Not exact matches
During a practice
at the
church, my aunt shouted
at my sister for walking
out of time.
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.
I am all in favor
of music
at a
church, but starting
out, why do we drop a full - time salary on a worship pastor salary when most
church plants take a good year before they hold their first service?
As it turned
out, the parishioner who had made that insulting remark so many decades earlier got the very same service, and her nice casket was covered
at the door
of the
church by the same pall that covered dear Bernice's very lowly casket.I look forward to the day when Bernice and the other lady stand side by side before the throne
of heavenly grace.
The conservative wing
of the
church is itself a fragile coalition, including those who lean in a catholic direction, those who are card - carrying charismatics, those inclined in an Anabaptist direction, and those who are really pragmatists
at heart but for the moment lean to conservatism
out of convenience and traditional piety.
There are still some kinks to be worked
out with all
churches,
of course, but
at least it's more
of a progress than what I am reading and seeing back in North America.
When he got older he may have been thrown
out of the house because they weren't going to have a faggot son or else he may have been denounced
at church.
It was offered tongue - in - cheek and was directed
at the speculation about whether anything
of substance will come
out of the Council, but it expressed well the hopes and concerns held by the scholars
of the Orthodox
Church.
Some
of the same
churches I've been to, You left some
out, tho... only if she wears a head covering... as long as she doesn't wear makeup or jewelry (wedding ring and denominational pin excepted)... no peep toe shoes, especially with toenail polish... if what she is doing gets bigger than what the men are doing, she's
out (Thats a real big one)... only if she'll do it on a volunteer basis and never expects an honorarium, even if she speaks
at the main Sunday service.
Don't miss read this note, the issue
of female pastors is not
out of date — I have several female pastor friends who struggle for acceptance in the
church at large.
The
Church of England has set
out plans to improve leadership, after a spate
of errors it admits left several cathedrals
at risk
of ruin.
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.
There were also the Hussite Wars from 1419 to circa 1434 in which the Roman Catholic
Church went to war against followers
of Jan Hus, a priest, philosopher, and master
at Charles University in Prague who had tried to reform the
Church, condemning its sale
of indulgences, which were the equivalent
of a «get
out of jail» card in the game
of Monopoly in that the
Church sold them as a means for believers to get
out of Purgatory.
It is far past the time that modernists such as yourself exit the doors and go find a good protestant
Church to hang
out with your girlfriends
at, and leave the pious and devout followers
of the faith to represent it.
We will preside only
at those weddings that seek to establish a Christian marriage in accord with the principles articulated and lived
out from the beginning
of the
Church's life.
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.
Philip Larkin's «
Church Going» comes to mind: Yet stop I did: in fact I often do, And always end much
at a loss like this, Wondering what to look for; wondering, too, When
churches fall completely
out of use What we shall turn them into, if we shall keep A few cathedrals chronically on show, Their parchment, plate, and pyx in locked cases, And let the rest rent - free to rain and sheep.
It is an adventurous work
of theological speculation on creation «
out of nothing,» the
Church and her sacraments, and the meaning
of eschatology, including an imaginatively orthodox (and Orthodox) treatment
of whether all, including the evil angels, will
at last be redeemed.
Burke equated the newly created job to being the director
of communications
at the White House, noting he won't be
out front delivering the message for the
church.
Another epic short film / music video mash - up, «Great God» finds Carman as both the cool teacher
at a Christian school, as well as a heroic knight
out to reclaim the good name
of the medieval
church.
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.
hey G, I am acquainted with your theory there... it is called Preterism... it is the standard interpretation
of Revelation given by liberals... I walked away from that belief and the
church I was raised in when I found
out what they are teaching... Nope, the book
of revelation is not a «code» for the events
of the day
at the time
of the fall
of Jerusalem.
I feel pretty
out -
of - place
at my parents
church even though I haven't done anything wrong (
at least that I am aware
of).
According to the grand jury report, Neill told the victim assistance coordinator that during his childhood, Gallagher discussed masturbation during confession; fondled him during
outings in the priest's car,
at the house
of the priest's mother, upstairs in the rectory, in a utility room in the sacristy and in a loft in the
church; and that the priest also hit the boy.
We are in the process
of finding a non-Calvinist
church (
at least among the leadership) and I am finding
out what a strong segment
of the
church population is now Calvinist.
The bottom line is that this new breed
of church planters looks
at who the typical
church rejects or shuns, and says, «Those are the people I want to hang
out with.»
«this new breed
of church planters looks
at who the typical
church rejects or shuns, and says, «Those are the people I want to hang
out with.
