Sentences with phrase «came to our church in»

Much as I would like to think otherwise, it would probably have been harder on people if she initially came to our church in a same - sex relationship.

«St. Sofia is the ultimate prize when it comes to churches in the whole former Soviet Union,» said Serhii Plokhy, director of Ukrainian church studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.

We have people who come to church in jeans, we have people who will shout out «Hallelujah» if the like what is being said, or repeat the chorus of hymns.

If the Holy Spirit is let loose, they might even be open to expanding their idea of why they come to church in the first place.

Prince Charming may have come to the church in the form of its new pastor, who is significantly more acceptable than his immediate predecessors.

Folks can come to our church in their military dress clothes if they like; that wouldn't bother me any more than a pizza delivery - man coming in his uniform.

The protestants are the ones who should come to the Church in this case... the Church embrace everyone who wants to...

The power which had come to the Church in this atmosphere of universal acceptance had led to massive economic involvement on the one hand and an «adaptation» of the ideals of the Gospel on the other, an adaptation which also included residual superstition and paganism from pre-Christian times.

He says that this is the closest that water has ever come to his church in the 32 years it has been located at 121 Huron St. in Syracuse.

Not exact matches

Hala Moddelmog, who was president of Church's Chicken in the 1990s and Arby's from 2010 to 2013 — two Atlanta - based fast - food empires — said Goldman's announced expansion in Atlanta didn't come as a shock.

Governor Nikki Haley called on Monday afternoon for the Confederate flag to be removed from the Capitol grounds in Columbia, saying «it's time to move the flag» in a news conference that came five days after nine people were shot to death at a historic black church in Charleston.

«If he's walking out in a wrinkled suit, hasn't eaten... and he didn't have a good night's sleep, then he's not going to be able to rally everyone in church the next day which means they don't come,» she told Massaschusetts» Bay State Banner.

We're not maniacs or anything when it comes to church, but we both grew up in church - goin families.

I don't spend time in my study figuring out how to save the world, how to grow the church, how to get more money out of people's pockets, how to promote this church's ministry, how to enthrall our people more with sexy worship music, how to make myself more awesome before my people, how to get more people to hear about and come to our church.

It was heartening to see the Evangelical Alliance come out in support of No More Page 3 earlier this year, asking all member churches to do the same.

To think of how the church treats homosexuals hurts me... in many instances they are barred from even coming in the door.

Since coming to these realizations I've learned to grow in the Lord, not necessarily in the church.

«Within a short time he destroyed everything I had come to believe in - other people, the church and God himself.

but when it come to Gay Marraige, you see all Churches coming together.Can you please tell me, THOU SHALL NOT KILL IS IN THE BIBLE OR NOT.

After all, this not - to - subtle comment about the health marketing came after he had just given a speech in a Chicago church in January 2015.

I visited churches filled with new believers, many who came out of animist or Buddhist upbringings, often alone in their families, to confess faith in the risen Christ.

YOU: As to who can or can not hold a leadership position or who can or can not teach in a church, I think it comes down to morals not legality.

Previously we had to rely on second hand accounts at best, the «I know a guy who prayed and it totally came true» or «I know this person who died and went to heaven and came back» or «this person in our church saw a Smurf doll get up and start trying to choke a baby...»

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...; ^)

I love it that in our church people feel free to be sad and cry and others come to them and offer comfort.

Why do young Muslim American children attend madrasi in Indonesia, then come back to the states and become radical socialist community agitators, then, before entering politics suddenly become Christian and attend a Church where the pastor «damns»» America?

This is all about control with religion and it has to stop.Gay people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight people getting married.People are so full of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.

I think that in the long term I would love to see a church where we can all, regardless of how we understand our identity, come to worship our Creator and learn to love each other.

We're talking about love relationships not the titillation of nerve endings As to who can or can not hold a leadership position or who can or can not teach in a church, I think it comes down to morals not legality.

Men who meant well did more harm to the reputation of the church in the eyes of history than any good that might have come of their actions.

According to the Oxford Times, she wrote in a newsletter: «I am not usually a grumpy person but I have been overwhelmed by the numbers of tourists coming through the church and the fact that so many of them seem unaware that this is a sacred space.

anyway, right after i moved in he came over to invite me to his church and i politely declined.

So anyone who is at all interested in the welfare of the church and wishes to have a voice in its health is welcome to come.

One of the first things that comes to my mind, I must admit, when I am faced with a difficult situation in the church, is, «What effect will this have on our income?»

In fact, everyone I know who has either come into the Church or returned to it in the last 20 years has done so because of all the things that Charles Reid would reject and call «right wing,» things that are in fact unclassifiable by such ossified and brittle ideological categorieIn fact, everyone I know who has either come into the Church or returned to it in the last 20 years has done so because of all the things that Charles Reid would reject and call «right wing,» things that are in fact unclassifiable by such ossified and brittle ideological categoriein the last 20 years has done so because of all the things that Charles Reid would reject and call «right wing,» things that are in fact unclassifiable by such ossified and brittle ideological categoriein fact unclassifiable by such ossified and brittle ideological categories.

I left the church around 18 and then in my 30s through much reading a circumstances came to a belief that was mine and not something I was taught and brought up in.

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?

On Luther's side, the final break with the Church authorities came in the wake of Leo X's bull of November 1518; in that document, as Luther saw it, Leo arrogated to himself the power of defining Church teaching without accountability to Scripture, the Fathers, or the ancient canons.

One of the chief themes of the narrative theology that came to prominence in the Anglo - American world in the late 1980s and early 1990s was the centrality of communal experience to the life of Christ's Church.

Absent a true understanding of what the liturgy is, grounded in a firm grasp of what the gospel is, those who «come to church» do not grow in living faith.

Ruth Percival, 30, gave birth in a downstairs bathroom of the vicarage in Freckleton, Lancashire and her father, James, 66, the then vicar of Holy Trinity CE Church, came in to help.

The Reformers vigorously protested what they viewed as deviations from biblical teaching, but they never used Scripture to undermine the Trinitarian and Christological consensus of the early Church embodied in the historic creeds that had come down from patristic times.

That «less stressful» part might come as a surprise to anyone out there who's ever tried to park in a church parking lot on Sunday morning, but it's true.

i beleive there is good out there, and as a Mom i want to make sure i live me life in a way that will make my daughter proud of me so i will introduce Church to her and i will teach her the commandments because whether or not Moses came down from the mountain with two tablets in his hands they are a good starting point to instill good morals.

When I came to the realization about theological concepts acting as a substitute for a relationship with God, I started to see and hear that kind of stuff all over the place in church.

you're right the church probably will be there long after any of us cease to exist but it stands to reason that it is going down... as more people come to the realization that the belief in a deity is not necessary to live, the less need there will be for a church to exist.

Mr. Kurtz, as is usual in these discussions, makes no complaint about black churches that are much more overtly political, nor about other religious organizations on the left that frequently come much closer to «electioneering.»

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.

In a May 30 letter to Catholics across the diocese, Bishop Lori said that the state's announcement came as a «shock» and that the church in Bridgeport had no choice but to act to protect its constitutional rightIn a May 30 letter to Catholics across the diocese, Bishop Lori said that the state's announcement came as a «shock» and that the church in Bridgeport had no choice but to act to protect its constitutional rightin Bridgeport had no choice but to act to protect its constitutional rights.

For Evangelicals, the Church as the one body of Christ extending through space and time includes all the redeemed of all the ages and all on earth in every era who have come to living faith in the body's living Head.