Sentences with phrase «of a small town church»

The attack is testing the faith of a small town church that never thought terrorism would hit home.

I have this desire and intention even after a positive experience of self - publishing a trilogy of small town church fiction.

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First responders quickly converged on the church in Sutherland Springs, a small town east of San Antonio with a population under 1,000.

At my grandmother's small - town church, in the middle of families in their Sunday best and fidgeting kids in the pews, I didn't expect any huge revelations.

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With this aim he devoted the sabbatical leave he describes in chapter 1 to the close study of two Protestant churches in a small Georgia town.

Though located only a block apart in a small town, each drawing members from the same social and economic stratum of the town's population, the two churches were strikingly different from each other in ways their Baptist and Methodist affiliations did not explain.

Our churches, whose steeples dot every cityscape and small town in the land, are exempt from paying taxes, and unlike many people of other faiths, we don't have to worry about fighting with our employers to take time off to celebrate our religious holidays as they are largely taken for granted.

Status of born again churches: - In Kahama, Shinyanga region (Tanzania) the born again churches are found in towns and small centers only.

As adults, she joined the Catholic church, moved to a small town and slowly lost all of my respect.

Rather than using his acute grasp of manners and speech to demonstrate their fatuity, he asks us to acknowledge beneath and within the clichés and banalities of small - town life — including that of the church — enduring and even noble sentiments.

Distance keeps me from going except for twice a year or so, but my brother in law has a small church of around 50 members in a tiny rural town.

The system I have seen that worked the best was a system where all of the churches in several contiguous mid-size towns rented one small office that served all of the churches in those towns.

Shelbyville is a typical northern New England church: a small congregation of 120 members located in a town with 1,000 residents; many of the members are elderly, and finances are a constant concern.

after 30 years of moving around the country and participating in various churches that were glad to have me be part of their work & ministries (as a musician), I find myself now living in a small, very isolated, undereducated and underexperienced town, where I've been rejected by more than one church on the basis that I know too much (I apparently make everyone else feel stupid) and have too much experience (i.e., I make everyone else feel inadequate).

In Crooked Heart, a first novel by Cristina Sumners (herself a parish priest), we meet Kathryn Koerney, rector of a small church in a New Jersey college town that resembles Princeton.

Nuisance troublemaking against Christians goes on quite unnoticed in the smaller towns and villages, but the problem in Islamabad became a cause célèbre because a number of diplomats worship in the house parish that seeks to build a permanent church.

Although the popular Czech Church was quite small, the number of converts and sympathizers grew» especially among youth and the intelligentsia, and in the larger towns.

The great church broods over the small town, once a seat of power but long overtaken in size and importance by some shapeless industrial blob nearby.

For twelve years Barth served as a pastor, first as a pastoral assistant at a German - speaking congregation in Geneva and then as pastor of the Swiss Reformed Church in Safenwil, a small industrial town in the Aargau.

I once pastored a church in a small town with a 2000 Census population of 169 people.

Would have liked a picture of the church though... some of those small English churches & towns are a nice glimpse into the past.

Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (releases November 6, 2012, available for pre-order)-- Kingsolver's new novel takes place in a small - town Tennessee and tells the story of a woman who must confront «her family, her church, her town, her continent, and finally the world at large.»

In former Communists countries, like Poland in some Churches women are not even allowed to read during mass, forget about altar girls I've only seen 1 church that allowed it, and couples who practice contraception, who are divorced, who have children out of wedlock, priests often deny them the Sacraments especially in small towns.

Indeed, an argument could be made that at no time since the First Great Awakening have so many churches of disparate denominational, theological and stylistic approaches been so united in terms of their music: one can now walk into old - line Pentecostal churches, small - town evangelical congregations, mall - like suburban megachurches, and many a mainline Protestant sanctuary across the country on any given Sunday morning and hear the same hymns and choruses done in approximately the same musical styles, with similar settings and instrumentation.

The minister of such a church, who has developed two groups, reports that small - town anxiety about secret - breaking sometimes deters deep sharing.

I love the look of those mega church buildings but its the same as looking at Charlotte motor - speedway in comparison to a small home town dirt track.

