Sentences with phrase «in places like church»

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From Miami, the jet will whisk you away, crisscrossing the globe, hitting five continents on a 25 - day voyage to places like Easter Island, with its mystical «moai» statues; Nicaragua, to tour a volcano by helicopter; Australia, where you'll taste wine in the Margaret River Valley; and Tbilisi, Georgia, for a private choral performance at a sixth - century church.

We all need to meet at the Coptic Church and protest peacefully just like the Muslims are doing in Egypt, and all those other ME places.

However, I talk with a lot of people concerning church â $ «and they are from a variety of places like Saskatchewan, BC, Ontario, and many places in Americaâ $ ¦ and the complaints are very similar.

In just about all my career, the historic churches have been in decline, their place being taken by «evangelical» churches which seem like nothing more than Tea Partiers at prayeIn just about all my career, the historic churches have been in decline, their place being taken by «evangelical» churches which seem like nothing more than Tea Partiers at prayein decline, their place being taken by «evangelical» churches which seem like nothing more than Tea Partiers at prayer.

Churches who provide 3 meals a day, You see the beauty of an historical place like the Vatican, preserving history in its art work amd library but are unaware of the services it provides behind the scenes away from the eyes of the public.

It is appropriate for a German to be profound on Church music, and, like many of us, he can not explain why the clear order of the Second Vatican Council on music has been turned on its head: «Gregorian chant should be given pride of place in liturgical services.»

And like this excellent post says and cartoon suggests, I join you in hoping to see the Church change to be a place someday where adultery (abuse) survivors — i.e. faithful spouses — are not presumed guilty of some sin that «caused» their spouse to cheat (and abuse them).

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T. S. Eliot in Four Quartets speaks of Little Gidding as a place «where prayer has been valid»; there are churches like that, too.

Second, if the church is attentive to the New Testament, Justin Martyr and Hippolytus, the Eastern church, the Western catholic tradition, the Anglican tradition, the Lutheran tradition, the Calvinist intent (and practice, if not in Geneva then in places like John Robinson's Leiden), the Wesleyan intent and that of the early Methodists, then its worship on every festival of the resurrection — that is, on every Sunday — will include both Word and Supper, not one or the other.

Two likely places to meet compatible friends are in neighborhood churches and groups like Parents Without Partners.

Bill, what the RCC should of done in places like LA was build a cheaper and more humble church instead of the one Mahoney wanted as a shine to him.

Instead, this word (like the term for «church,» ekklēsia) refers not to a time and place where believers gather together on a regular basis for singing and sermons, but rather to the activity of God in gathering together a people for Himself to accomplish His will.

Birthing a church is like birthing a baby — certain systems must be in place for it to be successful.

I don't know if you go to church or not, but when you find a place that you like and feel comfortable in like any parish around, you don't want to be told you can't go.

Furthermore, this culture war has presented people like Justin, and people like Cindy — a mom who contacted Justin in a panic after learning her son was gay, knowing that her church was the last place she could turn if she wanted her son to feel loved and supported — with a dangerous false dichotomy: It's gays vs. Christians.

For this local church is the place where the layman must really find his place and his responsibility, where he must feel at home, Just as in a family where one also does not like everyone.

Though I am encouraged that Hill sees potential hazards in the use of terms like «gay Christian» and «homosexual Christian,» he, along with Gonnerman and Tushnet, may not sufficiently recognize the problems with describing or defining a person in terms of his or her affective desire for the same sex (whether that desire is relational, romantic, or sexual), in place of the clear definition of our sexual identity revealed to us by Scripture and the Church.

Since Jesus Christ founded the Catholic Church and placed good men in charge of it, and because it was the Catholic Church which put the Books of the Bible in the Bible and coined the word «Bible», and because the Bible tells us that the Church is the pillar and foundation of Truth, and because these good men [that you refer to as misguided] are the ones ordained and «sent», [just like Jesus was «sent» by the Father], are at the «helm» of His Church and have the absolute authority to interpret the Bible, I am so inclined to be ever so thankful that Jesus Christ set it all up this way so that the burdens and crosses that I may bear will become as light as the yoke that Jesus Christ promised if we are willing to follow him, and not our will be done but His.

Today around the world, the Church is alive and flourishing in places like North Korea, Sudan, Pakistan, Eritrea, Nigeria, Vietnam, Kenya, India, Ethiopia, China and more — despite restrictive and even oppressive violent government policies and practices against Christians.

He tried to plant a church with some others that would be different from other churches, but soon found himself in a place full of rules and policies just like any other church.

