Sentences with phrase «with during my church»

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Pence, an evangelical Christian who had planned to highlight the plight of Christian minorities during his trip, will not meet with Palestinian Christians or with officials from the Coptic Christian church, who declined a meeting in response to the U.S. move.

The church I went to during college had a booth at the back to school fair and gave out magnets with the church info and cookies.

In recounting President Harrison's service so far, Townsend mentions his participation in resisting the Health and Human Services mandate, quoting Harrison's testimony before congress during which he said he was pleased to «stand with our friends in the Catholic church» as they opposed the excesses of the mandate.

I find it interesting that they very people who send their kids into science classes with the mission to disrupt them through tangent questioning would likely call the police on anyone who dared to raise a question during a Church sermon.

But they are leading lives of such spiritual incoherence that their own integrity should compel them to seek reconciliation through the sacrament of penance, and to do so before affirming a fuller communion with the Church than they in fact enjoy by receiving Holy Communion during Mass..

Usually, with bully pastors, those doing actual church work (paid or volunteer) are bullied, while many of them tend to come across dynamic and interesting to the pew - sitter during sermons.

During those «lapses,» the LDS Church (Mormons) has always been there to reassure me with the teachings of Jesus Christ (faith, repentance, grace, forgiveness, etc.).

«Through the UK - Sudan Strategic Dialogue, and our policy of phased engagement, we continue to raise human rights issues with the government of Sudan and make regular representations on freedom of religion or belief, including in relation to reported church demolitions, most recently during the Archbishop of Canterbury's visit to Sudan in July.»

Would it be possible to hang out during the week (just for fun) with the people from the church that you are close to?

Down till our day, the churches have continued blessing war and other means of deadly force, as for example during both WWI and WWII, the German soldiers wore belt buckles with the inscribed words «Gott mit uns», meaning «God is with us».

Regretably, after the Second World War the Confessing Church disappered immediately, because the Confessing Church was united with the German Evangelical Church, which had supported Hitler during the Second World War.

Delegates were happy with the success of «Harvest «90,» an outreach program that had aimed at adding 2 million members to the church during 1985 - 1990 and surpassed that number by 500,000, bringing the membership worldwide to 6.4 million.

During this year's convention of the National Association of Evangelicals, Blair, an NAE member, launched a group called Evangelicals Concerned, which is described as «an educational task force for ministry with homosexuals and their families and churches.»

Of great interest to me, as with all documents written during the first three centuries of the church, is to read what things were like before the conversion of Constantine when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, and transformed from a simple way of following Jesus into the powerful Christendom that still rules today.

During Church Revival 1.0, relations with the government were complex.

Media consultant Martin Bailey, who assisted Jerusalem churches with electronic media development during the mid «90s, now helps them distribute their messages through the Worldwide Faith News Network (www.wfn.org).

Since my early days as assistant at my teacher Edmund Schlink's Ecumenical Institute at Heidelberg and afterward during many years of regular ecumenical discussions, especially with Roman Catholic theologians, I became increasingly aware that Christian theology today should not limit itself to some narrowly defined confessional loyalty inherited from the past but should help to build the foundations of a reunited, if to some degree pluralistic, Christian church that should become more and more visible within the foreseeable future.

During their time in Santo Domingo, they were deeply impressed by IJM's work — namely, the organization's cooperation with local officials and churches to better engage in the fight against the nation's booming sex trafficking industry.

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.

Yet for the next several years, through my baptism, my church wedding (yes, to the Christian who gives gifts of underwear), through my continued efforts to write poetry, and even during my first bout of seminary education, I went about my life tense with the secret that I did not know how to pray as I ought.

They were pretty damning, and my possession of them earned me a subpoena» served during a church potluck by a Texas Ranger who came with ten dollars cash provided by the State of Texas for travel expenses.

In the United States, where the Church experienced a particular problem with clerical abuse scandals during the 90s and early 00s, their Bishops Conference commissioned a Report on the causes and nature of clerical abuse by the John Jay Institute, an independent legal research group, called the John Jay Report.

In a homily given during a private Mass with six victims of church sexual abuse, Francis apologized for the abuse and asked for forgiveness.

That is why we need the homeless with us during our discussion of «how can the church help you»?

