Sentences with phrase «everyday life of the church»

The sovereigns were deemed junior apostles, entitled to rule «in trust» the everyday life of the Church in Europe and her colonies.

We don't usually need to use formal theological language and concepts in the everyday life of the church in prayer, preaching and service.

I was happy to see fellow bloggers raise some good questions: Was this list simply a manifestation of inequities inherent to American church culture, or did it fail to reflect the very real influence women and minorities have, both online and in the everyday life of the church?

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For Schickel, that conservative language is found in the ordinary, everyday realities, a reflection of his belief that «the sacramental life of the Church is a recapitulation of the daily rituals of eating and drinking, working and resting, gathering and dispersing.»

As they grow up with the church as a part of their everyday lives, I want it to be a blessing.

On Friday, September 11 and Saturday, September 12, I'll be at Irvine United Congregational Church for their annual Faith & Works Conference, where I'll be joining several other speakers in discussing the intersection of faith and everyday life and the future of the Church in a changing context.

We are committed to our local church and we ridiculously believe Jesus meant all of that stuff he said while he walked among us here on here so we're committed to justice and peace - making in our everyday lives, too — making space for work we believe in.

In and through this experience, which becomes the illuminating event of our total everyday life, one finds himself in a great company, the Church: a member of a body that lives in the Christ - happening, dwells in this Word of the Lordship of Christ.

In the midst of the Church's bearing the everyday burdens of man, she discovers that the question of life addresses them in such a fashion that they themselves can ask about the meaning of life; to which query can be directed the witness that the meaning of life is to receive life as a gift from God.

Because both people in society and people in our churches live in the public realm, and because existence in the public realm validates authority and relevance, the absence of church presence in the public realm of the media diminishes people's perception of the relevance of faith to their everyday existence - ie.

The Church for them is not only the sacramental intermediary of grace and the teaching authority for the true statement of the hidden mysteries of God, but also has a pastoral power by which it can contribute quite considerably to determining the concrete action of its members in the tangible and sober reality of everyday life.

I find that those who are in similar situations as myself, having left the ministry of the institutional church and entered the ministry of everyday life, do not have, nor do they want a way back.

«Part of it is recognising that the online is a part of everyday lives, and not seen as some weird thing out there, but make it a part of our everyday conversation... and sit down as a Church and work out where that fits within our overall communication strategy.»

My children, both daughters, one in her twenties and the other in her late teens, will not enter a church for worship because they can not see the relevance of the liturgical language to their everyday lives.

Again, in a catalogue of «gifts of the Spirit», he includes «works of power, gifts of healing, [unusual] kinds of speech»,» as if they were everyday phenomena of Church life.

I am an atheist... If this is the worst, I'll take it... What I will not take is the rest, the constant interference of religion in everyday lives, the less and less clear separation between Church and State, the bigoted right - wingers who look down on us (us who think that we have escaped the greatest delusion of all, us who believe that religion is a way to escape individual neurosis by adhering to a social neurosis...), the attempts at proselytism, the anti-Darwinian «oh - so - lame» criticism..

while breifly going thru this artical it was makeing my stomach turn, this is just what the devil wants is for doubt and confusion, christianity is growing stronger than ever, souls are being saved and lives are changing every day, and do nt for one minute think any different, or try tp put christians down, why would we loose faith, god answers our prayers everyday, think what you want and do what you do, but do nt try to put things in other people's opinion or minds, jesus died for our sins, so that we can have better lives and be forgiven for our sins here on earth and move on to a beter place, becouse souls do nt die «read the bible, if you do nt understand it, find a church that can help you learn a better way of life, I pray for everyone out there that does nt know jesus christ as ther savior to accept what he has to offer to you «love forgiveness and ever lasting life «Christians» stay strong and [ass the word of god on and share all your tedtimonies in life» god bless everyone»»

I poured into those pages my best writing and my best effort to tell a story about Church that is at once honest and hopeful, imaginative and dusted with the earth of everyday life.

Though some of the splashier and more publicized experiments of the «wired church» attract the most attention and concern, most congregations that use computer technology are simply trying to make the ministries in which they are already engaged more effective, attractive and applicable to the lives of the people they serve, especially the young, for whom these technologies are as familiar a part of everyday life as using the telephone — a mobile unit, that is.

We move out of the church alone as well, carrying with us our own fragments of warmth and insight as we seek to make connections between the great symbols of the faith and the stuff of everyday life.

Besides the conditions of society itself, under which family and friends had primary responsibility for the care of the dying and the dead, memento mon were spread throughout culture: in the church's art, in morality plays like Everyman, in drinking songs, in the ordinary artifacts of everyday life (e.g., in Austria a towel hanger portraying a human form split down the middle: one half a beautiful young woman, the other a skeleton) To be sure, the specter of death (and judgment) has been used as a form of social control.

In its pastoral life the church embodies compassion, sustains a gentle sense of irony, and offers a remarkable witness to the possibilities of holiness in everyday life.

Now you can function in your pastoral gifting, Being the church, out in everyday life, free of expectations and the need to perform!!

The dramatic themes and movement of the Bible and of the gospel (sin, cross, redemption, forgiveness, future hope) should shape what the church does when she gathers together and should thereby strengthen Christians for their everyday lives by giving them an understanding of who they are, where they, and whence they are going.

But there are many more fathers who are just as strong of AP advocates in their everyday lives by choosing to not be shy about talking about Attachment Parenting, to their friends and family, coworkers, and other fathers at the park, grocery store, kid's ball game, church or school.

Henry's break from Rome caused an upheaval in his country that rocked the very foundations of everyday life: the Church.

(From Heat Waves in a Swamp or... «the healthy glamour of everyday life», Texts by Robert Gober, assisted by Becky Kinder) Reanalysis of Church Bells Ringing, Rainy Winter Night shows more fully how Burchfield used his newly developed symbolic pictographs to illustrate not only his childhood fears but also his adult distaste for religious zealotry, provoked by a Presbyterian Sunday school teacher, his evangelical grandfather, and the example of his late, unreligious father

Over the course of ten years, Aicher distilled images of town life — its church spires, grazing cows and the rolling foothills of the Alps — into to a series of square landscapes reminiscent of Polaroids, or even Instagram — everyday moments rendered entirely in black and white.

You walk in off the pavement and into an unexpected multi-media experience that cleverly takes over the main exhibition space, utilizing all the nooks and crannies of the high ceiling deconsecrated Church with 3D film, music and a cleverly crafted domestic interior filled with discarded bottles and the debris of everyday life, like a version of Tracey Emin's Bed for the 2000s.

One of Sweden's most celebrated artists, Edefalk's intuitive and deeply personal practice often draws from things that she encounters in her everyday life — whether a field of dandelions, a novel, or memories of visiting a church in Italy.