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A charity says new charges brought against pastor in Iran is «practically an indictment of Christianity itself.»

The Patriot - News (Pennsylvania): Charges filed against pastor in mock terrorism raid at Lower Swatara church Dauphin County prosecutors today charged a church and its pastor after a mock «terrorism raid» in March.

Not exact matches

Jurors in Manhattan federal court on Friday prepared to weigh charges against a Florida software engineer and a New Jersey pastor accused of scheming to help an illegal bitcoin exchange escape scrutiny.

A second court session has been held in Iran as two pastors and a deacon continue their appeal against six - year sentences for political charges.

In order for things to change, pastors and Christian leaders who believe that acceptance, fidelity, and monogamy are a better alternative to shame and promiscuity have got to speak up and speak out against the teaching that states * all * homosexual expression is sinful... and proclaim that message as misinformed, damaging to God's children, and unchristian.

The pastor of First Baptist Church in Taylors, South Carolina, Page won a first - ballot victory this summer against two prominent candidates with close ties to what is sometimes called the college of cardinals» a close - knit circle of Southern Baptist Convention leaders who have handpicked the denomination's recent presidents.

When someone calls that Imam one of the most evil people on the planet, when someone says he wants to build his center to train terrorists, when someone calls for amending the constitution to exclude Islam, when someone says our founding fathers wanted this to be a Christian nation and that they didn't want Muslims included, when Muslims are afraid to go out because they will be attacked, when Christian pastors are preaching against Muslims (as opposed to the belief in Islam), THAT is hatred.

The pastors would say it was King Solomon who was prophesied in 2 Samuel 7:12 - 14 but he wasn't flogged by men when he committed sin against God.

Nestled in the picturesque Bavarian Alps, Ettal became a sanctuary for Bonhoeffer as he found himself zwischen den Zeiten — still officially a pastor of the Confessing Church charged with training ordinands for ministry, yet drawn inexorably into a conspiracy against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime.

Prosecutors in the case of two Christian pastors men accused of crimes against the Sudanese state have... More

To begin with Rob Bell is not your typical Super Pastor, the latest in a long line of America's mega-church pastors with unmoveable hair, expensive suit and a picture taken against soft pastel backgrounds.

One thing is certain to a pastor: the only parishioners fighting the old battles are old themselves, their felt banners frayed and their guitar strings broken, while a young battalion is rising, with no animus against the atrophied adolescence of their parents, and only eager to engage a real spiritual combat in a culture of death.

I fear that by trying to guilt people into keeping their butts in the pew, pastors will be fighting against what God is doing in the church.

A bright young student raised in a tradition of conservative Evangelical pietism, Mouw recalls that his pastors «often viewed the intellectual life against the background of a cosmic spiritual battle in which the human intellect, especially as it aligns itself with the cause of the academy, is inevitably on the wrong side of the struggle.»

please I want to know if a pastor tells you that God wants you to sing for him in the choir and you don't do it, is it blasphemy against the holy spirit?

What Pastor Shroyer doesn't do is recognize that in a very small way, this false accusation against her is a bit like the «batshit crazy» one that her friend's ex-wife has been tagged with secretly for a number of years.

The pastor proceeded to warn his audience against voting for a candidate in the upcoming midterm elections who supports gay marriage and abortion, even if that candidate, Carl DeMaio, is a Republican.

Update (Jan. 25): The Atlanta Journal - Constitution reports that the assault charge against Creflo Dollar has been dismissed in return for the pastor completing a program that required him to «enroll an anger management program, report to a probation officer and pay $ 1,072 in court fees.»

Mexican pastors are effectively praying against drug lords, a Muslim security guard sacrificed himself to stop suicide bombers approaching a church in Pakistan, and Muslims and Christians are cooperating with each other in refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon.

I'm so tired of pastors want to tell their people don't vote, I don't believe in this, or that look who are we to judge anyman if he gay that's between him and his God, what about the thief, liar, cheater, should we stand against them to?

The same ideas are advanced in the U.S.A. Pastor Albert Cleage writes: «Jesus was the colored leader of a colored people carrying on a national struggle against a white people....

In fact, if Mr. Artsy Pastor will read his Bible a little more closely he will find that what he is doing is actually against the will of God.

To check the loss of zeal in the churches and to assure a common point of view over against growing opposition, an attempt was made to furnish a careful check on the pastors and congregations.

CNN: Sandusky's pastor addresses conviction from pulpit Jerry Sandusky sits in a county jail cell in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, but his presence and the weight of the 45 guilty verdicts rendered against the former Penn State football coach on Friday night hung in the air Sunday morning at the State College church where he and his wife are longtime members.

In more than 30 years of pastoring and dealing with pastors, I have observed that often when a public figure, secular or religious, shouts out in anger about or against a particular subject, it's usually a sign of the inner turmoil of the person crying out around that very issuIn more than 30 years of pastoring and dealing with pastors, I have observed that often when a public figure, secular or religious, shouts out in anger about or against a particular subject, it's usually a sign of the inner turmoil of the person crying out around that very issuin anger about or against a particular subject, it's usually a sign of the inner turmoil of the person crying out around that very issue.

