Sentences with phrase «hear about a church»

«I heard about a church youth group recently where a young person wanted to move from their boys» group to their girls» group.

At this point it struck me that I had heard about the church, about money, about pastor so - and - so, but nobody had mentioned anything about Jesus.

Maria Garves heard about the church while stationed with the Army in Bahrain.

Almost every day I hear about a church, neighborhood, or community opening their arms to a refugee family.

I got so used to hearing about churches that have attendances in their thousands that I actually started to look down at attendees when they told me about the church of 200 they pastor.

Heard about a church sometime ago filing for bankruptcy... how does that happen?

Sorry to hear about the church closing.

Not exact matches

Bishop Barry Rogerson, Church of England, asked during the Gulf hearing whether the WCC wanted simply to «feel good» about its own correctness, or actually to do some good.

I don't spend time in my study figuring out how to save the world, how to grow the church, how to get more money out of people's pockets, how to promote this church's ministry, how to enthrall our people more with sexy worship music, how to make myself more awesome before my people, how to get more people to hear about and come to our church.

A comment was made that most churches don't preach Jesus... I find that frustrating because in most churches we hear all day long about Paul, what he has to say about «Christ», all feeling one step removed from Jesus by name, preferring to speak of Him by His title.

MacIntyre is not naive about the tenacity of liberals to refuse to give Aristotle a hearing simply because Aquinas had so successfully baptized him for the Church: «It is safe to predict that to the vast majority of such protagonists it will seem preferable to remain in almost any predicament than to accept a Thomistic diagnosis.»

This is all about control with religion and it has to stop.Gay people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight people getting married.People are so full of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.

For the past couple of weeks I have been hearing lots of criticism and negative rumors about me and our church.

When I came to the realization about theological concepts acting as a substitute for a relationship with God, I started to see and hear that kind of stuff all over the place in church.

Great fear seized the whole church and all who heard about these events.

I'd love to hear more from you about this as just now I'm wrestling with the whole issue of how to bridge the gap for our Christian prisoners from «church» in jail to church on release.

I've heard some pretty terrible things about where the original money came from to build this church in the first place.

Firstly, I believe that we can never hear too much teaching about what it really means to walk in love, and if there is anything that the Church worldwide is lacking, it is probably that genuinely walking in love with everybody.

After I had worked near her for about a year, I heard from a member of her church that she told the church folks that she was «persecuted» at work because she was a Christian.

I still think we should still go to the church... or maybe a meeting where all the believer can learn from each other, strengthening each other, pray for each other etc, and of course, to worship God together... It is true that sometime I feel that I do not learn many thing from the sermon, but, many times, I learn by going to the church, knowing that I will not learn something from the preacher, humble myself to still listen to God and worship Him,,,, it is such a blessing to hear others testimony about how God works in their life, it is such an encouragement to see people open up their problem, then, we can pray about them..

By contrast, when I attended a gathering of pastors from much smaller churches, nickel - and - dime operations with meager attendance on Sundays, barely able to support their pastors, I did not hear the pastors talk about improving their facilities or putting together a smoother operation for Jesus.

I have heard enough about people who say FG churches deny the cross.

On the blame culture in the Church, he added:» «I've heard about a problem, but it was someone else's job to report it».

God bless you Pastor Joel, you heard the church called winners chapel international, the main church is found in Ota Nigeria, and the church auditorium is the biggest in the world a capacity of 50,000 and only a Sunday's service about 200,000 people gather in the church and once in a month on Sundays take holy communion for all 200,000 people.

Wendy, I'm sorry to hear about your experience being to hide your intellect in church, enough to drive you crazy.

As a kid growing up in Evangelical churches, I would occasionally hear about the ultimate in Christian travel — the Holy Land tour.

Here are a few truths about marriage I never heard in church:

what I appreciate about David's cartoons, is that he'll go on for awhile exposing the flaws in some of our churches, right up to the point where I almost don't want to hear any more and then * KABOOM * he hits us with the love and grace of God.

I certainly appreciate your confidence in me, but here's the thing: There's a double - standard out there in which a woman's critique of patriarchy tends to get discounted as nothing more than the rants of an «angry feminist,» and, truth be told, I've grown a bit weary of hearing that charge each time I speak out about this disturbing trend in the evangelical church.

«It's really useful, if you get the chance to speak to your candidates, for them to hear that climate change is something that their voters care about and something that the Church cares about.»

I keep my faith seperate from church & all the terrible things I hear about organized religion (much of it here).

On a visit to the UK for the Pioneer Church Leaders Conference in early 1996, they heard about the Pioneer «Partnership» structure and decided to use the model.

The birth of PIH can be traced back to spring 1994 when Rick Oldland, minister at Oasis Baptist Church (not connected with Steve Chalke), heard about notable goings on at a small Vineyard Church near Toronto Airport.

From Eric: Since your doctorate is in historical theology, I'd like to hear your take on the shape the debate about women in the church has taken throughout history.

So when Kim shared a small piece of her own story about leaving the institutionalized church and connecting to a less traditional community of believers, I mixed the well - meaning, thoughtful critiques in the comment section with some of the messages I've been getting from critics lately, and this is what I heard:

By now, everyone who reads contemporary fiction will have heard of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel's acclaimed historical novels about Thomas Cromwell, the powerful advisor to Henry VIII who all but single - handedly disestablished the Catholic Church in England.

We were recently holding some meetings in India, and as we preached about the UnGodlike God, a visitor to the church who attends Hillsong in London, came to us after and said, «that was amazing, why are WE not hearing this stuff».

Coming to church later in life when there was something that seemed a little odd or strange about what I was hearing to which I thought differently.

I heard more of their intersecting stories, and when Idelette was done talking about her book, about her passions, I wanted to see her on every stage of every slick Christian conference, to bring some mama - truth, to preach the Gospel of Being With Each Other, but then I kind of had to shrug because part of Idelette's power is that she's outside of that system, outside of that church - marketing world, too busy living the truth of it to package it.

Some of you might have heard some echoes from the modern debate about church.

Her second point was that teenagers are already talking about this, so it is easy for Christians to engage with when we've got such an appealing alternative: «If the church wants to be connecting with young people, we need to be hearing what their concerns are and this has been subject young people have been really willing to open up about.»

Have you heard the joke about the man who came to church for the first time?

I do hear your points that you think I have not seen the need for warning of danger, that you believe I think of it as «unChristian» to talk about such things, and that you may even believe that my comments are akin to protecting evil deeds and harming the innocent, using the bible as a proof texting weapon to that end and contributing to a problem of church becoming fake and shallow while claiming to be deep and pious.

Hearing lot this week about criticism, control & judgement exerted on individuals by church.

Since some of these people have never heard a former pastor and seminary student praise them for «leaving the church,» this often launches us into a conversation about Jesus and religion.

I've heard some pretty remarkable statistics about church dropouts — I'm sure you have, too.

God has been thrown out just about everywhere, including the churchs, who lie, and do not talk about the Truth but what their members want to hear.

Take a moment to listen and begin to hear about ancestor worship, the growth of the church on the mainland compared to the slower growth in Taiwan, and a bluegrass concert.

If our young Evangelical would happen to visit a Lutheran church, long before he hears about theological differences, he will «feel» that the experience of church and spirituality is different in the Lutheran church.

You hear ONE pastor speak and then make all encompassing claims about the whole Christian church.