Sentences with phrase «like speaking in church»

They were owned as property and punished or even killed for the most basic «infractions» (like speaking in church or getting rap * d).

Not exact matches

While I respect Rush's right to speak his mind (without people like him, we would be like other totalitarian governments that don't tolerate dissent), I am with the Pope and the church in their efforts to reach out to the world.

This is in line with the liberal Catholic penchant of sharply distinguishing, if not separating and opposing, the «institutional» Church from the Catholic people who are the Church, and for whom people like Father Reese modestly claim to speak.

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.

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.

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.

But Abraham speaks over the head of the rich man, over the heads of the Pharisees, in what sounds like a direct address to us church types who claim faith in a certain Galilean raised from the dead, «If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.»

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

What's wrong with the church when folks like Shane Claiborne who have reputations for loving their enemies, giving without expecting anything in return, and withholding judgment can't get speaking gigs because of their «questionable» theological positions?

He runs the risk, then, like the Apostle Peter, of denying the Lord, even if he is present to us and speaks in His name; the holiness of the hierarchy of Mother Church is obscured, making it less fertile.

Unfortunately, a lot of those speaking for and reperesenting the church publicly in the world today are the most self - promoting, pumped up and proud — they are completely undigestible and therefore (like toxic waste) seem to have endless staying power.

This title of the Church was given by the Fathers and Doctors of the Church to those like you who speak to us of the world to come, where there is not marrying or giving in marriage.

As an Orthodox Christian definitely in the ecumenical «left wing» of my church, I can not speak for all my co-confessionalists; but I can record my own shame that so few Orthodox hierarchs have even recognized the remarkable gesture made by John Paul II in Ut Unum Sint (1995), in openly soliciting advice on how to understand his office (even indeed the limits of its jurisdiction), or been moved to respond with anything like comparable Christian charity.

On behalf of Christians all over the world, we condemn this man, and I vow if I ever hear a fellow Christian in my church speak out in favor of any violent act like this I will stand up to that person.

In Europe, a sharp dividing line has been drawn between religious belief and religious practice, so that Christians are frequently reminded that they can believe whatever they like and do what they like inside their churches — they simply can not speak about or act on those beliefs in publiIn Europe, a sharp dividing line has been drawn between religious belief and religious practice, so that Christians are frequently reminded that they can believe whatever they like and do what they like inside their churches — they simply can not speak about or act on those beliefs in publiin public.

In a church whose membership ranked lower than the older Protestant denominations in education and socioeconomic status, a bishop could well speak like thaIn a church whose membership ranked lower than the older Protestant denominations in education and socioeconomic status, a bishop could well speak like thain education and socioeconomic status, a bishop could well speak like that.

He seems to imply that all who believe in God and follow Jesus are like the tongue - speaking, demon - vomiting, gay - hating, environment - polluting Christians he encountered at Cornerstone Church.

When the history of the Church in our times is written, the question will be asked why, after the summer of 1968 when Humanae Vitae was published, restating the truths on the need for sex to be open to life and within marriage, men like Fr John Edwards were not asked to travel the length and breadth of our land, to publish in our Catholic papers, to speak to our diocesan catechists and teachers.

A friend who was a counselor before she retired and who knew from work one of the main problems in that church, sat me down one day and talked to me about what it had been like to work with that woman and how everyone saw that woman, and then my friend gave me this article to read that she had learned and used while she was still in practice before she retired: https://glynissherwood.com/12-steps-to-breaking-free-from-being-the-family-scapegoat/ This article speaks about family, but my friend told me it can be applied to any dysfunctional group of people.

Except that the person speaking truth is not this bigoted, hate - filled «pastor» and the «abhorrent» people are sitting in the pews of churches like his across this nation.

There are some churches out there that have times in their weekly services where they engage in practices like speaking in tongues, prophetic utterances, and miraculous healing.

