Sentences with phrase «hear stories of the church»

I'd absolutely love to hear stories of churches (defined as institution) who have decided to live simply and share their wealth with the poor.

I'd also love to hear stories of the church (defined as individuals and families) who have chosen to do this.

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There is a story of a churchwarden (senior lay person) who went to hear a modern theologian speak — in the questions he got up and said that he was disappointed that his vicar wasn't there because that was the kind of thing he wanted to hear in his church.

Satan will get churches to tell the pastor that people don't want to hear the Bible taught any more, and so if he could just tell them a bunch of stories, that would be better.

From across our nation we are hearing incredible stories of the kingdom of God breaking into people's lives as God's Church does what Jesus did.

Do you ever hear stories of other people feeling lonely after leaving the church?

Hopewell rejected that view and adamantly maintained, in passages found in nearly every chapter of Congregation, that a church's story, even when it recounts pedestrian and trivial activity, is the legend of God's plan, if only its sounds and signs can be heard and read.

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:

The early church was a group of people who gathered to hear the stories of salvation.

One group starts to tire of what they perceive to be «church - bashing,» while the other senses that their stories and concerns are not being heard.

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.

I was once abused by a leader of the church (although not as bad as some stories I have heard).

This church never bothered to call me to hear my side of the story on why I stopped going and doing things for them.

Then one day, a pastor took the stage at my church and shared a story I'd heard zillions of times, but was about to hear again as if for the first time.

«Churches across the country will be hearing the Lazarus story if they follow the lectionary, said the Rev Adam Phillips, referring to the list of biblical passages arranged in the calendar year many churchesChurches across the country will be hearing the Lazarus story if they follow the lectionary, said the Rev Adam Phillips, referring to the list of biblical passages arranged in the calendar year many churcheschurches follow.

We had heard so many stories of our gay friends being kicked out of their churches, being asked to step down, or just being ignored so they feel they have no choice but to leave.

There's a Wikipedia page if you want the full story, but Paul McCartney has said the recording exists and at least one super fan says he's heard it and that it's got «distorted, hypnotic drum and organ sounds, a distorted lead guitar, the sound of a church organ, various effects (water gargling was one) and, perhaps most intimidating of all, John Lennon and [Paul] McCartney screaming dementedly and bawling aloud random phrases like «Are you alright?»

On Sunday, churches around the world read from the Gospel of John and heard the story of Lazarus, in which Jesus raised his friend Lazarus from the dead, as part of Lazarus Sunday.

The church is where the stories of Israel and Jesus are told, enacted, and heard, and it is our conviction that as a Christian people there is literally nothing more important we can do.

In most circles, we mostly hear a version of American church history that features European colonialists and settlers (often evangelicals) as the heroes of the story — and then looks at other groups with suspicion.

We've heard Paul's story before, and we know the sad irony that he persecuted the church of Jesus with what he thought was holy zeal.

But the biblical story serves as a reminder that God is no respecter of persons, that the word is spoken and heard in shacks and mansions, churches and classrooms, and that it reaches scholars and illiterates.

We still hear the odd story of a church using physical methods to extract a confession.

The point of the story is that the preacher's sermon and the church's sermons (the messages born in each of the hearers) resulted from the minister's having heard and responded to the theological question implicit in the sculptress's remark, «I am so happy, it's sinful.»

1) As someone who lived in an abusive church for fifteen years, it would have been helpful to hear these kinds of stories back a long time ago.

That biblical story is the bedrock of my faith and the faith of my church, and always I, with my church, am called to hear that history and respond to it, pass it on and live by its promise.

We wanted to verify the authenticity of the story, so we sent one of our writers to the church to hear his confession and to confirm if indeed he is the same Nana Wan that we all know.

The source who disclosed to us what transpired on that faithful monday, also asked us to come to the church on Sunday (25th September) to hear his confession as he would be made to tell the story of how he got his money from the underworld.

«There was no feud between him and the church that I know of, although I can confirm that I heard the story that he vowed to get Pastor Adeboye out,» Adegbiji added.

Darryl Banks, an elder at the Mt. Carmel Seventh Day Adventist Church on Syracuse's south side, says sometimes it's easier for him to hear a story of addiction than anyone else.

It's been over a year since we heard about Greetings from Tim Buckley, a film from Daniel Algrant (director of People I Know and some «Sex and the City»), that would follow the true story of the days leading up to Jeff Buckley's breakthrough 1991 performance at his father's tribute concert at St. Ann's Church.

However, it's once you get higher up in standing at the Church that more truths are revealed, stories we've all heard, none more memorable than the Scientology episode of «South Park ``.

Though she can barely express a sense of self, her life is illuminated by the Bible stories she hears in church.

This is a story About growing up in church, And rebelling against it.About breaking a heart, And finding a way to mend it.About hearing God's voice, And trying to obey it.About avoiding expectation, And learning to defy it.This is the story of an unlikely couple, Max and Crazy Jenna, Who from Sunday School to adulthood, Ventured to and from the prodigal's path, And ended up finding each other...

There was standing room only as 350 people crowded into the Uniting Church hall on Tuesday evening to hear Mick Dodson, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, and Barbara Nicholson, a local Indigenous woman, speak of the past policies of forcibly removing Indigenous children from their families and to share stories of their own removal.

Chief Littlechild helped to lead a seven - year investigation by Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission into the country's «saddest, darkest, most unknown history», to unveil the truth and hear the stories of the survivors, many of whom were subject to abuse in the government - funded church - run boarding schools.