More Christian diet groups have emerged and gone national, including Houston - based First Place (founded in 1981), with programs in nearly.5, 000 churches across the country and in 13 other nations, and smaller programs like Jesus Is the Weigh.

It seems to be clear that the Church in America in our time like Church in any place at any time is deeply influenced in its institutional forms by the political and economic society with which it lives in conjunction.

I am sure your church would also like to have some rules in place that prevent discussion and criticism of the pope and the recent horrendous abuse cases.

Places of worship pop up in communities of like people (same ethnicity, culture, faith etc.), so it's no surprise that we see all black churches in predominately black communities, synagogues in predominately Jewish communities, etc..

Natural human institutions like families, churches and nations have no place in this brave new world.

Editorials like «Women in the Church» (December 11, 1940) furthered the cause; it carried the following indictment: «The American church is still one of the most backward of all institutions in the place it accords to women and the attitude which it exhibits toward them.&Church» (December 11, 1940) furthered the cause; it carried the following indictment: «The American church is still one of the most backward of all institutions in the place it accords to women and the attitude which it exhibits toward them.&church is still one of the most backward of all institutions in the place it accords to women and the attitude which it exhibits toward them.»

St. Joseph Catholic Church in North Vernon, Indiana has a century - old graveyard that has served as a final resting place for all sorts, but no one quite like Jason Carr.

The Church has a long history of remembering folks who followed hard after Jesus in their own time and so show us what it looks like to live faithfully in the places where we are.

«We engage local churches that are in the midst of communities in extreme poverty, so that's [in countries of] Asia, Africa, Latin America, Caribbean, [places] like that,» he says.

It feels to me like the church - at - large has taken a vow to NEVER get caught being too inclusive, and so has moved the center to a place which isn't quite in harmony with the biblical narrative.

In the first place, we who are Christians today, like those of the early Church, must live in two worlds at oncIn the first place, we who are Christians today, like those of the early Church, must live in two worlds at oncin two worlds at once.

Even though we may not always like the Church's consensus, we must admit that when the Church exercises this function, it continues the communal character of the Bible which emerged as a community product in the first place.

I feel like we need a group for all those Christians who have left institutional church (there sure seems to be a lot), a place where they / we could meet in person.

On numerous occassions Paul uses the imagery of a body to teach us what the Church should look like, such as in Ephesians 1:22 - 23: «And God placed all things under His feet and appointed Him to be head over everything for the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills everything in every way.&Church should look like, such as in Ephesians 1:22 - 23: «And God placed all things under His feet and appointed Him to be head over everything for the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills everything in every way.&church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills everything in every way.»

Strange thoughts, fantasies, dreams, slips of the tongue, the jokes we think are funny, the place we sit in church, the way we feel when someone is angry, the things we remember, the people we like or don't like — all make sense when we understand their hidden meaning.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

While Peter almost certainly visited Rome for what looks like a brief period of time, if there was any city that represented or epitomized his authority in a special way, it would not be Rome, the place of his murder, but Jerusalem, in which the Church was born, or perhaps better yet Antioch, in which he long served as a local leader.

David: I like your question, «Who can find a place, a voice, and a home in the church?»

The whole idea of Saddleback expanding to what we call «strategic global cities», like London, is to establish base camps to resource churches that will go to other places around the world in mission.

Like Thomas Jefferson, who famously called for a «wall of separation between church and state,» Holmes believed that personal beliefs had no place in judicial decisions.

Churches are routinely burned down in places like Nigeria, Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan, and Indonesia.

In addition, something like a religious revival seemed to be taking place, and the churches were fuller than they had been for decades.11 The study found that in generIn addition, something like a religious revival seemed to be taking place, and the churches were fuller than they had been for decades.11 The study found that in generin general

This is a practical handbook which focuses on how the Church in any particular place — like your parish — could have a fresh sense of inspiration.

It also explains why we have prayers said by minister and people, hymns that are sung, movement from place to place in the church building for particular purposes, like the taking of the collection, or other necessary actions.

I don't know about you, but sometimes it seems like cynicism follows me through every church door, nipping at my heels like a pesky dog as I find my place in the pews.

No doubt science has a role in such a politics, but much more important is whether the moral and political resources are in place to sustain places where truth matters, I should like to think the church is such a resource.

But without such things in place, you still do a lot of work in church, and like a hamster on a running wheel, rarely go any place.

We would like to argue here that the time has come for this questionof the place of Christ in Creation to be decided at the highest level and be given priority in the Church's theology and catechesis in the twenty - first century.

Most duluthians do not like or go near this place... A friend of mine is one of the most talented piano players in the world, he was tossed because he wanted to play in other churches..