Comparisons with the church are inescapable.
In China, Catholicism also calls the Catholic church, the protestantism also calls the church.
We went to the church to celebrate Christmas Eve.
Just as I'm the minister of Saddleback church, you're a minister of a church — at your workplace.
James Murphy, deacon of the diocese's mother church, the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, said church leaders are always skeptical at first.
For example, I grew up in a very, very sectarian fundamentalist church in Texas.
Their church stands next to a Serbian Orthodox one (see right). The walls of their little church hall are decorated with pictures of generation upon generation of their local choir.
Although they were well known in the town, the Roberts kept themselves to themselves and didn't socialize outside the church.
the hamlet of Saint-Laurent with its church whose bell tower, from afar,seemed to add itself to the pointed towers of the Porte Saint-Martin;
In December the Palestinian Authority issued an ultimatum to three Christian churches whose squabbling has endangered the 500-year-old roof of the church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
It's part of a tradition called "rum springa," in which Amish teens can decide whether they wish to be baptized into the Amish church, or to abandon the Amish life for everyday society.
公元828年，威尼斯商人從亞歷山大港的一個科普特教會（Coptic church）偷出使徒聖馬克（SaintMark，福音書的作者，譯註）的聖骨並勝利將其帶回，宣稱他們將聖徒從異教徒中拯救出來。
A church stands amid skyscrapers.
Aunt Mary goes to church every sunday.
The Episcopal church has seen the most turmoil.
Obviously it means this writer believes that the proper Gospel and the proper church should be a Law abiding church.
The artillery shot away the church spire and most of one wall.
Then let them find someone with enough weight, like Martin Luther and King Henry VIII, to give a status to their new church, but they have no right to usurp the name of “Catholic Church.”
Later, he joined a Catholic church only because his high school sweetheart wanted to be married there.
Indeed the church would imprison Galileo Galilei, an Italian astronomer, for advocating the sun-centred model of the universe a century later.
After learning the content page in seminary, I am now expecting a new chapter of serving in my home church, as well as opportunities to learn from God's people and from society in Indonesia.
An unpretentious country church.
This is how the early church grew.
The church stood out in silhouette against a blue sky.
"The church bishop wants to demolish all of the candy stores in the neighborhood," he continued. "But many of the church elders have objected to the proposal."
The church here was left a bequest to hire doctors who would work amongst the poor.
The word "bishop" here is--the Greek word is episkopos, where we get the English word "bishop" and you get the name for the Episcopal church because it's a church that has bishops.
"I bet old Benjy's feeling a bit cheap," said he, as they got out of their cab at the church door.
On a typical Sunday, he would attend church wearing a green coat, an orange tie, a silver vest, white pants and light brown shoes. Even the way he traveled was colorful. His coach was green and silver, and the horses wore ostrich feathers.
He should be back from church.
In Libya, he noted, the church is a church of "presence and witness," made up largely of foreigners.
The church spire is visible from miles away, and the parish operates an adjoining school.
God has a ministry for you in his church and a mission for you in the world.
The Lower East Side's historic Bialystoker Synagogue, founded in 1905 by immigrants from a Polish village, took over a former Methodist Episcopal church that had been built nearly a century earlier.
Church of Iceland, a Lutheran body, is the state church.
There are two established church in Britain: in England the church of England and in Scotland the (Presbyterian) Church of Scotland.
The church pegged the festival to the legend of St. Valentine.
You've got to be engaged on the barbershop, on the basketball court, at church, spend time and energy and presence day to give people opportunities and a chance.
Mme. Walter was the only one at the magnificent church wedding to show any signs of sadness. She hated the daughter who had taken her lover, But at the same time she was powerless to prevent the marriage without compromising herself.
I can hear the hymn from the nearby church.
I was just one of those kids who go to church and call themselves Christians, until God started convicting me.
"But even when the minister's voice grew high and commanding- when it gushed irrepressibly upward- when it assumed its utmost breadth and power, so overfilling the church as to burst its way through the solid walls, and diffuse itself in the open air-"
The church would not sanction his second marriage.
If not, I'll hide behind the fact that my sister is a Presbyterian minister and I used to sing in the church choir.
Approximately 86% of the inhabitants are members of the Evangelic Lutheran church of Norway (state church).
The book, having this book performed in your church for you, read out loud in the middle of the night, deals with your sense of persecution if you have one.
In February 1957, the Chinese Catholic Church held a Conference of Fellow Believers for more than 40 days, which laid down the principal guideline for "self-administration of church affairs".
Walking past a church one day I see him emerge from the church with a bride, and many guests throwing confetti over them.
So attuned is he to toddlers that he has a standing invitation from the nursery at church to hang out.
Traditional weddings take place in a church.
A church tops the hill.
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