Sentences with phrase «many little churches»

It was supposed to look like Obama DICTATED and the RC lock stepped behind him like a good little church.

They have their own little communities and often their own little churches.

The difference is we change company to «church» and suddenly our job is a holy calling, and when we leave the little church that doesn't pay much to go to a bigger church that pays more we can say «God is leading us» instead of I am taking a better paying job.

More people came to the little church, waiting on the saved miners.

Awhile back the bishop sent her to a nasty little church, that had run off more than one preacher, refused to contribute a dime to any national church program, and cherished a reputation for being one of the most hostile congregations in the conference.

In all the years of going to that little church, they had never heard anything but «fire and brimstone.»

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.

I applied to study on the foundation course at Moorlands College, having had very little church experience.

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.

Even the most nondescript little church structure marks its space as set apart for something sacred, and that gets noticed.

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.»

And, also like you, I have attended many churches and met believers in all venues of life... the «bad ones» are not all clumped together in one little church somewhere in the boondocks.

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

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.

Both Calvin and Luther expected the family to function as «a little church.

Walk into a random little church in the rural US.

The Protestant reference to the family as «a little church» can lead, in practice, to the church being regarded as an extension of «the Christian home.»

Something to add, the sentiment the shirt represents shows how little the church understands their «target market» because of how tightly they're wound up in their own mindset, many churches perform so much intellectual incest that they don't see how their viewpoints are malformed.

I know Mamas full of grace who have found a Bethel at our little church.

Protestants commonly regarded the family as «a little church.»

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.

Yet a persistent myth about the family as a little church reappears whenever the future of the family in America seems doubtful.

It is doubtful that Protestant families ever functioned as little churches.

Even if members do not view the family as a little church, they still want the congregation to be a family of families.

This is only a new word for the long - standing Protestant commitment to the idea that the Christian family should be a little church.

If it is in danger of being destroyed by impact with a comet, or something of that sort, there is very little the church can do about it.

I have been a good little church goer ever since I was a baby.

Steve, read a little Church history.

«It wasn't protective enough for everybody,» Jordan toldHonolulu Magazine, later noting, «I'm not here to protect the big churches or the little churches, I'm saying we can't erode what's currently out there.

Our crappy little church has a website, too (please excuse the music, which you can't turn off without muting your computer): http://www.sparksfirstchristianchurch.org

Though church people (particularly alumni) support church colleges individually, very little church money as such goes to colleges.

When Rick Perry goes over to Eastern Kentucky and finds one of those little Churches where they show their faith in Jesus by drinking poison, handling snakes, and become filled with the holy ghost, and does these things he is just another hypocrite in my books

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

When I first came to this little church, they allowed outside groups to use the church facilities, and that is good.

In that little church, the person who most influenced my life was not the minister, an English - born Congregationalist, but his equally English wife, Mrs. Tudor.

Last spring, I was back at the little church of my childhood, helping to celebrate the 125th anniversary of its founding.

Many groups will consist of nonreligious as well as religious people, but all will function as little churches, with members coming together for refreshment and going out to serve.

Our little church actually would send out youth to their meetings.

On Friday nights, our little church of misfits would meet at the Regina Leisure Centre to play floor hockey after Bible study.

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

Wrapped in ring roads or peeking above a grey urban swirl, one can often discover - as if they had been lost forever - beautiful, centuries - old little churches that stand as timeless reminders of the small village communities that went before.

Where your memory of a walk down a Parisian street may include the mental visual image of the street vendor, the bistro, and the charming little church, the Boskop may also have had the music coming from the bistro, the conversations from other strollers, and the peculiar window over the door of the church.

They made the perfect little church outfits.

This little church pew is probably my favorite thing to style.

And at some point someone will say, «Do you want to come to this funny little church I've found?»»

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

What started as a little church with a thatch roof then became the Neo-Gothic edifice that today dominates the town, as churches do in many towns in South Africa (this propensity for a church as the centre of town is all due to the British who liked towns to have churches and official buildngs at their heart).

We drive via Stugun, which has a pink - red little church, to Östersund, which lies on a big lake, Storsjö.

The countryside is made up of lush fertile plains, sparkling rivers and rustic vineyards, while ancient castles and little churches are scattered all around.

Built in 1749, this little church at the edge of hectic Pettah is an absolute jewel.