Sentences with phrase «little church in»

The Lord ended up having different plans for us but I remember the initial plans for our startup and our wonderful little church in Oregon that we missed.

Thirteen years ago, I first lurched — very hung over — into a little church in one of the poorest communities in California.

I was a freshly minted product of seminary, plopped down by the bishop into a forlorn little church in rural Georgia.

In one sense, it is a nostalgic desire to recapture the warmth and coziness of «the little church in the wildwood.»

Walk into a random little church in the rural US.

This is why I understood the longing, inarticulate but powerful, of those rootless, churchless urban Americans who shed tears over a mythical little church in the vale.

Sandra Joireman, a professor of international relations at Wheaton College, says of All Souls: «A little church in Wheaton avoided the Scylla at home but not the Charybdis of African ethnic politics.»

Harriet Beecher Stowe sat in a little church in Brunswick, Maine, and deeply moved by the communion service envisioned the death of Uncle Tom and went out to write her influential book.

They were all too young to remember little churches in the wildwood.

Not exact matches

This documentary made by the late Sydney Pollack looks at the little - known two - night live recordings Aretha Franklin did with LA's New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in 1972 for her best - selling album «Amazing Grace,» which was released the same year.

Scientology TV will likely result in very little for the Church of Scientology except to mislead its parishioners into thinking that Scientology is growing and has surmounted decades of withering revelations about the corrupt and abusive practices of this «pay as you go» business that masquerades as a cChurch of Scientology except to mislead its parishioners into thinking that Scientology is growing and has surmounted decades of withering revelations about the corrupt and abusive practices of this «pay as you go» business that masquerades as a churchchurch.

Assemblies decide little and often leave the churches in some confusion, but they are always taken as milestone events, reference points for organized «Ecumenism» and the cause of Christian unity.

You don't start a new church because the people in the old one were mean, and little is accomplished by labeling winners and losers.

The very day I read about Robin thicke and Miley cyrus I read a «sweet» little post from a Grandma about her little 3 yr old grandaughter «shaking her booty» in the Christmas play at their church.

Now with these bigger churches and folks not needing to hitch up ole «bessie to the wagon in Little House on the Prairie fashion, to get the family to the local church....

Bernice had left the church in profound humiliation when, as a little girl, one of the more prominent ladies in the congregation insulted her in the local general store, but near the end of her life she had reconnected with the church of her childhood.

I simply noted that the finger pointing toward the CC gets a bit ridiculous when there is more of a problem than meets the eye in protestant churches if you do a little research on the net and elsewhere.

«But now that we have a little say in the attitude of the church, we're taking a different approach,» Gyorke continues.

But for all its diversity, the Assembly was far from «representative» of the church; most of the world's Christians who are found in Catholic, Pentecostal, and evangelical fellowships would find little of the familiar in Canberra.

hey fishy our church just has a little thing in the back too.

«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.»

Or go off campus, meet in a church, and discrimate to your little Christian's heart content.

Yet some of the most substantive theology being written by Baptist scholars today comes from a little - known circle of mostly younger moderates who have shown a surprising interest in quite traditional themes such as the deeper meaning of baptism and the Lord's Supper, the covenantal disciplines of congregational life, and the positive role of creeds and confessions in the life of the church.

♦ Then there's Sandy Newman, president of Voices for Progress, writing to John Podesta in 2012 when the HHS mandate was announced: «This whole controversy with the bishops opposing contraceptive coverage even though 98 % of Catholic women (and their conjugal partners) have used contraception has me thinking... There needs to be 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.

wrong... it's obvious that the nature of the catholic church is hatred of women, gays, little boys, science etc.... they help push unwanted, non-secular policies in our gov» t so we must CRUSH the church!!!!

«Lear's counterpart in the contemporary Church,» writes Mankowski, «is a certain segment of clergymen which has made it a practice to vindicate its prejudices by affecting to consult with the faithful, to listen to their concerns, only to announce with astonishment that God's Little Ones are pleading for precisely those changes for which the Listeners themselves have a deep and discerning sympathy.»

The Roman taxman could not tax Christian churches because much of what they did was in secret and the churches took in very little money in the form of contributions.

I say it's time we, the Church, the largest and best corporation in the world, start investing a little more thought into our marketing strategy.

Before reviewing the 2008 General Conference's action on the church's official teaching on abortion, a little history is in order.

In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themeIn between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themein public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themein the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themein Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

But the Church's ambitious hopes for in - churching will make little progress without a vibrant intellectual culture alongside its rich liturgical and monastic traditions.

Bclear, perhaps you should look a little deeper rather than just buying into the rhetoric taught to you about Mormonism in your own church.

He has more than a little sympathy for people in my shoes (gay and celibate), but as we talked, he said something to the effect of, «This is an incredibly frustrating conversation to keep having in the church.

In a culture like our own, which exalts sex and disparages celibacy, it is little surprise that many fail when they attempt celibacy without much support from the church, without clear models, and without practical advice in facing the challenges they facIn a culture like our own, which exalts sex and disparages celibacy, it is little surprise that many fail when they attempt celibacy without much support from the church, without clear models, and without practical advice in facing the challenges they facin facing the challenges they face.

The priest - Father Joseph Pavanivel Jeyapaul of Ootacamund, India - served in a diocese in Crookston, Minnesota, for a little more than a year in 2004 and 2005, according to church documents unearthed in a lawsuit related to the case.

«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.

The same preachers who crusade against s e x and p0rn are the same ones getting b - lown in the back of the church or fon - dling little boys.

They didn't sail across the ocean to live in the woods just because their little country church got a new minister, honey.

It gets a little weird in the case of the Pope and Mormon Church leaders, who apparently claim more authority and are able to impose it.

When I find a choir, the minister coming down the aisle in a procession with the choir behind him in a Presbyterian church, I'm a little amazed.

Experiencing the kindness of strangers offered relief to Mormons who had been feeling «a little under siege,» said Bennett, who first got to know Romney through church in 1978 and worked with him for five years at Bain & Company, a global consulting firm that Romney eventually led as CEO.

Such churches provide a little bit of warm fellowship, but community is where people, as Paul writes so graphically in the book of Galatians, «bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ» (6:2 KJV).

Next to the church, down a little swale, young people were bopping and grinding in a tent set up for disco dancing.

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» scenariIn 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» scenariin his eye pointing out someone else's splinter» scenario.

Some suspect that the churches actually have little reason to recognize this day, that in observing it they acquiesce to a civic and commercial occasion - one more Flag Day in America's civil religion and one more festival of consumption in America's commercialized calendar.

I saw a cartoon once that a little boy and his mom were in church and the preacher was spittin» and spewin», rantin» and ravin» so much that he got all tangled up in the mic cords..

One year when we read about Jesus resurrecting the little girl who died, the rector of my church in my hometown gave a stirring and memorable sermon.

The meal made it clear that the church was not simply another social agency doing a little good, but a people called to witness to God's presence in the world.

But if we also agree with ECE that «every Catholic University, without ceasing to be a University, has a relationship to the Church that is essential to its institutional identity» and that «[each has] a special bond with the Holy See,» then it stands to reason that those of us in the trenches of Catholic education should bend a little to realize this goal.

I for one hope for a little evolution is on our way because I think there is a place for churches in our future.