Sentences with phrase «church life we talk»

In church life we talk often of the effects of technological culture.

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Why are you listening to black clerics over this issue, Blacks are having more kids out of wed lock than whites, they are also like white, living in sin, but the church's say nothing about having babies without a husband or sitting in church and living in sin, talk about glass houses, and besides the marriages are Cival marriage not religious marriage, what a bunch of hipocrites..

In the UK, where calls for equality are admittedly met with less resistance, in general, than in the gender minefield that is US evangelical culture, Christian advocates for equality have also been active, with the launch of gender - based violence charity Restored in 2010 and the publication of Jenny Baker's Equals (SPCK) this year, which talks about the practical outworking of equality in family life, work, and church.

Now why don't you go talk to the thousands of ex-Mormons who have been shunned by their family and friends for the rest of their lives just because they disagreed with certain church teachings.

If only the male dominated Catholic Church would turly care about life and not just talk the talk.

As the head of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, he now talks as if the churches do not have any conceivable role in American public life.

One rumor can destroy one man life but we are talking about the whole church.

I am always amazed at the number of church going «Christians» that do not walk the talk and yet many who never set foot in a church actually do live moral lives of charity and kindness.

If we in the Church don't commit to being transformed into the likeness of Christ, why should anybody listen to us when we talk about the amazing power of the Holy Spirit in our lives or in our church gatheChurch don't commit to being transformed into the likeness of Christ, why should anybody listen to us when we talk about the amazing power of the Holy Spirit in our lives or in our church gathechurch gatherings?

I talked with a lady just a few weeks ago who lives in Trego and I invited her to come to church, and she said she really wants to, but Sunday is the only day she has to get the things done around the house that she needs to, and so she can't make it to church.

Of course there are other reasons for my sporadic blogging this year: a surprise new baby coming which completely disoriented us, a new book to finish writing (and I will share all about that in January), travelling and speaking all over North America, stewarding the message of Jesus Feminist throughout her first year of life, creating the Jesus Feminist collection with Imagine Goods, a trip to Haiti, new opportunities as a writer, three tinies at home with their own lives and drama and growth and change, remodelling parts of our home, marriage, church, friends, life, work, laundry (oh, can we talk laundry?!)

Serendipitously, two weekends ago when he did that, it was a chapter about how discussions of theology need ordinary people to be involved, how well - educated and well - read and well - travelled scholars also need us low church experiential local folks talking about how we see and experience and know God, about how theologians are hiding in every walk of life.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

Like the part about women - blaming and shaming combined with the pastor digging up offenses from the past, referencing an emotional distance he feels from us as we leave, citing his own pastoral involvement and authority in the decisions of our lives up to this point, threatening to talk to the pastor of the church we're visiting to share his «concerns,» and suggesting that I'm just a weak mess of emotions and that's why I can't handle the life - sucking horror that has become sundays at this church.

Church is and always has to been seen as a family, as in mine I have several family members that I don't see and have not seen in sometime (business of life and location) and I get to talk to them once in a dogs age, but that does not mean I don't miss them or still appreciate them?

Specifically, he talks about how Christians can view war, love our enemies, live as the church, and pray for the world.

I don't believe in ghettoizing God in my children's lives: like we only talk about God at an official family devotion or we only pray at bedtimes or only read the Bible at church.

As it is, he really only spends one paragraph talking about this, but Jesus emphasized such outward - focused love during His ministry, and the church at large could benefit from more of a reminder that the Kingdom of God is not just about loving one another, but is also about loving and serving those who live in darkness and fear.

``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting, scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on car window and trying to damage car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy out of wedlock, talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»

«I was praying for you... I heard a great sermon... I'm reading a great book on the spiritual life... I came across this beautiful verse in Luke the other day... I was talking with a friend from church....»

I heard more of their intersecting stories, and when Idelette was done talking about her book, about her passions, I wanted to see her on every stage of every slick Christian conference, to bring some mama - truth, to preach the Gospel of Being With Each Other, but then I kind of had to shrug because part of Idelette's power is that she's outside of that system, outside of that church - marketing world, too busy living the truth of it to package it.

We get to talking about all the ways in which we've been disappointed and ostracized, and the next thing you know, we've slipped right into a contagiously cynical church - bashing session, the kind that can leave those who have had beautiful, affirming, and life - giving experiences in church feeling like the odd ones out.

During the week, we will talk to local leaders, workers living here permanently helping local churches, and also some of those who came with me.

Thom Rainer, LifeWay President, will be joining me along with a panel of small church pastors as we talk through how small churches are making a biblical impact in the lives of their members and in their communities.

So you're talking about like the church in the Middle Ages when they were connected to actual governance of people's lives, and it mattered greatly what they said about things?

