Sentences with phrase «altar calls for»

Nearly all AG churches have designated times each week to pray for divine healing and times for the old - fashioned altar calls for salvation.

You may end your sermon with an altar call for commitment by saying, «Jesus died on the cross for our sins and in our place.

Join me won't you, as we welcome our celibate GLBTQ brothers and sisters to the altar call for redemption, casting out fornication, guilt and sin and ushering in a new tomorrow filled with hope and joy!

Not exact matches

He would make the altar call in his powerful baritone, asking the multitudes to stand, come down the aisles and publicly make «decisions for Christ,» as a choir crooned the hymn «Just As I Am.»

The busyness of our schedules) is perhaps the reason there are less altar calls at church... It was not blaming those activities for a decline in church - goers.

The point is this: Stop thinking that when you share the Four Spiritual Laws, or the Romans Road, or the plan of salvation, or given an altar call, or invite someone to believe in Jesus for eternal life, or any of the other myriad of things that Christians today call «sharing the gospel,» stop thinking that you have actually shared the Gospel.

I was hoping they would simply let the story speak for itself and dreaded a cringeworthy altar call at the end.

It is not uncommon for our church to be asked why we do not do altar calls or hand - raising type evangelistic efforts.

Since you bring the topic up, let me sketch out what I see as the dimensions of the issue for someone who hasn't experienced a persuasive altar call or revelatory «Road to Damascus» experience.

In a way, too, so does Scorsese's entire calling — one that started off in the streets of New York as an altar boy searching for his purpose.

I can't be sure if an altar call is the right move, but I can provide a few encouraging reminders for navigating the Christmas holiday with family members who could use some Jesus in their life.

Their sacrifices and offerings shall be accepted on my altar, for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.

Since you bring the topic up, let me sketch out what I see as the dimensions of the issue for someone who hasn't experienced a persuasive altar call or revelatory «Road...

Dr. Napier suggests that for Elijah to slaughter the prophets of Baal is a call to a radical separation and break between the two altars.

Close to 140 million people have made «decisions for Christ» after seeing the film, which ends with a low - key «altar call» segment.

Now they performed their limping dance around the altar they had made; until at noon Elijah called out, taunting them, Cry louder, for he is a god: maybe he's meditating; or he's gone to the john; or he's off on a 28.

How, minister to royalty, who call The prophets troublers of the church, Disturbers of the Christian peace, meddlers In matters — so they say — irrelevant To life in faith and hope and love; for whom The double altar is imperative; Who seek to shape the deity in form That sanctifies the royal of the earth?

Appalachian and Southern Christians often told stories about staggering into church and walking forward during the altar call to say the «sinner's prayer» during revival services that would often last for several weeks.

In fact, when I was in junior high, I remember being at a Christian youth conference where the speaker did an altar call of sorts for «young men called to be pastors» and «young women called to be pastors» wives.»

For example, in Christianity, it might all start with an altar call, «Jesus loves you just as you are!

For example, one of the churches I love features an altar call at the end of nearly every sermon.

But we are commanded to «work out our salvation» which seems to me to be an ongoing issue — not something settled once and for all in a five - minute altar call while the organist quietly plays «Just as I am» from memory.

We are all called to give generously: parents, in the efforts they put in for their children; young adults, in recognising that their bodies are «for the Lord» and should be considered as something holy; consecrated religious, in giving themselves in prayer out of a perfect love for God; and especially priests, who are told at their ordination that they must imitate what they celebrate at the altar.

My own experience, like many of those who grew up in evangelicalism, was marked by conversions and reconversions and re-reconversions, between which I wandered aimlessly until finding my way into sin and then out again through walking down for the altar call.

He proposed that each build an altar, lay upon it wood for the fire, and on that place the victim, then call upon their respective gods to consume the sacrifice by setting the altar fire ablaze.

In calling down the fire to consume the sacrifice, Ambrose sees the Old Covenant counterpart of his own act as priest in summoning the Holy Spirit to the Christian altar, and repeating the incarnate Christ's words of institution.42 In the rebuke of Ahab and Jezebel he finds the parallel to, and sanction for, his denunciation of Valentinian II and his Arian mother.

6 «And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord, to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it, and holds fast my covenant — 7 these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.»