Sentences with phrase «took over the church»

He just took over the church when is dad died.

Even the chanting monks at the Sant «Antimo abbey are imports — a French brotherhood that took over the church a decade ago.

To prevent the government from taking over the church or restricting worship practices.

Good intentions is what i believe Mr Osteem started out with once he took over the church that the Lord used his father to build.

You can just say something is false, you have to back up your opinions with reasons And actually separation of church and state was designed to protect the government from taking over the church, not to keep the church out of the government

They talk about the Queen's Christian faith, why evangelists are giving out free hugs on the UK's streets, when God takes over your church meeting, the global phenomenon of Muslims turning to Christ and Christian apologist Larry Taunton's unlikely friendship with atheist Christopher Hitchens.

A semi-retired pastor took over the church he left.

In one episode, several vampires take over a church, and one of them comments: «I've been avoiding this place for so many years, and it's nothing.

I don't know about the entire family, but his son, Cody, will be taking over the church, starting on Wed., making him the fourth generation of the family to be into that stuff.

This is exactly what was happening to our church when the overseer / founder decided to come back and take over the church again.

Christians in Sudan request prayer against continued efforts to take over church property.

The state has always takes over the Church not the other way around.

Not exact matches

In exchange, they say, Gross helped the operator of Coin.mx, Anthony Murgio, take over a small credit union Gross ran from his church.

Parishioners have threatened to boycott St David's Church in the Ceredigion village of Blaenporth over the measure taken by it's parochial church council Church in the Ceredigion village of Blaenporth over the measure taken by it's parochial church council church council (PCC).

I think the church does take over your personality.

i'd like to take this opportunity to point out that the folks over at the westboro baptist church feel persecuted.

So let the churches take over and cut that part of the budgets.

«And I think we would've seen the report from the Methodist Church as well, about two or three weeks ago, which took a very honest and hard look at itself and the abuse over a 50 or 60 year period.

Jesus knew that Judas was going to take rule over the disciples (the young Church, Jesus had founded and which he loved with infinite love), after He had been captured.

This led Luther eventually to conclude that the Roman Church was irrevocably committed to the claim that the authority of the pope stood even above Holy Scripture and it was in this context that he came, over the next several years, to believe that the papacy was the prophesied Antichrist of the last days, a conviction he then held to his dying day with a literalistic fervor that his modern interpreters have rarely been willing to take as seriously as he did.

The Fundamentalists I grew up with took me apart over and over for not being what my Mom and the Church wanted.

As a pastor I've been getting help for years, from a psychiatrist, from a clinical pastoral course I took years ago, from small groups over the years, from dear friends who are honest enough to speak into my life, from my medical doctor, from the elders in my church, from my wife (mostly) from an adult children for alcoholics group I started only because there was nothing in place in my community.

Ya know, as much of an idiot as Obama has proven himself to be over the last four years, a Republican with a good head on their shoulders could easily take the office next year... that being said... these Republican idiots that are currently throwing their hat in the ring for the presidency have forgoten the importance of separation of church and state.

On Saturday a deadline that was issued by the militants resposible for taking over large swathes of Iraq expired, with ISIS militias reportedly seizing churches and Christian homes in the city.

It took over a century of deft Vatican diplomacy, disentangling the appointment of bishops from various political imbroglios, to make that canon possible, and the twenty - first - century Church now has the capacity to choose its leadership by its own criteria.

The Church, however, has consistently taught over the centuries that the direct and intentional taking of innocent human life, as in abortion, is a grave and intrinsic evil.

NEW VINEYARD DIRECTORSJohn and Debby Wright have been commissioned as the new national directors of Vineyard Churches UK and Ireland, taking over from...

The Church has taken on a complex ideological significance over the last decade, not least because of the rise of the concept of Russkiy Mir, or «Russian World.»

Take it a step further: for over 1,000 years, the Catholic Church was the wealthiest organization on the planet.

The founding fallacy in the new church was a «defective ecclesiology» that provided for governance by a lay majority, dominated under a quota system by minorities and feminists, in which theologians were marginalized and issues of race and gender took precedence over traditional ecclesial and confessional concerns.

Considering that it took the Church about 300 years, long after they had made up their minds about theology, to start picking scripture to match that doctrine, and that the oldest known copt of the bible has over 27,000 «corrections» written all over it, how can you be sure that the New Testament isn't full of false doctrine to begin with?

Taking the stand that Christ was my defender, did actually, over time, cause me to still continue to have relationships with others in the church.

After being in a Calvinist church for over a decade, and witnessing person after person and family after family leaving the church in a more broken condition than which they came, including several divorces, one woman abandoning her family to become a sex slave, and many rejecting the faith altogether, I discovered, to my great chagrin, that it had taken a toll on my family as well.

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.

But Wilson would have us believe that, if only the church's male members would «man up» and take control over the vexatious vixens among us, we would see the church functioning as it should.

When the church forms an idea about itself, and the church serves that idea, then it has been taken over by the principalities and powers Paul talks about.

I know that demons can inhabit a human, for I took a lady to church to see a pastor, to take it out of her, I sat there while the pastor prayed over her, finally a black ghostly type, with a person's body, came out of her feet and left the room.

Such freedom was indispensable when the Jewish canon was taken over by the Church.

Research from a questionnaire taken by The Institute for American Church Growth showed that when over 4000 people in 35 states and three countries were asked why they became part of a local church, 75 % to 90 % responded that friends and relatives were the «door of entrance.&Church Growth showed that when over 4000 people in 35 states and three countries were asked why they became part of a local church, 75 % to 90 % responded that friends and relatives were the «door of entrance.&church, 75 % to 90 % responded that friends and relatives were the «door of entrance.»

I know many people raised in holiness churches who'd load their kids up and take them three towns over to see a forbidden movie so that no one in their church would find out.

As I looked out over the 180 people taking New Testament interpretation, I saw folk who had never been to church in their lives, and for whom the YDS chapel was their first parish; who certainly did not know the Nicene Creed and probably not the Apostles» Creed.

Gradually the nation state took over such services as education and care for the sick and indigent that had previously been the responsibility of the church.

It was, after all this, inevitable that when, recently, conversations took place over the possible Catholic response to the legalisation of women - bishops in the Church of England, they would be in Rome and not in Westminster.

While Gregory consolidated the power of the Church over a more limited geographic area, John Paul took the Gospel and the Sacraments to the ends of the earth.

At the beginning, their «psalms and hymns and spiritual songs» (Colossians 3:16: Ephesians 5:19) were probably taken over and adapted from the older heritage, and while the evidence on this matter is scant, the devotional services of the early churches doubtless leaned heavily on the Old Testament, especially the Psalter, and even on the customs of the synagogue.

Dr Inkpin, who grew up in a rural northern England, feared being rejected by the Church and her loved ones over her transgenderism, but claimed it was not her own choice or something she takes lightly.

We need to foster a sense in the church that the polity and skills of workplace and family finally take precedence over the polity and skills that serve the church as institution.

A church service called the U2charist would seem like liberal Protestantism at its worst: take music from a band that was cutting - edge over two decades ago, sprinkle some religiosity on top and try to reach hip younger people.

Since World War II, the churches» role in education at all levels has diminished, as the government has taken over.

After a perilous escape and difficult crossing, he and his friends managed to get to the U.S.. His case was taken over by a church social - welfare agency, and one of the local congregations began sponsoring him.