Sentences with phrase «time during the church»

One morning, Peter asks for time during the church school class to discuss something important.

It is not merely an external covering of time, but the very meaning of time itself During the church year we enter fully into the anticipation of Advent, the joy of Christmas, the witnessing motif of Epiphany, preparation for death in Lent, participation in both the resurrection joy of Easter and the reception of Pentecost power.

Not exact matches

During a practice at the church, my aunt shouted at my sister for walking out of time.

During Marine Corps bootcamp, the only real «free time» I had was Sunday during cDuring Marine Corps bootcamp, the only real «free time» I had was Sunday during cduring church.

You atheist hypocrites marry in churches (God's house), celebrate Christmas (Christ's birthday), cry out to Him during your darkest times (O my God!)

for the drudgery of it) giving up whipped cream for lent fulfills a Godly obligation going to church and dopnating on first Saturday make the Lady of Fatima powerful confessing venial sins is necessary (like you broke wind during communion) That saying the Lords Prayer five times is a virtue?

During this time, he discovered many people in Colorado Springs did not have a God context, despite the large number of churches and parachurch organizations in the area.

It's during this time that churches around the country often lavish praise, thanksgiving...

During this time, he has not said a word about the heavy political engagement of the churches on the other side of the conflict.

At the same time, we recognize that, during the past five hundred years, the Holy Spirit, the Supreme Magisterium of God, has been faithfully at work among theologians and exegetes in both Catholic and Evangelical communities, bringing to light and enriching our understanding of important biblical truths in such matters as individual spiritual growth and development, the mission of Christ's Church, Christian worldview thinking, and moral and social issues in today's world.

What you have during the age of the church is not direct revelation, but a fallible type of spiritual gift that at times requires an interpreter.

One in 10 Christians think sport is «an idol that many people worship in society today» and more than half said it's okay to play sport on a Sunday, so long as they're engaged in their churches at other times during the week.

Church attendance rates by Christians in the United States have stayed largely steady since the 1970s, but there have been some significant changes in the makeup of the congregations in the pews during that time, a recently released study says.

By paying attention to these four expressions of the church, we can all better understand some of the personal and institutional struggles Christians are experiencing during these times of global change.

I want to be kind, compassionate, and authentic — all things I couldn't be during my time in church.

Church members, like us, who have health issues that interrupt their attendance, or folks who have family emergencies or employment that falls during service times usually get some form of attack from the pulpit for not being there.

During my time there, I went into a small church called St. Gesu.

During that time, I established an online preaching ministry, Virtual Deaf Church, for deaf people like myself.

During their time in Santo Domingo, they were deeply impressed by IJM's work — namely, the organization's cooperation with local officials and churches to better engage in the fight against the nation's booming sex trafficking industry.

Let's pray that 2012 may continue to see the Holy Spirit giving the Church both here and throughout the world the courage and joy that it needs to be a light in the darkness during uncertain times.

The church will be gone during this time.

We distinguish between our existence during the work week and our existence in the church as if we could compartmentalize ourselves in two different persons, time - dependent.

During that time, two families had caused a lot of conflict and division within the church so that the church had dwindled down to only a handful of people.

Growing up I attended church on major holidays and for a short time during high school.

Asserting that the Iraqi church is ready to engage in the rebuilding and reconciliation efforts, Fr Daniel also said: «During the time of displacement when they were staying in the [refugee] centres, those people [believers] were taught and were healed from their trauma.

For most of the Church's history (the early Church, the Church during medieval times, and the Reformation era), the Old Testament was read in this way — as a book about Christ and the Church.

That was the century when, during two terrible years, the Black Death killed more than a third of the population from Iceland to India, returning four more times before the era was up; when gangs of terrorists roamed and plundered Europe without hindrance; when the Hundred Years War took on a life of its own, frustrating efforts to end it, «an epic of brutality and bravery checkered by disgrace»; when new weapons and errant knighthood brought an end to chivalry; when widespread peasant revolt was answered by terrible aristocratic repression; and when internal scandal robbed the church of its ability to comfort and save.

