Not exact matches
The Paris apartment block is a discreet building behind the
city's Madeleine
church,
with several secret entrances, often frequented by movie and music stars who pay up to 15,000 euros a night.
It's kind of like the old saying about
churches:
Cities with more
churches tend to have more alcoholics.
My partner moved to our
city a few months later and began attending the
church with me.
In Jerusalem, I walk out of the
Church of the Nativity
with our Palestinian guide Nabeel, one of 42 allowed to enter the
city (on a six - month renewable permit).
Not long ago I was on a panel
with other
church leaders in a large
city.
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.
Any efforts at changing the culture of the inner
city will have to intersect
with the African - American
churches here; learning from those who have weathered the last few decades and built institutions to serve the community.
I feel blessed to be in a
city with so many great
churches.
I attended a few inner
city churches and had contact
with every single one of them when I attended
church â $ «and sometimes some good things were done.
American pastors Michael and Susan Thomas at the Lutheran
Church of the Redeemer in old - city Jerusalem wrote that their church bulletin board is covered with e-mail thoughts and prayers from all over the world sent in support of Jerusalem Chris
Church of the Redeemer in old -
city Jerusalem wrote that their
church bulletin board is covered with e-mail thoughts and prayers from all over the world sent in support of Jerusalem Chris
church bulletin board is covered
with e-mail thoughts and prayers from all over the world sent in support of Jerusalem Christians.
The theological side of the ledger was embodied by Harvey Cox's 1965 bestseller, The Secular
City,
with its argument for a radically secularized Christianity in which the world sets the agenda for the
Church.
Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to
church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants
with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love
with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent
city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.
Ignoring the warnings of American bishops that American teenagers would not likely be very interested in listening to what the
Church had to say, John Paul called down an outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the 800,000 youth who gathered
with him in theMile High
City, taking as his theme the words of Our Lord in John 10:10, «I came that they might have life.»
Church - shopping in a new
city is about having intention
with the community.
As noted by Harvey Cox, the author of The Secular
City, in an interview
with Krista Tippett, secularist and religious sentiments will ultimately seesaw between one and the other — Yes, this is off topic, but to say that the
Church will change drastically will ultimately mean that it'll take two steps back, then two steps forward, and so on.
The Two Kingdoms Doctrine originates in Martin Luther's 1518 tract, «Two Kinds of Righteousness,» though before that it has resonance
with Augustine's
City of God, which had influenced Christian
church - state relations in the West for a millennium.
A
church leader would have a good following of people in a particular town or
city, and some other teacher would arrive in town, and begin to teach Scripture in a different way or
with a different emphasis.
But doesn't the image of the
Church as a «fortified
city», taken from the Old Testament, conflict
with the spirit of Lumen Gentium, the Vatican II dogmatic constitution on the
Church, and Gaudium et Spes, the Pastoral Constitution the
Church in the Modern World?
Against all this, Milbank retrieves from Augustine's
City of God the priority of peace and harmony,
with the
church embodying a social theory allied to a trinitarian theology that is the true alternative to the heretical and disastrously nihilistic theologies that have dominated the postmedieval Western world.
His
church and ours, along
with some other ministries here in the
city, collaborate to do an urban high school camp every summer.
It is not some artist's rendering of the holy
city but the
city itself,
with the Dome of the Rock in the bottom left corner and the
Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the middle.
Churches in inner
cities and poor rural areas are closing, while those that remain are often composed of commuting members
with little interest in the
church's neighbors.
The idea had been Martin Luther King's, at least officially, but Pastor Neuhaus was close to the arduous, difficult civil rights work being done in Bedford - Stuyvesant (the Movement was discovering that Northern neighborhoods had an entirely different, more hardened, multiethnic toughness than Southern
cities) and it was my guess that Richard, as much as anybody, was the actual dynamo and idea man behind Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, along
with William Sloane Coffin, then the pastor of Riverside
Church.
Here is an interview
with Rick White, pastor of
City View
Church talking about how the arts can be used to reach postmodern Krakow.
Typically,
with such a strategy, a
church planter doesn't need to worry about how to gather a crowd or get the word out about a big event, because the
city (or whoever is organizing the event) is already doing such things.
We are working
with a group of local believers to plant a
church in the
city,
with a vision for transformation guiding us from the very start.
Munich is a
city of gleaming o ce - blocks and glorious baroque
churches, tra c curling out towards the motorways and tourists crowding before the famous clock at the gothic town hall
with its carved gures dancing as it chimes out the hour.
