In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.

I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless and they should be called marriages.

From you we have learned what we at least value to separate Church and State and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning to religious liberty and to individual and National freedom.

Churchill was the canny political animal very devious bursting with energy and determination learning as hard as he could.

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day to have hoped much from officers of a church.

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.

In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church there is requisite an authority received from God and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry and where a man possesses these although the bis.

The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church which I know has helped cause this investigation by you points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.

I have taken this step because I want the discipline the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it but I hope to become worthy.

See my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.

Praying privately in churches I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now woven into this life.

My grandmother always taught me 'If you don't have a home family and church you don't have anything.'

For example I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I'd come home and go to church and everybody would say 'Oh my God. Demetri you're working at the White House.'

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.

History shows that when the church accommodates culture it weakens it.

The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin finds no love no life no laughter no hope and no happiness.