Sentences with phrase «of our places of worship in»

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In the early years of Celebration, the theater held church services every Sunday morning as the town waited for a place of worship to be built.

There have been mass shooting at places of worship in Colorado Springs and Oak Creek, Wisconsin; in Baton Rouge, in Fort Worth, and in Daingerfield, Texas: population, 2,560.

«This act of evil occurred as the victims and their families were in their place of sacred worship,» President Donald Trump said in a statement.

Many of our participants Sleep Out in their own backyards and driveways while others Sleep Out in parking lots and grounds of businesses, schools, parks, or places of worship (note: you must get permission to Sleep Out on private property).

He explained that the belief stems partly from «letters sent by Pope Gregory in which he encouraged his missionaries to change existing temples into Christian places of worship in the hope that natives would continue to attend and be converted that way».

It made me wonder if we are trying so hard to be different, to be unique, that we've placed ourselves firmly in the center of all discussions of church and worship.

Large group gatherings or worship services are the place where the largest number of people within a church are typically gathered in one place, and yet it's the least relational experience and environment in a church.

If he succeeded and built the Holy Temple in its proper place and gathered the dispersed ones of Israel together, this is indeed the anointed one for certain, and he will mend the entire world to worship the Lord together, as it is stated: «For then I shall turn for the nations a clear tongue, so that they will all procalim the Name of the Lord, and to worship Him with a united resolve (Zephaniah 3:9).»

One in three people said that messages from places of worship contribute «a lot» to higher rates of suicide among gay and lesbian youth.

In your mind your life has NO meaning unless there is some «god» behind it, I wonder if you were to place a piece of bread on your counter and allow life to form (mold) on that bread would they suddenly worship you as their «god»?

«Old English cirice, circe «church, public place of worship; Christians collectively,» from West Germanic * kirika (cf. Old Saxon kirika, Old Norse kirkja, Old Frisian zerke, Middle Dutch kerke, Dutch kerk, Old High German kirihha, German Kirche), probably [see note in OED] from Greek kyriake (oikia), kyriakon doma «Lord's (house),» from kyrios «ruler, lord,» from PIE root * keue - «to swell» - etymonline.com

As for the argument that we should look to our churches... the BILLIONS spent by organized religion to build exorbitant places of worship (Jesus preached in open fields and I'm confident that God hears MY prayers in the privacy of my home) and the building of health clinics in third world countries would help a lot — but they are not inclined to help those in need HERE!

After years of praying and hoping for the Lord to «make himself present» in worship, I found a place where he always truly is» the tabernacle.

PM: Christians and other faiths have freedom of worship in Israel which is the only place in the ME where the Christian community is growing

I believe there are so good people there and in other places of worship.

These were not nice people they worshiped a fertility God by placing children into red hot bronze arms of their god and cheered as the children would die in those arms.

Thus Schickel, whose versatile work has encompassed painting, sculpture, stained glass, furniture, and architectural design, in one of his most inspiring works turned a simple barn in his own Loveland into a quite reverent place of worship.

The imperial cult, the worship of the emperors, is one of the central elements in the ideology of the emperor and is a good place to start (though it is not, as is so often the case, the place to end).

Trying to heap an ancient written Jewish code on modern Gentile Christians (and non --RRB-, tellingly without even an understanding of said code and a complete indifference to the message of Jesus and to the accounts in the very bible being worshipped in His place.

Their members have come from time immemorial to worship in the solitude of these places.

But sometimes you get a long way into what you think is a clear discussion of evangelicalism, and suddenly realize that the person doing the talking is getting increasingly shrill about how the hallway needs to have more room for seats in it, and wants to know where we're going to put the worship band or the choir, and where the weddings take place.

During the periods of slavery and the segregation area blacks could not live in neighborhoods that whites would not allow them to liven; therefore there was no choice but for blacks to establish places of worship in their community, which was all black.

We aren't told what Thompson believes now» and his art does not require us to place him in any doctrinal camp» but by the end of Habibi he seems to have least worked his way to a beautiful observation: «God's followers worship not out of the hope for reward nor fear of punishment but out of love.»

Shaking hands after worship is one way of putting the worship leaders in their place.

«Just tell us what to believe and do,» would sum up the desires of many in places of worship each week.

The requirement to practice religion only in registered places of worship creates a Catch - 22 for Russian Protestants, who are often blocked by the state from obtaining property on which to build those houses of worship, Pentecostal Union deputy bishop Konstantin Bendas told Forum 18.

As we were talking Sunday, one such participant confessed that The Mission had helped her soften towards those who had hurt her in the past, that she felt more prepared to worship alongside those whose faith looks different than her own because The Mission had provided a place of rest in which she could be herself.

And thank you for my knees, how they bend easily, at last, to Creator, and thank you for these eyes that see beauty in the strangest places, for the mother - blue of them, and thank you for the very physical and very real self of it all, thank you for helping me to worship and see and know beyond my brain and my heart, and reminding me that this, the created self is good.

Just let us have a cup of coffee, worship and a sermon, and let us go home to make up our minds about this place in peace, thank you very much.

While there is great respect for the traditional liturgy and worship of the Episcopal Church, the place is totally devoid of the stuffiness and stiffness you encounter in some more traditional churches whose favorite refrain seems to be, «we've always done it this way» with a subtle undertone of «please don't break anything.»

None of this would matter if religion remained private, something presidents and senators did on the weekends in their places of worship and at the supper table throughout the week.

If the scriptural pattern is consistent the answer is that it must be men, appearing in a place of worship or otherwise who are presenting thoughts to God, e.g. in prayer or meditation.

And, in a very strange reinterpretation of American history, Huckabee declared, «I believe America is an exceptional country created out of the providence of God because of the prayers of people who, on their knees, begged for a place where they could be free and raise their children in the freedom to worship and to speak out and to protest, and where every person was equal to every other person in intrinsic value and worth and no person was worth more or worth less because of how much land they owned, what their last name was, what their occupation was and what their bloodline was.»

The list by Historic England details places of worship that are in poor condition and need of funding and repair.

There are five Christian places of worship in North Korea, of the 121 total, but the report speculates that they are only there to make the country look better internationally.

That is true at all times and all places, of course, but in our worship it is uniquely and profoundly so.

Second, if the church is attentive to the New Testament, Justin Martyr and Hippolytus, the Eastern church, the Western catholic tradition, the Anglican tradition, the Lutheran tradition, the Calvinist intent (and practice, if not in Geneva then in places like John Robinson's Leiden), the Wesleyan intent and that of the early Methodists, then its worship on every festival of the resurrection — that is, on every Sunday — will include both Word and Supper, not one or the other.

«one of the greatest dangers to the freedom of the individual to worship in his own way lay in the Government's placing its official stamp of approval upon one particular kind of prayer or one particular form of religious services.»

Contrast the alleged actions of this alleged Coptic Christian with that of Muslims killing and maiming Coptic Christians and blowing up their places of worship... INSULTING Coptic Christians in far worse ways (literally «insulting» them TO DEATH) than is done (or ever could be) in this or any other film.

The author contrasts an ancient abbey with its traditions, history and rootedness, to the modern American megachurch without tradition, culture or weighted worship, to an ecological sound, modern, high - tech, all thought out community but where the state church seems of little consequence, yet in this latter place the gospel seemed to make more sense.

Everything else in life is to be related to this «perfect praise of God... to be heard in all places and at all times» (p. 156) such that we «are engaged in the worship of God in all we do» (p. 158).

Of course, you have to flatter God by worshipping him before he saves you,... and he did create the river and the waterfall, and placed us in it in the first place but, boy, we all really should appreciate his efforts to save a few from his trap, shouldn't we?

Look to our founders words and words written on our publice buildings «IN God We Trust» and when since we have taken Him out of our places of every day life (each still chosing to worship how, when and what they may) we have seen more and more evil and lack of personal responsibility happening.

, at its best, serves as a «showcase for scripture» in which «the authority of God places a direct challenge to the authority of the powers that be,» and in which the reading of scripture together in community is itself an act of worship.

Robert Brown And, here I thought that asking to get «saved» in the first place was a form of worship?

This tendency is wrong, for the worship of God in spirit and in truth has its place at the very centre of the Christian existence; hence it is all the more important not to aggravate

In ancient Hebrew culture, it was very strange for God to only have one place of worship — in the tabernacle and then later in the templIn ancient Hebrew culture, it was very strange for God to only have one place of worship — in the tabernacle and then later in the templin the tabernacle and then later in the templin the temple.

The emergence of the synagogue as a substitute for the Temple as the place of worship occurred in this era.

Statues, praying to Mary and other «saints», placing the Pope and priests in a position that usurps Jesus, moving the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday (because the pagans already worshiped on Sunday)-- All violations of the ten commandments.

Worship leaders in places that resist set or written prayers of all kinds might consider using this form as a basis for jazz - like improvisation.