Sentences with phrase «church after a lifetime»

My husband and I are starting to think seriously about leaving our church after a lifetime.

I left the church after a lifetime of church.

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After a lifetime of faithful church attendance, my husband and I followed the leading of the Holy Spirit right out the door of our Christianist Cchurch attendance, my husband and I followed the leading of the Holy Spirit right out the door of our Christianist ChurchChurch.

The prophet's charismatic authority kept the church together during his lifetime, but in the years after Smith's death, Saints scattered in all directions.

We should not forget the history of those who tried to revive the life of the imagination in America after life began to drain out of the Protestant Churches; how America virtually ignored a Thoreau, a Melville, and a Whitman during their lifetimes; how Poe was driven insane, Henry James into exile, and Hart Crane into suicide.

Then after nearly a lifetime of studying the history of doctrine, Pelikan, a lifelong Lutheran, was received into the Orthodox Church, just a few years before he died last May at age 82.

Given the inner circle protection thats been afforded the churches clergy just in my lifetime alone, and the unwanted exposure that has cast them into the public light, I would not want to live my life modeled after them.

Dr. Robert W. Funk, New Testament scholar and organizer of the Jesus Seminar, points out that all four New Testament gospels were written forty years or more after Jesus» crucifixion, and though church tradition says that the disciples Matthew and John both wrote gospels, Bible scholars for more than a century have believed that none of the gospel writers actually knew Jesus during his lifetime.