Sentences with phrase «bigger churches next»

Not exact matches

Not because it's the cause du jour that our churches are promoting until the next big thing comes along.

Part of my own story is that I went for a big wander outside of my my mother Church, encountering different and new and ancient ways of experiencing and knowing and being changed by our big and generous God as if I were encountering occasional cups of water while in the desert, drinking each one down as if they were sustaining me for the next leg of the journey.

I've known Jesus for as long as I've known my name, and still I use other people like capital to advance my own interest, still I gossip to make myself feel important, still I curse my brothers and sisters in one breath and sing praise songs in the next, still I sit in church with arms folded and cynicism coursing through my bloodstream, still I talk a big game about caring for the poor without doing much to change my own habits, still I indulge in food I'm not hungry for and jewelry I don't need, still I obsess over what people say about me on the internet, still I forget my own privilege, still I talk more than I listen and complain more than I thank, still I commit acts of evil, still I make a great commenter on Christianity and a lousy practitioner of it.

His big thought of the day was that we ought to take a meal to whoever was our next door neighbor and tell them that Jesus cares for them and so does the church.

These are churches that refuse to lurch around the secular landscape seeking the next big thing progressive Christianity might pluck from the culture or invent on its own.

And in church settings, the next question is often «How big is your church / ministry?»

But as time goes on, little compromises, become bigger ones; tiny deviations from the original vision become `'» more relevant» mandates; the vast sums of money it takes to keep the machine going become the catalyst for where the «church» is going next.

Rev Coupe said he hopes the school uniform project can be bigger next year with various local churches partnering to expand the effort throughout the whole city.

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So far, my Clarks pumps have gone to church twice & out to dinner, and both times I was able to return home, walk comfortably up my driveway & into my room without any urge to kick them off my feet & into a big fire like some other shoes I have tried... and, my Clarks shopping trip scored me $ 40 to spend on my next visit - they have those punch card things where a filled card gives you $ $ to spend, and between the pumps, the sandals & that beautiful orchid handbag I filled a card, so I may go back and use the credit towards the nude version of the pumps... and if I get really ambitious, I'll post a picture of myself with the pumps & the bag very soon.

Racing at Lime Rock has never taken place on Sundays, as you may know, since there's that big church right next to the front straight, so Sunday was the Park Concours d'Elegance and Gathering of the Marques.

At the end of one of these nightime drives, as we were heading home down the street where our school and church were, I told everyone in the car that I wanted to live in the big house next to the church.