All
of this to say this, the «
church» is Christ's body, made up
of all who believe him anywhere
at any time, and they are all members, we do not need commitment forms or covenants in order to determine who is in or
out.
I drive past multi-million dollar
church properties filled with throngs
of wealthy people (as compared to the peoples
of this world, today) sitting on cushy chairs or pews, gazing
out stained glass windows, and then arrive
at my destination — the haunts
of the homeless, many
of whom have all they own in a backpack or in a shopping cart.
This rules
out the prayers
of the
churches of Christendom who have prayed in behalf
of their particular nation during wartime, such as when German Catholic bishops issued a pastoral letter in September 1939
at the outbreak
of WWII that said: «In this decisive hour we admonish our Catholic soldiers to do their duty in obedience to the Fuehrer (Hitler) and to be ready to sacrifice their whole individuality.
It did this through having me take a tough look
at myself and what I think I should be «getting
out of church» and what God actually wants for me.
Over a decade ago, in his book The Comfortable Pew (Lippincott, 1965), Pierre Berton chided the
church for its tendency to «cast
out the outcasts,» with homosexuals
at the top
of the list.
You can not simultaneously cry
out of church discipline and
at the same time neglect its Biblical requirements....
Now, three years
out of pastoral ministry, and looking
at heading back into it through
church planting, I have been able to think, reflect, watch, and study these two models
at work, and see numerous pros and cons to both.
Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour
of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness
of breastfeeding, in the repetition
of cleaning, in the step
of faith it took to go back to
church again, in the hours
of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling
at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences
at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding
out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat
of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty
of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling
of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all
of a life.
My question is this: what would it take for the American
church at large (American
church in this case meaning mainline denominations, other individual sects like the Mennonites with their huge variety
of conservative to liberal congregations, nondenominational
churches of all sizes mega and not, etc.) to make a concerted effort to call
out abuse demonstrated by clergy in both
church, public, and private settings?
Rev. DeForest Soaries, Jr., a senior pastor
at First Baptist
Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, New Jersey, laid out what he believes are three roles of the church in educ
Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, New Jersey, laid
out what he believes are three roles
of the
church in educ
church in education.
But where the study, for instance, only hinted
at normalization, the draft forges ahead with a strong bias toward full acceptance
of gay unions, explicitly ruling
out the traditional opposition
of the
church toward homoerotic behavior.
There is a rough - hewn cross, 12 feet high,
at the front
of the
church and we all flood to the altar, covering it with sunshine coloured daffodils and pink hued tulips until the entire cross is covered in a bower
of spring flowers and I can't even look
at it without wanting to shout
out loud words like «Hallelujah!»
But we're doing more than meeting needs: we're equipping and empowering the persecuted
church to be the
church, reaching
out in love and compassion within their communities — whether those communities are comprised
of other Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Yazidis, or those belonging to another faith or no faith
at all.
Many
of them are
at least as committed Christians, serving the seminary
out of love
of the
church, as are any other members
of the community.
I ALREADY know the answer... that's why I said what I said earlier...
at MY place
of worship (
CHURCH by the way) pretty much everyone is liberal about that... cause they have recognized they have ability to tune people
out
But unlike other films with more direct Christian messages,
churches are much less likely to buy
out theaters in bulk as they did for «Son
of God» and «God's Not Dead,» a move that brought those films big returns
at the box office.
At the time
of becoming a
church drop
out....
At the New York meeting in 1905 a plan
of federation was worked
out creating the Federal Council
of the
Churches of Christ in America.
so many reports
of preists abusing children get hidden by the
church only to come
out at a later time.
The sheer unpredictability
of city encounters makes it impossible to presume, as many
churches do, that God's grace must be sequential — measured
out at regular intervals in baptism, confirmation, communion, marriage, burial — and will happen to everyone
at the prescribed time, in the same way.»
There is perhaps another movement among Evangelicals to force all people that are married - to - a-divorced partner
out of church membership, or
at least
out of church leadership. . .
And
at Connecticut's Fairfield University, scholars, clergy, and lay Catholics recently discussed the implications for the
church of having many gay and lesbian people, both in and
out of the closet, in roles as priests and ministers.
«Grace Community
Church, an evangelical church of 6,000 worshipers just north of Indianapolis, reversed their position and came out in favor of women's leadership at all levels this weekend in their public worship services.&
Church, an evangelical
church of 6,000 worshipers just north of Indianapolis, reversed their position and came out in favor of women's leadership at all levels this weekend in their public worship services.&
church of 6,000 worshipers just north
of Indianapolis, reversed their position and came
out in favor
of women's leadership
at all levels this weekend in their public worship services.»