Sentences with phrase «of people at church»

So my realization is not a judgment or a condemnation of the people at the church, their theology and practices, or even of pastoral ministry and churchianity in general.

I am so different from the rest of the people at my church.

Not exact matches

Tony Rader, the vice president of Schwob Building Company, a general contractor in the Dallas area, said his company has started handing out flyers at sporting events, churches and schools in hopes of luring more people into the field.

On Sunday, November 5th, inside the hallowed halls of the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, a gunman opened fire, murdering at least 26 men, women, and children, and injuring 20 other people.

On a frigid evening, days before Christmas, nearly 100 people braved icy roads to attend a SolarCity job fair at Mt. Olive Baptist Church, on the slight chance they might qualify for one of the few hundred positions available at the company's solar factory.

The FBI's surprise admission Friday that a bungled background check allowed Dylann Roof to buy the.45 - caliber pistol he is accused of using to kill nine people at a Charleston, S.C., church set off calls for tougher firearm screening rules and may give...

The people at that church should boycott it for having a preacher that is so prejudice and by passing judgment on her he committed the greatest sin of all.

Lots of colleges have religious people at them and religious people do attend church.

So I have no concerns at all that people in the church are going to be involved in these discussions, get on board and help lead the rest of us forward in an age where there are intelligences other than the ones we associate with Adam and Eve.

And many of these people should stay in the workforce where they can represent Christ in the public square while making major contributions at their church.

Stopping short of calling for cathedral governing bodies - Chapters - to be scrapped, the Church of England said at least two - thirds of members should not be clergy, to ensure people with necessary skills are there.

Most of the people I work with are aware of it, and some the stuff I do on the side is because of it, like youth ministry and working as part of the teaching team at our church.

I'm sure most people know this, but in case it helps someone: Denominations that always accept female pastors include PC (USA), that is Presbyterian Church, USA, most African American denominations (note that all pastors mentioned in the original article were African Americans), United Methodist, Foursquare, at least some Vineyards if not all, Congregational, Disciples of Christ, Lutheran and Episcopalian churches.

Never - the-less, I am fascinated by biblical scholarship, the history of the early church, and at any rate think people should have the correct facts about what was written and what the original authors meant it to mean.

If this is going to change in the church it will take a lot of leaders brave enough to look at people first and willing to leave the 99 to save the 1.

He and his followers at the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, made a name for themselves in the 1990s by protesting at the funerals of gay people who died of AIDS and, more recently, by protesting at the funerals of military officers.

The leaders hide church history from its members, when we find it, we take it to them, and of course are called aposates, there are so many mental systems in place at every level to control the people and there thoughts and actions, at a very young age.

The religious among us keep trying to chip away at the separation of church and state by making people recite the pledge of allegiance with the God clause, installing religious symbols and displays on public property, holding prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal of prayer in public schools, trying to pass laws limiting women's access to birth control, and trying to get an amendment passed outlawing abortion (since in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).

I will no longer talk to those who believe that the unity of the church can or should be achieved by rejecting the presence of, or at least at the expense of, gay and lesbian people.

The ordained leaders of the Church, and the laity who are Christ's principal witnesses in the public square, do not enter public life proclaiming, «The Church teaches...» When the question at issue is an immoral practice, they enter the debate saying, «This is wicked; it can not be sanctioned by the law and here is why, as any reasonable person will grasp.»

Church is the one time a week Lucas knows he can get out of the house, and at Trinity House of Prayer people won't look away when he comes down the aisle.

Growing up, in the 40's and 50's, as a Roman Catholic, at least in our diocese, no politician was allowed to shake hands with people within a certain distance of the church.

The Rev Val Duff, minister of South Shawlands Parish Church close to where Asad Shah's shop was, said at the time: «Like many people I am deeply saddened to hear of Asad Shah's death.

At 43 years of age, I was the youngest person — apart from the family — in the church.

Revd Ewen Gilchrist, the vicar of the church and also a member of the chaplaincy team at Cults Academy, said: «People are left bewildered.

On Palm Sunday 45 people were murdered in Egypt, many of them Christians, after two separate suicide bomb attacks at different churches in the country.

According to Dr Bullivant's report, which will be launched at the House of Commons on Tuesday, the Anglican and Catholic churches are struggling to retain people brought up as Christians.

