Sentences with phrase «churchgoers at»

Instead of the weary harangues against commercialism at Christmas and the attacks against the once - a-year churchgoers at Easter, would it not be just as courageous to announce the Good News?

Previous Pew Research Center studies found that Hispanic Christians attend church more regularly than their white counterparts, and black Protestants are retaining young churchgoers at higher rates than any other group.

This has caused him to be reviled and chastised by members of his family which are devout Southern churchgoers at a time when he needs the most moral support, as he is trying to turn his luck around through smart, hard work and to do right by his wife and children.

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Looking back at those many years as a still self - centered churchgoer, I thought I had to immediately make up time by feeding and clothing the poor, visiting the sick, welcoming strangers (Mt 25:35 - 36) and sharing the gospel with everyone (Mt 28:19 - 20).

A third of #Catholic churchgoers say their priest has spoken out on #religiousliberty issues at Mass #ACA pewrsr.ch / Mz3Ckr

Skeptics might write off Obama's Bible talk as sanctimonious window dressing, aimed at no higher purpose than connecting with churchgoers in the purple and red states.

According to ICC, last month a radicalised university student attacked a priest and churchgoers with a samurai sword at St. Lidwina Church in Yogyakarta, Java, injuring four people.

Now Britain wobbles upward with the other advanced industrial countries in a band plus or minus a few percentage points from the average, excepting the big, rich nation of churchgoers, which persists at 30 percent above the rest.

I worship at home because of the behavior of churchgoers.

One would hardly know from these collected documents that Americans were churchgoers; I caught them at church in only one casual allusion.

So take off the mask of churchgoer and take a serious look at who church says that god is.

As part of the survey, researchers looked at how people with evangelical beliefs and churchgoers see the issues at play in the 2016 election.

I know many churchgoers who never, EVER volunteer or practice the well - preached «take care of thy neighbor» community - minded sermons given at their local churches (oh, the rich ones can write a check in about 15 seconds, but do they donate?

Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.

Also, as a lifelong churchgoer who has seen her fair share of pastor - centric churches, I like that the lectionary lets Scripture set the agenda for the sermon... which, when you think about it, is a pretty evangelical way to look at it.

Taddeo joined black pastors and churchgoers Sunday for a «Souls to the Polls» barbecue as a DJ blared tunes at near - deafening levels in the background.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo this weekend revived the idea of college courses for prison convicts at the Mount Neboh Baptist Church in Harlem, telling churchgoers that he would continue to push for the plan as a preventative measure to ending the disproportionately high levels of incarceration among black men.

De Blasio, who is running for reelection this fall against Republican Nicole Malliotakis and a string of third - party candidates, told churchgoers: «It takes a lot of gall to tweet negative things about people recovering from a hurricane while you're at your golf course playing golf.»

Whenever he was at church or with other churchgoers, he was happy and friendly, always offering to help them fix their cars or their broken appliances.