Sentences with phrase «like about the church»

Another thing that I did not like about this church were their extreme prejudices towards other religions and even races and cultures.

When Shane was speaking of Psalm 139 and the «not so nice» part in the middle, I thought of my friend, M, who last week shared that one thing she doesn't like about church is that she has to go home on Sunday and correct the things her children have been mistaught in Sunday School class.

One of the things I don't like about the church, along with any kind of organized religious group or gathering, is the pretense.

Not exact matches

It's kind of like the old saying about churches: Cities with more churches tend to have more alcoholics.

The church band looked and sounded like a pop band you might see at the Panorama or Coachella music festivals — only, they were singing about God.

A few weeks ago, my buddy and former HBS classmate, Allan, asked me if I'd like to give a talk about my debt pay - off to the youth group that he leads at his church.

The topics and texts include some esoteric items, such as the ranking of churches and discussion about a common calendar; but they also include problems that emerge from adapting an ancient faith to a modern reality — like precepts of fasting and, in particular, regulations of marriage in a multicultural and interreligious world.

Certainly we can tell others at the water cooler and in our churches what we believe about issues like this, but it's important that we talk and listen and trust God to help us wrestle through the seeming contradictory pros and cons involved.

For one to say that building a Mosque near ground zero is wrong is no different than someone saying they don't want a Christian church being built somewhere because someone close to them died in a Christian cult bombing or suicide like Jim Jones or Timothy McVeigh, or to say they don't want a Catholic church to be built because they or someone they care about was molested by a priest.

Why are you listening to black clerics over this issue, Blacks are having more kids out of wed lock than whites, they are also like white, living in sin, but the church's say nothing about having babies without a husband or sitting in church and living in sin, talk about glass houses, and besides the marriages are Cival marriage not religious marriage, what a bunch of hipocrites..

yes, churches often feed the homeless - one of the things i like best about churches - but often the price of that bowl of soup is a sermon.

Articles like this are a dime a dozen with the same tired excuses for why people want church to be about them instead of about God and Jesus and God's Word.

A gay woman attending church is about like a Jew attending a Neo-Nazi meeting.

And don't forget all the victims of Christianity's own Jim Jones... I'm certain you and all you Christian Extremists are in your churches, always trying to find ways to brainwash everyone into committing suicide like Jim Jones and have plans to blow up buildings like Timothy McVeigh and think about as well as act upon your perverted thoughts by molesting young boys... don't you?

Wail away all you like, about the const - itution and how it is being mis - read, the true meaning of the separation of / from church and state, but it all does not matter — the law as currently interpreted and enforced says events of this nature are not legal!

She talks about religious persecution by state churches yet like so many evangelicals she really means that the evangelicals should be the state church in America.

My one fear about coming out as a pastor with gay leaders is that folks will assume I have an agenda to make all churches like mine.

Think about it - do people like you ever take on the Unification Church (the Moonies), the Church of Scientology or their ilk with such venomous wrath?

That is one thing and probably the only thing I like about the catholic church.

It's about time the Catholic Church have a man like this as its head.

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

To be honest, most Christians in the church don't care about you unless you go to church, act and think like they do.

I'm curious to see what you have to say because you almost seem like a cath defending computer bot that randomly logs in here just to say nice things about the gay peds running your church.

Thus the Church has long been the great «listening - post» of Europe because these information channels provided reliable information about volatile matters like famine and insurrection.

Maybe they can move the old Arch Bishop who covered it up out, make him a cardinal, then make his replacement a cardinal for gladhanding the victims and sweeping things under the rug... then plead poverty and go about a few punitive church closings to teach the lay parishoners not to stand up to them no matter what their crimes... like they did here in Massachusetts.

Me personally would like to believe so and I do.If there is not god life is pretty pathetic if your think deeply about it.Theres always going to be someone who says no this is how something is or this happened exactly like this I know for sure (ha ok)... On another note instead of acting like you really do know everything maybe broaden your horizon and try church or read the bible and give God a chance.

Your church had people who broke the law and did some horrendous things to children, and all you worry about is the fact no one will like Catholics any more.

