Sentences with phrase «instead of worship»

Tyler Lacoma writes about our preoccupation with the language of faith and how we can use words instead of worship them.

Because Israel sinned and instead of worshipping God Almighty, they worshipped Idols and actually became worse than the pagans they were supposed to rule over!

Says the person boasting: «People are desperate in these times for some sort of moral direction, instead of worshiping a Loving God they are all to often choosing a Vengeful God.»

People are desperate in these times for some sort of moral direction, instead of worshiping a Loving God they are all to often choosing a Vengeful God.

What if instead of worshipping our worship experience, we worshipped God?

When this happens, our faith devolves into a business, where believers are seeing as customers, and Jesus is marketed as a product instead of worshipped as divine.

By «idolatry» I mean a religion which either does not know, or else refuses to recognize, that there is no god but God, and which therefore worships the creature instead of worshipping the creator.

Instead of worshipping the sun, think about preserving your body's largest organ.

Not exact matches

I would go for my very small discussion group, then leave, instead of staying for the worship service.

Instead, you will have to settle for a mumbled «Nice sermon, Pastor» from someone on the way out of worship who really means to say, «I like you.»

Dear I know nothing would happen on earth with out the will of God... what ever happened or where ever prophets and messengers were before were sent to earth is not the issue since God said in the Quran that he God took the convent of all the prophets before sending them to call their people into worshipping God only and not to mislead people into worshipping them instead... This is the point here that the message was that (God is One and Only Nor he has a Mate or a Son or any Partners among Mankind or Jinn or Angels)...

Do something good with the money instead of practicing idol worship by building a statue that God most likely wouldn't have approved anyway.

At me instead of those who worship in his churches each and every sunday.

I was one of those cutting edge ministers who was hired by a mainline church to start a «contemporary» service (read: a church service with a live band and worship team instead of an organ and choir) in the late 90's when it was the trendy thing to do.

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

Good illustration... we often end up worshiping the book instead of learning how to live as Jesus would have wanted us to.

Instead this deranged «god» would rather watch us lower life forms spend our entire lives worshiping it while it lets millions of innocents suffer unspeakable atrocities (some of which are even committed in the name of God).»

Nebuchadnezzar was also punished in a «harsh» (and kinda weird) way, yet instead of being hardened, he turned to worship God.

Your kind is idolatrous in that they seek to please themselves and worship their own depraved lifestyle instead of yielding to God.

Truly, Calvinism is to blame for the darkest, most difficult period I've ever walked through in my life because initially, I believed my pastor — and since this «new» god was frankly sadistic and not worthy of worship, I told him I would never bow to him and would resign myself to eternity in hell instead.

Instead, every human philosophy and religious system is filled with ideas about working our way back into the good graces of whatever deity is being worshipped, and about pleasing and appeasing the gods who are angry with us.

If after worship one Sunday, rather than stopping at the door to shake hands, I went directly to my study instead, I imagine that there would be a bit of confusion and perhaps even some grumbling, as if something were terribly amiss.

Christian who claims they worship Jesus and yet when confronted by their own Gods words telling them to not pray publicly decides to attack the messenger instead of refuting the message.

It has meant learning about rice pudding instead of rice cakes, adapting to the time orientation of worship services, and occasionally bringing potstickers as our contribution to the potluck.

They failed to destroy the peoples As the Lord had commanded But instead they mingled with the nations And learned to act as they did They worshiped the idols of the nations And these became a snare to entrap them.

Considering that the «arsonist» set the fire in the offices instead of the areas of worship, yes, I'd say this stinks of that.

Quakers don't worry about doctrines, but instead welcome anyone who wishes to engage in the practices of worship and community with us.

Some are mad at what they perceive God did or did not do, some believe only in scientific proof (also known as worshiping the Creation instead of the Creator), some live such noisy lives they just can't hear God's voice.

So instead, you just say «oh, look those crazy Christians are worshiping their invisible sky god again,» thinking it will bring you a measure of comfortable ignorance.

The spirit of pride took over and he no longer wanted to worship God, instead he wanted to be worshipped!

Imagine if all the billions of dollars in time, effort and hard cash that we spend worldwide each year worshipping and appeasing make - believe deities of one kind or another were instead funneled into something tangible and worthwhile, like reducing poverty, improving education or protecting the environment.

This is nothing more than a crafty act of Satan to get people to worship him instead of the true God of the Bible.

They wondered about things like people waiting in line to get a snapshot of their family with the senior pastor, the pastor calling everyone «Buddy» and «Sport» instead of by name, and the fact that the pastor slipped into the front row after worship because it was time to deliver the speech for the TV show (I mean sermon for the flock).

But other than that, they've become a den of sin — even their priests molest children, and they fell away from the teaching of Jesus and his apostles long ago, worshiping saints and images instead of the One to be worshiped and adored.

Sooner or later you'll need something outside of it and wrongly stop believing in destinations instead of rightly losing your worship of cars.

Instead of referring to a song lyric, how about using the whole song in an act of worship?

Maybe instead, we are worshiping our worship and in fact grieving the heart of God?

How will you explain falsely worshiping a pedophile god instead of the righteous ruler of the gods?

so, now you proceed with the next attempt, namely that you can prove that «despots always attempt to eradicate the religion of indigenous peoples» by showing instead that the gods of those CONQUERING empires are no longer worshipped because as you put it they «were themselves conquered and subjected to the same technique [of religion eradication]».

And instead of expending energy debating the merits of amplified versus unamplified instruments in worship, let's require that all music demonstrate artistry and creativity.

As you search for a church, look for one that recognizes the beauty in other styles of worship, instead of divisively teaching that their own practices are supreme.

(CNN)-- Violence over depictions of the Prophet Mohammed may mystify many non-Muslims, but it speaks to a central tenet of Islam: that the Prophet was a man, not God, and that portraying him threatens to lead to worshiping a human instead of Allah.

But human beings have preferred to worship parts of the creation instead of God.

Instead, millennials are returning to simplicity, small community and even traditional, liturgical expressions of worship.

challenged Gary Locke, current U.S. Secretary of Commerce and President Obama's nominee for the next ambassador to China, to worship at an unregistered house church instead of a Three - Self Patriotic Movement state church in order to «publicly identify with the persecuted.»

If christians want to worship instead of watching basketball, they can do just that.

Old testament practices of worship are some forms of worship Jesus did, and we should worship God in our actions, by giving, singing, etc (but Jesus has obviously replaced the need for burnt offerings, but instead we offer ourselves as a living sacrifice to God).

Like most despotic regimes, Dear Leader has replaced the worship of gods with the worship of the leader instead.

But then they create the golden calf and worship it instead of God, and so they are given more laws with greater degrees of intricacy and duty (Exodus 32ff).

The general idea is that there is as much proof for a deity they call the «Flying Spaghetti Monster» as there is for a loving, Triune God (or any other deity), so they «worship» an imaginary, spaghetti - like thing and conclude their prayers with «Ramen» instead of «Amen,» which is admittedly clever.