Sentences with phrase «playing at her church»

The very day I read about Robin thicke and Miley cyrus I read a «sweet» little post from a Grandma about her little 3 yr old grandaughter «shaking her booty» in the Christmas play at their church.

It comes from a well - known hymn that was played at the church service with which he began his first term as governor in 1995.

True, the Glenn Close character comes close to villainy by falsifying a death scene, but since she's in the middle of directing the Easter play at her church, maybe it's partly a case of runaway theatrical zeal.

She loves to play guitar and has been playing at her church for about 11 years.

He usually plays at church every other Sunday, and I can't tell you how full I feel for him as he grows his relationship with God through music every day.

Not exact matches

Carmen started playing the violin in kindergarten and from there, began singing and playing the piano at church.

Religious institutions increasingly taking vacant retail space in malls Call it a Hail Mary play: landlords are taking a fresh look at churches to...

Along the way, Milbank suggests that the Church's emphasis on sexual sins and on hell played a role in secularization, and he ends by asking how we can affirm at least some «procedure and institutionalization» in reinventing a more participatory, erotic, and interpersonal Christianity.

I have spent 40 years in those Churches in lay ministry, I know the the real psychology at play, it comes clear in everyone of your posts and how you present it.

One in 10 Christians think sport is «an idol that many people worship in society today» and more than half said it's okay to play sport on a Sunday, so long as they're engaged in their churches at other times during the week.

When the story is made to flatter the Christian Church at the expense of the Jews (or when, as in the play, Pilate, a non-Jew, is made to appear noble in contrast to the scheming Sanhedrin) the true import of the Christian gospel is corrupted.

I did have some friends at church, and the hope of playing with them made attendance more appealing.

At the same time, he refused to let the church off the hook for the part he accuses it of playing in tacitly condoning the bullying of LGBT youth.

It raises a question that all thoughtful Christians must at some point address: How do we identify the true tradition of Christian teaching throughout history, and what part does the Church play in that tradition?

Plays in a punk band and works in youth ministry at Calvary Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

I've had way more meaningful conversations with kids at 2 a.m. while we're playing Playstation than I ever have in a church setting.

The church has quit talking about sin and forgiveness, and «plays» at community without getting to the depths of the heart where the forgiveness must start.

«This year - long tour has given me a real understanding of how the innovation and vibrancy displayed by cathedral staff and their congregations is ensuring that these important churches continue to play a crucial role at the heart of local communities now and for centuries to come.»

Whether we are in church singing, praying or serving; or we are living our life at work, at home or in play, worshipping God should be a natural extension of everything we do.

I had the honor of playing the trumpet for Dr. Falwell at many revivals, at Thomas Road Baptist Church, and for Liberty University.

The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fulttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory with stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.

At this church, here is how the Trunk - or - Treat worked: They had about fifty cars in the parking lot all of them weare covered by a cheap van insurance, and at about half of them, you had to stand in a line for about 10 minutes while kids played little gameAt this church, here is how the Trunk - or - Treat worked: They had about fifty cars in the parking lot all of them weare covered by a cheap van insurance, and at about half of them, you had to stand in a line for about 10 minutes while kids played little gameat about half of them, you had to stand in a line for about 10 minutes while kids played little games.

Surprising, too, is the fact that the Christian Church has put so little thought into the person at play.

At the risk of oversimplification, one can see that the two major approaches toward play which have dominated our culture also characterize the Church's attitudes.

At the level of the local church we note exhibits of religious painting and sculpture, productions of modern plays like those of Eliot and Christopher Fry, as well as initiatives with respect to the dance and...

Robert C. Leslie identifies these salient points at which small groups played a vital role in church history: Christ and his disciples, the Apostolic church, Montanism, monasticism, the Waldenses, the Franciscans, the Friends of God, the Brethren of the Common Life, German pietism, the Anabaptists, the Society of Friends, the Wesleyan revival, the Great Awakening, the Iona Community, the Emmanuel Movement, and the Oxford Group Movement (from which came Alcoholics Anonymous).

I mention that as your list of Qs really struck at the core of why I find all this so toxic — it's repackaged US evangelicalism that's selling people a new way to «be» or «do» church assuming one can pay in order to play — and the price ain't cheap.

I simply called to inquire about their Church and they told me along with not being able to play music for the Lord at Church, there would be no fellowship for adulterers.

The melancholy refrain of the Old Testament — «And the children of Israel forsook the Lord, the God of their fathers, and followed other gods, the gods of the peoples who were round about them... they played the whore after other gods and bowed themselves down to them» — applies perfectly to the dominant trends in the Catholic Church, at least in the Western world.

