He often spoke of them as his `` ecumenical '' glasses and used them as a symbol of the kind of vision that is required in the church.

When we see the steady and methodical inculcation into humanity of the idea of man's worthlessness -- until redeemed -- the necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon, a weapon designed and used time and time again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church-state ''.

Out of the church and into his big car, it tooling over the road with him driving and the headlights sweeping the pike ahead and after he hit college, his expansiveness, the quaint little pine board tourist courts, cabins really, with a cute naked light bulb in the ceiling ( unfrosted and naked as a streetlight, like the one on the corner where you used to play when you were a kid, where you watched the bats swooping in after the bugs, watching in between your bouts at hopscotch ), a room complete with moths pinging the light and the few casual cockroaches cruising the walls, an insect Highway Patrol with feelers waving.

17th-19th century collections of alpine myths and legends suggest that alphorn-like instruments had frequently been used as signal instruments in village communities since medieval times or earlier, sometimes substituting for the lack of church bells.

Other terms used are hearth, theod ( only within the Theodish movement ), blotgroup, sippe, and other less popular ones such as garth, stead, church, and others.

Dietary restrictions are not used by the highly urban Brazilian ayahuasca church União do Vegetal, suggesting the risk is much lower than perceived, and probably non-existent.

A cappella music originally was, and still often is, used in religious music, especially church music as well as anasheed and zemirot.

The church also has a modern electrical, two-manual and pedal board pipe organ, that is still used in services.

The church has a two-manual pipe organ with pedal board that is used to accompany most services.

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.

The earliest writings of the Apostolic Fathers, the Didache and the First Epistle of Clement for example, show the church used two terms for local church offices — presbyters ( seen by many as an interchangeable term with episcopos or overseer ) and deacon.

; Presiding Bishop or President Bishop: These titles are often used for the head of a national Anglican church, but the title is not usually associated with a particular episcopal see like the title of a primate.

1 and 2 Samuel were originally ( and still is in some Jewish bibles ) a single book, but the first Greek translation, produced in the centuries immediately before Christ, divided it into two ; this was adopted by the Latin translation used in the early Christian church of the West, and finally introduced into Jewish bibles around the early 16th century CE.

The same verse is quoted in Hebrews 10: 37-38, where Habakkuk's vision is tied to Christ and used to comfort the church during a period of persecution.

Eastern Christians of eastern Europe and western Asia used for a long time the Julian Calendar, that of the old Orthodox church, in countries like Russia.

In addition to being a place of worship, the cathedral or parish church was used by the community in other ways.

The church could be used as a place to thresh and store grain.

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

To obtain money he seized church lands and property, and used the funds to pay his soldiers.

The style was used in bronze by Bernini for his spectacular St. Peter's baldachin, actually a ciborium ( which displaced Constantine's columns ), and thereafter became very popular with Baroque and Rococo church architects, above all in Latin America, where they were very often used, especially on a small scale, as they are easy to produce in wood by turning on a lathe ( hence also the style's popularity for spindles on furniture and stairs ).

He used marriage not only to describe the kingdom of God, as Jesus had done, but to define also the nature of the 1st century Christian church.

According to Cynthia Stewart, during the Reformation, the Protestant reformers used " the founding myths of Christianity " to critique the church of their time.

Soon he was in trouble there, for defending a woman who was accused of smiling in church.

A minister should not stay `` beyond the time that his leadership should benefit '' his church, he wrote, `` for he becomes ordinary.

We do not defeat the good ones with this cruelty, but we add to their burden, while expecting them to bestow saintliness upon us in return for ostentatious church attendance and a few bucks a week, American cash.

The church truly is not a rest home for saints, but a hospital for sinners.

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.

There were two liquor saloons not very far from the church, one white, that is conducted for white people with a side entrance for Negroes ; ;

The bank which held the mortgage on the old church declared that the interest was considerably in arrears, and the real estate people said flatly that the land across the river was being held for an eventual development for white working people who were coming in, and that none would be sold to colored folk.

When it was proposed to rebuild the church, Wilson found that the terms for a new mortgage were very high.

Now, if I were you I would just plan to repair the old church so it would last for five or ten years.

