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Who was undertaking the decoration for churches, was nearly always away from home in a certain place in the countryside.

In churches, membership is often reduced to simply adding your name to a roll, with no requirements or expectations.

In this verse we see that the sending of this book "to the seven churches" equals the sending of it to the seven cities.

"I don't like those fashionable churches, " she said, obviously priding herself on her independence of thought.

For the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian Churches, it was like an endorsement from Europe's top rock stars.

Our desires is to see this money be used for charity, helping the orphans, widows, churches and propagation of the gospel.

Yep, everything in Greece and Asia Minor, my churches are all doing great, I got to get out of here, my work here is done.

How significant, then, that the lampstands represent the seven churches who were called to bring the light of Jesus into a very dark world.

In their eagerness for theological precision some Calvinists seem to want to turn their churches into theological debating societies.

As you know, there is a growing disrespect for government and for churches and for schools, the news media, and other institutions.

People looked toward recent immigrants and Catholic and Episcopalian churches to see how the day should be celebrated.

There have been more attacks on churches in Malaysia, in a growing dispute over the use of the word Allah by non-Muslims.

He attained almost quasi-sainthood and busts of him actually replaced crucifixes in many churches in Paris.

Less happily, the WCC served as a shop-window for Orthodox churches in communist lands which had to parrot the line of their masters.

As the number of the early churches increased so did the question of doctrine, discipline and church order.

Cor. 11: 16 But if anyone seems to be contentious, we do not have such a custom of being so, neither the churches of God.

House churches, he said, cannot afford to stay silent - one of the reasons he granted CNN rare access to film in his banned church.

But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

St. Paul's Cathedral is the last of a succession of churches and places of worship built on a site in the heart of London.

Charities and churches are also trying to catch people that fall through the flimsy government safety net.

Christian churches and Muslim groups have no more right to have their say than women's institutes or trades unions.

Some of their descendants came to the United States, where they established what are known as the historic peace churches.

Although thatch has always been used for cottage and farm buildings, it was once used for castles and churches, too.

We've seen already that other churches seem to be writing letters back and forth.

Let us pray specifically for churches that are seeking registration in Azerbaijan to be allowed to legally exist in the country.

Parts of many of the ancient churches and castles in and around the city have collapsed.

Written information was no longer the domain of monks with quill pens and hand-written books were no longer confined to zealots in churches.

In the churches that they served, his father generally preached on Sunday mornings and his mother on Sunday evenings.

Mosques and churches often perform the duties of a state that has all but collapsed in many parts of the country.

Two years later there was a song on the radio about a girl who could dance in churches and play basketball with the boys.

John based his foreign policy on a hope for western help, bought at the cost of a union of the churches (= submission to the papacy).

And though Smith said God told him that other churches were "all wrong" , Elder Ballard is more tactful.

If anyone wants to be contentious about this, we have no other practice--nor do the churches of God.

This was an alliance of black ministers and churches organized to pursue nonviolent direct action against segregation.

I was standing up in front of audiences at churches and singing in front of three thousand people and be like this tall or so.

The King controlled all the Anglican churches in England, just as the Pope controlled all the Catholic churches throughout Europe.

"I saw a bit of art in churches, things like that, " but never entered a museum.

THE HOST: And churches are being built, not real churches, but I suppose facsimiles of churches. Some of them being built in shopping malls.

Behold, at a signal given from heaven, for it is the sun which gives it, all those churches quiver simultaneously.

In West Virginia's small towns it is often the churches that step in.

May the Lord use them mightily as they humbly serve in their churches with a servant's heart and a love for lost souls.

The Spiritualist Churches were born and contacting higher entities and receiving channeled messages, bringing the old teachings up to date.

This outrageous behavior led to the formation of separate Negro churches, as the gospel spread among the slave population.

In 893 Walburga's body was disinterred, dismembered, and parts of it were distributed to churches in Germany, Belgium, and France.

The houses, churches and other buildings on the island seemed squeezed, as if by a giant grip, pressing skyward.

If God's people gave to God all that is due to him, there would be no lack in the finances of our churches or our missionary societies.

Although gaining new members would be an obvious benefit for the churches, those involved say it is not the primary goal.

There are many Churches and many Christians who consider Baptism to be a sort of "help" toward being Saved.

