Sentences with phrase «going high church»

As Jesse Cone puts it, «kids are going high church.»

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Many conservative commentators point, as the icon for all that went wrong, to the 1967 Land O» Lakes statement, in which the presidents of Catholic colleges declared that their pursuit of academic excellence served a high Catholic goal and thus exempted Catholic schools from direct obedience to the hierarchy and magisterium of the Catholic Church.

Also, if you don't pay into the church you get excommunicated and / or can't go to «temple» proceedings and won't get into the «higher» levels of Heaven.

I was raised in a fundamentalist Christian church and went to a Christian high school too.

I'm perfectly willing to go to a Protestant church, and I find that some of them, which are called Presbyterian, have very high - church ways of being Presbyterian.

We develop unrealistic expectations of ourselves, careers, marriages, church and so on (and then we get depressed when our too - high expectations go unmet).

If they Pope said jump, I guarantee you the vast majority of Catholics wouldn't even take notice (I'm one of them, 4 years with Franciscans, 4 years with Dominicans), but if the LDS Prophet said jump, you better believe every church going Mormon is jumping — and they won't ask why, just how high and how long — they'll do it blindly like robots.

Truth is many evangelical preachers are involved in priestcraft which actually turns people so off of organized religion that they stop going to church and then stop believing in a higher power.

Believing in God and knowing there is a higher power is so different than going to a church and getting wrapped up in the politics in a church.

The fact that this «church» has been around so long and has been able to get away with all of its MANY atrocities just goes to show you how high up the corruption goes.

Most possibly if we go on like this ultimately we too have the high possibilty of becoming a church organisation.

History is filled with people who have great - sounding advice for the Bible and the Church, or people who have predicted the end of the faith... those people are long since gone, many of them their writings forgotten by any but the highest intellectual circles... but the Bible remains, and will remain.

The Church relishes in the liturgy as the «high point» of Christian worship, but does not the Christ remind us, «if our brother has something against us, we are to leave our gift at the altar and go be reconciled first and then return?»

No price is too high for the single soul, and a lot more goes on in the typical church than just seeking conversions.

These Pasters should stop living high on the hog from church donations while church goers are poor and praying for a miracle.

When you live in a society where there is a high value placed on calling yourself Christian and going to church, and there are even promising career paths available, there's always going to be people who become Christians for the wrong reasons.

I agree Sam, my family are going through terrible abuse by manipulation in the church at present but now irs been exposed and its not us who is the problem we can fight the battles with head held high.

Why do you think so many young adults stop going to church after graduating from high school?

The amount of guys I know who are naturally effeminate is quite high; the ones who grew up in church, to a man, have gone on to lead perfectly normal lives.

As soon as I turned 13, she presented me with my first tube of cherry - red lipstick and my first pair of high heels — three - inch heels they were in those days, and I thought them not only uncomfortable but incredibly hideous — and from then on made me go to church thus shod and painted, indistinguishable from the other eighth - graders whose arms hadn't had to be twisted.

The few people I know who attend mega churches here in San Diego tell me that they go because: 1) They like the their pastor's preaching (Most of those pastors have radio ministries) 2) They like the other high class guest speakers 3) They like the bookstores, cafes and so on the church has 4) They can blend into the crowd

So the higher ups are going to go for a smaller church and then get bigger.

The devil has blinded the leaders of the churches of today when they serve carved images of the flag of any nation... In Exodus and Deuteronomy God said, not to serve or bow down to any carved image in the likeness of heaven above or in the likeness of the earth below... When you pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are pledging your allegiance to the carved images of the flag... The founding fathers made carved images in the likeness of heaven above and in the likeness of the earth below and set the carved images on a flag and the flag is high and lifted up on a flag pole... Some nations are serving the stars, the moon, and the sun, and others are serving the eagle, the bear, and the tree... The U.S. is serving the stars of heaven and the eagle of the earth... Canada is serving the leaf of a tree... Mexico is serving the eagle and the serpent... When you put your right hand to your heart or to your forehead, and pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are committing fornication with the carved images of the flag, God calls this IDOLATRY... The mark of the beast in the right hand or forehead is spiritual and identical to when you put your right hand over your heart or over your forehead... There is no way to go around God and the carved images of the flag, unless the devil has blinded the minds of the believer, like when he deceived eve and Adam in the garden of Eden.

Because Azalea is a specialist project, they train their staff to a high standard, but the temptation for other churches can be to just give it a go.

The higher up on the food chain you go, the less likely church leaders are going to follow their own religion.

