People ask me about what's
happening at church or in our youth group in the same way they ask another person who's into motorcycles about his bike.
Nothing like
that happens at church.
I was surfing the net re bullying in church as I have been reminded of what
happened at a church we joined for four years in 1988.
When was the last time you saw that
happen at a church service?
And as schools are taking away music programs, the context for music often
happens at church.
It really won't do to offer - as
happened at a church in the USA attended by a friend - leaflets urging women to «be veiled» at Mass as a sign, apparently, of submission to male authority (surely a very odd reason to give for putting on a hat?).
God has given me a passion for the most unlikely and unconventional Christ seekers; it is the most exciting and God - glorifying thing
happening at church as far as I am concerned.
But something interesting
happened at church this morning that I would like to share with you tomorrow.
But one way or another, they take what
happens at church as critical to their lives and will take incredibly brave stands to preserve the good.
There's also a look at amazing
happenings at a church in Lebanon, Andy Kind on comedy and Christianity and we hear form the world's greatest living explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes.
I'd told a story during my sermon last week that
happened at a church conference years ago.
You might have been saddened by something that
happened at your church and felt you had to leave.
Well, a few things
happened at that Church and now we are part of a large Church in Minnesota there... but my wife and I both feel safe and growing there.
I do not know the details about David leaving the church or being invited again but I want to tell you about something
happening at my church and it may (or may not) apply to David's situation.
When I asked him who he could tell if something
happened at church, he said he would leave his class and go tell our pastor, which made me laugh.
A few weeks ago, something really wild
happened at the church we've been attending.
Not exact matches
While most of us think about our time in 24 - hour blocks, Vanderkam thinks that «anything you do once a week
happens often enough to be important to you, whether it's
church, a strategic thinking session
at work, your Sunday dinner with your parents, or your softball team practice.»
This time, the rampage
happened at a high school in Broward County, Florida, but no place is safe — not baseball fields or movie theaters or concerts or even
churches.
I'm currently reading the book, When bad Christians
happen to Good people bc i've been there & have come full circle... Life
church helped me to see that many of us mistakenly put our faith in other Christians instead of God, but pple are sinners & will fail us
at some point.
He had been joining relatives
at the
church for a family wedding when the alleged incident
happened.
I became a Christian
at age 13 when I went to a well - known
church camp in upstate New York and was threatened with the imminent — as in «all the signs are there; it may just
happen tonight» — return of Christ.
If you look
at the
church website, there is stuff
happening several nights or mornings a week, always something going on to keep the people active, involved, doing something.
The next time you see him, you tell him you missed him
at church, and you ask him what
happened, and he just evades the question by saying that something came up.
You should not be judged by anything that
happened at your previous
church.
Most of the harm my family ever suffered
at human «hands»
happened in the
church community.
Haught can not explain what
happens at death, nor the meaning of the sacraments as taught by the
Church, nor the human need for true interior life.
When it does
happen — when a group comes up with a novel interpretation that defies the
church's historical and present teaching, it usually ends up becoming a small sect
at best and heretical
at worst.
Travelling so much must mean that
church has to become wherever you
happen to be ministering
at the weekend.
So that leaves me with the question: What
happens when it's a trusted person
at this
church?
It
happened to me
at church also.
A
church member told the Mirror about the moment 80 members of the choir at All Saints Church realised something serious was happening, as police snipers in balaclavas were spotted outside of the building on rooftops at around 8.
church member told the Mirror about the moment 80 members of the choir
at All Saints
Church realised something serious was happening, as police snipers in balaclavas were spotted outside of the building on rooftops at around 8.
Church realised something serious was
happening, as police snipers in balaclavas were spotted outside of the building on rooftops
at around 8.20 pm.
But one might well wonder whether these things would have
happened, or would have
happened with such pervasive consequences, if so many Catholics had not been persuaded that the «post-Vatican II
Church» had liberated them from what Lenski, and almost everyone else
at the time, thought was Catholicism.
So to me it doesn't mean (
at least in my own life) that I'm not going to work or go to
church or whatever but I don't have nearly as much faith in these things as I have in what
happened on the cross.
Plenty of people sitting in
churches unwilling to do anything differently if it conflicts with the way they want it and they will often stop
at nothing to make sure it
happens their way.
I don't know what
happened, or why he left, but he is no longer the pastor
at that
church, and I believe has since joined a «Plymouth Brethren» congregation, though they don't use that name themselves.
Our praying, whether in word or thought, whether in
church or
at home, whether
at ordinary services in
church or
at the Lord's Supper, should be grounded in two matters of supreme importance: the reality of God as Love and the concrete place where we
happen to be as human beings.
The sheer unpredictability of city encounters makes it impossible to presume, as many
churches do, that God's grace must be sequential — measured out
at regular intervals in baptism, confirmation, communion, marriage, burial — and will
happen to everyone
at the prescribed time, in the same way.»
This has
happened frequently to my wife and I the last few years, with my new job, our adoption process, our attempts
at church planting, and a host of other areas.
He said a similar incident
happened four months ago when someone left a satanic picture
at the foot of a
at the back of the
church.
I don't call them «
churches» anymore, or
at least I don't align them semantically with Jesus speaking to Peter or anything that
happened in the book of Acts.
Reports of supernatural
happenings, including a much - discussed «glory cloud» — a sparkling gold cloud that seemed to appear
at the side of the stage during several worship services — has given both Johnson and his
church an international reputation.
What would
happen if a
church plant, from day one, decided to give
at least 50 % of it's budget to missions?
Similarly this is what
happens every year
at the
church I go to where the accounts are presented and any questions regarding them are answered.
They accused me of reducing the Easter event to a mere change of outlook on the part of the disciples, or, in the manner of Bultmann, to a decision on our part,
at this present time, to accept as our Lord the Christ who encounters us in the Easter preaching of the
Church, to which the whole question of an event alleged to have
happened two thousand years ago is irrelevant.
So we worked for months on a cover story looking
at the conflict in the Holy Land — why it's
happening, peacemaking efforts, the (forgotten) story of the
Church there and the eye - opening narratives our generation has to grapple with.
The vote
happened Saturday
at the General Synod, the three - times - a-year meeting that sets policies for the
Church of England.
This is because it is
at church that great things can
happen.
He took a long look
at the room of would - be pastors and ministerial leaders, each of us zealous to earn our future roles in
churches, ministries and on the mission field and delivered his first teaching point: «The wrong person
at the wrong place
at the wrong time always results in the wrong thing
happening.»
Something like that has
happened to the Catholic
Church in America,
at least as Russell Shaw analyzes it in American
Church: The Remarkable Rise, Meteoric Fall, and Uncertain Future of Catholicism in America.
I am aware this
happens as I was involved with benevolence
at a previous
church.