Sentences with phrase «good old church»

Furthermore we need a ecu - menical council of the Christian Churches in order to restore the good old doctrine and the good old church.

Not exact matches

Yay for the good old catholic church.

I think the article is good to bring this to the attention of churches but there are many, many churches ministering to not only older Americans but everyone, including the mentally and physically challenged!.

A ploy as old as the hills to political as well as church leaders.

However, many of those were older, more traditional churches led by entrenched, autocratic pastors well into their 60s and composed of a congregation and worship style that was far from contemporary.

Most of the North American Indian tribes and their spirituality / religions are well over 5000 years old, with understanding of God just as solid as that of the Roman Catholic Church.

They even brought defrocked priests and nuns into their fold, as well as disgruntled Christians who bemoaned the declining morals of their old churches.

The «old high church traditions» are not necessarily the best ways.

Well said: One reason so many — not just Millennials — are leaving Christian churches is that the churches think and act more like the older brother in the Parable of the Prodigal Son and not like the father.

I bet the Pope is wishing for the good old days when he torure em and burn em alive like all those pesky kids giving his church a hard time.

What a privilege to set out into the wilderness from among the Spanish oaks and the Guadalupe river, what a gift to be equipped for the journey by the saints of an old German town and the prayers of the earnest at the big evangelical church and the friendship and love of a few good people who loved Jesus and loved you.

Modern day Christian «Good Old Boys» who are comfortable in their religion will defend the institution they call the church, and they will defend their leaders, the Pharisee, Scribe, and Sadducee.

This view of aging and the place of the church aligns well with Vaillant's finding that organized religion is especially attractive for lonely old people, those with a tendency toward depressive illness and those whose childhoods were lacking in hope and love.

I am 60 years old, grew up in a very legalistic cultic church, been part of several church leaderships, served as pastor of a start up church, read and went to many, many, many church growth conferences, wanted to reach the lost, always trying to find the best structures, the best form of church, and what type of bells and whistles will attract people to church.

In his view, the Holocaust and the Jewish return from exile, as well as the general opening of the Church toward non-Christian religions, had exploded the old, supersessionist view.

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.

Of course, it is often difficult to decide whether, despite a man's good will, his efforts to understand better the gospel and the doctrine of the Church have really caused him to depart from the truth) or whether a traditionalist sold on the old formulae only thinks so.

In comparison with the breadth and depth of the intellectual, economic, cultural, social changes of today and tomorrow in the secular sphere, however, which also contribute to determine the task of the Church, it must even be said that the Church in its aggiornamento proceeds very slowly and cautiously, so that there is more reason to ask whether it is reacting sufficiently quickly, courageously and confidently to the future which has already begun, than to fear that it is sacrificing too quickly and in too «modernistic» a way what is old and well - tried and has stood the test.

For some reason I just imaged my childhood if I didn't go to Church on Sunday's and listen to George Carlin cassettes... (good old cassettes).

With these reservations we might well be of the opinion that the Church in Germany, and not only there, is, on the whole, still tempted to defend old conservative positions rather than to surrender them in order to prepare even now for an inevitable future, despite some conciliar courage to start anew and risk an uncertain future.

It must be soberly realized that no human enactment, whether old or new, has advantages only and no disadvantages; that the old days were good only for those who enjoyed the benefits of them, but not for all without distinction and that for the most part they only begin to look splendid when they are past and gone; that even the new age will produce tribulation, inadequacies and defects, and that the reform of the Church is never at an end.

Travelling to Israel from a variety of nations across the globe, pilgrims poured into the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Christian Quarter of the Old City last night - many arriving hours in advance to try and secure a good view of the proceedings.

That divisive process was carried on with the best of intentions, and churches could get away with it in the old days of isolated communities, but now that whole sectarian system is obsolete, dangerously obsolete in its effect on the total Christian cause.

The new liberal church will not forget its heritage; indeed, the hope is that it will do a better job of remembering that heritage than did the old liberal church.

Given the things that I've said about pagan elements in the Christian church, this might surprise you, but the old pagan holidays are actually good occasions to contrast the message of Yehoshua with the old pagan beliefs.

It is a good thing indeed that men as well as women, young women as well as matrons, and talented older people of both sexes have also been engaged in the teaching enterprises of the churches.

But these changes didn't go down well with the older church members.

As far as German scholars of that era go, though, he was one of the good guys, a member of the Confessing Church who spoke out against the mistreatment of Jews, whatever negative Marcionite opinions he had regarding the relevance of the Old Testament.

