I'd be like an atheist being in charge of
a church sermon.
Although this year S and I will be in Colorado, we typically go to the 7AM
church sermon and then stuff ourselves with a big...
NEW YORK CITY — Police unions remained strongly behind mayoral candidate Bill Thompson after his impassioned
church sermon Sunday denouncing the NYPD's stop - and - frisk policy with comparisons to the Trayvon Martin killing.
And there are those who will differ on whether
a church sermon is intended for those within or those without....
Basically you people just got a new - age
church sermon without realizing it.
Renowned gospel artist Kim Burrell has stood by
a church sermon for which she was banned from appearing... More
I find it interesting that they very people who send their kids into science classes with the mission to disrupt them through tangent questioning would likely call the police on anyone who dared to raise a question during
a Church sermon.
Now,
church sermons are important to u. Give me a break.
With long scenes of foreboding
church sermons: «Those that don't trust completely in God, don't just not get his protection.
The film's 130 - minute running time is also similarly cause for concern, especially since the film could easily be cut a good 20 minutes just by removing some of
the church sermons Lee seems intent on delivering every half hour or so.
However, when you claim to know things about the south, conservatives,
church sermons, and the tea party, all of which I know about from experience, there is a problem.
Not exact matches
After Nathan's
sermon, the band played one final song, and Kane encouraged us to check out Hillsong's after -
church info session to learn more about the
church.
In a
sermon 14 months ago, pastor Nicky Pop of the Philadelphia Romanian Pentecostal
Church, Portland's largest congregation for Christians of Romanian descent, allegedly decried the Transylvania.
After a while I could not listen to a
sermon in a PCA
church without wondering which parts did and didn't apply to me, since I'm female.
To get health care in his world you would need to join his
church and help him to promote his
church so he can keep preaching his
sermons.
In Chan's
sermon he agreed with this analogy and said: «This pastor was saying our
church is so much like that - it feels like a big zoo.
yes,
churches often feed the homeless - one of the things i like best about
churches - but often the price of that bowl of soup is a
sermon.
Do you expect us to all join YOUR
church, listen to YOUR
sermons, read YOUR version / interpretation of the «bible», and most importantly, give our money to YOUR little corner of the religious industry?
In July, the 32 - year - old confessed his porn addiction in a
sermon at Wyandotte Family
Church, just outside Detroit.
In less developed countries where the
churches send missionaries to trade food for land to build
churches and give
sermons, Christianity is on the incline.
North Point's funky architecture, the hologram that beams Stanley's image to satellite
churches, the stage lights and visual props Stanley uses during
sermons — all of it is geared toward pulling in that new audience.
Indeed, Luther can quite straightforwardly identify the doctrine of justification with the Christological dogma of the ancient
Church, as he does in his
Sermons on John 6:
And yet, familiar disappointment in the
Church rises to the surface as Helene says, «Enough that I don't listen to what the priests blabber in their
sermons.
Because Islam was not in the discussion in the
churches, during
sermons and Bible studies, that we Christians are brainwashed.
there's gonna be Atheist
church buildings with hymnals on humanism and self help
sermons.
The Rev. Raphael Warnock, senior pastor at the famed Ebenezer Baptist
Church in Atlanta, preached a
sermon about Martin's death on Sunday.
Back in the 80s I think it was, when there was a war going on between the fundamentalist wing of the
church and those who were merely conservative (and the few who were moderate), one of the fundamentalist leaders gave a speech or
sermon in which he said, «If the Southern Baptist Convention votes that pickles are divine, then the professors at our seminaries had better start teaching that indeed pickles are divine.»
A few weeks after delivering his confessional
sermon, Gyorke organized a Sunday event at his
church intended to help keep congregants away from pornography.
In a small, steepled
church, people sing a few old hymns backed by an organ, listen to a
sermon, share in Communion and have bad coffee as they laugh and catch up in the
church basement afterward.
The phones are ringing off the hook at the parish of St. Michael's
Church, where the Rev. James Scahill called in a sermon last weekend for the pope to resign over the church's sexual abuse sc
Church, where the Rev. James Scahill called in a
sermon last weekend for the pope to resign over the
church's sexual abuse sc
church's sexual abuse scandal.
I grew up in a
church in West Texas where our minister preached similar sermons, only he also included people who were members of Church of Christ, Mormons, Jehovah Witness's, Catholics, basically anyone who didn't believe like him was
church in West Texas where our minister preached similar
sermons, only he also included people who were members of
Church of Christ, Mormons, Jehovah Witness's, Catholics, basically anyone who didn't believe like him was
Church of Christ, Mormons, Jehovah Witness's, Catholics, basically anyone who didn't believe like him was wrong.
Just as there were letters and
sermons that were not known until a few years ago, archaeological excavations have uncovered towns and
churches that were wholly unknown to us until recently.
Obama had been a member of Chicago's Trinity United
Church of Christ in Chicago until spring 2008, when he left after videos surfaced showing his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, delivering controversial
sermons about the United States.
And also — not trying to pick a fight — but I just can't help but wonder at the irony of a criticism on those
churches» provocative
sermons (on sex with hot wives, drinking beer, etc.) coming from a «naked pastor» and «graffiti artist on the walls of religion.»
Usually, with bully pastors, those doing actual
church work (paid or volunteer) are bullied, while many of them tend to come across dynamic and interesting to the pew - sitter during
sermons.
Our
churches have been culturally indoctrinated into believing it's «all about the
sermon.»
I have had people leave the
church after disagreeing with a
sermon I preached.
What Thom Rainer doesn't seem to understand or recognize is that just because someone stops sitting in a pew on Sunday morning and listening to a
sermon, this does not mean that they have left
church.
And especially after the Noachian Flood, did false religion take a leap, with false religious doctrines and practices such as the trinity, immortality of the soul, that God torments people in a «hellfire», the establishment of a clergy class, the teaching of «personal salvation» as more important than the sanctification of God's name of Jehovah (Matt 6:9), the sitting in a
church while a religious leader preaches a
sermon, but the «flock» is not required to do anything more, except put money when the basket is passed.
Now you are blasting him for sitting in Wright's Christian
church which you seem to know a 20 year history of based on a widely circulated video of one
sermon.
We meet in ways that are not the same as a
church service with songs and
sermons.
In that
church the offering was received near the end of the service, well after the conclusion of the
sermon.
Very sad some
churches have never heard that
sermon.
This perspective has ramifications for the counseling ministry of the
church, for
sermons and Christian education and for the life of Christians in communities of faith.
So in future follow - up posts, I will suggest some different ways of measuring success, different goals
churches can have, and maybe different ways of achieving those goals than the standard «come to
church for songs and a
sermon» strategy that has been followed for so many centuries.
One year when we read about Jesus resurrecting the little girl who died, the rector of my
church in my hometown gave a stirring and memorable
sermon.
Thankfully, Jesus is using people like me (and millions of others in the same boat) to show these people who have stopped attending
church that there is wonderful way of following Jesus as part of His Body, the
church, which does not involve sitting in a pew on Sunday morning and listening to a
sermon.
Look, being a
church member has nothing to do with sitting in a pew on Sunday morning, listening to a
sermon and praying for your pastor, giving your money to support a local
church budget, and making commitments to serve on a
church ministry program.
Every Sunday
sermon and I mean every sunday
sermon concentrated on HOW WE SHOULD BE GIVING MORE MONEY to the
Church.
During our visit to The District
Church, lead pastor Aaron Graham delivered a
sermon entitled, Why
Church?