Sentences with phrase «in church for»

August 1, 2010 • Chisel grew up in Appleton, Wis., where he got into music while singing in church for his father, a Baptist minister.

You are not in church for the full day, are you?

He was active in church for over 50 years and was a devoted member of Faith Lutheran Church for 35 years.

Casey, was in the church for 36 yrs, do you homework, oh, Elder Cook last week said repent for being on the internet, shame on your Csey for being on the internet

To give one example, we may on occasion proclaim the Word of God with the specific purpose of securing that Christ's people shall be more faithful, penitent, and regular in their use of the sacramental opportunities which Christ provides in his Church for their growth in grace.

Now we might say that the deeperunderstanding of the Incarnation has now finally arrived in the Church for those with eyes to see, especially in the writings of Pope John Paul II, for whom Jesus is «Lord of the Cosmos and Lord of History».6 It is the vision of so many contemporary theologians - that the Incarnation is no troubleshooting addendum on the part of God's Son.

With the other monks he slept in the large upstairs dormitory, ate in the refectory, listening to suitable reading at the same time; and had his stall in the church for the services which were patterned across the day and some of the night These services were centred on the recitation of the sacred poetry of the Jews, the 150 Psalms, which the early Jewish Christians had continued to recite when they became followers of Jesus, and which had become the staple Christian prayer.

But Luther soon got on to what so affronted him, and what had been an annoyance in the Church for centuries: misuse of ecclesiastical disciplines.

Although I had been in the church since I was 16 years old and read and studied the Bible ever since; even though I had gone to bible college and seminary and university to get my several degrees; even though I have been preaching and teaching in the church for all this time, I felt deep down that something was missing.

Certainly, the women have a just cause, because they have been discriminated against as second class members in the church for centuries, despite the Lord's and the earliest New Testament churches» clear example to the contrary.

I was an elder in our church for 12 years.

Three times daily and on feast - days and Sundays the monks met in the church for common worship.

I've read recently, and I can't remember the place I read it, that one of the major complaints of people who have been in church for years and years... those who have stayed and those who have finally left... is that they don't feel they were allowed to grow into adults, that the only stage that was acceptable and that was nurtured was childhood.

You can become an advocate in your church for fair fighting, constructive conflict and a win / win lifestyle.

Even after Christianity was adopted by the Roman Empire in the fourth century, one still had to obtain a civil marriage from a magistrate before presenting himself in church for a sacramental union.

Firstly, one of our columnists, Steve Chalke, made the decision to hold a service of blessing in his church for a gay couple in his congregation.

I was only involved in a church for 2 years before going to theological college where I was encouraged to think for myself where differing theologies and world views existed.

His role in the prophetic function was to see that there was a climate in the Church for exercising charismatic freedom and challenge, welcoming and encouraging prophetic protest.

Many people don't seem to have a sweet clue as to what's going on in the church for so many people.

Look, I am Jewish and I kinda get the creeps being in a Church for whatever reason.

This thought pattern, which has been dominant in the Church for centuries, was clearly expressed by the Council of Trent when it declared «If anyone says that baptism is optional, that is, not necessary for salvation, anathema sit.»

The corrupt priests and bishops who were only in the church for the money and who saw a chance to get more money.

My grandfather was a minister and educator in the church for over 70 years... but he always believed in science, in global warming, in the work of educated men and women, and understood the Bible better than any man.

My baby Christian ideals about the Church may be a little hardened around the edges, but I still hold hope in God's plans to use those in the Church for His glory.

Nowhere in the Bible does it say women in the church for all time and places are commanded to be silent.

There is money in the Church for lawsuits is why it has more attention.

Every fast and feast in the Church for the past 2,000 odd years has been given to the whole body to remind us that Christ's actions effect us, even now.

He said: «We said women would be bishops and also that there was a place in the church for those that are opposed.

What I'm hearing from you, is the same thing I've heard in church for years, the standard lines.

Clearly there's a spectrum, and there are people in the church for strictly hypocritical (in the original sense) reasons.

Now I remember why I haven't set foot in a church for a long time, except for weddings and funerals.

A chapter called «Praxis and Solidarity» explores the push of many in the church for a more direct relationship between theological education and specific contexts and «underrepresented constituencies,» such as blacks, women, Hispanics, Native Americans and Third World peoples.

Of course, as Dan Biezad points out, there has to be room in the Church for all who repeatedly sin, repent, and seek reconciliation, like Endō's Kichijiro, or real seventeenth - century Jesuits who apostatized under torture but reaffirmed their faith afterward.

It's OK to bare your breasts in church for any reason.

It would be impossible for this gain to be made had there not appeared here and there in the Church those for whom the way of love was real.

Personally, I do not believe that it is a gift, but I know I heard it that way in the church for years and still do.

DB I'm sorry u feel yo dream / vision has to occur in church for it to be legitimate.

I'm a PK, was in the church for 30 + years, currently work for a pastor, am married to an elder's daughter and really have never «met» a pastor like you!

My theology continued do diverge from that of mainline protestantism, but there was room in our church for that, and the best «bible» study I ever took introduced me not only to the likes of Marcus Borg, John Shelby Spong, and Dominic Crossan, but also to a few fellow church members I'd known for years, but had no idea they held beliefs similar to mine.

Because of my overblown expectations, I often took the friendships I found in church for granted.

Radkey says she was active in the church for less than five years in the 1970s.

«Let's have an evangelism retreat in which they can participate,» they say, or «Let's have a series of meetings in our church for the members to learn the Story.»

Having many friends who are LDS (mormon) and having grown up around people in that church for the last 40 years (I live in Utah), I call your bluff on everything you just said about them.

But it is a work done by a few in the Church for the sake of all» a perfectly sound New Testament concept, and in the end soundly democratic as well.

I don't prefer sitting in church for hours.

«This perversity, though prevalent in all parts of society, was allowed to persist in the Church for too long.

He said «There is no place in the Church for those who would harm the young.»

Meat sacrificed to idols was a live issue in the church for decades and was very much on the mind of John as he wrote his Revelation to the seven churches.

I am a born and raised Catholic, in the church for 73 years, but that doesn't make me a child rapist because the church is filled with them.

I was in the church for nearly 60 years and heavily involved in its ministry.