After all, I don't really know what «no programs» looks
like at your church anyway.
Its sad that ignorant people such as you still exist much
like those at the church in Mississippi.
What is the worship style
like at your church?
We have been using buttons but got these for when someone else is watching our daughter
like at church.
I would love to see how posts about cloth diapering outside of the home,
like at church nursery, on trips, at the grandparents.
GAPS can not always be followed and that's okay with me (
like at church potlucks).
Keep it below the collar - bone for a fun dinner out OR bring it higher to the neckline and rock it cowl neck style if you're feeling chilly and / or don't want to show quite as much skin (
like at church!).
This slight edge in black Christian single woman users is not surprising considering that Christian black single women find it harder to meet single Christian black men in more traditional ways,
like at church.
Our youth room was painted red
like that at our church.
Not exact matches
But now they're «frozen» because,
like the parishioners
at that Berkeley
church, they're part of an organization where simply saying something, asking a question, pushing back on a planned initiative, turns heads.
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.
Go to your local Children's Hospital or any local nonprofit group that's well - respected and say you'd
like to sponsor a fundraiser - a 10K run, a fashion show, a bingo party
at the local
church or a «souper supper» to feed the homeless.
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.
That individual begins to market their site to friends, family, local schools,
churches, non-profits and the general public
at grocery stores (
like the Girl Scouts) or have Buyback Parties
at their home.
Christy Clark apparently believes that a carbon tax is
like dropping a coin in the box
at church, it somehow absolves her of her sins.
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.
Family, freinds, lovers, neighbors, co-workers, the postman, people from your
church, people you
like, people you don't
like, your ex-husband or ex-wife (I know you don't want to, but take one for the team), the cashier
at Walmart, your child's teacher, the kid in the drive - thru window
at McDonald's, the random encyclopedia salesman that knocks on your door while your eating dinner, the pushy car salesman who doesn't believe your «just looking,» the overweight plumber wedged under your kitchen sink
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.
Most of the people I work with are aware of it, and some the stuff I do on the side is because of it,
like youth ministry and working as part of the teaching team
at our
church.
I
like to see all the fancy dressed people
at church while there are homeless shelters or poor struggling.
You have to look
at the things we enjoy
like food after
church.
wow, just peaked
at this blog to find this gem, as a
church raised kiddy I only have to be within range of a hymn book or pew to start to feel that creeping guilt, once infected it stays in the system
like a STD, it's also deadly.
Like me, you may have
at one time or another found yourself looking
at the state of the
church, either local or
at large and expressing some level of discontentment with your perceptions.
i'd
like to take this opportunity to point out that the folks over
at the westboro baptist
church feel persecuted.
one only need look
at the
Church ih China today and it's growth under Communist persecution to get a mirror image of what it was
like for first through third century Christian's as well as Revelation 6:9 - 11 then 14 - 17 nine through elven are the martyrs and 14 through 17 is a glimpse of judgment for men of war!
The Rev Val Duff, minister of South Shawlands Parish
Church close to where Asad Shah's shop was, said
at the time: «
Like many people I am deeply saddened to hear of Asad Shah's death.
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.
It is appropriate
at times to consult the lawyers, but one would
like to think that the
church consults somewhat higher authorities when it comes to defining its public responsibilities.
Sorry to disagree with you but I have no problem with putting muslim «tradition» on the back burner and if you don't
like it that's tough, heck, we didn't leave a single intact
church steeple in Europe in WWII because they were used by enemy artillery spotters and snipers, why should muslims get a pass, Tradition did not stop muslims from dragging dead US soldiers through Mogadishu nor did it stop them from hanging contractors from under bridges, Osama's body should have been brought back and put on display is a glass box
at all three of his sites, allowing those who wanted to view him ample time to do so.
Of course, that Catholic culture was fading
at exactly the moment the Land O» Lakes statement codified its necessity, and that left us only with things
like Land O» Lakes and its many imitations and successors: documents that define America's Catholic colleges as institutions that exist fundamentally over against the
Church.