It was a great shock to liberal Protestant theology of the turn of the century when men like Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965) and Johannes Weiss (1863 - 19I4) drew attention to the eschatological character of the New Testament and made it clear that Jesus, his apostles, and the early churches, all lived and spoke in a thought - world which, in important respects, is completely foreign to us.

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.

Are we in danger of creating a corporate culture where all our church leaders look like smart, well - spoken businessmen?

This began the mainsteaming of continualist practices (like speaking in tounges, praying for healing, etc.) that were primarily found in Pentecostal churches that, up until now, were often on the fringe of Protestantism.

Finally, I would like to speak briefly to the question of the ministry of the church in the present period of transition.

I like that the drawing itself could be interpreted as the parable - speaking «you need to metaphorically die and be born again (but not literally)» Jesus knocking on a literal evangelical church or it could be the «I am the way, the only way or you are going to literally burn in Hell» Jesus knocking on a progressive church.

The press» presentation of Francis» words gives parish priests a chance to speak directly to their people about what Francis really said and thereby to teach them something about the Church's thinking, which is otherwise harder to do in a homily without its sounding like a lecture.

When the Christian Church speaks in language of Messianic expectation of the Christ who will come again in glory, the faith proclaimed is not primarily concerned with describing a descent of Christ from Heaven like an astronaut returning to Earth after a time in space.

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).

Francis Bernadone wanders into a church in Assisi, stands under the crucifix over the high altar, looks upon that body impaled, cadaver - like, before him — stark, simple, demanding — thinks he hears it speak, and feels his very soul pierced by the force of it all.

In comment to Tim, I think if the minor prophets were around today they would speak very specifically to specific churches (somewhat like the letters to the 7 churches in Revelation), and the aim would be restoration and wholenesIn comment to Tim, I think if the minor prophets were around today they would speak very specifically to specific churches (somewhat like the letters to the 7 churches in Revelation), and the aim would be restoration and wholenesin Revelation), and the aim would be restoration and wholeness.

Pleas know — I am not trying to put anything in your wound... I am one that made it through my pit (Psalm 40) I stopped blaming circumstances and spent many hours mad, crying, angry all the stuff at God... I don't know why or how but I ended up in helping situations during the hardest time... it was crazy... I spoke at churches that were driven — failing and those not driven thriving (but those thriving had vision and direction) but not driven to the point of believing they were the best or anything like that.

Craig maybe the definition of teaching men under authority is limited to that particular area within the church.But that does nt stop God from working outside those constraints.Mother Etta and no doubt other women felt compelled to preach the gospel such as women missionaries.Mother Etta preached the gospel and many were saved people were healed just as in the day of the disciples it is the same Jesus that saves and delivered from from sin and disease not the fact that it was a man who spoke behind the altar.Why do you find it hard to see that God can use women just like he uses men to witness for him.The call to witness for Christ is for everyone not just men and not just in a church situation.When we limit God to a narrow view it limits the effectiveness of the gospel.

People targeted our children to gain favor with the church leadership — like the man who was helping with Sunday School who insisted my 11 year old daughter speak in tongues, laying hands on her and yelling at her in front of the other kids — all without our knowledge.

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

I think of folks like Shane Claiborne and organizations like Red Letter Christians leading the way in this, not to mention the possibility of Greg Boyd and Woodland Hill's joining either the Mennonite Church USA or the Brethren in Christ, which speaks volumes.

This does not necessarily mean twelve midnight; the Greek literally means «in the middle of the night» — like 2 am, when the Church would be in a deep sleep, metaphorically speaking.

There we go again, shut up this hypocritical rightwingers.Only at election time do rear their ugly heads up to be seen and heard.It's time to unleash the CRACKKIN, the monster that the IRS people use on unruly religious groups, exemption is like a death sentence to these groups.Most of these religious leaders are wolves in sheeps clothing, selling their political poison to anyone in their flocks.They push the envelope on the seperation of church and state issue, seeing how far they can go.Pastors and ministers would never speak politics like this years ago, that was taaboo.Now people like Robertson, Graham, and the rest, flaunt their ideaology both religious and political at every event.They don't care about the legal consequences, they have LAWYERS, perishioners pay for that.

