Father
/ˈfɑðɝ/
nounGod's title, given and used by Christians
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1. Sara is watching her father.
2. Sara's father stays at home.
3. Now you believe your father's lies about her!
4. In one case, a man fathered a child that had his twin’s DNA!
5. In the lions' territory, The cubs' father arrives back from his sojourn.
Christ
/ˈkɹaɪst/
nounthe man based on whose teachings Christianity is established
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1. Christ, we missed that one as well!
2. Your real righteousness is in Christ.
3. Turn to Christ.
4. The cure is Christ.
5. Winning others to Christ!
Jesus
/ˈdʒizəs/
nounthe man whose followers believe to be the son of God and whose teachings are the foundation of the Christian religion
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1. Jesus this guy has a bite too.
2. And grace has a name Jesus
3. The answer is Jesus.
4. "Jesus," the man said.
5. Give Jesus a call.
saint
/ˈseɪnt/
nounsomeone who, after their death, is officially recognized by the Christian Church as a very holy person
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1. Call up the saints.
2. The saints make frequent use of the antidepressant and antioxidant St. John's wort.
3. The mother was a saint.
4. Augustine's mother is a saint.
5. Is this man a saint?
Pope
/ˈpoʊp/
nounthe person who leads the Roman Catholic Church
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1. So the pope sent his representative, direct representative.
2. One, 2013, a cardinal from this nation becomes pope.
3. So the pope has a direct line to God.
4. Popes usually cooperated with kings over such difficult matters.
5. Your name is Pope. -
bishop
/ˈbɪʃəp/
nouna high-ranking priest who supervises all the churches and priests in a city
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1. Attendant: Takes bishop.
2. Bishops knew about it.
3. Slash Bishop.
4. The bishop is a religious leader.
5. The captain turned to the Bishop.
pastor
/ˈpæstɝ/
nouna priest or minister who is in charge of a church
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1. I pastor a church.
2. He pastors a church in Oklahoma.
3. They pastor a church in Montana.
4. Pastors get lonely.
5. Like weird things pastors admit.
brother
/ˈbɹəðɝ/
nouna man who is a member of a religious group, particularly a monk
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1. The titles husband, father, son, and brother define his status within the context of family.
2. Joan had two brothers.
3. He frisked both of my brothers, who were 15 and 16, against the rail on the second floor.
4. Brother: Get that cacao?
5. - I want brother.
missionary
/ˈmɪʃəˌnɛɹi/
nounsomeone who is sent to a foreign country to teach and talk about religion, particularly to persuade others to become a member of the Christian Church
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1. The missionary gently held my hand.
2. My favorite position is missionary.
3. In the 18th century, Spanish missionaries began their takeover of California.
4. No one loves armed missionaries.
5. Which one's missionary?
monk
/ˈməŋk/
nouna member of a male religious group that lives in a monastery
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1. His sword is much heavier than the monk's.
2. The monks would copy these documents.
3. Now monks therefore, are clergy.
4. Monks who live in an establishment.
5. Monks never really quite make up the sleep deficiencies.
nun
/ˈnən/
nouna member of a female religious group that lives in a convent
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1. Nuns are badass.
2. I like the nuns.
3. My school had nuns.
4. Send in the nun.
5. Flying nun.
Catholic
/ˈkæθɫɪk/
adjectiverelated to or belonging to the Western branch of the Christian Church that is led by the Pope
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1. Catholics were abominations.
2. Trump was raised Catholic.
3. So a rooster still sounds very Catholic.
4. But the majority of the population is Catholic.
5. My grandpa was strict Catholic.
Protestant
/ˈpɹɑtəstənt/
adjectiverelated to or belonging to the Western branch of the Christian Church that is separate from the Roman Catholic Church
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1. Protestant women set up schools for Protestant girls.
2. Protestants and Jews have different ones.
3. The U.S.,a largely, though not-exclusively, Protestant country, has about the same rate as Turkey.
4. Be a Protestant.
5. Statistically, the overwhelming majority of Commanders in Chief have been Protestant.
congregation
/ˌkɑŋɡɹəˈɡeɪʃən/
nouna group of people who gather in a church to say prayers
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1. Black churches urged their congregations to boycott the buses that Monday.
2. Throw his congregation at him!
3. The congregations instead connected like never before.
4. The Jewish Community Center or JCC brings together Warsaw’s five congregations.
5. These huge congregations of people will have consequences.
parish
/ˈpæɹɪʃ/, /ˈpɛɹɪʃ/
nounan area with a church of its own that is under the care of a priest
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1. The parish has approximately 2500 families just around 9000 parishioners.
