Sentences with phrase «very public prayer»

Doing this would probably take my focus away from praying a very public prayer that implies that «my enemy» is in a desperate place emotionally.

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new questions such as released time for religious instruction, prayer and Bible reading in the public schools, tax exemptions for churches and other religious bodies, and the very meaning of religion itself occupied the attention of jurists.

The first Congress encouraged him also to declare «a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God» — and this on the very day that the language of the First Amendment was approved.

«I immediately pointed out that not only is a prayer at a public ceremony unconsti - tutional, but to force someone to give the illusion of religion when the individual does not believe in any religion is blatantly wrong and very illegal,» the soldier said in an e-mail to the foundation.»

For example, one of the Gallup surveys mentioned earlier showed that 60 percent of the American public personally considered prayer to be very important and another 22 percent regarded it as fairly important; by comparison, only 39 percent thought that reading the Bible is very important, 38 percent thought that attending religious services is very important, and 28 percent thought that being part of a close religious fellowship group is very important.

And in Matthew 6:1 - 18 Jesus very clearly states to make your prayer a private one and not to make a public spectacle of yourself.

I believe she is refering to the very Vocal Churches and Christians who have for 30 years been hollaring and screamin about the issues of prayer in public schools abortions and the anti- gay verbage we been hearing for so long... nearly every day somthing is beign said on these issues you must be mr. van winkle..

Above all, public worship is the experience of sharing with our fellow - Christians in an action that is distinctively Christian and which, by our very presence there, is to become (like all prayer) an intentional, attentive, and conscious openness to the presence and action of God himself.