Sentences with phrase «father ran the church»

He was the soundman when his father ran the church.

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When our fore fathers came up with the idea of seperation of church and state it wasn't to keep religion out of the government it was to keep the Church from running the goverchurch and state it wasn't to keep religion out of the government it was to keep the Church from running the goverChurch from running the government.

The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fulttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory with stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.

This is not even to mention actual extant manuscripts of the New Testament — in whole or in part — that date to the first few Christian centuries, and extensive quotations in the writings of the Church Fathers, which run all the way back to the days when the generation contemporary to the alleged events of the New Testament were still alive.

Ran across many interesting quotes from our founding fathers who are so oft cited today as deists who believed in separation of church and state...

It's run by Pastor Hyung Jin Moon, whose father founded the Unification Church in the 1950s and became low - level famous for «mass weddings,» in which he would marry huge crowds of people to each other.

I looked around the church, knowing what I know of death: the death of mother, father, friends, the death of promise, of vision run aground, death of self, of all we might have been, death of that ideal other, the bitter end of all.

Well before that traumatic date, from as far back as William's thirteenth year, his father John had apparently begun to run into financial difficulties, at which time he tried to avoid town meetings and church attendance, allegedly to elude summons by subpoena (one could be served for debt in church).

In the Presbyterian Church (USA), one of our more recent confessions states that even though we rebel against God, God remains faithful, «like a mother who will not forsake her nursing child, like a father who runs to welcome the prodigal home.»

While living in a house with no running water and a wood burning stove for heat and cooking Sean's family began attending a charismatic Baptist church and it was in this church that a son saw his father converted.

groups, helping churches throughout theUKand beyond to run their own sessions to support fathers and their children in local communities.

Elvis is the son of a prostitute, a discharged sailor come to Texas in search of the father he never knew — David Sandow (William Hurt), a reformed philanderer who runs a cavernous church called Sanctuary.

For Justin, doing the right thing involves defying his father (Thomas Haden Church), himself a former Marine wounded in Gulf War I, and running afoul of a Mexican cartel.