Sentences with phrase «good little church»

I have been a good little church goer ever since I was a baby.

It was supposed to look like Obama DICTATED and the RC lock stepped behind him like a good little church.

Not exact matches

This documentary made by the late Sydney Pollack looks at the little - known two - night live recordings Aretha Franklin did with LA's New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in 1972 for her best - selling album «Amazing Grace,» which was released the same year.

«It should be troubling — to «progressive» Catholics as well as others — that political operatives like John Podesta, who has been associated with Clinton campaigns and administrations for decades, admits that his organization set up (with funding from the Koch Brothers... I mean, George Soros) groups with the purpose of promoting a «revolution» — a «Catholic Spring» — «in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.»

His son has taken steps away from his daddy dearest and raised up a good number of churches to yes fleece his sheep by introducing state of the art issues such as holographic imaging and stage lights and props made to «impress» his emotionally dysfunctional masses all seeking a little societal excitement!

Yesterday, a little Twitter feud (the best and most official sort of feud) started when A Year of Biblical Womanhood author Rachel Held Evans tweeted about The Nines — a very popular annual online church leadership conference.

So the lay need to either be good little sheep or GET OUT OF THE CHURCH Not so.

I say it's time we, the Church, the largest and best corporation in the world, start investing a little more thought into our marketing strategy.

In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

It's a little silly for one church to try to paint their sect as good and another sect as «having gone astray».

«And the thousands of volunteers in our country who will give up their time to make someone else's Christmas that little bit better: from faith inspired projects like the Churches Together initiative in my own constituency - to aid workers helping those in war - torn parts of the world.

The church Jesus wants has little to do with fundraising, mission's trips, attendance numbers, ministry programs, large - group events, personality cults, best - selling authors, TV and radio programs, stained - glass windows, padded pews, professional choirs, or regularly scheduled Bible studies.

The difference is we change company to «church» and suddenly our job is a holy calling, and when we leave the little church that doesn't pay much to go to a bigger church that pays more we can say «God is leading us» instead of I am taking a better paying job.

The meal made it clear that the church was not simply another social agency doing a little good, but a people called to witness to God's presence in the world.

I predict that Ms. Evans will find the Christ spirit and help those within the churches to discover and manifest it just a little better.

Born in Basel, in 1886, he had returned at the end of his university career to be the minister of the church in the little town of Protestant Aargau, north of Lucerne; and there, during the war period, he had preached on Sunday mornings before the good peasant folk, to the antiphonal booming of guns in near - by Alsace.

Because there are others who believe the same way I do, and we have the best Bible scholars, and the best seminaries, and the biggest churches, and the most authors, and our missionaries are very active overseas, and we agree with most of the teachings of the church throughout history... at least since the Reformation anyway... and I believe that with time, and a little education of how to really study the Bible, people will eventually see that what I believe is the right way to believe.

I would go as far to say that the church communities I have known have been, mostly, at least a little better than life in the non-church world.

After studying Christian history, she concluded that she knew too little about the Orthodox Church, so I answered her questions as best I could.I also admonished her to discover the Church through its....

I had my moments of faith: at the little Catholic church down the road on Good Friday, pressing my forehead into the wooden cross at the front of the sanctuary and silently praying, «God, I don't understand this, but I believe, and I am thankful.»

The free churches, left to their own devices, did little better.

Does the catholic church need to balance its voice a little better if they are truly pro life?

The Holy Spirit has sustained the Church through good times and bad, through persecution and imperial power, through the centuries before the Christian Bible was fully assembled, through the assembling of that Bible, through the centuries when most Christians had very little access to the Bible, through the centuries when many American Christians have multiple versions of the Bible on their bookshelves and multiple Christian denominations in their hometowns.

How little they are confined to the events of the first Good Friday is amply illustrated by the words which a disciple of St. Paul puts into his master's mouth: «Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the Church» (Col. 1:24).

We easily regard as the defeat and regression of the Church in modern times what is actually only the social manifestation of a state which has always existed, even in the so - called good old days, because even then people, on the average, had but little faith, hope and love of God and men.

The Church will not, for example, be able to baptize an African chieftain who wants to keep his harem; yet she may, in certain circumstances, judge that he has a subjectively good conscience (though he has heard the message of the gospel and is willing in principle to believe in it), because in his actual social and human circumstances he can not yet realize the moral demand of monogamy, as little as formerly king David and king Solomon.

You will go to church and ask the priest who may or may not have abused little boys, whether you have committed a sin yourself, will ask for forgiveness, will give money to the church as for some inexplicable reason the house of god needs donations from the poor and desolate, and you will go home and feel good about yourself for being so committed to a statue.

