Sentences with phrase «even be in the church»

In fact, «missing church» and «attending church» should not even be in the church's vocabulary.

Not exact matches

But even in Clearwater, where the church is exempt from many taxes, it is the city's largest taxpayer.

«When we started the layoffs in the late»70s, even the Catholic Church was putting out pastoral letters against layoffs and stopped doing so.

Even if they don't wed in Westminster Abbey (Harry and Markle will be in St. George's Chapel), tradition dictates royal brides send their flowers to the church later.

If you're interviewing for a position at the Vanderbloemen Search Group — a Houston - based firm that staffs churches and other faith - based organizations — don't be surprised to receive a text message asking a quirky question of sorts around 10:00 in the evening.

Instead, it is in the control of a higher power that cruelly takes the lives of tens of thousands of Americans every year — and this ideology becomes even more absurd when you consider that we are supposed to have a separation of church and state.

Even if you believe God is vanishingly unlikely to exist, the consequence of being wrong (Hell) is so great, and the benefits of being right (not having to go to church on Sundays) so comparatively miniscule, that you should probably just believe in God to be on the safe side.

Chaos was the norm in any situation, even in church, where we were asked to leave after my kid sister dragged a kid up to the altar, then punched the kid in the nose, drawing blood.

This time, the rampage happened at a high school in Broward County, Florida, but no place is safe — not baseball fields or movie theaters or concerts or even churches.

To think of how the church treats homosexuals hurts me... in many instances they are barred from even coming in the door.

Trey — I would have a very hard time attending a church where Cindy and I weren't recognized as a couple, treated as a couple, and not only free, but comfortable and even encouraged, to be ourselves, just like any other couple in the church.

Even those who are interested in the ordinary form are getting fed up with the kinds of things that are going on in the Church.

Did Jesus even say these words, or were they put in his mouth by later writers to comfort and manage the people of the church?

Even a cursory reading of Wesley is an antidote to any thought of schism in the church.

She's not active in the church, as I said, even now, but we're still friends, and she told me recently just how significant it was for her that I did make that choice.

While such a perception may not be entirely erroneous, and while such a process may be frustrating to those inside as to those outside the Orthodox Church, it is in some ways a profoundly — even if often painful — democratic method than frequently perceived.

The divine head of the Christian Church is the invisible Jesus Christ and every local bishop or pastor should be directly responsible to Him (in the true Church even every ordinary member of the Church or Christian has a high responsibility, not only the pastor).

I am pretty comfortable with people disagreeing with me (even with something so personal, but likely because that is because I don't encounter it often), but to know that my church represents an organization in which I am persecuted is very difficult.

I will no longer temper my understanding of truth in order to pretend that I have even a tiny smidgen of respect for the appalling negativity that continues to emanate from religious circles where the church has for centuries conveniently perfumed its ongoing prejudices against blacks, Jews, women and homosexual persons with what it assumes is «high - sounding, pious rhetoric.»

«Elected officials who are Latter - day Saints make their own decisions and may not necessarily be in agreement with one another or even with a publicly stated church position,» the policy explains.

«They're very often wonderful places where people's dignity is protected and if you will invest those and churches get involved in those we'll see even higher levels of end of life palliative care there.

In Church: The Human Story of God, Schillebeeckx says, «Therefore the historical future is not known even to God; otherwise we and our history would be merely a puppet show in which God holds the stringIn Church: The Human Story of God, Schillebeeckx says, «Therefore the historical future is not known even to God; otherwise we and our history would be merely a puppet show in which God holds the stringin which God holds the strings.

Aerobic exercise, even to staunch gospel music, was dangerously close to dancing — something we could only do in the mildest of ways during a church service to praise the Lord — so the Aerobercise was also out.

Actually, a lot of the problems even with the Church of Rome is the zionist infestation in the vatican.

But, in the 70s there was even less acceptance of homosexuality in the church and I wonder if Lonnie ever seriously considered that a loving committed homosexual relationship was an option.

I don't think that she finds the fact that people in their 20's and 30's are going to churches led by male pastors disturbing: It's that they're attending churches where a female pastor would not even be an * option *.

I'm speaking about my own faith only: To become a Christian, it must be your own choice.No else can decide this life style for you.I know many in the past and present have thought raising a child under the Christian label will save them for hell but in actual reality, the choice is their own not their parents etc.This life (being Christian) goes deeper than just believing.You have to consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family says.

Although many Christians have suffered and even died in Ukraine, churches across the globe keep silent about what is happening.

