Sentences with phrase «even in church»

Returning to the States after 2.5 years in Eastern Europe, we have been surprised and disappointed at how the people we are encountering - even in the church - build relationships upon mere convenience.

But what is probably more likely responsible for this targeting of single Christians on Internet dating services, is that eligible single Christians are few and far between even in church — I mean real believers — not «Sunday Christians» — and the scammers know this.

The ecclesiastical trial of Father William Wendt in Washington, D.C., over the issue of women's orders symbolized that once the nature of authority is challenged, even in church governance, the very basis of traditional Christian thought and practice crumbles.

Democratizing knowledge in the community is a threat to all of us who preside over the establishment, for we have long known that knowledge, even in the church, is power.

Even in the church, there are hundreds of things that can be done by those who are older that younger people can not and are not able to do.

I nursed all of my babies (7)-- even in the church pew::::: gasp:::::: during Sunday services — with discretion.

Even in our church activities we may behave more like nonbelievers than like Christians, worshiping in churches whose atmosphere is oppressive and repressive and neglecting to share Jesus» concern for justice and freedom.

Even in a church that I feel «at home» in, there will always be points that are not quite «up my street».

As ready to criticize such discrimination in the churches as elsewhere, they wrote in 1917, «Even in the Church of God there are still the remnants of this ugly and unreasoning hatred....

And these pastors are glad when someone says that, because in our society — and even in the church — the malignant assumption that pastoral ministry does not really demand or require very much surreptitiously undermines both our legitimate expectations of and our sense of gratitude for the Christian ministry.

Even in the church, we have adopted a cultural leadership rather than a biblical one.

That is what some in the World (and sadly even in The Church, which here it truly ought not be) do.

But even in the church we end up spending more time fighting about the kind of melodies we should sing, and whether the Lord God prefers organ or guitar.

Yet even in church, gossip may be more moral than it first appears.

Hence today even in the Church much more is called in question than in the recent past, changes are made much more quickly, and instead of venerable customs we meet much that is new and even questionable.

We think that Judas is the worse person in history, but I fear there are many in churches across America, maybe even in this church, that are in the same boat with Judas.

When I look around I see people conforming to the definitions and rituals of the world (even in church).

It would appear that even in church networks which give the impression they encourage women in leadership, it can still be a struggle for those who are called.

Even in the church we clothe our resentment and.

The information is freely available in libraries and on the web, and even some in church history books.

Since the church did not insist that Jews retain their identity even in the church, it can be inferred that the church seriously holds that its election supersedes that of the old Israel.

Even in church ministry.

In life, law and doctrine, a change is therefore taking place even in the Church.

Tragically, a majority of people in our culture, and even in our Church, have used contraception.

This, also, appears to have been honored in the breach, in that we find the emergence of power politics in Christian countries and even in the church, which has sometimes aped the world by the honor it gives to its «dignitaries.»

Anything less in this fallen world is merely vain speculation and a pipe dream because like it or not there is real evil in the heart and mind of man and it permeates everything around us — even in the church.

Even in church, people are mostly only interested in building their own little empires.

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 written.

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.

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.

Bullies can be found in many places — In our workplaces, in our families, among our neighbors, in our organizations and even in our churches.

Even in the churches that use the Apostles» Creed the sermons rarely expound what is confessed.

I personally believe that we encourage the developmental approach, even in our churches, if not all religions.

This is true even in the churches which give little or no emphasis to baptism, the Lord's Supper, or the other five sacraments recognized in Catholicism: confirmation, penance, marriage, extreme unction, and, for priests, ordination.

Even in churches, hell is present with the backbiting, slander, and jealous quarrels that so often go on.

Even in churches, hell -LSB-...]

The rich get advantages everywhere, even in your churches.

It's a cultural stereotype that's enforced in the media, in popular culture, even in churches, by blacks and whites alike.

As Arthur McGill has noted, «In an age of anxiety and violence, glory is out of fashion, even in Churches» (Arthur McGill, The Celebration of the Flesh, Association Press, 1964, p. 184).

Every day we seem to hear about sexual assaults on college campuses, in the military, and even in churches.

Today, when the trend even in the churches is toward the regional, parochial and local, will ecumenism not suffer?

They call people like me «socialists», communists», and a whole host of other extremely ugly things which I heard (even in the churches) growing up in a largely biggoted and spiritually backward South.

Even in churches this virus is widely prevalent.

Even in the churches I was a member of that were known to be «giving» churches... it was only in the sense of foreign missions.

Assembled one evening in the church basement after eating, the members adjusted their chairs toward a wall on which was tacked a long strip of butcher paper with a horizontal line drawn a third of the way down from the top.

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.

The houses have their roofs blown off; even some churches where people sheltered have lost roofs,» he shared in another blog post.

«But I sincerely believe that Jesus wants a Church attentive to the goodness which the Holy Spirit sows in the midst of human weakness, a Mother who, while clearly expressing her objective teaching, «always does what good she can, even if in the process, her shoes get soiled by the mud on the street.