Sentences with phrase «little church service»

In Revelation 1:10, the apostle John, while in exile on the island of Patmos, held his own little church service on the Lord's Day, and it was on that day which he received his Revelation about the end times.

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Sunday morning, a weeknight for small group, regular service on a ministry team, occasional church projects and retreats... Add the expectation to be friends and find community with other church members beyond the organized settings, and I have little time left for my neighbors.

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.

Thus did Newman's view of development pose one final, necessary challenge: the need to take seriously the institutional Church, a notion alien to my evangelical world, where a «high» view of the Church typically meant little more than attending morning and evening services on a Sunday.

I did however experience two weeks ago at our worship gathering (what I call it cause we do very little serving so doesn't justify the name worship service I feel) and I talked about that church you posted about once — the one where the biker is involved and the pastor leading the church out into their community — and turned it on our congregation asking, what can we do in our community?

I also read of those of you who were appalled at their church serving popcorn during the service, little mention of what was missing, loud worldly saturated music that has nothing to do with the Holy Ghost.

The pastor is a young guy, and besides everyone asking me to come 8 times, I probably would if the people who were nicd to use there, would have had the same demeanor during the rest of the week They're a cute little church w / maybe 200 each service (they have 2 morning services) I tried to have her go to VBS, but they wanted the parents to go to a Bible study instead of with them, so I bowed out of that one.

(I do not mention Hans urs yon Balthasar, for all that he is at present very fashionable, because, notwithstanding the power of an extraordinary mind, it seems to me that he lived and thought a little marginally to the life of the church, in marked contrast to Ratzinger, who did his work always at the service of the church.)

If members do not learn what it means to belong to «the Body of Christ» through service to one another, they will have little inclination to see or believe that the church is called to serve the world.

Jack Marcum, head of research services for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), sees «little evidence of a literal shortage of ministers... We are training more than sufficient numbers of ministers of word and sacrament in the PCUSA to pastor mid-sized and larger congregations and fill other traditional ministries.»

I sat in a church service last night where the congregation continually gushed with a joyous noise over a sermon that, to me, was founded on little more than the pastor's «vision» of a church empire....

Even if such an alliance is a long shot, a president who received less than 10 percent of the African - American vote has little to lose by emphasizing the increased availability of funds for black church social - service programs.

In many other cases resourcing has become little more than a placement service for students seeking employment as Christian education directors, youth workers or student pastors, and for local churches seeking to book a contemporary singing group for the annual youth Sunday.

First of all, little actual service takes place in the church service.

Since so little of the scholarly and intellectual work of the faculties of theology is geared to the service of the church, it is not surprising that the church takes little interest in this work.

Maybe the American Christian church needs a little persecution to weed out false converts, who profess but give little more than lip service... Matthew 15:8

However, for people who are dissatisfied with their local church, who have little established connection with a local church, or whose religious consciousness may be awakened by a viewed religious program, the research indicates that paid - time religious programs, by presenting themselves as competent alternatives to the local church, offering a range of services similar to the local church, and not referring respondents or enquirers to a local church, may be acting as a barrier to people's developing their faith most fully within this interpersonal context.

There is so much for all of us that hides Jesus from us — the church itself hides him, all the hoopla of church with ministers as lost in the thick of it as everybody else so that the holiness of it somehow vanishes away to the point where services of worship run the risk of becoming only a kind of performance — on some Sundays better, on some Sundays worse — and only on the rarest occasions does anything strike to the quick the way that little girl's cry did with every last person who heard her realizing that Jesus didn't show for any of them — the mystery and miracle of Jesus with all his extraordinary demands upon us, all his extraordinary promises.

Because of a clergy shortage, Washington's local parish church had services on average twice a month; he attended a little more than once a month ¯ much more often in later years than in earlier.

I attend a church with little to no reason to exist except to have a church service — and I skip regularily (and my brother runs the church and my family attends there).

Or if they do, it is a somewhat stale kind of thing, to be done in church services but with little personal demand upon them.

When I was little, I remember my parents having a big group of people from our church out to our farm on Easter morning for an outdoor sunrise service.

Then this morning we had a wonderful service at church, and this afternoon, a cream tea in the garden with our lovely daughter and son in law with Susie and her friend and little one.

Mr. de Blasio regularly attends church services with his wife at African - American and protestant churches, which political observers privately argue has done little to boost his brand in white, Catholic enclaves — where, according to at least one report, residents feel neglected by the mayor.

We would have a new Easter bonnet and pretty little white gloves to wear to Sunday school and to Easter church service.

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We interred his ashes at the Rembrance Garden at at church here in our neighborhood and had a very nice little service.

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The number of institutions that potentially forge links in this chain — public, private, and personal — is vast, spanning families, churches, scout troops, Little League, police departments, the armed services, and countless others.

When her children were little Margaret was the story lady during the morning church service, and later she held a story circle at the after school care her grandson attended.

A little farther in the city center is the 15th century Church of the Holy Cross, which can only be visited during services.

Mr. Sizemore has actively participated in service to Vineville United Methodist Church, Mt. de Sales Academy, Mercer University, the Walter F. George School of Law, Boy Scouts of America, Vine - Ingle Little League, and the Georgia Legal Services Program.

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One of our favorite family Christmas memories was leaving Christmas eve service at the little church up the road from us (not our home church) and finding that it had started snowing while we were inside!