And for him to leave this job now without accomplishing anything would mean practically the end of his career in the Methodist church, if not in all churches.

Along Wappinger Creek in Dutchess County, past the white church at Fishkill, past Verplanck's Point on the east bank of the Hudson, to the white salt-crusted roads of the Long Island Rockaways there was a watching and an activity of preparing for something explosive to happen.

Even Rector himself was prey to this spirit of competition and he knew it, not for a more exalted office in the hierarchy of the church -- his ambitions for the bishopry had died very early in his career -- but for the one clear victory he had talked about to the colonel.

He was not sure how much of this desire was due to his devotion to the church and how much was his own ego, demanding to be satisfied, for the two were intertwined and could not be separated.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

During these early years the repair of watches and clocks and the building of special clocks for church steeples formed an important part of the young man's occupation.

On the one hand, there are ecumenists who are so stirred by the crises of the church in its encounter with the world at large that they have no eyes for what the church is doing in their own town.

Likewise, the ecumenist may become so absorbed in the conflict of the church with the totalitarian state in East Germany, the precarious situation of the church in revolutionary China, and the anguish of the church over apartheid in South Africa that he loses close contact with the parish church in its unspectacular but indispensable ministry of worship, pastoral service and counseling, and Christian nurture for a face-to-face group of individuals.

Plaque on exterior of the Chiesa della Pietà, Venice | Chiesa della Pietà in Venice, the church of the orphanage.

With its " simple and forthright " exterior, the Mission church stands as a tribute to those whose efforts made this dream come true.

* Peep Show: The Dolphin pub ( series three, episode four ) and the exterior and interior of St Mary's church for Sophie and Mark's wedding ( series four, episode six ).

Repairs to the church were carried out following Queen Elizabeth I's visit in 1573 ( date and initials may be seen on exterior stonework ).

It is a cruciform church, with an exterior clad with staff panel.

Antiphonitis: church exterior

A major novelty introduced by the church was the use of strictly " architectural " means of exterior decoration.

The church received its first figurative murals inside the churches ; all exterior and interior walls of the first two floors were covered with floral ornament.

* The church of Saint Martin and the exterior oak calvary both date from the 16th century.

The exterior of the present Lomen church is post-Reformation, and only the wall and roof timbers remain from the original building.

The Benedictine abbey church of Ste-Marie-Madeleine ( or Basilica of St. Mary Magdalene ), with its complicated program of imagery in sculpted capitals and portals, is one of the outstanding masterpieces of Burgundian Romanesque art and architecture, though much of its exterior sculpture was defaced during the French Revolution.

The reconstruction of its exterior was completed in 2004, its interior in 2005 and, after 13 years of rebuilding, the church was reconsecrated on 30 October 2005 with festive services lasting through the Protestant observance of Reformation Day on 31 October.

A relatively modest stone plaque set in the exterior wall of the church serves as a memorial.

Repairs to the east end of the church took place in 1707, and the exterior of the north and east sides was repaired in 1737.

Unlike the fallen of the Civil War who were laid to rest in the valley exterior to the basilica, Franco was buried inside the church.

The exterior of the church is plain but has a dome covered in multicolored tiles from Puebla.

The exterior length of the church is 59 meters.

Blind arcade on the exterior apse of the church of Saint-Paul-lès-Dax, France.

Built by masters from Yaroslavl, they retain many traditional features of Russian church architecture, while their exterior decoration is definitely baroque.

The church was constructed in 1314, in the form of a compressed cross, with the exterior structure of an octagonal dome.

* The former church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo is a Romanesque edifice featuring, on the exterior, a 13th century fresco portraying Madonna with Saints.

The church of Holy Apostles in Thessaloniki is often cited as an archetypal structure of the late period, when the exterior walls were intricately decorated with complex brickwork patterns or with glazed ceramics.

Half-round wings around the outer western courtyard were finished in 1734, the palace church was finished in the 1740s, and the exterior was finished in 1754.

The 5th-century church consists of a central octagon with eight pillars, an exterior octagon with thresholds still in situ, and a gallery or portico that leads both into the interior of the church as well as into a complex of associated buildings to the East, a linkage achieved via a short passageway.