Sentences with phrase «call like church»

There's the chimes on my phone that call like church bells at nine, at noon, at night, calling me to stop and pray stop and pray in the midst of the chaos and the undone — calling me to hard stops — because God wants knees more than work.

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I'm just enraged that this so - called church (read: cult of hubris, like Romney) would do such an atrocious thing to Anne Frank - a courageous young woman who died because of her religion.

If these CHRISTians, as they like to be called, just stayed in their churches, helped the poor, stopped spreading hate — the kinds of things their boss said they should do, we wouldn't be bothered as much.

I would like to ask so called «American Muslims», how many churches or temples or synagogue are there in predominantly Muslin countries?

Also, you might like to pretend you're an «adopted jew» but please, I beg you, go to your church tomorrow and or just talk to any christian and call them an adopted jew, see how they react and then report back here, I would love to hear the reaction you got.

I was in a Christian sect called Catholic church, which strayed so much from the Scriptuers in it's teachings and practices, that it's more like a cult, then true Christianity.

So Mayne, like the bishop who called him to serve, is a volunteer who works for the church on top of his full - time corporate communications job.

I was asked the other day by a copier salesman (who was calling the church to sell me paper), «What was it like growing up as the son of Joel Hunter»?

Well if it's a wakeup call from a higher being a big part of his message seems to be he doesn't like churches.

so - called prophet: why don't the men of the Church lay down their chauvinism and become more humble like Christ, accepting all people into the Church.

this so called church is there with what looks like a lie dector.

It is an «open» practice I agree, but the people who call themselves Mormons and practice Polygamy are NOT part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints, they would be part of the FLDS church.I would know if I had 2 moms running around right now.Arrests have already been made in Polygamy groups like that.

I was reared in what might be called a semi-Catholic, French fashion — that is a good Catholic, but not intense, like a convert, or the way that many Catholics are today, because the Church is attacked.

I can hardly believe there are churches like that, that there are people like that who call themselves Christian & don't see their hypocrisy.

In the midst of its own struggle, Latin American Christianity provides a vital fourth option that I like to call the new church.

A few years back i was being led by god to help some homeless people.I'll tell you about the first homeless lady.my girls and i were driving by a liquor store and i seen a girl a lady sitting next to her cart.god showed me through his eyes the hurt she was living with.he spoke to my heart and said, don't pass her up.i turned around whent back and asked her if she was hungry.she was in shock and said yes.god told me to tell her that she is loved.she started crying and had me call her family so she can go home.anyways after that i joind a church and told them and asked to start a homeless ministry.i was told yes and all of a sudden i started getting pushed aside and they took over the homeless ministry.i feel lost and hurt.now i feel like god is telling me to leave the church.i quit going out with the group because of what happened.i don't know what to do.now i feel lost.

we cant take a risk you will not do something like that again» my whole church life was being called to the principle's office.

My question is this: what would it take for the American church at large (American church in this case meaning mainline denominations, other individual sects like the Mennonites with their huge variety of conservative to liberal congregations, nondenominational churches of all sizes mega and not, etc.) to make a concerted effort to call out abuse demonstrated by clergy in both church, public, and private settings?

The First Church of St John, or «the community of the beloved disciple,» as the late Raymond Brown called it, seems a lot like the church around the corner when you read between the Church of St John, or «the community of the beloved disciple,» as the late Raymond Brown called it, seems a lot like the church around the corner when you read between the church around the corner when you read between the lines.

Bloomquist and her superior, Pastor Charles Miller, executive director of the Division for Church in Society, immediately wrote a memo to the bishops, which, like Bishop Chilstrom's letter, called for calm and blamed the media.

«I do notice that sometimes, like on health care, when [Obama] says it's the right thing to do, it's him saying you love God by loving your neighbor,» says Watkins, who leads a mainline denomination called Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

I have heard the United Church called a mere club, like the Elks, because they are not strict enough.

Like the other parts of the so - called «establishment,» the Church is now suspect of being inflexible and unresponsive to the needs of a rapidly changing twentieth century.

After a number of pastoral contacts of this type, he received a phone call from Mrs. L. saying that she would like to talk with him about a problem connected with the women's group in the church.

A church service called the U2charist would seem like liberal Protestantism at its worst: take music from a band that was cutting - edge over two decades ago, sprinkle some religiosity on top and try to reach hip younger people.

At some point will you describe for us what a group of gathered Jesus followers looks like (if they have a person who they call «pastor», what that looks like), what they do when they meet, and how they live out their lives as the church the rest of the time.

Fishon, I'll call you what you are: you are a troll and a bully, and the RIGHT churches with absolute standards are full of bullies like you who are not content to follow your exacting standards in your churches; you are trying to make total strangers in the world at large subject through them in the secular courts and laws, flipping your middle fingers at the principle of constitutional separation of church and state.

The churches like to take what they call a «prophetic stance» toward economic and political issues.

