Sentences with phrase «whose service to the church»

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For some consumers, even Google's generally superior cameras and image displays will be insufficient to tear them away from the church of Apple, whose products and services tend to work best when paired together.

It's a tradition that I'm proud to uphold not only as a fellow believer but as an elected leader whose entry into public service was actually through the church.

Each reader, whose technology is run by the London - based fintech company SumUp, needs a «merchant», most likely a Church worker, to input each transaction, and a probable scenario will see members of the congregation walking past a manned device as they enter or leave a service or event.

As African Catholicism now challenges its Euro - parent to rediscover the gift of faith that Europe once gave others, God or Nothing is also an invitation to meet a man whose service to the universal Church may not end with his current post in the Roman Curia.

Gerrish has moved from the University of Chicago, where he held the Nuveen Professorship (whose previous occupants had been Paul Tillich and Paul Ricoeur) to Union Seminary in Richmond, where he is Distinguished Service Professor of Theology His many publications on Reformation and 19th - century theology (above all, on Calvin and Schleiermacher) are models of rich scholarship, elegant prose and reflection on the history of theology with an eye to how it matters for church life today.

The proportion of congregations in the 1960s and 1970s that actually responded as prescribed to their contexts was in fact very small.21 As neighborhood populations changed racially, some churches whose physical and financial resources lingered after their former membership fled introduced service programs to assist the poor, but the adjustment seems in most cases to have stemmed from necessity or default rather than from deliberate reorientation and restructuring by members who themselves stayed on to be transformed.

A crucial task for the church must surely be to assess whether energy technology is being used in accordance with God's will for wholeness in creation or distorted into a deity in its own right whose service demands sacrificing the welfare of some segment of the whole creation.

Some churches now see themselves as service agencies whose aim and purpose is to use all their members, old as well as young, in serving the frail elderly and other older people in need.

A special word of thanks is due to Miss Juanita Brown of the Woman's Division of Christian Service of The Methodist Church, whose request prompted the writing of the book, and to my colleague Dr. John Herbert Otwell for his careful reading and valuable suggestions.

«We don't want to be naïve and pretend that terrorism isn't a problem, but we don't want to be alarmist and assume that Muslims are all terrorists,» said Urton, whose Gurnee, Illinois, church hosted dozens of local Muslims at its Christmas service last year.

It is interesting to note in this regard the growth of large churches whose approach is that of offering what amounts to a «comprehensive religious service» to what has become an increasingly discriminating and mobile religious clientele.

However, for people who are dissatisfied with their local church, who have little established connection with a local church, or whose religious consciousness may be awakened by a viewed religious program, the research indicates that paid - time religious programs, by presenting themselves as competent alternatives to the local church, offering a range of services similar to the local church, and not referring respondents or enquirers to a local church, may be acting as a barrier to people's developing their faith most fully within this interpersonal context.

Another worried party supporter, Kweku Sam in the Ablekuma West constituency of Accra wondered why instead of their flagbearer whose face will be on the ballot box to adopt the «house to house» campaign and interact with us he put it suffering Ghanaians, he has limited himself to funerals, church services and press conferences.

January also plays host to «First Sunday,» in which Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan play con men whose probation has them doing community service in a church with a temptingly big collection plate.

In response to the query about how disconnected youth were identified and recruited, panelists emphasized that the work is conducted by CBOs, whose staff attend basketball games, night events, and church services to reach youth, and they also use fliers on the streets and make connections with multi-service centers to identify youth.

If passed, HB 3859 would exempt faith - based organizations from being obligated to provide services to those whose values contradict religious standards of the sponsoring organizations, and would require the State to provide those refused services with referrals to other available agencies like Abrazo, which is not a church - related adoption agency.