Common commemorations, by several churches, of the deaths of martyrs began to be celebrated in the 4th century.

The former cathedral in Utrecht is one of the first Gothic churches in the Netherlands, construction of it having started in 1254.

As well as spreading the Word, the proliferation of churches provides a measure of defence against intimidation .

More churches and mosques have been blown up in the past few years than any time I can remember.

Any of you know what Maundy Thursday means in Christian churches?

So by the time Paul writes I Corinthians, women are acknowledged as an important part of his churches.

Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

When the Depression hit, families, charities and churches were weakened. And there was more need of them than ever before.

The Communist Party has long stymied privately funded institutions, from churches to schools, viewing them as a threat to its grip on power.

He gave the complete list of the museums and churches and public buildings they had visited.

In large cities, it is possible to find churches for most of the major faiths, including Moslem mosques and Hindu or Buddhist temples.

During one such trial in Indonesia last month, of a Christian accused of insulting Islam, rioters attacked the court and burned churches.

The Churches of Chiloe represent a unique example in Latin America of an outstanding form of ecclesiastical wooden architecture.

In the Yuan dynasty, Jining Circuit, where Nestorian churches and believers had long existed, was an important region for Nestorians.

It's not one of those two churches. Maybe you want one of the smaller churches, one of the black suburbs.

Not so much but I overlook many churches and the water is only five minutes' walk away.

Take A Typical Tram Ride Through The Shopping Streets And Visit One Of The Many Churches And Museums Nearby.

and non-state actors (from communist guerrillas to churches) have been using radio for almost as long.

The clash in their relationship came when they neither wanted to leave their respective churches.

We were out all day visiting museums, monuments and churches.

Now concerning the collection for the saints, just as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also do.

Like so many churches in Palestine in Byzantine times, the Gethsemane building was in the form of a basilica with three aisles.

Pray for newly established Churches to be a great blessing to this Arabian Peninsula nation.

Churches and castles are almost all that remain of the original city.

Even today no greater help can be given to many in our churches, than to be invited to someone's home for a meal.

However, the new churches may not be able to translate today's assertiveness into permanent political power.

Hour-glasses were later used in churches to time the length of sermons.

The Christian religion will collapse and the churches and monasteries will end up in ruins and ashes.

Then again they realized the more they did this that Protestant churches started splitting all over the place.

Churches were restored and "exuded the light and clarity of the age of Enlightenment" .

God is only a symbol, a word, that has really lost its meaning, for the churches and places of worship have destroyed it.

Its Renaissance palaces, historic churches, and stone bridges are now menaced by floods more than 50 times a year.

I tried to rationalize my failure to help by assuming government agencies, churches and charities were there to feed him.

These religious fugitives sought a more rational and intellectual religious environment and our churches and its ministers have complied.

His father, one of a line of Scottish Protestant Anglican ministers, didn't really encourage stops at Catholic churches.

These documents circulated among the early churches and were used as preaching and teaching sources.

A majority of Western churches do not see a single addition through conversion in a typical year.

Educational films are shown in schools, churches and clubs, as well as in theaters.

Muslim group attacked Christians and burned churches in reprisals over the burning of two mosques, which Muslims blamed on Christians.

We do not, however, see enough individual churches that embody the full, integrative gospel balance we have outlined here.

Latino charismatics see themselves as a renewal movement within Catholicism, as it converges with other churches.

By January 14th nine churches, a convent and a Sikh temple across the country had been hit.

This may be the best witness testifying to this fact, as Muslims have done no harm to those churches.

Of or relating to any of the churches or rites of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ salute you.

Gothic architecture is most familiar as the architecture of many of the great cathedrals, abbeys and parish churches of Europe.

In our history, those gatherings often took place in churches, synagogues, mosques and temples.

Westminster Abbey, which is one of the oldest churches in Great Britain, contains the graves of many famous Englishmen.

Many house churches do small things to foster a sense of community among congregation members and attract potential new members.

And the West more love towards the sky, and is typical of the gothic churches pointed roof .

This confession expressed itself in the formation of a number of national, territorial and minority Lutheran Churches.

Two churches were torched during the melee and a nearby apartment building, housing Christians, was gutted.

Captured by a Brazilian U. N. peacekeeper, it shows the destruction of one of the city's most popular churches.

The Tories would allow charities, churches and groups of parents to open schools, even where existing ones have plenty of capacity.

