Sentences with phrase «smaller churches in»

Although St. Joseph's was impressive from the outside and offered beautiful views over the city and to the St. Lawrence River, the inside was modern and nowhere near as intricate as the smaller churches in Montreal.

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

I worked in a small church in Kansas once, and after about 3 months I figured out that all the real major decisions, including if the pastor got paid that week, were not made by the elders, the board or congregational vote.

When Reinhold Niebuhr wrote glowingly in his diary about small churches in...

who told about a funeral he had been to at a small church in Appalachia.

Berea Baptist Church is a small church in Augusta, Georgia that is actively involved in the ministry of adoption.

One day the pastor took me on a journey one day through the swamps and bayous until we came to this small church in the wild where he was to speak along with other preachers.

While this can separate some churches too much from society, it can also assist the small church in living on the margins of society, where opportunity for mission knocks.

In Crooked Heart, a first novel by Cristina Sumners (herself a parish priest), we meet Kathryn Koerney, rector of a small church in a New Jersey college town that resembles Princeton.

A few years ago, Swedish pastor Ake Green was sentenced to one month in prison for preaching on the biblical teaching against sexual immorality from the pulpit of his small church in Borgholm.

When a small church in Wuxi village had its cross removed, a member of the congregation used his welding torch to put it back up.

My small church in the suburbs is known for helping the poor and homeless, we provide 500 meals a month, help at the shelters, and list could go on.

Atlanta - area megachurch pastor Andy Stanley has come under fire for remarks he made about small churches in a recent sermon.

Bill was the new pastor of a small church in a once - rural area who formed a new Bible study group.

After pastoring a small church in Hemet, CA, for six years and teaching at another seminary for five, these days I'm a youth worker for a church here in CO, an assistant professor at Rocky Mountain Bible College & Seminary, and a bus driver (the last pays for the other two.)

So I served in the pastorate for six years in a small church in Bremen.

New research has found that small churches in America are sceptical of online tools for giving.

At this time it was one of the smallest Churches in America, but within a few decades it was to be one of the largest.

«Yes, a contractor who has worked and continues to work in Bayelsa State and other parts of Nigeria thought it fit, in fulfillment of its Corporate Social Responsibility, to facilitate the renovation of the small church in the President's home town of Otuoke.

Synopsis: A pastor of a small church in upstate New York starts to spiral out of control after a soul - shaking encounter with an unstable environmental activist and his pregnant wife.

Synopsis: The pastor of a small church in upstate New York (Ethan Hawke) spirals out of control after a soul - shaking encounter with an unstable environmental activist and his pregnant wife (Amanda Seyfried) in this taut, chilling thriller.

The pastor of a small church in upstate New York (Ethan Hawke) spirals out of control after a soul - shaking encounter with an unstable environmental activist and his pregnant wife (Amanda Seyfried) in this taut, chilling thriller.

When Dean was seventeen, his father quit the church on Mayodan Mountain and moved the family out to the eastern part of the state, near Greenville, where he took the pulpit of a small church in the town of Ayden.

I believe that the chair her friend would have seen is located in a small church in the village of Zennor, Cornwall, England.

During the seventies, Dean's father had a series of small churches in little towns, and in each church his dogmatism and rigidity created a rift in the congregation.

Francis Ford Coppola was on holiday here when he came across a small church in a quiet and crumbling hill village near Taormina.

Visit the dams, Honeymoon Pool and Australind, which has the smallest church in Australia.

Aside from a small church in the midst of a vast field, there are no signs of civilization.

Not exact matches

First responders quickly converged on the church in Sutherland Springs, a small town east of San Antonio with a population under 1,000.

«I am a small - business owner, and I am in daily contact with everyone in the neighborhood, and I employ you and your kids and your friends, and I support the local organizations and the churches and the synagogues, the police departments and the fire departments,» Sutz says.

There, he practiced sermonizing in a swamp, preaching to birds and alligators before tryouts with small churches.

In exchange, they say, Gross helped the operator of Coin.mx, Anthony Murgio, take over a small credit union Gross ran from his church.

Some small insurers in the Berkshire stable, operating with names like Cypress Insurance Co., Redwood Fire and Casualty Insurance Co., or Continental Divide Insurance Co., insure ambulance drivers and tow - truck fleets, churches and sororities, hole - in - one contests and paper airplane tosses.

I was going to mock these, but, in truth, for a small congregation, where somebody's personal car has to double as the church car, these could be useful.

Use this guide in your small group, house church or class to create discussion and convey biblical truth about how we should live now in light of the future reality.

Mega churches are nothing but a sea of nameless faces, except for the small few who decide to or can spare the time to get involved in the running of the church.

The incident occurred shortly before 10 a.m. (11 a.m. ET) as members of a small Kansas church that protests at military funerals and counter-protesters stood nearly a block away from First United Methodist Church during services for Staff Sgt. Michael Bock, 26, who died August 13 in Afghanistan's Helmand prochurch that protests at military funerals and counter-protesters stood nearly a block away from First United Methodist Church during services for Staff Sgt. Michael Bock, 26, who died August 13 in Afghanistan's Helmand proChurch during services for Staff Sgt. Michael Bock, 26, who died August 13 in Afghanistan's Helmand province.

But he does not forget (except for the Seventh - day Adventists) the churches and temples of smaller and more marginal religious communities, buildings typically overlooked in standard surveys of American architecture.

The campaign against the Jesuits was, of course, a small part of the Nazi persecution of the Church and of Christianity in general and it is immensely helpful to have at hand the kind of documentation Lapomarda's work supplies.

In like manner, if I could not continue to unite with any smaller society, church, or body of Christians, without committing sin, without lying and hypocrisy, without preaching to other doctrines which I did not myself believe, I should be under an absolute necessity of separating from that society.

Eight of the 35 churches taught or celebrated giving in small ways every single week.

But while our communities and churches certainly benefit from photographers, artists, writers, musicians, artisans, chefs, carpenters, fire - fighters, hard - laborers, entrepreneurs and small - business owners, those who have found themselves in a corporate gig have just as much to contribute to both the Church and the Kingdom as any other talented individual.

Goshen is a small school in northern Indiana that's owned and operated as a ministry of Mennonite Church USA.

At my grandmother's small - town church, in the middle of families in their Sunday best and fidgeting kids in the pews, I didn't expect any huge revelations.

The Huffington Post says that he «never lived in the ornate church mansion in Buenos Aires, preferring a simple bed in a downtown room heated by a small stove on frigid weekends.

another example, a small percentage of Christians are called to sacredotal celibacy, but 99.9 % are encouraged to marry - there is no discrepancy involved, and they are not just some ideas in the bible that we pick and choose between to believe - there is one consistent and variegated holistic understanding off the whole bible to those who can reason well and who have minimal training that churches should be doing in sunday, but mostly are not.

even if your stats are correct in the US, that's only a small portion of the Church.

I went to a small town in the midwest to work for a non-profit thinking it'd be like chicken - soup - for the soul... INSTEAD it was a fundamentalist nightmare... it was NOT just small town mindedness... I could hardly find a church with out people wondering — why is this attractive woman in her early 30's unwed (or at least divorced with 3 kids) people were cold and unfathomable judgmental and sometimes downright hostile eager to quote scriptures seemingly un-lead by the Holy Spirit.

As a pastor I've been getting help for years, from a psychiatrist, from a clinical pastoral course I took years ago, from small groups over the years, from dear friends who are honest enough to speak into my life, from my medical doctor, from the elders in my church, from my wife (mostly) from an adult children for alcoholics group I started only because there was nothing in place in my community.

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