Dr. Joel Hunter from Northland Church outside of Orlando, Florida, sat down with CNN's Carol Costello over Skype to talk about ministering to the masses on the internet and what it's like to send a devotional message to the president's Blackberry.

poor this rich that church here politics there why argue about church an politics its the same funny how people loose there jobs but churches an politicians pockets keep getting bigger but nobodys crying about bet that new guchi shirt impressed the preachers wife you wore on sunday but you argue for the poor, ol lutz says 25 k die a day well then why worry about charitys they collect 10,25 % just like churches an line thier pockets, so why argeu you stoopid sheep

It may seem an insignificant distinction to a non-LDS person but, with many people knowing little about the Church, I would like to do my part to avoid any confusion or misinformation.

The reason why I (and potentially many other non-believers) react with cynicism and hostility to stories like this is that they demonstrate how very different the actions of the church are from the claims it makes about itself: infallibility, benevolence, selflessness, and godliness.

Not one word about the man, what he loved to do, how he lived his life, nothing... just promotion of the catholic church and the lead priest prancing around in his robes with a microphone like a freakin rock star.

It also doesn't take the church or any religion to make you feel guilty about liking po - rn.

So good that someone like Richard is writing history with such a huge amount of knowledge about the Catholic Church and its tradition.

He told Premier: «It might be just talking about an issue - and that's an important thing - or it might be something more tangible, like getting behind a clause and talking... [about] how their church might be able to help.»

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 prayer.

Second, church bullies almost always like feeling important and knowledgeable, be it about how the church should be run, what God and the Bible say, and how other people should think, live and vote.

I believe the author was trying to communicate that the Church needs to be less concerned about whether or not people like them and more concerned about spreading the message of Jesus:

In short, the Church criticizing Republicans for not caring enough about the poor (which I agree with) is a little like the biblical «man with a log in his eye pointing out someone else's splinter» scenario.

Like me, many choose to live out what the Church has always taught about sex, namely that it is a good gift from God that is only for marriage between a woman and a man.

Which must mean they are wrong to treat me in such manner because if I haven't done anything to bring about church discipline, yet they treat me like I've been brought all the way through the process, then they are wrong.

I find it interesting how mega-church prosperity teachers want to talk about the very early days of the church of mega-crowds — without talking about their scattering — and how the persecuted church grew in people's homes and catacombs (I like the rhyme) for the next 300 years — until Constantine — the true father of many mega-church ministries.

But I would encourage church leaders eager to win millennials back to sit down and really talk with them about what they're looking for and what they would like to contribute to a faith community.

A few years back i was being led by god to help some homeless people.I'll tell you about the first homeless lady.my girls and i were driving by a liquor store and i seen a girl a lady sitting next to her cart.god showed me through his eyes the hurt she was living with.he spoke to my heart and said, don't pass her up.i turned around whent back and asked her if she was hungry.she was in shock and said yes.god told me to tell her that she is loved.she started crying and had me call her family so she can go home.anyways after that i joind a church and told them and asked to start a homeless ministry.i was told yes and all of a sudden i started getting pushed aside and they took over the homeless ministry.i feel lost and hurt.now i feel like god is telling me to leave the church.i quit going out with the group because of what happened.i don't know what to do.now i feel lost.

The stuff I've written on topics like getting to know neighbors and being the church in the community doesn't seem to connect with church people, who usually think church is about sermons, a belief system, music, political causes to be for or against and so on.

The more Alexis asked about the church, the more she felt like this was something she could imagine joining.

So, I would like to see more URLS on here for false allogation opinions about my holy church.

As David Kinnaman explains in his enlightening book, You Lost Me, one of the top six responses among young adults is that they left the church because they didn't feel like their pastors, mentors, and friends took their questions about faith seriously.

I really like the advice you give about looking for a church that fellowships together.

Funny how she talks about «cherry picking» when she herself espouses an incredibly hypocritical, cafeteria - style approach to Christianity and the church; i.e., «If I don't like it, I'm going home.»