When Thompson was 12, his mother and stepfather joined a church that was tied to the evangelical Assemblies of God, a move that influenced many of his songs written with the Pixies, which often refer to the Bible.

When the Assemblies of God was founded in 1914, invitations were sent only to white Pentecostal ministers including 350 white ministers licensed through COGIC.

When she was accompanied by a friend to the Assemblies of God church, at age 10, she said she " felt the glow of God's love and wanted to call herself upon the Lord.

When the war was over, following de Gaulle's entourage's advice and the approbation of the archbishop of Paris, Abbé Pierre was elected deputy for Meurthe-et-Moselle department in both National Constituent Assemblies in 1945 – 1946 as an independent close to the Popular Republican Movement ( MRP ), mainly consisting of Christian democratic members of the Resistance.

When he found himself at odds with the leadership of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World ( PAW ), Lawson resigned from that organization in 1919 and moved to New York City.

When she returned to the States for a brief time in 1919 and saw the financial and prayer support to be found in the Assemblies of God, Trasher joined the very missions-minded new organization.

When he told her God had called the child to Him, she rejected his words rebelliously.

When you see them again give them my love -- not best respects now, but love by God ''.

When that fear has been removed by faith in Jesus Christ, when we know that He is our Savior, that He has paid our debt with His blood, that He has met the demands of God's justice and thus has turned His wrath away -- when we know that, we have peace with God in our hearts ; ;

When I came into being, 15 years ago, I had one primary purpose: to help men and women everywhere to know God better, and through knowing Him better to become happier and more effective people.

When individuals repent and believe in Christ ( saving faith ), they are regenerated and brought into union with Christ, whereby the death and righteousness of Christ are imputed to them for their justification before God.

Bruce Hindmarsh suggests that the secular popularity of " Amazing Grace " is due to the absence of any mention of God in the lyrics until the fourth verse ( by Excell's version, the fourth verse begins " When we've been there ten thousand years "), and that the song represents the ability of humanity to transform itself instead of a transformation taking place at the hands of God.

When Chain heard that he was coming, he remarked " Good God!

When the Western Roman Empire was starting to disintegrate, Augustine developed the concept of the Catholic Church as a spiritual City of God ( in a book of the same name ), distinct from the material Earthly City.

When Peter objects, the voice replies, " Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.

" When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more adequately.

* Rubenstein, Richard E., When Jesus Became God: The Epic Fight over Christ ’ s Divinity in the Last Days of Rome ( New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999 ).

When Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson addressed Christian themes at the Republican National Convention – with Bush criticizing Democrats for omitting God from their platform – many moderates were alienated.

When Macbeth kills the king and takes the throne, Banquo — the only one aware of this encounter with the witches — reserves judgment for God.

When prophets and general authorities of the church speak as " moved upon by the Holy Ghost ", it " shall be scripture, shall be the will of the Lord, shall be the mind of the Lord, shall be the word of the Lord, shall be the voice of the Lord, and the power of God unto salvation.

When a doctrine undergoes this procedure, the LDS Church treats it as the word of God, and it is used as a standard to compare other doctrines.

When sufficient information has been gathered, the investigation of the candidate, who is called " Servant of God ", is presented by the local bishop to the Roman Curia — in particular, the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints — where it is assigned a postulator, whose task is to gather further information about the life of the Servant of God.

Other views of God affirmed by members of the Conservative movement include Kabbalistic mysticism ; Hasidic panentheism ( neo-Hasidism, Jewish Renewal ); limited theism ( as in Harold Kushner's When Bad Things Happen to Good People ); and organic thinking in the fashion of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, also known as process theology ( such as Rabbis Max Kaddushin, William E. Kaufman, or Bradley Shavit Artson ).

When he was building his first tiny cell, as his hagiograph goes, his first disciple and monk was a boar that had been rendered gentle by God.

When the brook dries up, God sends him to a widow living in the town of Zarephatho in Phoenicia.

