Sentences with phrase «come to church with»

Living in Seattle, they were then just over 1.5 hours away so every weekend for years and years they boarded a ferry to cross the water to our house to spend time with their brother and come to church with us.

To come to the church with an idiosyncratic checklist of demands is to take the church as church less than fully seriously.

As I have said before, Christian love does not consist in asking someone to come to church with you.

Most Christians come to church with the same consumer mentality that motivates them in the rest of life.

I'd love for you to come to church with me one Sunday.

Let's assume that I was to come to your church with no knowledge of Pentecostal church tradition.

She refused to come to church with us when they stayed at Christmas, when they also insisted on sharing a room.

About three months after the board meeting, the outreach committee came to the church with a proposal.

Some found Christ out of this help and came to church with me....

I remember once a young woman came to church with another man and her husband was sitting on the other side of the church.

I don't care if he has daily devotions with you and your children every day for an hour, and prays with you daily, and comes to church with you weekly.

Or maybe he's just trying to identify with his sinning congregation who often comes to church with a hangover.

- My hubby started coming to church with the kids and I every Sunday - My schedule conflict cleared up and now I can make it to the women's bible study that my church holds twice a month - My best friend's daughter had surgery and made it through without any complications.

Not exact matches

I don't spend time in my study figuring out how to save the world, how to grow the church, how to get more money out of people's pockets, how to promote this church's ministry, how to enthrall our people more with sexy worship music, how to make myself more awesome before my people, how to get more people to hear about and come to our church.

While any fair - minded high - church reader of Ross's work should be able to finish this book with a greater understanding of evangelical liturgical practices, I am not sure that he will come away from this book feeling more sympathetic to low - church evangelicalism.

I visited churches filled with new believers, many who came out of animist or Buddhist upbringings, often alone in their families, to confess faith in the risen Christ.

When our fore fathers came up with the idea of seperation of church and state it wasn't to keep religion out of the government it was to keep the Church from running the goverchurch and state it wasn't to keep religion out of the government it was to keep the Church from running the goverChurch from running the government.

I came from Holy Trinity Brompton and I wasn't wholly familiar with the structures of the Church of England I think it would be safe to say.

And that camel - owner can bring all his camel - owning friends and they will give their tenth - plus offerings to The Church of the Great Needle and soon enough there will be a new building program to construct a fanstasmagoric «Golden Needle with Multiple Eyes» so that more camels can enter and then more camel - owners will come and soon there will be a vision for a bigger and better «Platinum Needle with Multiple, Rotating, Identity - Protected Eyes» and soon there will be a name change to «The Church of the Sharpest Needles in the Greatest Sewing Machine the World Has Ever Seen» and everyone shall stand amazed etc., etc., etc...; ^)

They indicated that they were asking themselves, and would be considering further, «Has the time come for the Orthodox churches and other members to review their relations with the World Council of Churcheschurches and other members to review their relations with the World Council of ChurchesChurches?»

This is all about control with religion and it has to stop.Gay people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight people getting married.People are so full of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.

My one fear about coming out as a pastor with gay leaders is that folks will assume I have an agenda to make all churches like mine.

One of the first things that comes to my mind, I must admit, when I am faced with a difficult situation in the church, is, «What effect will this have on our income?»

While NAPAC admitted it was a «really long time coming» for the Church to deal with the child abuse happening under its watch, it was «really good to see these latest changes happening».

On Luther's side, the final break with the Church authorities came in the wake of Leo X's bull of November 1518; in that document, as Luther saw it, Leo arrogated to himself the power of defining Church teaching without accountability to Scripture, the Fathers, or the ancient canons.

i beleive there is good out there, and as a Mom i want to make sure i live me life in a way that will make my daughter proud of me so i will introduce Church to her and i will teach her the commandments because whether or not Moses came down from the mountain with two tablets in his hands they are a good starting point to instill good morals.

When I came to the realization about theological concepts acting as a substitute for a relationship with God, I started to see and hear that kind of stuff all over the place in church.