Whatever one thinks about sex, the one thing we can agree on is that more people are having more sex than ever — even in the Church.

Even today, the most segregated place in Alabama is any given church on any given Sunday.

Even at a young age, even in church as a child and then young adult and later as a mature adult, I remember feeling uncomfortable with the «level» to which everything, from SS literature to popular books, were always writEven at a young age, even in church as a child and then young adult and later as a mature adult, I remember feeling uncomfortable with the «level» to which everything, from SS literature to popular books, were always writeven in church as a child and then young adult and later as a mature adult, I remember feeling uncomfortable with the «level» to which everything, from SS literature to popular books, were always written.

I, being a lowly «closeted» Christian do see the immoralities of today's mega-monolithic styled churches whose upkeep and maintainence dollars would feed in the 3rd world countries and even in the US of A bookoo people!

This is all the more satisfying a ratification because Connelly is so conscientious in establishing his own personal antagonism toward the Catholic Church (at one point asserting without even a footnote that natural family planning «still fails most couples who try it»).

Sympathy is in order for the immutable rebels who must now seek out the company even of the declared enemies of the church in order to vent their bitterness about a vision of Catholicism that was not to be.

This way of telling Luther's story is quite conservative in its effects, even though it presents Luther as a radical, for it makes the present division of the Church seem normal and inevitable to us.

But even in the pentacostal church, things were rough.

I ask this for three reasons: 1) Warfield begins the chapter with Edward Gibbon's conversion to Catholicism, which was related to Gibbon's belief in the continuation of the miraculous; 2) he spends several pages in the same chapter critiquing another famous convert to Catholicism, John Henry Newman, noting what he sees as Newman's shift toward the miraculous; 3) even though he knows that Gregory of Nyssa, Athanasius, and Jerome all wrote about saints in which the miraculous was prominent, he still makes the claim that these «saints» lives» follow other Christian romances and thus represent an infusion of Heathenism into the church.

To read it properly, to ascertain even its literal sense, required that one be a loyal son of the Church, humbly disposed toward the sacred page, and attuned spiritually to the «overarching sacred sense» as witnessed in the life of the Church.

I am a Catholic (by Catholic I mean, regularly attend church, send my children to Catholic school, and work in many ministries) I also use contraception, but I don't think that organizations the church runs should have to pay for anything they oppose — even it I don't oppose it.

Even if they have an abuse rate that is WAY below the general population, it is irrelevant when the church hierarchy itself is involved in covering it up.

I am a women in her late 40's and was on the birth control pill for many years not realizing the great increase risk of breast cancer the pill causes or even the church teaching on birth control.

Still so very true — even in the emergent church movement of which I am quite fond.

♦ Then there's Sandy Newman, president of Voices for Progress, writing to John Podesta in 2012 when the HHS mandate was announced: «This whole controversy with the bishops opposing contraceptive coverage even though 98 % of Catholic women (and their conjugal partners) have used contraception has me thinking... There needs to be a Catholic Spring, in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.

On the rare occasions that they actually show a character in a church, it's usually for a wedding or a funeral — despite the fact that even the most limited estimates have shown that at least half of America's 300 million citizens attend church services fairly regularly.

The pope also warned the Ukrainian Greek - Catholic Church to be less involved in politics, even though this church does not support any political party or rChurch to be less involved in politics, even though this church does not support any political party or rchurch does not support any political party or regime.

Last year he wrote in The Telegraph that the Church was too obsessed with issues such as sexuality, to even notice the concerns of the poor it should be serving.

(In order even to begin to comprehend this story, one must understand first that Missouri Synod people care deeply about church doctrine, and second that Concordia Seminary in St. Louis — where classical theological training was offered with considerable rigor — had been revered in the affections of MissourianIn order even to begin to comprehend this story, one must understand first that Missouri Synod people care deeply about church doctrine, and second that Concordia Seminary in St. Louis — where classical theological training was offered with considerable rigor — had been revered in the affections of Missourianin St. Louis — where classical theological training was offered with considerable rigor — had been revered in the affections of Missourianin the affections of Missourians.

During one period of «ministerial leapfrog,» between June and November 1915, eight ministers, as well as key figures in the Church and army, were replaced, and even that pace was surpassed in the regime's final months.

As an outsider, I can't help but wonder whether the pope and the USCCB were particularly provoked by Weinandy's suggestion that Jesus had allowed this controversy in order «to manifest just how weak is the faith of many within the Church, even among too many of her bishops.»

My father tried participating in organized religion and even though he contributed his time and many talents (construction) to his church, he was still ostracized when my parents divorced.