Sentences with phrase «town churches for»

Early on, dead party members can only be revived in town churches for an exorbitant fee.

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In the early years of Celebration, the theater held church services every Sunday morning as the town waited for a place of worship to be built.

Later, DeMoss talks about being turned off by the evangelical street preachers he'd seen on the street corners there, preaching to Mormons in town for the church's annual general assembly.

The Queen will lead tributes in Whitehall, central London, while churches, villages, towns and cities across the UK will conduct their own memorials and parades for those whose lives have been lost.

Sometimes you can be in a church that thinks the only legitimate reason for leaving is moving out of town...

Given that he often says things that cause massive heartburn to Catholics who strongly dissent from some of the Church's moral teachings, that's pretty surprising for a parish in a town like Princeton, but there it is.

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.

After all, if any president campaigned that they we're going to be unnavailable for 1/7 of the week and consequently 1/7 of his term for anything but «church» he would be run out of «town».

I tell this because last Easter I'd taken the rough draft of my testimony to a church in another town, to give to a friend for her editing skills.

The church is located in a conservative part of the country (in a town that serves as the national headquarters for the Church of God and home to one of the largest Pentecostal universities in the country), so it attracts a lot of people who grew up Southern Baptist or Pentecostal or non-denominatchurch is located in a conservative part of the country (in a town that serves as the national headquarters for the Church of God and home to one of the largest Pentecostal universities in the country), so it attracts a lot of people who grew up Southern Baptist or Pentecostal or non-denominatChurch of God and home to one of the largest Pentecostal universities in the country), so it attracts a lot of people who grew up Southern Baptist or Pentecostal or non-denominational.

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After suddenly losing my father - in - law to a tragic car accident and my mother - in - law just two years later, all in the midst of leaving the church my husband had been on staff at for ten years to move to a new church in a new town with new friends, I had let my overwhelming circumstances crowd my heart and mind.

They are trying to live for Jesus and be the church through another fellowship of believers in town.

What a privilege to set out into the wilderness from among the Spanish oaks and the Guadalupe river, what a gift to be equipped for the journey by the saints of an old German town and the prayers of the earnest at the big evangelical church and the friendship and love of a few good people who loved Jesus and loved you.

But I've been considering looking for a non-evangelical church in my town which doesn't upset me and is more liberal, just so I can have something to keep my faith strong, because I'm battling to believe on my own.

Our churches, whose steeples dot every cityscape and small town in the land, are exempt from paying taxes, and unlike many people of other faiths, we don't have to worry about fighting with our employers to take time off to celebrate our religious holidays as they are largely taken for granted.

She and her family have been attending a large, non-denominational church in town that is known for being highly welcoming of «seekers.»

My imagery of hell (and hell on earth) was formed largely at a «Drive - In for Christ» which was a drive - in set up in the parking lot of a large pentecostal church in my home town.

Roger Williams, for example, for all his insistence on the separation of church and state, believed that such general religion was essential for what he called «government and order in families, towns, etc.» Such general religion is, he believed, «written in the hearts of all mankind, yea, even in pagans,» and consists in belief in God, in the afterlife, and in divine punishments.2 Benjamin Franklin for all his differences from Roger Williams believed essentially the same thing, as indicated in the quotation from his autobiography in my original article on civil religion.

The local church in the nearby town has been very critical of the mining companies and of the government's failure to look out for the safety and health of the workers and residents.

I went to a meeting in another town, that a fellow prison chaplain (in another prison) has started in his church for EX-prisoners to encourage them to go on in their faith and support one another.

Many but not all of the people requesting help went to every church in town asking for money.

I have finally come to grips with the fact that church work will not be a significant part of my life in this location — a profoundly discouraging conclusion, because there's so little else to do in this town, and I can not move away any time soon — but not before going through a prolonged (and continuing) grieving process for the loss of something I loved that had been a part of my life for so long.

Distance keeps me from going except for twice a year or so, but my brother in law has a small church of around 50 members in a tiny rural town.

She has been working with the legal sysytem and finally won custody of her children and promptly left town with them before the police who are enforcers for the church basically could do anything about it.

