Sentences with phrase «christian prayer meetings»

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Apparently, Christians are so shaky in their beliefs that missing a prayer in a government meeting will cause them problems.

Muslim and Christian children in Syria are meeting next month to gather in prayer for an end to the region's brutal war.

For roughly a decade, it invited local Christians — and only Christians — to offer prayers opening its Town Board meetings.

From Eric Metaxas to Jim Wallis, 90 Christian leaders agree: President Trump's and Kim Jong - un's meeting needs prayer.

In a 5 - 4 decision written by Kennedy, the Supreme Court allowed Greece, New York, to continue hosting prayers before its monthly town board meetings - even though an atheist and a Jewish citizen complained that the benedictions are almost always explicitly Christian.

Christian prayer before a government meeting is the equivalent of a dog hiking its leg and peeing to mark its territory.

So, isn't it at least conceivable that whichever prayers that are said in these meetings are alienating other Christians as well as non-Christians?

My right to be treated and heard as an equal in government matters despite the fact that I am not a Christian is in serious question when a meeting starts with a Christian prayer.

Why don't we stay on topic and focus on the christian prayers they are going to have at government meetings.

Even though this is Scripture, in our Christian culture, our desert prayer times are often met with well - meaning encouragement like, «Relationship with God isn't a feeling.»

Still, of course, in the US most prayers would be Christian, with smaller percentage of prayers being devoted to other faiths, and then the occasional meeting with no prayer at all, for the athiests.

If one uses prayer as a means of meeting the requirements of acceptability, then prayer becomes an enemy of the Christian message that we are accepted already.

As they face the destruction of their lives, they look at our prayer meetings and Bible studies and wonder, «I thought you were a Christian.

This nation whether we like it or not was built on judeo - christian values and that is a fact you can search out history Congress had prayer meetings and sought God for guidance every time they came together and they read the Bible together.

But true Christians are not religious they simply walk in the steps that God has ordered and they don't need a prayer meeting to do it.

Another cause for concern is the way the christian agenda is pushed right here: christian religious beliefs to be taught as science, christian religious texts on public buildings, christian prayers at public meetings, christian beliefs as law, etc..

There is a moving story of some Sufis who approached some Christian monks in Algeria — monks who later to be massacred — saying that they wanted to meet in prayer and silence.

Most of us think of a building where Christians meet every Sunday for an organized, pre-planned service of music, prayer, and sermon by a paid pastor.

It is ridiculous to assume that prayer, which some men take part in during times of stress and then of admiration for the concept of God... (ahem)... has anything to do with the town who would not allow anything but Christian voices to take part in town meetings.

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I met Jesus through 6 sessions of compassion therapy and mindfulness meditation, and then moving on to Christian meditation where the practice is sitting in silence with the simple prayer «come Lord».

I've been told, repeatedly, that if I don't like the Lord's Prayer (Jesus» prayer that starts with «Our Father») spoken at the end of our meeting, then go to another meeting; yet every AA meeting in the county also uses this offensive principles - breaking Christian pPrayer (Jesus» prayer that starts with «Our Father») spoken at the end of our meeting, then go to another meeting; yet every AA meeting in the county also uses this offensive principles - breaking Christian pprayer that starts with «Our Father») spoken at the end of our meeting, then go to another meeting; yet every AA meeting in the county also uses this offensive principles - breaking Christian prayerprayer.

(In every «prayer - request» meeting I've ever been in, the kinds of things that some Christians ask god to do for them range from the ludicrous to the insane.)

Almost 30 Christians are believed to have been arrested after police raided a prayer meeting in Saudi... More

His comment came shortly after it was reported that an unnamed college Christian Union was banned from holding a prayer and Bible study meeting, purportedly...

Could you provide some evidence that the christian prayers that are routinely said before government meetings are being replaced by Islamic prayers (or Sharia law, as you put it)?

But it was a prayer meeting I attended twenty - some years ago that first got me questioning the very concept of faith that most Christians embrace today.

A small group of Christians in parliament are changing the law, almost unimpeded, to give local councils the power to introduce prayers to their meetings.

BHA Head of Public Affairs Naomi Phillips said; «The holding of Christian, or any other, prayers in council meetings is an anachronistic practice in a society that is increasingly diverse and non-religious.

Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, has denied reports in the media that the state government shut out some Christian leaders from holding Prayer meeting at...

Those at the prayer meeting include members of various political parties, as well as clerics from both the Islamic and Christian faiths in the state.

If the Christian faith is a big part of your life and you're interested in meeting someone who shares your spiritual beliefs, a dedicated Christian dating site could be the answer to your prayers.

The Christian Dating Services apart from helping to meet, make friends, date also helps in reading Bible, prayers online etc..

Soon, as the God Squad, they're on the prayer meeting tent circuit and selling a Christian clothing line called Cross Dressing that includes «F - Satan» t - shirts and the like.

He uses still shots of street life as the visual connective tissue between capturing meetings held by various minority groups: Columbians celebrating a World Cup victory and then taking their party to the pavement; a mature LGBT community circle discussing the venue for future meetings; a Halal butcher blessing chickens prior to slicing their throats and having their still - twiching bodies dragged through various grubby processing machines; a group of Hispanic activists gathering stories of small business being forced out of their premises due to unfair rent hikes; and even a group of Christian urban beautifiers who are seen descending into intense prayer when one of their number explains that her father is dying.

«The best theologian he ever met, he used to say, was the old Edinburgh fishwife who, having recognized him as Hume the atheist, refused to pull him out of the bog into which he had fallen until he declared he was a Christian and repeated the Lord's prayer.»

On the same day, the High Court ruled that Christian prayers held before a council meeting were unlawful, and the Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the High Court that two Christian hotel owners had discriminated against gay clients by not offering them a double room.

«Supreme Court to hear case on separating church and state; Justices will consider whether to let city councils open their meetings with explicitly Christian prayers»: David G. Savage has this article today in The Los Angeles Times.