Sentences with phrase «told by my church leaders»

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«I accompany with prayer the positive success of the Inter-Korean summit last Friday and the courageous commitment assumed by the leaders of the two parts to carry out a path of sincere dialogue for a Korean Peninsula free of nuclear weapons,» the Catholic Church leader told pilgrims gathered in Saint Peter's Square on Sunday.

And after all, what can I expect when, as a church leader, I quit and tell the pastor I can't stay and listen to him preach because it makes me want to throw up — and refuse to preserve the image of the church by lying to protect a sexual predator in the pulpit.

They can only repeat what they've been told by churches and its leaders.

I can tell you he would be appalled at how his name and remembrance has been twisted by the church leaders and brainwashers.

absolutely right, I can not believe a Mormon would be called a Christian by a trusted source like Billy Graham just goes to show, even church leaders can not tell the truth sometimes.

The church in the late twentieth century is no different from the church in any age in her need for leaders to feed God's people by telling them the truth about God, the world, and themselves.

According to the questionnaire, most Christians will pray before they enter the polling booth, but don't like being told who to vote for by their church leader.

As far as we can tell from Galatians 2:1 - 10, Peter, James and other Jerusalem leaders had agreed that the gentile converts of Paul's churches did not have to join the covenant of Abraham through circumcision and adoption of a Jewish lifestyle to be saved by faith in Christ.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

The movement sparked by students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, in the wake of 17 of their classmates being killed in a mass shooting, ought to tell us some things about Generation Z that church leaders should take note of if they want to reach this generation for Christ.

I remember being told by pastors and church leaders that «gay Christian» (or «bisexual Christian» or «transgender Christian») is an oxymoron and that no one who holds a high view of Scripture can support same - sex relationships.

44 % of people told Populus they thought it was important for a political leader to have strong religious belief, 53 % disagreed (for the record, Tony Blair is known to be a practicing Christian who regularly attends church, Michael Howard attends a Liberal Synagogue on the High Holy feast days — not that it matters anyway, since neither of them will be leader of their respective parties by the time of the next election).

The church's pastor, Father Walter Tonelotto, had told the senior center's leaders that he wanted to clear out the space so he could make more money off of it by hosting film crews, the New York Post reported.

I encourage Church leaders who have enough financial sense to be able to know when something financial «feels funny» to gather their elderly congregants, and tell them to call you if they are tempted by slick - talking salesmen to make them part with money.