When Ahab hears this he repents to such a degree that God relents in punishing Ahab but will punish Jezebel and their son — Ahaziah.

When the boys awakened from death, they rose up and joined in a song of praise to God for the miracle vouchsafed to them ; later, they went to Israel, where they married and reared children.

When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ.

* When God Was a Woman ( Book )

When speaking about the reals, sometimes it means " all reals but a set of Lebesgue measure zero " ( formally, almost everywhere ).

When receiving diplomats — who formally represent the sovereign — the receiving head of state grants certain privileges and immunities to ensure they may effectively carry out their duties, on the understanding that these are provided on a reciprocal basis.

When war was formally declared a year later, most of the museum's paintings were sent there as well.

When the trial formally opened in early 1993, Honecker was released due to ill health and on 13 January of that year moved to Chile to live with his daughter Sonja, her Chilean husband Leo Yáñez, and their son Roberto.

When Lord Louis Mountbatten formally proposed the plan on 3 June 1947, Patel gave his approval and lobbied Nehru and other Congress leaders to accept the proposal.

When the idea was first formally proposed to the state ’ s legislators, all of whom were men, it was overwhelmingly resisted.

" When the Republic of South Africa ( Transvaal ) formally rejected the notion of British suzerainty as allegedly described by the peace treaty of 1881, Chamberlain and Balfour prompted Salisbury to initiate discussions with Portugal regarding Delagoa Bay.

When Roberts formally annexed the Transvaal on 3 September, the Salisbury ministry, emboldened by the apparent victory in South Africa, asked for the dissolution of Parliament, with an election set for October.

When the GNP & BR was formally opened on 15 December 1906, the line ran from the Great Northern Railway's station at to the District Railway's station at.

When Ohio became the first in the Northwest Territory to gain statehood in 1803, the state ’ s northern border claimed this important area, even though the boundaries of the Michigan Territory when it was formally organized in 1805 also included this area.

When a wizard nears death – which they know some time in advance – he formally passes on his staff to a newborn wizard.

When Nobles County was formally created by the Minnesota legislature on May 23, 1857, Gretchtown was brielfy designated as the county seat of Nobles County, a county at that time without any residents.

Change of Name: When the site was surveyed in December 1879, Airlie was formally rechristened DeForest.

When the town was incorporated in 1763, Governor Benning Wentworth formally recognized the long-used name of New Boston.

When William of Wykeham founded the College, he formally agreed to maintain the City Wall when he acquired the land on which to build the College.

When Valley View formally incorporated in 1980, it had 514 inhabitants and six businesses.

When Gen. Greene formally assumed command on December 3, 1780, Kościuszko's services were retained, employed as Greene's chief engineer.

When the jury found him not guilty, the public shouted their approval so loudly and for so long that it was another half an hour before the proceedings could be formally closed.

When Lenihan refused, Haughey formally advised President Hillery to dismiss Lenihan as Tánaiste, Minister for Defence and member of the cabinet, which the President as constitutionally required duly did.

When Mussolini formally declared war on France, he wrote in his diary " I am sad, very sad.

When Parliament reconvened on January 14, 1766, the Rockingham ministry formally proposed repeal.

When none was forthcoming ( merely an ambiguous message from de Valera that could be interpreted as partially blaming McNeill for attending functions that ministers had been invited to ), he published his correspondence with de Valera, even though de Valera had formally advised him not to do so.

When McKinley led the delegation of Republican dignitaries sent to formally advise Harrison of his convention triumph, the President, angered over the " profusion of McKinley buttons, placards and streamers that littered path to victory ", had only a cold formal greeting for the Ohio governor.

When Rose returned for another tour months later, Bonham was formally invited by the singer to drum for his band, which gave him a regular income.

When Germany's assault on the Soviet Union began in June 1941, Finland remained formally neutral until Soviet air raids gave an expected reason to fulfill the invasion plans some days later.