Sentences with phrase «who came to church»

I praised people who came to my church from other churches because they wanted good preaching.

Butros was among more than 100 people who came to the church Thursday to mark 40 days since the attack - a mourning period commonly observed by some communities in the Middle East.

(Pastor) Ken Blue wrote in his book Healing Spiritual Abuse that he noted a common denominator in the people who came to his church, or for counseling, that had gotten involved in authoritarian, abusive churches: The majority had bad childhoods and deeply dysfunctional families.

Those who came to the church for the wrong reason would not remain.

Have you heard the joke about the man who came to church for the first time?

The ten tribes had been concealed in the pagans who came to the Church, and as each one was baptized into the Church he became part of the new Israel.

An Anglican priest is criticising «disrespectful» tourists who come to her church just to take selfies.

We have people who come to church in jeans, we have people who will shout out «Hallelujah» if the like what is being said, or repeat the chorus of hymns.

Has it ever seemed strange to you that although there can be dozens of people out in the community loving others, serving the poor, meeting needs, and helping the homeless, the «truly spiritual people» are those who come to church on Wednesday night for the prayer meeting where they pray for the poor, the homeless, and the other needs of the community?

But after years of insisting that people who come to church should have their own needs met, founder Bill Hybels sings a bit of a different tune, learned from friends like U2's Bono: Christians should serve the needs of people outside the church.

People who come to church are a part of the world, and sometimes more a part of the world than they are of the church.

The people who come to his Church for counsel are often toying with the idea of religion, rather than truly embracing the concept of confessing their sins.

Not exact matches

Hala Moddelmog, who was president of Church's Chicken in the 1990s and Arby's from 2010 to 2013 — two Atlanta - based fast - food empires — said Goldman's announced expansion in Atlanta didn't come as a shock.

The comments come after the Air Force admitted that it failed to submit records that may have blocked Devin Kelley, who shot and killed 26 people at a Sutherland Springs, Texas, church on Sunday, from buying guns.

You'll find that many atheists, such as myself, like Francis, because he comes across as someone who cares and is trying to fix the Church.

(Many people who «leave» the church don't actually request their names be removed from the rolls; they just stop coming to meetings and try to «fall off the grid.»)

I visited churches filled with new believers, many who came out of animist or Buddhist upbringings, often alone in their families, to confess faith in the risen Christ.

If you were asked to picture the regular attendees of an average local church, a few things might come to mind: You might think of a quaint, middle - class family who...

YOU: As to who can or can not hold a leadership position or who can or can not teach in a church, I think it comes down to morals not legality.

I keep coming across wonderful paradoxes like these «What I am sick of is those who continue to deny that priests should have due process, accuse and broad brush all priests» «Sounds like you go to a Church.

Previously we had to rely on second hand accounts at best, the «I know a guy who prayed and it totally came true» or «I know this person who died and went to heaven and came back» or «this person in our church saw a Smurf doll get up and start trying to choke a baby...»

This is all about control with religion and it has to stop.Gay people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight people getting married.People are so full of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.

At that time I had a friend who was planting a church and he invited the man to come to his new church.

We're talking about love relationships not the titillation of nerve endings As to who can or can not hold a leadership position or who can or can not teach in a church, I think it comes down to morals not legality.

I'm a former RC who finally came to the realization years ago that the Catholic church went off the tracks many decades ago.

Men who meant well did more harm to the reputation of the church in the eyes of history than any good that might have come of their actions.

So anyone who is at all interested in the welfare of the church and wishes to have a voice in its health is welcome to come.

In fact, everyone I know who has either come into the Church or returned to it in the last 20 years has done so because of all the things that Charles Reid would reject and call «right wing,» things that are in fact unclassifiable by such ossified and brittle ideological categories.

Absent a true understanding of what the liturgy is, grounded in a firm grasp of what the gospel is, those who «come to church» do not grow in living faith.

That «less stressful» part might come as a surprise to anyone out there who's ever tried to park in a church parking lot on Sunday morning, but it's true.

For Evangelicals, the Church as the one body of Christ extending through space and time includes all the redeemed of all the ages and all on earth in every era who have come to living faith in the body's living Head.

But what of those who don't come to church and partake in these rituals and believe in this god??

Typical of mainstream CNN to censor except when it comes to church bashing and anyone who's not politically correct.

In closing arguments, Assistant US Attorney Nathan Williams mocked Roof for calling himself brave in his hate - filled journal and during his confession, saying the real bravery came from the victims who tried to stop him as he fired 77 bullets at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church.

The Word says also we shall have tribulation in this world but He has overcome the world — there will be a day of reckoning and the term gnashing of teeth I believe will be those who had the chance to believe and passed it up and when they find out He is real and coming for His church (believers) they will remember those times they said no — very terrible to find out it was all true

He said: «There is great concern, but despite this, there were many people who came to the Mass that I celebrated yesterday in the Church of Saint Philip.»

The loving God came down and sacrificed the essence of Himself for this messed up people, the entire world, not just the church, and has paid the price for only those who choose to follow Him.

David, remember me telling about the young man that came to church who was a drunk?

5oo, ooo priests for 1.2 billion Catholics - There is the answer to why the abusing priests were tolerated.The conclave elected exactly who they wanted to be Pope - Someone who would not rock the boat.I believe Pope Benedict was advised to retire in light of the Federal indictment pending so this would not involve a standing Pope and the possiblity of him being found guilty.I further think this new election of Pope will allow the Church to change it's stance on the very controvertial issues the Church is facing ie.female priests being one, the decisions appearing more acceptable coming from a new head as opposed to reversed stance of standing Pope.This decision to retire, in the Churchs» view I believe is damage control and not neccessarily Pope Benedict's desire.If looked at for what it is - A very slick maneuver indeed.

Just once, I would love for a mega-church pastor or a prominent church author to come out and announce a blessing upon all those people who are leaving their church to follow Jesus in tangible and loving ways in the community.

This book, in my opinion, is to actually minimize the great apostasy taking place in our churches; especially among those who were never taught the real meaning of being «last instead of first», to help those who come into the church who may bring with them societal norms of entitlement and «whats in it for me» attitudes and behaviors.

A church is a place where hurting man can come into contact with the one who has the power to heal and forgive in Jesus Christ.

By being prayed up, we tend to be more spiritually prepared when we come across people who have been hurt by the church.

A few who shared the meal might come to church before the lunch, but the church gained no new members from the effort.

A few days later, I was walking the street and I came face to face with these friendly warm people who were handing out their church information.

God bless people who come into a strange church and want to find a place to be a servant leader and to apply their own gifts and ideas.

I talked with a lady just a few weeks ago who lives in Trego and I invited her to come to church, and she said she really wants to, but Sunday is the only day she has to get the things done around the house that she needs to, and so she can't make it to church.

In this tract Wesley seems to come to his high ideal of «perfect love» in his reading of Scripture informed by a variety of the great spiritual teachers of the church who emphasized similar themes.

Sarah Stone is a college student from Atlanta who came to Passion with her church group.

Spoke - tell that to the majority of Christians who are quick to hate Muslims and other religions... tell that to the Christians who still falsely believe that America was founded on Christianity — tell that to allthe Christians who are still in denial about Pedophile running around in the Catholic church — Christians are as silly as they come