In a church whose membership ranked lower than the older Protestant denominations in education and socioeconomic status, a bishop could well speak like that.

We hear of fast - days on the Jewish model, but on different days, and the adoption by the Church of the Old Testament as a sacred book played a large part in forming the prayers as well as the instruction of Christians.

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.

While the decline of traditional women's ministry is largely anecdotal, it is tied to some well - documented trends in the American church, including the rise of working women and the gap between younger and older generations.

If we believe these things, we shall be disposed to think it a good ground for believing anything else, that it was revealed by God to the Jews of the Old Testament, or taught by Christ or by the Church he founded.

After all that I forgot even what I thought I did in the first place, And I tell myself that if I am doing all of that then I care about it, and then I think about it and that it's possible to just go on with my life without stressing about all of this... and then when I die I'll go to hell and burn forever... and then at the same time I don't want to constantly freak out about it and live my entire life in fear of going to hell... My Parents are Atheists and say that I should just live my life without worrying about it and being nice to people and being an overall good person, and I'm not old enough to go to church, so I just repent quietly in my room, Perhaps when I was younger I have sworn to god on things that may or may not have been true, and then I repeat those things in my head, and I would get scared.

From that fateful date the Holy Spirit, speaking through the Pope and the Fathers of the Council (not the periti) told the Church that a new frame was needed, both to safeguard the ancient treasury of the Faith, and to draw forth from that treasury «new» things for this age, as well as the old things.

Many churches in the Yungan area are removing crosses from their buildings, and local police have cracked down on local gatherings: detaining a local pastor, as well as believers as young as 3 years old for singing in a park.

Church done the old way isn't working so well.

To have a woman decide that she rather have a «personal relationship» with an imaginary being rather than the old line of the Catholic church is like a child saying that they like the Tooth Fairy better than Santa Claus.

It would be hypocritical of me to continue going to Church when I know the priest and community blindly follow not the teachings of Jesus but their leaders» self - serving, exclusive, and good - old - boy rules.

’24 E. Schweizer writes, «that the exaltation really dominated the thought of the early church is also shown by the fact that the oldest tradition barely distinguished between Easter and Ascension... It may well be asked if the reports of the first appearances (I Cor.

For instance, one man who attended church with us at our old church was like a father to me, and my brother and his wife attended church with us as well.

I remember passing by an old German church in Toronto that had an english service as well.

Thanksgiving, another old church word, breathes in and out with the leaves turning in the rain drops falling, kelly green side up, dull green underside up, back and forth, waving and dancing, good morning, good morning, good morning.

On the one hand, the enterprise of copying, correcting, translating, and publishing texts — the business of scholarship; on the other, the enterprise of delivering to the Church an intact Old Testament and a New Testament that conforms to the mind of Christ: this involves setting the boundaries of the canon by choosing and rejecting among rival testimonies, selecting the best text of each canonical witness, suppressing additions and interpolations, suppressing mistranslations, and so forth.

@fred — you said --» I say generally because good old Saul was at his peak slicing up Christians at the beginnings of the Church.

Yep you are right, I moved down here in the state of Mississippi, north of Crystal Springs from Chicago when I was ten years old but still I visit once in a while, now it's twenty years and sad to not much has change, like the parts you said about non-whites discrimatory or rasicts at other non-whites, when I went to school here they treated me as a alien from another galaxy, they pick at my voice cause I didn't had that southern dialog, unlike them I said my words correctly, but not just me, they even hated at others who had better intelect I am not picking at them, It is what I went through all these years, Mississippi and mainly this small town of Crystal Springs see America in a crazy awful view, They don't like difference that even within they own race, ther not that politcal, when some one say God they got there vote, I don't to say much to waste your time, I still remember when I was ten years old I had a constanct back ground check on me to see were I really come from evn though I had the paper saying Chicago Illinois barely no jobs but a church on every street for a town barely under five Thousand, till this very day, they look at me like I am a alien, did you ever had that experiance down here damn my keybroad mess up,

The old prayers of the church understood this so well and felt it so deeply that every one of them jumps into the moments» petitions after a running start in the eventful history of the people of God.

I have fallen away from the church though the older I get the more I realize that any organized religion freaks me out, but here is the thing there are lots of homeless shelters and hot food banks that run off churches so they do some good for the community.

«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.»

When Lisa and I left the church our children were already in their older teens, so they were already well on their way.