Sentences with phrase «through church doors»

I still believe when someone purely encounters Jesus that he or she is changed forever, yet more and more, that is not who they are encountering when they walk through church doors.

Most of those who've come through the church doors have been there many times before.

They only think of themselves and not the people that walk through their church doors and pay for the new Cadillacs they drive.

People come through the church doors expecting it to be a fix - all, and most people in the church believe they are the fixers.

On Sunday morning in contemporary America, modern disciples come straggling through the church door weighed down by cynicism, stress, pretense, power.

I don't know about you, but sometimes it seems like cynicism follows me through every church door, nipping at my heels like a pesky dog as I find my place in the pews.

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The reasoning behind the McMass Project is that, while church attendance is declining, McDonald's has proved to be consistently successful at getting people to come through their doors.

The whole world seemed to come and go through the doors, and slowly my father moved us into the church and up to the balcony, as seats became available.

I stood in the small hallway just outside of the sanctuary, nervously jogging from foot to foot as I strained to see through the crack between the doors into the church.

I said that they had better bask in the glory while it lasts because sure as one breathes, there will soon be others walking through those doors with their own ideas of how the church should operate and it will no doubt start up all over again.

And given the way in which sex and gender now lie at the heart of contemporary notions of identity, the law could effectively require churches to accept any and every identity claim of every person who passes through its doors.

I have several friends who were so traumatized by their experiences with Christians they can not even walk through the doors of a church without suffering a physical reaction similar to PTSD — uncontrolled shaking, sweating, and panic.

I invited them to youth group events because I wanted to «get them through the doors» of church.

In many churches, the people who walk through the doors feel judged and condemned, especially if they don't look like us, talk like us, or act like us.

Mothers walk their children through the wide - flung double doors and proceed down a staircase to the Sunday school rooms and the church basement.

It both exhilarates and frightens me to see fellow skeptics walk through the door, willing to give the church one last try.

The lack of an agreed apologetic framework through which to think, teach, love and pray the faith, one which truly answers the agnosticism of our times, has opened the door to that same uncertainty and subjectivity in doctrine and discipline inside the Church.

While I'm happy to acknowledge that I've switched denominational affiliation, there is much about evangelicalism that I joyfully bring with me through the doors of St. Luke's Episcopal Church and which the people there joyfully receive.

No tedious pounding on doors and inviting people to church; no struggling through tough days in elementary school media centers; no hand - to - mouth existence.

There is no perfect church, and that is a good thing, because we bring all of our own baggage with us the second we walk through the door.

I was lucky, or perhaps I should now say «blessed», that I started off at a church that gave time and space to everyone who came through the doors, whether they'd been there five minutes or 30 years.

It stood for «open church doors every day and all day, free seats, a plurality of Christian workers, the personal activity of all church members, [and] a ministry to all the community through educational, reformatory and philanthropic channels... «20

The church door that Mary and I go through almost every Sunday morning separates rather than connects my two worlds.

Walking through the ornate doors of Tabernacle Baptist Church, she was a penniless, war - scarred single mother.

Gone are the days when someone entered «church» by walking through the sanctuary doors.

Missional living is not about getting people through the doors of the church, but about «walking through life toward Christ with people.»

Whether it's combating underlying causes of poverty such as unemployment and debt, or providing immediate help through food banks, the doors of many churches are wide open with Christians helping to meet a plethora of needs.

Those who pass through St. Gregory's welcoming doors on Sunday mornings come from the same group targeted by «seeker» churches: the growing number of people who report that they have no religious affiliation at all.

This is why any man who walks through the doors of Mars Hill wearing a pastel tie on Easter morning will be subject to church discipline.»

Erie County Legislator Lynne Dixon invites residents to attend an Elder Abuse Seminar being held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 24 at the Wesleyan Church of Hamburg, 4999 McKinley Parkway, Room 117, which can be accessed through Door No. 5.

Housed by Westchester Baptist Church in High Point more than ten years ago, the private Christian school then had three teachers, Miller and two other women, and sometimes welcomed 15 students through its doors each school day.

He drags the fat man up a set of stairs into a white church and through the flung - back doors and down the aisle to a sudden wedding march.

Narrow streets wind through Mykonos Town in maze like formations, lined with white washed houses adorning brightly coloured front doors and shutters, leading to churches and chapels steeped in culture and history.

I had managed to hitch a ride with Town Council Member Severo Guerrero, (many of Town Board were there) and when we got to the church I noticed right away it was hugs and handshakes welcoming people through the door.

The following details come from Gematsu... - 3D Mode characters move vividly in a three - dimensional world - in 2D Mode, the game is depicted in nostalgic pixel graphics - at the start of your adventure, 3D Mode is depicted on the upper screen, and 2D Mode is depicted on the lower screen - when the two modes are displayed at the same time, conversations and such are displayed on the upper screen when using the slide pad - on the lower screen when using the d - pad - As you progress, you will choose which one of the two modes to you want to continue playing with - can visit the church to switch between modes - in 3D mode, monsters will attack if they notice the protagonist running by - with 2D mode, you will encounter monsters randomly while walking - will be able to see the «Memories of Your Journey» at certain places - with 3DS version, you can look back on important scenes in the story that you have already seen in your favorite visual mode - allows you to also see how that scene played out in the style you are not playing in - a village where a special tribe among the Incarnations of Time known as the «Yocchi» live - here you can make use of the system's StreetPass features - also discover a dungeon that only the Yocchi can enter called the «Labyrinth Beyond Time» - send in the Yocchi you gathered through StreetPass to explore - exploring the Labyrinth Beyond Time may open the door to surprises - Yocchi have an important mission, and want the protagonist to help them carry it out - in order to help the Yocchi, it seems that it is necessary to find «Adventure Log Passwords» in the Labyrinth Beyond Time

I walk past the two churches, down our street, and through our front door.

But that's exactly how Houston lawyer J. Goodwille Pierre got through the front door of the Mt. Ararat Baptist church moments ago, as he arrived at a hurricane - relief clinic sponsored by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).

Montreal, Canada About Blog Christ Church Cathedral building, our music, our liturgies — the sacraments, the sermons — are all here to help everyone who comes through the doors to see and feel and know the One God who is — of course — everywhere and at all times God - With - Us: Emmanuel, God who is over all, and through all, and in all.

Enter through the glass doors under the Mariner Church Tower.

A few minutes later, a friend from church (Stefania) happened to walk through the door and, bless her heart, she didn't have a clue what kind of lunch she was walking into that day!