I'm currently reading the book, When bad Christians happen to Good people bc i've been there & have come full circle... Life church helped me to see that many of us mistakenly put our faith in other Christians instead of God, but pple are sinners & will fail us at some point.

Rupa Huq, who represents Ealing Central and Acton, was speaking after attending a church service at the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Acton on Saturday to mourn the deaths of up to ten million people in 1932church service at the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Acton on Saturday to mourn the deaths of up to ten million people in 1932Church in Acton on Saturday to mourn the deaths of up to ten million people in 1932 - 33.

David Barclay, the Faith and Public Life Officer at the Centre for Theology and Community, has led the Church of England's work promoting and creating credit unions and ensuring payday lenders do not exploit people who can not repay their loans.

at least in this wild and crazy church full of some of the most loving people I would ever meet Jesus reached me.

Many of them go to church only if it's convenient, or only on Christmas or Easter (happy Easter btw) and a lot of them wouldn't go at all but for that nagging «just in case» feeling, but a lot of them are very quick to rant and rail at people who are content and secure in their acceptance that there is no God.

«I think that's a great opportunity for the Church to go in, be the hands and feet of Jesus, and really meet that community where it's at, just being the presence of God, being a listening ear and being able to help people.»

Our prayer (and the prayer of the folks at Mars Hill) is that in the months and years ahead, people will remember what took place on «Porn Sunday» and that it is OK to say the word «porn» at church.

Tons of christians don't go to church, and at my church we always joke about the C&E's — the people who pack the place on Christmas and Easter only and make it hard for the rest of us to even get into the place.

North Point Community Church in Atlanta was averaging 4,000 people in attendance at the end of its first year.

Hence there are Church members today who continue to summon and teach at every level of Church education the racial discourse that black people are descendants of Cain, that they merited lesser earthly privilege because they were «fence - sitters» in the War in Heaven, and that, science and climatic factors aside, there is a link between skin color and righteousness» Mormon scripture specifically referencing race includes (from the Book of Mormon): 1 Nephi 11:8 1 Nephi 11:13 1 Nephi 12:23 1 Nephi 13:15 2 Nephi 5:21 2 Nephi 30:6 (1830 edition) Jacob 3:8 Alma 3:6 3 Nephi 2:15 Mormon 5:15

Among those roughly 75 men are lawyers, a medical doctor, a congressional staffer, professional musicians, a radio host, several PhDs and professors, a particle physicist from Stanford, a former Google employee, a dean of admissions at a medical school, Ivy Leaguers, Golden Domers, and more who were successful in the world, but sought a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ and his Church, and desired to serve his people.

People should practice their religion at home or at their church and leave it out of the workplace other than setting a good example of honest behaviour.

The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has planted 720 churches in 20 years from Newport in South Wales to Southend - on - Sea, and they regularly gather 40,000 people to pray all night at London's Excel Centre.

As for Romney being qualified: he was educated at Harvard with law and business degrees, he has managed hundreds of people in his church callings, he fixed a bankrupt Olympics, he started business that were very successful, he turned around businesses and later helped turn his state around while governor.

And you know what, not a single person at her church actually knows that their real Minister Of Coffee is an atheist.

As the drums for war become deafening, I hope students at Liberty and in schools across the land, and working people in churches and work places will rise up and repudiate the policies of War, Famine, Pestilence and Death.

James Carne who works at CAP Job Clubs UK believes churches have an obligation to continue to help those finding it hard to get work, speaking on Premier's «News Hour», he said: «There is still a big gap in terms of opportunities or help for people who are seeking work.

Can they do all that and occasionally appear in person at a brick - and - mortar church and still be part of a faith community?

Yes, we can go to social gatherings elsewhere, but for people of faith who don't want to look at the world as hopeless and destined for disaster, we wish the churches we know and love would join us and do the same.

I'm so torn because I don't want to leave the people I care about at the other churches, but yet I feel lonely, worthless, and completely broken at the current church I'm at because of the drama.

Look at every over 40 member of your church and see if any of them are spending more time ministering or discussing Jesus than they are freaking out about their gun rights or gay people or Obama.

Just as the people at Broadway learned that they must share their separate stories through their participation in the Eucharist, so those of us charged to be theologians must continue that task among the many churches.

We have a couple of gay people at our church who do not bring it up at church.