The Word of God is what it is only in event, and the paradox lies in the fact that this Word is identical with the Word which originated in the apostolic preaching, which has been fixed in Scripture and which is handed on by men in the Church's proclamation; (In other words, a man just like myself speaks to me the Word of God: in him the Word of God becomes incarnatin event, and the paradox lies in the fact that this Word is identical with the Word which originated in the apostolic preaching, which has been fixed in Scripture and which is handed on by men in the Church's proclamation; (In other words, a man just like myself speaks to me the Word of God: in him the Word of God becomes incarnatin the fact that this Word is identical with the Word which originated in the apostolic preaching, which has been fixed in Scripture and which is handed on by men in the Church's proclamation; (In other words, a man just like myself speaks to me the Word of God: in him the Word of God becomes incarnatin the apostolic preaching, which has been fixed in Scripture and which is handed on by men in the Church's proclamation; (In other words, a man just like myself speaks to me the Word of God: in him the Word of God becomes incarnatin Scripture and which is handed on by men in the Church's proclamation; (In other words, a man just like myself speaks to me the Word of God: in him the Word of God becomes incarnatin the Church's proclamation; (In other words, a man just like myself speaks to me the Word of God: in him the Word of God becomes incarnatIn other words, a man just like myself speaks to me the Word of God: in him the Word of God becomes incarnatin him the Word of God becomes incarnate.

What the Pope and leaders of the Church like Cardinal Ratzinger or Cardinal Lustiger of Paris have in mind when they speak of a new evangelization are realities of this kind: a common healing of memories, reconciliation, and mutual help among European peoples» and certainly not some dark conspiracy aimed at wielding political power or influence.

Even now, in the church I go to, during Praise and Worship I could feel that I was maybe getting ready to speak in tongues, and I'd have to shut it off because I don't know what that church would do if I started screaming out in tongues in the back... It feels like a lot of energy coming through the top of your head — I'm going to sound like such a lunatic — and then your whole body is filled with this electric current.

Like John Henry Newman trying to speak for the High Church Anglicans in Tract 90 and being repudiated by the very people he was trying to support, Barth wanted to speak for churches that eventually grew deaf to his pealing of the Barthian bell.

During the course of the last two or three generations the theological curriculum has been «enriched» — like vitamin - impregnated bread — by the addition of a long series of short courses in sociology and social problems, rural and urban sociology, the theory of religious education, educational psychology, methods of religious education, psychology of religion, psychology of personality, psychology of counseling, methods of pastoral counseling, theory of missions, history of missions, methods of evangelism, theory and practice of worship, public speaking, church administration, et cetera, et cetera.

However statiscally speaking pedophilia is far less common in the catholic church then in the general population of the world or in the general populationand of most nations like the USA, China, england... etc for instance.

I read all the time about mal - practice in hospitals, incect cases in churches or schools, not even speaking about how our education system fails in a basic thing like teaching all of our children to read (you do your research and find out the number or illiteracy in this country).

Walcott spoke while visiting the Church of the Open Door in Brooklyn where parents said they hope he tackles nagging problems like overcrowding.

And, speaking at an African - American church in Harlem on Sunday, he spoke of some new requirements he'd like from schools before he commits to more funding, saying, «We don't even know what money goes to what school.»

Through my work with community organizations like the Infinity Bible Church in Soundview and The Bronx Defenders, I speak with a lot of young people from across the borough, and I recognize in them the same dissatisfaction and lack of passion about their education.

And, speaking at an African - merican Church in Harlem on Sunday, he spoke of some new requirements he'd like from schools before he commits to more funding, saying, «We don't even know what money goes to what school.»