Sentences with phrase «much of our church family»

Sometimes you read or hear comments like that and you come to the painful conclusion that it is representative of much of our church family and of even it's finest members when joined together in the collective.

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Much to the disappointment of his mother, who was getting the family ready to attend church, Iovine made the trip from his parents» apartment in Brooklyn to the Record Plant in Manhattan — where he found that the client was John Lennon.

There is much love within a faith community (a faith family) and it is very much a part of the church, synagogue and mosque.

I am not accepted by members of my own family much less my old church.

«When taking vows as elders at Coral Ridge, each individual commits before God to strive for the purity, peace, and unity of the church,» Coral Ridge stated to CT. «We are saddened that these two elders failed in their vows by withholding this information regarding our former senior pastor, which has since caused many families and churches much harm.»

However, without a doubt, we can affirm that much wisdom about healthy family life, based on the experience of generations, has been taught by the churches.

There are over 300 moms in the group and many of them have been very wounded by the church and left the church because they don't think it is a safe place for them and their families — some have found affirming churches and now attend there but many don't even want to attend an affirming church as church in general is related to too much negativity for them at this point.

My family being Orthodox, I can say that every Orthodox church I've been to is simply magnificent place with beautiful iconography and most of those churches are much more than 500 years old with amazing stories behind it's every piece.

On the basis on her frankly Jeffersonian reading of the early church, she concludes, «Our secularized western idea of democratic society owes much to that early Christian vision of a new society — a society no longer formed by the natural bonds of family, tribe, or nation, but by the voluntary choice of its members.»

ok i've decided — after soul searching and observing my and other's reactions to these religious blog news on CNN learning more about religion from this alone and about the mideast than from anywhere else in my USA educated life i need to be more tolerant of others having religious based governments THAT is what is confusing me — that religion are governments are not seperated that is hard for much of USA population to understand perhaps it is for me i think you would have to actually live in a society like the mideast to truly understand it i mean — actually be part of the society the religious part is truly offputting — since most in USA seperate church and state like — church is for faith and imagination and celebration and family and community involvement and state is for protection and education and health and infrastructure, etc., for all it is hard to be serious about religion — when the serious side of society is state it is hard to see religion being the serious side of enforcement — and the state enforcing the faith based side of society egad — doesn't god get lost in all that?

so we can all stop judging eachother and start encouraging others starting with our own family, the word does say that you and your household will be saved, but thats to much like work its easier to play christian around your church you belong to and play follow the leader and go around telling people that God loves them tell them all about how they are sinners you know the bit, an thats it go home and freak out on your famliy members because their not save like you maybe they are and you cant even tell because they do nt measure up to your churches standards even though God says we have all fallen short and that our rightousness is filthy rags, we need to stop useing the word of God as though we think we know what were doing, do you really think that when God said I will give you all authority He ment you?

Take them one at a time, spending as much time as you need to discuss thoroughly the issues and feelings that arise: «The ideas and issues which excite me most are...;» «The things that are most worth living for right now are...;» «I feel the most joy (pain, hope, lonely, together) when...;» «What I really believe about God is...;» «I feel closest to (most distant from) God when...;» «I get spiritually high when...;» «The beliefs that mean the most to me now are...;» «The beliefs from my childhood which no longer make sense are...;» «Life has the least (the most) meaning for me when...;» «I feel closest to you (most distant from you) spiritually when...;» «The way I really feel about the church is...;» «I'd like to do the following, to enjoy more spiritual sharing...;» «To enrich the spiritual life of our family, I'd like to..

Most of us can handle aggressive, angry, hostile people much better when we know we have a loving, supportive family waiting for us at home, and a loving, supportive group, be it a church or a social club, with whom we will gather to escape a hostile world and support one another.

Think about it, he is successful, all about family, pays money to his church, pays his taxes, takes care of himself, loves his wife, and obviously if he can earn and save that much money for himself then he can probably do it for our country too.

