Not exact matches
I'm
speaking about my own faith only: To become a Christian, it must be your own choice.No else can decide this life style for you.I know many
in the past and present have thought raising a child under the Christian label will save them for hell but
in actual reality, the choice is their own not their parents etc.This life (being Christian)
goes deeper than just believing.You have to consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their
church or family says.
There is a story of a churchwarden (senior lay person) who
went to hear a modern theologian
speak —
in the questions he got up and said that he was disappointed that his vicar wasn't there because that was the kind of thing he wanted to hear
in his
church.
In one he
speaks approvingly of «Helene's Religion»: «On Sunday I
go to
church and pray with all the others.
Maybe one of the reasons why the Christian
church is
going extinct is because religion always has to
speak in metaphors --
A few years back i was being led by god to help some homeless people.I'll tell you about the first homeless lady.my girls and i were driving by a liquor store and i seen a girl a lady sitting next to her cart.god showed me through his eyes the hurt she was living with.he
spoke to my heart and said, don't pass her up.i turned around whent back and asked her if she was hungry.she was
in shock and said yes.god told me to tell her that she is loved.she started crying and had me call her family so she can
go home.anyways after that i joind a
church and told them and asked to start a homeless ministry.i was told yes and all of a sudden i started getting pushed aside and they took over the homeless ministry.i feel lost and hurt.now i feel like god is telling me to leave the
church.i quit
going out with the group because of what happened.i don't know what to do.now i feel lost.
I
went on to
speak of how, as the
church grew and became a dominant force
in society, the
church and later the nation took some responsibility to protect the weak and powerless.
(Matt 28:19, 20) Why are they content to
speak in their
church but not
go to individual's homes, as Jesus did, to assist them to make changes
in their personality that conforms to Jesus life pattern,» stripping off the old personality» and putting on the «new personality»?
But who will
go the distance and admit that
in Century One we see nothing but the local
church - which, generally
speaking, encompassed the fellowship of all the saints
in a particular city?
I don't believe that there was enough stuff under the carpet to make a skateboard park at my
church, but when a complaint was lodged it
went absolutely nowhere — which
spoke volumes to my value and worth
in the situation.
and knowing that «
going deep» so to
speak on theology isn't her typical move, I figured I would take a read and see if perhaps she had changed somehow
in the years since we worshiped at the same
church every week, or if this was merely a simple «It's all good with Jesus, so judge not, and so on» type post / statement.
The members then
go on to
speak of their fear of conflict and their desire to choose a candidate who will please everyone
in the
church.
In the first church I pastored, I preached that the Bible teaches us to speak the truth in love, but if you were going to overemphasize one side or the other, it was better to emphasize trut
In the first
church I pastored, I preached that the Bible teaches us to
speak the truth
in love, but if you were going to overemphasize one side or the other, it was better to emphasize trut
in love, but if you were
going to overemphasize one side or the other, it was better to emphasize truth.
i used to
go to a Holyist
church where everyone
spoke in tongues.
In Timothy, «sound» and «healthy» define the kind of teaching and
speaking that is
going to be at the center of the work of reforming the Ephesian
church.
The President
goes to
church but because the First Amendment says that the state can not favor one religion above the others, chooses not to
speak about his faith while
in office.
Mormons believe that Jesus and Satan are brothers, they believe
in the majic underware, Seventh day adventists
go to
church on saturday, Catholics believe
in praying to saints and confessing your sins to a priest, evangelicals believe
in people that
speak in tongues and catching the Holy Ghost.
During the time
in which analyses of the sort we have alluded to were being made and such remedies proposed, and
in part tried, an unspectacular process of reconstruction has been
going on
in Church and ministry so that we can
speak today of an emerging new conception of the ministry, a conception which leaves it ministry and does not change it into something else.
For this and other reasons the best Biblical preaching
going on
in the
churches today undertakes to interpret the Word of God as a word
spoken to Israel and the
Church.
I
went to a
Church in Overland Park Kansas which was diverse with good music and a white Pastor who
spoke well.
The fact that Koreans
go to a
church where
speaking in korean is expected.
He then
went on to
speak of the sacramental system - especially the Real Presence of Christ
in the Eucharist - and the teaching of the
Church as part of the continuing Unity - Law
in its provision for mankind until the Law reaches its final perfection with the Second Coming.
While Henry
speaks, Mary has been speculating about
going with Edmund to his new home, but is shocked when she is «no longer able,
in the picture she had been forming of a future Thornton, to shut out the
church, sink the clergyman, and see only the respectable, elegant, modernized, and occasional residence of a man of independent fortune.»
