Sentences with phrase «turned early church»

They have broken up into competing groups that have turned early church leaders into «superstars» around which various groups are rallying and finding their identity.»

Not exact matches

As it turned out, the parishioner who had made that insulting remark so many decades earlier got the very same service, and her nice casket was covered at the door of the church by the same pall that covered dear Bernice's very lowly casket.I look forward to the day when Bernice and the other lady stand side by side before the throne of heavenly grace.

In an act that Harrsion described as «spiritual genocide», the group claimed that early church leaders took hold of temple grounds and turned them into churches during the Christiansation of England starting as early as the 7th century.

«The argument against the authenticity of 2 Peter turns on three main problems: (1) problem of external attestation in the early church; (2) stylistic and literary problems with 1 Peter and Jude; and (3) historical and doctrinal problems that seem to indicate internal inconsistency and a late date.

While we may believe in the Holy Spirit as a manifestation of God's presence in the world, we sometimes wonder if the church's early theologians invented this connection as an explanation of the continuity between Jesus and themselves, and if this invention didn't in turn and inadvertently lead to orthodox formulations about the Trinity that belied the Spirit's reality, much as the Kinsey Report misleads readers about the real joy and meaning of sex.

The churches in the early twentieth century that tried to hollow out their confessions to «make room» for fundamentally opposing notions of God and man are the same churches now being turned into museums.

This is the reason why, earlier this year, Eric and I helped start the Groups Matter campaign: to encourage churches to embrace the essential components of healthy groups and, in turn, equip them to develop their leaders, launch new groups, and feed their people with solid Bible study experiences.

I doubt that the early church fathers would have turned around and had an inquisition or crusade.

In the experience of the early church the Temple turned out to have inhibited the missionary purpose of the people of God rather than facilitate it.

Ernst Troeltsch, writing at the turn of the century, saw them at work in the early church and watched them erupt now and again throughout church history.

A Clackamas County judge turned down a petition Monday for early release while the conviction of Shannon Mae Hickman, a member of the Followers of Christ church, is reviewed by the Oregon Court of Appeals.

I go early to the Church on Sunday mornings and turn on Newsboys, Casting Crowns and others way loud, and just worship the Lord.

When the early church came to grips with the problem presented by the extraordinary career and the tragic fate of its Founder, it turned for elucidation to these passages of Isaiah, which speak of a life of service and a martyr's death.

In order to prevent Church communication based on dialogue from becoming becoming abstract or merely turning into a moral appeal, it will be worth our while to take a close look at a specific aspect of the process of communication - reception - in the early Church.

I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...

Then he turned over to Acts 2:42 which says that the early church did four things only.

It was a great shock to liberal Protestant theology of the turn of the century when men like Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965) and Johannes Weiss (1863 - 19I4) drew attention to the eschatological character of the New Testament and made it clear that Jesus, his apostles, and the early churches, all lived and spoke in a thought - world which, in important respects, is completely foreign to us.

When we turn to the book of Acts, we see that the reason the early church was so powerful was certainly because the spirit was at work in them, but at work in them to do what?

A fourth problem with turning to 16th century modes of worship is that the loss of some of the traditions of the early church prevented the Reformers from making major advances.

Examining personal diaries, newspaper reports and advertisements from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Schmidt noted the way Christmas was once celebrated in department stores like Wanamaker's in Philadelphia, which featured hymn - singing and elaborate religious symbolism that turned the store's cathedral - like central area into a commercialized version of a church.

The major source, the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke), contains a great deal of teaching material ascribed to Jesus, and it turns out to be precisely that: teaching ascribed to Jesus and yet, in fact, stemming from the early Church.

Their confidence in his continued life turned their dismay at Calvary into triumph, and without it some of the most characteristic elements in the New Testament — the radiant hope and joy of the whole Book, the Christ - mysticism of Paul, the shining reality of the eternal world in the Epistle to the Hebrews, and the enthusiastic acceptance of sacrificial hardship exhibited by the early church — are inexplicable.

No more a cult at this point than Christianity, no matter what they may have been when founded — when founded, Christianity would have met the definition of a cult just fine too (I'll turn brother against brother, leave your wife — really, very cultish stuff from the early church).

At crucial times on the unfolding way of the early church, the Spirit calls the turn (8:29; 11:12; 13:2; 16:6, 7; 1921).

In fact, the vision of Peter that God in Christ had destroyed purity - impurity divide between Jew and Gentile (Acts 10) was a turning point in the early church to build a new koinonia transcending religions.

Having studied early church history and the bible intensely, coupled with a background in the sciences I can turn such a conversation vile, but usually choose not to as it simply ruins the outing.

The theologian Richard Lischer offers a brief meditation that, for my money, ought to be required reading for all seminarians who want their ministries to follow a biblical paradigm - a paradigm that Lischer finds in the ministry of St. Paul to the early Christian gentile churches: a ministry that for all its messiness finds as its center the repeated embodiment of the death and resurrection of Jesus in the daily tosses and turns of pastoral work with the people of God.

Altho the Mormon church banned pologamy in 1870 they turned a blind - eye and it was practiced well into the early 50's.

An earlier get - together by a coalition of representatives of Algonquin civic groups, churches and schools turned into an impromptu but enthusiastic session on building a...

The United Church of Christ — a pioneer in the environmental justice movement in the early 1980s when it reported on the prevalence of toxic waste dumps in poor, black neighborhoods — has turned much of its attention to climate change.

But a decade ago several trends in American education, and in the Catholic Church, made a Catholic - operated public school seem increasingly possible: 1) the traditional, parish - based Catholic school system, especially in the inner cities, was crumbling; 2) equally troubled urban public - school systems were failing to educate most of their students; and 3) a burgeoning charter school movement, born in the early 1990s, was beginning to turn heads among educators in both the private and public sectors.

The vernacular wood frame of his Church at Head Tide (1938) exemplifies this concentration upon local forms: the black outlines surrounding the structure — increasingly prevalent in Hartley's work after the early 1930s — metaphorize this inward turning.

Earlier today we advised readers not to stop at church and confess to having been involved in a homicide while on the way to the police station to turn themselves in.