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  • He was used to us getting hand-me-downs from the congregations and that was fine with him.   (source)
    congregations = people who worship together in the same building
  • He turned toward the congregation with the air of a preacher himself.   (source)
  • I'm getting more people in my congregation every day.   (source)
  • Now, I knew I hadn't exactly been the most spiritual kid in the congregation, but I still found his behavior sort of odd.   (source)
    congregation = group of people who worship together in the same building
  • Some were in our congregation and some from other churches, but they had all come together to pray for our son.   (source)
    congregation = people who worship together in the same building
  • He tells his congregation that he is living proof that religion can save anyone.   (source)
  • He told the congregation to go in peace,   (source)
  • Your wife has become a most valued member of our congregation.   (source)
  • But I like being part of a congregation.   (source)
  • The other members of the congregation turned to watch her, as they always did, and most of them were smiling.   (source)
  • Then he ... went to the church where the congregation was waiting.   (source)
  • ...the very soft singing of the hymns by the congregation.   (source)
  • The king he visited around in the evening, and sweetened everybody up, and made himself ever so friendly; and he give out the idea that his congregation over in England would be in a sweat about him, so he must hurry and settle up the estate right away and leave for home.   (source)
    congregation = group of people who worship together in the same building
  • "People say," said another, "that the Reverend Master Dimmesdale, her godly pastor, takes it very grievously to heart that such a scandal should have come upon his congregation."   (source)
  • How can two sermons a week, even supposing them worth hearing, supposing the preacher to have the sense to prefer Blair's to his own, do all that you speak of? govern the conduct and fashion the manners of a large congregation for the rest of the week?   (source)
  • The congregation gives her a standing ovation.†   (source)
  • People in my congregation fall faint if I walk in on a Sunday.†   (source)
  • "That's a pastor addressing his congregation," Johann replied carefully.†   (source)
  • The congregation began to sing "Blessed Assurance."†   (source)
  • Mrs. G was super-religious and spent most of her time in the OASIS, sitting in the congregation of one of those big online megachurches, singing hymns, listening to sermons, and taking virtual tours of the Holy Land.†   (source)
  • We waited for him to speak, like a congregation expecting the minister's benediction.†   (source)
  • Leaving the small congregation of agents behind, Fache led Langdon farther down the darkened hallway.†   (source)
  • I told the congregation that we can't simply watch that happen.†   (source)
  • For the next few minutes, the health of several other members of the congregation was discussed, and the prayer list grew by three more names.†   (source)
  • AT SUNDAY CHURCH SERVICE, Shirley Boon gets up in front of the congregation.†   (source)
  • The rest of the time each member of the congregation was on his or her own.†   (source)
  • His manner and performance often came up for discussion; the congregation was paying him, after all, which licensed us to discuss at will whether we were getting value for our money.†   (source)
  • The sound of pattering footsteps filled the temple, and the congregation stood.†   (source)
  • The congregation coughed; they creaked in the old, worn pews.†   (source)
  • This morning, at the synagogue, the rabbi told his congregation that the Nazis have taken the synagogue lists of all the Jews.†   (source)
  • This was the entire congregation.†   (source)
  • "People are in dire need," he tells the congregation.†   (source)
  • Chencha had just finished serving beans to the congregation at the fifth breakfast mess.†   (source)
  • I'd never sat in a congregation before, let alone spoken in front of one.†   (source)
  • He paces back and forth, waves his stick, tells us we must never forget that the moment the Holy Communion is placed on our tongues we become members of that most glorious congregation, the One, Holy, Roman, Catholic and Apostolic Church, that for two thousand years men, women and children have died for the Faith, that the Irish have nothing to be ashamed of in the martyr department.†   (source)
  • Dart thought that this was an insensitive choice of topic, given the state of the congregation.†   (source)
  • The men in the congregation try to help.†   (source)
  • He switched the band and dialed across bursts of music, news, a preacher haranguing a softly moaning congregation, a weather report.†   (source)
  • The minister at Vince's mother's church mentioned my name and had the congregation say a special prayer for me.†   (source)
  • It was with some shock that I realized I had a congregation.†   (source)
  • And I stood before each congregation with Samuel and Corrine and the children and sometimes our mouths just dropped open from the generosity and goodness of those Harlem people's hearts.†   (source)
  • He paused a moment, then said, "I think it quite necessary that the authorities here should be prepared to meet and deal with the greatest congregation of criminals that ever yet met in this country."†   (source)
  • Bishop Allen gave him a congregation up there.†   (source)
