Sentences with phrase «returned to the church in»

well, my daughter is gay and i am grateful for people like you standing up for her and for me for supporting her < 3 (she has recently returned to church for the first time in 7 years and fortunately it is gay positive)(i haven't returned to church in 2, but that's another story:P)

Entrancing preachers @EllenMcLain & @johnpatricklowr have returned to The Church in the Darkness in the @IndieMEGABOOTH!

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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.

The most senior Vatican official to be charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis will return to an Australian court on Tuesday to learn whether he must stand trial on charges that he sexually abused multiple victims decades ago.

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.

Right... because the good christian right would much rather have a man whose church supported polygamy, believe that Jesus popped over to the US after the resurrection, and will return again in Missouri.

In fact, everyone I know who has either come into the Church or returned to it in the last 20 years has done so because of all the things that Charles Reid would reject and call «right wing,» things that are in fact unclassifiable by such ossified and brittle ideological categorieIn fact, everyone I know who has either come into the Church or returned to it in the last 20 years has done so because of all the things that Charles Reid would reject and call «right wing,» things that are in fact unclassifiable by such ossified and brittle ideological categoriein the last 20 years has done so because of all the things that Charles Reid would reject and call «right wing,» things that are in fact unclassifiable by such ossified and brittle ideological categoriein fact unclassifiable by such ossified and brittle ideological categories.

The Church welcomes you into community around the world, and through a shared hope in Christ, certainly clings to «particular expectations for the future» when Christ returns.

Many observers believe that Russia is returning to ancient Byzantine notions of a symphonia, an approach in which Church and state closely cooperate.

Bishop Eddie Long, the Atlanta pastor who has received massive media attention since four young men accused him of sexual coercion last September, is entangled in a dispute with an entrepreneur over $ 1 million in investments that Long wants returned to his church members.

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».

Instead I hope these conversations of practice return us to the unique image of God our churches were meant to reflect in our local context.

One small example of this in our neighborhood is the urban farm one of my friends and mentors started to provide jobs to «returning citizens»: It required the city to help give away land and clear vacant property and some startup capital from a local farming company, but it is based on the church's understanding of the needs of the people and explicitly tied to the concept that faithful believers can help disciple and encourage people who have been incarcerated for harming others, walking them through the transformative process.

In a recent issue of TNR, he returns to his subject, once again lamenting the alleged inconsistency of the Catholic Church in countenancing the marriage of infertile couples while rejecting same - sex marriagIn a recent issue of TNR, he returns to his subject, once again lamenting the alleged inconsistency of the Catholic Church in countenancing the marriage of infertile couples while rejecting same - sex marriagin countenancing the marriage of infertile couples while rejecting same - sex marriage.

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.

In disputes with Jews, Christian thinkers in the early centuries argued that the promises of return and restoration (in Isaiah, Ezekiel, and the minor prophets) must be interpreted to refer either to the time of the exile in the sixth century B.G.E, i.e., the time of the return from exile in Babylonia, or to the new gathering of humankind in the churcIn disputes with Jews, Christian thinkers in the early centuries argued that the promises of return and restoration (in Isaiah, Ezekiel, and the minor prophets) must be interpreted to refer either to the time of the exile in the sixth century B.G.E, i.e., the time of the return from exile in Babylonia, or to the new gathering of humankind in the churcin the early centuries argued that the promises of return and restoration (in Isaiah, Ezekiel, and the minor prophets) must be interpreted to refer either to the time of the exile in the sixth century B.G.E, i.e., the time of the return from exile in Babylonia, or to the new gathering of humankind in the churcin Isaiah, Ezekiel, and the minor prophets) must be interpreted to refer either to the time of the exile in the sixth century B.G.E, i.e., the time of the return from exile in Babylonia, or to the new gathering of humankind in the churcin the sixth century B.G.E, i.e., the time of the return from exile in Babylonia, or to the new gathering of humankind in the churcin Babylonia, or to the new gathering of humankind in the churcin the church.

If we must return to Evangelii gaudium in order to understand Francis and this moment in the Church, then one wonders whether it was prudent to proceed with Laudato si» and Amoris laetitia and other reforms.