Philosophers, politicians, theologians and lay members of the various Christian churches have long been divided on the subject.

That's what all the earliest leaders of these little house churches had to deal with.

"Trap" streets, phantom churches, and typos are just some of the dangers travelers might face when navigating the streets of Great Britain.

Salute one another with an holy kiss. All the churches of Christ salute you.

Part of her mosque work is with churches, lowering barriers between Muslims and Christians.

Let me profoundly understand the churches which has Gothic style, the internal space is high, pure, and unified.

The leader of the world's Roman Catholics blessed the cornerstones of two churches to be built next to the river.

What security is there for the churches of Britain if St Cuthbert with so great a throng of saints will not defend his own?

The changes may seem surprising for a city where churches that have long condemned homosexuality remain a powerful force.

The pace with which unlicensed churches are being shut down by local authorities is also increasing.

Over the years, the antiques enthusiast had acquired a large collection of reredos by visiting churches that were about to close.

Churches need to communicate to children that their prayers and concerns are just as powerful and valued as those of adults.

So the charitable social action of churches is seen as an important potential cement in a mobile society under considerable strain.

Churches or other religious organizations shall ascend as those participating anchor unity thought-form through their own evolution.

He was an eighth-century bishop, chancellor to two Eng1ish kings, and famous for charitable deeds and building churches.

But in a country that thrives on group activities and collective bonding, as well as religion, Seoul is a natural home for mega-churches.

Relying on ordinary people to spread the word, the churches are particularly good at conveying the rudiments of management.

We don't think there were any of these churches that were actually practicing pagan idolatry.

Temples, monasteries, churches and mosques can give prosperous Chinese a motive to help provide welfare.

Once you are in meditation, you are soon going to be free from all priesthood, from all churches and synagogues, temples and mosques.

Walk the cobbled streets and a stream of palaces, churches, turrets and spires directs your eyes to heavenly architecture.

Lottie Shackleford, a Little Rock city director and Vice-Chair of the National Democratic Committee, spoke in five churches that Sunday.

The Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris was among the first churches to have flying buttresses.

As the sun went down, they approached a fair royal city, with churches, and cupolas.

He decreed that the sacraments of married clergy were invalid, and that such clergy must not enter churches.

Every time the passage to a new year approaches, churches will print their own red envelopes, which congregants can use at no charge.

Chinese churches in North America have been blessed with unprecedented number of conversions and baptisms .

The United States is such a car - oriented society that there are even drive-in churches!

Several hundreds of Chinese were impacted by the riot and most of them had to take refuge in hospitals, churches and the police office.

Old buildingsand churches stand next to stores and dance halls, and a walk through downtown is a history lesson and an adventure.

Let us pray for all believers who foolishly dabble with such practices and for strong Biblical teaching in the churches against it .

Silence fell across the Virginia Tech campus at noon and bells tolled in churches nationwide in memory of the victims.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt at all by the second death.

But a group of churches had offered me a job as a community organizer for $13, 000 a year.

Nearly every Sunday morning he would give speech in one of Chicago's black churches.

In European countries, people will usually decorate churches and town halls with flowers and fruit, and people get together to have meals.

Why not the sprinkling of the blood of beasts in churches, and expiations by water or fire, and abundance more of this kind?

There have been a movie theater, 3 schools, a dozen of restaurants, a post office and 7 churches.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's churches criticized a businessman on Tuesday for selling thousands of Jesus chocolates.

In the remote district of Turkana, churches provide seven out of the vast area's eight secondary schools.

Churches have been overthrown, horses stalled in the holy places, the bones of the saints dug up and scattered.

The U. N. refugee agency says they have been staying with family and friends or in churches and public buildings.

They were especially interested in discussing public schools, where many principals and superintendants desire partnerships with churches.

In the last few years, religion [in the Netherlands] is declining, and a lot of churches are abandoned.

Who gets to be the recognized leader of these churches?

Except that the Lord Chancellor may NOT be a Roman Catholic, public offices are open without distinction to members of all churches or none.

Another showed that the growth rate of evangelical churches in the US jumps 50 per cent with the downturn of each economic cycle.

The money is earmarked for projects ranging from roads and bridges to improvements to schools and churches.

Fred was the pastor at several small churches in the Northwest. Gwen played the piano and organ and taught Sunday school .

