Sentences with phrase «wonderful churches in»

There are lots of wonderful churches in the world.

I belong to a wonderful church in N. CA, with a large campus that provides a myriad of faith - based services throughout the community.

I belong to a wonderful church in the neighborhood.

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«They're very often wonderful places where people's dignity is protected and if you will invest those and churches get involved in those we'll see even higher levels of end of life palliative care there.

Your church is a haven for those who want a deeper relationship with God without becoming one of «them» (Think pukey pollyanna Christians with a pasted on smile who declare with Jesus in your life everything is wonderful... sort of like the cartoon you posted today).

Still, Bonhoeffer's presence at what he called «quite a wonderful Mass» did bear witness to a kind of broken unity, a sanctorum communio not yet fully realized in the visible church of the undivided Christ here and now.

Church buildings can be used in wonderful ways to accomplish the mission and purposes of God on earth.

Thankfully, Jesus is using people like me (and millions of others in the same boat) to show these people who have stopped attending church that there is wonderful way of following Jesus as part of His Body, the church, which does not involve sitting in a pew on Sunday morning and listening to a sermon.

I was raised in the Church and have met many wonderful people, lay and religious, who do wonderful work every single day.

I think their are some excellent churches out there, and people who do not attend also grow in spiritually and do many wonderful things for God's Kingdom on their own.

A church that sees in this pluralistic age a wonderful opportunity to advance in its grasp of truth and wisdom can recover its conviction and commitment and move forward with excitement and confidence.

Despite the fact that I endured the most frightening flight of my life into Louisville, Kentucky Last week, I had a wonderful time with the good people of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church and all the readers who came out to hear my presentation on Sunday night, including the delightful Connie Esther, who I met in the bathroom of all places!

None of this must be taken as detracting from the fine example of the many very wonderful and faithful women in the Church today.

If I find my unconditional love and acceptance in a church community, then what a wonderful thing that is.

It's important to keep in mind that negative encounters with «the Church» are, in reality, negative encounters with certain people in the Church, and that there are many wonderful, compassionate, God - honoring people eager to share positive stories about why church is a such a critical part of our collective faith experChurch» are, in reality, negative encounters with certain people in the Church, and that there are many wonderful, compassionate, God - honoring people eager to share positive stories about why church is a such a critical part of our collective faith experChurch, and that there are many wonderful, compassionate, God - honoring people eager to share positive stories about why church is a such a critical part of our collective faith experchurch is a such a critical part of our collective faith experience.

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.»

They regard the Council as a wonderful event, brought about by the Spirit, a new beginning in the Church.

There are two wonderful things that give me a positive wow factor every day — the increasing number of people I discover doing fantastically brilliant stuff, quietly and without fuss, living out the Gospel of Christ in gentle, caring, loving ways, most of which the church institution hasn't got a clue about because it's too dam busy running itself.

And there is a wonderful passage where Kierkegaard likens the prospect of being excommunicated from the Danish church to the discovery that, though he is in Copenhagen, he is being given a thrashing in the distant town of Aarhus.

It is also true that the church does many good and wonderful things... many want to do what is right... I believe in the church and would rather gain insight into the church from individuals whose foundation is based on believing in the intrinsic goodness on which we operate.

(I did meet his wife though, after about 20 years — she was wonderful) I was in all the prayer / intercession groups (I was called to prayer and a few other things) and several times one of the other pray - ers sort of intimated that ours was «The» church of the city, and I'd always then start praying for every God called church in my city.

If the church heirarchy spent more time purging itself of child molestors and more time supporting these wonderful nuns they bwould not only elevate their status in the world but grow closer to God.

They are wonderful people to have in a church — deacons and deaconesses.

The wonderful Ephesian church that had begun so robustly, with such a sense of new life — this Christ - centered church was dissipating in a religious stewpot of hyped - up feelings, discussion groups and interest gatherings.

I think that many people benefit in wonderful ways from mega church ministry.

Mr Lowe and his wife Hilary said in a joint statement after the hearing: «Lizzie was a wonderful exuberant and loved member of her church, school and community.

Last I knew, the only person who ended up well in the entire mess was the first husband of wife # 2, who found a wonderful wife and remarried surrounded by family, friends and church.

