Sentences with phrase «prayer meeting any time»

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.

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Quiet time, devotional time, prayer time, personal time — whatever you want to call it, most of us are referring to something similar: a regular time when we seek to meet with...

The case started in the little town of Greece, New York, where city officials have been starting meetings with prayer for some time.

Your holiest look down upon the sinners, your prayers are scripted, your music is pre-planned out, you adhere to a schedule and you meet at specific times on a specific day as if to say... «if we arrive at church at 9:30 Sunday morning, God will meet us in this place.»

In many cases, it's appropriate to mark a person's departure in a «state of the church» community meeting, congregational prayer time, or a small group setting.

I am then forced either to participate in the prayer, waste my time sitting through the prayer (and get noticed for not participating), or worse yet, arrive late to the meeting.

If you were at a meeting and after the prayer you got up and went to the podium and said, «god is a fairytale, thanks for wasting our time, now can we get to the peoples business?»

At the same time, cardinals were meeting Friday at the Vatican to participate in a day of reflection and prayer on several church matters, including the Vatican's response to cases of sexual abuse.

Prayers cause DELAY and wastes time for others waiting for the meetings to start.

Even though this is Scripture, in our Christian culture, our desert prayer times are often met with well - meaning encouragement like, «Relationship with God isn't a feeling.»

More times than not about the Lord's Prayer and how it shaped how we related to God, each other, friends, family and everyone we met.

This nation whether we like it or not was built on judeo - christian values and that is a fact you can search out history Congress had prayer meetings and sought God for guidance every time they came together and they read the Bible together.

(I did meet his wife though, after about 20 years — she was wonderful) I was in all the prayer / intercession groups (I was called to prayer and a few other things) and several times one of the other pray - ers sort of intimated that ours was «The» church of the city, and I'd always then start praying for every God called church in my city.

Again, if 10 or 20 people are meeting in a living room two or three times a week for prayer and discussion, they can easily take those discussions on the road, and find a place in the community to serve as part of their weekly community activity.

Members of the Synagogue met several times a week for prayer and teaching, often met together for meals, and supported one another as needs became known.

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?

Business, board and budget meetings begin with silence, and many meetings have an extended time of centering prayer built into their agendas.

The silent prayer can be carried out for a specific time — say 5 or 10 minutes and timed by the chair person for the meeting, after the time slotted the chair person just needs to say «thank you» and the prayers is done.

After a prayer at the Thailand meeting a Pentecostal pastor from Serbia told me it was the first time he had heard of an Orthodox priest blessing something an evangelical was involved with.

It was a focal point for many during the aftermath, rescue and clean - up workers often meeting there several times a day for prayers.

I remember being at a prayer meeting one night, and every time I opened my eyes I saw the illuminated EXIT sign above the door.

To Gattis, staff meetings are «worshipful work,» with times of silence for prayer and discernment woven into them.

• Meetings: Informal meetings occurred almost daily; there was also a set - up meeting on Monday; and a regular Oxford Group meeting on Wednesday, with prayer, Bible - reading, guidance, witnessing, topic discussion, surrenders, newcomer announcements, Lord's Prayer, and social time afterward for men and women (DR. BOB, Meetings: Informal meetings occurred almost daily; there was also a set - up meeting on Monday; and a regular Oxford Group meeting on Wednesday, with prayer, Bible - reading, guidance, witnessing, topic discussion, surrenders, newcomer announcements, Lord's Prayer, and social time afterward for men and women (DR. BOB, meetings occurred almost daily; there was also a set - up meeting on Monday; and a regular Oxford Group meeting on Wednesday, with prayer, Bible - reading, guidance, witnessing, topic discussion, surrenders, newcomer announcements, Lord's Prayer, and social time afterward for men and women (DR. BOB, p.prayer, Bible - reading, guidance, witnessing, topic discussion, surrenders, newcomer announcements, Lord's Prayer, and social time afterward for men and women (DR. BOB, p.Prayer, and social time afterward for men and women (DR. BOB, p. 140).

It is ridiculous to assume that prayer, which some men take part in during times of stress and then of admiration for the concept of God... (ahem)... has anything to do with the town who would not allow anything but Christian voices to take part in town meetings.

I've engaged in all that, sat 2 - 3 times a week as you say, and went to the conferences, went to the prayer meetings, gave financially, engaged in all the work they want (because if you don't, you're in sin, or rebellion).

Most of the time the groups, whether a Tuesday noon business - person's lunch, or a Thursday morning prayer and Bible study group, or a Sunday evening discussion group, meet without David Landry.

In previous series of posts, we have looked at two areas where churches often spend too much time talking and not enough doing: Doctrinal Statements and Prayer Meetings.

In this book, he tells us about a time when Nouwen went on retreat to some friendsâ $ ™ in the country, and he began to just meet in the red barn on their property to prayer and celebrate mass.

boffer «How is my prayer to an imaginary being FORCING you to do anything???» If there are 60 people at the meeting, and you take one minute for your relgious display, you wasted one hour of the peoples time.

This first meeting concluded with a time of rich prayer.

Every time they put prayer in schools, presenting it to people's kids as the norm, every time they manipulate health policies, every time «payer breakfast» is held which is really a government meeting... time after time people still try to shove their religion down others throats.

Perhaps that works for them, but I try to breathe short prayers, and spend lots of time with people — talking to them, figuring our what their needs are and how we can help them meet their needs.

After dinner, having sung a Psalm, they returned to their conference upon the other questions (which were three in all) till towards evening; at which time, as the master of the family began, so he concluded with prayer, and I gave them three new questions against their next meeting, which being appointed for time and place, everyone repaired to his own home.36

In a Sunday Times article, Mr Phillips referred to a High Court case being taken by the National Secular Society and an atheist former councillor challenging the holding of prayers in local council meetings as «nonsense on stilts», and said human rights legislation was undermined by using it to settle «parochial disputes».

America is caught in a cynical cycle where a mass shooting tragedy is met with a chorus of political «leaders» offering their «thoughts and prayers» and declaring that now is «not the time» to discuss policy changes that might address America's unique problem with gun violence in general and with mass shootings in particular.

On top of that there's «a drinks cart every Friday, the closing book is called a «bible», if you don't get stuff in on time they put you on a «sinners list», and meetings are called «prayers» — which is funny because no one knows what they are at first and nobody shows up!»

«Supreme Court to hear case on separating church and state; Justices will consider whether to let city councils open their meetings with explicitly Christian prayers»: David G. Savage has this article today in The Los Angeles Times.

Waiting through two years of prayer and paperwork to meet their new daughter had given Jane ample time to read up on attachment in adoption, and she thought she was prepared for what lay ahead; she knew that parenting this new child would be different from parenting her biological children.