I don't think God would think less of them... I don't have to go to church every Sunday to have a relationship with God... I can sit in my backyard and listen to the birds and the wind and have peace and serenity and a conversation with him... The whole point is, we are not the ones that are supposed to judge anyone... that's his place... not ours... when judgment day comes, he will be the one to say welcome, or turn us away...

Ok, Doc, I'll grant you that there are changes within Church, but as you said, they are slow to come and with good reason, I should add.

Realizing early on that the Catholic Church would be ill - served in the coming battles with secularism without an ability to draw on her own best treasures, Migne devised the scheme of publishing, in uniform format, the entire extant corpus of early Christian literature, much of which was still in manuscript.

A 1922 letter to the Politburo sets forth Lenin's view of the campaign against the church: «For us this moment is not only exceptionally favorable but generally the only moment when we can, with ninety - nine out of a hundred chances of total success, smash the enemy and secure for ourselves an indispensable position for many decades to comes.

Are you serious this is the last thing we should be concerned about when it comes to Catholic church what about priest (I use that word loosely they are sleeping with the choir boys and when they get caught they move them to another church so they can start again to me that is what they need to change in the church in the name of JESUS I pray for that right now!!!

This led Luther eventually to conclude that the Roman Church was irrevocably committed to the claim that the authority of the pope stood even above Holy Scripture and it was in this context that he came, over the next several years, to believe that the papacy was the prophesied Antichrist of the last days, a conviction he then held to his dying day with a literalistic fervor that his modern interpreters have rarely been willing to take as seriously as he did.

We're seeing churches coming forward offering foster placements, offering homes... people want to work with local government to enable refugees to come and find a home here.

im so sori this had to happend to eddy yet he is only human and only a man and it has nothing to do do with god and gods word im sori he has to be the example to the world that this is not the way but this is the life he has chosen if it is true he should have known wat happends in the dark will come in the light his bad yet god is a forgiven god just cuz you sit in church do nt make you saved just like sitting in the garage do nt make you a car.... - smile

A brilliant way to develop such a relationship is reading your bible and going to church, but REMEMBER with a real relationship comes REAL CHANGE.

I am pretty sure that I could come up with lots, having studied both the so - called Dark Ages and the rise of Christianity and having been brutalized by being forced to attend a Baptist Church I could do a thesis on the subject.

The two moments: first, Binx's seeing the black man leaving the church after Ash Wednesday ritual, with an acceptance of the necessity, as Binx would have it, of «inserting himself into the world»; second, Binx's own ceremony of moviegoing whereby he seems to come to terms with place but in actuality does not.

After the Rapture, the church will celebrate the marriage supper (Revelation 19:7 - 10), be rewarded (1 Corinthians 3:10 - 15, 4:5, 2 Corinthians 5:9 - 10), and later return to earth with Christ when He comes again to set up His kingdom (Revelation 19:11 - 20:6).

Having come to the conclusion several years ago (after a lot of abuse from the first church I was part of) that doubt is far from being a threat to our faith — if we enter it with questions for God — I realised it is actually the yeast in our faith, and in the discourse with God we grow (much like your cartoon).

â $ œHow many churches have you attended in the last year to come up with that accusation?

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.»

The churches bring us in to talk about it, but come Monday it is their responsibility to deal with it and get people in their churches plugged in and connected.

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.

The church still can not come to terms with the fact that s3x is a basic human need, like food, water, and air.

Sticking with the standard one - codex version of the Bible can be a way of taking a stand with tradition, with the way the Church has come to read Scripture.

The Catholic Church had retrieved lost elements of its own tradition, and learned some new things along the way, in coming to terms with religious freedom and political modernity.

I had been verbally and mentally abused by church leaders before (and came close to suicide several times), so my experiences with this pastor were the last straw.

And a pastor of a Baptist church in Colorado actually kicked me out of his car (and I'm a disabled woman veteran in a powerchair) after inviting me to Easter dinner with his family, because I refused to deny that Jesus came to me in that dream.

A theological reformulation was clearly involved; mission came to be understood in terms of the church's total involvement with the world.