Not exact matches
Then we
got into the limo
to bring us
to the
church and she was
getting mad
at someone for passing around champagne, because she thought someone would spill on her dress.
The reasoning behind the McMass Project is that, while
church attendance is declining, McDonald's has proved
to be consistently successful
at getting people
to come through their doors.
So I have no concerns
at all that people in the
church are going
to be involved in these discussions,
get on board and help lead the rest of us forward in an age where there are intelligences other than the ones we associate with Adam and Eve.
As it turned out, the parishioner who had made that insulting remark so many decades earlier
got the very same service, and her nice casket was covered
at the door of the
church by the same pall that covered dear Bernice's very lowly casket.I look forward
to the day when Bernice and the other lady stand side by side before the throne of heavenly grace.
At this point, ministry is
to get him
to accept the Father's Love, and
to find a
church that will love him unconditionally.
Previously we had
to rely on second hand accounts
at best, the «I know a guy who prayed and it totally came true» or «I know this person who died and went
to heaven and came back» or «this person in our
church saw a Smurf doll
get up and start trying
to choke a baby...»
Chuckles I am just trying
to help you
get a parking place up front when you finally show up
at an overcrowed
church
We will be doing our fellowship service tonight in a community hall, we were doing it
at our
church for seven years, but we
got kicked out, because we wer n`t
getting the people
to go
to the sunday morning service.
Bombarded on one side by a media and culture that urges them
to have uncommitted sex
at any opportunity, and on the other by a
Church that tells them sharply that they should not (but they should
get married and have a family), it can be a struggle.
its hard
to get too worked up over a
church service off - hours
at a school, if they pay market rate (think so?)
When he
got older he may have been thrown out of the house because they weren't going
to have a faggot son or else he may have been denounced
at church.
Some of the same
churches I've been
to, You left some out, tho... only if she wears a head covering... as long as she doesn't wear makeup or jewelry (wedding ring and denominational pin excepted)... no peep toe shoes, especially with toenail polish... if what she is doing
gets bigger than what the men are doing, she's out (Thats a real big one)... only if she'll do it on a volunteer basis and never expects an honorarium, even if she speaks
at the main Sunday service.
The religious among us keep trying
to chip away
at the separation of
church and state by making people recite the pledge of allegiance with the God clause, installing religious symbols and displays on public property, holding prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal of prayer in public schools, trying
to pass laws limiting women's access
to birth control, and trying
to get an amendment passed outlawing abortion (since in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).
There were also the Hussite Wars from 1419
to circa 1434 in which the Roman Catholic
Church went
to war against followers of Jan Hus, a priest, philosopher, and master
at Charles University in Prague who had tried
to reform the
Church, condemning its sale of indulgences, which were the equivalent of a «
get out of jail» card in the game of Monopoly in that the
Church sold them as a means for believers
to get out of Purgatory.
one only need look
at the
Church ih China today and it's growth under Communist persecution
to get a mirror image of what it was like for first through third century Christian's as well as Revelation 6:9 - 11 then 14 - 17 nine through elven are the martyrs and 14 through 17 is a glimpse of judgment for men of war!
There have been times
at conferences or big
churches that I've been envious of the speaker, because he / she could
get up from prayer, go
to the platform, deliver the message, and go back into prayer.
Tons of christians don't go
to church, and
at my
church we always joke about the C&E's — the people who pack the place on Christmas and Easter only and make it hard for the rest of us
to even
get into the place.
Sorry
to disagree with you but I have no problem with putting muslim «tradition» on the back burner and if you don't like it that's tough, heck, we didn't leave a single intact
church steeple in Europe in WWII because they were used by enemy artillery spotters and snipers, why should muslims
get a pass, Tradition did not stop muslims from dragging dead US soldiers through Mogadishu nor did it stop them from hanging contractors from under bridges, Osama's body should have been brought back and put on display is a glass box
at all three of his sites, allowing those who wanted
to view him ample time
to do so.
The entire world knows, or
at least the entire world that has reason
to take notice knows, that the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America (ELCA)
got off
to a rocky start.
Mitt Romney Flip Flops because he makes a decision that usually makes sense... Then he
gets a call from the «Prophets» of the LDS
church and changes it with no question... is that who you want in office... look
at the issues he flipped on... every one of them was changed
to an LDS point of view.
Apparently we are worried as a nation
at the prospect of electing a Mormon
to the White House but in 2008 electing an individual who attended a
church which promoted hate, supported Islam, and announced that America
got what it deserved with the terrorist attacks was ok.
Somehow, I don't expect that
to fly, but
churches do need
to limit the number of «on call» hours of pastors,
at least
get the elders
to help if there aren't any other pastors.
James Carne who works
at CAP Job Clubs UK believes
churches have an obligation
to continue
to help those finding it hard
to get work, speaking on Premier's «News Hour», he said: «There is still a big gap in terms of opportunities or help for people who are seeking work.
We joined an abusive, (house / semi-communal) «Bible»
church primarily because it seemed
to provide what we desperately felt we needed
at that time, as a young couple, expecting our first child: Stability, Clarity of belief, «Coolness», Community, and a sense that we were joining something that promised it was going
to have a great impact on the culture in the future, and we were thus
getting in on the «bottom floor.»
