Sentences with phrase «says the church backs»

Poust says the church backs an alternative bill, sponsored by Senator Andrew Lanza and Assemblyman Michael Cusick, which would raise the age of the statute of limitations for bringing civil suits from 23 to 28.

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The Movement said that the Bank für Kirche und Caritas eG — which translates as Bank for the Church and Caritas — was one of the first Catholic banks to turn its back on fossil fuels.

But now they're «frozen» because, like the parishioners at that Berkeley church, they're part of an organization where simply saying something, asking a question, pushing back on a planned initiative, turns heads.

Deena Scott said the man she met all those years back has always been focused on giving back to the community, whether volunteering at their church, mentoring others or helping fold socks at a relief center.

«It's time to put the bed back in church and God back in the bed because God is the one that thought sex up,» says Ed Young, senior pastor of Fellowship Cchurch and God back in the bed because God is the one that thought sex up,» says Ed Young, senior pastor of Fellowship ChurchChurch.

When they take back all the death and havoc they've caused, and finally get rid of all the «in church» pedophiles, MAYBE we'll listen to what they have to say.

Back in the 80s I think it was, when there was a war going on between the fundamentalist wing of the church and those who were merely conservative (and the few who were moderate), one of the fundamentalist leaders gave a speech or sermon in which he said, «If the Southern Baptist Convention votes that pickles are divine, then the professors at our seminaries had better start teaching that indeed pickles are divine.»

Were the Catholic Church to change its teaching and practice, they say, the dam holding back the libidinous urgencies of a licentious culture would collapse completely.

The end of such back - door funding, says Siefkes, was signaled last April by ELCA secretary Lowell Almen, who told the Church Council: «The candy store of the churchwide organization must now close.

I have absolutely no intention of ever going back to a traditioonal Catholic Church but if there was a new Catholic Church where Catholic Nuns said the mass and offered communion, and where the focus was on Social Justice, Equality for Women and Compassion for the Poor I would be very eager to begin attending mass again.

They turn their back on all of it, saying that they tried the whole «church thing» and it wasn't for them.

OK — I take back what I said about the catholic church last week.

Maybe you should go back and read the early church fathers, the men who learned the faith from the apostles and see what they have to say on this issue.

You notice she said nothing about millennials turning their backs on God or Jesus, just the church.

Turned back to the 1st page and saw where the Bishop of his Church in NC is on your Board of Directors, I looked down and also saw that Eddie Long is on your Board of Advisors, I said all of that to say this.

But there can be specific Church forms of homophobia too: pressurising us to change our sexual orientation (although people who want to seek change in their orientation should be free to do so, and some find that their sexuality does change); saying that gay people will go to hell; not permitting us to work with youth or children (assuming gay people are more likely to be predatory or paedophiles); and holding us back from ministry roles.

That's why he's calling it an experiment, so he can go back and say he did it for the good of the church.

A few years back i was being led by god to help some homeless people.I'll tell you about the first homeless lady.my girls and i were driving by a liquor store and i seen a girl a lady sitting next to her cart.god showed me through his eyes the hurt she was living with.he spoke to my heart and said, don't pass her up.i turned around whent back and asked her if she was hungry.she was in shock and said yes.god told me to tell her that she is loved.she started crying and had me call her family so she can go home.anyways after that i joind a church and told them and asked to start a homeless ministry.i was told yes and all of a sudden i started getting pushed aside and they took over the homeless ministry.i feel lost and hurt.now i feel like god is telling me to leave the church.i quit going out with the group because of what happened.i don't know what to do.now i feel lost.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

As noted by Harvey Cox, the author of The Secular City, in an interview with Krista Tippett, secularist and religious sentiments will ultimately seesaw between one and the other — Yes, this is off topic, but to say that the Church will change drastically will ultimately mean that it'll take two steps back, then two steps forward, and so on.

Living in low - income housing, teaching free literacy classes to refugees, setting up basketball camps for bored inner - city kids: all of it had a few costs for me personally, sure, but the holy buzz of pats on the back from friends and church people, and the feeling that I was the only person really getting what Jesus was saying — this more than made up for doing without.

We have pastors who write to us after Cherish saying, «Thank you so much, our women came back blessed, encouraged, empowered and loving the local Church even more.»

