Sentences with phrase «small town churches»

The small town church where I serve as Executive Pastor will turn 12 years old this year.

The attack is testing the faith of a small town church that never thought terrorism would hit home.

I have this desire and intention even after a positive experience of self - publishing a trilogy of small town church fiction.

Not exact matches

First responders quickly converged on the church in Sutherland Springs, a small town east of San Antonio with a population under 1,000.

At my grandmother's small - town church, in the middle of families in their Sunday best and fidgeting kids in the pews, I didn't expect any huge revelations.

I went to a small town in the midwest to work for a non-profit thinking it'd be like chicken - soup - for the soul... INSTEAD it was a fundamentalist nightmare... it was NOT just small town mindedness... I could hardly find a church with out people wondering — why is this attractive woman in her early 30's unwed (or at least divorced with 3 kids) people were cold and unfathomable judgmental and sometimes downright hostile eager to quote scriptures seemingly un-lead by the Holy Spirit.

You must live in a small town if you are considering changing where you live and where you work to get away from this church.

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It's a bit strange to be this optimistic while living in a small Southern town, where religious nationalism goes unquestioned in nearly every church on Sunday morning.

With this aim he devoted the sabbatical leave he describes in chapter 1 to the close study of two Protestant churches in a small Georgia town.

Though located only a block apart in a small town, each drawing members from the same social and economic stratum of the town's population, the two churches were strikingly different from each other in ways their Baptist and Methodist affiliations did not explain.

Our churches, whose steeples dot every cityscape and small town in the land, are exempt from paying taxes, and unlike many people of other faiths, we don't have to worry about fighting with our employers to take time off to celebrate our religious holidays as they are largely taken for granted.

I guess itʼs largely because I grew up in one, got married in one, raised a family in one, planted a church in one, and have the greatest friends, all in a small town.

In my small town, we have several community centers, including several large churches and a university.

Status of born again churches: - In Kahama, Shinyanga region (Tanzania) the born again churches are found in towns and small centers only.

As adults, she joined the Catholic church, moved to a small town and slowly lost all of my respect.

Rather than using his acute grasp of manners and speech to demonstrate their fatuity, he asks us to acknowledge beneath and within the clichés and banalities of small - town life — including that of the church — enduring and even noble sentiments.

Distance keeps me from going except for twice a year or so, but my brother in law has a small church of around 50 members in a tiny rural town.

The system I have seen that worked the best was a system where all of the churches in several contiguous mid-size towns rented one small office that served all of the churches in those towns.

Shelbyville is a typical northern New England church: a small congregation of 120 members located in a town with 1,000 residents; many of the members are elderly, and finances are a constant concern.

after 30 years of moving around the country and participating in various churches that were glad to have me be part of their work & ministries (as a musician), I find myself now living in a small, very isolated, undereducated and underexperienced town, where I've been rejected by more than one church on the basis that I know too much (I apparently make everyone else feel stupid) and have too much experience (i.e., I make everyone else feel inadequate).

Not every town in this country has a Walmart or a McDonalds or even a small grocery store, but every town has a church in it.

In Crooked Heart, a first novel by Cristina Sumners (herself a parish priest), we meet Kathryn Koerney, rector of a small church in a New Jersey college town that resembles Princeton.

Nuisance troublemaking against Christians goes on quite unnoticed in the smaller towns and villages, but the problem in Islamabad became a cause célèbre because a number of diplomats worship in the house parish that seeks to build a permanent church.

Although the popular Czech Church was quite small, the number of converts and sympathizers grew» especially among youth and the intelligentsia, and in the larger towns.

The great church broods over the small town, once a seat of power but long overtaken in size and importance by some shapeless industrial blob nearby.

For twelve years Barth served as a pastor, first as a pastoral assistant at a German - speaking congregation in Geneva and then as pastor of the Swiss Reformed Church in Safenwil, a small industrial town in the Aargau.

I once pastored a church in a small town with a 2000 Census population of 169 people.

Would have liked a picture of the church though... some of those small English churches & towns are a nice glimpse into the past.