  • Both the village of Made and the congregation of Willem's church had declined in recent years.†   (source)
  • Reverend Richard and his congregation scraped up enough money to buy his church and save it.†   (source)
  • When he looked down at the congregation and upon her, his eyes opened wide.†   (source)
  • Jess could tune it out the same way he tuned out school, with his body standing up and sitting down in unison with the rest of the congregation but his mind numb and floating, not really thinking or dreaming but at least free.†   (source)
  • A congregation of mourners with lantern jaws and broken noses.†   (source)
  • He cannot be over thirty-five; he must be well connected, thinks Simon, to have risen so fast in the Methodist establishment, and to have procured such an affluent congregation.†   (source)
  • She used to be in the West Fork Church congregation years ago.†   (source)
  • Pastor Ford looked out over the congregation.†   (source)
  • The pastor at the First Hill Lutheran Church had on four successive Sundays asked his congregation to pray not only for Carl Heine's soul but for Susan Marie's "deliverance from grief in the course of time" as well.†   (source)
  • The other is the Congregation Faculty.†   (source)
  • Beside me, Jody's cheeks bloomed like good apples, and here and there in the little congregation I recognized other faces of other girls from college and my home town who had known Joan.†   (source)
  • This was like a gunshot in our congregation.†   (source)
  • People bring in their own foldup chairs and lawn chairs, and so sometimes it looks more like the congregation is watching a parade or sitting at a barbecue instead of being at church.†   (source)
  • The congregation lowed with satisfaction.†   (source)
  • The church had a bank of glass front doors, but Jack liked to preach with them open, so none of the glass flew inward at the congregation.†   (source)
  • Instead, during the spring she had sought out a Pentecostal congregation in Hedestad.†   (source)
  • Snapping about, Jarsha departed and the congregation he had announced entered, with Orrin at the vanguard.†   (source)
  • Indeed, the congregation in the square might have been expecting a parade, or attending a political rally.†   (source)
  • The pastor looked out over the congregation.†   (source)
  • Hamstrung, the old old man foundered to his knees, as did his suppliant images, his congregation of terrified selves one week, one month, two years, twenty, fifty, seventy, ninety years from now! every second, minute, and long-after-midnight hour of his possible survival into insanity, there all sank grayer, more yellow as the mirrors ricocheted him through, bled him lifeless, mouthed him dry, then threatened to whiff him to skeletal dusts and litter his moth ashes to the floor.†   (source)
  • Hennie beganspeaking in lofty language, and at one point, asked the congregation to close its eyes and pray.†   (source)
  • THE POLICE SUPERINTENDENT--a member of our congregation--is waiting on the platform in street clothes.†   (source)
  • I stood amid that praying congregation, observing it like a stranger.†   (source)
  • Perrin was an unlikely advocate for a multiethnic congregation.†   (source)
  • At the end, when the congregation began to break up, he raised his arms signaling for attention.†   (source)
  • When he passed the Methodist church, he heard the congregation singing a joyful hymn.†   (source)
  • The combination of rabbit and frog innards had caused quite a congregation of turtles to collect.†   (source)
  • Two of the charismatics come in to watch TV These are people from the top floor, operating the only church in the Wall, a congregation of pentecostals seeking to receive the gift of the Spirit, laying on hands, shouting out words, prophesying—the whole rocking socking package that makes Edgar want to run and hide.†   (source)
  • Pentecostal churches typically encourage all members of the congregation to speak up and preach during the service.†   (source)
  • The congregation at the paddock alone was greater than the track's total attendance the day before.†   (source)
  • "Amen," the congregation said.†   (source)
  • Ira slowly stood and addressed the congregation.†   (source)
  • That May, after my rape, I arrived back to a congregation that was traumatized, no one more so than Father Breuninger himself.†   (source)
  • … And to all Thy people give Thy heavenly grace and specially to this congregation here present …†   (source)
  • What sounded very much like a congregation in the vault of the theater above.†   (source)
  • As a sign of mourning, the statues of the saints were shrouded in purple robes that the pious ladies of the congregation unpacked and dusted off once a year from a cupboard in the sacristy.†   (source)
  • The congregation is clapping now, singing another song.†   (source)
  • The man would be allowed to join the congregation, but Father insisted there must be no third wife.†   (source)
  • Of the Baptist congregation of Houston ….†   (source)
  • A congregation is ten.†   (source)
  • Over time, though, the congregation had added the obligatory metal buildings—one beside the chapel that dwarfed it, and one behind it where the youth played basketball.†   (source)
  • The boys receive a standing ovation in the church from an enthusiastic congregation.†   (source)
  • " And a congregation of voices answered: "That blackness is most black, brother, most black …."†   (source)
  • Elinor and I hastened forward, as the congregation erupted in cries and weeping.†   (source)
