Sentences with phrase «at church because»

Sheinkopf — who said he was at the church because he works for its pastor, the Rev. Johnnie Green, and his Mobilizing Preachers and Communities advocacy group — thought Cuomo's joke fell flat.

Sheinkopf was at the church because he works for its pastor, the Rev. Johnnie Green, and his Mobilizing Preachers and Communities advocacy group.

If it's flu season, you can't let you baby be passed down the line at church because chances are that they will get sick.

We always had to sit in the balcony at church because we arrived late.

I get nervous at my church because it's a one of a kind sort of place, not part of a denomination, though it does have working links with some other churches.

I'm stuck at my church because I've committed to leading an arm of our Family Relgious Education program and because my eldest daughter wants to receive confirmation with her friends.

He lost his job at the church because he felt the church should allow gay and lesbian leaders and did not support California's gay marriage ban bill.

The new generation understands that you can't find Jesus at church because he died 2,000 years ago and zombies don't exist.

Jesus was angry at churches because of their greed and lack of compassion.

(but i don't mind the meager $ 2 to $ 20 you put in the collection basket at churches because of the 10's of thousands you spend on self indulgence that enters into the pockets of me Legions.)

(but i don't mind the meager $ 2 to $ 20 you put in the collection basket at churches because of the 10's of thousands you spend on self indulgence that enters into the pockets of my Legions.)

Not exact matches

Because feedback was simply not a cultural norm at that church.

But now they're «frozen» because, like the parishioners at that Berkeley church, they're part of an organization where simply saying something, asking a question, pushing back on a planned initiative, turns heads.

Then we got into the limo to bring us to the church and she was getting mad at someone for passing around champagne, because she thought someone would spill on her dress.

It's sad, and almost embarrassing to identify as a Christian at times because of the simplicity of the issues big churches choose to «champion.»

Last month, as church halls and Mosques in North Kensington responded as one to the horrific disaster at the Grenfell flats, Tim Farron, ironically a leading liberal, stepped down from his post saying that he couldn't do his job because of the hostility to his faith.

I have to deal with these kinds of questions at my church though because they know I go to a Metropolitan Community Church aschurch though because they know I go to a Metropolitan Community Church asChurch as well.

(CNN)-- CNN's Brooke Baldwin spoke to Barbara Johnson who says a priest denied her communion at her mother's funeral Mass at St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland because she is a lesbian.

Most of the people I work with are aware of it, and some the stuff I do on the side is because of it, like youth ministry and working as part of the teaching team at our church.

preacherlady said, on November 5th, 2009 at 9:35 pm Fishon... thats as prejudiced a statement to condemn something because it was written by a homosexual as it was to judge you because you are Church of Christ -------- Alice, the Bible doesn't condemn being in or of the Church of Christ, but it does condemn practicing homosexuality and as I said before, calls it....

We will be doing our fellowship service tonight in a community hall, we were doing it at our church for seven years, but we got kicked out, because we wer n`t getting the people to go to the sunday morning service.

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.

Rt Rev Leo Cushely wrote to Tina Beattie, banning her from a talk at a Catholic group in Edinburgh because she disagreed with the Church's teaching on sexual morality.

The millennial folks are leaving the church because they don't want to worship - they want to have «me time» at the club house.

The little old lady the gives out hugs at church The sunset that takes your breath away The person that tells you that he appreciates you The lady that brings your family dinner because you are tending to a sick child The friend that prays with you and cries with you when someone you love lies dying.

When he got older he may have been thrown out of the house because they weren't going to have a faggot son or else he may have been denounced at church.

This is all the more satisfying a ratification because Connelly is so conscientious in establishing his own personal antagonism toward the Catholic Church (at one point asserting without even a footnote that natural family planning «still fails most couples who try it»).

There have been times at conferences or big churches that I've been envious of the speaker, because he / she could get up from prayer, go to the platform, deliver the message, and go back into prayer.

As i grew older i became more intellectually and scientifically driven and although i do still go to church when i can its more for me a place when i am having a bad day that is a refuge a place that i just feel at peace in probably because i grew up in a church was there every Sunday and every holy day of obligation with my parents it brings back peacful memories.

The prospect of the church aligning itself with political movements alarmed Benedict because of his own upbringing, says Ramon Luzarraga, a religion professor at the University of Dayton in Ohio.

