Sentences with phrase «several other churches»

I have gone to several other churches at different times and since I am fortunate enough to fly under the radar, there has never been an issue.

Although several other churches in the area turned this man away, Don Bryant, then pastor of Coastal Church, and others within the congregation did not feel they could look him in the eye and deny his request.

Various reports say the Chinese government has taken down more than 1,200 crosses in the past two years, and completely demolished several other churches.

Not exact matches

If you have these opinions due to a personal experience, maybe you ought to try another church... or several others for that fact.

Either we prove several verses in the Bible that deal with the gay issue are false; we declare, like the Pope does, infallibly that those pages will be struck from Bible; we add new verses so the other verses are neutralized; we stop reading it, prohibit its usage, like Catholics, and have: idolatry, Popes, idols, saints, priests, infant baptism, purgatory and gays in the «christian church»!

Although in the past the primates have repeatedly asked the American and Canadian churches for a moratorium on same - sex blessings, and for the several GAFCON churches to cease cross-boundary interventions in other churches, this time they forthrightly acknowledged that their requests have not been observed.

I ask this for three reasons: 1) Warfield begins the chapter with Edward Gibbon's conversion to Catholicism, which was related to Gibbon's belief in the continuation of the miraculous; 2) he spends several pages in the same chapter critiquing another famous convert to Catholicism, John Henry Newman, noting what he sees as Newman's shift toward the miraculous; 3) even though he knows that Gregory of Nyssa, Athanasius, and Jerome all wrote about saints in which the miraculous was prominent, he still makes the claim that these «saints» lives» follow other Christian romances and thus represent an infusion of Heathenism into the church.

But the church had been missional for ten years, and it hadn't grown, multiplied, or planted any other churches in a city of several million people.

Three people have been killed and several others injured after a car crashed into a group of Christians leaving a church service in California.

But nowhere does he even mention the fact that in other important sections the book evaluates work of the American Catholic Bishops, statements from several mainline Protestant churches, and publications of M. Douglas Meeks, Max Stackhouse, Richard John Neuhaus, Michael Novak, and several civil rights reformers, including Jesse Jackson.

You forgot several other things we wouldn't have without catholicism: The Crusades, The jailing of Galileo, The Inquisitions, and the current sexual troubles of the catholic church.

On several Sunday mornings, she refuses to smile or give eye contact and often converses with other church members while glancing over at me, turning down her mouth, or looking me up and down in a disapproving manner.

We have lived in several cities and attended several churches and visited others and never found an exception.

This incident and several others convinced me I did not respect the teaching at that church and my wife and I left for the «liberal» American Baptist church down the road.

On Friday, September 11 and Saturday, September 12, I'll be at Irvine United Congregational Church for their annual Faith & Works Conference, where I'll be joining several other speakers in discussing the intersection of faith and everyday life and the future of the Church in a changing context.

Others: Having been sexually abused by a man in our church myself at the age of 12, and having had to endure the consequences for the last 42 years, and having been the target of several righteous / religious attacks over the last few years, the abused have a right to speak and be heard even if it makes you uncomfortable.

Fit for Missionhas undoubtedly been noticed: reactions range from extreme secularist hostility to an overwhelmingly positive response from the Catholic faithful, not only in the bishop's own diocese and throughout the English Church, but in several other countries too.

Several of the book's features are shared with other British theology: a basic concern for intelligent orthodoxy informed by worship; the Trinity as the encompassing doctrine, strongly connected to both church and society; a well - articulated response to modernity; a wide range of «mediations,» through various discourses and aspects of contemporary life (philosophy, history, friendship, sex, politics, aesthetics, the visual arts and music); a special affinity for the patristic period; and a preference for the essay genre.

Specifically Christian persecution has included the burning of churches, forced «reconversions» to Hinduism, bomb threats, distribution of threatening literature, the burning of Bibles, several high - profile rapes of nuns, the murder of priests and other Christian workers, desecration of the Cross and statues of the Virgin Mary, and destruction of properties at Christian schools, colleges, and cemeteries.

The Royal Commission has been investigating since 2013 how churches and other institutions responded to the sexual abuse of children in Australia over the last several decades.

There were several Macedonian churches in deep poverty, and the Corinthian church offered to help these other churches out financially (2 Cor 8:2).

