If you start with the assumption that people go to church to steal from the offering plate, you'd make people very uncomfortable. After a while, they're going to stop going to your church.
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This is not a church event. This is an event where the community comes together and just plays for a day. We really do intend for it to be a fun day for the community. It's our way of showing them that God loves them.
I belonged to the church,
And to the party of prohibition;
And the villagers thought I died of eating watermelon.
My father started me singing in church.
Every religious pioneer, including Jesus Christ, was persecuted by his contemporaries. But once people understand me, their turn can be dramatic like Saint Paul's.
If the church is going to restore its character and credibility, it had better start taking some risks and speaking out on these issues. All of a sudden, Mahony is a hero ... I think it's an historic moment.
Nothing succeeds like success, ... Maybe when I'm no longer coaching, I may look back and say that '97 was my most memorable year. My wife put it best. Every Saturday was like Christmas.
The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners to come away with. What's it like to be that goofy little soldier, scared stiff, with his bayonet aimed at Christ What's it like to have been a woman in a defense-plant job during World War II What's it like to be a kid at the front lines It's all funny and tragic at the same time.
It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.
I can't go anywhere until I finish this Christmas album, ... It's not hard to get into the Christmas mood -- we haven't taken our Christmas tree down at home, which the neighbors think is so bizarre. And it is. But this is a jazz Christmas album, so I don't have to be too traditional or mind too many rules. That's what's pulling me along.
My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.
Some relate ... that the eagle tries the eyes of her young by turning them to the sun which if they cannot look steadily on, she rejects them as spurious. We may truly try our faith by immediate intuitions of the Sun of Righteousness. Direct faith to act itself, immediately and directly on the incarnation of Christ and His mediation and if it be not the right kind and race, it will turn its eyes aside to anything else.
Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that ''God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself',' but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me.
If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.
The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road.
For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.
For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.
The very deep did rot: O Christ!
One thing that has been constant is our defense. It has carried us early. I hope it continues to carry us until at least Christmas. Motion coaches tell you that you won't be good until after Christmas. I'm crossing my fingers on that one.
It's not just an exclamation, but it's a rejection of everything to do with Christmas, with the spirit of Christmas, with gift-giving, with generosity.
On Sunday afternoons, instead of going to church, you're going to be out there knocking on doors. It's a much bigger difference to ask someone to serve than to run.
Essentially, a church is a community that keeps alive the dangerous memories of its classics.
Those on the liberal side who want to change the sexual standards feel like they're persecuted by the church -- and now, those on the conservative side feel likewise.
This is not just about homosexuality or homosexual acts -- it's about an agenda and subculture that is in direct conflict with the teachings of the Catholic Church, ... Goodbye, Good Men How liberals Brought Corruption Into the Catholic Church.
Christmas gift suggestionsTo your enemy, forgiveness.To an opponent, tolerance.To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.
What I tried to do, as best I could, was keep a kind of balancing act in motion, ... I have my prejudices and politics and so-forth, but if I was going to err, I wanted to err in favor of the Christian conservatives, since it's not the world that I come from. Keeping this balancing act was essential for me, since the point is that the film is not trying to convert one... but rather for the audience to have to examine some of their own preconceptions about whichever position one is taking.
We are going for a more realistic look. The point here is that we're creating a children's worship room that is representative of their neighborhood. The intent is that worship of God is not just limited to a church building. Worship should take place everywhere, every day -- at a power plant, in a warehouse.
The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.
If you read back in the Bible, Paul said that in the latter days before the apocalypse that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order. Well, what was called the blessed hope of the Bible is that one day Jesus Christ would come back again, start a whole new era, that this world order that we know it would change into something that would be wonderful that we'd call the millennium.
I think all fiction should be fair game for the Christian market, except porn, of course.
And they turned around and leased it to The Assembly Of God Churches - their headquarters are in Springfield, Missouri. They leased it to them for the first year. Then, after the first year, they will donate it to the church.
A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books I trow that countenance cannot lie, Where thoughts are legible in the eye. Was never eye, did see that face, Was never ear, did hear that tongue, Was never mind, did mind his grace, That ever thought the travel long But eyes, and ears, and ev'ry thought, Were with his sweet perfections caught. trow believe or think.
I'm elated for these guys, the way they came out and fought. Christ the King is one heck of a basketball program. They've got some great athletes out there.
NEW YORK In southern Mississippi this week, Church World Service (CWS) disaster responder Tim Johnson says the agency is helping community groups begin to organize long-term recovery resources for Hurricane Katrina and Rita's most vulnerable survivors, but, ... long-term recovery looks a long way off for many along the Gulf Coast and even farther inland.
The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.
As a community they have rallied together. It has not been one church, one organization, but it's been every church represented.
I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards.
It seems to be that when people think about giving at Christmas time, we all want to make sure that children between the ages of two and 10 have the toys that make Christmas so magical. That is what we all want to see happen.
The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.
Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.
This is an end of summer musical celebration that draws people from all over the globe to experience Detroit music, jazz in particular. We're evolving, that's all. We aren't morphing in to a different festival, just changing the construct a little bit. We're retaining the historical element and adding some things. Blues, funk, soul, gospel -- these are not strangers to Detroit or to folks who enjoy jazz, including me. We need to reach out to a younger audience, and we're attempting to do that.
As a Fundamentalist I had discovered while I was in college that it is possible to dismiss the entire Church as having gone off the rails by about AD 95. That is, we, with our open Bibles, knew better than did old Ignatius or Clement, who had been taught by the very apostles themselves, just what the Church is and what it should look like.
Take a look at what happens to traffic when the (Bethany) church is full, ... They hold a lot of events there. Its not just used on Sundays.
I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure.
But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.
He was home for Christmas, and then he went back January 1. That's the last time I saw him. We all want him to come home.
The song, based on an old gospel song, was the fusion of all the elements that till then had simply failed to coalesce, ... It was the uninhibited, altogether abandoned sound of the church it was the keening, ecstatic voicings by which the world has come to know Ray Charles best.
Mardi Gras is our Christmas. Business is 200 percent, 300 percent more than usual.
As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary.
Not everyone came from the exact same place. While many came from the same general area, each member of the church would have brought with them slightly different traditions from their individual home churches and those were melded into something new here.