Just because one shows up at church (or does any «spiritual» act) doesn't mean there's always a connection.

Moreover, it is demeaning to suggest that Paul VI affirmed the Church's classic position on marital love and procreation (which had been held for centuries by virtually every Christian community until the Anglican Communion broke ranks at the 1930 Lambeth Conference) because he was afraid that changing the traditional position would unravel the entire body of Catholic moral teaching.

If we discovered a lost matriarchal society tomorrow, I think the proper interpretation of the passage for them would be to have wives be head of their husbands the way Christ is head of the church, because that is the situation (the not ideal situation of power and control and hierarchy and distinction) that they have to live with (at that moment).

Sorry to disagree with you but I have no problem with putting muslim «tradition» on the back burner and if you don't like it that's tough, heck, we didn't leave a single intact church steeple in Europe in WWII because they were used by enemy artillery spotters and snipers, why should muslims get a pass, Tradition did not stop muslims from dragging dead US soldiers through Mogadishu nor did it stop them from hanging contractors from under bridges, Osama's body should have been brought back and put on display is a glass box at all three of his sites, allowing those who wanted to view him ample time to do so.

Hence there are Church members today who continue to summon and teach at every level of Church education the racial discourse that black people are descendants of Cain, that they merited lesser earthly privilege because they were «fence - sitters» in the War in Heaven, and that, science and climatic factors aside, there is a link between skin color and righteousness» Mormon scripture specifically referencing race includes (from the Book of Mormon): 1 Nephi 11:8 1 Nephi 11:13 1 Nephi 12:23 1 Nephi 13:15 2 Nephi 5:21 2 Nephi 30:6 (1830 edition) Jacob 3:8 Alma 3:6 3 Nephi 2:15 Mormon 5:15

I'm surprised she concludes this way, because the early chapters of her book poke fun at her family and church's frequent involvement in protests against abortion and homosexuality.

Because he looks at history in a balanced and nuanced way, rather than using history to further the agenda that church and Empire are always opposed (rather 1984, isn't it?).

That broke away from the Baptist Church because they did not want Blacks at all in the Church.

they go to church on sunday, stop at the liquor store after services, and watch a fun filled afternoon of good ol' football because that is a peaceful sport that is beneficial to mankind.

Considering it was a Mormon missionary who befriended my Grandfather and talked him into to joining the church at 70 years old, and than stole a million dollars worth of real estate from him, something the family knew nothing about until he was on his death bed, because he was too ashamed to tell anybody that he lost the family property.

The church goes on helping the poor at least to live, because laborers and slaves are needed.

Mitt Romney Flip Flops because he makes a decision that usually makes sense... Then he gets a call from the «Prophets» of the LDS church and changes it with no question... is that who you want in office... look at the issues he flipped on... every one of them was changed to an LDS point of view.

it was printed in latin, because latin, at the time, was the prevailing language used in the catholic church.

«At THIS church, we are not saying «all lives matter» right now because this is a logical assumption that most reasonable people agree with.

But because I was a broken reed when I first showed up at his confessional, he was tender, yet always committed to giving me the full teaching of the Church.

We joined an abusive, (house / semi-communal) «Bible» church primarily because it seemed to provide what we desperately felt we needed at that time, as a young couple, expecting our first child: Stability, Clarity of belief, «Coolness», Community, and a sense that we were joining something that promised it was going to have a great impact on the culture in the future, and we were thus getting in on the «bottom floor.»

I have been in trouble at churches all my life because I think and I think that women are trapped by the world into the slut / virgin standards because many men in power fear women who think.

I'm so torn because I don't want to leave the people I care about at the other churches, but yet I feel lonely, worthless, and completely broken at the current church I'm at because of the drama.

I used to wonder why I was so «weak» and would get so emotional when the people would leave and even mad at myself for not being able to just become tough and stay more emotionally distant with the people but a few close friends in the church told me not to change because my reaction simply shows what a caring shepherd I am.

Millennials are leaving the church because they have sat at the feet of skeptics, liberals, Bible deniers, liberal educators and Hollywood elites via Glee, Will & Grace, Ellen, Seinfeld, and so many shows with entertaining gay characters who surely must be «born that way.»