Sentences with phrase «returning to the church after»

-- Two of the three witnesses who were excommunicated from the Mormon church later returned to the church after denying their testimony.

Maybe this is the once - in - a-lifetime moment when they have plucked up the courage to confront some grave sin from the past, or perhaps they are returning to the Church after a long absence, or they are in some other spiritual need.

Not exact matches

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.

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).

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.

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

-- 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-!)

There is much to love about evangelicalism, but lately I've been receiving a lot of messages from disenfranchised evangelicals who, after a break from church, are looking to return.

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.

We should, further, consider the degree to which the suburban church boom after 1945 was affected by the return of lost sheep (trailing their little lambs) from the late «30s.

To be fair, I learned most of it after I LEFT the church, and have since returned.

After laying the groundwork for this premise, he writes about various subjects that the church must avoid in order to revolt against these powers and return to living like Jesus.

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.

After a five - year sabbatical of research and writing, Burleigh has returned, producing a major two - volume history of church - state relations, from the French Revolution to the present.

After reading the title I thought Jeremy found a wonderful Baptist church to attend but this is well known observation statistic that people that leave the church really do lose their purpose, adventure in faith, and passion for God not saying that Jeremy did but there are many testimonies that say this when they return to the fold

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

When I was in the worst period of my life, due to my own bad choices, I returned to the Catholic Church after a years long absence.

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 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 Kazan, on the mid-Volga, Catholics converted an ordinary apartment into a chapel after the secular authorities refused to return their nineteenth - century church building, which had been converted into a wind tunnel for aviation research.

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.

After returning to America, she began taking instructions to enter the Church, which she formally did, in 1805.

He was active in local church life, preaching once a month in his home church, the Fraumünster; and after his return to Zurich from Japan in 1955 he became involved in an evangelistic campaign — «Tell Zurich» — despite poor health.

After some gruesome consequences from my life choices I returned, like The Prodigal Son, to the Catholic Church and found, like never before, a beautiful new life.

He remembered returning to his father's church as a young man, after having been exposed to the cantatas and passions of Bach, and seeing his mother and grandmother sing the old hymn «There were 90 and 9 that safely lay in the shelter of the fold.»

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.

The early church, formed in the hope which blossomed after his resurrection, lived in the expectation that Jesus would return any day to fulfill this good news.

If you'll permit me to leave this thought: I have concluded after many years of «church hopping» to finally «no church» that what we need in the «church» is not anything «new» as stated in your last paragraph but rather a «liberation from»... I conclude that the church (organized or free) considers this return to liberty (brought about by Christ) as a legitimate «next step» in the history of «church» but that is firstly a lie and secondly opens up a door for even more destructive creativity by humans.

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.»

They are not involved in the workings of the church and on sundays after service they are sent to the womens learning area while the men do all the church business.Also if Miutt is hoiding his tax returns it's because Mormans are held accountable fore their earnings and are supposed to give 10 % to the church, along with other requirements, or they can not enter the temple.

The changes in the liturgy are rooted in the theological stirrings after World War I: the gradual breakdown of neo-Scholastic metaphysics, the beginning of Catholic biblical scholarship, and a return to the study of the church fathers.

Not long after Spalatin's enquiry, however, Luther returned to the attack in sermons in the parish church.

About to become Dean of the Faculty of Theology in 1512, and Archdeacon of the castle church was Andreas Karlstadt, who had been promoted to the Doctorate in 1510, the year after Martin had returned to Erfurt.

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.

Daniel returned to the Larnaka Community Church services on Sundays after a few months» break at the end of last year, and Tim decided that it was right for him to move to St Helena's Anglican church, despite there being almost no other young people Church services on Sundays after a few months» break at the end of last year, and Tim decided that it was right for him to move to St Helena's Anglican church, despite there being almost no other young people church, despite there being almost no other young people there.

«After the voting, both candidates had 19 votes, making it a split, so the electoral officer decided that the house should take a breather for an hour and return to vote for the second time, but this declaration of the votes by the electoral officer did not go down well with the youth who had gathered at the back of the church building.»

After the burial, as our people were returning from the village of the deceased around 5:30 pm and on reaching St Mary's Catholic Church, where they were supposed to disperse to their various homes, they were accosted by a team of Nigeria security agents and without any provocation they began shooting at our people.

Former Sandman actor Thomas Haden Church believes that director Sam Raimi may one day return to the Spider - Man franchise after a 10 + year hiatus.

She returned to the U.S. after the tsunami and spent two months lecturing at high schools and churches across Long Island, New York, to raise money for relief efforts.

«After we left and hopped into the church van to return to church, I'd sit quietly, my heart too deep and troubled to speak,» she says.

After returning to Reformation Germany in 1528, where the churches were being whitewashed, Holbein was unable to find enough work as a decorative artist to sustain his family.

Parenthood in my 30s led me to take up my spiritual journey, and after several decades of being active in Unitarian Universalism, in my 60s I have also come to think of myself as a progressive Christian as well as a UU — a return to the faith I grew up in, but on a different level, taking scripture seriously but not literally (and for me, serious literature can be scripture too, especially poetry, and scriptures of other faiths...) I am content to say God is a mystery, a word we use to point to all that is good and beautiful and healing, a creative energy at work that we can experience through our loving relationships, through art and music, through the pursuit of science, and in the «church» of nature.

The gracious owner, Suha Ersoz, has thought of everything to make travelers feel like they have a home away from home — a joy to return to after a day out exploring Cappadocia's underground cave cities and rock - cut churches.

The Bizantine Fresco Chapel was built in 1997 to house two rare 13th century fresco paintings; after a long inquiry, it emerged that the paintings were actually stolen in the»80s from the church of St. Evphemianos in Cyprus and, after an agreement between the Menil Foundation and the Church of Cyprus, the frescoes were finally returned to their original country inchurch of St. Evphemianos in Cyprus and, after an agreement between the Menil Foundation and the Church of Cyprus, the frescoes were finally returned to their original country inChurch of Cyprus, the frescoes were finally returned to their original country in 2012.

All seem to have been painted in the later stages of Piero's career, after he'd returned to his hometown and was executing commissions for local churches (he died in San Sepulcro in 1492).

The Menil Collection announced March 4, 2012, as the final day to see the Byzantine frescoes at the Byzantine Fresco Chapel, after which they will return to the Orthodox Church of Cyprus.

The Menil Collection announced that March 4, 2012 will be the final day to see the Byzantine frescoes currently housed on its campus in the Byzantine Fresco Chapel, after which time they will be returned to the Orthodox Church of Cyprus.

He returned to practice after a three - year spell as president of a branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints.