Sentences with phrase «week at church»

We ended Thanksgiving week at our church by putting together care packages for the homeless.

We remember the Sunday Baptists, some ten years ago, offering a subscription service to sermons on demand which printed locally each week at the church.

Last week at church a me and a group of 5 other women were standing around chatting — admiring one woman's new 2 month old — and we started to talk about our own struggles with becoming moms and learning to nurse, etc..

Last week at church he picked up a traditional «kiss cookie» (the kind with a chocolate kiss on top).

Last week at church we found out from the word of God what heaven is going to be like for those that accepted Jesus Christ as Saviour.

Last week at church I was helping my 5 year old wash her hands in the bathroom when a brand new mother came in with her one week old.

I'm not sure I thought about this parable seriously again until I was in seminary and assigned to work a few hours a week at a church.

For at least ten years I volunteered at least twenty hours a week at the church we attended.

Between Bible studies, youth group events, small group meetings and young adult services, it's easy to spend every night of your week at church.

However, it is difficult to make time and provide room for people who spend a fraction of their week at the church to have a say in most of what occurs in the life of the church.

Not exact matches

While most of us think about our time in 24 - hour blocks, Vanderkam thinks that «anything you do once a week happens often enough to be important to you, whether it's church, a strategic thinking session at work, your Sunday dinner with your parents, or your softball team practice.»

A few weeks ago, my buddy and former HBS classmate, Allan, asked me if I'd like to give a talk about my debt pay - off to the youth group that he leads at his church.

Those wanting to attend Easter and Holy Week services and activities on the USD campus can do so at The Immaculata Catholic Church.

According to Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), two men arrived at Berseba Church in Karanji Village in the central Chhattisgarh state last week claiming to be Christians who wanted prayer.

Church is the one time a week Lucas knows he can get out of the house, and at Trinity House of Prayer people won't look away when he comes down the aisle.

Fires have damaged or destroyed at least six American Black - majority churches in the past week since... More

«And I think we would've seen the report from the Methodist Church as well, about two or three weeks ago, which took a very honest and hard look at itself and the abuse over a 50 or 60 year period.

She has lived in the seaside town of Leven in Fife, East Scotland, all of her life, and attended Leven Parish Church three times week at services and lunch clubs.

I was joking with someone in church on Sunday that if I haven't offended at least one person in a week, then I think I am going soft — they smiled;).

A few weeks after delivering his confessional sermon, Gyorke organized a Sunday event at his church intended to help keep congregants away from pornography.

(and not to only convert) For example I married a «non» member of the church when he had a death in the family (before we were married) my student ward at the time didn't even know his family made dinner for his family every night for at least a week.

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.

The majority of New Yorkers would be in church or synagogue at least once that week.

If you look at the church website, there is stuff happening several nights or mornings a week, always something going on to keep the people active, involved, doing something.

Expecting your child to grow in their faith thanks to a couple of hours input at church each week, if their home life is a spiritual desert, is clearly unrealistic and an abrogation of parental responsibilities.

I was at a church service a week ago when the guest preacher started off by telling the crowd that he was going to offend us.

(Two weeks earlier in Tanta, a bomb was defused at Mar Girgis — the city's largest church — and a local police training center was attacked.)

It has emerged a Christian charity said a Pakistani medical student who confessed to planning to take part in a suicide attack at a church during Easter was pardoned last week.

I was determined to present a little cross to everyone at church that night in honor of Palm Sunday and the commencement of Holy Week, so the two of us spent the afternoon painstakingly folding the six - inch leaves into tiny green crosses.

It was my husband who, frustrated by the hurdles he watched me face again and again, finally threw up his hands last week and said, «It seems to me that the only thing you have to do to be controversial in the Church is to say something true and be a woman at the same time.»

We will be looking over the next few weeks at the hardly met need for diagnosis of the credibility problem which the Church has.

It is easy to dismiss the women of Holy Week, to say their presence at critical moments in the Easter story is inconsequential, holding no significance in modern - day conversations about gender equity in the Church.

I was a bit envious that week, both of King's gifts — he'd go off and preach at neighborhood Baptist churches several times a night — and of the long - oppressed people who made up these ministers» congregations.

It takes some imagination and some discipline, like the organist spending a few minutes every day at a piano keyboard and reserving certain times of the week, like Saturday mornings, for practice at the church.

Three weeks later the young lady and her mother arrived at our church (after catching three buses) to thank the team that had prayed for her.

U.N. experts in Geneva were at it again last week telling the Holy See that Catholic teaching on abortion is a human rights abuse, revealing a chasm between the Church's understanding of its mission and how U.N. officials perceive it.

At Willow Creek Presbyterian — the Winter Springs, Florida, church which fired Tchividjian last week — senior pastor Kevin Labby acknowledged to his congregation that it had been «a very difficult week for our church and staff.»

Later this week, I'll be headed to California to speak at Fuller Seminary, Missiongathering Church, and Point Loma Nazarene University.

We would only gather at the church building every other week for the typical Sunday events.

It's all good, but sometimes I feel as if I'm at church every day of the week listening to a different sermon and having to digest it all so rapidly I can barely keep up.

«Then at least,» I wrote at the time, «left to ourselves, we will be able, under the guidance of a new Holy Father (who will, I hope and pray, see it as his aim to complete the work of the pontificate which has just come to such an unexpected end), and with God's help, return in the light of a new Eastertide to the business of building up the Church once more, free of the attentions of the roving media protagonists who so rarely care a jot about what, for a week or so, is currently attracting their fitful attention.»

Religion News Service: Mormon missionary applications soar by 471 percent Just two weeks since Mormon President Thomas S. Monson announced that young men could go on full - time missions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints at age 18 (down from 19) and young women could go at 19 (down from 21), the Utah - based church has seen applications skyrocket from an average of 700 a week to 4,000 aChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints at age 18 (down from 19) and young women could go at 19 (down from 21), the Utah - based church has seen applications skyrocket from an average of 700 a week to 4,000 achurch has seen applications skyrocket from an average of 700 a week to 4,000 a week.

Four or five nights a week, the septuagenarian Efird can still be found at a church on some godforsaken highway teaching why the rapture is not part of the book of Revelation or showing that Calvin's doctrine of double predestination isn't found in Romans.

Over at iMonk last week, Chaplain Mike wrote a lovely post about how, after a period of wandering through the denominational wilderness, he found a home in an ELCA Lutheran church «with a simple liturgy, wonderful music, a healthy and grounded pastor, a hospitable congregation, and an emphasis on Christ, grace, vocation, and other Lutheran essentials that answered questions I had been turning over in my mind for years in my evangelical settings.»

We just had our annual budget meeting at my church, last week.

I attend a bible study once a week at a Baptist church and the pastor wants me to get baptized - full immersion.

I had a wake - up call a few weeks ago because I was feeling mad at my own church for making me so busy, and I was feeling shame at the reality that I spend most of my time with Christians, and most of those Christians go to my church.

We were a group of 20 students at a mission school in Rome and by taking to the streets each week to speak and pray with the people we met, we put into practice what we learnt from the great Catechism of the Catholic Church and various encyclicals on mission and love: to listen and to love.

The eventual goal would be for each church member to find it normal to attend both Sunday morning preaching services and a participatory soma group at some other time of the week.

and knowing that «going deep» so to speak on theology isn't her typical move, I figured I would take a read and see if perhaps she had changed somehow in the years since we worshiped at the same church every week, or if this was merely a simple «It's all good with Jesus, so judge not, and so on» type post / statement.