But unlike the transit hub, built largely
with federal transportation money, the
church is being funded through donations including from the Greek government, Greek Orthodoxchurch members around the world, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston and the Italian
city of Bari, whose patron saint is St Nicholas.
Unfortunately, due to the rise of the more evangelical - style, «southern U.S.» baptist imports, along
with other varieties of Baptist
churches that are very much untraditional, the traditional Baptist style appears to be dying away and only a few traditional
churches remain, most of which probably existing in metropolitan
cities.
Are you glad that our Latin forefathers went
with «
church» or would have preferred one of the others: court, party,
City of God, or maybe even Circus?
In less than two years from now, the 150th anniversary of the formal organization of the Mormon
Church will be observed
with carefully choreographed ceremonies telecast from the gigantic Tabernacle in Salt Lake
City's historic Temple Square.
With respect to its divine vocation, however, the
church represents and to some extent embodies the heavenly
city.
Agree
with premise — the one time I truly saw the
church functioning as unified body was right after 9/11 — never before have I seen people of faith come together like this to do whatever was needed to help a
city recover.
1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in
church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack
city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes
with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not
with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)
Our first post in a rural community actually got us doing some incredible things in the
city with a lot of
churches.
These principles have a notable ancestry within the Calvinist tradition
with which I identify: from the concept of sphere sovereignty developed by Dutch theologian and statesman Abraham Kuyper, to the Politics of the sixteenth - century German Calvinist Althusius, all the way back to Calvin himself, who spent the greater part of his career struggling for the freedom of the
Church in a
city where civil rulers dictated ecclesiastical policy.
John Calvin, the great European predecessor of the New England Puritans, working carefully from a basically Augustinian starting point, had argued that a well - ordered nonmonarchical
church could operate symbiotically
with a well - ordered polity, namely the
city - republic of Geneva, to create an ethical social order.
We also partner
with other
churches in the
city trying to get more people to God.
(2) Following a wave of persecution a number of Christian missionaries then carried the gospel farther afield, notably to Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch (Acts 11:19); at Antioch, the capital of Syria and a
city which ranked
with Alexandria as second only to Rome in size and importance, Gentiles were for the, first time admitted into the
Church in large numbers, apparently without becoming Jewish proselytes in any full sense.
Ramona was a leader of her struggling inner -
city church,
with an infectious and earthy love of her Lord.
On the other hand, he was certainly a great hero to the younger anti-Nazi campaigners, such as the «White Rose» group at Munich University (Hans and Sophie School — who were, incidentally, also inspired by the writings of another great Catholic, John Henry Newman) and the youth group at St Ludwig's
Church in the same
city who combined opposition to National Socialism
with devout Catholicism and enthusiasm for the emerging liturgical movement.
The plan — always subject to change — is to visit an orphange, a community development project, a tent
city, a
church service, and hang out
with local pastors and leaders.
Though the
church historian, as a person of like faith, must walk on common ground
with all the pilgrim people of God, perhaps he or she may see just a bit more clearly as together they strain toward their first glimpse of that eternal «
city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God» (Heb.11: 10).»
Because officials back at LDS
Church headquarters in Salt Lake
City, Utah, can't monitor what each member does, whether
with good intentions or not, names slip through — names like Daniel Pearl, Mickey Mouse and Stanley Ann Dunham, Barack Obama's mother.
«The police couldn't guarantee our safety,» said Gayle, who now copastors the Christian
City Church (C3 Bali)
with her husband in Denpasar, Bali's capital.
Equally, conginitive dissonance can result in those opposed to the
church even to the potint of not perceiving any good in it when faced
with obvious good that happens in
churches or para
church organisations for example
city missions throughtout the world feeding and being a freind to the homeless at Christmas.
Vatican
City (CNN)- Pope Francis on Thursday emphasized
church advancement in his first Mass
with the cardinals who elected him as pontiff a day earlier.
I personally have a good relationship
with church communities in my
city and I don't even attend
church nor hold to many of their doctrinal statements.
In The
City of God Augustine did write on the meaning of rape, which had become an issue for the
church with the rape of Christian women during the sack of Rome in 410, and he begins his discussion
with the apt judgment that responsibility for rape belongs to the rapist, not the raped.
So,
with no further ado, I will let Duncan Stroik, editor of Sacred Architecture, say it: «Everywhere I went in Italy last summer, save the eternal
city,
churches were asking an admission fee.