It has found its central expressive action in a specific
kind of worship — the eucharistic remembrance of Jesus» life and death and continuing activity in the world.
Evangelizing tended to be defined in theory as dealing with nonbelievers, but in actual practice to be associated with a special
kind of worship context to which the nonbeliever must conform if he was present at all.
It all depends on what
kind of worship style someone prefers... not what they look like.
The fate of
this kind of worship is often determined by the congregation's acceptance of the particular values of the preacher.
When a friend is diagnosed with cancer, raising kids is a challenge, God seems distant, or life is hard,
this kind of worship can seem irrelevant and disconnected from everyday life.
This is the only
kind of worship that transforms lives because it directs us toward the true and living Jesus!
You are a genius and
I kind of worship you!
The cut contrasts the contemporary mythos of Saturday Night with the Christian mythos of Sunday Morning, while comparing two
kinds of worship and love.
Obviously it's working out with Spider - Man and Kevin Feige is someone who I absolutely adore and really respect and
kind of worship.
Not exact matches
Jonas won't rule any
of these dystopias out, but he believes the third is most likely --» democracy allying itself with a
kind of pseudo-scientific health -
worshipping eco-maniacal post-family feminism, culminating in a whopping tyranny to make autocracy, or even oriental despotism, look like a Boy Scout jamboree.»
In my experience as a
worship leader, there are two
kinds of silence in church.
That's why I can say with conviction that Radiohead's «Let Down» points me to the beauty
of God, that Miles Davis»
Kind of Blue honors the Almighty, and that Over the Rhine's OHIO is the best
worship album I've heard in a long time.
Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will
worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the
kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
Religious fanatics are the source
of most evil today, and to use your experiences as some
kind of support for
worshipping invisible and non-existent deities does a disservice to humanity.
Initially we have Neanderthal putting stuff in with their dead and it assumed it was some
kind of ritual due to
worship or the hereafter.
When we begin to learn this way, that God exists in this council structure with other divine beings that he calls gods, we begin to learn the only true God and what
kind of a being we have got to
worship.»
We have been in every
kind of small group you can imagine... and there is nothing like corporate
worship.
«It's not about same - gender relations — it is about se.xual idolatry and
worshipping false gods» ---------- It does refer to certain
kinds of idolatry, sure, but you have to remember, all sin is idolatry, therefore when using the word ar.senokoitai, it refers to the idolatry (sinful act)
of same gender s.ex.
Your
kind is idolatrous in that they seek to please themselves and
worship their own depraved lifestyle instead
of yielding to God.
One week one
of the guys comes up — they had volunteer
worship leaders — and the guy whose week it was to lead
worship was actually a psychiatrist,
kind of a young guy.
My wife and I were last night called by a family friend to pray with her about her daughter who would disappear from home and when she re-appears, she is
kind of confused, claiming to have been followed by a certain girl they met in school and tried recruiting her to devil
worship.
THIS is the
kind of community I want to
worship in.
Again and again the quality
of a service
of worship is judged by the
kind of music the choir renders, the aesthetic fitness
of the minister's voice or vestments or manner, the beauty or ugliness
of the sanctuary, the general decorum with which everything is done.
The Bible says the same
kinds of things about people who don't
worship the one true god... it even tells you you to kill people who try to convert you... the difference is that we have grown as a society and we no longer murder people for what they believe... islam hasn't caught up with the rest
of us... it's a problem and threat to the civilized word.
«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.»
The old Testament affirms the goodness
of life and sexuality, and sexual language is freely used to describe the relationship between God and his people, but the prophetic tradition is consistently and radically opposed to the
kind of sexual
worship found in Baalism.
Our leaders and founders aren't
worshiped or venerated or held in any
kind of esteem — what
kind of enlightened fellow would do that?
If we
worship the Jesus that came down from heaven, He can only us into His
kind of life —
of love and selfless living,
of obedience and trust in God.
What songs you choose, how long your
worship service is, or the way you preach all communicate certain things about the
kind of people that are welcome there and the
kind that aren't.
I am sure they were
kind - hearted and loved the Lord deeply, but I wondered if what we were doing, whether we knew it or not, was
worshipping at the altar
of our American - defined ideal
of success, only in the setting
of a local church.
Having used many microphones
of all
kinds in both public speaking situations as well as concert venues (I used to play in rock and heavy metal groups as well as praise - and -
worship bands), I have learned that microphones are painfully unpredictable.
At first they were subjected to all
kinds of social restrictions, they were heated as outcastes and polluted persons, they were banned from showing themselves at the baths and market places and finally they were excluded from all public places, essentially places where they
worshipped their gods, because they believed that the very presence
of these outcastes violated the place
of their gods.
Worship, far from being a retreat from politics, embodies a new
kind of politics, a genuinely Christian politics.
On the other hand, the Catholics specifically taught their people to
worship and pray to this
kind of idol.
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.
The fact that he wanted the Catholic church to
worship him and have a holiday after him is reflective
of MY POINT that he is motivated by a god - complex, and not any
kind of «christianity».
Gaia
worship, as Hanby (and, I suspect, Andrew Kloster) and I would all agree, carries with it an anthropology that treats the human person as a
kind of anthropollutant, which leads in short order to a eugenic «morality.»
You must not
worship Yahuwah your Elohim in their way, because in
worshiping their gods, they do all
kinds of detestable things Yahuwah hates.
The inevitable response to a true «hearing» some
kind of action — first in
worship, to be sure, but then just as surely in service
of God through serving the needs
of the world.
I mean... that sounds
kind of petty and vindictive... not the attributes I would in any way look up to or
worship.
Imagine if all the billions
of dollars in time, effort and hard cash that we spend worldwide each year
worshipping and appeasing make - believe deities
of one
kind or another were instead funneled into something tangible and worthwhile, like reducing poverty, improving education or protecting the environment.
An idol can be any
kind of image, a cross, many
kinds of statutes if one is bowing down to them,
worshiping them.
better yet, all christians should be made to read the bible so they understand exactly what
kind of maniac god they
worship.
Rather, religious dramatists in this movement respected the integrity
of the dramatic form as the
kind of union between action and word that Protestants claimed in their theologies
of Word and
worship.
To talk in that fashion is not to speak
of a
kind of meaningless re-enactment
of what went on in the creation; it is to speak
of a vital, living, and ongoing movement, where God knows and experiences (if that word is, as I believe, appropriate to the divine life) that which has taken place, but knows it and experiences it with a continuing freshness and delight — and, if what has taken place has been evil, with a continuing tinge
of sadness and regret — such as must be proper to the chief creative and chief receptive agency who is
worshiped and served by God's human children.
Perhaps the
kinds of studies that have been made
of the art
of administration,
of the relations
of policy and administration,
of organization and management in other: spheres will be carried forward into the sphere
of the Church and may show how much the pastoral director
of our time, as pastoral preacher, teacher, counselor and leader
of worship has also become the democratic pastoral administrator, that is to say, a man charged with the responsibility and given the authority to hold in balance, to invigorate and to maintain communication among a host
of activities and their responsible leaders, all directed toward a common end.
EVERYONE
worships a «god»
of some
kind.
Yet even when that is not realized in concrete fact there is always in Christian
worship of any
kind a similar pattern.
-- let us never forget that the ignorance
of Socrates was a
kind of godly fear and divine
worship, that his ignorance was the Greek rendering
of the Jewish perception that the fear
of God is the beginning
of wisdom.