  • "And also with you," the congregation answered.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 36 Believed The congregation relaxed, and a more enthusiastic murmur ran around the half circle.†   (source)
  • He eyed the congregation confidently.†   (source)
  • The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy.†   (source)
  • The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church is the same congregation that launched the Children's Crusade on Birmingham in May 1963.†   (source)
  • He would tell the congregation that Qurong and Justin were planning to ransack the forest as soon as the Guard had accepted peace.†   (source)
  • It's said the congregation freely hands money to him after the service in envelopes.†   (source)
  • Now Steph swears that he does this with lots of people in the congregation, but I'm not totally convinced.†   (source)
  • …in being beautiful, were her allies— the blue of the stage-set in the floodlights, the grace of a cat as it turned its small lion-like face to question a human movement, a fire that blazed from within the dark of a blacksmith's shop or a baker's and caught his eye as he passed, a single tone arising from a cathedral choir to shock a jaded congregation with its unworldly beauty, the mountaintops as snow was lashed from them by blue winds, the perfect and uncontrived smile of a child.†   (source)
  • "Let us pray," he told the congregation.†   (source)
  • My arms are outstretched as if I'm conducting a sermon and this entire not-very-big, dull, dull town is my congregation.†   (source)
  • The priest's voice boomed out, reaching to the lofty ceilings, and the congregation's responses echoed after.†   (source)
  • Greg did not want to go; our farm needed him and he did not like to leave his congregation.†   (source)
  • The orator had once again altered his strategy in dealing with his congregation.†   (source)
  • Her teacher had lifted her arms through the air like a priest ordering a congregation to stand, so that her slip showed, gray and raggedy.†   (source)
  • The congregation was not stoic and never silent.†   (source)
  • Like they were a sort of congregation.†   (source)
  • Either Preacher Henry was too old, or the Afro-Repose congregation had tired of his scolding and awful prophecies, for he no longer preached except on those Sundays when Afro-Repose's new minister, a light-skinned college graduate, was out of town.†   (source)
  • , and there quickly flashed across my mind a vision of the homely yellow-brick temple housing the Congregation Rodef Sholem in my hometown in Virginia.†   (source)
  • I felt so revived in spirit that I put five dollars in the plate, and afterward, in front of the church, shook hands warmly with the minister and as many of the congregation as I could.†   (source)
  • First the funeral and the New Jerusalem Lutheran Church outside Lovettsville packed with mourners, the congregation snuffling as the preacher led us in singing "In the sweet bye and bye, we shall meet in that sweet bye and bye."†   (source)
  • Here she paused and eyeballed the entire congregation.†   (source)
  • Three hundred and seventy thousand dollars it will cost, a thousand dollars from every member of the congregation!†   (source)
  • The whole congregation was there, it seemed like, and new faces that might be relatives or friends of the contestants.†   (source)
  • The fasting congregation was going to mass.†   (source)
  • You've got a mighty fine congregation," he observed.†   (source)
  • And so he rose and faced the congregation.†   (source)
  • She was in the congregation, always, a sweet-looking Presbyterian albino lady.†   (source)
  • There are over 50 million Baptists worldwide in nearly 200,000 congregations...   (source)
    congregations = people who worship together in the same building
  • Charismatic or Pentecostal congregations may be spontaneously moved by the Holy Spirit rather than follow a formal order of service.   (source)
  • Adding to the furor were revelations that the Church was aware of some of the abusive priests, and simply shuffled them from congregation to congregation instead of taking action.   (source)
  • There was a rustling of dresses, and the standing congregation sat down.   (source)
    congregation = group of people who worship together in the same building
  • On the Sabbath day, when the congregation were singing...   (source)
    congregation = people who worship together in the same building
  • Each member of the congregation...   (source)
  • It is felt that distinctness and energy may have weight in recommending the most solid truths; and besides, there is more general observation and taste, a more critical knowledge diffused than formerly; in every congregation there is a larger proportion who know a little of the matter, and who can judge and criticise.   (source)
    congregation = group of people who worship together in the same building
  • Mal'akh was dragging Langdon across the living room when the congregation declared, "Amen!"†   (source)
  • Baby JaBrea waved her hands and let out a loud happy screech, and the congregation yelled amen.†   (source)
  • The people of your congregation are mostly what we call in Kikongo the lenzuka.†   (source)
  • Owen shouted at them; but Mr. Fish, and surely half the congregation, felt that they stood accused.†   (source)
  • The station was now broadcasting a televangelist leading his congregation in the Lord's Prayer.†   (source)
  • Back home in Imperial, their congregation gathers for a prayer meeting.†   (source)
  • Alberto held up one hand as priests do when they want the congregation to be seated.†   (source)
