Sentences with phrase «people open their prayers»

Most people open their prayers with «Dear God» and «Heavenly Father» which seem to be pretty standard.

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.

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.

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.

These people need our prayers so God may open their minds and hearts to love not hate.

Endorsed by Ann Voskamp, Mary Karr, Sarah Bessey and Yours Truly, Found opens a door to Benedictine spirituality through which regularly, busy people can enter and taste, see, smell, hear, and feel what it means to live life as prayer.

Prayer groups have accomplished that, but the consensor has at times helped people break through their first lack of confidence, revealing their worries about being honest and open in pPrayer groups have accomplished that, but the consensor has at times helped people break through their first lack of confidence, revealing their worries about being honest and open in prayerprayer.

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.

The God of Israel is one whose «ear is open'to the prayers of his people and whose response to their prayers, as also to their acts, is determined by the sort and quality of their human and historical situation.

Within a few months, following a financial crisis in New York, 10,000 people were gathering for lunchtime prayer meetings, with many churches opening their doors for prayer.

I'm not a big fan of slippery slope arguments, and this is borderline, but in what the justice said it boils down to «Will the person who leaves on personal views of religion, also have their points and objections dismissed as not being noteworthy» because they chose to leave during the opening prayer.

For the person at prayer it is the mysterious name of God, calling up memories, recognizing a presence and opening up hope.

Actually, Rick Perry issued the best open call to prayer I have ever seen at http://governor.state.tx.us/news/proclamation/16038/ which appears to unite all people across belief and denominational lines.

More recently, systematic theologian Donald Bloesch has explained that while «God's ultimate purposes, are unchangeable... his immediate will is flexible and open to change through the prayers of his people.»

He boxes up truth, turns to leave a few prayers, inconspicuous as seeds, that someone old might read in the folds of a missal, someone young might turn over in her still - holy fingerpainting hands, near that warm corner on the east side of the parish where children congregate to play «This is the church; this is the steeple; open the doors and where are the people?»

(That the transaction of opening ourselves, otherwise called prayer, is a perfectly definite one for certain persons, appears abundantly in the preceding lectures.

It is the prayer of All Christians, that God will open your eyes and change your heart so that you may be saved from your sin, embraced by His forgiving love in the person of Jesus Christ, and come to know the peace which passes all understanding.

But it was the movie, Wing and a Prayer, which opened in movie theaters the following year, that firmly lodged the expression in people's minds.