The only one's I see are the fleeting school auditorium and shopping mall meeting room congregations and the gigantic charismatic churches with people falling on the floor babbling during the services, whose congregants are in serious need of mental health professionals.

It surfaced during the challenges presented to the role of the Church during the Age of Enlightenment in the 17th century; it makes strides upon the publication of The Origin of The Species by Charles Darwin in the 19th century; its has gathered force in the 21st century as the role of science in Western civilization is being presented with its own challenges... of still yet unanswered questions.

During the early years, however, Jose and I practiced a parenting style consistent with what we were learning in church — negative emotions were «bad» and somehow needed to be avoided or at least taken care of quick.

It is impossible to list separately the many leaders in the Christian Church in Australia, of all denominations, who were so generous to me during my stay in their country; but I thank them with all my heart for all that they did to make my visit memorable and pleasant.

Third, the student must be kept in touch with the church during his college years.

When the Catholic church is examined carefully from its inception down through the centuries till now, it can be likened to a beast that has sought to control everyone through fear and intimidation, as during the Crusades and Inquisitions, slaughtering those who disagreed with its «policies» and beliefs, such as the unscriptural doctrine of the trinity.

In some way the later situation of the church, during and after the split with Judaism, has colored the tradition of what Jesus said.

Remembering with pleasure our meeting in Washington some years ago, I am prompted to write by what I once hoped was a common concern for the unity of Christ's Church and a shared commitment to bridging the chasm that opened between America and Russia during the Cold War.

The Vatican stepped up its battle with the Chinese Catholic Church this weekend, excommunicating a bishop who was ordained during the week without the pope's permission.

During this Year of Faith the texts of the Council and Catechism will be central to our efforts as Catholics to rediscover and share with others the gift of Faith entrusted to the Church.

Initiates, after a lengthy period of preparation, would enter into communion with the Church during an evening ritual replete with natural and biblical symbols.

So it came as a bit of a shock to recognize that the churches we were visiting during our search had a different feel, a different sense of community and welcoming that we recognized as being part «Christian» and part «white» but did not fully resonate with us.

During the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), one person who gave evidence was asked how the church can deal with the abuse of power and replied: «It needs to stop squelching discussion, it has a way of crushing people when they try to speak and it needs to treat people as adults not children.»

I believe you have raised a pertinent issue here though with church attendance being likened to a «badge», a sort of measurable physically viewable achievement that people measure community, commitment and faith by — which is sad in a way because the regular meetings during the week aren't always for everyone.

Hosted by local churches trying to compete with haunted houses during the Halloween season, Judgment Day Houses are designed to frighten participants into making commitments to Christianity by dramatically portraying the splendors of heaven that await them if they accept Christ the horrors of hell that will befall them if they don't.

During the war itself the Churches faced a problem that accompanied them until the present day — what were they to do with the Negroes who had been so unjustly treated for almost two centuries?

During the Middle Ages the scholars of the church debated text differences with perfect freedom.

«My father made numerous trips during the Cold War when Eastern Europe and Russia were under Communism and built relationships with the churches in those countries.

During the week, we will talk to local leaders, workers living here permanently helping local churches, and also some of those who came with me.

The Church of England - Birmingham has encouraged churches to get involved with the initiative during Christmas time when churches are full of occasional visitors.

Gunmen armed with grenades targeted Notre - Dame de Fatima Church on the border of the predominantly Muslim PK 5 area where 21 people were killed during clashes last month.

Thereafter Greek Catholics actively sought to attract co-religionists dissatisfied with the Hellenic domination of the local Orthodox church; and during the 19th century various Catholic groups engaged in missionary work among the Arab Orthodox.

In a Mass celebrated in the Sistine Chapel with the College of Cardinals on the day after his election, the Holy Father raised cautions about clerical ambition» a yellow warning flag that reflected the concerns he had expressed during the papal interregnum about «spiritual worldliness» corrupting the Church, and an unmistakable call to a more energetically evangelical exercise of the priesthood and the episcopate.

During his ministry to the German congregation in London from 1933 to 1935, he worked closely with British churches and the growing German immigrant community in England to spread awareness of what was happening in Nazi Germany.

In texts from the Hebrew Bible often read in churches during the season of Advent, light is associated with God's acts of deliverance:

During this church age, there is balance between living with the state of mind that Christ could return at any moment, but also living with the understanding that we must prepare for the future as if He will not come in our lifetime.