Sentences with phrase «of prayer meetings»

Scenes of prayer meetings have an unobtrusive immediacy, while a sequence in which Menashe drinks with his Hispanic workmates seems touchingly truthful.

After we recognize the problems of prayer meetings, we can start taking practical steps to help people better understand what prayer is, how to pray, and how to become answers to our own prayers.

And this brings us back to the subject of prayer meetings.

IT is because of prayer meetings that we feel that if we pray for world missions and evangelism, we don't have to do it ourselves.

It is because of prayer meetings that we often feel it is better to pray about a need than actually do something to meet that need.

It is because of prayer meetings that we feel justified in spreading gossip about others while calling it «sharing a prayer request.»

Not exact matches

The extraordinary meeting of world Anglican leaders, organized by the Archbishop of Canterbury, has ended after five days of prayer and deliberation.

Quiet time, devotional time, prayer time, personal time — whatever you want to call it, most of us are referring to something similar: a regular time when we seek to meet with...

I would attend staff meetings where there would be massive outpourings of prayer, where lunch breaks would be accompanied by discussions of the nature of the Trinity, and where, at any given moment, I could walk into a coworker's office to see them bowed over an open Bible, meditating on the Bread of Life.

Look, there's very legitimate criticism to be made of Perry for politically allying with these folks, given their proclivity for mixing prayer meeting and political rallies, given the Hagee connection, and some other stuff.

After much discussion, study, and prayer over the course of a year, the statement «The Gift of Salvation» was agreed to at a meeting in New York City in October 1997, and published in the January 1998 issue of this journal.

The Catholic Church is being invited to meet the risen Lord in Scripture, the sacraments, and prayer, and to make friendship with him the center of Catholic life.

The case started in the little town of Greece, New York, where city officials have been starting meetings with prayer for some time.

Today, the Supreme Court finally weighed in on the hotly debated Town of Greece VS. Galloway case, determining that public meetings can start with «religion specific - prayer» (i.e. «In Jesus» name...»).

Over the Pentecost weekend earlier this year, tens of thousands convened across the nation for «Kingdom Come» prayer meetings.

@SeanNJ, I would think the meetings would primarily be about educating the public on the separation of church and state and opposing religious encroachment on the public / government arena, e.g. creationism / ID in the science classroom, ten commandments displays in government buildings, school sanctioned prayer or religious activities.

The proselytizing prayer of this person must be met in kind.

This is the church of the Council of Trent, that series of meetings in the 16th century which, in reaction to the Reformation, declared the Roman Catholic Church the sole vehicle of salvation, defined the nature of the seven necessary sacraments, approved prayers to the saints and set down the requirement of attending mass.

Bible studies and prayer meetings are not the only acts of worship you can do in college.

Far from surrendering to the self - obsessed therapeutic culture Hitchens decries, AA regularly brings thoroughly secular people into an authentic personal relationship with the living God, and most of our meetings even close with a recitation of the Lord's Prayer.

«The board will conduct its meeting in an atmosphere of prayer, contemplation and dialogue and will develop a plan to involve LCWR membership in similar processes,» the group said in a statement.

The town outside Rochester began allowing prayers to start its meetings in 1999, after years of having a moment of silence.

In many cases, it's appropriate to mark a person's departure in a «state of the church» community meeting, congregational prayer time, or a small group setting.

We met in the lobby of the Washington Hilton the night before last month's National Prayer Breakfast.

Shortly after I first met my friend and mentor Ray Ortlund, he gave me a copy of his book A Passion for God: Prayers and Meditations on the Book of Romans.

A prayer that is led at the beginning of a meeting.

Less than 23 % of Americans told pollsters at Fairleigh Dickinson University that they dislike prayers at public government meetings.

So, the justice suggests, as long prayers at public meetings don't fall into a pattern of proselytizing, denigrating nonbelievers or threatening damnation, what's the problem?