Experiencing the kindness of strangers offered relief
to Mormons who had been feeling «a little under siege,» said Bennett, who first
got to know Romney through
church in 1978 and worked with him for five years
at Bain & Company, a global consulting firm that Romney eventually led as CEO.
I shudder
to think
at what Jesus would have
to say about our multi-million dollar
church buildings while poor people are living in cardboard boxes all over our cities and selling their bodies
to get food.
I used
to wonder why I was so «weak» and would
get so emotional when the people would leave and even mad
at myself for not being able
to just become tough and stay more emotionally distant with the people but a few close friends in the
church told me not
to change because my reaction simply shows what a caring shepherd I am.
And a few of them, within a year of speaking
at this conference, will
get a book deal or an invitation
to speak
at Exponential, or some other
church conference.
At a certain
church I use
to go
to, one of the elders has a life group called «
Get - R - Done» where he «assist single moms, widows, and others needing help in our
church and community.»
I was
at a
church retreat where one guy suddenly said in response
to my asking a legitimate question about how they were interpreting scripture that Satan was in me and
got the whole group
to pray that Satan leave.
Eventually I
got hold of Christian Schwarz's book «Natural
Church Development» which was developed based on his research with thousands of churches across the world looked at the «quality» of churches because his findings seemed to surprisingly indicate that the quality of a church was the number one factor in the nemerical growth of a c
Church Development» which was developed based on his research with thousands of
churches across the world looked
at the «quality» of
churches because his findings seemed
to surprisingly indicate that the quality of a
church was the number one factor in the nemerical growth of a c
church was the number one factor in the nemerical growth of a
churchchurch.
We are
getting ready
to do a Bible Study
at my
church on this and I will
get back
to you
to voice my opinion.
I will not give specific school names but they are in the bible belt region in Alabama and Georgia and one of the youth I taught before God showed me that I needed
to be in a different
church she takes her bible
to school anyway
at the risk of
getting in trouble
Not
at all like the Religious Extremeists that want
to put wpmen back in slavery, taking away her freedoms, viewing gays as sub-human, that can't
get past the separation of
Church and State, and think that the US was founded on Freedom OF Religion, when, in fact, it was founded on Freedom FROM Religion.
It was knowing that my friend Jackie had
to get a body guard for the first Sunday in which she preached
at her
church.
(CNN)-- When Pope Francis arrives in South Korea on Wednesday for a five - day visit, he'll
get a look
at just the kind of
church he's been trying
to create worldwide.
The Pastor was trying
to get someone
to join the
church and this person wouldn't join because he said The most so called religious or Christian people will abandon you when you are
at lowest.
Get a licence
to host a screening
at your
church.
By his definitition, that means I could ask Jesus into my heart
at a
church camp, make a concious decision
to leave the
church, spend my entire life raping and murdering children,
get shot down by my drug dealer for stealing, and then appear before God where he tells me: «Well done my good and faithful servant!»
Joy Lenton: When you think it's all sorted but then it isn't — I used
to think... that
church was a place you were
at because you'd finally
got your act together.
pray
at home, pray
at a
church, pray
at a park pray before work, pray after work, pray
at lunch outside you don't
get to pray
at gov» t meetings on gov» t time in a gov» t building stop pushing your religion on others
This is not the place
to get into a debate about the tribulation so all I will say is
at least be open
to the possibility that Jesus was warning the
Church to ready for persecution and be therefore prepared
to endure
to the end in the face of whatever might come.
One reason could be that unhealthy and needy people that rely on the
church are far easier
to convert or
at least
get them
to say they are believers.
John Ortberg, a teaching pastor
at Willow Creek
Church in Barrington, Illinois, and the author of Everybody's Normal Till You
Get to Know Them (Zondervan), This fall he will begin serving Menlo Park Presbyterian
Church in northern California.
so many reports of preists abusing children
get hidden by the
church only
to come out
at a later time.
... The Jews (just like the
church now)
got flippant concerning divorce... I feel Jesus didn't have
to mention homosexuality because the Law was clear
to any Jew
at that time... Paul had
to mention it because he was an apostle
to the Gentiles who I think were more prone
to homosexuality behavior... I'm though not as learned as you... just my thought after 15 years of thinking about this issue... The
church has a sacred duty
to all... even gays... we need a unified loving answer
to give them... but it must be the truth... because only the truth can set us free...
One might find
at least a tiny echo of this inadequate notion of reform in his initial impulse
to rebuild Christ's
Church by attending
to ecclesiastical masonry — an episode in the early steps of his pilgrimage toward Christ that makes me think of present - day temptations
to live the New Evangelization by
getting top - drawer management consultants
to advise the
Church on messaging.
Like the 10 steps... been very diverted by some petty behavior
at my
church, trying
to get above it all.
I think we need
to look
at the ways that the
church reinforces or even rewards hypocrisy — and why non-believers often
get so giddy when it's exposed.
Sam Hailes talks
to Rev Canon Dr Sandra Millar, head of projects and developments
at the
Church of England, about a new resource designed
to get Christians... More