Sentences with phrase «still be in the church»

-LSB-...] So many people would still be in the church if they were allowed to process their questions openly without fear.

Those who have been or still are in church leadership: please accept my warm invitation to join us!

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Ben Gresham also still attends Hillsong in Sydney, despite a complicated past with the church, because he believes gay and lesbian members are key to helping the church move forward.

Some may wonder why it still is necessary if they were baptized in other churches, then why would they still need to be baptized by the LDS church members through proxy.

Honestly, I had to drop so much doctrinal baggage to find the truth behind most of what I was taught in Conservative churches (and I am still casting off theologies that were biased).

* * * Built on the Rock the Church shall stand, though earthly temples be closing silenced are voices of evil men, but God's voice still is calling... Calling the young and old to rest, calling the souls in darkness to Himself, calling to life everlasting!

So is that why there still are positions in the church that women aren't allowed to hold in order to make sure they are treated with «respect and dignity» by keeping them in their «place.»

She's not active in the church, as I said, even now, but we're still friends, and she told me recently just how significant it was for her that I did make that choice.

I'm still waiting for someone to tell me why these people can't use any other facility... including any one of the thousands of churches in the area, many of whom have large spaces all ready to go for exactly that sort of thing.

It's so sad that so many North American churches are still acting in hostility towards the «other» being a part of their religious community.

The Founding Fathers just wanted to avoid the head of the government also being the head of the Church as it still is in England.

The murderer on - the - run preacher in The Apostle who founds a church where class and status make no difference, a congregation of displaced misfits who are poor and poorer, dumb and dumber, black and white, male and female, and fatter and fatter still, is telling people who need to hear (because they can't read) what they most need to know to turn their lives around: They can be saved, despite it all, if they believe in Jesus and «Holy Ghost power.»

I have several gay Christian friends that attend accepting churches, but where the leaders and some in the congregation still hold to a belief that they are sinful for «practicing» their sexuality.

There are still some kinks to be worked out with all churches, of course, but at least it's more of a progress than what I am reading and seeing back in North America.

The church = Oldest criminal organization in the world; Accepted because people can not accept their own death; Still people are going to be dead when dead; No religion will get you past that fact.

What would it look like for us to be still together in church?

Again, sadly, the church is trailing far beyond society in equality for women, though we have come a long way from the women as property upheld in the Old Testament and still prevalent in many other parts of the world today.

in China the church is still forced to go underground in some places.

This is all the more satisfying a ratification because Connelly is so conscientious in establishing his own personal antagonism toward the Catholic Church (at one point asserting without even a footnote that natural family planning «still fails most couples who try it»).

Maybe you didn't get the memo: The «inclusive» churches are in huge membership decline, have been for 50 years, still hemorrhaging today.

There was still silence when, at around the same time, the sons of pastor Alexander Pavenko of the charismatic Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord were murdered by separatists in the city of Slavyansk, when the priests of the Patriarchate of Kyev and the Muslim leaders were expelled from Crimea, and when Greek Catholic priests were tortured by the «Russian Orthodox Army.»

They still have to comply with federal and state laws, which means gays are out, but everyone else has to be considered for employment by the company (the only exceptions to the law are where your religion or other protected status are essential for the job... for example, a Muslim couldn't sue an Episcopalian church who wouldn't hire them in an administrative role because their faith clashes with that of the church — things like that don't apply to a fast food chain).

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.

As i grew older i became more intellectually and scientifically driven and although i do still go to church when i can its more for me a place when i am having a bad day that is a refuge a place that i just feel at peace in probably because i grew up in a church was there every Sunday and every holy day of obligation with my parents it brings back peacful memories.

NP, I am still so baffled by the culture in my church that I read your blog like a women who has lost her water bottle in the desert.

Paul said women must be silent in church, and there WERE still under the law.

Still so very true — even in the emergent church movement of which I am quite fond.

Realizing early on that the Catholic Church would be ill - served in the coming battles with secularism without an ability to draw on her own best treasures, Migne devised the scheme of publishing, in uniform format, the entire extant corpus of early Christian literature, much of which was still in manuscript.

My father tried participating in organized religion and even though he contributed his time and many talents (construction) to his church, he was still ostracized when my parents divorced.

There will still people who were injured in the church attack, the people who were injured in the school attack - many of them are still on the beds.

Among those who have been absent are members who grew up steeped in Mormonism, faithfully served as missionaries and have families still active in the church.

Also, sad to see that the «conservative - liberal» divide is still so present in the church.

In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themeIn between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themein public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themein the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themein Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

I Hi Frank, don't know if you are still around, but, as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, I believe in the Biblical Jesus.

Ten months into our conversion journey, and still wondering how we could be experiencing the grace of God while in an objective state of sin, we decided to petition the Church to investigate the validity of my first marriage.

If we all subscribed to your «theory», then the Catholic Church would still be keeping us in the Dark Ages.

You say you are religious, I hope this means you are still in an active relationship with the Lord, just not in church.

Munday said that while mental health is no longer a taboo subject in the Church, it still a subject the Church and Christians find difficult to «wrestle with».

I think one reason the Reformation was so brilliant, so powerful, so swift in its spread, and still such an anchor — honestly: Luther and Calvin and Zwingli, et.al., but especially Luther, make me feel sane — for many of us today is because as it was taking shape and rescuing hearts, there was no Protestant Church yet to discredit it.

Even with all of the things that I have going on — school, work, church, a looming internship and my relationships — I can still find time in the busyness to be thankful for my countless blessings.

Then add all the towns and cities in all the other countries where the scandal has broken out — and then the third World countries where the Church is still powerful enough to keep a lid on it — and we've got to be well into six figures.

Despite the Church's insistence that they are still cherished members, innumerable Catholics think they have been excommunicated because they are living in marriages not recognized by the Church.

Which were then found by Joeseph Smith and strangley no one else has seen them... but the church still claims to have them in the Temple... what a sham... folks... this religion is more of a cult than mine...

In fact, even if LDS Church members don't practice plural marriage on earth, their scripture still teaches that in heaven it is possiblIn fact, even if LDS Church members don't practice plural marriage on earth, their scripture still teaches that in heaven it is possiblin heaven it is possible.

By affirming that the Jews are still called as a nation, the Church affirms that no other nation is elected in the flesh.

Mary I would think that with churches all donations are tax deductible and the church does not pay taxes... the tax payers have in actual fact still paid for this as they do for all churches.

For me, I am glad I am a member of a church that believes God still has the power to call prophets even in these days.

Even though polygamy was disavowed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints in 1890, the LDS Church is still trying to shake its association with the practice, known among Mormons as plural marriage.

James Carne who works at CAP Job Clubs UK believes churches have an obligation to continue to help those finding it hard to get work, speaking on Premier's «News Hour», he said: «There is still a big gap in terms of opportunities or help for people who are seeking work.

Since Jesus Christ did not lie to the Apostles and His Church is still standing after 2000 years it is very simple to see who has the proper interpretation of the Bible... the Church that compiled the Bible... collecting the inspired scripture from amongst many scriptures and placing the Books in the Bible.