  • He once asked, "Where is the Devil?" and pointed straight at the congregation.†   (source)
  • The congregation went silent, and Hegbert nodded at me, willing me to be patient.†   (source)
  • He chastised the congregation calmly at first, and then with increasing annoyance.†   (source)
  • The congregation knew whom he was talking about and voiced agreement with his analysis.†   (source)
  • He trying every little thing to get him a congregation together.†   (source)
  • Since he could remember, he'd wanted to lead his own congregation.†   (source)
  • As for the congregation, it had vanished completely among the trees.†   (source)
  • The pews had no backs, and since the congregation was also the choir, it didn't need a stall.†   (source)
  • Celaena yawned, but nodded with the rest of the congregation as the choir gave their blessings.†   (source)
  • Deborah whispered, "Uh-oh," as the entire congregation followed his pointing finger to look at me.†   (source)
  • It makes for a better congregation if the preacher was settled down and married.†   (source)
  • With one of his huge hands he reached out to the congregation, pulling them in.†   (source)
  • Like a commanding officer reviewing his troops, the Christ Child surveyed the congregation.†   (source)
  • The congregation drew up two yard chairs and sat facing the altar.†   (source)
  • This preacher, this leader of this church and congregation, was using this tone to refer to Allah.†   (source)
  • He was listening closely, but he didn't seem worried about losing a member of the congregation.†   (source)
  • The minister and the congregation joined in the chorus.†   (source)
  • Pullum told the congregation to give me a hand, and the room erupted in cheers.†   (source)
  • Opening up the bargaining table to a would-be congregation.†   (source)
  • If I wanted to preach, I'd be a minister, I'd have a congregation—wouldn't I?"†   (source)
  • "Each time his loyal congregation screams, "Mookoo!†   (source)
  • The radio a live mass of wire oozing from his trunk, a seething congregation of snakes.†   (source)
  • The ragtag congregation chimed in with every sort of word and tune.†   (source)
  • According to Nelson's accounting, nearly half my father's congregation were relatives of dead twins.†   (source)
  • Without the chief's blessing he could have no congregation.†   (source)
  • Momma was the minister, Carrie the congregation.†   (source)
  • The congregation drained, spoke it solemnly.†   (source)
  • Alan had yelled, within earshot of the priest, the congregation.†   (source)
  • Ruth went and when the congregation went to the altar to receive the host, she went also.†   (source)
  • He spoke to the entire congregation but looked only at the sorceress.†   (source)
  • I do not say that you do ill in making your congregation feel righteous in staying here.†   (source)
  • The congregation stood not in a church but, as I wrote, in the promise of one.†   (source)
  • The pastor then asked his congregation to bow their heads.†   (source)
  • A public bus struck a Sudanese man in front of a church with a mostly Sudanese congregation.†   (source)
  • Then the congregation left their seats and headed for the altar rail.†   (source)
  • The techniques he had used to brand himself on the minds of the congregation were not new to her.†   (source)
  • She could feel Matt's father's eyes on her, could hear the whispers of the congregation.†   (source)
  • I have a message for you, from one of the parishioners in my congregation.†   (source)
  • Sister Lucille waved her arms, leading the congregation in the response.†   (source)
  • His name was Clarence Bell, and he headed the congregation at Forest Missionary Baptist.†   (source)
  • "And also with you," the congregation again answered.†   (source)
  • The whole congregation erupted in "A-mans" and "Bless the Lauds."†   (source)
  • , his back to the congregation, the little boy still holding on to his caftan.†   (source)
  • Elise gave the congregation a triumphant look and clopped back to her seat.†   (source)
  • I was the preacher, Miss Love was the pi-ana player, and the both of us made up the congregation.†   (source)
  • It was then that a group of church elders met to discuss the congregation's future.†   (source)
  • With this the congregation peaked, "Hallelujah ….†   (source)
  • I was the first to reach the motorcar, but the congregation quickly crowded around.†   (source)
  • The next morning, he stood before his parents and the congregation at Second Baptist Church.†   (source)
  • And you, sir, your congregation meets in a former drive-in movie theater?†   (source)
  • The rest of the congregation lined the banks, singing of the River Jordan.†   (source)
  • "Well, no Reverend, I'm not a member of the congregation, but I was raised up in the church.†   (source)
  • The change that took place in Miss Lucy during the service was a symbol of the whole congregation.†   (source)
  • But mostly she was too mortified to face the congregation.†   (source)
  • A neighbor's car zoomed past—someone from my father's congregation, who honked a hello.†   (source)
  • The song ended with a huge expulsion of air, and the congregation sat down as one body.†   (source)
  • When she turned toward the congregation and waved, everybody smiled and clapped.†   (source)
  • The Rev preached and shouted and preached some more to his black-and-white congregation.†   (source)
  • Despite all the invites, the congregation didn't swell much that day.†   (source)
  • "Tell it like it is, now, brother," shouted the congregation.†   (source)
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