Since what I hear over an amplified PA system (kind of hard to «ignore» 70 db invocations in a mid size room, tbh) are things in the prayer I passionately disagree with, yet barred by prayer protocol to challenge the assertions of the prayperson (which such challenges to ideas are encouraged at public meetings) it sets up a «I'm not going to get anything accomplished unless I pretend I am one of them.»

a prayer is not voicing something as in the rest of the town meetings... you are grasping at straws...

If the meeting is a religious meeting, which it clearly is to some degree if the agenda includes a religious prayer, then I, as an atheist, am in complete opposition with the intent of the meeting.

«Even though starting a government meeting with a religious prayer is offensive to many, considered a violation of our const.itution by many, makes many feel ostracized and as if their voice will not be given equal consideration to those who are religions, I think we should still start of government meetings with prayers because this is a country that believes in the free expression of ones beliefs and opinions without fear of percecution.»

Christian prayer before a government meeting is the equivalent of a dog hiking its leg and peeing to mark its territory.

Group led prayer is offensive and completely inappropriate at a business meeting for ALL of the the people.

How do we think they are always going to be in agreement for prayers inside of a government meeting.

I think you should have the right ot counter it with a statement criticizing the idea of God and prayer in public meetings or schools or any gov» t led group meeting.

From a pragmatic point of view, I couldn't care less about a prayer before a Gov» t meeting.

James You think that people are opening these meetings with prayer as an «insidious method of identifying those who believe differently than the one leading the prayer» I hope you are wrong.

At the same time, cardinals were meeting Friday at the Vatican to participate in a day of reflection and prayer on several church matters, including the Vatican's response to cases of sexual abuse.

If it's a government meeting supposedly open to all citizens of any or no religion, then there obviously should be no prayers to start it off.

Some evangelical prayer meetings look «quite a lot like the Pietist conventicals»; the literature on the two «resemble» and «echo» each other; one «comes to mind» when one deals with the other; the ideas of one «would not be alien» to the other; and both «insisted on» similar themes about the warmed heart and signs of regeneration.

Govt efficiency will be affected by the elimination of prayer at the begining of a meeting?

I do not think nor have I ever thought prayer should be said at the opening of Gov» t meetings.

The idea that prayer is affecting the efficiency of the Gov» t meeting is comical by the way.

(And while you might think I am trying to be funny with requests about toenails and sick cats, if you have been in many prayer meetings, you know that these sorts of requests are not uncommon.)

That's one of the things that make this whole issue so absurd — religious people demand the right to government - led prayer (a prayer that meets with their approval, of course), but the things they'll typically ask for in their prayers can't be by accomplished by their god anyway, so it's a lot of unnecessary trouble over nothing.

So every meeting would start with 10 minutes of Hindu prayer.

Narcissist: some redundancy in all these ics and ists & it amounts to fundamental Fear & Hate & welcome to the First Church of the Crippled & any one can join once outed & the cover - up's no longer adequate: leaking limp and lame shall enter first; no talk of golf or coming out parties of the debutante kind; potluck suppers and holy smoking prayer meetings possibly, with plenty of coffee

Prayer is vital, and gathering with other believers is vital, and praying together with others is vital, but none of this requires a regularly scheduled prayer meeting, as practiced in some churches Prayer is vital, and gathering with other believers is vital, and praying together with others is vital, but none of this requires a regularly scheduled prayer meeting, as practiced in some churches prayer meeting, as practiced in some churches today.

Dreams, for example, were given a high place as media of divine revelation; (Genesis 20:3; 26:24 - 25; 28:10 - 16; 31:24; 37:5; 41:1; 46:1 - 4; Judges 7:13 - 15; I Kings 3:5 - 15 etc.) omens were trusted, such as the first word to be uttered at an expected meeting, (I Samuel 14:8 - 15) or a chance action regarded as a sign, (Genesis 24:12 - 14) or wind in the mulberry - trees taken as Yahweh's command to join battle; (II Samuel 5:22 - 24) and, in general, dealing with the superhuman world suggested nothing so simple and spiritual as private communion in prayer, but rather a whole array of magical techniques and, from the modern point of view, incredible superstitions.