After 3 months of searching the internet and you tube to decide if I wanted to come back to religion, I finally found someone who preaches from the heart, the way my Mama and Papa used to hear when they went to church, DR John Collins with the Church of Biblical Christians tells it the way it should be plus he does not accept donations, He preaches against todays prosperity preachers, My Papa said hes the only guy he has heard of lately not affraid to tell you what he thinks and use scripture to back hchurch, DR John Collins with the Church of Biblical Christians tells it the way it should be plus he does not accept donations, He preaches against todays prosperity preachers, My Papa said hes the only guy he has heard of lately not affraid to tell you what he thinks and use scripture to back hChurch of Biblical Christians tells it the way it should be plus he does not accept donations, He preaches against todays prosperity preachers, My Papa said hes the only guy he has heard of lately not affraid to tell you what he thinks and use scripture to back him up.

Back then Rutter said the decision meant the church had «betrayed» musicians, many of whom use it as a rehearsal and warm - up space for larger concerts including the Proms.

If you EVER FIND, another verse in the new testament that says there are ANY OTHER mediators, then you can go back to the catholic church with a clean conscience.

Maybe to say «that is a good question but I cant give you a satisfactory answer» maybe put the ball back into his / her court by offerring an invitation to the Alpha course or to come along to a small Bible study group st your home or an invitation to a non Church tyoe activity with other Christians, walk, bike ride, five a side football or other sporting things, befriend them and truly love them without an agenda.

Lame tech jokes aside, the makers of «Confession: A Roman Catholic App» say their software is seriously designed to help believers with the sacrament, and to help those who have left the church take a digital step back home.

He said a similar incident happened four months ago when someone left a satanic picture at the foot of a at the back of the church.

«Just as God was resurrected and brought back, he's bringing Sutherland Springs back,» said Frank Pomeroy, the pastor at the church.

The temple should give to the poor the rich should give to the temple God says bring the whole tithe into the store house that there may be food in my house then he will bless us the tithe is used to keep the doors open to the church where we can get true food spiritual food that's the reason for the tithe we will always have the Poor amongst us Jesus will one day come back and leave for the finale time Come to Jesus while you still can

Like churches should be, bringing people in, equipping them for life and sending them back into the world,» says Hahn.

She called me emotionally, saying «Jared, I think I took Ted Bundy to a church dance back when I was in college and he was a real weird guy and I just had this strong impression that it was Ted Bundy.»

What did romney give to his church, about 4million and I want to say that is very good but as a christain, when you give you do not expect anything back but do you know how much all these people that give get back from what they gave, Romney got more than half of that money back this last year and he would have got almost everything back and is that giving.

Then, when the board of deacons decides that you really need to raise money to compete with the church across town, you go back to the mission statement and say, «well, gentlemen, just how does that fit with who we are?»

Adegbokun said this was one way the church decided to give back.

In that quick moment, I thought back to the several parties she'd invited me to where I'd been the only person of color but I shrugged off the temptation to be defensive and said, «Well, there are usually a few others, but yes, it is a mostly black church.»

Martin Luther presented the theology of Sola scriptura that the bible is the sole source to live and understand what Christianity is all about... but the bible itself does not come with a table of contents to prove that it is correct which is why the bible itself says that the CHURCH is the pillar and foundation of truth... remember that the church existed before even the bible was even put together... To understand the bible you cant just rely on your own interpretation like the protestants often say... The truth is always absolute and hence the teachings of the bible HAS to be absolute which is why the church is said to be ONE in nature (in every sense of the word), HOLY, CATHOLIC (Universal in teaching in every corner of the world) and APOSTOLIC (roots dating back to Jesus himself)... Now figure out what is that one church... The church put together the bible and the holy spirit always protected the church against false teachings and 1600 years later came about the teaching of Sola Scriptura... Protestants... look within and see whats wrong with this teaCHURCH is the pillar and foundation of truth... remember that the church existed before even the bible was even put together... To understand the bible you cant just rely on your own interpretation like the protestants often say... The truth is always absolute and hence the teachings of the bible HAS to be absolute which is why the church is said to be ONE in nature (in every sense of the word), HOLY, CATHOLIC (Universal in teaching in every corner of the world) and APOSTOLIC (roots dating back to Jesus himself)... Now figure out what is that one church... The church put together the bible and the holy spirit always protected the church against false teachings and 1600 years later came about the teaching of Sola Scriptura... Protestants... look within and see whats wrong with this teachurch existed before even the bible was even put together... To understand the bible you cant just rely on your own interpretation like the protestants often say... The truth is always absolute and hence the teachings of the bible HAS to be absolute which is why the church is said to be ONE in nature (in every sense of the word), HOLY, CATHOLIC (Universal in teaching in every corner of the world) and APOSTOLIC (roots dating back to Jesus himself)... Now figure out what is that one church... The church put together the bible and the holy spirit always protected the church against false teachings and 1600 years later came about the teaching of Sola Scriptura... Protestants... look within and see whats wrong with this teachurch is said to be ONE in nature (in every sense of the word), HOLY, CATHOLIC (Universal in teaching in every corner of the world) and APOSTOLIC (roots dating back to Jesus himself)... Now figure out what is that one church... The church put together the bible and the holy spirit always protected the church against false teachings and 1600 years later came about the teaching of Sola Scriptura... Protestants... look within and see whats wrong with this teachurch... The church put together the bible and the holy spirit always protected the church against false teachings and 1600 years later came about the teaching of Sola Scriptura... Protestants... look within and see whats wrong with this teachurch put together the bible and the holy spirit always protected the church against false teachings and 1600 years later came about the teaching of Sola Scriptura... Protestants... look within and see whats wrong with this teachurch against false teachings and 1600 years later came about the teaching of Sola Scriptura... Protestants... look within and see whats wrong with this teaching.