2. Conservative Catholic parish right there.
3. I had the parish representatives.
4. One form, a very important form, was the ecclesiastical parish.
5. The parish also stimulated neighborly sentiments in other ways.
convert
/ˈkɑnvɝt/, /kənˈvɝt/
nounsomeone who has changed their religion or opinion regarding a matter
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1. Worms convert organic waste and other compostable products into natural fertilizers.
2. The angry mass killer was converted into an evangelical pacifist.
3. These nanocrystals convert light according to their size.
4. Lots of old warehouse converted buildings.
5. A good question converts the natural sense of wonder into a focused line of investigation.
follower
/ˈfɑɫoʊɝ/
nounsomeone who respects, supports, and believes in a certain individual or system of ideas
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1. Followers travel here from all around the world.
2. You bought followers.
3. you get followers.
4. But this guy has followers.
5. The apparent pregnancy announcement sent followers into a tizzy.
pilgrim
/ˈpɪɫɡɹəm/, /ˈpɪɫɡɹɪm/
nouna religious person who travels to a sacred place for a holy cause
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1. The Pilgrims were even more extreme.
2. Piping hot pilgrim!
3. said the pilgrim.
4. The local authorities treated the pilgrims with suspicion and sometimes with hostility.
5. Today day, pilgrims was born.
christening
/ˈkɹɪsənɪŋ/, /ˈkɹɪsnɪŋ/
nouna Christian religious ceremony during which a baby is named and admitted to the Christian Church
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1. The meeting is set for the same day as the christening of Connie's baby.
2. While he attended the christening of his grandson.
3. All christenings make use of a silver-gilt font, and with water drawn from the River Jordan, where Jesus was said to have been baptized.
4. And the christenings of all senior royals are conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
5. This is a tradition, Vogue suspects, did not happen at Archie's christening.
blessing
/ˈbɫɛsɪŋ/
nouna prayer asking for God's protection and help
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1. -Counting blessings.
2. Count my blessings.
3. Count your blessings.
4. The angel sends down its blessings equally on both.
5. So count your blessings.
Buddhist
/ˈbudəst/
nounsomeone who follows Buddhism
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1. I'm Buddhist.
2. In Buddhist eyes, true success means utter failure in the eyes of a Roman soldier or a modern American.
3. In the 6th century, Buddhist monks built large statues of Buddha.
4. Buddhists are mostly from the Chinese community, Hindus for the Indians, Christians from all races.
5. Buddhist schools in Thailand, India and around the world bring introspection into the lessons and activities of their national curriculum.
funeral
/ˈfjunɝəɫ/
nouna religious ceremony in which people bury or cremate a dead person
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1. Honestly, funerals suck.
2. Funerals are illegal.
3. - Funerals are expensive.
4. Funerals are even more devastating.
5. For a brief time, funerals were somewhat of an elaborate affair in ancient Rome.
cult
/ˈkəɫt/
nouna group of people with extreme religious views who are separate from any established religion
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1. Its critics say the group is a pyramid scheme masking as a cult.
2. Sometimes, people just find those things in cults.
3. So Cult Following is here in Los Angeles.
4. Cults don't follow logic.
5. In the months after the mass suicide event, at least three more members of Heaven's Gate cult commited suicide.
fate
/ˈfeɪt/
nounthe power that some people believe controls everything that occurs and that is inevitable
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1. You tempted fate.
2. But fate dealt a heavy blow.
3. But, fate had other plans for him.
4. But fate had other plans.
5. Today's word is fate.
Islam
/ˈɪsˌɫɑm/, /ˈɪzɫəm/, /ˌɪsˈɫɑm/
nounthe religion of the Muslims, which was established by Muhammad whose holy book is called the Quran
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1. Islam prohibits any intoxication.
2. Five years to the day after Saladin’s glorious victory at Hattin, however, a miracle came upon Islam.
3. Five years to the day after Saladin’s glorious victory at Hattin, however, a miracle came upon Islam.
4. My father will stand for Islam.
5. Islam has no time for it whatsoever.
Muhammad
/mʊˈhɑməd/
nounthe Arab prophet who established the religion of Islam
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1. Muslims believe that God sent Muhammad as the final prophet to bring people back to the one true religion, which involves the worship of, and submission to, a single and all-powerful God.
2. Rescuers pulled Salem’s brother, Muhammad, out from the rubble.
3. My name is Muhammad. -
4. The man was Muhammad.
5. Muhammad had bad days.
monastery
/ˈmɑnəˌstɛɹi/
nouna building where a group of monks live and pray
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1. Different monasteries have different liturgies.
