Sentences with phrase «with old church»

We got in touch with our old church back in the Seattle area (we live a couple hours from there now) and with a lot of prayers decide to use Antioch Adoptions.

The Piazza di Santa Maria with its old church is the central landmark, though the culture is about wandering the beautiful old streets and soaking in the colors — colors accented by laundry hanging from clothes lines and the hustle and bustle of the locals.

Something about the juxtaposition of the car dress with the old church is just so cute.

But these changes didn't go down well with the older church members.

this is a rebellion that didn't come from the leader who began this ministry but a rebellion that grew from a group of young people who didn't engage with the older church leadership about how to contribute to the existing structure.

It is the Roman Catholic city with old churches, beautiful architecture and sights.

With old churches, ruins, sea views and funky restaurants and bars, Casco Viejo (the Old Quarter of Panama City), is absolutely charming!

I travelled back in time with its old churches and ruins.

Not exact matches

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Music icon Bob Dylan is partnering with a distillery to make whiskey at a 140 - year - old Tennessee church and bottle it under the name Heaven's Door.

It's kind of like the old saying about churches: Cities with more churches tend to have more alcoholics.

The proposed mine sharply divided the inhabitants of the valley, which is dotted with centuries - old timber barns and onion - domed churches, and surrounded by sheer - sided mountains.

If the old Liberalism was an adaptation to modernity, with its assumptions drawn from scientific materialism, in this new age the church must accommodate postmodern pluralism and resurgent spirituality.

The little old lady the gives out hugs at church The sunset that takes your breath away The person that tells you that he appreciates you The lady that brings your family dinner because you are tending to a sick child The friend that prays with you and cries with you when someone you love lies dying.

(You know the two twenty year old guys walking around in a suit with «The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints» written on a black badge, pinned to their suit!

We had us, a teaching ministry with old line pentacostal affiliation, Baptists, Presbyterians, Church of Christ, Armenian Orthodox, Assemblies of God, and a Jewish Temple.

The 10 - year - old church, which says in its materials that more than 2,000 people attend its weekend services, planned to disperse that same amount - $ 30,000 - on Sunday, with congregants getting envelopes containing $ 10, $ 20 and $ 50 bills.

As i grew older i became more intellectually and scientifically driven and although i do still go to church when i can its more for me a place when i am having a bad day that is a refuge a place that i just feel at peace in probably because i grew up in a church was there every Sunday and every holy day of obligation with my parents it brings back peacful memories.

I had the option of converting to Catholicism when I married my husband and chose not to because of what I saw as a church run by a bunch of old, white men out of touch with the needs of women and people of diverse backgrounds.

David A. Love, a journalist who writes for Atlanta Black Star newspaper, said: «As the nation grapples with the massacre at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., one of the oldest Black churches in the South, other Black churches have become recent targets of arson.

A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred, by George F. Will (Crown Archetype): America's premier political columnist begins his latest reflection on the National Pastime with some charming, autobiographically - derived advice for Catholicism: after recalling that he became a Chicago Cub fan at age seven, «when I was still not as discerning as one should be when making life - shaping decisions,» the elegant Dr. Will notes that «The Catholic Church thinks seven - year olds have reached an age of reasoning» and remarks, «The Church might want to rethink that.»

Sit down and talk with some of the 19 and 20 year old men and women of the LDS church and ask them some of your questions and share your thoughts with them.

Having moved since I left our old church home and â $ œfallen awayâ $, so to speak, as I have lost touch with the â $ œanointedâ $.

The late 1980s merger of the old American Lutheran Church (ALC), Lutheran Church in America (LCA), and Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (AELC, a much smaller body that broke earlier with the Lutheran Church» Missouri Synod) resulted in an organization of 5.3 million members that has been producing red ink, membership losses, and general demoralization since its start.

In other words, the Church's determination to read the Old and New Testaments together, to consider them a sequential set of texts with theological integrity, led to, or at least made itself deeply at home with, a widespread use of a single codex for the unified Christian Bible.

Most of the North American Indian tribes and their spirituality / religions are well over 5000 years old, with understanding of God just as solid as that of the Roman Catholic Church.

I'd be a bit more concerned with getting the South Anna and Calvert Cliffs nuclear plants «quake - approved» before some old church.

