Sentences with phrase «hymn singing in»

But how different is that from a school that rings a bell ahead of hymn singing in assembly, where pupils are obliged to wear caps or boaters, where the school charity is Christian Aid?

There are very few hymns we sing in which we do not say how much we are looking forward to our life in Heaven e.g.» O Salutaris»,» O grant us life

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«When I go (to church) tomorrow and sing a hymn, I'm singing about that very fact that I have hated God this past week in my actions,» she said.

I think I was the only one in my Squadbay that stayed behind while they rest were singing hymns,.

Yeah, I really need more folks to sing the atheist hymns in my non-church!

This pattern resembled, in some respects, Bonhoeffer's organization of community life at Finkenwalde, with its antiphonal reading of the Psalms, stated hours of prayer, hymn singing, and silence.

They would stand when they saw the asterisk in the program, bow their heads to pray and sing hymns in unison with the choir.

In a small, steepled church, people sing a few old hymns backed by an organ, listen to a sermon, share in Communion and have bad coffee as they laugh and catch up in the church basement afterwarIn a small, steepled church, people sing a few old hymns backed by an organ, listen to a sermon, share in Communion and have bad coffee as they laugh and catch up in the church basement afterwarin Communion and have bad coffee as they laugh and catch up in the church basement afterwarin the church basement afterward.

Kay and I paused the marital hymn - singing we usually engage in while driving,... More

Studies have also shown that «worshiping» (singing hymns and praying), activates endorphins and chemicals in the brain akin to narcotic substances.

I grew up singing songs from an over-head projector in old gyms and community centres with terrible acoustics rather than from a hymn book in a chapel.

● «Beer & Hymns,» a gathering at First Christian Church in Portland, Oregon, where 100 or so mostly young people sing hymns like «Be Thou My Vision» while guzzling home - brewed beer from plastic Hymns,» a gathering at First Christian Church in Portland, Oregon, where 100 or so mostly young people sing hymns like «Be Thou My Vision» while guzzling home - brewed beer from plastic hymns like «Be Thou My Vision» while guzzling home - brewed beer from plastic cups.

Occasionally I'm annoyed by a fly buzzing slowly past me (and I'm reminded of a line from a hymn my grandfather claimed to have sung: «There may be flies on you and me, but there ain't no flies on Jesus») Once in a while I feel twinges of boredom as the sermon wears on, or pangs of regret as my mind wanders back to the letters I meant to write the past week.

A few years ago when the number of languages into which it had been rendered was approaching the one thousand mark, it was decided to publish a volume in celebration of that event, to be called The Book of a Thousand Tongues, based doubtless upon the old hymn, «O, for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise.»

My interest was further piqued when we sang a beautiful hymn, «O God of Every Nation,» a hymn I rarely hear in the conservative, nationalistic churches down South.

Men of every nationality, in all churches, listen to the same gospel, sing the same hymns, read the same Bible, and revere the same Lord.

If in such moments we would listen to the wind in the trees, the waves curling on the beach, feet crunching in sand, and the song of the mockingbird as the evening sun sets, we would surely hear creator God singing hymns over us, his creation.

Looking forward to joining our choir in singing the mission's hymn «Jesus Shall Reign» with churches around the world!

And I think that was clear in the way that he would describe biting into a summer tomato or in the way that he would sing one of these hymns.

Hymn and prayer book of the second temple it may have been, but obviously some of the psalms could never have been sung in connection with the sacrifices, and may well be grouped, as Professor Julius Bewer suggests, under the caption, «Private Worship outside of the Temple.»

When we started, the congregation was accustomed to singing four vaguely apposite hymns slotted into the liturgy; in short, they were singing at Mass, rather than singing the Mass..

The emphasis on his divinity, the Canadian scholar Larry Hurtado suggests, was brought about by praying and singing hymns to Jesus, by celebration of the Lord's Supper, by confession of faith in Jesus and prophetic pronouncements of the risen Christ5 Even so there seems to have been some hesitation to speak of Jesus simply as «God» and those verses which appear to do so in English versions of the New Testament may have been mistranslated.

That is clearest in the singing of four - part hymns, something that Protestant congregations learned as a matter of routine (the standard teachers» manual used in Saxony in Bach's childhood had sections on reading, arithmetic, and four - part singing).

Through class meetings, love feasts, and the singing of evangelical hymns, something of the joy experienced in conversion was retained and renewed.

On election day» a Sunday, of course» «from the monastery gates came streaming forth a magnificent procession of the cross, with priests bearing crosses and icons... in a long line, singing hymns and in full ceremonial dress towards the polling place.»

... «Dan 7:23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms,...» Run along and play in the streets and sing ye ol' hymn about unity thru diversity.