Pippa Evans and Sanderson Jones — two British comedians — have opened the Sunday Assembly, which is calling itself the first atheist church in the U.K. «We thought it would be a shame not to enjoy the good stuff about religion, like the sense of community, just because of a theological disagreement,» says Mr. Jones, who once sold out a show the Sydney Opera House by selling all his tickets by hand, which is pretty impressive.

A call to the minister, Phil Larson, yielded the information that what looked like «Biller - ica» was pronounced «Bill - rica,» and the suggestion that I call church historian Charles Stearns.

usually run by some inept volunteer leader... I like to call them «lack of Care Group» — out in the «world» people receive a lot of training to care for others — but in Church it's something of a free for all.

He'll usually post something on our Facebook page like, «Loved church today, especially the fact that Markus did an almost altar call!»

Ignoring Hanby's «fundamental, ontological critique» threatens what our Holy Father has called the collapse of the «moral edifice of the Church... like a house of cards.»

I can not pass over in silence the fact that In working at this task — I should like to call it a christological concentration — I have been led to a critical (in a better sense of the word) discussion of church tradition, and as well of the Reformers, and especially of Calvin.

They know about the anti-Jewish polemics of certain church fathers; about the forced baptisms, especially of children; about the church council decree that sanctioned the removal of such children from their parents; about a papal edict encouraging raids on Jewish synagogues by the faithful; about the expulsion of all Jews from a country like Spain; about Luther's hate language directed against Jews when they did not convert according to his timetable; about the prohibition against Jews living in Calvin's Geneva; and about all the cruelties Christians have felt justified in perpetrating against the people they called «Christ - killers.»

All his past church going so - called christian friends treated him like an outcast.

The devil has blinded the leaders of the churches of today when they serve carved images of the flag of any nation... In Exodus and Deuteronomy God said, not to serve or bow down to any carved image in the likeness of heaven above or in the likeness of the earth below... When you pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are pledging your allegiance to the carved images of the flag... The founding fathers made carved images in the likeness of heaven above and in the likeness of the earth below and set the carved images on a flag and the flag is high and lifted up on a flag pole... Some nations are serving the stars, the moon, and the sun, and others are serving the eagle, the bear, and the tree... The U.S. is serving the stars of heaven and the eagle of the earth... Canada is serving the leaf of a tree... Mexico is serving the eagle and the serpent... When you put your right hand to your heart or to your forehead, and pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are committing fornication with the carved images of the flag, God calls this IDOLATRY... The mark of the beast in the right hand or forehead is spiritual and identical to when you put your right hand over your heart or over your forehead... There is no way to go around God and the carved images of the flag, unless the devil has blinded the minds of the believer, like when he deceived eve and Adam in the garden of Eden.

It is an altar call, but not like the altar calls I remember in southern churches, where salvation came through fear.

I never understand a person's need to insist that those who call out bullies to protect the victim like the church should be doing are bullies themselves.

Truth be told... others would call me critical, and negative and cynical, but my heart bursts for the church, I just wish leaders would realize how mistaken we have been to treat the church so much like an organization and a business rather than allowing it to grow and be nurtured as we would a child!

Growing up with an overwhelming sense that God was calling you to be a leader in the Church, but where there are no images of what that looks like, you begin to have the little question mark in the back of your head.

«God's dynamic laws of prosperity,» as Rev. Dick Marcear, pastor of Amarillo's prospering Central Church of Christ, likes to call them, have a distinctly contractual cast.»

And they may not even call it church - like Bible studies in homes.»

So - called «Neighbors» (who actually lived in a housing development built multiple blocks behind, and after, the original church) complaining about things like the sound of the bells and the smell of fish from the Lent Friday meals.

Greeley is appropriately critical of authoritarian patterns of leadership, casually dissenting on aspects of the Church's teaching (notably on sexuality), delightfully acerbic on the terrorism perpetrated by liturgists, and pastorally wise about things that can be done to make parish life more winsomely reflective of what he likes to call the Catholic imagination.

And like the fact that many in the church (especially in evangelical circles) have narrow - mindedly focused on one report in John of Jesus telling someone they need to be born again, overlooking Jesus» constant call throughout the synoptics to follow Him in the process?

I know that I have certain beliefs that some members of my Church would find heretical (like I believe in evolution, the universe being 10 billion years old, and that there has to be at least one other world where the accident we call live followed a similar path to that of Sol - Jupiter 3, or as we know it Earth).

Or, like the woman who stood before Solomon, called for the sword that divides Christ's church?

(UPDATED) Obama's spiritual adviser explains why his gifts are at «their highest potential» but his call to local churches like Northland is «fulfilled.»

I lost count of how many «revivals» I sat through, listening to all of the ways that the Canadian church was failing, the ways that Canada was going to hell in a hand - basket, the litany of how we did it wrong, and God had called them here to show us how to do this faith thing the right way and, then, «we would see a move of God like nothing ever seen before, bless God!»