Old Mario you are back with your ignorant Catholic bashing.Well there is no Christianity wthout the Catholic Church.Learn history.And I again exhort you to rejoin the Catholic Church

He also relates how he had to grapple with important lifestyle questions even at a young age: «At about 13, 14 years old, the question arose: Can I actually kick on Sunday morning, even though I was supposed to go to church?

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?

For one thing, he was to look out for Jesus» mother for a period and then maybe considered himself too old or infirmed (kind of like our last Pope) to lead a Church with its many challenges.

Some of the older churches that are works of art themselves I can look past, but this was a purely modern building with very little artistic expression.

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 ChrisChurch 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 Chrischurch bulletin board is covered with e-mail thoughts and prayers from all over the world sent in support of Jerusalem Christians.

After these young Churches demonstrate that they can stand on their own spiritually, organizationally, and financially, they cease being «mission territory» and relate to the Roman Curia as do the older local Churches; the bishops of these newly «graduated» local Churches are thus chosen in consultation with the Congregation for Bishops.

If their church experiences include liberal doses of being bullied, should we not suppose they may decide to have nothing to do with any church and perhaps even God once they are old enough to decide for themselves?

Young local Churches begin as «mission territory,» and their bishops are chosen in consultation with what's now called the «Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples» (but which everyone in Rome still refers to by its old name, «Propaganda,» or simply «Prop»).

With all of this in mind, and in response to common questions I receive when speaking at mainline churches, I've dusted off and updated this older post from 2013 with seven ways to welcome young people to the mainlWith all of this in mind, and in response to common questions I receive when speaking at mainline churches, I've dusted off and updated this older post from 2013 with seven ways to welcome young people to the mainlwith seven ways to welcome young people to the mainline:

The patriarchal, macho, controlling, manipulative, shaming, money - grubbing, name - it - and - claim - it, fear - mongering, other - despising, fiefdom - making, using and abusing, excuse for narcissistic and plain old selfish and power - addled appalling behavior that is commonly called «church» and «church leadership» has nothing whatsoever to do with anything the person or character or compilation or concept called «Jesus» ever reportedly or theoretically said, did, or conveyed.

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?

Because the church has been intimately connected with the old patterns of certitude, privilege and domination, it shares a common jeopardy with other old institutions.

On the flipside, whilst what is arguable the oldest multi-campus churches in the world is down to 1,200 campuses worldwide, it seems to be holding steady, with demographics being its primary long - term problem.

God started with a small party in a garden, moved on toward some pow - wows at alters in the desert, then moved into a moveable tabernacle (kind of like an Old Testament RV), then reigned in a temple (especially the God - cave of the Holy of Holies, then disappeared while giving the Jews the silent treatment for some 400 years, then came back to the temple, then traveled the highways and byways with anyone who wanted to join the fun and whooped it up with society's outcasts and wedding attenders, then moved on to some public forums, then into some clandestine home groups and a few jail cells, and eventually made his way into traditional church as we now know it.

The apostle Paul writing to the church in Ephesus encouraged them «with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self... and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.»

Instead, if we understand the culture in which John wrote, the issues that the early church was facing under the Roman Empire, and all of the hundreds of allusions to Old Testament themes and prophetic expectations, the Book of Revelation can have a significant message for followers of Jesus today, who also deal with similar cultural issues as we try to live like Jesus in a world dominated by powers and authority that live in rebellion to the Kingdom of God.

On the modern road to Jericho, which runs around the bottom of the Mount of Olives, is the Roman Catholic church, with a small, reverently tended garden beside it containing some old, gnarled olive trees.

Anthea Butler, a columnist with Religion Dispatches magazine, says Miller is invoking an old theme in fundamentalist and conservative churches: that any new media - like movies, television and radio - is sinful.

But It does get a little old with the constant harping on the church.

Our Church took 25 older teens to a Christian camp three of them are non believers, they came to the worship and seminars and laughed and socialised with us all.

There is an old saying that history is but a series attacks upon the Word of God, like a blacksmith hammering away with great force against the anvil, there are times when it looks as though the church will not survive another strike.

Rogue ordinations of priests and consecrations of bishops are nothing new in Christian history, but with the breakaways to the Old Catholic Church following Vatican Council I in the nineteenth century, the phenomenon of episcopi vagantes (bishops on the loose) became a pronounced feature of an underworld of apostate Catholics and sectarian Anglicans.

The Rev. Cedric Miller of Neptune made the demand after 20 couples at his church ran into difficulties after a spouse reunited with an old love interest, the Los Angeles Times reported in an article.