Sentences with phrase «big churches with»

I still get the hives when I see big churches with big splashy programs, any mention of a building project.

If it's my taste to go to bigger churches with a modern worship style and scholarly teaching, I'm gonna stick with that.

One year has passed since Erica and I had gotten married in a big church with lots of family and friends.

, or moving to a bigger church with a larger singles ministry, or trying online dating with a wide pool of prospects?

Joining UKChristianDate.com you have a feeling of joining a big church with only Christian singles in it.

Not exact matches

In Chan's sermon he agreed with this analogy and said: «This pastor was saying our church is so much like that - it feels like a big zoo.

And that camel - owner can bring all his camel - owning friends and they will give their tenth - plus offerings to The Church of the Great Needle and soon enough there will be a new building program to construct a fanstasmagoric «Golden Needle with Multiple Eyes» so that more camels can enter and then more camel - owners will come and soon there will be a vision for a bigger and better «Platinum Needle with Multiple, Rotating, Identity - Protected Eyes» and soon there will be a name change to «The Church of the Sharpest Needles in the Greatest Sewing Machine the World Has Ever Seen» and everyone shall stand amazed etc., etc., etc...; ^)

Now with these bigger churches and folks not needing to hitch up ole «bessie to the wagon in Little House on the Prairie fashion, to get the family to the local church....

In fact, let me quote the NP::» The issue of being gay in the church is a very real issue today, one I wish to address and deal with,» ---- And so, when you say to me::: «you have a big thing about gays...,» David's words say it all ------»... being gay in the church is a very real issue today.»

Some of the same churches I've been to, You left some out, tho... only if she wears a head covering... as long as she doesn't wear makeup or jewelry (wedding ring and denominational pin excepted)... no peep toe shoes, especially with toenail polish... if what she is doing gets bigger than what the men are doing, she's out (Thats a real big one)... only if she'll do it on a volunteer basis and never expects an honorarium, even if she speaks at the main Sunday service.

If the message given by the church and the bible brings out the BIG GUNS then there is no love and it leaves the figure in your drawing with lots of confusion and questions.

It gets less attention because with the Church structure money is bigger in Catholic lawsuits.

It is a big conference with dozens of other featured speakers, most of whom are outspoken critics of the Church's teaching office.

Jesus didn't demand people to build big churches to fill up with people on a given day.

As far as I can see the majority of these post are attacking the Church not Christianity, the big problem with unbelievers is that they can not separate the two.

They want to replace big Government with big Church.

The biggest changes have come in three groups traditionally associated with their reliable church attendance - Southerners, Catholics and women, the study says.

He is well - liked by his peers, volunteers with University Big Brothers and Sisters, is involved in his church (he is an adult convert to Mormonism), is a member of the University's interfaith Religious Life Council, and has compiled an impressive academic record.

I think the Church (with a big C, as christianity as a whole), took a bad road when it all reduced «salvation» as a question of knowing if yes or no someone is going to go to heaven.

This is why the church flirts with danger when it tries to look successful, present a public image and further it's noble agendas and become really big.

I was now in my late 40's... I no longer had a fancy business card to define me... I had some big problems with the beliefs / actions of the church... who was I?

When I was 15, I «gave my life to Christ» — not in a church, but alone, in my room, after months of reading and thinking and looking for purpose and meaning and direction and something bigger than the depressing and lonely life I seemed to be stuck with — and I expected to find those things.

I have no doubt historical politics played a big part in how the institutional church portrayed God and His Son, often with a view to control what we believe, say and do.

God always seems to «call» pastors and ministry professionals to bigger churches, richer ministries, and positions with greater power.

But unlike other films with more direct Christian messages, churches are much less likely to buy out theaters in bulk as they did for «Son of God» and «God's Not Dead,» a move that brought those films big returns at the box office.

I do not identify with any religion, however I do believe this Pope is a big step in the right direction for the Catholic Church.

One of the big problems we have in the American church is how comfortable we are picking fights with everyone.