Religion News Service: Religious groups vie for Internet domain names Religious groups have long vied for prime parcels of land, planting churches on town squares and monasteries amid isolated mountains.

I frequent a church that is known here in town for the most highly respected teacher of the word of God.

Last year, I read about a bunch of churches that decided the way to defeat evil in their town was to write Bible verses on wooden stakes and then go drive them the ground in certain areas with the hopes that this would drive away any territorial sprits and reclaim the area for God.

For over 1,500 years, church buildings have been central and unifying elements in the configurations of cities, towns, and villages.

(A case in point is that of a publicly supported, church - related hospital which is the only hospital in town and which refuses to permit certain medically accepted surgical procedures — such as abortion or tubal ligation — which are objectionable to the church but not to the patients of other faiths or no faith who depend upon that hospital for health care, and whose tax dollars support it.)

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The bible Belt is also the lynching belt, the segregation belt, the military belt, the illiteracy belt - When I read the Gospels I read Jesus telling me about the kind of relationship i should have with God and my fellows - how I should live how I should behave - we are supposed to care for the poor not lower taxes for the rich and tell poor kids with no health insurance to suck it up - starting a war is not Christian regardless of the provocation Why do you need the 10 commandments on the wall in the courthouse when every town has multiple churches let the churches put up signs with the commandments - do you know what Moses did when he came down the mountain - he lead his most trusted men is a slaughter of 3000 Jews, read it

Local officials and church leaders in the Austrian town of Saalfelden may have just the gig for you.

For twelve years Barth served as a pastor, first as a pastoral assistant at a German - speaking congregation in Geneva and then as pastor of the Swiss Reformed Church in Safenwil, a small industrial town in the Aargau.

So whether you're a student looking for a church in your new college town or a longtime member of one church who is considering leaving, don't be intimidated by the change.

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How far removed is this from the town in Alabama that will let you out of jail if you go to church every Sunday for a year.

Niebuhr died serenely at his home in Stockbridge, Massachusetts — the same town where Edwards was once banished for his too - demanding theology — and his funeral was held in the church where Edwards had preached.

He knows he has a hard act to follow, replacing the kindly professorial man who ran things at the biggest church in town for 20 years, dealing with devastation in the hearts of so many.

The bomber crashed an explosives - filled jeep into the St. Rita Church in the central Nigerian town of Kaduna, killing himself and seven others at the scene, said Musa Ilallah, a regional coordinator for the national emergency management agency.

Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (releases November 6, 2012, available for pre-order)-- Kingsolver's new novel takes place in a small - town Tennessee and tells the story of a woman who must confront «her family, her church, her town, her continent, and finally the world at large.»

At his Institute for Successful Church Leadership we met Christians from a Lutheran church in a midwestern city, from a Four Square Gospel church in a mountain town of 12,000, from an Assembly of God church in a great CanadianChurch Leadership we met Christians from a Lutheran church in a midwestern city, from a Four Square Gospel church in a mountain town of 12,000, from an Assembly of God church in a great Canadianchurch in a midwestern city, from a Four Square Gospel church in a mountain town of 12,000, from an Assembly of God church in a great Canadianchurch in a mountain town of 12,000, from an Assembly of God church in a great Canadianchurch in a great Canadian city.

For many theologically literate people, the «place» of religious experience is a local church, a particular building on a particular street in a particular town.

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Under his guidance revivals became for the huge new cities what they were formerly for the smaller towns and country — they were ways of winning members for the Church.

Between my apartment and my parent's house across town, I probably pass 20 churches pastored by the fishons of the world... heck I may even pass by fishon's church for all I know.

It will, of course, include Churches engaging Christians of color who are outside of their denominations and in different parts of town toward the solidarity of working together to reach their cities for Christ.

He's in town for a «Night of Hope» event at Nationals Park baseball stadium this weekend, which is expected to draw thousands of worshipers who wouldn't otherwise step foot in a church.

Which was more than could be said for the «so - called» Christians in town who didn't attend any church at all!

I have not been to church (other than when visiting a Christian friend, in another town when they go) for 15 years, since I was spiritually abused in a «Christian» organization for 12 years.