Sentences with phrase «family attends church»

Though everyone else in my family attends church, I don't ask you to defend that decision to me, and I am just asking for the same courtesy and respect.

I think it's great that the President and his family attended church.

On Mondays and Tuesdays, extracurricular activities must end by 8 p.m. and by 6 p.m. on Wednesdays, because many families attend church services.

Steven Matthew Falkner and his family attended church Wednesday.

Not exact matches

Much to the disappointment of his mother, who was getting the family ready to attend church, Iovine made the trip from his parents» apartment in Brooklyn to the Record Plant in Manhattan — where he found that the client was John Lennon.

The family attended Little Flower Catholic Church on Pierce Street for years.

Lichtenfeld covers all the basics: stay active and healthy, exercise, play sports, eat right, socialize a lot with family and friends, meet new friends, keep learning, do volunteer work, be involved in your community, run for office, attend church or other religious / spiritual activities, read books and newspapers, check your email and text your friends.

Why aren't you in church, having dinner with your families, reading the bible, out for a walk, getting together with friends, visiting the shut - ins who aren't able to attend services, or any number of other activities?

You are dishonest to yourself if you do not acknowledge that this is possible: You where by your own acount in a stressfull state and you had been raised in a christian family, associated with a fundamentalist church, attended bible college, proffesing christianity for years and looking for answers in your church and faith.

Although I was raised in a Christian family and charismatic, fundamentalist church, attended a Bible college, and had professed the Christian faith for years, it wasn't until this experience that my intellectual assent of God's truth became deeply personal.

An ex-friend went online and ranted about me yesterday saying that i need JESUS in my life and she is a better person then me cause she attends church, but this article truly states that God can not be found in churches but within our families and this is such a beautiful article.

For years, starting in the 1990s, Perry and his family attended the same affluent Austin - area United Methodist church that Bush 43 did.

My family and I have kept your commandments and attended church every Sunday.

I was raised Christian and I know my Bible, my father and grandfather were both ministers and, most other Sundays, I attend a «real» Church with my family.

Reverend Wright, whose church Obama and family attended for 20 years, was of course perfectly mainstream.

Natasha, some years ago, when we lived in another city, we visited the church our friend and his family attended.

We read that He wants us to evangelize and witness and pray and study His Word, and take care of our families, and attend church and be good stewards of our money and so on.

Yes, Gina, for many people church is like a family, or at least people want it to be like a family, but so many never find that by attending church.

He was from a well - known Roman Catholic family and attended a prominent church in the city.

Before the big family gathering on Christmas Eve, we attended an area church service.

«Our family chose not to attend the ceremony this evening because we did not feel welcome at the event and we even feared for our safety in light of how hostile some of the public comments have been,» the family said in a statement released by the group Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.

«Second, a large number of families relocated in the States will need solid, Bible - teaching, Christ - exalting churches to attend, so we need more church planters in the mainland.

Around 1967, a visitor came to worship at the church that my family attended.

A year ago a friend asked me to attend church with her and I opened myself to the possibility of trusting a pastor and church family again.

That not only destroys their purpose and makes denominational and ecumenical resources less useful, it also prevents opportunities for interaction in marriages and families whose members represent different traditions and attend different churches.)

Born into an LDS family, Flournoy grew up attending a Mormon church.

«A recent study has shown that 37 per cent of women aged 18 to 34 who attend Mass weekly and have been to confession within the past year completely accept the Church's teaching on family planning»

When I first became a seminary professor back in 1998, I made a trek to Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa and attended with my family, interviewed the staff, and learned from how God was using the church and the movement.

A recent study, «What Catholic Women Think About Faith, Conscience, and Contraception» (see whatcatholicwomenthink.com), has shown that 37 per cent of women aged 18 to 34 who attend Mass weekly and have been to confession within the past year completely accept the Church's teaching on family planning.

Bryan T. Calvin on why his African American family intentionally attends a white church, even when he misses his upbringing in black churches.

She and her family have been attending a large, non-denominational church in town that is known for being highly welcoming of «seekers.»

I sang loudly and more or less on key, and because my father was organist and choir director of the various Lutheran churches we attended during my boyhood, I was always drafted for the children's choir and occasionally even given a semi-prominent role, but I was never as good as my family heritage or personal eagerness might have predicted.

Perhaps because I've longed for a normal home and family since my youth, I have been thankfully blessed to attend churches that were real homes to me (except for one which felt more like a parking lot during my divorce).

The family were attending the christening of a baby girl at the Santiago Apostol church in Atzala, Puebla state when the building collapsed.

There are over 300 moms in the group and many of them have been very wounded by the church and left the church because they don't think it is a safe place for them and their families — some have found affirming churches and now attend there but many don't even want to attend an affirming church as church in general is related to too much negativity for them at this point.

While 22 percent of mainline Protestants attend churches that offer formal marriage or parenting programs, only 20 percent of conservative Protestants do (though many evangelicals and fundamentalists get family support from parachurch ministries like Focus on the Fafamily support from parachurch ministries like Focus on the FamilyFamily).

My family simply did not attend church.

These are they, who believe that they can save themselves and their family by just attending Church services and giving their tithes.

The vision of this church is to engage in those things which strengthen our primary identity as a family and which allow our pastor to attend to the primary practice of prayer, study of scripture, and teaching.

I doubt the elders would suggest for the «church bully» to leave because they have family members that attend.

Also, it was in a church that my parents and most of my family attended, so I felt an obligation.

I'm so tired of folks judging my family and thinking we're «not living right» just because we don't attend church in a building.

Is being the church about the families who have attended church forever, or about the ten families who will never set foot in church?

Is being the church about the ten families who have been attending church forever, or about the ten families who will never set foot in church?

Such a correctional process is currently attending the discussion of women in the church and family.

My family paid their dues but seldom attended the rituals but still were considered good catholics by the church, cash counts.

I loved growing up, going to church, attending school, and spending time with friends and family.

However, once I became pregnant, my husband (not a Catholic,) and I decided to start attending Mass again in the church I grew up in... my family is still a very prominant part of the parish.

Churches often talk about bringing families together, but if we're honest, the simple act of «attending church» rips a lot of families apart.

While such piety might seem more evident among people who live in clans and who honor ancestors, it also characterizes family reverence in societies such as our own.10 Consider the motivation of the crowds that attend Christmas and Easter services in any local church.