Network sustaining - time programs, produced by networks in association with the Jewish Theological Seminary, the Roman Catholic Church, the National Council of Churches, and several other recognized faiths and denominations.

One of my favorite moments was when they prayed for new church planters (there were several others out of the picture).

Just cause as fundamentally other - regarding presents several significant challenges to the church.

(I did meet his wife though, after about 20 years — she was wonderful) I was in all the prayer / intercession groups (I was called to prayer and a few other things) and several times one of the other pray - ers sort of intimated that ours was «The» church of the city, and I'd always then start praying for every God called church in my city.

A church bus carrying dozens of high school students and adults has crashed near Atlanta, killing one person and injuring several others.

There were many other churches in this same city, shoot, there were several just a block away.

The other incident involved a young Native woman from Pine Ridge who found herself fulfilling the Indian quota on several church committees.

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.»

In our earlier sections, we have noted that F.C. Burkitt, Arthur Voobus and several other historians have shown that the emphasis on celibacy and abstinence from marriage belonged to an authentic tradition of the Syrian church till the fourth century.

For the first several years of her relationship with Jesus, worship music was so important to her — she loved to sing, to hear other people singing, to gather with other Christians at church services or worship concerts.

Nonetheless, it should be acknowledged that the Church of England has labored hard and responsibly to reach this turning point, and, with whatever missteps, has done so in in sharp and positive contrast to several other Anglican churches around the globe.

And in the case of this story, if the RCC hadn't spent the last several decades inst.itutionalizing se.xual abuse and conspiring to cover it up and protect the offenders, or alienating folks with their stance on reproductive rights and birth control which is decidedly misogynistic and has contributed to the spread of HIV and other STDs, or if agents of the Church hadn't kidnapped and effectively sold thousands of Spanish, Irish, Australian and American children from the 1940s to as recently as 1987 — then folks wouldn't be leaving the Church in droves and you wouldn't be seeing stories like this one either.

His comments come as the Catholic Church of England and Wales joined the «fleshandblood» campaign, alongside several other denominations and organisations such as the Church of England, the Baptist Union, the Evangelical Alliance and the Churches of Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

After knowing each other and being involved in the same church for several years, we started dating and got married.

Sergei Ryakhovsky, head of the Protestant Churches of Russia, and several other evangelical leaders called the law a violation of religious freedom and personal conscience in a letter to Putin posted on the Russian site Portal - Credo.

To conclude: Luther — and in our own time several others, notably (I would say) Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Simone Weil — insisted that the truly indispensable mark of the church is (in Luther's language) «the mark of the holy cross»: that is, that the disciple community must experience in real and concrete ways the suffering of the world that is the anthropological background of the gospel of the cross.

For example, it was several hundred years before all parts of the Church accepted the Epistle to the Hebrews, and other areas of Christendom did not accept the Letter of James or the Book of Revelation for over 400 years.

Several years after the split in 1997, we made a risky financial decision to give away to charity and other struggling churches 10 % of whatever income we made.

As I write my own book, Close Your Church for Good I am trying to read several other books that seem to have similar content and themes.

The church - state establishment threatened penalties if he did not recant this, along with several other «errors.»

He was known for several other attacks on the Catholic faith in Northern Ireland and at a loyalist rally in 1968 after attacks on Catholic homes he said: «Catholic homes caught fire because they were loaded with petrol bombs; Catholic churches were attacked and burned because they were arsenals and priests handed out sub-machine guns to parishioners».

Greater collaboration is necessary in several other areas of church life, such as urban ministry.

Several of you concluded that the best way to apply this teaching to our day and culture is to encourage women to dress modestly and avoid wearing fancy, expensive clothes that might create cultural barriers between themselves and others in the church or community.

There are several ways in which religious programs on television may be effective in building the membership of local churches: One is by the addition of new members, the other is by the reactivation of old ones.

This inability of mass communication to stimulate formation of novel relationships with the church has been demonstrated in several other studies of mass campaigns, even when the campaigning organization works closely with the local churches.

Reading about the young and unsuspecting victims took me back to the dying girl in the ICU who had come to my church that day in 2007, in a an incident that left the two girls dead and injured several others.

They realize that several other aspects of the service were not primarily intended for them, and that this church is passionate about non-Christians, and so it's impossible for them to believe the sermon IS for them, even if it is.

You also have several other «books» in you such as your thoughts on the church and vision, power, diversity in thought, etc..

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