They have an image of a never - ending sing - along in the sky, one great hymn after another, forever and ever, amen.

Recently, at the end of the show, Keillor did a tribute to all the new 40 - year - olds, those people born in March 1942, sung to a rewritten Gettysburg Address with the tune of «The Battle Hymn of the Republic» in the background.

A casual reading of such scintillating novels as Ragged Dick and Mark, the Match Boy reveals how Alger created a virtual American mythology of success, the praise of which surely rivaled the hymns sung for Athena in ancient Athens.

Regarding singing in church, CS Lewis said that what he desires are fewer, better, and shorter hymns; especially fewer.

Inside their church, named after their homeland's greatest saint, they heard the gospel read in their native tongue and sang the hymns of their grandfathers.

St. Ephrem has several hymns in honour of St. Thomas in which he sings of the apostle's preaching of the Gospel in India, of the bringing of his bones to Edessa, of the honour that the Edessene church got thereby, and of the miracles wrought at the shrine.

'' [The Christians] were in the habit of meeting on a certain fixed day before it was light, when they sang in alternate verses a hymn to Christ, as to a god, and bound themselves by a solemn oath, not to any wicked deeds, but never to commit any fraud, theft or adultery, never to falsify their word, nor deny a trust when they should be called upon to deliver it up; after which it was their custom to separate, and then reas semble to partake of food — but food of an ordinary and innocent kind.»

They were accustomed, he discovered, to meet on a fixed day very early in the morning, to sing hymns responsively to Christ «as to a god,» and to bind themselves by a solemn oath, not (as he had apparently expected) to some nefarious crime, but to keep the moral law: not to rob or steal, not to commit adultery, not to defraud.

Or the secularist may argue that we believe in God because we want to claim Divine sanction for our worldly interests and desires, and points to the allied and German soldiers in World War I singing hymns as they tried to kill each other, and the religious believer shakes his head sadly and admits that many Christians have done this from the beginning.

Others of my generation who had also grown up in legalism regarding or abstention from alcohol perhaps, and so were exploring their emancipation with micro-brews and homemade wine over thick theology books and bible studies and hymn - sings.

The early Christian community had its own poetry and songs: «Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God (Col. 3:16).»

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.

«Eat this bread, drink this wine...» Christian pilgrims from around the world sing together in English a well - known hymn during a Maundy Thursday service in the Cenacle - or Upper Room - in Jerusalem.

Flogged and imprisoned, Paul and Silas sang hymns at midnight in jail (16:25).

Though we might not want to call up all our friends tonight and ask them to gather around the living room piano for a group hymn sing, we can use the hymnals for powerful corporate and personal use in other creative ways.

They insist that hymns and hymns alone can be sung in the church, the King James Version is...

Put man in the simplest cabin and he will plant petunias about the door; drive him into a cave and he will play the artist on the wall; leave him nothing but sticks and he will devise a flute; bind him in chains and he will drag them to some remembered cadence; imprison him and he will sing hymns at midnight.

Set forth the doctrine of the Person of Christ implicit or explicit in the Christmas hymn by Charles Wesley, «Hark the Herald Angels Sing,» and evaluate it from your perspective.

And to drive home his point, in Act II when Tannhäuser passionately breaks into the hymn again as part of the singing contest to win Elisabeth's hand, Wagner sets it in E Major» Tannhäuser sings to Elisabeth in the key of Venus.

As the co-writer of «In Christ Alone» Keith Getty has remarked on the need for children to sing complicated hymns: «By engaging in something fundamentally, and yet enjoyably, higher than their own life stage, children learn a key lesson: that life is deepeIn Christ Alone» Keith Getty has remarked on the need for children to sing complicated hymns: «By engaging in something fundamentally, and yet enjoyably, higher than their own life stage, children learn a key lesson: that life is deepein something fundamentally, and yet enjoyably, higher than their own life stage, children learn a key lesson: that life is deeper.

Nothing wrong with either — but churches that sing two hymns and three seventies - era choruses on Sunday may have a harder time relating to church plants in Europe that talk about missional incarnational witness, acts of mercy to advance the Kingdom, and planting churches that multiply.

After joining the Chris Evans breakfast show on Radio 2 to promote his new album, begrudgingly he joined in with a team singing of the 1972 hymn «We Plough the Fields and Scatter» to mark the harvest festival.

The prayers include the Magnificat, the familiar «Holy Michael, Archangel, defend us in the day of battle...» and a rather good hymn which can be sung to the tune of Come, Holy Ghost and is specifically aimed at begging for protection on unborn children.

I always feel like I'm praying in those moments, like some part of my marrow is singing a quiet hymn that belongs in a country church.