Sentences with phrase «felt during this church»

The conviction I felt during this church service stemmed from the reality of what I have allowed worship, to become for me: an experience that makes me feel good.

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Bishop Barry Rogerson, Church of England, asked during the Gulf hearing whether the WCC wanted simply to «feel good» about its own correctness, or actually to do some good.

I've known since I was 18 that I couldn't have kids and, during the years I spent in Pentecostal style churches, often did feel condemned, although it is something which is part of who I am and which I can not change.

I, as a member of Mars Hill Church, have NEVER felt bullied or even heard tones of bullying during service.

He found himself in a church one morning, felt the power of God during the altar call — was shaking under that power and ready to commit....

Sometimes I daydream during church, which I feel especially guilty about now that I am an elder.

So it came as a bit of a shock to recognize that the churches we were visiting during our search had a different feel, a different sense of community and welcoming that we recognized as being part «Christian» and part «white» but did not fully resonate with us.

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).

Yet because of my previous research focus on women in the church and my acquaintance with political theology and critical theory (Francis Schüssler Fiorenza was a student of J. B. Metz and edited an issue of Continuum on Jürgen Habermas during the late»60s), I felt uneasy about two trends within the emerging feminist theological discourse.

And although the market crash was more a symptom than a cause of the crisis, the church had been complicit in the speculative frenzy that precipitated the crash: «The people who were gambling most recklessly sat in its pews, and never felt the slightest incongruity between their presence at worship on Sunday and their luck in the profit - chase during the rest of the week» (November 25, 1931).

Clearly, Paul would be confused at the contemporary church's idolization of marriage, and Jesus and John the Baptist would also feel out of place, as they were ushered off to the singles» ministry during the second service.

What spoke to me through this story, is how much this pastor knew the people in his church (you and I have the same definition of church, however I'm using the word here as it applies to this group of people I feel the problem in many churches today (and why dialogue during sermons wouldn't go over well) is that the pastors do not take the time to invest in the people they are trying to teach.

Raised a churchgoer in deeply religious Lancaster County, where churches far outnumber bars, Monville said she always enjoyed a close relationship with God, hearing his voice call to her, feeling his embrace during prayer and worship.

Much as most English Catholics love Her Majesty the Queen, many of us felt just a little uneasywhen it became known that she referred to the late Cardinal Hume as «my Cardinal», and not entirely enthused by television images of Her Majesty attending Vespers at Westminster Cathedral, for all the world as if it was Choral Evensong at Westminster Abbey: not because such ecumenical gestures are in themselves a bad thing, but because this one seemed all too likely to be have been a reward to the English Church for no longer making so much of a nuisance of itself, as it could have done, for instance, by criticising the supposedly Catholic - minded Tony Blair for his wholehearted support for abortion (including abortion up to term)- a stance which, north of the border, had led the late Cardinal Winning to utter a series of blistering denunciations of the Prime Minister even during NewLabour's honeymoon years.

I felt almost as ridiculous as I had done on the previous Sunday morning, when I sat in the porch of the church during Mass to feed my baby and a passing lady offered me fifty pence, thinking I was homeless.

I wonder how he would feel if someone advocated flying an aircraft into his church during a crowded Sunday Sermon?

As I came to see during my twenty years teaching at Creighton, this feeling of betrayal by the Church defines the «68er» generation of Jesuits and their allies.

During a mass with them he said: «I feel the gaze of Jesus and I ask for the grace to weep, the grace for the Church to weep and make reparation for her sons and daughters who betrayed their mission, who abused innocent persons.

Even now, in the church I go to, during Praise and Worship I could feel that I was maybe getting ready to speak in tongues, and I'd have to shut it off because I don't know what that church would do if I started screaming out in tongues in the back... It feels like a lot of energy coming through the top of your head — I'm going to sound like such a lunatic — and then your whole body is filled with this electric current.

When the topic of lesbians ministering to men with AIDS came up during a reception the women of our church held for Karen Ziegler, pastor of the Metropolitan Community Church in New York, Ziegler responded this way: «I don't feel like I'm sacrificing — I receive energy by ministering to men with AIDS.&church held for Karen Ziegler, pastor of the Metropolitan Community Church in New York, Ziegler responded this way: «I don't feel like I'm sacrificing — I receive energy by ministering to men with AIDS.&Church in New York, Ziegler responded this way: «I don't feel like I'm sacrificing — I receive energy by ministering to men with AIDS.»

«We're close, but you feel like you're a million miles away,» Hamilton said during a break from tending to the needs of his church and planning a prayer vigil.

Breslin continue to habor ill feelings toward Espada long after the stalemate came to an end, saying during a public gathering last September at a church in his hometown of Delmar (an Albany suburb) that Espada was a «crook» who «should be jail.»

«The impacts of sea level change will be felt most acutely during periods of high sea level, both from this type of interannual (and decadal) variability as well as extreme events,» Church said.

It seriously has brought me closer to my family... We would swim at my friend's house ALL the time during the week, and I honestly can't remember the details of those days, but I remember the fun stuff I'd do with my family, and good way I felt at church

The city's Sandtown - Winchester neighborhood, where Gray lived and where I grew up many years ago, had been on my mind a lot during the days leading up to the trip, and I felt distant as we boarded the bus and started our ride to the church from downtown.

The charm of towns along with the river and the historic churches, winding streets will give you the feeling of the old world during Europe trip to Porto city.