Not exact matches
Didn't look
so pretty
after they stamped out the
churches in the 20s and 30s.
I could not in good conscience baptize my daughter in the RC
Church (after doing so for my sons), knowing that she would be raised as a second class citizen in that c
Church (
after doing
so for my sons), knowing that she would be raised as a second class citizen in that
churchchurch.
I have been through many of these thought processes myself this year,
after a period of real for the fact that the
church was
so far and away from what it appeared it could be / should be, given its» foundation and inheritance.
The Mormons do offer more in the
after life than any other
so called christian
church That is unless you are black, or a woman that does, not want to share her husband other wives
So why don't you take a walk to a small
church too...
after all Obama has put the unknow
church on the world map and next sunday it's going to be a full house lol
If I were Obama I would refuse to attend
church again until
after his term, saying «Whenever I go to
church it upsets the American people
so severely, I feel badly about it — I don't want to do that.»
A lot of
churches don't know what to do with people like me — because, as the thinking goes, marriage is the ideal,
so why am I not striving
after it?
When one considers the controversies that roil many
church conventions, maybe the Lutherans, or at least the LCMS Lutherans, are not
so unremarkable
after all.
Disillusionment set in
after a few years, and I decided that what I gave was between me and God, and not the business of the
church treasurer,
so I started putting cash in the plate, still at least 10 %.
A few years back i was being led by god to help some homeless people.I'll tell you about the first homeless lady.my girls and i were driving by a liquor store and i seen a girl a lady sitting next to her cart.god showed me through his eyes the hurt she was living with.he spoke to my heart and said, don't pass her up.i turned around whent back and asked her if she was hungry.she was in shock and said yes.god told me to tell her that she is loved.she started crying and had me call her family
so she can go home.anyways
after that i joind a
church and told them and asked to start a homeless ministry.i was told yes and all of a sudden i started getting pushed aside and they took over the homeless ministry.i feel lost and hurt.now i feel like god is telling me to leave the
church.i quit going out with the group because of what happened.i don't know what to do.now i feel lost.
He is
so after the offering of the sacrifice, the making of the sacrament, as long as the Eucharist is kept in
churches and oratories.
We have pastors who write to us
after Cherish saying, «Thank you
so much, our women came back blessed, encouraged, empowered and loving the local
Church even more.»
It was 10 yeas ago this month I bailed on my CLB («
Church I Left Behind») after my «pastor» followed me home from church with his wife and kids in the van so he could blow a gasket it in my driveway yelling at me until my wife (doing shiftwork) wo
Church I Left Behind»)
after my «pastor» followed me home from
church with his wife and kids in the van so he could blow a gasket it in my driveway yelling at me until my wife (doing shiftwork) wo
church with his wife and kids in the van
so he could blow a gasket it in my driveway yelling at me until my wife (doing shiftwork) woke up.
More of my rambling thoughts and two cents
after thinking on this for a bit... Part of the reason it's
so devastating to lose the friends we made within the
church is that from my experience those are the only «real» relationships most in the IC make.
Yes, the available history says that the heart was in the possession of the
church about a century later,
so either someone kept it for a long time
after cutting it out of his corpse — yeah, that sounds likely — or it is a medieval «relic» that is actually the heart of a pig or a sheep that some clergyman sold along with genuine pieces of the cross and bones from St. Peter to make a buck on the rubes, uh, faithful.
I also hope that these vile racists in this
church donate
so that this couple can have a fantastic honeymoon
after having cast such a pall over their nuptuals.
So, in answer to your question,
church attendance is high
after the meetings, maybe 50 % but depending on the follow up of each
church, it may or may not last.
After studying Christian history, she concluded that she knew too little about the Orthodox
Church,
so I answered her questions as best I could.I also admonished her to discover the
Church through its....
So I looked back over the comments from my last three
church - related posts, and between the 187 comments
after Saturday's post, the 214
after the «How was your Easter?»
I believe with all my heart,
after thousands of hours reading the Bible under prayer
so my understanding would be inspired by the Holy Spirit, that the Mormon
church is indeed a satanic cult - it's one of the «other gospels» Paul talks about in Galatians 1:8.
From 1607 until 1789 Protestant
churches were more often than not legally established, and
after disestablishment they were reestablished in custom, mores, ethos and clout — and remained
so when Silcox and Fisher wrote and continued
so symbolically until the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960.
And
so I conclude this month of posts with a prayer written by four of the contributors to this series (Anna Broadway, Dominique Gilliard, Corey Widmer, and Natasha Sistrunk Robinson), a prayer modeled
after the way Jesus taught us to pray, a prayer for me, for you and perhaps your
church community:
It is akin to the silence in the
Church concerning the Nicene Creed for about 20 years or
so after its formulation in 325: there were many bishops and clergy in the East who did not accept homoousios and who thought that silence, obfuscations and subsequent formulations of the creed would sweep away this inconvenient and troublesome doctrine.
And, let us be frank: is it really
so certain that formerly, when religion and the
Church played a greater part in public life, men really had more true faith, hope and charity, which,
after all, are more important than anything else?
Why do you think
so many young adults stop going to
church after graduating from high school?