How about placing all of these ignorant hateful bigot preachers behind an electrical fence and wait for them to die off... they steal money from dumb parishioners, abuse the little boys in the church, discriminate women, tell you how to vote for their own best interest, and worst of all spew prejudice, hateful ideology from the pulpit all in the name of JESUS.

From them we get a good deal of information about Paul and the early Church, but very little about Jesus.

Well great Skeptical Al, in that case I have very little disagreement with your church's socio - political views.

Men have found no better thing than this to do for kings at their crowning and for criminals going to the scaffold; for armies in triumph or for a bride and bridegroom in a little country church; for the wisdom of a Parliament or for a sick old woman afraid to die... One could fill many pages with the reasons why men have done this, and not tell a hundredth part of them.

If you think about it pretty much everything is better with a little blood sugar rush... including church!

First, a little history: In the 16th century Protestant and Catholic positions on justification became polarized and soon escalated to include other doctrines, including the authority of the church; scripture and tradition; good works; merit and indulgences; the mass; and sin and its effects in human life.

It probably shouldn't have struck me as odd that a people whose only contact with the America of little brown churches is some faintly remembered trip to a grandmother's farm or an occasional dose of television's «Little House on the Prairie» should mourn the passing of an age and lifestyle now deemed better than thilittle brown churches is some faintly remembered trip to a grandmother's farm or an occasional dose of television's «Little House on the Prairie» should mourn the passing of an age and lifestyle now deemed better than thiLittle House on the Prairie» should mourn the passing of an age and lifestyle now deemed better than this one.

I don't know about others, but this sounds not just like some churches I have been to, but some places I have lived and certainly the way I grew up at times - «Look good on the outside and cringe and die a little each day on the inside.»

Until then my hope is that they will help gay people from a church background who believe they are not loved to understand all of the above a little better and to help them get a good therapy that is about them and not about their sexuality.

I'm live in South Africa, which makes it a little different I think that's what I'm trying to say — the church is bigger than your context, and I think this is something good to remember.

It also found little support for its effort within the church, which was not prepared to distinguish between normative moral statements and statements of pastoral care, especially when that nuance was ignored by secular reporters in search of a good story.

Chapter 11 of Close Your Church for Good looks at some of the forms of evangelism today, and how they amount to little more than talking at people.

(To be sure, few would want to go so far as a seminary classmate of mine who regularly, and without acknowledging his source, preached Fosdick's sermons in his student church because he figured that his little congregation «deserved the best.»

Problem definition is time - consuming, a deep journey into our own prejudices and hopes for a Christian faith that actually makes a difference, a horrible awakening that giants of the faith may have little faith in God and more in courts and money, that fame - seekers exist within the church system and garner friends as shields, that a man that marries a second wife may wish to destroy the first wife at any cost, and that authors can indeed write good books but run away from women speaking of their own abuse, and that prior friendships dictate the limits of Christianity....

«People have found no better thing than this to do for kings at their crowning and for criminals going to the scaffold; for armies in triumph or for a bride and bridegroom in a little country church; for the wisdom of a Parliament or for a sick old woman afraid to die... tremulously, by an old monk on the fiftieth anniversary of his vows; furtively by an exiled bishop who had hewn timber all day in a prison camp; gorgeously for the canonization of St Joan of Arc.»

There really ought to be little wonder that the Catholic Church would, for the better part of two centuries, see great caution where possible, and open resistance where necessary, as the rule for her engagement with modernity — political, cultural, intellectual, and otherwise.

Most of them were well versed in Scriptures, religious history, liturgy, church law, and other tools of their trade, but they knew very little about the human beings with whom they had to deal.

«One who has the name and rank of sanctity, while he acts perversely» can do incalculable harm to the church.30 Jesus rightly remarked it would be better that a millstone were hanging around one's neck than that one should harm defenseless «little ones» entrusted to one's care (Matt.

Any church that emphasizes the «macho man warrior stuff» and then expects its men to sit like good little pupils while the pastor says whatever he wants behind a pulpit every Sunday is kidding itself.

We show little interest in stemming the exodus from our churches when, in the language of our creeds, the topics of our sermons, and the content of our programs, we remain ambiguous about relating theology to well - researched world views now widely held by thoughtful persons.

Let's go back to the «GOOD OLD DAYS» of full churches, when preachers stood up in the pulpits and preached that 1) the Bible says SLAVERY IS OK 2) Blacks are little better than MONKEYS 3) Slavery is the «natural condition» of Black people 4) Integration is the work of the devil, etc. etc..

A pretest asking students to identify various biblical books and the people and places mentioned therein, and to complete a few well - known quotations, showed how very little biblical knowledge most teenagers possess — even those who have attended church schools for years.

And, well, since you probably already hate this comment, do you think that maybe, just maybe, your own identity «as a as a graffiti artist on the walls of religion where he critiques religion... specifically Christianity and the church» got threatened just a little bit with this post?