Sentences with phrase «like good church»

The teacher turned this discussion over to the students and, like good church kids, we ridiculed, rolled our eyes, and dismissed evolution as ignorant, liberal propaganda.

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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.

I'm «not there» because I haven't found a church in Belfast that fits, like I did in London (some of the conservative Anglican ones there were really good).

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.

You conducted yourself much better this time Ranier as a Christian concerning the Pope and the Catholic Church, so I applaud you for finally acting like a Christian.

«Unfortunately, (Catholic) priests are forced to choose between something that is very good - like your love for God and the church - and something that is also very good - which is the love of your partner, your wife,» he said.

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?

«I was making really good money working in the church, but I just didn't feel like I was doing what I needed to be doing.

@Marcus Smith — Well, the Dems may (or may not) be the ones exploiting the female interns, but the GOP is like the RC church when it comes to the males.

The movie had a better sense of liturgical music than most Catholic parishes: Actually, the real reason I like to see any film in which the Catholic Church is featured prominently concerns the music.

«It should be troubling — to «progressive» Catholics as well as others — that political operatives like John Podesta, who has been associated with Clinton campaigns and administrations for decades, admits that his organization set up (with funding from the Koch Brothers... I mean, George Soros) groups with the purpose of promoting a «revolution» — a «Catholic Spring» — «in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.»

I think it's an exciting time right now for the Church to shine and, like Jonathan said, the Church has shined pretty well in very difficult situations.

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!

Michael Klimkowski is a struggling comedian in L.A. who just so happens to look a lot like Lakewood Church pastor, best - selling author and TV preacher Joel Osteen.

Sounds like you are also ignoring the Church's teaching on abstinence as well.

Failure of the Mormon Church to adhere to the 1995 agreement to cease and desist, a law that prohibits this in the US seems like a good solution.

Today's churches would do well to remember this instead of emphasizing on hatred of anything they don't like.

It was supposed to look like Obama DICTATED and the RC lock stepped behind him like a good little church.

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

Well if it's a wakeup call from a higher being a big part of his message seems to be he doesn't like churches.

These ploys seem like a crutch to ensure their financial well - being, instead of concentrating on building true - believer who commit to supporting the church, but belong to God foremost.

It has been done and maybe my trying to put it into a church was not such a good idea because it never seemed to work there like it does here.

«And the thousands of volunteers in our country who will give up their time to make someone else's Christmas that little bit better: from faith inspired projects like the Churches Together initiative in my own constituency - to aid workers helping those in war - torn parts of the world.

You can also poke around on your Nook or Kindle — there are e-books there written for the faithful that give a detailed insight into the cult - like thinking (well, poor choice of words, a favorite LDS saying is, «the thinking is done», but you catch my drift) that's used to control their people from a very young age to find «the world» unbearable and the church to be a haven, etc..

I was reared in what might be called a semi-Catholic, French fashion — that is a good Catholic, but not intense, like a convert, or the way that many Catholics are today, because the Church is attacked.

If they Pope said jump, I guarantee you the vast majority of Catholics wouldn't even take notice (I'm one of them, 4 years with Franciscans, 4 years with Dominicans), but if the LDS Prophet said jump, you better believe every church going Mormon is jumping — and they won't ask why, just how high and how long — they'll do it blindly like robots.

What I have to wonder is, if we, as a Church, trust God to work and bring people to Him, or if we feel like we have to «help» by providing all these material possessions (which in the end are meaningless, the money spent on them might be better spent on improving the community, providing food for hungry, support for ministers and overseas missionaries).

Like another well - intentioned volume of church history, The Christian World (1982), this is the National Geographic version of church history, or, to follow the culinary metaphor, the Gourmet magazine edition of it.

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.

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

Well, I'd just like to say that if I were blessed enough to live in your part of the world, I would be hot footing it to your church like one posessed!

He is well - liked by his peers, volunteers with University Big Brothers and Sisters, is involved in his church (he is an adult convert to Mormonism), is a member of the University's interfaith Religious Life Council, and has compiled an impressive academic record.

That kind of mentality is best reserved for those wacky churches where they handle poisonous snakes, speak in tongues and protest things like Comic - Con.

I think pastoring knows no boundaries and the internet needs good pastors just like any church does.

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.

I feel like I am letting my parents down as well since we used to go to the same church service that they did.

Well said: One reason so many — not just Millennials — are leaving Christian churches is that the churches think and act more like the older brother in the Parable of the Prodigal Son and not like the father.

Just like we wouldn't separate from our spouses without first trying to make our marriages better with counseling, etc., maybe we can better evaluate our participation in our present church family before going elsewhere.

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.

Find a good non-denominational Christian church that you like church go and listen and worship.

well, my daughter is gay and i am grateful for people like you standing up for her and for me for supporting her < 3 (she has recently returned to church for the first time in 7 years and fortunately it is gay positive)(i haven't returned to church in 2, but that's another story:P)

You may not think you are saying this but by the way you come off you act like you are better than those who are a part of the church.

When she suggested I raise my children like she raised hers, saying they didn't seem to know what good was; I knew she pinched and beat her kids for her own expectations, not the church member's.

The movement had crashed before I started at that church, but I should have taken closer note when despite Bob Mumford saying «we were wrong», they kept saying things like, «There was a lot of good stuff there, they just took it too far.»

The concept of once saved always saved takes a bit to get your head around but Gods grace is greater than our sin and greater than our good works it just takes faith in Jesus Christ to recieve Gods grace.In saying that to continue to sin as a christian is like playing with fire you will be burnt.Paul talks of the sexual immorality in corinthian church of the son and father that were sleeping with the same wife they were excommunicated from the church the members were not allowed to even eat with them until they repented.There are consequences for our actions.The other side to this is that if you continue to sin as a christian you are not walking by faith but walking by the flesh and are really backsliding.In the backslidden state you also become powerless and open to attack by satan as long as we walk in the flesh he can influence us to get worse not better.If we are walking in Christ satan may still try to tempt us but we are empowered by the holy spirit and overcome him and our faith increases.Both are saved by grace but one is powerless because of sin versus saved but an overcomer having been set free from sin i think this is what Paul was trying to explain.It is better to be an overcomer than overcome by sin.brentnz

It is, indeed, something of an unusual event that an English bishop should base himself so firmly, not merely on the odd bland quotation here and there from whoever the current pope happens to be, in order to camouflage the true nature of some firmly secularist initiative, but on the spirit as well as the letter of entire magisterial documents, not least the Catechism of the Catholic Church itself — which, it will be remembered, we were all told by Bishop David Konstant was not for the likes of us, but for the bishops to read so they could tell us what was in it.

It's like many churches I've encountered, willing to throw stones at the most likely perpetrator and forgetting that while we can't ignore injustice we need to comfort, forgive, and be good to even our enemies.

When he thinks of the matter at all he is likely to try to imagine a nebulous substance like a wisp of invisible smoke that is said to be present in churches and to hover over good people when they are dying.»

I would like to note that although I do believe in demons, good and evil, and god - I am not religous and do not go to church.

To this day (as well as when I wrote this post) I can in good conscience and with full conviction sign a doctrinal statement like that of DTS or GES or most any decent Bible church.