Reconstruction.

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.

«Donors expect their gifts to be handled efficiently and honestly, so that the best returns are achieved to finance the works of the Church, especially those aimed at preaching the Gospel and helping the poor escape from poverty.

In the weeks since Nepal officially dashed the desire of many citizens to return to being a Hindu nation, attendance at its Christian churches has plummeted.

Megachurch pastor Dino Rizzo returned to ministry — but at a different church — barely a year after resigning because of an extramarital affair.

That church family is by far and away at the top of the list, and we are making an effort to return every few months to stay somewhat connected with our church family.

And that «return» (often called ressourcement theology) was not a matter of pious nostalgia but of intellectual adventure: a movement that sought to enrich the Church's reflection on her own nature and mission at a moment when theology risked falling into a sub-discipline of logic — something dry and abstract, detached from the explosive good news of the Gospel.

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I certainly don't desire a return to an era in which the Catholic Church had the police at her disposal.

But this weekend, for the first time in months, Perry returned to the pulpit to the preach a sermon — this time at Charlotte's Elevation Church, the megachurch pastored by Steven Furtick.

'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.

I think that we often begin within the church institution / community, and then gain our spiritual independence; and then determine how and when we wish to return to any community (if at all).

From Deb: After 18 years at a large Evangelical church, including five years on the Kids» Ministry staff, my husband and I have recently returned to a small United Methodist Church we attended yearchurch, including five years on the Kids» Ministry staff, my husband and I have recently returned to a small United Methodist Church we attended yearChurch we attended years ago.

«The time for the great reversal is at hand,» conclude Hartford Seminary sociologists David Roozen and William McKinney, whose recent study indicates that 42 per cent of the baby - boom generation are returning to church (reported in the January 21, 1987, issue of the Lutheran) Many people between the ages of 18 and 35 who attended church only occasionally before 1970 are now attending regularly, their survey shows.

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.

Can it be wondered at that Baptists should be strengthened in their determination to strive for the retention of the fullness of baptism, ordained of the Lord and continued in the Apostolic Communities, and that they should continue to lift up their voices among the Churches to plead for a return to this baptism?

But for many churches in the «90s the return to the tradition of the church catholic will mean an increasing reliance on the historic experience of the church at worship.

These fundamentalists detect an anti-Christian value system in the media, and counsel a return to religious fundamentals, which often include proscriptions against dancing, movies, plays and rock concerts, attempts at censorship of media — especially films, television and books — and encouraging participation in church social events as a substitute for secular culture offerings.

In John Tombler and Hubert Funk's The Raptured: A Catholic View of the Latter Days and the Second Coming (the authors are professors at Seton Hall and the book bears the imprimatur of Bishop John Doughty), we have adherence to the return of the Jews to Palestine in the end time and a rapture of the Church.

Thus a return to the tradition of the early church cuts through later accretions and developments, exposing the ways in which they have departed from apostolic intent while at the same time reviving the current practice of worship through the rediscovery of the apostolic intent preserved by the Fathers.

I could scream at the altar of a church, with a crucifix stuck deep up my asshole, that I fuck Jesus Christ hard through the hand holes and cream on his crown of thorns, and I will never hit the level of blasphemy that's required for someone to pray to god for their family's pet dog to return home.

1928 editorial from the Wall Street Journal, «What America needs today is not Government controls, industrial expansion, or a bumper corn crop; America needs to return to the day when grandpa took the team out of the field in the early afternoon on Wednesday in order to hitch them to the old spring wagon which grandma put all the children after she washed their faces shining clean; and they drove off to prayer meeting in the little white church at the crossroads underneath the oak trees, where everyone believed the Bible, trusted Christ, and loved one another.»

But in 1530, in an attempt to restore religious unity, returning from his coronation at Rome as Emperor, Charles called a meeting of the Diet at Augsburg and asked the Protestants to state where they differed from the Roman Catholic Church.

Having recently returned to church, I have found I'm not being told this at all.

Not long before his death, in a work entitled On the Church of Christ (1970), he wrote: «It seems to me, very significant that these two events of such great bearing — on the Jewish side the return of a portion of the people to the Promised Land, on the Christian side the Second Council of the Vatican — took place at almost the same time, the first in 1948, the second in 1962 — 1965.

Curiously, it is being reasked by Christian clergymen at a time when so many others are unhesitatingly becoming part of the Jesus movement or returning to fundamentalist churches.

During a press conference at the police in Shahdara district on Tuesday evening, Muslim and Christian church leaders urged families to return to the city and to live in peace with Muslim neighbours.

Not long after Spalatin's return from Cologne, he received a letter from Luther about another kind of book burning: «On 10 December 1520, at nine o'clock in the morning, all the following papal books were burned in Wittenberg at the eastern gate near the Church of the Holy Cross: the Decretum, the Decretals,... and the most recent Bull of Leo X; likewise the Summa Angelica, Eck's Chrysopassus... This was done so that the incendiary papists may see that it doesn't take much to burn books they can not refute.

And in response, Henry quotes Luther, Calvin, and Peter Martyr to the effect that they had not departed from the Church at all but rather had returned to it in their recovery of the doctrine and ordinances of the apostles.

This spring, the evangelical world was roiled when Francis J. Beckwith, a professor of church - state studies at Baylor University, decided to return to the faith of his childhood and was received back into full communion with the Catholic Church on April 29 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church church - state studies at Baylor University, decided to return to the faith of his childhood and was received back into full communion with the Catholic Church on April 29 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church Church on April 29 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church Church in....

I led a two - and - a-half hour prayer session where I prayed and listened to God for these 25 precious people, most of whom had not been in a church in quite a while and had no plans at all to return!

Tami has a son in a similar situation, adding: At this point, he has returned to a faith of sorts, but has no use for «the church.»

And people who don't attend any church at all, but simply try to follow Jesus relationally, can bless both groups as well and be blessed in return.