Sentences with phrase «prayer services only»
«You should be careful not to think too much of yourselves,» Cincinnati players were counseled at prayer services only an hour before this historic contest.
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Not only does Glick, who lives in Jerusalem, stand at the front of synagogues and sing solemn prayers on Rosh Hashana, but he is an EMT for United Hatazalah, a volunteer emergency service.
I can only imagine what happens when the ashes of last year's palm branches are streaked across one's forehead in a corporate service of penitence and prayer.
«This means that the only circumstances under which prayer may be targeted as a prohibited activity under the PSPO is if it is taking place within the context of a protest that is an act or attempted act of approval or disapproval related to abortion services.»
In a report on the issue, it said: «While «prayer» is outlined within the prohibited activities, it is critical to note that only prayer in relation to protesting in an act of approval or disapproval in 34 respect of abortion services is included within this prohibition.
In the service of holy matrimony in the Book of Common Prayer, the basis for most Protestant marriage services, «love» is considered only one of the necessary requisites for marriage.
A perusal of the Church of the Brethren Web pages provides clear evidence that a commitment to pacifism is not limited to denominational headquarters: the 48 churches of the Northern Indiana District Conference have joined to urge «the use of nonviolent approaches and interventions» in response to the terror; the Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, Church of the Brethren has adopted a statement in which they «remain committed to walk in the Jesus way of nonviolent love, in which evil can only be overcome with redemptive acts of love»; a group of Brethren Volunteer Service Workers have issued a statement in which they «advocate the use of nonviolent means to settle disputes» and «stand opposed to the increased drive toward militarization»; on October 7 members of local Brethren churches (along with Mennonites and others) organized a peace rally at the state capitol in Harrisburg, «Sowing Seeds of Peace: Prayers and Petitions for Nonviolent Action,» which attracted over 300 people.
He assails the notion that (as he wrote in an essay in The Relevant Church) «if only we can (re) discover x (fill - in - the - blank: prayer, fasting, worship, community, drama, service) and implement it, then the Church will have y (fill - in - the - blank: impact, relevance, meaning, validity, profile, etc.).»
Aborting large numbers of children is now a standard part of our National Health Service and accepted by many as normal - defeating this horror is only possible by prayer.
Others observe only two or three prayers and make the rest up at home and others go to the mosque only for the Friday service, but the largest group go to the mosque only for the two great festivals.
A church is not the minister only or the congregation only but the entire Christian fellowship, and it can be strong only as its members accept the obligation to give it support by their gifts, their service, their prayers, and their presence.
Only a handful of people attend this service of Morning Prayer.
For a governor to incite prayer when he should have led state services to PREVENT THE FIRESTORM IN THE FIRST PLACE is not only useless, its outright neglect.
For example, one of the Gallup surveys mentioned earlier showed that 60 percent of the American public personally considered prayer to be very important and another 22 percent regarded it as fairly important; by comparison, only 39 percent thought that reading the Bible is very important, 38 percent thought that attending religious services is very important, and 28 percent thought that being part of a close religious fellowship group is very important.
Surely the fact that most children remain in the Sunday worship service only long enough for the children's sermon has deprived them of the opportunity of learning the language of liturgy and prayer and of absorbing the content of doctrine from hymn and from sermon.
Our inherited services of worship — our prayers, our hymns, and many of the other things that are part of that worship — are not only less than fully Christian in statement but also impossible for us to accept if we have any regard for intellectual integrity, for honesty, and for relevance to the concrete situation in which we find ourselves.
Though intercessory prayer ought to lead to better and wiser service to those for whom we pray, it is not necessary to suppose that such direct person - to - person service is the only kind.
The Anglican clergy were presented by the Revolutionary movement with a special case of conscience revolving around the prayers for the King in the Prayer Book — some continued with the full service unless or until forcibly restrained, others felt they could only perform occasional offices, and others with varying degrees of enthusiasm or regret accepted the transfer of allegiance and modified the services accordingly.
It is only recently that the Church of England prayer book removed the service for the «churching of women who had recently given birth» which starts by giving thanks to God for: