Sentences with phrase «opening prayers in»

While the names of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Leader Dean Skelos were not mentioned, there were hints of the tumultuous events of last year and the scalding fall out, even in the words of the traditional opening prayers in each house.

It made that clear in Marsh v. Chambers (1983), where it upheld a tradition of opening prayers in the Nebraska state legislature.

A couple of days earlier, he gave the opening prayer in the U. S. Senate, which you can watch at C - SPAN.

I should also note, that Guest Chaplains, recommended by Senators to deliver the session's opening prayer in place of the Senate Chaplain, have represented many of the world's major religious faiths.

Before taking batting practice with the Washington Nationals and delivering the opening prayer in Congress, Osteen sat down for a freewheeling interview with us.

Also at noon, Cardinal Timothy Dolan will be delivering the opening prayer in the state Senate chamber at the invitation of Majority Leader John Flanagan, 3rd floor, state Capitol, Albany.

Not exact matches

Lawmakers voted down a motion to consider the ban during a session that opened with a prayer for the 17 people killed by a former student last Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

This the Opening, for every prayer 5 times a day, a muslim have to recite this before any other surah (verse) in every Rakah at least 27 times in 24 hours...

IHOP is a 24 - hour prayer center that has not closed its doors since it initially opened in 1999 — a place of refuge regardless of the time, weather or season.

Other faiths believe in burning candles or saying prayers in behalf of the dead — the Latter - day Saints believe in the same concept, but taken to the next level: that we really can open a portal to salvation for every human on earth, if they want it.

Pride runs rampant in my mind, and I find a prayer for humility centered around this ancient hymn slows me down enough to open myself to God's steadfast transformation.

His prayers were answered last September, less than three years after the fire, when the Macedonia First Church of God in Christ opened the doors to its new worship facility, built on the same site as the previous building.

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!

The author's profile reached a new peak in 2012 when he gave the opening address at the National Prayer Breakfast with President Obama seated next to him.

The government's display of the creche in this particular physical setting [is] no more an endorsement of religion than such governmental «acknowledgments» of religion as legislative prayers,... government declaration of Thanksgiving as a public holiday, printing of «In God We Trust» on coins, and opening court sessions with «God save the United States and this honorable court.&raquin this particular physical setting [is] no more an endorsement of religion than such governmental «acknowledgments» of religion as legislative prayers,... government declaration of Thanksgiving as a public holiday, printing of «In God We Trust» on coins, and opening court sessions with «God save the United States and this honorable court.&raquIn God We Trust» on coins, and opening court sessions with «God save the United States and this honorable court.»

This prayer is so easy to say that even a child can say it therefore, in your personal decision to become a Born Again Christian and accept Jesus Christ as your LORD and Savior, you have just held the key that will open the door to Heaven and will be given gainful entrance at your appointed time!

If anything, their views resemble a charismatic form of Open Theism, in which every prayer is capable of tipping the balance in the running fight between good and evil.

For a long time the Temple in Jerusalem was actually a sacred place, it even was the most sacred place on earth, because the God of Israel had promised, to be present at the Temple (1 Kings 8, 29: That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, [even] toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.).

God is famous in the family dinners and protest marches, in the re-reading of a favourite book to small children and in Wednesday night Bible studies open to the public, in the prayers of the unknown and the faith of the uncelebrated.

In a world where power has become almost synonymous with violence and greed, the power of prayer is one of the church's best - kept open secrets.

The Rev Mary Cruddas, team rector of the Schorne Benefice, which includes St Michael and All Angel's in nearby Waddesdon, said in a statement that both churches would remain open for prayer.

We always include poetry and a time called «Open Space» in which we slow down for prayer and other opportunities to actively engage the Gospel; writing in the community's Book of Thanks, writing prayers, making art or assembling bleach kits for the needle exchange in Denver.

You know that such a prayer will be answered, because there has already been a previous answering, a previous epiphany, a previous moment where the ground opened up and you knew you were in touch with infinite mystery and you knew you were yourself infinite mystery.

«We accept anyone who wants to come in and volunteer to give the prayer to open up our town meetings.»

I think of one of Jesus's last prayers (the one in the garden of Gethsemane... not for - now opening the can of worms regarding «whether He actually prayed it»).

I was offended by the idiot Christians in the house this morning that disrupted the Hindu prayer at the open of congress.

Let us reach up to God in our prayers, and open our imagination to contemplate God the Holy Trinity, the mystery beyond all telling, the mystery that brings us to our knees.

I think most people who believe in prayer don't have insidious reasons for it... I am open to the idea that I am wrong, but the paranoia of many on this blog is disturbing.

At the two major festivals, the Id al - Fitr at the end of the Ramadan fast and the Id al - Adha — or Id al - Qurban — at the end of the pilgrimage, Muslims are urged to perform additional congregational prayers, preferably in the open air, and to listen to the special address by the Imam.

Personally i think those specific prayers are a distraction most of the times we pray these prayers because its what we think we need and often thats not the case.The better way is to just trust the holy spirit let him lead i think we miss the awesomeness of doing it Gods way its easy not difficult.The struggle is difficult when we are walking by the flesh and trying to do it our way.When i got to the point where i said to the God i am not going to do it my way anymore and i submit to you because know whats best for me.Change me and when i feel the wrong desires or temptation to walk by the flesh i just say Lord you know i am weak and i can not live a christian life without you help me.As soon as i do that it is effortless theres no struggle thats how we should grow.I am excited with what God is doing in my life he has opened his word i am seeing the fruit of his life impacting mine and i am changing day by day.I am walking by faith and not slipping back into my old desires i know what it means to be an overcomer sin does not have dominion over me anymore.In myself i can not boast because it is the power of God at work in my life and i give all the praise back to God.brentnz

TV gardening expert Alan Titchmarsh has opened up about his love of the language used in the traditional Anglican prayer book.

There is a prayer in a recent hymnbook which goes something like this: Lord, bless all those who live in rural areas; help them to appreciate the goodness of nature and be open to those different from themselves.

Yet through all these diversities of phrasing — whether faith was thought of as a power - releasing confidence in God, or as selfcommitment to Christ that brought the divine Spirit into indwelling control of one's life, or as the power by which we apprehend the eternal and invisible even while living in the world of sense, or as the climactic vision of Christ as the Son of God which crowns our surrender to his attractiveness, or as assured conviction concerning great truths that underlie and constitute the gospel — always the enlargement and enrichment of faith was opening new meanings in the experience of fellowship with God and was influencing deeply both the idea and the practice of prayer.

John read in his Bible, «A great door and effectual is opened,» and he added this prayer, «Oh let no one shut it!»

Eyes open, shoulder - checking, in - the - midst - of - life prayers are just as meaningful and powerful, I think, as any in a church altar call or a monastery.

The cells in the first houses of the Order had no doors, because what they learnt in their cells, and the prayer that was its vital accompaniment, had to be open to the world.

But microphones also opened up new possibilities for participation by members of the congregation, who began to read, make announcements, and lead others in prayer and song.

New Zealand Christians plan to rally their parliament to call for Jesus» name to be reinstated in the parliamentary opening prayer, after it was omitted last month.

Within a few years, Bishops were asking for Madonna House staff to open houses in their dioceses, to live the Gospel of Love through soup kitchens, prayer houses, houses of hospitality and friendship.

California State University has told the campus ministry that «no exemption can be made» to a new non-discrimination policy that requires leadership positions be open to all students, InterVarsity announced in a monthly prayer letter.

Moreover, in The Divine Milieu, Teilhard reveals that a religious life which would respond to the death of God can not direct its prayer or meditation to a transcendent or numinous realm, but instead must open itself to a divine «center» that fills the whole body of the cosmos, and a «center» that has no existence apart from the movement of the cosmos itself.

I'm convinced it can be the story of so many others, if the Church really gets on its knees in prayer, gets to its feet in action, and opens its mouth to share Jesus.

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I've been staying open with God in my prayer and scripture reading and other habits designed to keep me growing closer to Jesus.

Until the day he died he was either drinking or in active ministry or at least in church or a prayer meeting any time the doors were open.

Having no model at all to meet the upkeep on and no known shape to whip themselves into, they would for the first time be open to looking for really new answers — honest answers — that could range anywhere from «We haven't the foggiest notion, but let's get together next Sunday and see if anything's occurred to us in the meantime,» to «We're here to be the church, I suppose — whatever that means,» to «How about for openers we just try to stick with fellowship, breaking bread, and saying prayers?

Here the field is wide open, not merely for the indictment of wrong in another person or group which is the usual approach, but for the appreciation and creation of right through the spiritual resources released in prayer.

Saying that in the military we can not say a open prayer and in school games can not say a open prayer Merry Christmas almost has become a curse retailers are afraid to oppose the gays and the gays protesting and violent against anyone that is in a opposing view.

And if it stays in the top 10 for any reason, if it's for someone who doesn't know the Lord to pop it open for a minute and let it prophesy in their spirit, that is my answered prayer.

Pastor Gadiel Ríos encouraged members to open their homes for prayer and worship with their neighbors; some in his congregation of 350 have lost everything.