We are having a patch made for our riders to wear on the back of their leather vests that says «These ARE my church clothes».

And he pushed back against what he sees as increasing secularism in the world, saying, «I consider that the dedication of this church of the Sagrada Familia is an event of great importance, at a time in which man claims to be able to build his life without God, as if God had nothing to say to him.»

Luke had buried them back in his Gospel, and once he had finished copying out the end of Q (at Luke 22:30), he rather explicitly said that the idyllic, unreal world of Jesus has been put behind us, for we must now come to grips with reality, buy a sword, become the church militant, and replace the kind of mission Jesus had advocated and practiced with one like the missionary journeys of Paul.

If we step back and forget everything we think we know about church, and read the texts without such filters, they say something very different than often assumed.

If you look back i mention several times that I am telling you why the catholic church doesn't accept gay marriage, I never said that this was my personal opinion about it or even that I completely agree with the catechism (sorry for my spelling errors).

So we work our backsides off all week, and we get all beat down and frustrated, then we go back to church the following Sunday, and we say, «Wow, this is a good message on Jesus.»

There was a big controversy (and eventual schism) back in the day because the Eastern Greek speaking church (future Eastern Orthodox) said the Spirit proceeds ONLY from the Father whereas the Latin speaking Western church (future Catholic church — and this is way before Protestants existed btw) said the Spirit proceeds from the Father AND the Son.

Cawthon says it all traces back to Chaucer, who was buried at the church in 1400 because he had worked at Westminster Palace --- not because he was necessarily viewed as a great literary figure at the time.

He infuriated many by welcoming back into the church a rebel bishop who is on record as saying that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler did not have a systematic plan to murder Europe's Jews.

The fact may be explained by saying that everything goes back to, or rests upon, the Gospel of Mark; but I think we can not assume that this Gospel would have been accepted if upon any major point its general outline had been found to be faulty or inaccurate by those who were in touch with the primitive tradition handed down in the churches in Palestine.

I left the church because one day, they put signs out in the church lawn that said «Marriage = 1 Man + 1 Woman: Vote Yes on Prop 1,» and I knew the moment I saw them that I never wanted to come back.

When the church first worked out an agreement on the proxy baptism of Holocaust victims back in 1995, there were 8.5 million LDS Church members, Greenebaumchurch first worked out an agreement on the proxy baptism of Holocaust victims back in 1995, there were 8.5 million LDS Church members, GreenebaumChurch members, Greenebaum says.

i can feel love for him throughout my heart and soul... i want to grow old with this man... i am 47 and he is 45... he has never been married... he said there is not a chance of getting back together again regardless of how we feel towards each other because we committed adultery and God will never forgive us and it will be wrong to do so... so am i supposed to go on living my life being so deeply in love with this man i can never have... why would God put him in my life to make me feel so spiritually happy, so wonderful, so at peace with myself and someone I can finally worship Him with just to take him away from me... I've never been with someone who was so religious and i thought this was it... i finally have someone to read the bible with and go to church with and put God first and share things with my self and my daughter as a loving relationship would be....