Pictures below show churches of fantastic unstructured as for the Russian out-of-the-way places.

In Europe, prehistoric tribes sought shelter in caves and later constructed increasingly large and reverberant temples and churches.

Paul had great confidence in him and used him frequently as his own messenger to churches.

Seven hundred years after the death of Christ the New Testament was definitely adopted by the Churches of the East and by those of the West.

Among all the things, castles or churches, I miss the sky, lakes and mountains most.

By January, passions had spilled onto holy turf, with around a dozen churches, one mosque and a Sikh temple attacked.

Must be recommended by the Church Board to the United Chinese Churches of Chicago.

"Thousands of people gathered in the Three Self churches for Sunday service and sometimes you could barely hear anything, " said Sun.

This silences the doctrine of justification regardless of the official commitments of our churches.

And all the brethren who are with me, to the churches of Galatia.

During this time Paul wrote a number of letters to churches he had visited, including Galatians, Thessalonians, Corinthians and Romans.

A few thousand black Seattleites still get together on Sunday mornings. They drive in from the suburbs to downtown churches.

There are many churches with a radical commitment to the poor and marginalized.

West German President Richard von Weizsaecker accurately defined the two sources of the demise of Honecker's regime: Gorbachev and churches.

Most of the migrants who throng London's churches are doing better than the occupants of The Passage, but sometimes not much.

These beautiful African churches have no parallel in Europe .

Crimson fliers have been distributed throughout the city's churches emblazoned with the club's catch phrase : ' Come and you will see ! '

It is Sunday morning, and worship is beginning in one of thousands of house churches across China.

When visiting the churches in Florence she used to stand in the aisle and quietly enjoy the peace and silence.

I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give witness to you of these things in the churches.

Like a museum of architecture and history, Rome presents a mix of temples, churches, and statues from different periods.

The book's illustrations show churches stripped bare and others in which the gaudy tombs of the elite have replaced images of saints.

But that does not explain why Calvinism should be the preferred theology of the house churches and the intellectuals now.

Millions of Chinese Christians pray in so-called house churches, unsanctioned by the state, in part to avoid government monitoring.

Political parties, churches and corporations must rethink how we go forward and with whose needs in mind.

In some western countries blacks used to be segregated from whites in churches and schools.

and not for worldly greed, but to bestow it for my soul's sake on the saints and the churches and the poor of the world.

The Bible decrees that this period of judgment upon the churches will last for 23 years.

With one interesting exception, the only churches growing in the Western world are churches with a big view of God.

Some of them were very conservative, ; with conservative denominations in churches; some were very liberal and progressive.

Retains brilliant historical heritage, museums, churches, palaces, mosques, bazaars and beautiful natural scenery.

The Great Schism splits the Catholic and Orthodox churches. Both sides declare the other one excommunicated and heretic.

A few Chinese also attended churches of the Catholic and Baptist denominations.

While there is no organized religion in North Korea, there are a few churches in Pyongyang, Cockerell said.

In the early part of the seventeenth century Arminius introduced a new system of doctrine in the Reformed churches of Holland.

But Silent Night had already made its way into German school books and into the Catholic and Protestant churches.

It has wide roads, as well as many squares, public buildings, churches, theatres and cafes.

They notice whether it has gun shops, evangelical churches and "W" bumper stickers, or yoga classes and organic fruit shops.

In the early Christian churches, the small collection of scriptures and related books was kept to the left.

And power, whether of the Olympic champion, or of the prime Minister, or of the Head of the churches and temples, is the same.

This irresponsibility is shown when temples, mosques and churches become a power in the land.

Travelers can visit temples and churches so breathtaking they must have been built with divine inspiration.

Wherever I go I want to see the temples. The churches, museums and cemeteries in Europe are the "souls" of a nation.

Emperors became popes (both were called "Pontifex Maximus" ), senators became bishops, orators became priests and basilicas became churches.

As early as the 18th century, the city earned the name "Rome of Germany" for its many churches.

Normally packed churches were all but empty.

WHEN he was filming "Winter Light" , in 1961, Ingmar Bergman made a tour of the churches of northern Sweden.

"God keeps evil from his churches, " Abner replied coldly.

Churches, synagogues and mosques have historically fared reasonably well during recessions, even as other institutions struggled.

