Sentences with phrase «church services»

People are afraid to let others know about their sins, temptations, struggles, and doubts, and so put on a smiley face for church services and Bible studies.

In any event, John's name was later entered on the recusant rolls of Stratford for failing to come to Anglican church services on Sunday, as the law required.

And if your children do the washing up every night, complain that church services aren't long enough, ask their teacher for extra homework, and you've already drafted your «12 Steps to Perfect Parenting» ready to share with less able parents... then you, too, probably aren't our kind of person.

CNN: Nigerian forces kill 13 Boko Haram militants after church attacks Islamist militants in Nigeria's restive north have taken the lives of 34 people since Christmas, including 27 Christians attending church services.

(CNN)- Islamist militants in Nigeria's restive north have taken the lives of 34 people since Christmas, including 27 Christians attending church services.

If the issue in question in a church were drinking alcohol vs. not drinking alcohol, well, most of us don't drink recreationally during church services, anyway.

My second point is that I have been in many church services where it seems that the worship leader or the pastor are just trying to hype people up (as your example in the blog).

This is an epidemic that school books or church services haven't taught you.

Except among small groups such as the Quakers and Shakers, the role of women in shaping Christian worship was negligible until the 19th century, when hymns written by women began to be used in church services.

The best of these are often lifted up during church services: Stories of redemption from alcoholism and drug addiction are frequent, as are those about mental illnesses and chronic sadness, and even some about premarital sexual partnerships and homosexuality.

I know that the Salvation Army don't use baptism and communion in there church services, but they do have other strange habits that I don't get.

Of particular concern to Paul was a group of young widows who had infiltrated the church and developed a reputation for dressing promiscuously, sleeping around, gossiping, spreading unorthodox ideas, interrupting church services with questions, mooching off the church's widow fund, and generally making common floozies of themselves (1 Timothy 5).

It's pretty clear that Paul is talking about something profound in 1 Corinthians 10 regarding both the context and the ramifications of our table fellowship, and it's pretty clear that the deep significance of this has become dulled by the way in which we commonly use, place and define communion in most church services.

Your journey to find value in church may not be Point A to Point B like previous generations growing up going to church services.

While they believe voting is important, evangelical pastors are extremely reluctant to make political endorsements during church services.

I've sat through church services or conferences or workplaces or public arenas where the only women who are visible are the ones who are extremely thin, who are white, who are blonde, who are American, who are fashionably dressed and professionally done - up, who are able - bodied, who are bright without being intimidating, who are pretty without being sexy, who are unthreatening to our status quo of appropriate, who are ticking every box for what our culture tells us is acceptable about womanhood.

I also apply that to church services.

People, he says, «often come away from church services without any clear memory of the sermon.»

How long does McDonald hold church services if black folks have very short memories.

Do you somewhat see where I am headed when I think that pastors should stop preaching in the church services?

Worshipers raising hands while praying and church services using repetitious «praise» music — once signs of Pentecostal - charismatic piety — are no longer predictable indicators of charismatic identity.

• Make integration of mentally retarded people into regular church services and programs the primary method of providing services for them.

Women are active participants in LDS church services and functions and help make decisions for their wards and stakes, and they also serve missions.

I want all of you to be filled with the Spirit, controlled by the Spirit, which is why I spend so much time in the Word of God in our church services.

As millions of people across the country and around the world leave the institutional church — you know, the one with the buildings, paid pastoral staff, and weekly schedule of church services and Bible studies — they often don't know what to do with themselves after leaving.

Our Sunday church services were like renewal meetings and were always packed.

A number of church services are taking place around the country where believers will be encouraged to pray on the first day of every month during 2015.

I have attended church services since I was in the womb and have been in leadership positions in various congregations since I was 11.

But many of them attend multiple church services, Bible studies and so on.

CT previously reported how dozens of Nepali Christians died when April's 7.8 magnitude earthquake occurred on a Saturday, the day weekly church services are observed.

An Ohio judge recently sentenced a 23 - year - old Catholic man to attend three months of worth Baptist church services.

I think church services and life in general should have more times of silence.

Her eldest child, 14 - year - old Phillip, had stayed home from church services that day.

Church services were held in executive branch buildings throughout his administration.

For example, in the black church services I have attended, the congregants will urge on the preacher during a sermon.

I recall that I often felt closer to God and sensed the beauty of nature when I took the dog for a walk than I did at long - drawn - out church services.

Church services are going ahead as normal in most parts of Burkina Faso as pro-democracy protesters continue to take to the streets.

During his Presidency, Jefferson attended the weekly church services held in the House of Representatives.

One account on the ministry's website says that a Dutch boy was cured of autism after his mother attended Gloria Copeland's healing school and watched Eagle Mountain church services online.

Her status as a cultural anomaly was strengthened by her schedule: She spent hours a day in prayer and attended church services whenever her health permitted her, including on weekdays.

For the first several years of her relationship with Jesus, worship music was so important to her — she loved to sing, to hear other people singing, to gather with other Christians at church services or worship concerts.

So the reason for cancelling church services is not to just give people a break from church.

The fact that the Christians, including those who spoke Persian, used Syriac in their church services tended to foster the suspicion.

I believe that if we genuinely participated in some of these things during the hours we were usually in church, more relationship building would take place in one month than often happens in an entire year of church services.

I agree with the concept of cancelling church services once a month or so.

I have previously suggested that one of the best things a pastor could do for their church is cancel all church services.

I find it amusing that the Soviet government this past Easter had to schedule rock concerts and American movies at the hour of Easter church services.

You never mentioned any «queer» radicals that have attempted to disrupt church services, or even attendance?

I found church services annoying.

It is the same way in most Church services.