Sentences with phrase «things about church»

All bad things about the Church are coming from fallen human nature and from the devil trying to destroy it but he will never succeed as promised by Jesus.

This is third and final installment on things about church leaders and church planters can learn from Will Smith.

Our pastor said he thought the american church needed much help but we should only write positive things about the church — «Tweet and blog things that are Ra Ra Jesus» His wife no longer speaks to me.

I know I want to follow Christ, and I have heard great things about your church — what books do you recommend I read?

Great stuff Jeremy - your book «Skeleton Church» changed my perspective on a lot of things about the church - I am an aspiring author hoping to be published someday

There are of course a lot of things about church life (in most churches and maybe all churches) that could use serious improving.

In fact, one of the greatest things about the church is that it teaches a unified message to everyone.

Actually, my favorite thing about church was playing / listening to music for the service and hanging out with friends and family.Fast forward to the present... I haven't gone to church in years.

Amaris, that's one nice unique thing about our church.

No doubt, some things about churches need critiquing, but we have ended up with the movement, here, which nobody may critique without impunity.

Part of the reason I'm asking is because I wonder the same thing about this church — how to encourage people to grow without actually CONTRIBUTING to burnout and overcommitment.

Not exact matches

Recently, I was talking to a few friends — really faithful folks who attend church regularly and who, above all other things, self - identify as Christians — about the subject of unemployment.

Allen follows up about these newer, more unexpected enthusiasts, and Chaput suggests that maybe some of them «would prefer a church that wouldn't have strict norms and ideas about the moral life and about doctrine, and they somehow interpret the pope's openness and friendliness as being less concerned about those things.

Hello, you're entirely right to be very critical of harmful things going on in churches, this is what love is all about.

Agreed — interpretation is 1/2 the battle — and I have many doozies about things being mis - interpreted for church cred.

Or just transparent about thing that are easy targets — the church is an easy target — People's concepts of God are easy (Be done for centuries).

yes, churches often feed the homeless - one of the things i like best about churches - but often the price of that bowl of soup is a sermon.

You are right of course about things not being apparent until one gets more involved in the church.

What I meant by cognitive dissonance, though, is that whole thing about the «institutional» church, throwing a whole tradition, a whole world - wide confession, millions of individual believers into some sort of barrel.

Shamgar, is your claim that, if the church was under greater persecution, we would all agree about these things because the people holding to one side of each of these debates aren't true believers, and so they would leave under persecution?

... you have a big thing about gays and I pray that none go to your church.

It's one of the things that makes it possible for me to feel completely welcome in our church, to know I'm not alone in feeling there is an injustice here, and that this is something you feel very strongly about and are working on.

The fact is there are already plenty of churches in America, arguably the majority of them in this country, that emphasize social justice, acceptance of LGBT, and «letting science to its thing» — I'm talking about the mainline liberal churches.

Jerry... we've been through this before... you have a big thing about gays and I pray that none go to your church.

And the Church teaches that the freedom of religion may not be infringed by government mandates that persons act contrary to what their consciences tell them about the truth of such things as the sanctity of life, the dignity of marriage, and the reality of sex as the basis of «gender.»

A polemicist might well have salty things to say about this abdication of moral principles that Christians have held since the earliest days of the faith, but in Wilcox's mild and irenic diction the mainline churches are simply «accommodationist,» espousing what he calls a «Golden Rule Christianity» that honors tolerance, kindness, and social justice as paramount virtues.

It was in a bowling alley while half snooker that I asked a man I knew went to church about this thing that was going on inside of me about someone named Jesus.

That is one thing and probably the only thing I like about the catholic church.

And I daresay the average member of a church today has no clue what any of those things are, let alone what they believe about them.

In fact, let me quote the NP::» The issue of being gay in the church is a very real issue today, one I wish to address and deal with,» ---- And so, when you say to me::: «you have a big thing about gays...,» David's words say it all ------»... being gay in the church is a very real issue today.»

Whatever one thinks about sex, the one thing we can agree on is that more people are having more sex than ever — even in the Church.

I'm sure if you asked the members of the westboro baptist church they would say the exact same thing about their god.

-- Revelation 2:26 a, 28b «I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches.

I'm curious to see what you have to say because you almost seem like a cath defending computer bot that randomly logs in here just to say nice things about the gay peds running your church.

Of course, there are things we need to learn about family and God that does come from the scriptures and church and prayer and revelation.

Maybe they can move the old Arch Bishop who covered it up out, make him a cardinal, then make his replacement a cardinal for gladhanding the victims and sweeping things under the rug... then plead poverty and go about a few punitive church closings to teach the lay parishoners not to stand up to them no matter what their crimes... like they did here in Massachusetts.

«The truly sad part about this whole thing is the misunderstanding of the Catholic Church's actual teaching.»

Now, you are telling us that it's about the «proper order» of temporal, natural things here in this world (family, church) which, as far as you know, will cease when we get to heaven.

Trying to be someone else and trying to live up to expectations put on you by a Pastor or church moral police is what leads people to sneak to do things and feel guilty about doing the things that make them happy.

Nor should the US generally — I think one of the best things about this country is the separation of church and state.

We aren't exactly talking about the same things 1) when I speak of the evangelical church I'm not talking about Church of Christ or half the Baptists but rather the large non-denoms along with certain charismatic / pentacostal denominachurch I'm not talking about Church of Christ or half the Baptists but rather the large non-denoms along with certain charismatic / pentacostal denominaChurch of Christ or half the Baptists but rather the large non-denoms along with certain charismatic / pentacostal denominations.

As it is, most churches plays some institutional game that is about rules and worship — and does not imply the importance of community and the focus of love in their community (as long as they do the Christian things that's good).

Your church had people who broke the law and did some horrendous things to children, and all you worry about is the fact no one will like Catholics any more.

Are you serious this is the last thing we should be concerned about when it comes to Catholic church what about priest (I use that word loosely they are sleeping with the choir boys and when they get caught they move them to another church so they can start again to me that is what they need to change in the church in the name of JESUS I pray for that right now!!!

Unfortunately, many of the comments after the article were very poorly researched and stated nasty things about the LDS church, declaring they were facts.

Americans have better things to think about than the President and his family going to church.

Yet «faithful Catholics» do in fact disagree about church teaching regarding contraception, the ordination of women, and the nature of the papacy, among other things.

However, for a Church pastor the context of considering these things is quite different, and writing about these things provokes a very different response in people.

Both the liturgical and theological traditions of the Church present to us certain things that must be said about God as revealed in Christ Jesus.

The thing the Church must think long and hard about is whether modern communication technology is making things too painless and too easy.