I went to a small town in the midwest to work for a non-profit thinking it'd be
like chicken - soup - for the soul... INSTEAD it was a fundamentalist nightmare... it was NOT just small town mindedness... I could hardly find a
church with out people wondering — why is this attractive woman in her early 30's unwed (or
at least divorced with 3 kids) people were cold and unfathomable judgmental and sometimes downright hostile eager to quote scriptures seemingly un-lead by the Holy Spirit.
Nothing
like that happens
at church.
Philip Larkin's «
Church Going» comes to mind: Yet stop I did: in fact I often do, And always end much
at a loss
like this, Wondering what to look for; wondering, too, When
churches fall completely out of use What we shall turn them into, if we shall keep A few cathedrals chronically on show, Their parchment, plate, and pyx in locked cases, And let the rest rent - free to rain and sheep.
Speaking
at report's launch
at St. Mary le - Bow
church in the City of London, Dr Rowan Williams told Premier: «Government policy has actually been moving in the direction we'd
like to see it moving in terms of tax transparency and better regulation.
I do know that if I followed the guidelines of one liturgical commission, suggesting that I greet each penitent
at the
church doors with an open Gospel book and then lead a procession to a reconciliation room which looks more
like an occasion of sin than a shrine for its absolution, the number of confessions in the middle of the metropolis where I serve would be severely reduced.
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.
I do expect this is meant to look
like the
Church takes abuse seriously... but once again, it shows that the
Church is concerned with its own reputation and bank accounts, and not
at all with the good of its faithful.
Often, what they end up with doesn't look, feel, or sound
like «
church»
at all...
at least, not according to people who «attend
church.»
For the young atheist, it seems
like it starts
at church.
If the Catholic
Church isn't willing to make these changes the US Catholic
Church at that time should break from the Vatican, much
like Henry the XIII did.
My messages were very much
like a top exit student from theological training who preached
at the
church I was attending, and was impressed with his own ability to exegete every word of «the original Greek».
The government should not be permitted to create incentives for religious practice or belief (
like giving favored status to religious organizations, as compared to other nonprofits), to facilitate the religious practices of some
at the expense of others (
like offering vocal prayers in public schools), or to accommodate one religion but not others with similar needs or problems (
like limiting draft exemptions to members of traditional «peace
churches») Within these guidelines, religious accommodations are fully in keeping with the First Amendment — albeit in conflict with strict separation.
This almost totally mystified me; to read of
churches like this
at all; so little I had seen or heard or read of this (one or two exceptions were on my sphere of concern; few others something
like this, I'd heard or read a bit of; are there really so many now?
Yes, Gina, for many people
church is
like a family, or
at least people want it to be
like a family, but so many never find that by attending
church.
I think all Christians come to a point in their faith were they look
at the
Church and say this looks nothing
like Christ and they have a choice throw the baby out with the bath water or work to make the institution Christ
like.
Too many
churches seem
like they are trailing decades or ages behind the unbelief that seems to be ahead
at every turn.
There was a security, love, and wonder I sensed (
at an early age) that only Catholics had ¯ the hushed, steepled
churches and the priests; the parish school with veiled nuns whose black habits swept the floors; the picture of the pope on the bedroom wall, a strange man with what looked
like an eggshell on his head who gave the sense of a wider world and eternity.
Through the internet, I've come to find that others have experienced cult -
like or abusive practices
at «Christian Fellowship Ministries» or Potter's House
churches associated with Wayman Mitchell.
Not
at all
like the Religious Extremeists that want to put wpmen back in slavery, taking away her freedoms, viewing gays as sub-human, that can't get past the separation of
Church and State, and think that the US was founded on Freedom OF Religion, when, in fact, it was founded on Freedom FROM Religion.
I'm blown away
at what God has done in my life since I left
church, but
at the time, despite the peace of being led, it seemed
like it was going no where.