Sentences with phrase «small country churches»

I think I like that size because (a) it reminds me of the small country churches my grandparents attended (and my grandfather would sometimes «speak» at, since they often couldn't afford a full - time clergy, so were at the whims of circuit riders), and (b) because that gives me a «monkeysphere» (a folksy explanation of Dunbar's number).

The bottom line is that every organization and institution — whether political, economic, or religious, from large corporations and entire nations to small country churches and individual households — have a «tenor» or a «way of doing things» that define, characterize, guide, and even justify the actions and attitudes of that particular structure.

A small country church in England finds an old book and some people's response to this important piece of history is «burn it»?

Why don't these people ever go to the small country church in small town America?

I am a Bible believing pastor of a small country church.

I remember singing it as a child in our small country church and knowing that once we started singing those words, it meant one thing — Christmastime was upon us!

He had been the senior pastor of a small country church in Ohio, the men's pastor at a huge church in the Twin Cities, and now started a new church in Indiana.

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7, the proliferation of small groups in churches all over this country and in many other parts of the world shows that this exciting development is already well along.

after 30 years of moving around the country and participating in various churches that were glad to have me be part of their work & ministries (as a musician), I find myself now living in a small, very isolated, undereducated and underexperienced town, where I've been rejected by more than one church on the basis that I know too much (I apparently make everyone else feel stupid) and have too much experience (i.e., I make everyone else feel inadequate).

Not every town in this country has a Walmart or a McDonalds or even a small grocery store, but every town has a church in it.

More Christian diet groups have emerged and gone national, including Houston - based First Place (founded in 1981), with programs in nearly.5, 000 churches across the country and in 13 other nations, and smaller programs like Jesus Is the Weigh.

You can still catch it at Christmas in a village church when a small child with a strong country accent grapples for the first time with the nativity story in the King James Bible, and the music of the eternal flows into the silent building through his hesitating tongue.

While these large churches are still outnumbered by smaller churches in the country, their influence is undeniable.

In former Communists countries, like Poland in some Churches women are not even allowed to read during mass, forget about altar girls I've only seen 1 church that allowed it, and couples who practice contraception, who are divorced, who have children out of wedlock, priests often deny them the Sacraments especially in small towns.

Indeed, an argument could be made that at no time since the First Great Awakening have so many churches of disparate denominational, theological and stylistic approaches been so united in terms of their music: one can now walk into old - line Pentecostal churches, small - town evangelical congregations, mall - like suburban megachurches, and many a mainline Protestant sanctuary across the country on any given Sunday morning and hear the same hymns and choruses done in approximately the same musical styles, with similar settings and instrumentation.

Under his guidance revivals became for the huge new cities what they were formerly for the smaller towns and country — they were ways of winning members for the Church.

This has troubled the consciences of Christians and others in richer countries and the churches have shared in the voluntary efforts to send aid to victims of emergencies and to assist small - scale development projects.

His own concentrated study of the dynamics of small churches and churches in changing communities has made him increasingly in demand around the country as a perceptive observer of the dynamics of congregational life.

In almost any denomination, in any part of the country, one finds a similar pattern: a few large churches with strength and resources to spare, and a big number of extremely small, weak churches.

Night of Light has received a stamp of approval by the Vatican and celebrations have taken place in small chapels and cathedrals in parish churches, monasteries, schools and homes in several countries.

The small rural village of Bathurst is at the heart of 1820 settler country and offers a wealth of historical buildings, such as churches, chapels etc..

The small stone church was built in 1935 as a place of worship for the pioneer families of the Mackenzie country.

The canvas is a beat up, earthy, brownish pink, and looks like the plaster wall of an old Catholic church somewhere in a small country village.

The people in that country are few, for only a small part is sufficiently free from ice to be habitable; but the people are all Christians and have churches and priests.

I've seen dolphins leaping in the water near our small boat traveling to the island of Lanai, been enchanted on the charming cobblestone streets of Budapest, stood wide - eyed in the beauty of ancient churches and took in the history and triumph and sorrows of many countries, drooled over amazing castles in Germany and London and soaked in the unique music, style, experiences and cafes of cities like Philadelphia, NYC, San Francisco, Nashville, Santa Barbara, Seattle and dozens of other places around the world.

Our family is moving across country from a well - loved home and church to a smaller home and community and all the «stuff» is overwhelming as we seek to downsize and get rid of clutter.