I was raised Catholic, found myself getting involved in evangelical Christianity during my «youth group» teenage / young adult years, and within the past year have found myself returning to Catholic church for this exact reason:

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?»

Convoked by Pope John XXIII, the council engaged in a twofold movement of ressourcement (a return to the often - neglected sources of the Christian tradition) and aggiornamento (an updating of the church's life and doctrine in response to the times).

In times past it was not unusual for those who disaffiliated from a church to return to church practice when they got married and started thinking concretely ow to raise their kids..

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.

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.

Since the book demonstrates so powerfully the case for the return to the pre-Conciliar liturgy, Fr Joseph Fessio, S.J., Editor - in - Chief, Ignatius Press has to temper his own enthusiastic Forward by putting the position of «those who advocate a rereading and restructuring of the liturgical renewal intended by the Second Vatican Council, but in light of the Church's two - thousand - year tradition.»

That same family sought me out a few years later; thanked me for forcing them to face a blind spot in their faith, and returned to church more active and committed than ever.

Within two years Williams returned to the Bay colony in an unofficial capacity in the Salem church.

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.

In a linguistically flat technological society the church can return to the «mother tongue» of scriptural poetry and prayer, through which we learn to hear the cry of the needy and to understand that they must receive justice.

Delegates enthusiastically returned to their respective Churches to plead for their participation in the Federal Council.

In Darby's thought, Millennialism combined with restorationism to provide an inner logic for the idea that the church had fallen and that a new church was needed, preparatory for the imminent return of Christ.

-- some missionaries may have a lifestyle that is more common to their home culture than appropriate, but I know many others that have made financial and personal commitments that impress me and should not be ignored; I think we should continue to honor that — the reality of the $ 10K that we all would want to invest in local evangelists often is only available after a «loo - see - visit» (or more) from a Western missionary who returns «home» for fundraising; that maybe sad, but is the reality — one serious issue to address in the African churches is the «colonialism» that is imposed -LRB-!)

When I returned from church on Sunday I found a note to call James Reston in Washington collect.

Others, led by theologian Thomas Oden, call for a return to «classical» theology, the great systems in which the thinkers of the early church took all of reality, including their own salvation, into a comprehensive understanding of God's activity.

In their opinion the Church needed to return to a «pure» religion based on scripture alone, sola scriptura.

The church responds by making its split with the person public and unmistakable in hopes that the dramatic gesture will return them to grace.

«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.»

Americans, in return, offered valuable council to Rome on the Church's initial reaction to the terrible abuse crisis.

After serving on the pastoral staff of one of the most progressive evangelical churches in the country, Brian and his wife Carrie took a big step of faith and returned to Dayton to launch The Mission — a new community of Christ - followers committed to loving God and loving people.

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

One thing it isn't, of course, is the Catholicism of the Church, and Rorty and Vattimo return to agreement in excoriating that institution.

«I think part of the appeal for some in the house church movement is the desire to return to a simpler expression of church,» said Ed Stetzer, a seminary professor and president of Lifeway Research, which is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.

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?

Last month, Pope Francis, upon returning to Rome from World Youth Day in Brazil, spoke of the Church's need to develop «a profound theology of womanhood.»

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.

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.

We have heard William Miller's call to the faithful to prepare for Christ's coming on October 22, 1844; Jehovah's Witnesses» declaration that Christ returned invisibly and spiritually in 1914; and Herbert Armstrong's prediction that the end would come in January 1972 — an announcement that led many members of his World Wide Church of God to sell their possessions in preparation for going to Petra (Wadi Musa) in Jordan, believed to be a place of safety for the elect.

That the Lord's Supper is celebrated and his death proclaimed until he returns; that in the name of the triune God baptism is administered and God's justifying Word is preached; that we are the Lord's in life and in death and therefore in our first and in our last failure; that we believe, hope and love — to proclaim and mediate that is the proper function of the Church.

The Wesley Ministry Network, together with Disciple, indicates a return to catechetical basics in mainline churches.

Rex i do nt disagree that the Lord is returning i am looking forward to that nor about John the baptist but i am saved i think it is dangerous to tell people they are not saved by a few comments you do nt agree with.whether you know the word well or go to church or even do good works is no guarantee that you are saved that just means you are religious.It is only by faith in Jesus Christ that all are saved and not by works brentnz