They thrive and gain
power from worship and they spread their deception all across the galaxies to gain power.
Perhaps that is because, with their hearts
fresh from worship, they are more willing to take risks.
We ran up against cultural differences in almost every aspect of congregation life —
from worship music to preaching styles, from hospitality ministry to small group ministry.
This marrying «outside of the faith» is what led to the degredation of humans and the falling
away from the worship of God, resulting in the conditions that necessitated a flood to preserve the last of those who remained «sons of God», i.e. Noah's family.
If I began by saying that we can not study God apart
from the worship of God, I must end by saying also that we can not divorce either worship or study from an attempt to learn a way of life.
Osborne is suspected of driving a hire van into the individuals, who had just emerged
from worshiping in the Finsbury Park mosque.
The visual arts, which had for centuries witnessed to Christian faith in a liturgical context, were now systematically
excluded from the worship setting.
If you don't know how to assess which is which, ask yourself whether people walk away
from the worship gathering thinking, «Wow, that pastor is good,» or «Wow, our God is good.»
It is possible emperor conctentine deceived people by changing sabbath Saturday to Sunday within the Catholic Church, but it Is
different from worshipping God on Sunday and on every day than believe Sunday is the sabbath.
Perhaps the experience is best summed up by one worshipper who, upon departing
from the worship space, exclaimed: «Something happened here today!»
Going back farther, the word «academy» was originally the name of the precinct in Athens where Plato established his school, and he clearly affirmed that freedom for the truth can not be
separated from worship of the divine.
Persons should be challenged to invest the new understanding and power they derive
from worship experiences in helping others and improving society.
This year, we're taking the side of the broken - hearted and taking a breather
from worshipping at the candy - coated, Pinterest - hyped altar of Valentine's Day.
Some pastors are charlatans as it becomes increasingly easy to obtain a license to minister online, so that integrity is
missing from the worship experience when a pastor has never attended a seminary to complete his or her advanced ministerial education; 3.
If Jihad is a struggle to worship God, when did Americans ever stop Osama Bin Laden and his
buddies from worshipping God in the their caves, half way across the world, when they decided to send planes through the twin towers on 9/11?
While one corrupts worship if one reduces it to the «so that» and the «in order to» of politics (or to the goals of the marketplace or psychic health), secondary implications, including the political, do
flow from worship.
On the sabbath the meaning of God's work as Deliverer spills «
over from worship into all the hours of a day.»
Some such secondary goods may
follow from worship, but if these become the aim and purpose of worship, the worshiper instrumentalizes God to other ends, thus diminishing God to what God is not, the great slot machine in the sky.
If we can learn to welcome such surprises, if we can urge our congregations to be a bit more playful and a bit more serious about this calling, we just might save some of the grace and beauty — the poetry itself — that is
disappearing from our worship.
I feel a warm glow and a sense of affirmation when I learn of churches which are eliminating sexist
language from their worship services and liturgy, of ministers who are studying and preaching about feminist theology and the Mother - Father God, of consciousness - raising groups and task forces on sexism in the church.
[With this album], I know it's edgier and some people wouldn't understand it because it sounds different
from worship stuff.
One was a priest, another was a member of the aristocracy of that period, possibly both were
returning from worshiping in the temple in Jerusalem.
«I kind of see that as the Church,» says McMillan — and as someone who has been around church his whole life — he learned
guitar from worship musicians at his father's storefront church — he should know.
The history is not told of how churches actually kept African -
Americans from worshipping within the context of the congregation.
It turns out that
everything from worship to fellowship time to small groups can be made a bit more introvert - friendly, without leaving extroverts behind.