The Catholic Church in Scotland has gone through several painful and highly publicised scandals, some at the highest levels.

He goes on to say, «Perhaps the answer is that the Church should have banned higher education for Catholics.»

I find some higher Anglican churches here are like t hat, but I've grown up in «low» Anglican churches that became increasingly Evangelical in their theology as time went on and there wasn't the same freedom to think and question and explore.

Of course it is a real leap from sex scandals and bureaucratic mismanagement to the argument that the Catholic Church will go to murderous lengths to stifle evidence that contradicts its teaching, and that the church's highest officials do this cynically, knowing that the faith is a Church will go to murderous lengths to stifle evidence that contradicts its teaching, and that the church's highest officials do this cynically, knowing that the faith is a church's highest officials do this cynically, knowing that the faith is a fraud.

My small group leaders and then other leaders in the church I grew up going to (which was as relaxed in their preaching as you can find (Presbyterian)-RRB- would confirms this to other high school guys and girls my age that unless he chose to believe in Jesus as the Son of God by the time he died on his deathbed he wouldn't join my Mom and sisters and I in heaven.

Neville you are quite right it is a process of growing i do nt believe Jeremy is saying we should sit there like a lump of clay and do nothing.But rather than doing something thinking that that will add to the work of Christ is pointless.We are expected to walk by faith but alot of what is expected from the church or others are dead works and are done because the church expects us to do them.The way around this is to say no just do what the Lord wants you to and please him put him first.That way you are still walking by faith and growing in Christ rather than wasting time just trying to keep something going that needs to die so that Christ can be elevated to the highest position.brentnz

Smaller churches (and my experience is w / Baptist churches, even ones larger than my home Catholic Church ever was) seem to demand exquisite style, high prices style, not the thought that went into keeping my dress nice (and clean) fixing my hair, applying a modest amount of make - up, etc..

The Catholic Church in Ireland is going high - tech in a bid to reverse a dramatic decline in the number of priests.

that's why iam not going to church anymore AND BRING BACK THE LATIN MASS.... GET RID OF THE NEW ALTARS AND USE THE OLD HIGH ALTARS AGAIN...

The young families moved to the suburbs (where my church is), leaving the church with heavy debt and high utility bills, and soon it went bankrupt and dissolved.

During high school I found that * almost * everyone who went to church didn't accept what «the Good Book» has to offer.

As the Pope still has significant influence over the less educated masses in these parts of the World, he has exercised this power by: (a) Using some of the Vatican's incomprehensible wealth to educate these vulnerable people on health family planning and condom use; (b) Supporting government programs that distribute condoms to high risk groups; (c) Using its myriad of churches in these regions to distribute condoms; or (d) Scaring people into NOT using condoms, based upon his disdainful and aloof view that it is better that a person die than go against the Vatican's position on contraceptive use.

I went to a church in junoir high where they had a game, oreo eating contest.

I have such fun memories of going to our church camp every summer in high school and having a...

«Some people call it going from high tech to high touch,» said Valerie Maholmes, a member of the psychology staff at Yale University who runs the singles ministry at the Prayer Tabernacle nondenominational church in Bridgeport, Conn..

About me: Hello... I'm Ada Vaughn and and I'm a Senior at Madill High School... I love my friends... I have friends in different places in Oklahoma... I love playing basketball for fun, going to church, going to school, going to go on trips, the ag program, Speech

I believe in a higher power and go to church and sweat.

In my junior year of high school, I went whitewater rafting with the church group I was a part of, and it was one of the most fun times I've ever had.

i am a working honest down to earth man from N.Y i don't drink or get high off anything but life, a church going man but still learning.I am a black man who love's to have... Read More

So he raised his boys to be ministers, and we went to - I'm a product of the Christian Reformed Church in West Michigan, Grand Rapids West Side Christian, Grand Rapids Christian High, Calvin College.

He sang in the church choir as a child, and quarterbacked his high school's football team, before going on to major in classical music and composition in college.

With the help of a former high - ranking Scientologist, Theroux sets out to understand the furtive goings - on of the Church, armed with his irreverent humor and biting irony.

Obama plans to go to Graham Road Elementary School in Falls Church, which the White House calls a low - income but high - achieving school, to signal his intention to expand his Race to the Top program.

When I was in high school, a school board member (who also happened to be a member of the church at which my father was the pastor) got wind of the fact that our drama class was going to do Blithe Spirit.

The Professor is the high priest of the Church of Climatology, and his devotees fear being charged as heretics and burned at the Stake if they don't go along with his ideology.