Sentences with phrase «in holy laughter»

Some churches engage in holy laughter, barking like dogs and braying like donkeys, getting slain in the Spirit, rolling in the isles, and having tooth fillings changed to gold.

Not exact matches

For in this, instead of impressing upon him a holy fear and shame before the Good, he is polluting the pure one by teaching him the fear of loss of money, loss of reputation, misjudgment by others, neglect, the world's judgment, the ridicule of fools, the laughter of the frivolous, the cowardly whining of consideration, the inflated triviality of the moment, the fluttering mist - forms of vapor.

But there are others, not so extreme, who say that the short cut to spirituality is speaking in tongues, or having some experience, or that you are truly spiritual if you get slain in the spirit, or experience holy laughter or see a vision of heaven or whatever.

Does this mean holy laughter, slaying in the spirit, gold fillings and all the rest just might not be crazy?

I am sure it was with laughter in his eyes that he confused those who objected to his companions» plucking the grain heads as they passed through the fields on the Sabbath with a reminder of what David, the idealized hero, had done, entering the «house of God,» taking the consecrated bread from the Holy Place, and giving it to his companions because they were hungry.

Pentecostalists have shown a mixed reaction to the Toronto Blessing, a recent phenomenon in which a concentrated outpouring of the Holy Spirit is shown by falling or resting in the Spirit, laughter, shaking and crying.