Sentences with phrase «returned to church with»

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

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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.

With the credit crisis cutting into the potential of its $ 8.5 billion of assets, the Church of England plans to hire an investment director to help it get the most return on its money.

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.

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.

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.

After the Rapture, the church will celebrate the marriage supper (Revelation 19:7 - 10), be rewarded (1 Corinthians 3:10 - 15, 4:5, 2 Corinthians 5:9 - 10), and later return to earth with Christ when He comes again to set up His kingdom (Revelation 19:11 - 20:6).

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 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.

After departing from the university, Morrison returned to the Monroe Street Church, where he ministered somewhat restlessly while the congregation and neighborhood changed with the large influx of immigrants.

Even with vigorous activism, though, whether military or humanitarian, it is difficult to imagine the churches of Syria and Iraq returning to the flourishing condition they enjoyed even half a century ago.

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 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.

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.»

«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.

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

It can be said, however, that the radical Christian invariably attempts by one means or another to return to the original message and person of Jesus with the conviction that such a return demands both an assault upon the established Church and a quest for a total or apocalyptic redemption.

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

Even if we can not pray for some of these goals with much affirmation — even if we find ourselves praying for the salvation of liberals before Christ returns, or the redirection of evangelical social concern to its proper sphere of evangelism and world mission, or the disappearance of the electronic church — God will answer our prayers, with corrections if necessary, and will either change our minds or the minds of those for whom we are praying.

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 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.

n Church of Spies, Mark Riebling provides readers with a comprehensively documented story of the Germans who worked to remove Hitler from power and return their country to its place in the civilized world.

But these gifts are used today when missionaries are sent to unreached people groups, or when certain people call the church to repent and return to a proper way of living with God.

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.

Ratzinger and other like - minded scholars believed that aggiornamento needed to be combined with ressourcement - a «return to the sources» of Catholic theology in the Scriptures and in the early Fathers of the Church.

Most of our missionaries are recent college graduates who return to the college campus and invite students into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and his Church and inspire and equip them for a lifetime of Christ - centered evangelization, discipleship, and friendships in which they teach other to do the same.

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.

One of the church's former pastors, Mark Collins, returned to help with the service, and told The L.A. Times that the church had reached out to the gunman's family, saying that they would be praying for them: «Our hearts and prayers go out to his family.»

Tom Peterson, president of Catholics Come Home, says some worshipers who've returned to the Catholic Church report leaving because they had disagreements with church officials or had divorced and feared they wouldn't be weChurch report leaving because they had disagreements with church officials or had divorced and feared they wouldn't be wechurch officials or had divorced and feared they wouldn't be welcome.

Certainly, if a person or a couple was coming to church to intentionally cause problems, they would have to be dealt with and asked not to return.

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By the end of the story, you'll be so disgusted with your god that you'll never return to church again.

It is a theme to which the document returns towards the end of each of the four chapters in its first and main part, «The Church and Man's Calling», linking it with the theme of the chapter:

The cure which it advises is that the church return to itself, after it has identified itself under modernist leadership with the world to such a degree that it has almost reached the abyss of self - defeat.

In return the Vatican chastises them because they want to see the church more instep with society.

Then, each person is joined with someone from the Church who spends a few minutes getting to know them, gives them a Bible, a study guide, answers any questions they have, invites them to return to Bible study, further sermons, exchanges contact information, etc..

When the Christian Church speaks in language of Messianic expectation of the Christ who will come again in glory, the faith proclaimed is not primarily concerned with describing a descent of Christ from Heaven like an astronaut returning to Earth after a time in space.

Above all, we keep returning to the truth that living chaste lives in accordance with the Catholic Church's teaching truly does bring about a deep joy and peace to the soul, whatever one's sexual attractions.

The book is relatively easy to read, and Wayne had many great things to say about how church has become the way it is today, and what sorts of changes we can make to return to the friendship with Jesus Christ and with each other that should be central to a living and vibrant church.

This evangelisation campaign has clearly been successful in America, with an estimated 92,000 Catholics returning to the Church.

I have come to the conclusion that, with the exception of the contemplative Religious Orders that have either remained or returned to vision of their Founders, most American Christian Churches neither teach nor practice anything like the faith of the early NT Christian communities.

Of the two major emphases in the early church with regard to the relation between the risen and exalted Lord and his people, one, far more prominent in the Synoptic record, is the hope of his return in glory to judge the world and inaugurate the new age.

And God said, I will build a church here And cause this people to worship me, And afflict them with poverty and sickness In return for centuries of hard work And patience.

I rarely go to Church and im catholic / christian... you got ta havbe that personal relationship with Jesus and read your Bible and u be fine... And for this mr Evans fellow, If he really was about God he would know that God only knows the day and hour that the world will end and Jesus» return to earth.

Free Methodists were actually expelled from the Methodist Episcopal Church (though the credentials of B. T. Roberts were later returned to his son with something of an apology).

Their Church teaches that Christ is the Savior and Redeemer of the world, and that only through him can people return to live with God after this life.

When we returned to the U.S. after this term of service, I could not sympathize with the church people who were quite concerned about the significant decrease in the number of UMC missionaries on the field.

Later, in 1539, Luther read with delight Calvin's reply to Jacopo Sadoleto, a Catholic Reformer who was trying to persuade the Church in Geneva to return to papal obedience.

This is partly so that Jesus can continue to identify with us in our humanity, but also so that we are not deceived into thinking Jesus has already returned spiritually when in fact He has not (this was part of the error Paul tried to correct in the Thessalonian church).