Not too many years later, when I was pastor of a black parish in Brooklyn, I came to know Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, and we formed a fast friendship, first in shared activism against the Vietnam War and later in countless hours of intense theological and philosophical conversation» usually in his smoke - filled office (he with his cigar and I with my pipe) high in the tower of Jewish Theological Seminary up on Morningside Heights.

Pastor Rob Morris, who leads the Christ the King Lutheran Church in Newtown, violated the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod's rule against taking part in joint worship services, said the synod's president, Pastor Matthew C. Harrison.

The Lutheran pastor was a key figure in the fight against Hitler.

To those that are against a minister receiving a return, are the pastors supposed to do all the «duties» such as visiting the sick, counseling, discipleship, etc. full time, plus work full time and have a family and just suck it up and run themselves in to the ground?

Bonhoeffer led futile protests against the Confessing Church's 1938 decision to allow pastors to swear an oath of loyalty to the Fürhrer and the wartime «legalization» of Confessing pastors (in which they made some concessions to the official church in return for financial and career security).

I was fortunate in having a gifted pastor who knew to caution people against sharing such visions without someone gifted in interpreting it.

A few years ago, Swedish pastor Ake Green was sentenced to one month in prison for preaching on the biblical teaching against sexual immorality from the pulpit of his small church in Borgholm.

In a joint statement, they said: «Turkish officials who participate in the detainment of any innocent American citizen should face international consequences, and the actions against Pastor Brunson, in particular, qualify as hostage - taking.&raquIn a joint statement, they said: «Turkish officials who participate in the detainment of any innocent American citizen should face international consequences, and the actions against Pastor Brunson, in particular, qualify as hostage - taking.&raquin the detainment of any innocent American citizen should face international consequences, and the actions against Pastor Brunson, in particular, qualify as hostage - taking.&raquin particular, qualify as hostage - taking.»

And through teaching, the pastor warns and protects his flock against false ideas, damaging and destructive philosophies, and wolves in sheep's clothing who want to kill and destroy the flock.

However, Pastor Johnson Sathyanathan, president of the Synod of Pentecostal Churches in Coimbatore told Morning Star India: «It is a well - planned conspiracy against the Christian community, as the Hindu extremists know that it is not easy to approach the collector's office for such permissions.

Pastor Haghnejad and Deacon Rabbani were subsequently released; however, Pastor Irani remains in Ghezal Hesar Prison in Karaj, where he is serving a one year sentence for action against the state and a five - year sentence for «action against national security».

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Lemert said Niebuhr had established a long record of speaking out against racism, beginning when he became a pastor in Detroit.

In Mark Driscoll's first public statement since Acts 29 rebuked and removed him from the church planting network he founded, the embattled Seattle pastor announced he will temporarily step down as leader of Mars Hill Church while charges submitted by 21 former pastors against him are investigated.

The fact that atheists might be right and all the excuses you made for the «imperfect» priests and pastors, the money you gave, the countless Sunday mornings you sacraficed, the stress you accepted by trying to meet a deities excpectation but always falling short and the people you discriminated against due to their lack of faith in your deity is what scares the crepe out of Christians.

Megachurch pastor Andy Savage, of Highpoint Church in Memphis, Tennessee, has resigned in the wake of an investigation by Highpoint into sexual abuse allegations made against Savage in January.

10:4 if your rulers spirit rises against you leave not thy place for yielding pacifies great offenses... & yes, Jeremy, I did make a mistake with my pastor a few months ago because I overreacted in anger about something & I vented.

Directed by Marie Fortune, a pastor and author of Sexual Violence, The Unmentionable Sin: An Ethical and Pastoral Perspective (Pilgrim Press, 1983), the Center has developed resources for congregational study and action, including a study guide for teen - agers on preventing sexual abuse, a monograph on violence against women of color, and a manual for congregational use in discovering and developing community resources on family violence.

These pastors who advocate violence against gays are living in the Old Testament, they may as well ask them to be stoned to death.

Back in 2008 I wrote a post called «A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Polls» to address how surprised I was at the way Conservative Evangelical Christians were embracing the idea of a woman for Vice President while at the same time standing against women being ordained as pastors.

So when one Christian accuses a church leader of doing something evil or wrong, the pastor often feels justified in retorting the same way Jesus did, and accuses his accusers of committing a sin against the Holy Spirit.

Churches and pastors who participate in miracles and prophecies don't like to be told that they are being controlled by the devil, and so they often counter with the argument that anyone who says that something is of the devil when it is actually from God is committing a blasphemous sin against the Holy Spirit and will never be forgiven of such a sin.

And if you are a pastor or church leader and another leader in town is behaving in strange and erratic ways, there is no need to accuse him of being of the devil or preach against him and his ministry from your pulpit.

It is not uncommon to hear the pastors who decry the lack of biblical literacy in the church today to also preach against LGBTQ people.

The pastor should have been braver against the evil in his church.