The spiritual abuse heaped upon me and many others at my last church was not a joke, but my play on the words non-committed and committed was an attempt at one — which just goes to demonstrate that no matter how miserably the church treats a person, the Spirit can sustain that person's soul and even bring him / her back around to joy and a lighthearted attitude.

members, movies with members; book and Step studies with members, church with members, playing ping pong and pool with members, and hanging out at sober clubs.»

«This historic and important church in the heart of Edinburgh has, I believe, a vital role to play in the life of the city and the nation at this critical time for our country and on into the future.

In public worship (there was, after all, no other legal option) he prayed with a congregation that used Cranmer's superbly crafted Book of Common Prayer and heard at these same services the Bishop's Bible (the immediate predecessor to the King James Authorized Version), echoes of both of which can be detected in the plays, and of course he was buried in Stratford's Trinity Church; while privately he probably held to the Old Religion throughout his life, as recent research is making increasingly evident.

now at church i am a singer; i play musical instruments.

At the level of the local church we note exhibits of religious painting and sculpture, productions of modern plays like those of Eliot and Christopher Fry, as well as initiatives with respect to the dance and the pageant.

As the Roman Catholic and Orthodox traditions have known for centuries, and many other churches have discovered too, the only way that this extraordinary narrative will yield its meaning is quite simply if we play the events at their original speed — God's speed, not ours — living in and through the events day by day: the grieving farewells, the betrayal and denial, the shuddering fear in the garden, the stretched - out day of torture and forsakenness, and the daybreak of wonder, color and tomb - bursting newborn life.

Listen I keep seeing bumper stickers like «you can't be both Catholic and pro-choice» these are not reflective of my faith, theser are slogans made for propaganda, I have 2 beautiful children and I have never been on a position where abortion could even play a part, but it is a legal option to the public at large; this being said even the bible calls for us to be good citizens, and to obey the law, I believe that this is a matter that belongs with the family and not the state; no matter how we criminalize abortion, they will not stop, but people will go under - ground and more fatalities will occur, I rather see the government placing incentives on more conseling for these expectant mothers and more outreach done at church levels, to reduce the debate to a single slogan is dangerous and will not accomplish the ultimately goal of preventing abortions my two humble cents

I thought about my great - grandfather's struggles to control his emotions during Sunday services following the sudden death of his 14 - year - old daughter, Ella, who had played organ at the same church.

At times in history some churchmen have played into the hands of this false image, but far from the Church being suspicious of cultural and political globalisation, she actually holds the key to the future of humanity.

Local churches should participate with other community groups in establishing panels for review and evaluation of movies playing at local theatres, and in helping communicate any resulting viewpoints to church members and others in the community.

So gay rights, legal marijuana, that is secular morality, but you are correct — Christians now days just play at it — they get abortions, live together, smoke pot — in most cases church is just a social club especially among Catholics.

Justin Humphreys, Executive Director of Safeguarding at CCPAS said: «We believe that the UK church needs to play a role in ensuring high quality safeguarding continues for children and adults who may be vulnerable or at risk.»

These fundamentalists detect an anti-Christian value system in the media, and counsel a return to religious fundamentals, which often include proscriptions against dancing, movies, plays and rock concerts, attempts at censorship of media — especially films, television and books — and encouraging participation in church social events as a substitute for secular culture offerings.

For me, church has been a mixed bag — I rarely tell people my diagnosis, and on the surface I make a good play at appearing «normal».

This Church has fired a well known music composer as choir director because he prayed and was «too spiritual» at choir practice, Fired an amazing organist (who played with one hand because of a disability) for reasons unknown.

«I have loved being on the leadership team at the Evangelical Alliance over the past few years and have been privileged to play a part in serving the Church across the UK.

In fact, if someone really wants to stretch this verse, they may use it as justification for skipping church to «worship» with their family at home, while the football game is playing in the background.

At least thus far people of all stripes remember with gratitude the important part played by the churches, and especially by the Polish Pope, in the final overthrow of Communism.

People are always accusing churches of playing it safe and never thinking outside the box, but don't tell that to the people at the Kentucky Baptist Association, because they've happened upon a new way of wooing the unconverted and it's, well, it's different.

We stressed the spiritual and symbolic, at the expense of gross incarnational fact: Hence, we played down the material element in morality, the ex opere operato aspect of the sacraments, the biological purpose of sex, the concrete burden of the historic Church.