Because there are others who believe the same way I do, and we have the best Bible scholars, and the best seminaries, and the biggest churches, and the most authors, and our missionaries are very active overseas, and we agree with most of the teachings of the church throughout history... at least since the Reformation anyway... and I believe that with time, and a little education of how to really study the Bible, people will eventually see that what I believe is the right way to believe.

We know we don't have to look far to find people who equate more abundant life with a bigger car, a bigger house, a bigger bank account and a bigger church.

The irony here is that the church's bigger problem is not with the government but with its own members, many of whom don't buy into the very tenets about family planning that is in the middle of this controversy.

I just wonder if all of us (big churches and small churches alike) could be a little wiser with our money.

«We have to recognize that fighting fire with fire only builds a bigger fire,» said Joel Hunter, Senior Pastor of Northland, A Church Distributed, in Orlando, Fla., and member of the NAE Board of Directors.

Within minutes I was laughing and eating chicken nuggets with a bunch of bright, engaged Christian students (at Wingate University), remembering once again that the Church is bigger and more beautiful than its ugliest moments.

Typically, with such a strategy, a church planter doesn't need to worry about how to gather a crowd or get the word out about a big event, because the city (or whoever is organizing the event) is already doing such things.

In the 2016 Barna research study commissioned by Josh McDowell Ministry, church leadership indicated that this problem is much bigger than it was 20 years ago, yet only 7 percent of pastors said they have a ministry program for those struggling with porn.

Organized churches are economic units & the preacher is out to show off with a bigger church than his / her fellows & have a comfortable income.

I could write big long theological treatise about the saving powers of my trees out back and the sound of the creek and the Psalms and ordinary radicals and the Gospel in real life with the real Church.

Mantel's memoir, like the novels, is thick with smoldering grievances: against teachers («I don't know if there is a case on record of a child of seven murdering a schoolteacher, but I think there ought to be»); adults generally («In Hadfield, as everywhere in history of the world, violence without justification or apology was meted out by big people to small»); and above all, against the Catholic Church, which stood in judgment on her mother when Mantel was a child.

I don't want to go on and on about this but over the years I have observed that one of the biggest causes of ridiculous antics in the church and the rise of various cults has been people running away with ideas about eschatological events which are nothing more than pure imagination.

Hi Ed, The Pastor at the Church of Hosanna International Ministries (HIM), does not get paid he willingly shows his bank statements to the congregation, in hopes that they will understand where the money is really going and with that said he keeps 100 dollars in his account and lives off of that for a whole month and the rest of the tithes and offerings go to 13 different ministries, divided evenly and the Church helps out at least 3 - 4 missionaries and the youth group of the Church all in separate accounts, this is a Church of around 68 to 80 people every Sunday this is not a big Church but God has blessed this man beyond measure and continues to do so this Church can be found in Saint Joseph Missouri, Pastor Larry Gray.

In some ways, we can not compete with the many big, dynamic, well - run churches in our area for the church shoppers.

But for the past 8 decades they have welcomed the Hypocritical big businessmen, who profess faith yet stand vehemently against taxation designed to aid the poor, a cornerstone of almost all faiths, and have consistently forced people to LINK Church and State by means of creating policies with subliminal purposes.

I grew up in a big church, always full and beautiful from the outside, but empty and hollow inside, filled with the ghosts of a much more authentic spirituality.

Here is the main concern I have with big ministry projects done by big churches.

Last month my wife — the social creature with a big heart that she is — met a couple through a woman's prayer group at the church we attend who was pouring out her heart about their impending homelessness.

Have you ever encountered this «Go big or go home» mentality when it comes to ministry, and that small groups of believers would be wiser to pool their time and resources with large churches so that their ministry effectiveness can be multiplied?

Continuing our Living Churches series, Patrick Forbes visits a small church with a big heart and «Chas and Dave» style worship location.

But these two churches seem to be doing things with their buildings and budgets that appears to be different from what many other big churches do.

On and on it goes until you are as sick of it as you were with the bigger regular church meeting.

Now, the actual Mormon church is hitting the Great White Way, with a big electronic billboard just around the corner from where «The Book of Mormon» is playing.