Discoveries recently made of old Biblical manuscripts in Hebrew and Greek and other ancient writings, some by the early church fathers, in themselves called for a restudy of the Bible.

We trust you are not one of the 70,000,000 Americans who do not attend church, but who feel that various forms of recreation are more important than worshipping the God who made our country great.

The sanctuary of a Presbyterian church in Yachats, Oregon, has six windows with panes made of agates collected from the local beaches.

While in Jerusalem he made a gift of a gold chalice to the church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Alfonso's only brother, Ramiro, had been a Benedictine monk since childhood, and his commitment to the church, his temperament and vow of celibacy made him ill-suited to rule a kingdom under constant military threat and in need of a stable line of succession.

Late Antique Mosaic of Saint Ambrose (~ 337-397 ) in Sant ' Ambrogio church, Milan, Lombardy, Italy, possibly an actual portrait made in his lifetime

Since the English Reformation, the Church of England has been more explicitly a state church and the choice is legally that of the British crown ; today it is made in the name of the Sovereign by the Prime Minister, from a shortlist of two selected by an ad hoc committee called the Crown Nominations Commission.

The former main altar of the hermitage church in Warfhuizen in the Netherlands with a mural of Anthony the Abbot and a reliquary with some of his relic s. Since then they have been moved to a new golden shrine on a side-altar especially made for them.

Bede also followed Eusebius in taking the Acts of the Apostles as the model for the overall work: where Eusebius used the Acts as the theme for his description of the development of the church, Bede made it the model for his history of the Anglo-Saxon church.

His focus on the history of the organisation of the English church, and on heresies and the efforts made to root them out, led him to exclude the secular history of kings and kingdoms except where a moral lesson could be drawn or where they illuminated events in the church.

He made no original writings or thoughts on the beliefs of the church, instead working to synthesise and transmit the learning from his predecessors.

" Nonetheless, formal requests for debaptisms are made ; in France, a man sued the French catholic church for " its refusal to let him nullify his baptism.

The Greek Orthodox branch of Christianity continues to use the Greek translation ( the Septuagint ), but when a Latin translation ( called the Vulgate ) was made for the Western church, Kingdoms was first retitled the Book of Kings, parts One to Four, and eventually both Kings and Samuel were separated into two books each.

At the end of this period, the two were sent up to Jerusalem ( 44 ) with the contributions the church at Antioch had made for the poorer members of the Jerusalem church.

With the crystallization of church order improvisation in prayer largely gave place to set forms, and collections of prayers were made which later developed into Sacramentaries and Orationals.

A Venerable has as of yet no feast day, no churches may be built in his or her honor, and the church has made no statement on the person's probable or certain presence in heaven, but prayer cards and other materials may be printed to encourage the faithful to pray for a miracle wrought by his or her intercession as a sign of God's will that the person be canonized.

As such, during his reign, Constantius made a concerted attempt to mold the Christian church to follow this compromise position, and to this end, he convened several Christian councils during his reign, the most notable of which were one at Rimini and its twin at Seleuca, which met in 359 and 360 respectively.

The Deseret alphabet was developed primarily by a committee made up of the university's board of regents and church leaders Parley P. Pratt and Heber C. Kimball.

An individual congregation is led by a church council made of the minister along with elders and deacons elected by the congregation.

At the same time, a new Act of Uniformity was passed, which made attendance at church and the use of an adapted version of the 1552 Book of Common Prayer compulsory, though the penalties for recusancy, or failure to attend and conform, were not extreme.

Ephrem's artful meditations on the symbols of Christian faith and his stand against heresy made him a popular source of inspiration throughout the church.

His father was a gardener, and he himself became first connected with the church in the humble position of a bellringer and verger in the Duomo of Piacenza ; he was twenty-one when the judge Ignazio Gardini, of Ravenna, was banished, and he followed Gardini to Ravenna where he met the vice-legate Giorgio Barni, who was made bishop of Piacenza in 1688 and appointed Alberoni chamberlain of his household.

`` I leave this church with a feeling that a great weight has been lifted off my heart, I have left my grudge at the altar and forgiven my neighbor ''.

His few remaining masses ( the story of his having composed two hundred is hardly credible ) and church music in general are comparatively unimportant, except the great St Cecilia Mass ( 1721 ), which is one of the first attempts at the style which reached its height in the great masses of Johann Sebastian Bach and Beethoven.

The earliest record of a settlement at Ajaccio having a name ancestral to its name is the exhortation in Epistle 77 written in 601 CE of Gregory the great to the Defensor Boniface, one of two known rectors of the early Corsican church, not to leave Aleria and Adjacium without bishops.

:"" There are there ," he said, " many great and powerful gods, and in former time a church was built there, and there are many Christians there who worship Christ --"" ( Chapter XIX )

Covering a great stretch of time and space, they do for the worshipper in the field of church history what the Scripture readings do in that of biblical history.

In addition, the church teaches sacred ordinances through which adherents make covenants with God, including baptism, confirmation, the sacrament ( holy communion ), endowment, and celestial marriage ( marriage blessings which extend beyond mortality ), which are of great significance to church members.

There will be a rapture of the Gentile church followed by a great tribulation of seven ( or three-and-a-half ) years ' duration during which Antichrist will arise and Armageddon will occur.

The term is sometimes ( improperly ) used to refer to any church of great size.

" The great councils of 359 – 60 are therefore not reckoned ecumenical in the tradition of the church, and Constantius II is not remembered as a restorer of unity, but as a heretic who arbitrarily imposed his will on the church.

When the church was founded by Saint Mark during the reign of the Roman emperor Nero, a great multitude of native Egyptians ( as opposed to Greeks or Jews ) embraced the Christian faith.

Constantine's church was built as two connected churches over the two different holy sites, including a great basilica ( the Martyrium visited by Egeria in the 380s ), an enclosed colonnaded atrium ( the Triportico ) with the traditional site of Golgotha in one corner, and a rotunda, called the Anastasis (" Resurrection "), which contained the remains of a rock-cut room that Helena and Macarius identified as the burial site of Jesus.

The measures against the church were part of a more general campaign against Christian places of worship in Palestine and Egypt, which involved a great deal of other damage: Adhemar of Chabannes recorded that the church of St George at Lydda ' with many other churches of the saints ' had been attacked, and the ' basilica of the Lord's Sepulchre destroyed down to the ground '.

" The chapels were " to the east of the court of resurrection, where the wall of the great church had been.

Although Disciples respect the great creeds of the church as informative affirmations of faith, they are never seen as binding.

Here " a great door and effectual " was opened to him, and the church was established and strengthened by his diligent labours there.

However, Capra remembers the ship's arrival into New York Harbor, where he saw " a statue of a great lady, taller than a church steeple, holding a torch above the land we were about to enter ".

The two friends then entered a period of close fraternal cooperation as they participated in a great rhetorical contest of the Caesarean church precipitated by the arrival of accomplished Arian theologians and rhetors.

To the great consternation of church and state authorities, this mere peasant from Iptingen had become the outspoken leader of several thousand Separatists in the southern German duchy of Württemberg.

On account of the feeling engendered by the civil war Ambrose left his great church of Preston in 1654, and became minister of Garstang, whence, however, in 1662 he was ejected with the two thousand ministers who refused to conform.

He visited the great church of Hagia Sophia and spoke with a Christian Orthodox priest about his travels in the city of Jerusalem.