Sentences with phrase «sunday listening to a sermon»

We sat next to each other in church one Sunday listening to a sermon on the wrongs of getting angry.

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Listening to the sermon each Sunday can be like what my father used to do on Sunday afternoons - «listen» to the race - GREAT for napping.

What Thom Rainer doesn't seem to understand or recognize is that just because someone stops sitting in a pew on Sunday morning and listening to a sermon, this does not mean that they have left church.

Thankfully, Jesus is using people like me (and millions of others in the same boat) to show these people who have stopped attending church that there is wonderful way of following Jesus as part of His Body, the church, which does not involve sitting in a pew on Sunday morning and listening to a sermon.

Look, being a church member has nothing to do with sitting in a pew on Sunday morning, listening to a sermon and praying for your pastor, giving your money to support a local church budget, and making commitments to serve on a church ministry program.

But I think that if you re-read the entire post, you will see that I am not saying that Jesus calls people to leave the Church (His Body), but rather, that Jesus might be calling some members of His Body to be the church in a way that looks different than the Sunday morning activity of sitting in a pew and listening to a sermon.

he cautioned us to be ready and alert for His coming, not dreaming of escaping to an out of body place and not fussing over whether we have ticked all the theological boxes while we sit slumped in the Sunday pew listening to yet another sermon on how to be saved (when we are already saved).

Nothing magical happens by sitting in a pew on Sunday morning to sing a few songs and listen to a sermon.

I don't think it necessarily has to be in a building on Sunday morning where they sing, sit in pews, and listen to a sermon.

it should be everyday!!!!! but, there is nothing wrong if people still wants to do the fellowship on Sunday morning, sit, and listen to the sermon... and I admit, it is not enough...

We can not «get credit» for church by showing up in some building for an hour on Sunday morning, singing a few songs, smiling a few smiles, and listening to a sermon.

They are still part of His Church, but there might be something else He has in store for them that does not involve singing songs and listening to a sermon on Sunday morning.

So far as we can tell, Sunday mornings will remain the same, with America's silent majority sitting in the churches, listening to silent sermons

Sunday will remain the same: the American silent majority sitting righteously in the pews listening to silent sermons.»

I go to church throughout my childhood, sometimes reluctantly, but my mother has such control over us that we dress up each Sunday and sit quietly in a row, my brothers and I, listening to the adult sermon.

There are lots of ways to assemble with other believers that do not involve sitting in a pew on Sunday morning to listen to a sermon.

Praise God for the church nursery and Sunday school workers, for the young ones without babies themselves (and all of their energy), for the older couples who have raised their babies (and all of their calming certainty), for the other tired parents who take their turn so that they could perhaps listen to the sermon next week.

And when we look around at others on Sunday morning, and sing the happy songs, and listen to the motivating sermon, we are tempted to think, «Everybody else seems to have what we are so loudly proclaiming.

A technique for testing the relevance and empathic qualities of one's preaching is to listen to a tape of last Sunday's sermon while imagining that one is a despairing person with whom one has counseled recently.

But here's the real question: Did Jesus die so that people could show up and sit in a pew on Sunday morning and listen attentively to a sermon?

For many years I sat in a pew on Sundays, listening to occasional sermons about the poor, giving to special offerings and looking appropriately sympathetic and concerned about poverty.

Going to a building on Sunday morning, parking your car, walking in, sitting in a pew or padded chair, singing some songs, listening to a sermon, shaking some hands, going home.