Under his guidance revivals became for the huge new cities what they were formerly for the smaller towns and country — they were ways of winning members for the Church.

You've mentioned on your site that the combination of the your reputation and small town living has caused some discomfort in past church appearances.

David N. with «What Unity Means When You Have No Other Choice» «In our rural small town of Greenville, Ohio we don't have the luxury of leaving a church when we don't agree with its teachings in favor of going to the trendier church across town.

Asher serves as Pastor of Zion Lutheran Church in the small mountain town of Idaho Springs, Colorado.

Yep you are right, I moved down here in the state of Mississippi, north of Crystal Springs from Chicago when I was ten years old but still I visit once in a while, now it's twenty years and sad to not much has change, like the parts you said about non-whites discrimatory or rasicts at other non-whites, when I went to school here they treated me as a alien from another galaxy, they pick at my voice cause I didn't had that southern dialog, unlike them I said my words correctly, but not just me, they even hated at others who had better intelect I am not picking at them, It is what I went through all these years, Mississippi and mainly this small town of Crystal Springs see America in a crazy awful view, They don't like difference that even within they own race, ther not that politcal, when some one say God they got there vote, I don't to say much to waste your time, I still remember when I was ten years old I had a constanct back ground check on me to see were I really come from evn though I had the paper saying Chicago Illinois barely no jobs but a church on every street for a town barely under five Thousand, till this very day, they look at me like I am a alien, did you ever had that experiance down here damn my keybroad mess up,

In a plant like ours, we are small and simply don't have enough mass yet to do very many things, and so I have been doing some teaching on the universal body of believers, which is call «Big C Church,» and how we can be involved in other churches in town to get what we ourselves can not offer.

Leaves was written during the days of Detroit's great industrial expansion, and Niebuhr was pastor of a rapidly growing church; my own experience in rural, small - town and semi-suburban congregations has been markedly different.

Yet the irony of the criticism is that I write not simply as an academic but also as the pastor of a church of ca. 160 people in a small town outside Philadelphia.

Seldom are ordained women placed in full charge of a local church, save in some small town and rural congregations that can not afford or find a man.

Reagan's economic individualism also fits with the small - town and small - business orientation of many who fill these independent churches.

As in most small Italian towns, the Catholic church is one of the biggest and tallest buildings in sight.

My candidate for a «prophet to the liberals» is Will Campbell, publisher of the journal Katallagete and author of the highly acclaimed Brother to a Dragonfly, an autobiographical book about the lives of Will and his brother, Joe, as they leave their father's small cotton farm in Mississippi — Will to become a civil rights worker for the National Council of Churches, Joe to become a small - town pharmacist.

However, this doesn't mean a guitar player should automatically cross First Baptist Church of [Insert Name of Small Southern Town Here] off the list of churches to visit and consider joining.

Even small towns have at least two or three churches; there's rarely a good reason to stay in the one that has that sort of legalistic mindset.

My home church, a big, flourishing congregation with lots of ministries, was once an old - style, small - town church.

I remember with a bit of awe an experience of a small town in the West where all the churches together undertook a study of the WCC document Baptisni, Eucharist, and Ministiy (1982).

Consider the following: the pastor of a liberal Protestant church preaches a sermon on the story of the prodigal son called «Intolerable Love»; across town, a preacher at a small fundamentalist church delivers a sermon called «The Meaning of Life.»

With El Mexicano in tow, they held their first pop - up on April 23 last year at Grace Bible Church in Lytle, a small town outside of San Antonio.

The gunman who killed 26 people at a small - town Texas church had a history of domestic violence that spanned years before the attack, and was able buy weapons because the Air Force did not submit his criminal history to the FBI as required by military rules.

«Yes, a contractor who has worked and continues to work in Bayelsa State and other parts of Nigeria thought it fit, in fulfillment of its Corporate Social Responsibility, to facilitate the renovation of the small church in the President's home town of Otuoke.

What happens when the pastor of a church in a small town in Owenton, Kentucky discovers the...

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Toller's church, with its slender steeple and whitewashed clapboards, evokes both a bygone era of American Christianity and a battered civic order, a small - town world of hard work, humility and faith.