Yet, I know a pastor in Seoul who is organizing a fundraiser to help Japan, and I was just meeting with Korean graduate students at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary, who collected a special offering and are praying for the people in Japan.
We don't hold special ceremonies or pray in public.
That's the problem with this third installment of the franchise: not that it's running out of ideas, or lifting them too slavishly from the original comic, but that it lunges at them with an infantile lack of grace, throwing money at one special effect after another and praying — or calculating — that some of them will fly.
Try to make a special time that you spend praying and reading your bible everyday, even if it is only for 10 minutes!
Then the pastor prayed a special 4 July prayer, but one of submission not freedom, ignorance not knowledge.
During their celebration, serfs feasted on special foods as they prayed for the swift arrival of spring, with its green oaks and abundant flowers.
LAGOS, Nigeria, Sept. 28 — In the chaotic months leading up to the election that installed a new president here in April, the first transfer of power from one civilian to another in the country's history, Catholics like Elizabeth Oguekenma prayed a special prayer at Mass ."Be merciful to us, your people," goes the "Prayer for Nigeria in Distress".
When the time comes for "special remarks" the aging Moon talks in a familiar gravelly voice, cajoling, joking, praying.
We are hoping and praying that the server holds out so we're not trying any special tricks this time – just good old fashioned blog posting.