During that time, I realized that most of the ministry conferences around the country were oriented for — and run by - «successful» pastors at «successful» churches.

Then why during this period of tolerance, a very short time if at all, churches were converted to mosques after the occupation?

Christianity during this time was fundamentally reshaped and molded by common people who «wanted their leaders unpretentious, their doctrines self - evident and down - to - earth, their music lively and singable, and their churches in local hands.»

During the time of its hegemony the seminary was the most exciting place to be, and it tended to look down on the church, the college religion department, the student movement, councils of churches.

The Church of England - Birmingham has encouraged churches to get involved with the initiative during Christmas time when churches are full of occasional visitors.

I read the notes I've kept from people during these times expressing how grateful they were for the church in all its simplicity and weakness, authenticity and genuineness, its raw and unpretentious nature that allowed them to be themselves, to find healing, and to be restored to contributing compassionate citizens of this world.

And this church service would not be an additional time during the week, but would be the actual church service on Sunday morning.

Attitudes have begun to change in churches where the senior pastors have made a regular and conscientious effort to use clergywomen as supply preachers, as workshop leaders and speakers, and as substitutes during pastoral emergencies or vacation times.

The pastor is a young guy, and besides everyone asking me to come 8 times, I probably would if the people who were nicd to use there, would have had the same demeanor during the rest of the week They're a cute little church w / maybe 200 each service (they have 2 morning services) I tried to have her go to VBS, but they wanted the parents to go to a Bible study instead of with them, so I bowed out of that one.

Varela said the Roman Catholic Church «has conferred to all the priests legitimately approved to hear sacramental confessions, who are in the archdiocese of Madrid during August 15 to 22, the delegated power to remit during the sacrament of penance the excommunication... corresponding to the sin abortion, to the faithful who are truly sorry, imposing at the same time a convenient penance.»

Though the model of the Church as defending the ancient truths of faith against the attacks of modern atheism may have been the correct model during the years of Communist persecution, the contemporary, post-Communist Czech Church continues to maintain the model in massively changed times.

During the time in which analyses of the sort we have alluded to were being made and such remedies proposed, and in part tried, an unspectacular process of reconstruction has been going on in Church and ministry so that we can speak today of an emerging new conception of the ministry, a conception which leaves it ministry and does not change it into something else.

Not only the persecution from outside, there was also a lot of problems inside the Church regarding the hierarchy during this time.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

Moreover, the events of the New Testament took place during a relatively short period of time, and during these years the mission of the Church captured the necessary attention of the early Christians.

The church school (I am using the term «church school» to mean the entire formal educational ministry of the church involving a wide spectrum of age and interest groups at various times during the week.)

For such converts, even during peaceful times, membership in the church meant loss of family and property and other civil rights.

During this time the ranks of St. Mark's, an Episcopal congregation in Glen Ellyn, had been swelling — until the Episcopal Church consecrated an openly gay bishop in 2003, whereupon many St. Mark's members left to form All Souls, still another AMIA church, in WhChurch consecrated an openly gay bishop in 2003, whereupon many St. Mark's members left to form All Souls, still another AMIA church, in Whchurch, in Wheaton.

The churches are there, but few attend on Sundays, and CERTAINLY not at any other time during the week.

In my own church, I see how several times during the month, groups of fellow Christians, armed with a list of local homes in disrepair, go at no cost to fix a front porch, or gutters, or save a poor widow from having her house condemned.

During the troubled days of the late thirties, Bonhoeffer spoke a number of times on the subject of the «Visible and Invisible Church.»

Indeed, China's church grew three times during the Cultural Revolution, when no churches were open and church leaders were imprisoned, wrote Fenggang Yang, director of the Center on Religion and Chinese Society at Purdue University.

When another saintly Benedict did finally emerge, this time upon the Chair of Peter, his cultural analysis echoed that of MacIntyre: «I would say that normally it is the creative minorities that determine the future, and in this sense the Catholic Church must understand itself as a creative minority,» suggested Pope Benedict XVI during an in - flight papal press conference in 2009.