When Bell bounded on to the stage in trademark skinny jeans and black - rimmed glasses, and delivered a compelling, deep and dramatic 40 - minute talk without any notes, you realised just how central his energy was to the life of the church.

While the event featured high - profile speakers like David Platt and Francis Chan, the most talked about session following the 2015 conference was Michelle Higgins» talk about the evangelical church and the Black Lives Matter movement.

This alone merits attention — as there is much talk about the relative dearth of Catholic authors today — but Trower's life and work offer something more, as they speak to questions that are currently circulating within the Church.

«However, what is never talked about is that Romney has his own goals for the Mormon Church [and] The Mormon Plan for America, and while he is cunning, he lacks the judgment to discern that he will not become a «god» in his next life and receive his own planet.»

Heading to church on Sunday gives you your next fix with the Priest telling you how important you are to God and that you will get to live for eternity in heaven, which is whatever you want it to be... talk about an ego stroke.

I've lived next door to different churches over the years and NONE of them ever talked with their neighbors that I ever saw or heard about.

We talked about life and ministry and his church.

We talked with Bell about the importance of congregational singing and the place of song and music in the life of the church.

This is a great chapter for all the pastors and church leaders and Christians out there who like to talk and write and teach a lot about grace, but don't really show grace in their lives, ministries, and churches.

Whether we are speaking of pastoral psychology as a more or less loosely organized body of principles which informed the daily work of increasingly larger numbers of ministers educated in the better seminaries, or whether we are talking about pastoral psychology in its more professional manifestations in the form of institutional chaplaincies or church - related counseling centers, the sociological origins of the movement tended to render it ineffective in relating to the specific problems and life - styles of the poor.

I frequently get really sweet emails from really sweet people who say they've been in a perfect church their whole lives and have never seen anything I talk about, nor have they experienced it.

Neville i mentioned those people only because the discussion was talking about dominionism the combination of the church and state as a governing rule all those people were government leaders all of them suffered in there own way.Its was the suffering that prepared them for the roles that they were to play and there faith in God was what helped them get through.We are made stronger in our weakness no matter how important or unimportant we may appear to others.I guess it is easy to fall into the lie about political involvement that its hard to make change but some people have had a huge impact.Really it is God who deserves the praise he is the one that creats the opportunitys to make impact on the world as in our strength we can do nothing.In hebrews the great men and woman of faith there are those that seemed unimportant to the world and many suffered for there faith Our Lord knows everyone by name and every small act of faith we do he remembers because we do it out of our love for him that is what the christian walk is about living for Jesus and sharing that love with others.brentnz.

Instead, McConnell suggested those who want to share their faith talk about how their relationship with Jesus affects them in day - to - day life and discuss the benefits of being part of a church.

It's that living under law thing that kills us (the Spirit gives life but the letter kills), trying to live up to standards and rules, principles and guidelines, etc... The church these days has pretty much no idea what grace even is, and if you start talking about God's love, I mean his real love based only on Christ's merit, people call you a heretic.

I had a different mindset when we first began — believing that living together with other Christians in the same life stage would lead to all - night talks about how church should really be and how we would inspire one another.

These can be talked about best when, as in the case of the «Faith Church» community, the process of preaching is a corporate act and its prophetic dimension is in the life of the church (WarChurch» community, the process of preaching is a corporate act and its prophetic dimension is in the life of the church (Warchurch (Wardlaw).

Grant, the posts Jeremy and I wrote that talk about loving our neighbors, being the church in the community, and loving and helping the poor, homeless and needy are very much about how to live in community with our brothers and sisters in the Lord, as well as almost everyone in our community.

The notion that it is God who calls seems a commonplace piety when we are talking about «church vocations,» calls to «ministry» or «the religious life,» but it sounds more like an afterthought or theological overlay in regard to ordinary life.

I couldn't talk to any higher ups in the church about it, and when I eventually did they either told me to keep praying about it, or that they had never heard of anyone able to change their sexual orientation — so I should just live with it.

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As my wife and I were talking about this, she made the observation that this fantasy - life fiction is magnified in most churches.

Hauerwas reminds us of writings in which he has talked about cooperation with others in the search for justice, and he now flatly asserts, «Something has gone wrong when the church is not learning from the world how to live faithfully to God.»

High school seniors in one church met for breakfast each week throughout the spring to talk with their minister about their place in life and their feelings about the future.

Many of them admit that they do not know how to talk to men except about church and religion, and even then only on the level of program and operation and not on the level of the meaning of the gospel for their lives.

This alone merits attention — as there is much talk about the relative dearth of Catholic authors today — but Trower's life and work offer something more, as they speak to questions that are being asked within the Church today.