2. Some monasteries have more prayer and less contemplation, or less prayer and more work.
3. The monasteries were gone.
4. You mentioned a monastery.
5. The most powerful institutions in Ireland were monasteries.
shrine
/ˈʃɹaɪn/
nouna place or building for people to pray in, which is considered holy by many due to its connection with a sacred person, event, or object
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1. - Make a shrine over here.
2. Now my shrine is complete.
3. The prophets of the tenth century, the ninth century BCE were associated with religious shrines.
4. Household shrines to countless deities filled the homes of Romans on all shores of the Mediterranean.
5. The shrine had a frieze around it.
ritual
/ˈɹɪtʃuəɫ/
nounthe act of conducting a series of fixed actions, particular to a religious ceremony
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1. Number one is rituals.
2. Rituals are terribly important.
3. This whole morning ritual might take only thirty minutes.
4. Today's word is ritual.
5. Between 800 BC and 146 BC, beauty rituals emphasized beauty.
divine
/dɪˈvaɪn/
adjectivelike, from, or related to God or a god
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1. The sight of success is divine.
2. The pasta was divine.
3. The relationship of his human to divine nature.
4. Then every man, of every clime, That prays in his distress, Prays to the human form divine: Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace.
5. The sets are divine.
sacred
/ˈseɪkɹəd/, /ˈseɪkɹɪd/
adjectivereligious and connected with God or a god
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1. Life is sacred.
2. For Steve, weekends are sacred.
3. Our oceans are sacred.
4. The home is sacred.
5. My bedroom is sacred space.
secular
/ˈsɛkjəɫɝ/
adjectivenot concerned or connected with religion
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1. Here's the secular trends.
2. Secular people that I know--
3. The military is fiercely secular.
4. What is secular literature good for?
5. Our world is secular.
to preach
/ˈpɹitʃ/
verbto give a religious speech, particularly in a church
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1. Preach the gospel to yourself.
2. He always preaches the salvation of Jesus Christ.
3. Preach. -
4. - Preaching the gospel of positive thinking.
5. Social groups, from cultures to religions preach the importance of Humility.
to sacrifice
/ˈsækɹəˌfaɪs/
verbto kill an animal or person as a religious act
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1. A cow sacrificed their life for your belt.
2. Sacrificing some losses in air quality for gains in CO2 reduction.
3. Dreams require sacrifices.
4. Dreams require sacrifices.
5. Sometimes heroism takes sacrifice.
to sin
/ˈsɪn/
verbto act against religious or moral rules
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1. Some faithful friends of Stalin even admitted to having disloyal thoughts if not deeds, which was adequate sin to justify execution.
2. My calculator, hit "sin."
3. Sin entered the world through a question.
4. Sin darkens our understanding.
5. Sin will no longer have dominion over you.
to worship
/ˈwɝʃəp/, /ˈwɝʃɪp/
verbto respect and honor God or a deity, especially by performing rituals
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1. Muslims believe that God sent Muhammad as the final prophet to bring people back to the one true religion, which involves the worship of, and submission to, a single and all-powerful God.
2. the brother Elijah loved worship
3. All citizens had to worship the emperor.
4. Many cultures worshipped the sun as a god.
5. The people of this part of India worship the king cobra.
archbishop
/ˈɑɹtʃˈbɪʃəp/
nouna bishop of the highest rank who is responsible for all the churches in a specific large area
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1. But in 2005, the archbishop selected me for the role.
2. In the case of Antoinette and Louis, the crowd included royal dignitaries and an archbishop.
3. The archbishop just called a meeting with every priest in the diocese to a mandatory meeting where he made that announcement.
4. Desmond Tutu retired as Archbishop in 1996.
5. The Archbishop protested.
God-fearing
/ɡˈɑːdfˈɪɹɪŋ/
adjectivevery faithful to God and devoted to religion
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1. But biblical Wisdom like Ancient Near Eastern Wisdom generally grounds morality on non-specific notions of prudence and God-fearing in a sort of non-specific way, rather then on the historical covenant with Yahweh.
2. Now, mind you, notice these are not people referred to as god-fearing or lovers of god, no.
godless
/ˈɡɑdɫəs/
adjectivelacking faith in or respect for God
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1. - A godless town you've made.
2. At the same time, he's equally suspicious of the godless.
3. To the churchmen, he was a godless atheist.
4. Now to be fair, I am a godless New Yorker.
5. I mean, you want to call it Godless, you know, you call it Godless.
to fear
/ˈfɪɹ/
verbto be scared of someone or something
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1. You can get to this point if you try and push through your fears and inhibitions and force the social interactions.
2. Of course the shock produces fear.
3. fear causes a separation and a closeness within the being.
4. And the entire NFL agent and player ecosystem sells fear.
5. Fear Pong hats.
