Sentences with phrase «listened to sermon in»

After a while I could not listen to a sermon in a PCA church without wondering which parts did and didn't apply to me, since I'm female.

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Listening to them speak, I sometimes wonder if they've ever read the bible or actually paid attention to what was written instead of just using talking points, propaganda and rhetoric in their sermons.

And yet, familiar disappointment in the Church rises to the surface as Helene says, «Enough that I don't listen to what the priests blabber in their sermons.

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Just a few years ago, I listened to a sermon where the pastor put the word «consent» in air quotes: «The world says that as long as there's «consent,» it's alright, but we know better than that, don't we?»

What Thom Rainer doesn't seem to understand or recognize is that just because someone stops sitting in a pew on Sunday morning and listening to a sermon, this does not mean that they have left church.

Thankfully, Jesus is using people like me (and millions of others in the same boat) to show these people who have stopped attending church that there is wonderful way of following Jesus as part of His Body, the church, which does not involve sitting in a pew on Sunday morning and listening to a sermon.

Look, being a church member has nothing to do with sitting in a pew on Sunday morning, listening to a sermon and praying for your pastor, giving your money to support a local church budget, and making commitments to serve on a church ministry program.

But I think that if you re-read the entire post, you will see that I am not saying that Jesus calls people to leave the Church (His Body), but rather, that Jesus might be calling some members of His Body to be the church in a way that looks different than the Sunday morning activity of sitting in a pew and listening to a sermon.

At a leadership conference in Oslo, Norway, where I was speaking, a pastor there shared how a well - respected businessman in his church was healed while listening to one of my sermon CDs.

So I Listened to all of his sermons read all of his blogs and than decided to leave my number to see if he would really call as he says on his web site, With in 2 hours I recieved a call and DR. Collins never rushed me off the telephone answered all my questions, And After just that one call you can tell he loves and believes in what he does, He wont be for everyone, Because he does talk about damnation and what it takes to get to heaven, And its not from giving ministers our money > I watched the you tube videos of many and he is just for me, everyone has a choice but in listening to his sermons and reading his blogs and than the telephone call this guy is the real deal.

he cautioned us to be ready and alert for His coming, not dreaming of escaping to an out of body place and not fussing over whether we have ticked all the theological boxes while we sit slumped in the Sunday pew listening to yet another sermon on how to be saved (when we are already saved).

While it is not possible in most situations to sit all day in church and listen to seven sermons, we can give the majority of our time in church to the study of God's Word.

I still think we should still go to the church... or maybe a meeting where all the believer can learn from each other, strengthening each other, pray for each other etc, and of course, to worship God together... It is true that sometime I feel that I do not learn many thing from the sermon, but, many times, I learn by going to the church, knowing that I will not learn something from the preacher, humble myself to still listen to God and worship Him,,,, it is such a blessing to hear others testimony about how God works in their life, it is such an encouragement to see people open up their problem, then, we can pray about them..

Nothing magical happens by sitting in a pew on Sunday morning to sing a few songs and listen to a sermon.

I don't think it necessarily has to be in a building on Sunday morning where they sing, sit in pews, and listen to a sermon.

One Sabbath service as the congregation in Newbury listened to the sermon of their pastor, the door burst open and in walked a young woman stark naked.

I was once listening to a sermon and the pastor said this from the pulpit: «Children are dying of starvation in Africa, and most of you in the pews don't give a shit... But you know what is the saddest thing of all?

We can not «get credit» for church by showing up in some building for an hour on Sunday morning, singing a few songs, smiling a few smiles, and listening to a sermon.

They are still part of His Church, but there might be something else He has in store for them that does not involve singing songs and listening to a sermon on Sunday morning.

So far as we can tell, Sunday mornings will remain the same, with America's silent majority sitting in the churches, listening to silent sermons

I lived near St. Louis for a number of years and had about an hour commute each way so I would listen to a couple of sermons or programs usually on the way in and a couple on the way home.

But this is only true when we think of the church as a building that people enter and sit in a pew to sing and listen to a sermon.

Recently as I was sitting in church listening to a rather good sermon on the importance of «working for justice and peace.»

