Sentences with phrase «been in church since»

I have been in church since I was 7 years old, but sometimes you just start hearing words, and stop feeling the reason you are here.

Although I had been in the church since I was 16 years old and read and studied the Bible ever since; even though I had gone to bible college and seminary and university to get my several degrees; even though I have been preaching and teaching in the church for all this time, I felt deep down that something was missing.

They abandoned God - a more heinous crime than anything - and they have been in the Church since day one and will continue that way until Judgement day.

He's not been in church since then.

I replied that I had not been in a church since I was 10 and every time I tried going, I ended up walking out before it was over.

I suspect it means more for church history and the powers that be in the church since the Dark Ages than for the core truths of Christianity as they existed before the time of Constantine..

Not exact matches

Another pioneer in this field is George Church, a genetics professor who's been working at Harvard Medical School since 1977 and running his own lab since 1986.

(Lim, pastor of the Light Korean Presbyterian Church and long - time visitor to North Korea, had been in captivity since his unexpected seizure in 2015.)

After a while I could not listen to a sermon in a PCA church without wondering which parts did and didn't apply to me, since I'm female.

There are growing concerns for the wellbeing of an Orthodox Church leader in Eritrea who hasn't been seen in public since he attended mass at a church last mChurch leader in Eritrea who hasn't been seen in public since he attended mass at a church last mchurch last mont...

That's bad news for the Catholic Church, which has seen a 12 percentage - point drop in Hispanic members since 2010, with most of the losses coming from former Catholics under 50.

Qatar is fomenting unrest in Syria, and since the Antiochian church is based in Damascus, Qatar will not issue visas to Antioch's clergy.

A polemicist might well have salty things to say about this abdication of moral principles that Christians have held since the earliest days of the faith, but in Wilcox's mild and irenic diction the mainline churches are simply «accommodationist,» espousing what he calls a «Golden Rule Christianity» that honors tolerance, kindness, and social justice as paramount virtues.

The council of 2016, which has been on the table for discussion and preparation since at least 1961 (although there were earlier proposals for such a council in the 1920s and 1930s), will for the first time ever gather representatives from all fourteen independent Orthodox Churches.

I think it is very important that we remember that what Christians think should really not matter — what happened to separation of church and state — if anything, this is a state issue and not a federal govt issue... but since it has been brought up, i'll chime in on something — I bet when the Reverend was young and he was told to sit in the back of the bus, he didn't like it and did nt» think it was fair... neither do I...

And to further the statements previously made, blacks were always allowed to worship in the same place as whites since the church's inception, unlike many christian denominations that shall remain nameless.

I've known since I was 18 that I couldn't have kids and, during the years I spent in Pentecostal style churches, often did feel condemned, although it is something which is part of who I am and which I can not change.

since this woman entered a Catholic Church to be a part of their service of worship, she shouldn't be surprised that they follow the doctrine they believe in — namely, that someone openly unrepentant of what the Catholic Church teaches is sin should not partake of communion.

Three priorities presented themselves to Castro: (1) Since the world is experiencing a resurgence in religion, and the decline of faith in modernity, the churches must resolve theological and philosophical questions: Is the Spirit exclusive, and the Christian faith unique, or is the Spirit (his experiencing a resurgence in religion, and the decline of faith in modernity, the churches must resolve theological and philosophical questions: Is the Spirit exclusive, and the Christian faith unique, or is the Spirit (hIs the Spirit exclusive, and the Christian faith unique, or is the Spirit (his the Spirit (he?

Since the Bible and church are obviously mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust them to tell us where we're going?

Since these two were raised in different states and went to different churches I have to believe this is an underlying current in all Mormon churches.

Bonhoeffer had been attracted to aspects of the Catholic Church since his first visit to St. Peter's in Rome in 1924.

Bishop Eddie Long, the Atlanta pastor who has received massive media attention since four young men accused him of sexual coercion last September, is entangled in a dispute with an entrepreneur over $ 1 million in investments that Long wants returned to his church members.

Since the fundamental and indispensable unit of Christian community is the Church, these trends in general intellectual culture have in the last fifteen years stimulated a great deal of ecclesiological reflection: one can draw an interesting line of influence from MacIntyre and Habits of the Heart to Stanley Hauerwas and then to John Milbank and the other proponents of radical orthodoxy, all of whom tend to be pronouncedly ecclesiocentric in their thinking.