But may we not ask such an «orthodox» Protestant whether his
Church might not,
after all, practice such tolerance which, existentially and ecclesially, would not be distinguishable from a recognition, even if it were not expressed by the authorities in
so many words?
The
Church is
after all an institution that has seen to its own survival for century
after century under a great variety of political, economic, and geographical conditions, sometimes admirably, sometimes perhaps not
so admirably, without benefit of counsel from the likes of me.
Just as the Reformers sought to reform the
church of their day,
so also, they would want those who came
after them to continue the reforms «till we all come to the unity of the faith» (Ephesians 4:13).
thank - you
so much for the words; these words were extremely timing for me to read
after the day that I had or thought that I had at
church...
So they re-established the
church according to their own gospel interpretation, preserving in Mormonism that strain — present from the beginning — which saw the church first as the Church of Christ and after that as the Church of Latter Day S
church according to their own gospel interpretation, preserving in Mormonism that strain — present from the beginning — which saw the
church first as the Church of Christ and after that as the Church of Latter Day S
church first as the
Church of Christ and after that as the Church of Latter Day S
Church of Christ and
after that as the
Church of Latter Day S
Church of Latter Day Saints.
If it was a big district (like the my first district in Long Island) we had 150 full time ministers, and that was
after they split the district 10 years ago)
So it had to be at his
church.
The miracle here is that
after abuse in
so many
churches I am regularly attending services in one.
What you never address is not
so much the corruption but the cover ups of crimes and protection of criminals all around the world that leads to the highest leaders of the
church, the RCC ad a body is an accessory before and
after the fact.
A Christian observing the conflict over the canon might be excused for feeling like a child watching his brothers fight it out over his toy «Canon,»
after all, like
so many of our political and cultural concepts, was stolen from the
Church, or more charitably, it was borrowed and never returned.
When I first heard about the concept of your new safe space website, I was thrilled, not
so much for myself to be honest as I love the uncensored environment of nakedpastor and have developed a rather tough skin over the years
after numerous attempts at attending
churches that billed themselves as safe spaces and eventually turned out to be anything but once you pulled the wrong thread and it all started to unravel.
After all, he's
so much more than my atheistic,
church attending, intellectual sparring partner.
Jeffs, the
so - called «prophet» of the Fundamentalist
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints, or FLDS, was sentenced to two consecutive terms of five years to life
after he was convicted in September 2007.
So sad Bob — that this is all you know about Christians... The Christian
Church at large is looking
after the orphans on this planet and feeding the poor.
If refusal to face squarely the fact of death is found
so widely in these days,
so also is loss of belief in a continuation of human existence, beyond death, in what used to be called the «
after - life» It is indeed true that among conventionally - minded
church - people and many others there is a vague feeling that when the body dies the «soul» goes on.
So - called «Neighbors» (who actually lived in a housing development built multiple blocks behind, and
after, the original
church) complaining about things like the sound of the bells and the smell of fish from the Lent Friday meals.
So forget separation of
church and state, gay lobby groups are going directly
after private groups now too, trying to tell them what they can and can't do.
That is an odd thing to say about a
Church that donates millions of dollars in medical and relief supplies to several different areas of the world for assistance
after natural disasters, and that puts
so much emphasis on strong marriage, dedicated parenting, forgiveness, and striving to be like Christ.
Marcus could read and write — though he could not write well, and had no inclinations to authorship, even in that publishing center of the western Mediterranean in the days of Nero — and
so, as one of the few in the local congregation of Christians who could both read and write, he was commissioned to put together in his free time — probably late evenings,
after the assembly of the Christians had broken up — the fragmentary translations of narratives from the story of Jesus and his teaching which were in circulation in the Roman
church.
Then I got was appointed to a couple
churches and it was terrible,
so after much consideration, I left pastoral ministry.
After all that I forgot even what I thought I did in the first place, And I tell myself that if I am doing all of that then I care about it, and then I think about it and that it's possible to just go on with my life without stressing about all of this... and then when I die I'll go to hell and burn forever... and then at the same time I don't want to constantly freak out about it and live my entire life in fear of going to hell... My Parents are Atheists and say that I should just live my life without worrying about it and being nice to people and being an overall good person, and I'm not old enough to go to
church,
so I just repent quietly in my room, Perhaps when I was younger I have sworn to god on things that may or may not have been true, and then I repeat those things in my head, and I would get scared.
So perhaps the figures are less discouraging than might be supposed: and certainly, 46 percent of the population in
Church on Sunday is vastly higher than anywhere else in Europe with the possible exception of Poland; and
after everything that has happened might be thought extraordinary.
Jennie Chinembiri, Africa and Caribbean secretary of the world mission council of the
Church of Scotland, said: «It is wonderful that all these important letters, certificates and photographs have come to light
after so many years as they hold such an historic importance for both Scotland and Kenya.»
That's kind of what my wife hinted at too... when we were driving home
after church, I said, «
So, how'd you like the sermon?»
Many who «fell away from the
church» did
so after YEARS... DECADES... of believing and being part of it.
What moral authority does the Catholic
Church have
after molesting
so many generations of children?