I was raised in a Baptist home and spent the first twelve years listening to their sermons about peace & love.

I taught and used WOTM in one of the churches I pastored, have listened to several sermons by Ray Comfort (Hell's Best Kept Secret, etc), and have listened to numerous evangelism encountered on «Way of the Master Radio.»

Sunday will remain the same: the American silent majority sitting righteously in the pews listening to silent sermons.»

I go to church throughout my childhood, sometimes reluctantly, but my mother has such control over us that we dress up each Sunday and sit quietly in a row, my brothers and I, listening to the adult sermon.

Learn what the Shield of Faith is and how to use it in Spiritual Warfare by listening to my new sermon, The Shield of Faith (Ephesians 6:16).

There are lots of ways to assemble with other believers that do not involve sitting in a pew on Sunday morning to listen to a sermon.

I got to the point where I didn't think I could listen to one more sermon, one more «praise report,» one more prayer request (that I knew would never be answered), one more «message from the Lord» in the form of speaking in tongues and interpretation, or one more «prophecy.»

Jesus didn't find Levi in the Temple listening to the priest's sermons.

I listened to a sermon this past week in which the pastor was explaining the progress his church was making on their new church building.

It's so much easier to spend an hour each week sitting in a seat listening to music and a sermon, and once a year packaging a box of food to send to poor people in another country, all the while ignoring the guy we drive by every day who lives under a bush.

Also, in light of the previous point, this sort of makes pastors and preachers the dealers in this transaction, which is why you will very often find the most Bible addicts in a church where the pastor and preacher places an heavy and constant emphasis on attending church, listening to sermons, daily Bible reading, and going to Bible studies.

Notice that those who decry the lack of biblical literacy in the church often say that the solution to this problem is to come listen to their sermons, buy their books, and attend their schools.

But if you really want to laugh your head off, get the original cast album of the British satirical revue Beyond the Fringe» and listen to the track called «Take a Pew,» in which Alan Bennett absolutely skewers the type of sermon that Anglican vicars used to make.

The familiar statement of Hermann Diem, «The congregation is born in preaching» is also true in reverse: «Preaching is born in the congregation».10 One has only to listen to sermons prepared for a homiletics class with no congregation in view to realize how vital to preaching is the concrete situation.

As she listened to podcasts of Greg Boyd's (Senior pastor at Woodland Hills Church in Minnesota) sermons, she heard another view expressed which she calls the «warfare view».

Those who follow teachers who give them what their itching ears want to hear are those who are content to gather more and more teachers, listen to more and more sermons, gaining more and more knowledge, and being so busy with Bible study, theological learning, and the accumulation of knowledge, that one never has a chance to put any of it into practice in the world.

But here's the real question: Did Jesus die so that people could show up and sit in a pew on Sunday morning and listen attentively to a sermon?

Rob, With respect, is the church just a hall where people sit in pews listening to sermons.

Why did Obama sit in the hateful Rev Wright's church for 20 years and deny he didn't listen to his sermons.

In order to become a «speaker» at the site designated for the performance of the sermon, the preacher must first stand at many other sites where «voices» are heard and «presences» are embodied and there learn how to listen attentively.

A group of our ministers had attended a nearby church where they listened to a sermon on love as that theme is presented in I Corinthians 13.

The ministry of the congregation during the preacher's sermon is to listen, not passively, but actively out of their own meanings, and in their very listening to challenge and encourage the preacher in what he is trying to say.

We sat next to each other in church one Sunday listening to a sermon on the wrongs of getting angry.

Those who are really mature were encouraged to take copious sermon notes, study the Bible on their own for an hour or two every day, listen to sermons on the radio while driving to work, download sermon MP3s from the internet for listening while jogging or weeding the garden, read Bible study books and theology books in their spare time, and attend one or two Bible conferences or retreats every single year.

Anything that makes people actually think for themselves, while listening to the strange things spoken in sermons, can't be bad.

For many years I sat in a pew on Sundays, listening to occasional sermons about the poor, giving to special offerings and looking appropriately sympathetic and concerned about poverty.