Sentences with phrase «as a pastor in»

As a pastor in New York City, I address any number of cultural issues and concerns on a weekly basis.

Boreham was born in England and spent his entire adult life as a pastor in New Zealand, Tasmania and Australia in the early to mid twentieth century.

Increasingly, they are also coming to serve as our pastors in chief.

As a pastor in a confessional and evangelical tradition, I want the people I counsel and lead to trust in the sufficiency of Scripture, the power of the gospel, the regular graces of gathered worship, the preaching of God's Word, and the Lord's Supper for spiritual growth.

As a pastor in Hollywood, he served the community but boldly skirted his employers expectations.

I refuse to work as a pastor in a church anymore because I'm so sick of how leaders get away with it all.

CNN: My Take: Obama's Newtown remarks show presidents as pastors in chief Stephen Prothero, an author and Boston University religion scholar, says President Barack Obama was «a pastor among pastors» as he recited scripture and inspirational quotes to comfort the people of Newtown at Sunday's interfaith memorial service.

But I know I was a much better teacher as a pastor in a congregation than I have been as a professor in a school.

His father was a German immigrant who served as pastor in a German - speaking Lutheran Church which mixed the Lutheran and Reformed traditions.

He is an amazing person, and is all over our community helping our vulnerable residents, and serves as pastor in 2 churches, changing minds and lives, one person at a time.

He said: «I presume I was asked this question because of my former career as a pastor in the Presbyterian Church (USA), which recently affirmed homosexuality and began allowing its clergy to perform same - sex weddings.

As a pastor in that «part of the world» during this decade, I well remember those lonely voices amid the silence of public opinion.

My experience as a pastor in several churches was just the opposite.

Nowhere is the missionary invasion more evident than on the island of Hispanola, where I recently served as a pastor in the Dominican Evangelical Church in the city of Barahona in the Dominican Republic.

I battle as a pastor in my mind if I'm doing wrong by using donations to survive and few times went to work but noticed the church and ministry start falling apart

However, women have served as pastors in Vermont churches partly because many of those churches are small, rural and low - paying.

There are one hundred and seven women serving as pastors in our denomination in North America.

In all three of the major Anabaptist Mennonite denominations (Mennonite, Brethren in Christ, and Mennonite Brethren), women serve as pastors in various roles.

As a pastor in one of the so - called «mainline» Protestant churches, I see plenty of things that stand as obstacles (idols, perhaps?)

He was later transferred to Agona Nsaba in the Central Region (1995 - 1999), where he was ordained as a Pastor in 1996.

As our pastor in my church says, «What you keep is all you have.

Not exact matches

Then there was the pastor who demanded that the congregation «fill in the blanks» of a not - so - old song by a guy the minister described as the «dysfunctional poet savant Lil» Wayne.»

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.

In much the same way that most Christians would not like to see their pastors discuss «tooth fairy theory» as being a possible path to salvation that's just as good as accepting christ.

In a sermon called «Unleashed as a Family - Raising and Releasing the Next Gen of Kingdom Builders» at the Chinese Missions Convention, the Christian author said: «A few weeks ago I was in Brazil and I was having lunch with a pastor out therIn a sermon called «Unleashed as a Family - Raising and Releasing the Next Gen of Kingdom Builders» at the Chinese Missions Convention, the Christian author said: «A few weeks ago I was in Brazil and I was having lunch with a pastor out therin Brazil and I was having lunch with a pastor out there.

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.

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.

While in bed, the Youngs plan to have bedside interviews via skype with various pastors and friends to «discuss tantalizing truths about sex as God intended,» according to their website.

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

As Pastor Wurmbramd said, Atheism doesn't give peace in the heart of atheists.

It was as if the gags (and honoring the pastors, and remaining submissive in word and deed and THOUGHT, and competing in «Who has the most self - discipline?»

-------- bob, your comment about the cofc pastor you knew of and putting me in the same box as him, in a previous debate, spoke volumes.

------- Oh, Alice, there no doubt, many pastors you would define as displaying the fruit of the Spirit, but if you knew what is going on behind the the doors, you would declare them not annointed of God in spite of what looks like fruit.

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.

As a pastor, a blogger, a speaker and having a small but growing reputation as someone that loves justice and advocates on issues of justice, I realised on a personal basis that I had grown more in love with the idea of justice than actually living justlAs a pastor, a blogger, a speaker and having a small but growing reputation as someone that loves justice and advocates on issues of justice, I realised on a personal basis that I had grown more in love with the idea of justice than actually living justlas someone that loves justice and advocates on issues of justice, I realised on a personal basis that I had grown more in love with the idea of justice than actually living justly.

In their mind, it's a pastor as an authority figure, preaching and teaching all the right things and maintaining the status quo.

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.

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.

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 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.

There is also a huge difference in tone between the hate used by some people and what Nated Pastor is doing here, I don't see it in anyway as making him or commentors look as bad as the patriarchy views.

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.

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.

«In my faith community, popular women pastors such as Joyce Meyer were considered unbiblical for preaching from the pulpit in violation of the apostle Paul's restriction in 1 Timothy 2:12 («I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent»In my faith community, popular women pastors such as Joyce Meyer were considered unbiblical for preaching from the pulpit in violation of the apostle Paul's restriction in 1 Timothy 2:12 («I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent»in violation of the apostle Paul's restriction in 1 Timothy 2:12 («I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent»in 1 Timothy 2:12 («I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent»),

As a working pastor in the south going up for her ordination endorsement this year there a moments when I think that I'll find such relief once I'm finished with my examinations... until I remember all the stories of the «stained glass ceiling» that I've heard from my fully ordained clergy - sisters... and I realize the hard work is just going to begin next year.

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.»

Many years ago I was added to the listserve for a group of Evangelical pastors, though not a pastor myself, and one day one of them asked the group about using stories or quotes in sermons without telling their people they were using them, that is, presenting the stories as their own stories and the quotes as their own creation.

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.