Sentences with phrase «long service to the church»

Not exact matches

The long line to get in — and the churchgoers» casual dress — confused me; I could not believe I was walking into a church service and not a concert.

Valparaiso University's venerable president, O.P. Kretzmann, responded positively to our proposal that the university send annually a team of students for year - long service, so each of our churches hosted young volunteers who helped us expand our work with children and their families.

Some of the same churches I've been to, You left some out, tho... only if she wears a head covering... as long as she doesn't wear makeup or jewelry (wedding ring and denominational pin excepted)... no peep toe shoes, especially with toenail polish... if what she is doing gets bigger than what the men are doing, she's out (Thats a real big one)... only if she'll do it on a volunteer basis and never expects an honorarium, even if she speaks at the main Sunday service.

It may no longer be a legal requirement for the Church of England to hold services on Sundays.

No longer able to provide goods and services acceptable to their constituencies, the bureaucracies seek to regulate procedures, policies, and the expenditure of funds in church structures they no longer directly control.

Now that Bishop Eddie Long has apologized to the Anti-Defamation League for a service at his New Birth Missionary Baptist Church that purported to crown him a «king,» one has to wonder what Long was thinking.

Lasting about as long as a church service, a good movie transports you to another realm where art of story and the magic of special effects allows you to experience an alternate reality that can help provide perspective or inspiration once you return to the real world.

Someone told me about their church holding a Blue Christmas service for those in their community who are grieving and longing at Christmas, unable to fathom the joy perhaps, and so they make space for prayer, for communion, for quiet, to hold each other, to light candles for their grief together for just an evening in the midst of the shopping and the wrapping and the bright tinsel.

Long, who led the growth of his church to its current 25,000 members, told reporters after the service that he would challenge the allegations, but declined to take any questions.

A Church with philosophers of firsthand experience in the study of the natural order, would go a long way to helping her regain for the West what Pope Benedict rightly praised in his Regensburg address, that dedication to the importance of reason in its service to Faith.

Compassion, service and faith have long underpinned Bishop Sarah Mullally's career path - from serving in the NHS to becoming the most senior woman in the Church...

Almost all Christians have some sort of idea that heaven is going to be one long, unending church service.

Where does it say that every church service has to have five hymns and they all have to be five stanzas long?

He has on the whole a very good name in the Christian East, and not only for past services rendered: his long history of cordial ties to the Orthodox Church, especially to the Russian Cathedral in Buenos Aires; his close friendship with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople; and so on.

It doesn't matter how many time we tell people to be the church, as long as they are still in that mindset and can come to a service on Sunday morning.

I recall that I often felt closer to God and sensed the beauty of nature when I took the dog for a walk than I did at long - drawn - out church services.

(CNN)- While some churches are struggling to attract younger members, 20 and 30 - something - year - olds are waiting in long lines to get into Hillsong's services.

I enjoy this analogy (not in THAT way), because I've long advocated not for a different or more innovative church service, but for church to be stripped to its essence — where it is more raw and powerful.

Speaking to the massive congregation packed into the Atlanta - area New Birth Missionary Baptist Church for an 8 a.m. service, Long said that «this is probably the most difficult time» of his entire life, but he intends to fight the allegations against him.

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.

Religion News Service: Jewish and Christian groups at impasse over U.S. aid to Israel An established interfaith group is in danger of disintegrating as major American Jewish groups and prominent mainline Protestant churches differ over U.S. aid for Israel - a long - standing argument that the group was established, in part, to diffuse.

And if your children do the washing up every night, complain that church services aren't long enough, ask their teacher for extra homework, and you've already drafted your «12 Steps to Perfect Parenting» ready to share with less able parents... then you, too, probably aren't our kind of person.

Religion News Service: South Carolina diocese defecting from the Episcopal Church The Diocese of South Carolina announced on Wednesday (Oct. 17) that it has disaffiliated from the Episcopal Church, escalating a long - running skirmish and setting the stage to become the fifth diocese to secede from the denomination.

Attending church services not only enhances spiritual life, but also leads to a longer and less - stressful life according to new research from Vanderbilt University.

We as Christians can endure, and we are willing to endure gays as long as they don't call them Christians, or don't want to attend church services, or even want to become pastors and bishops which is perverse.

They can be encouraged to produce more local programming, and local church leaders can provide ideas, resources and programming, so long as the programs deal with «public service» rather than proselytizing.

They are no longer compelled by us to attend church services weekly.

Among the highlights: getting to know my sisters - in - law better, participating in perhaps the best church service I've been to in years, indulging in Maki Evans» delicious cupcakes gourmet, enjoying an impromptu living room concert from the Beekeepers, seeing more wildlife in one week in New Jersey than I've seen in years in Tennessee (deer, rabbits, foxes, turkeys, etc.), watching Veggie Tales with my beautiful nephew Will, long morning walks with my mother - in - law, and a Mother's Day gathering that included half of the family (which is over fifteen people!).

Further research is needed to clarify the contributory part religious programs may have played in that process and also the long - term effects of many religious programs» avoidance of reference to the local church and their development of services in competition with the local churches.

regular worship services are church (as long as you talk to someone, ha ha).

It is possible, therefore, that some of the paid - time religious broadcasters may show signs of becoming more «established,» consolidating basic identities and service functions in order to maintain their audiences similar to an extended congregation, withdrawing their programs from areas that are no longer profitable, and developing as extended independent church organizations in line with their particular theological emphases.

Calvin explains in the Institutes that the significance of the imposition of hands is «to admonish the person ordained that he is no longer his own master but devoted to the service of God and the Church.»

I suggest you get up at a decent hour, throw this recipe together quickly in the slow cooker.Then go to church service, the store or on a nice long walk.

Foster and Adoptive Family Services, a non-profit organization dedicated to foster and adoptive families, started an outreach program in 2000 through a $ 5000 challenge grant from Long Valley Presbyterian Church, called Fostering Wishes For Children (FWFC).

MICHAEL WHITE PHOTO Shirley Covedale at the First Baptist Church of Riverhead property, where she's long pushed to get an apartment complex and community center built to provide affordable housing and other services, such as 24 - hour child care, to East End residents.

Dec. 25th was commercial with Santa Claus, but Jan. 7th with the family feast, (long) church service, carolling to people's homes, and the 12 meatless dishes Christmas Eve was quite a treat.

The church was considered a non-starter due to his stammer, and the civil service was rejected as being no longer the career of a gentleman.

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Started cooking at noon on Christmas Eve, stopped long enough to go to church services, came home, cooked till 1 am.