Sentences with phrase «during church hours»

14 % said that their viewing of religious programs was «a substitute for going to church», and about 20 % said that they watched religious programs on Sundays during church hours.

On the other hand, 14 per cent claimed that their viewing of religious programs was a «substitute for going to church,» and about 20 per cent said that they watched religious programs on Sundays during church hours.

Not exact matches

Furthermore, they are not holding church services during school hours, so the religious teaching and school teaching are not mixing in any way.

This rules out the prayers of the churches of Christendom who have prayed in behalf of their particular nation during wartime, such as when German Catholic bishops issued a pastoral letter in September 1939 at the outbreak of WWII that said: «In this decisive hour we admonish our Catholic soldiers to do their duty in obedience to the Fuehrer (Hitler) and to be ready to sacrifice their whole individuality.

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.

Speaking during News Hour she said: «We know that Churches are reaching out into their communities and inviting their communities in.

Despite my earnest efforts to make sessions on the sacraments, church history, the Bible, ethics and beliefs interesting, the last thing on earth these youth wanted was to be put through two more hours of school every Thursday during Lent.

In a church where I was minister of counseling, we gathered a group of six couples for a series of four two - hour enrichment sessions by simply mailing invitations to all the couples who had been married during the previous two years.

If you, as the pastor, used to do 90 % of the «ministry» functions of the church (however that is defined) during your 60 - 70 hours of work, but you can now only devote 10 - 15 hours per week to «pastoral work» (but see the point above), this means that someone else in the church is going to have to step up to the plate and fill in the gaps.

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.

To put it in a nutshell, I learned a lot during the following five years [attention: church attendance often five times a week for many, many hours].

Jos, Nigeria (CNN)- Three people died in clashes Sunday with police in Jos, Nigeria, hours after a car bomb killed five people during services at a church nearby.

Speaking during News Hour he said: «I've been pastoring this church for six years and began to recognise pretty early on that you just keep needing to explain to people what a tabernacle is and spelling it.

Pleas know — I am not trying to put anything in your wound... I am one that made it through my pit (Psalm 40) I stopped blaming circumstances and spent many hours mad, crying, angry all the stuff at God... I don't know why or how but I ended up in helping situations during the hardest time... it was crazy... I spoke at churches that were driven — failing and those not driven thriving (but those thriving had vision and direction) but not driven to the point of believing they were the best or anything like that.

On Sunday, I'll be participating in an informal Q&A during the church's Sunday school hour.

In Evangelical churches, people can stay during hours to discuss and are (generally) very kind to each others but their theology is way too conservative for me.

Youth - adult conversations: During the «nurture hour» on Sunday morning, a California church held a series of discussions involving some twenty youth and adults, co-led by a youth and an adult.

Of Bugenhagen, the first evangelical minister of the parish church of Wittenberg and the first Superintendent of the church of electoral Saxony, it is reported that, during a visit to Denmark where he helped to introduce the Reformation, he once preached for seven hours!

Then it sits for an hour at a slight angle in the back of our van during church.

We provide a nursery for children ages birth to four years old during the Sunday school and church hours every Sunday.

My baby doesn't like to be held while sleeping so the wrap is often the only way we can get her to sleep during the 3 hour church, and she has slept through 4 whole flights in the wrap!

The presence of armed operatives of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) during Sunday church service hours at the Dome Perez Chapel International in Dzorwulu in Accra in recent times is causing anxiety among church members, people familiar with the matter told Today.

Find a community (whether it be a church, synagogue, mosque or non-denominational support group) that celebrates the joy of life and uplifts during your darkest hour.

Then it sits for an hour at a slight angle in the back of our van during church.

We get to see well before the movie is over, with some half hour left to go, who the masked killer really is which makes the blood - splattering ending, during Communion at St. Michael's Church, a bit anti-climatic.

It was not unusual for the aging couple to visit the church during off - hours - sometimes he thought they preferred solitude to the company of fellow parishioners they believed corrupt with sin.

Pet food may be picked up at these churches food pantries once a month during their normal hours of operation.

De Groote Kerk, South Africa's oldest church on Adderley Street, doesn't advertise it but if you pop into the church during opening hours there is usually a guide present to take you through the building's finer architectural highlights.

It's well worth taking an hour or so to wander about the church, the museum, and the cemetery to get a sense of what life was like on the central coast of California during the 18th century.

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During the residency each artist has 24 - hour access to a studio within the Trust's Grade - 1 listed neo-gothic church in Highbury.

Twelve dancers will explore the spaces in and around the steps of the magnificent St. Marylebone Parish Church portico during the evening rush hour with the accompanying sound of a solo viola.