Is this article suggesting since one person in the Catholic church uses birth control, the hierarchy should capitulate to the pressures of the Obama administration?

The denomination has been accruing funds since it broke off from the Catholic Church in the 16th century, and the fund is used to pay pensions for its clergy and workers.

Luther is read as saying something radically incompatible with anything said in the Church since the death of Paul (except perhaps for a few glimmers in Augustine).

I'm not a «believer» and haven't been involved in a church since I was a kid, but I was a cameraman when these people came to the B.B. King museum in Indianola, MS, and it was a sweet story.

Revd Marsh has been the vicar of Bramhall in Stockport since 2006, and is based at St Michael and All Angels Church in the area.

For the life of me, I can't understand why you don't follow it, especially since you believe it is the truth, and the doctrine of the Catholic Church to be in error.

Church volunteerism and social ministry are very new in Russia, since under communist rule the state controlled all social work.

-- Since the LDS church is headquartered in the US, this would force the hierarchy to take a stand and stop this widespread practice, and stop the incorporation of proposed baptism names into the church files.

It is possible actor Richard Gere could attend a church in South Yorkshire celebrating 400 years since... More

My brother attends a church in which a woman has been senior pastor since before the turn of the millennium.

In my opinion, I do not think this woman is a practicing catholic since she is ignoring this basic teaching of the catholic church.

The actual RC church would be reduced to an apathetic cluster in W. Europe + a smattering across the US, and we would probably see another pope elected to preside over the rest, something that hasn't been seen since the «Babylonian Captivity» of the Avignon Popes.

For Democratic presidents, Catholic nominees (Sonia Sotomayor) help blur the line on abortion, since even non-observant Catholics are linked in the news media and in the public mind to the antiabortion Roman Catholic Church.

Losing Our Virtue: Why the Church Must Recover Its Moral Vision by David F. Wells Eerdmans, 228 pages, $ 25 It is almost sixty years since Hans Urs von Balthasar, in a penetrating essay titled «Patristik, Scholastik, und Wir,» observed what he considered to be the «late autumn» of our times.

This makes Jesus an incomplete savior and, of course, Joseph Smith a perfect savior, since it is only by abiding in the Mormon Church that true salvation can be achieved.

Theresa May also reiterated her belief that it was ultimately up to the church to decide its own position on the matter, during an interview marking half a century since the decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales.

* My point, again, as I understand it in terms of our 1st amendment, and freedom of speech, was to (build in) a «wall» of separation of church and government... (because) of «Christianity,» since you are talking about our country, so as not to have - anyone's freedom of speech and their civil liberties trampled on.

Our nation is in terrible trouble because Satan has deceived non-Mormons, something Brother Romney has been taught by our church since he was young.

Maybe these things are common knowledge among those in Evangelical circles, but for many like me on the outside, when we see a certain pastor or denomination singled out in this way, it looks a lot like the same internal striving that's been going on in the Church since Peter and Paul argued over circumcision.

New research from Gallup shows that, with only 44 percent of Americans having «a great deal» or «quite a lot» of confidence in religious institutions, Americans» trust in church is at its lowest point since the national research organization started asking the question in 1973.

If by some amazing coincidence the Flying Spaghetti Monster church is not true, then your proxy baptism for me will be null and void in the afterlife anyways, since it wasn't authorized by God.

So I'm not sure why you included the «appearance of cool» in your list, since (at least in my experience) pastoral abuse can and does occur in all types of churches.

Church attendance rates by Christians in the United States have stayed largely steady since the 1970s, but there have been some significant changes in the makeup of the congregations in the pews during that time, a recently released study says.

26, page 635... Now, in all fairness, their has been a Public Relations campaign recently to remove the «cursed» references to Blacks in the ever changing Book of Mormon / and Covenants and Doctrines — «specially since they have a chance to rule the world through Mitt Romney (gggrandson of one of the LDS church founders, Parley Pratt arrested for murder and treason for attacking and killing members of an army battalion)... Don't look in up in Wikipedia — the Mormons have deleted that part of Pratt's history.

The late 1980s merger of the old American Lutheran Church (ALC), Lutheran Church in America (LCA), and Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (AELC, a much smaller body that broke earlier with the Lutheran Church» Missouri Synod) resulted in an organization of 5.3 million members that has been producing red ink, membership losses, and general demoralization since its start.

A memorial plauque for the 240 kg bell, which has hung in the church since 1934, will now also be displayed on the 1,000 - year - old heritage - listed church.