I doubt that Kline would want to see his view implemented in our churches with such unyielding disciplinary rigor.

One Sunday each year, the registered churches in Shanghai devote their offering to the support of the East China Theological Seminary.

These changes have essentially altered the standing of the Orthodox Churches on the contemporary American religious scene.

Let us pray for vision, good stewardship, and faithfulness as churches struggle with spending and conserving their resource .

Usury in medieval and ancient churches was regarded as intermittent pain and was most influenced by this conflict.

The needs of these churches are great, according to a pastor Vision Beyond Borders works with.

Walking around the city, there are unending shows of minor art works and an overdose of churches.

We believe that in many evangelical churches a deep and broad consensus exists regarding the truths of the gospel.

The state reportedly is atheist and shuns traditional religious ceremonies and practices, though some state-sanctioned churches exist.

Hundreds of churches have their own choirs and a few have bands.

In the city , it covers the Gothic city of the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Muslim mosques, the Indian churches and Jewish temples, Queen's Park.

In Africa, urban churches record sermons with cellphones, then transmit them to villages to be replayed.

Some churches are now finding ways to make confronting domestic violence a part of their ministry, including St. Pius V in Chicago.

Sue has traveled extensively to speak to schools, churches and community groups about forgiveness and Christianity.

Egypt's government has paid compensation, offered to rebuild churches, and held public reconciliation meetings between religious leaders.

In European countries it is the custom to decorate churches and town halls with flowers and fruit, and people get together to have meals.

Opponents say there is no scriptural backing for women bishops although many other Protestant churches already consecrate them.

Several buildings that hold Christian services have been closed for not being officially sanctioned as churches.

Besides, churches have established Bible colleges, church schools, as the systematical, formal religionary education places.

Several Orthodox churches in the city gives the visitor a meaning why Georgia was the first Christian Country in the world.

But independent local churches, all of them licensed by the National Evangelical Synod of Syria and Lebanon, have been hit, too.

Wright designed office buildings, houses, neighborhoods, public buildings, churches, and museums.

Religious - many of us are very involved with our churches, or are part of a church organization.

The churches should offer us rites to help us deal with our bereavement.

Where there had been the occasional minaret, there were now the bulbous forms of orthodox churches.

He got the maximum sentence, but this apparently was not enough for the protesters, who burned three churches to the ground.

An administrative part of a diocesethat has its own church in the Anglican , Roman Catholic, and some other churches .

It's hypocrisy to demand that government-run institutions do what Christian homes and churches may be failing to do.

The Greek churches, even to this day, resist sensationalist presentations of the suffering of Jesus.

They do not have archbishops or bishops and their churches and services are very simple.

Formally, the Communist Party forbids members to hold a religious belief, and the churches say they suffer official harassment.

These people are staying in small camps, also in churches, in schools and with host families in Goma.

Several churches, Catholic and Protestant, offer religious and nonreligious programming for Hispanics.

At lower levels, the church is run by lay volunteers, so it has lower running costs than churches with salaried clergy.

an ecumenical organization of Protestant and Eastern churches; intended to promote unity and cooperation in religious and secular matters.

People, churches and cities across the UK also held events in support of the capital.

Rural churches literally have no material for their children's ministry while city churches have keyboards and children's hymnal s.

A study on this interaction will help us better understand the rich value of the Mandarin churches in Taiwan.

Thus, a huge gap exists between the govern-ment's wishes and Christians' needs. That's why house churches are flourishing.

Many black families were burned out of their homes and took refuge in local churches.

Many churches are becoming 'Missional' in the sense that it wants to serve very specific focus groups with specific needs.

As a young politician, when I started going to black churches, for the first time I heard people refer to funerals as homegoings.

Its official religion is Islam , but mosques often stand next to Christian churches, as well as Hindu and Jewish temples.

In 1930 completed New York streamside church one of for American biggest protestantism churches.

They believed that the rich held undue sway over too many sectors of society - churches, legislatures , ships, factories, etc.

Rom. 16: 16 Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

In later years concentrated more on religious art, decorating churches, creating stained glass windows for churches and cathedrals.

She did this in churches, theaters and at local all-black public schools.

Human institution clumps -- churches, departments, companies -- find it easier to grow than to evolve.

Now the largest, fastest-growing number of Christians belong to Protestant "house churches" .