Sentences with phrase «as a church pastor»

I am sure that there have been other pastors with doubts, who were smart enough to keep quiet and line up another job to support their family first before resigning as a church pastor!

There are several problems: I'm not Roman Catholic, I have a beautiful 15 year old daughter to raise, and I can not or will not let go of my professional position as a church pastor.

-LSB-...] This cartoon's from David Hayward (a.k.a. nakedpastor), who recently left his position as church pastor.

Gates, who is now active as a church pastor, reveals that he played with Michael Jordan as Jordan geared up to return to the NBA in 2001 and had serious thoughts about trying to make it himself the same time at age 29.

Since then he has studied Journalism and Creative Writing, worked in a radio news room, gained a Theology degree, taught and lectured at a variety of seminaries, and worked as a church pastor both in Perth and in the UK.

Not exact matches

As a pastor, Young's income «was all over the place,» he says, and so were the gigs — he was constantly moving his family to a different town or state with every new church.

I doubt that in a local church in your area this Sunday you'll hear a pastor or a theologian share on the beauty of dancing as a spiritual offering of love to God.

Sometimes I feel the need to do a cartoon such as this one to show that I do not hate the church or despise pastors and congregations.

Each of us was installed as a pastor on Good Shepherd Sunday in April 1961, he at St. John the Evangelist Lutheran Church in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, and I across the East River at Trinity Lutheran Church on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

In 2006, he stepped down from the pulpit as senior pastor but continued to preach and to sit on the church board.

Everything for me as a pastor is about creating environments for the Holy Spirit to move people along in their journey so that they become dependent on the life of God and not the organization of the church.

My one fear about coming out as a pastor with gay leaders is that folks will assume I have an agenda to make all churches like mine.

Why when it's a pastor, people always take that as a reason to insult Faith and the church.

As a female pastor for 14 years I've been discouraged by the growing trend of 20 - 30's who are going in huge numbers to churches that do not allow female pastors.

And if you say you are not trying to destroy, then I ask you, did you start the church you are a part of, or did you come to the church as a new pastor and are now trying to deconstruct?

For those of you who don't know, Mark Driscoll is pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Washington, who has become quite a controversial figure in today's church and Christianity, as well as curiouChurch in Seattle, Washington, who has become quite a controversial figure in today's church and Christianity, as well as curiouchurch and Christianity, as well as curiously...

This decision should not be interpreted as an incipient feminism in Southern Baptist life (out of more than forty thousand churches, only a few dozen have female pastors), but rather as an affirmation of a pattern of cooperation that has served Baptist mission causes well for more than a century.

As many of you know he is the pastor of Vintage Faith Church in Santa Cruz, California and has been one of the leading voices for the emergent / missional movement.

It isn't always so easy to rebrand oneself when you have a 10 year work history as a pastor of a small church, a worthless Th.M degree, mountains of student loan debt, and a family to feed.

Pastor is as critical to the church as the Sr..

I feel I can comment on the effect of the naked pastor's blog on me, and whether pastors can and should say these things in general, but as for whether or not it beneficial for the church members of his church, surely it is only for them to say, and perhaps not online..?

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.

Eugene Peterson — translator of The Message and author of all my favorite books — described a period of boredom while serving as the pastor of Christ our King Presbyterian Church near Baltimore, Maryland.

And so, to the pastor of a very traditional church, maintaining the look and feel of the traditions can seem almost as important as the reason these patterns exist.

Pastor Mike Wilkerson of Mars Hill Church in Seattle says it best: «Shame is often both the consequence of giving in to an addiction the last time, as well as the precondition for giving in to it next time, resulting in more shame.»

What is the balance, if any, of a pastor having a «vision» for the church as though God only speaks through him and the team fulfills that vision with their gifts and abilities, and with the church working together under the direction of elderS (plural) for all people to use their gifts and abilities for God's vision for all people?

Pastor Gary Williams of New Life Assembly Church is not just the pastor but a miner asPastor Gary Williams of New Life Assembly Church is not just the pastor but a miner aspastor but a miner as well.

As a pastor I've been getting help for years, from a psychiatrist, from a clinical pastoral course I took years ago, from small groups over the years, from dear friends who are honest enough to speak into my life, from my medical doctor, from the elders in my church, from my wife (mostly) from an adult children for alcoholics group I started only because there was nothing in place in my community.

