Sentences with phrase «few house churches»

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As the article said, it's about a block away from the White House — it only serves a few blocks; most people don't drive into town to go to church on Sunday.

I talked with a lady just a few weeks ago who lives in Trego and I invited her to come to church, and she said she really wants to, but Sunday is the only day she has to get the things done around the house that she needs to, and so she can't make it to church.

Living in low - income housing, teaching free literacy classes to refugees, setting up basketball camps for bored inner - city kids: all of it had a few costs for me personally, sure, but the holy buzz of pats on the back from friends and church people, and the feeling that I was the only person really getting what Jesus was saying — this more than made up for doing without.

A few years ago when people were writing books critiquing what many of us were trying to do with our churches, I would regularly contact these folks and invite them to come and spend some time with our community or stay at my house and we could talk about all their concerns.

Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945 «1960: The Soul of Containment by William Inboden Cambridge University Press, 368 pages, $ 80 A few years ago the new American ambassador to Beijing was asked for his thoughts about China's persecution of underground Protestant house churches....

Neuhaus» church, Immaculate Conception, a few blocks south of the house, and morphine from an Orthodox abbot who also had cancer — ecumenism of a less - expected sort.

«Very few people on housing estates go to an Anglican church.

If you owned this, this, or one of these, then you're a Church kid; one of those select few whose parents shuttled you off to your local house of worship whenever the doors were open.

Like large churches, when house churches meet, they fellowship, sing a few songs, pray, have a time of Bible teaching, and finish up with a few «reminders» (aka announcements).

With earlier releases from treatment facilities, a few churches and temples are responding to the need for after - care by sponsoring halfway houses staffed by trained laymen.

How that took place in practice is described in some detail in the mission discourse: At the very beginning, before there were sympathizers, when there were no safe houses to which one could turn, much less house churches, the committed few disciples (and no doubt Jesus himself) walked, barefoot and without any supplies, from place to place.

Many monumental buildings are located in the vicinity — City Hall, the New York Stock Exchange, Trinity Church, St. Paul's Chapel, and Cass Gilbert's soaring Woolworth Building and magnificent former U.S. Customs House, to name just a few.

In Greco - Roman culture of the first few centuries, I look at house churches and say, «Yes.

Hold infants at your local church nursery while the parents attend service; participate in a house build with Habitat for Humanity; mentor a student at a nearby school a few times a month; sponsor a missionary overseas; give wildly beyond the tithe.

Currently, it seems to me that the house church model has the fewest barriers to this, but I see encouraging signs of attractional churches making genuine steps toward a more missional mindset.

In the past half century, the Protestant presence in Oaxaca has proliferated from a few isolated outposts to an impressive number of house churches, church buildings and Bible institutes.

Few MPs stood up to defend the decision, although Tory backbencher Peter Bone commented: «It is not for this House to tell the established church how to run itself.»

the old house is actually a coffee shop (there a few coffee shops and restaurants on the island, also a church and a supermarket...)

Most charters occupy buildings owned by the Orleans Parish School Board, though a few are housed in private buildings such as churches and synagogues.

She never went to church herself, but on those few times T. Ray had let me walk to her house back in the woods, I'd seen her special shelf with a stub of candle, creek rocks, a reddish feather, and a piece of John the Conqueror root, and right in the center a picture of a woman, propped up without a frame.

This ideally located motel is only a few minutes walk to shops, churches, within 5 minutes drive to the airport, 15 minutes from Parliament House

This ideally located motel is only a few minutes walk to shops, churches, within 5 minutes drive to the airport, 15 minutes from Parliament House and the many attractions of Canberra.

It is just a short walk to the village of Kilkhampton, with its several churches, individual local shops, post office, local coffee house, fish & chip shop and a few pubs.