Sentences with phrase «arriving at the church»

Your holiest look down upon the sinners, your prayers are scripted, your music is pre-planned out, you adhere to a schedule and you meet at specific times on a specific day as if to say... «if we arrive at church at 9:30 Sunday morning, God will meet us in this place.»

When Keizer arrived at the church, he found that only two other people, a husband and wife, had come for the service.

Three weeks later the young lady and her mother arrived at our church (after catching three buses) to thank the team that had prayed for her.

From holographic preachers to church online, we examine what impact new technology might have on tomorrow's church It's Sunday morning and you've arrived at church.

He believes, however, that within a year of arriving at the church, many of the attendees have a better understanding of the Christian faith than people in some of the other churches he's served.

When he arrived at church that morning, Jones and his new staff hung a huge banner on the front of the church: OPEN FOR PRAYER.

Last week, officers from the county marshal's department arrived at the church bearing an eviction notice.

Later, after she'd been asking the Lord for further encouragement, a man arrived at her church, asking to speak to her.

Worshippers arrived at church on a National Day of Mourning that was still brightly decorated for Easter.

Witnesses reported that at least three police trucks arrived at the church without notice moments after the service had ended, and security personnel started to clear and confiscate property before demolishing the church.

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Kennedy's partner, Carole MacDonald, arrived at the church at around 11 am.

His only public appearance on Tuesday came when he arrived at a church near his home in New Castle, in Westchester, to cast his ballot, along with his girlfriend, the Food Network host Sandra Lee.

OnSunday they arrived at church with their best clothes crawling withgrasshoppers and stained with their brown spittle.

One night we arrived at church and found a treat: One of the members (who served as a proof - reader for one of the modern bible translations), had a table set up with pages from historic bible translations into English.

Hundreds of people lined the streets of the English city of Cambridge on Saturday, breaking into applause as the hearse carrying the remains of famed British scientist Stephen Hawking arrived at the church.

Kev and I arrived at the church around 5:00 pm one afternoon last week.

Not exact matches

If someone thinks Jesus «isn't in the church» then they may have veered slightly off course with their judgement, because if you are a believer, then you've brought Him with you to whatever church you've arrived at.

According to Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), two men arrived at Berseba Church in Karanji Village in the central Chhattisgarh state last week claiming to be Christians who wanted prayer.

Despite intense media speculation about which Washington church Obama would join when he arrived in Washington, the White House has yet to announce that he has joined any, though the president sometimes attends chapel at Camp David.

I drive past multi-million dollar church properties filled with throngs of wealthy people (as compared to the peoples of this world, today) sitting on cushy chairs or pews, gazing out stained glass windows, and then arrive at my destination — the haunts of the homeless, many of whom have all they own in a backpack or in a shopping cart.

(CNN)-- When Pope Francis arrives in South Korea on Wednesday for a five - day visit, he'll get a look at just the kind of church he's been trying to create worldwide.

A sea of Catholic devotees jostle for position as they try to touch the life - size statue of the Black Nazarene as it arrive at the Quiapo Church during the annual procession in honor of the centuries - old icon of Jesus Christ in Manila on January 9, 2013.

So to answer your question... no, it is not just two verses that proclaim how the Church arrives at Truth... it is by Tradition and the Magisterium and the Bible which holds us all together by the grace of God.

One steamy night in August 1960, my family was met by the general secretary of the Church of Christ in Thailand as we arrived at Don Muang International Airport in Bangkok.

We should further learn from the same Constitution that the Church really does not teach a two - tier theory of her members, according to which some would trot along the common road, hoping nevertheless to arrive at God, while the others, priests and religious, constituting as it were the aristocracy, walk in more exalted paths.

When the first group of junior high students arrived for the weekend retreat, streaming out of their crammed First United Methodist Church buses like ants out of a disturbed bed, I marveled at their young faces.

My dread increased when I arrived for a staging of the event at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago.