10 Church Street Small Town, U.S.A. Dear Pastor: It was only after much hesitation that I decided to write you this letter.

Why don't these people ever go to the small country church in small town America?

A gunman who killed more than two dozen at a small - town Texas church briefly escaped from a mental health facility in New Mexico in 2012, police reports indicat...

Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (releases November 6, 2012, available for pre-order)-- Kingsolver's new novel takes place in a small - town Tennessee and tells the story of a woman who must confront «her family, her church, her town, her continent, and finally the world at large.»

In former Communists countries, like Poland in some Churches women are not even allowed to read during mass, forget about altar girls I've only seen 1 church that allowed it, and couples who practice contraception, who are divorced, who have children out of wedlock, priests often deny them the Sacraments especially in small towns.

Indeed, an argument could be made that at no time since the First Great Awakening have so many churches of disparate denominational, theological and stylistic approaches been so united in terms of their music: one can now walk into old - line Pentecostal churches, small - town evangelical congregations, mall - like suburban megachurches, and many a mainline Protestant sanctuary across the country on any given Sunday morning and hear the same hymns and choruses done in approximately the same musical styles, with similar settings and instrumentation.

The minister of such a church, who has developed two groups, reports that small - town anxiety about secret - breaking sometimes deters deep sharing.

I love the look of those mega church buildings but its the same as looking at Charlotte motor - speedway in comparison to a small home town dirt track.

Under his guidance revivals became for the huge new cities what they were formerly for the smaller towns and country — they were ways of winning members for the Church.

You've mentioned on your site that the combination of the your reputation and small town living has caused some discomfort in past church appearances.

David N. with «What Unity Means When You Have No Other Choice» «In our rural small town of Greenville, Ohio we don't have the luxury of leaving a church when we don't agree with its teachings in favor of going to the trendier church across town.

Asher serves as Pastor of Zion Lutheran Church in the small mountain town of Idaho Springs, Colorado.

Yep you are right, I moved down here in the state of Mississippi, north of Crystal Springs from Chicago when I was ten years old but still I visit once in a while, now it's twenty years and sad to not much has change, like the parts you said about non-whites discrimatory or rasicts at other non-whites, when I went to school here they treated me as a alien from another galaxy, they pick at my voice cause I didn't had that southern dialog, unlike them I said my words correctly, but not just me, they even hated at others who had better intelect I am not picking at them, It is what I went through all these years, Mississippi and mainly this small town of Crystal Springs see America in a crazy awful view, They don't like difference that even within they own race, ther not that politcal, when some one say God they got there vote, I don't to say much to waste your time, I still remember when I was ten years old I had a constanct back ground check on me to see were I really come from evn though I had the paper saying Chicago Illinois barely no jobs but a church on every street for a town barely under five Thousand, till this very day, they look at me like I am a alien, did you ever had that experiance down here damn my keybroad mess up,

I'm not ragging on Southern folks, small towns, or Baptist churches (unless your Baptist church happens to be called Westboro, then we'll have a problem.)

A gunman who killed more than two dozen at a small - town Texas church briefly escaped from a mental health facility in New Mexico in 2012, police reports indicate.

In a plant like ours, we are small and simply don't have enough mass yet to do very many things, and so I have been doing some teaching on the universal body of believers, which is call «Big C Church,» and how we can be involved in other churches in town to get what we ourselves can not offer.

I'll be attending as both an author and a church - planter, but with one big question in mind: What does it mean to celebrate Big Tent Christianity in small town America?

Yet his world is so stereotyped that we could choose one from an urban, suburban, small town, or rural church, anywhere from Maine to California and from college age to retirement, and find great similarities.

Leaves was written during the days of Detroit's great industrial expansion, and Niebuhr was pastor of a rapidly growing church; my own experience in rural, small - town and semi-suburban congregations has been markedly different.

Yet the irony of the criticism is that I write not simply as an academic but also as the pastor of a church of ca. 160 people in a small town outside Philadelphia.

Seldom are ordained women placed in full charge of a local church, save in some small town and rural congregations that can not afford or find a man.