After reading the title I thought Jeremy found a wonderful Baptist church to attend but this is well known observation statistic that people that leave the church really do lose their purpose, adventure in faith, and passion for God not saying that Jeremy did but there are many testimonies that say this when they return to the fold

Note that Lutzer twice used the word «wonderful» when asking his audience how wonderful it would be to use spiteful pride against the only «rapture» view found in all theology books and organized churches before the year 1830: the posttribulation view!

i can feel love for him throughout my heart and soul... i want to grow old with this man... i am 47 and he is 45... he has never been married... he said there is not a chance of getting back together again regardless of how we feel towards each other because we committed adultery and God will never forgive us and it will be wrong to do so... so am i supposed to go on living my life being so deeply in love with this man i can never have... why would God put him in my life to make me feel so spiritually happy, so wonderful, so at peace with myself and someone I can finally worship Him with just to take him away from me... I've never been with someone who was so religious and i thought this was it... i finally have someone to read the bible with and go to church with and put God first and share things with my self and my daughter as a loving relationship would be....

If believing in the Bible and living by the rules of the church brings you enlightenment, that's wonderful.

Priest Missioner at the church, Fr Andrew Williams said: «After four years working from our temporary space it is wonderful to move into our permanent home, a community centre and church from which to base our work in the wider community of Tottenham Hale.»

Wonderful, but based on surveys done with over 18,000 people in Evangelical / Fundamental churches only a little more than half the people in these churches knows and understands teh gospel.

Our parish church, where all of our children were baptized and which I imagined being the church of my daughters» weddings (and my funeral), was wonderful, if half - filled and always in danger of being consolidated with other churches.

(2) The wonderful faith of the people, their readiness to step out in the Name of Jesus Christ, and their desire to be led by the Church.

I would never give money to a religious organization that doesn't pay taxes — that is like giving money to my kids — and they need it more than the church... I think faith is a wonderful thing for a lot of people — including myself (I have faith in myself)-- I just wish others would keep their «faith» personal, and out of politics and government.

I was away from the church in my teens but I studied on my own and realized the catholic faith is wonderful and beautiful.

I have met a few exinmates back in hospitals because they have heard such wonderful potions derided at church or from the pulpit as evidence of modern corruption, comparable to subway rapes or God - is - dead theology.

I wondered if you two feel that pressure to always be the best marriage in your church, the happiest, the glowiest, the everything - is - wonderful - even - when - it's - not «example.»

If these wonderful families, which are such an inspiration to so many, are to reach their full potential and «to radiate the word of truth» that is our Catholic faith in all its luminosity and beauty, then we as a Church must recover the fullness of our faith's teaching on sex and loving.

Thus, if a minister today is not in process of being ousted, is regarded by at least many of his people as a wonderful Christian, a helpful preacher, a diligent pastor, and so on, he may rest content in this kind of status even though privately he is disturbed at all the kids who drop out of church school, at the inattentiveness of the church to its neighborhood, at the virtual neglect of older people, and at the bourgeois aroma that infects everything.

He argued that if the sufferings of two billion people in Vietnam, South Africa and other places excited the imagination and compassion of the church, how much more should the spiritual sufferings of two thousand millions move her to bring multitudes of them out of darkness into God's wonderful light.

One must, surely, chuckle with delight at the wonderfully ironic thought of the physical overlap of all those deliberately liturgically impoverished South coast dioceses with all those currently Anglo - Catholic parishes, soon to be safely in the Catholic Church but barricaded against the local Catholic bishop within their ordinariate, South coast parishes so renowned for reverent, sumptuous and utterly numinous liturgy, often with wonderful music sung by professional choirs, and glorious antique vestments, saved from the scrap heap as they were thrown out ofCatholic churches by the Spirit - of - Vatican - ll.

The church is in the most literal sense «a royal priesthood,» constituted «that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light» (I Peter 2.9).

These were lay leaders in the church, just wonderful people...

he belongs in some cloistered church compound... they love him, he loves them, they can take advantage of living in our wonderful country, come out to see the diverse and secular civilized community america really is and then turn around and run back into their compound.

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Next Sunday, in the First Church of Nixie, New York, or the Saint Waldemar's Church of Proxie, Alabama, I am sure the respective ministers will declare that love is a wonderful thing, that Jesus agreed with their opinions; so why doesn't everybody get on the bandwagon and love one another — taking it easy, of course, with Negroes, minority groups, homosexual persons, criminals, the mentally ill, and many others?

Your Holy Text Message today made me imagine many Churches to be similar to a bunch of folks sitting in a dark attic, sipping tea and talking about the wonderful light of their Lord.

The low Protestant / evangelical / fundamentalist churches that litter the American countryside have simply forgotten that Jesus in the Gospels was more concerned with bringing the Kingdom to Earth today (and everyday) than planning for some pie - in - the - sky, everything - is - wonderful future.