They also have more time on their hands, so they're much more able to be involved in the pastoral work of the Church as they don't usually have the commitments that a husband and father, wife and mother, have with family and children.

There are some which would be of the traditional kind of families, you know married with children, but there are lots who wouldn't fit into that but they'd still be very Catholic and very much belong to the parish church.

When the seasons of the church year set the mood for corporate worship, events in the life of Jesus become the prism through which all else is reflected.4 But when the civic calendar and family - life celebrations govern the worship of a congregation, it is much more difficult for the pastor to convey what it means to reflect about all of life in the light of the life and teaching of Jesus Christ.

But that's my problem with so much of our Christian family and the Church in general.

I'm afraid my 40 yr journey, much of it in a wilderness, has soured me on staying in any comfort zone of the past, (because they always end up being temporary) and conversely, has put in me a deep hunger to live in a land (church family fellowship) flowing with the milk of His Word and the honey of His presence.

I love being part of ecumenical dialogues because I always learn as much about my own family of churches as I do about the other traditions represented.

But there seems to be too much written in the Bible about the purpose of God's people to reduce the church now to «just» a family with no vision.

At first I thought it explained much of the difficulties our congregation has had the last few years — that they want to be a «family,» without any vision / mission, but that church is supposed to have vision.

My family and I sat in pews on certain Sundays throughout the year, so I quickly learned the church's traditions, but I didn't know much about the God spoken of there.

Unusually large gatherings in North American churches at Christmas and Easter tend to suggest that they are at least as much celebrations of loyalty to family and its tradition as they are response to God's peculiar ways of being present in Jesus of Nazareth.

Though Whitehead sees the church as one of several civil institutions that could strengthen families, she is not much interested in the church's potential role as a source of ethical reflection and public - policy recommendations.

Catholic citizens have every reason — including the truth of the matter — to argue that our Constitution is much more democratic that our Court now says it is, just as they have every reason to argue that our Framers never meant «liberty» to be used as a wrecking ball deployed against our indispensable relational «intermediary» institutions — beginning with the family and the church.

One of the most conspicuous features of the church in Jerusalem was the position that was occupied by Jesus» family, very much in line with the semitic tradition.

The sacrifices they made to be a part of our church family meant so much to me.

As much as I am outside of my comfort zone here (I do not attend church - nor plan on doing so ever again, I have plenty of non-christian friends but not one Christian friend in my current city, I DJ at a bar, I run a radio that plays secular music (yet everything is sacred), I work a regular day job, I struggle with financial hardship and responsibilities I never asked for..., I sometimes have fear of the future and many times my faith dwindles... Some days I cry because I support my family and I feel just really tired...) despite all this fractured humanity that I am....

I thank God for taking me out of the pastoral ministry — the most painful thing that ever happened to me — and also the best thing for me, my family and for the church people that I thought needed me so much.

Powell: So much of what we think works to reach young people in churches — loud music, fog machines, hip leaders, trying too hard — doesn't matter nearly as much as driving to the essence of what it means to be a family - like community centered in Jesus.

My friends from church (they pretty much adopted me into their family < 3) booked me for dinner that weekend — it was awesome to see them again, but I'm also really sad, because outside of this next week, I'm not sure when I'll ever see them again.

The question of where such remarriages can take place has proved controversial, with the Church of England refusing to conduct the remarriages of divorcees for much of the twentieth century and other options not being available to members of the royal family within England and Wales.

With the support of the church, Lutheran Child and Family Services extends opportunities for residential treatment, emergency shelter, individual and family therapy, and muchFamily Services extends opportunities for residential treatment, emergency shelter, individual and family therapy, and muchfamily therapy, and much more.

And there is so much more to be thankful for as well - that I can bake & enjoy it and have the thrill of blessing others with it, especailly my church family & kids friends; the Word of God that i can sit down a read at any time and that God is here to listen to me & we can chit chat thruout the day; the incredible Worship music we have these days, at our fingertips, and it draws us in God's presence no matter where we are!!!