He
went to a tongue
speaking church (glossolalia) and
spoke «Mary had a little lamb»
in German.
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.
In our
church the guy who gets paid to
speak with authority doesn't know the Scripture, and there is no chance to discuss or question anything afterward... I don't bother to
go often.
When Shane was
speaking of Psalm 139 and the «not so nice» part
in the middle, I thought of my friend, M, who last week shared that one thing she doesn't like about
church is that she has to
go home on Sunday and correct the things her children have been mistaught
in Sunday School class.
Did you erase your previous blog
in which you might have been critical of the tradition / institutional
church, or did you just tell them that your views changed, or how did you
go about «reversing course» so to
speak?
While she concluded that the
Church had «failed» to
speak up for «God's standards
in society», she welcomed Spring Harvest's decision to issue a compilation album of songs from the event with the proceeds
going towards providing «help and care» for AIDS sufferers.
But
church needs to be a place for the hurting to
go and be accepted as they are and a place where the truth is
spoken both theological but also
in an emotionally open way where the burdens of life can be expressed without fear of rejection.
The words can be faithfully
spoken while the mind wanders to problems at work, what Mrs. Pilsnick is wearing
in church today, and who is
going to win the NFL game.
I like that the drawing itself could be interpreted as the parable -
speaking «you need to metaphorically die and be born again (but not literally)» Jesus knocking on a literal evangelical
church or it could be the «I am the way, the only way or you are
going to literally burn
in Hell» Jesus knocking on a progressive
church.
In a whirlwind tour, the Nobel laureate who is democracy's champion in Poland, received the Medal of Freedom from President Bush, addressed a joint session of Congress, spoke to his fellow trade unionists in the AFL - CIO, went to New York to engage questions about Polish - Jewish relations, and there was complete silence from the paper that claims «to cover the news from the angle where church and world intersect.&raqu
In a whirlwind tour, the Nobel laureate who is democracy's champion
in Poland, received the Medal of Freedom from President Bush, addressed a joint session of Congress, spoke to his fellow trade unionists in the AFL - CIO, went to New York to engage questions about Polish - Jewish relations, and there was complete silence from the paper that claims «to cover the news from the angle where church and world intersect.&raqu
in Poland, received the Medal of Freedom from President Bush, addressed a joint session of Congress,
spoke to his fellow trade unionists
in the AFL - CIO, went to New York to engage questions about Polish - Jewish relations, and there was complete silence from the paper that claims «to cover the news from the angle where church and world intersect.&raqu
in the AFL - CIO,
went to New York to engage questions about Polish - Jewish relations, and there was complete silence from the paper that claims «to cover the news from the angle where
church and world intersect.»
Furthermore, even though the missionary may be exhausted from working overseas, they feel compelled to visit people
in their homes and
go speak in a myriad of
churches just so that they can maintain their financial support.
anyone else's opinions» Or
in other words, God only
speaks to me, if you
go to THIS
church you will bow to me.
It begins by
speaking of Mary
in relation to Christ and
goes on to
speak of her
in relation to the
Church.
Sociologists have
spoken of the «privatizing» of religion
in the West, by which they mean that religious adherence has become a leisure - time activity — some people
go to
church on a Sunday, other people
go sailing or shopping Religion is seen as a personal choice and should not interfere with politics or business.
Speaking to Premier, Archbishop Angaelos said he is: «certainly concerned, there's a much greater police and security presence
in the streets and around the
churches... people shouldn't feel vulnerable when they're
going to
church.
Google your question — «Why does the bible say women should not
speak in church» — then
go to top of page, where it says — Women
in Ministry — bible.com (www.bible.com/bible answers.
