Sentences with phrase «alive than the church»

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It's really discouraging, when you try to find a church that isn't Calvinist, and isn't supposed to be (per the denomination) and then you talk to the pastor on the phone and are told that you «don't understand Calvinism» (even though I'd been a Calvinist longer than he was alive)!

If it did nothing else but keep alive in the world the disturbing and revolutionary notion that humble service is better than strutting power, wise men would support and foster the church with all the strength at their command.

They believe that the churches can do a more effective job than any other agency in this area of great need and that such involvement can bring churches alive with a new sense of mission.

Levenson, who is the senior pastor and rector of St Martin's Episcopal Church, said he reminded Mr Bush that «she is more alive than she has ever been.»

I'm a big fan of walking to the nearest church to you, dead or alive — and loving them until there's more life there than when you arrived and staying there until circumstances physically move you out of that neighborhood.

Change, to keep the church alive in the 21st century (in the UK at least where churchgoing is about as normal as ferret juggling) needs to be far, far more radical than that, and based on an assessment of what real people's real needs are, rather than a thirst for novelty.

The Westboro Baptist Church sees things differently than I do now... I'm telling everybody I feel happier today than I did the day before, because I'm so happy to be alive.

It is nothing short of tragic that people have died believing the false claims made by the pastors and churches they trusted, and choosing to pray to be healed rather than keep taking medication which was keeping them alive.

A city more alive than ever, with its $ 81 million renovation of churches and... Read More