But one sometimes wonders if Farley fully realizes how far we must yet travel before we arrive at a thoroughly practical theology critical and philosophical enough to fit in the university and fine - tuned enough actually to give direction to the church's ministries in the public world.

The means adopted to arrive at this end was to place great authority in the hands of powerful bishops and then, in the fourth and fifth centuries, in the hands of a central, authoritative church in Rome under whose leadership the others were expected to be subject.

However, such a church will recognize the need and the right of every person to arrive at a faith that is truly his or her own.

When our team of 11 adults, three children and one baby arrived at St Swithuns, the church building was completely empty.

To arrive at this simple understanding of the church, it is necessary to unpack and unwind some of the complex misunderstandings that have been constructed around the church.

Does such a critical, yet faithful, approach as that outlined above imply that only the expert can arrive at an adequate Biblical understanding of the role of women in the church and family?

Bishop Paulose says, «It is by this reasoning, namely by a bold effort to answer the question of how Jesus Christ can become lord even of the religionless, that Bonhoeffer arrived at his conclusion that the church should work out and proclaim a «non-religious» interpretation of Biblical and theological concepts».

The bustle of the crowds arriving at the Radhasoami meeting place was in marked contrast to the quiet of the church within the eucalyptus grove.

The missionary movement has arrived at maturity, and there is urgent need that the churches as well as the missionaries take account of it.

Stanley Hauerwas, an American theologian who has thought deeply about disability, wrote an essay on abortion that joins up biblical convictions to arrive at this conclusion: «The church is a family into which children are brought and received.

After some reflection on whether this opposition is really about singing or about some other deep - seated issue, we may still all arrive at the same place: that we belong to the Church and that this same Church, with the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, leads us towards God through (among other things) the full and undiluted celebration of the liturgy.

In one of those attacks, a church member named Jeanne Assam shot gunman Matthew Murray, who arrived at New Life Church with «a rifle, two handguns, and 1,000 rounds of ammunition,» CT reported at thechurch member named Jeanne Assam shot gunman Matthew Murray, who arrived at New Life Church with «a rifle, two handguns, and 1,000 rounds of ammunition,» CT reported at theChurch with «a rifle, two handguns, and 1,000 rounds of ammunition,» CT reported at the time.

When Father Jack Wall arrived at Old St. Patrick's in 1983, the church had only four parishioners.

When the church arrives at the gates of hell, we will do the same thing Jesus did in His life and ministry.

The Presbyterian minister «was standing, at the moment of the ruinous pang, on the first floor of the rectory, wondering if in view of the heat he might remove his black serge jacket, since no visitor was scheduled to call until after dinnertime, when the Church Building Requirements Committee would arrive to torment him with its ambitions.»

Shortly after arriving at Havre in August 1914, for example, Mgr Bickerstaffe - Drew had the privilege of sleeping in his own tent due to his seniority «but the Church of England Chaplain was to be one of three, so I gave him half my tent.»

The only way to avoid arriving at the final, shocking conclusion to that argument is to reassert the principle that informs Humanae Vitae and the whole tradition of the Church «steachings on the sixth and ninth commandments.

From this position at which Bultmann has arrived it is only one step to the «post-Bultmannian» recognition that the actual demythologizing which went on within the primitive Church was the «historicizing» process taking place within the kerygma and leading to the writing of Gospels, as has been discussed above.

In the bulletin I print every week, right at the top of it I have put this saying by Victor Frankl, since I arrived at my / God's Church: «There is one thing you can never take from me, and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to whatever you do to me.»

Were members of a United Methodist church to have described the holiest moment of the year for their congregation, they would uniformly have cited the warm, candlelit hours of Christmas Eve when families would arrive whenever it was most convenient for them for a private Communion at the altar.

When I first arrived at the Gospel Water Branch Baptist Church in Augusta, Georgia, I noticed two things — the barbecue smoking in the parking lot, and the band setting up inside the sanctuary.

The number of students who arrive at today's university bringing a sense of the church's global social mission is small indeed.