Jeff: This is what causes division as we
go about doing even good things, out of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil to set up another sect out of our carnal nature; above is the outcome; Jesus came to cause division among men that tries to become their own god and sets up camp, even for them that call themselves Christian, for them that have
went from Him and His Words, even that are not of His Spirit: Jesus said; the Words that I
speak are Spirit and Life, That means the Words of man can only bring forth death: Therefore; if we do not have His Spirit
in us, then we too can only speak forth death: This is what it is to be a believer, we truly believe our Lord: I can see what the Catholic church and her daughters are doing to form a religious Babylonian city: Even as God caused a division in Babylon in the past because the peoples became great, so to is it now with all of the man made sects of religion: But when we are filled with the Spirit of God then we can not help but to live for God: It is written; those who are led by His spirit are His children: Thank - you Jeff: Those who are of His Spirit will know these truths, those who are not of His Spirit truly believe a believer is as they and can not know what we speak, because they live in unbelief: Thank - you again Jeff; In Jesus Name Alexandria: P.S
in us, then we too can only
speak forth death: This is what it is to be a believer, we truly believe our Lord: I can see what the Catholic
church and her daughters are doing to form a religious Babylonian city: Even as God caused a division
in Babylon in the past because the peoples became great, so to is it now with all of the man made sects of religion: But when we are filled with the Spirit of God then we can not help but to live for God: It is written; those who are led by His spirit are His children: Thank - you Jeff: Those who are of His Spirit will know these truths, those who are not of His Spirit truly believe a believer is as they and can not know what we speak, because they live in unbelief: Thank - you again Jeff; In Jesus Name Alexandria: P.S
in Babylon
in the past because the peoples became great, so to is it now with all of the man made sects of religion: But when we are filled with the Spirit of God then we can not help but to live for God: It is written; those who are led by His spirit are His children: Thank - you Jeff: Those who are of His Spirit will know these truths, those who are not of His Spirit truly believe a believer is as they and can not know what we speak, because they live in unbelief: Thank - you again Jeff; In Jesus Name Alexandria: P.S
in the past because the peoples became great, so to is it now with all of the man made sects of religion: But when we are filled with the Spirit of God then we can not help but to live for God: It is written; those who are led by His spirit are His children: Thank - you Jeff: Those who are of His Spirit will know these truths, those who are not of His Spirit truly believe a believer is as they and can not know what we
speak, because they live
in unbelief: Thank - you again Jeff; In Jesus Name Alexandria: P.S
in unbelief: Thank - you again Jeff;
In Jesus Name Alexandria: P.S
In Jesus Name Alexandria: P.S..
As some have pointed out, how can we possibly take such an immovable stand on the issue of homosexuality, but we allow women to
speak in church, to
go about with their heads uncovered, we no longer stone people caught
in adultery, we don't crucify thieves... it's just astonishing to think people pick and choose verses and chapters from the Bible to cling to.
There we
go again, shut up this hypocritical rightwingers.Only at election time do rear their ugly heads up to be seen and heard.It's time to unleash the CRACKKIN, the monster that the IRS people use on unruly religious groups, exemption is like a death sentence to these groups.Most of these religious leaders are wolves
in sheeps clothing, selling their political poison to anyone
in their flocks.They push the envelope on the seperation of
church and state issue, seeing how far they can
go.Pastors and ministers would never
speak politics like this years ago, that was taaboo.Now people like Robertson, Graham, and the rest, flaunt their ideaology both religious and political at every event.They don't care about the legal consequences, they have LAWYERS, perishioners pay for that.
The early
church believed that God had
spoken and acted
in history
in their own day
in a way which lit up all that had
gone before.
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.
Jesus had a little bit to say about allowing «anything
goes» religion
in his
Church when he
speaks of the «teaching of Balaam.»
The
church I
go to is at the bottom of that cliff, bringing
in the dying, and
speaking of the One who will give them new life.
I was afraid it would look as if I had deserted the battle array...» He bewails the state of the
Church, and then
speaks in detail of his constipation: «The Lord has struck me hard
in the hind quarters... My stools were so hard that I was sweating with effort... Yesterday on the fourth day I
went once, but I did not sleep all night.»
He
speaks of the doubt concerning the Letter of James, and then he
goes on to say: «At least not many of the andents have mentioned it, as is the case likewise with the Letter that bears the name of Jude... We nevertheless know that these also with the rest have been read publicly
in very many
Churches.»
When the Anglican patristic scholar and
Church historian Trevor Jalland concluded his Bampton Lectures at Oxford
in 1942 (published
in 1944 as The
Church and the Papacy: A Historical Study), he
spoke of the Roman
Church as having «
in its long and remarkable history a supernatural grandeur which no mere secular institution has ever attained
in equal measure,» and
went on to refer to «its strange, almost mystical, faithfulness to type, its marked degree of changelessness, its steadfast clinging to tradition and to precedent.»
He holds court
in his utility closet - sized office next to the ring every day except Sunday, when he
goes to
church, and
speaks to the rotating cast of students who seek his counsel.
Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah, who
spoke on behalf of Mr Mahama prior to the NDC's campaign launch on Sunday, 14 August at the
Church of Pentecost, Adisadel
Church Auditorium
in Cape Coast, Central Region, said: «The fact that we are campaigning does not mean you should
go and fight.