When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join.
Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin.
People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.
I suppose the Church would be perfect only if it were run by perfect beings. God is perfect, and His doctrine is pure. But He works through us - His imperfect children - and imperfect people make mistakes.
I speak for a lot of church groups, youth groups, schools, colleges and do personal appearances. I've done conventions and trade shows. A lot of different little hats.
We sometimes get so caught up in one or another aspect of the teaching, we forget that if a person hasn't been introduced to Christ, if a person hasn't embraced the risen Lord and the church that's an expression of that experience, what we're saying just sounds like a bunch of rules or negative statements limiting their personal freedom.
I have signed the personhood petition. I have taken the petitions to my church and circulating into my church. And I have a legislative record that backs up my support for life.
The Constitution separated the ideologies and values of the Church from the State, and leaders of the State were thus educated in matters pertaining to the State. These leaders proved themselves time after time with their pragmatic intellectual capacities.
My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew.
I was the second-youngest child in a family that took up the better part of an entire pew at our Baptist church.
I went to church irregularly and was mostly reading comics in the pew.
'Phantom of the Opera' started in my little 100-seater converted church in Britain with a stage where we did what we did. But it was the score itself was what made it.
There have been times when I've felt inappropriately emotional. I remember making 'The Most Hated Family in America' about the Westboro Baptist Church, and being on the way to a funeral of a U.S. soldier with the Phelps family; they were going to picket the funeral.
If your church is the theatre, New York means a lot - it's a pilgrimage you want to make.
Women are the first witnesses to the resurrection and pillars of the early church.
Every individual in the church is free to think as he pleases.
The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.
The principle of plural marriage was revealed to the Mormons amid much secrecy. Dark clouds hovered over the church in the early 1840s, after rumors spread that its founder, Joseph Smith, had taken up the practice of polygamy. While denying the charge in public, by 1843 Smith had shared a revelation with his closest disciples.
I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England.
I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.
