Sentences with phrase «into running a church»

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Less than a year later, walking down Church Street in downtown Burlington, he ran into Bob Johnson, his old friend and former warehouse manager.

Sample themes: The Spring Fling Fashion Show, Spring Into Shape 10K run, a St. Patrick's Day bingo at your local church hall.

She recalled a moment in time when she ran into a church in a time of despair and crisis and she called out to God and she waited.

In our effort to curate a singular church experience for such a broad and multi-channel audience, we do run into a handful of obstacles.

Ever heard of an evolutionary biologist or secular humanist or atheist running into a church with a bomb screaming «Darwin Al Akbah, Darwin Al Akbah».

Sunday after Sunday, I slid into the back row of churches with names like «New Life Community» and «Zenith» only for them all to run together.

Why does the church keep pouring out its little cup of water into the West Bank, Sudan and other desperate places of the world where hope has run dry?

When I run into folks from past ministry, the inevitable questions come up, «So, what church are you at these days?»

The article, which quotes an Associated Press story, says Miller had asked married couples in his church to share their Facebook passwords with spouses, but couples still ran into problems.

Places of convenience, such as the grocery store, where you happen to run into someone, or the church lobby five minutes before service starts, are never places to have intimate conversations.

The Rev. Cedric Miller of Neptune made the demand after 20 couples at his church ran into difficulties after a spouse reunited with an old love interest, the Los Angeles Times reported in an article.

The problem «emergers» may run into is that, while deconstructing is a valuable and important part of bringing about reform and making the Church better, tearing down is always easier than building up.

Those who ran into the local churches for the first time in year after 911 also prayed and God will hear what he chooses.

Letting marketing techniques and vocabulary dominate church thinking, without critically assessing how needs will be met, is a good prescription for driving «customers» away and running the enterprise into the ground.

This area of primary prevention is one where the church must take the lead, for mental health services can not provide this type of normal everyday nurturance which everyone needs and without which people will run into emotional distress.

It doesn't get sucked up into a church run by pedophiles.

Shortly after he went to the new church, he ran into a situation with the new pastor.

This is so we don't get into that whole church running the country problem that people came here for in the first place, to have freedom of and from religion if they choose to.

There's the Church, and there's the world, and the one should be very nervous of the other, only making raiding runs into enemy territory to grab gospel - affirming movie clips or song lyrics to spice up a flat sermon.

It was true both of the religious sects like the local church and the pale thin - armed bespectacled atheists of the Larouchies, Randians, and other groups I ran into when I did editing work at certain noted institutions of higher learning.

You have never heard of an evolutionary biologist strapping a bomb to himself and running into a church yelling «Darwin - u akbar, Darwin - u akbar».

I have seen it in some of the members of every church I have served; and when people with that expectation run into problems, they often abandon «their» church in the (false) hope that the church was the problem, and if they just find one that believes right and believes enough, God will dump $ $ $ $ into their laps.

That's how I ran into your material on the church!

In the long run the usefulness of his principles and the test of that church will be the quality of Christian life of those who respond and are «enfolded» into the full and regular life of the congregation.

You used to run into people in the bake shop, the butchers, the candle - stick maker, the church narthex and the women's relief society... So there were plenty of opportunities to discuss all manner of things and to share life, seasons, festivals, deaths... Modern life, suburbia, commuting, everyone working at all hours... has killed much of this face to face life and contact in so many spheres, depending on where you live.

After reading the comments, this is the overall impression I get: Why would I leave Christianity and the Church * with all its exclusivist dogmatism simply to run into the arms of another community that is just as exclusive and dogmatic?

Kingsolver never sets out to slam the Church; just to put into print the words that are secretly running through a lot of people's heads.

To serve children at their entry into education the church ran the best kindergarten program in town.

Things seemed to go all right for years, but eventually we started to hear rumours from the various spiritualist churches that mediums would run into difficulties and would no longer be able to control their spirits.

But when the historian attempts to go back of the faith of the early church, he immediately runs into insuperable difficulties.

The old prayers of the church understood this so well and felt it so deeply that every one of them jumps into the moments» petitions after a running start in the eventful history of the people of God.

While none of Jesus Christ's 1st century Christian leaders ever involved themselves in politics to the point that they ran for public office, after they all died out those men Jesus said would sneak into the church did sneak in and did get involved with political leaders and in just a couple of centuries the Holy Roman Empire was the old Roman Empire whitewashed to appear to be something of God's and both the church and the State being led by the very same man, Pontifex Maximus who had his own wife killed for proving that his trinity doctrine was horsepucky.

Prior to post-natal depression happening I somehow thought that if I had a problem I could run into church and pray about it and that God would not let me reach a point of complete brokenness.

Well before that traumatic date, from as far back as William's thirteenth year, his father John had apparently begun to run into financial difficulties, at which time he tried to avoid town meetings and church attendance, allegedly to elude summons by subpoena (one could be served for debt in church).

Problem definition is time - consuming, a deep journey into our own prejudices and hopes for a Christian faith that actually makes a difference, a horrible awakening that giants of the faith may have little faith in God and more in courts and money, that fame - seekers exist within the church system and garner friends as shields, that a man that marries a second wife may wish to destroy the first wife at any cost, and that authors can indeed write good books but run away from women speaking of their own abuse, and that prior friendships dictate the limits of Christianity....

It is inevitable that as we seek partner with other churches in our area, we will run into the very attitudes and approaches that left many of us wounded.

You have never heard of an evolutionary biologist strapping a bomb to himself and running into a church yelling «Darwin - u akbar».

Sometimes I still go to church and feel like running, pell - mell, tumble - bumble, into the fresh air.

I'm a non-church Christian... I rely on prayer... and I put my money into doing good works instead of it being run through a church building that takes it cut.

He adds, «Today we run the risk of secularisation creeping into the Church (p. 61).»

he belongs in some cloistered church compound... they love him, he loves them, they can take advantage of living in our wonderful country, come out to see the diverse and secular civilized community america really is and then turn around and run back into their compound.

When the end of the world hits, all the folk in the bar run into the church, and the church people run into the bar!

If the hospital could prove that it was ONLY staffed by devout Catholics, and that no one who ever had or ever would work there believed in or agreed with contraceptives, and you accepted 0 Government dollars in support, you were purely a church run facility, then you could ignore the law, and anyone who works there should know what they're getting into.

When here and there in draft decrees of the Council stress was laid on this role of conscience as irreplaceable even in practice, anxious voices could be heard in the aula, pointing out in alarm that in earlier days the Church used to lay down clear and unmistakable norms, whereas now even at the Council appeal was being made to the individual conscience, so running the risk of slipping down into an arbitrary, subjective situation ethics.

But while this logical process was effective in many cases, it ran into trouble with people who responded, «I can't believe what the Church teaches.»

The old farmer sized it all up, measured it against his rough - hewn view of providence, and decided it was better to be in church praising God than running around the cow pasture shooting buckshot into the night sky

... that the Church, for inscrutable reasons of its own, has decided to have a reformation just when the previous one - Luther's - is finally running into the sand.

The guy I ran into said that he heard Sam say that he wanted to find a church that he could go to.

I was in town today minding my own business when I ran into someone who went to my church some time ago.

They run the organization with a what's good for the organitazion in mind and often the people who want to ask questions, who struggle to meet performance expectations -LCB- the christian walk is reduced to performance giving, serving - the church organization, keeping sins off a particular list (ignoring the heart) and an ability to regurgitate spoon fed theology -RCB- the low performers are «disciplined» into performing outwardly regardless of inward conditions or are left in the dust of the organizations progress.