I grew up in a bully pulpit church and no one ever referred to the pastor as anything other than «Pastor» in person or «The Pastor» in the 3rd ppastor as anything other than «Pastor» in person or «The Pastor» in the 3rd pPastor» in person or «The Pastor» in the 3rd pPastor» in the 3rd person.

And in O'Malley's defense, it must be remembered that he is the pastor of a local church which may aptly be described as an ecclesiastical Chernobyl, the ground zero of the American abuse crisis.

For good or ill, pastors will have a major role in determining the future of the church and our country, but not primarily as pastor - Congressmen.

But wondering if that would work out they decided to push on churches to spread and depute pastors to travel to those countries for preaching and converting masses to bring those countries in to division among them selves for easier penetration in the name of saving Christian believers or generate hate and fights among them as with the operation that Egypt recently had and accused Muslims for it just to bring Egypt in to division for in the end to call for separation of the country in to more than one as one Islamic and one Christian just as being planed for Sudan North and South!?

I know some avid church attenders who are willing to judge themselves as honestly as they judge those «outside» the chosen church and who do not play the «My Pastor's Doctrinally Bigger Than Your Pastor» but they are few and far between.

That the pope is such a distinguished scholar is a great gift to the Church, but in this, as in the first encyclical, one has to wonder whether the right balance has been struck between the professor and the pastor.

What's more the church you pastor is pulling in 10,000 of what is widely regarded as the missing generation in many churches in the UK and the US - the 20s and 30somethings.

As continuing licensed ministers, their roles were normally limited to being associate pastors of churches, hospital chaplains or religion teachers, and their functions were also restricted.

I am sorry but I pastor a church and don't use church as a vocation.

In 1961, Richard John Neuhaus was installed as pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church in Brooklyn.

I was eventually laid - off to due to «lack of funds» (which I have in writing) it seemed as though people in our congregation began fleeing contemporary church and we couldn't pay me and the Lead Pastor (who sat in his office day in, day out)... I won't settle for another stagnant «building - pastor» gig, I prPastor (who sat in his office day in, day out)... I won't settle for another stagnant «building - pastor» gig, I prpastor» gig, I promise.

«We were not acting out of hate, as many thought,» says Douglas Hacker, pastor of the Sherwood Oaks Christian Church, whose views represent another group of ministers who disagreed with Miller's statement.

During his period in Strasbourg, Calvin served as a pastor to a local French «language church at the invitation of Strasbourg's great reformer, Martin Bucer, who also introduced him to the widow who would later become Calvin's wife.

As a retired AF Chaplain and current pastor whose son also expressed his displeasure with the hypocrisy and hatred in the church I couldn't agree with you more!

As soon as God would have it, I wouldn't even serve as a pastor and with number dwindling I would prefer to be an effective «CELL GROUP» killing the overhead, church drama and get down to the nuts and bolts of ministrAs soon as God would have it, I wouldn't even serve as a pastor and with number dwindling I would prefer to be an effective «CELL GROUP» killing the overhead, church drama and get down to the nuts and bolts of ministras God would have it, I wouldn't even serve as a pastor and with number dwindling I would prefer to be an effective «CELL GROUP» killing the overhead, church drama and get down to the nuts and bolts of ministras a pastor and with number dwindling I would prefer to be an effective «CELL GROUP» killing the overhead, church drama and get down to the nuts and bolts of ministry.

In the United Church of Zambia, a pastor may serve as many as eight or ten congregations.

But this deaf pastor was a bully to many others in church as well.

the scriptures do not claim as you state «infallible word of God» ------ Well, this is something I've been hearing for years, in church from pastors and in person from christians.

Some observers think that the feminization of the church, evident in the declining percentage of men taking part in church life, will be aggravated if inclusive language is employed or, worse, if a woman is called as pastor.

Many seminarians will become pastors who are either cynical about the gap between the «true» and the «false» church or who quickly jettison their theology and settle down with «things as they are» in the congregation, offering the congregation no better interpretation of its common life than the mere need for organizational maintenance.

As a pastor and a long term «member» of the Church, I pretty much agree with Jeremy, and you make exactly my point.

In Why We're Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be), Kevin DeYoung, the senior pastor at University Reformed Church in East Lansing, and Ted Kluck, a sportswriter who has written for ESPN, are quick to admit that they «don't think of our emergent sparring partners as «the bad guys.