Sentences with phrase «evening prayer meeting»

This is why people don't come to Sunday night services and Wednesday evening prayer meeting and Bible studies.

He drew the children of the German and Scandinavian immigrant underclass to his mission with candy and pony rides, and he drew the adults through evening prayer meetings and English classes.

Not exact matches

I thought she would at least give us her «thoughts and prayers,» but she refused to even meet / speak with students.

Far from surrendering to the self - obsessed therapeutic culture Hitchens decries, AA regularly brings thoroughly secular people into an authentic personal relationship with the living God, and most of our meetings even close with a recitation of the Lord's Prayer.

At oral arguments about whether public prayers at a New York town's board meetings are permissible, the high court took a broad look at the country's church - state history and even the Supreme Court's own traditions.

In a 5 - 4 decision written by Kennedy, the Supreme Court allowed Greece, New York, to continue hosting prayers before its monthly town board meetings - even though an atheist and a Jewish citizen complained that the benedictions are almost always explicitly Christian.

«Even though starting a government meeting with a religious prayer is offensive to many, considered a violation of our const.itution by many, makes many feel ostracized and as if their voice will not be given equal consideration to those who are religions, I think we should still start of government meetings with prayers because this is a country that believes in the free expression of ones beliefs and opinions without fear of percecution.»

Even though this is Scripture, in our Christian culture, our desert prayer times are often met with well - meaning encouragement like, «Relationship with God isn't a feeling.»

But even where the prayers are meaningful and heart - felt, there are still numerous pitfalls to prayer meetings.

The main reason a church might want to consider letting prayer meetings cease is that even when prayer meetings are healthy and people don't learn bad types of praying, they still teach people bad habits about prayer.

On a late November evening in 1867, two years after the end of the American Civil War, Celestia Ferris, chief washer - woman at the Bureau of Engraving, organized a prayer meeting not far from the U. S. Capitol.

And even though I don't believe in the symbolism of the cross, I can not deny the historical role this particular «cross» artifact had in the aftermath of the tragedy as a meeting and prayer place for rescue workers etc., which makes it museum worthy.

We eat together at church — morning service, lunch (people bring stuff), prayer meeting, evening service.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a New York town board's tradition of opening monthly meetings with prayer is unconstitutional because the town should have tried harder to find non-Christian speakers — even if that required recruiting beyond the town's borders.

I was grateful they came, but I knew, deep down in my heart, that if they were really devoted to following Jesus, they would also come to Sunday school, the Sunday evening service, the Wednesday evening Bible study, and the Saturday morning prayer meeting.

Most of the time the groups, whether a Tuesday noon business - person's lunch, or a Thursday morning prayer and Bible study group, or a Sunday evening discussion group, meet without David Landry.

Because the One Spirit includes even the materialists, though they reject this science, the mental act called «prayer» lifts consciousness when believed in; directed spiritually, prayer overcomes negative thinking, doubt, fear, directs, guides, improves, empowers, meets the human need and magnifies the consciousness of the divine Presence, Love.

In the church, this wear and tear is met with more prayer, encouragement, and servant - theology, service and sacrifice is preached even harder.

«A prayer meeting had been called for at close of evening service.

Among them were evening meetings for prayer, reading the Bible and the Fathers, and lectures and sermons of an informal kind.

It can provide the theme and focus for staff and committee meetings, women's and men's societies, board meetings, trustees meetings, Bible study groups, prayer groups, marriage enrichment groups, even choir rehearsal.

After dinner, having sung a Psalm, they returned to their conference upon the other questions (which were three in all) till towards evening; at which time, as the master of the family began, so he concluded with prayer, and I gave them three new questions against their next meeting, which being appointed for time and place, everyone repaired to his own home.36

Speaking to Abeiku Santana on Okay FM this evening, Bullet revealed Ebony confided in him that a Prophetess she encountered at a prayer meeting (at Mamfe where she attended Secondary School before she dropped out) told her «My daughter, you will become a very big star, but you will die at your peak», the prophetess told Ebony in Twi.

The Pope will now meet Archbishop Williams» family before heading across the Thames to Westminster Hall to address MPs, ahead of evening prayers at Westminster Abbey.

He uses still shots of street life as the visual connective tissue between capturing meetings held by various minority groups: Columbians celebrating a World Cup victory and then taking their party to the pavement; a mature LGBT community circle discussing the venue for future meetings; a Halal butcher blessing chickens prior to slicing their throats and having their still - twiching bodies dragged through various grubby processing machines; a group of Hispanic activists gathering stories of small business being forced out of their premises due to unfair rent hikes; and even a group of Christian urban beautifiers who are seen descending into intense prayer when one of their number explains that her father is dying.

When I go to prayer meeting on Thursday evenings, I have recently begun requesting prayer for the economy and policymakers.

«I thought she would at least give us her «thoughts and prayers,» but she refused to even meet / speak with students.