Sentences with phrase «by a pastor in»

In my 40 years in lay ministries, all the disgrace brought to Christianity by pastors in my area [and probably in western culture] have done by male pastors.

I do know there are dirty hands, and there was an abuse of power by Pastors in leadership.

To me and to every victim of spiritual abuse by Pastors in a position of power and influence.

If they find themselves colonized by pastors in aloha shirts who are backed by rock bands and who take cheap shots at the Lutheran Book of Worship, it is at least in part because they have ceased to steward a compelling and living tradition with the power to change lives.

In the new study, patients with a higher quality of life during their final days included those who avoided hospitalizations and stays in the intensive care unit (ICU), were not worried about death, prayed or meditated, received care at home, did not use a feeding tube, were visited by a pastor in the hospital or clinic, did not undergo chemotherapy in the final week of life, and felt an alliance with their oncologist regarding therapy.

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.»

Not to be outdone, my current pastor (who is white, by the way, but pastors a very diverse congregation) recently did a cooking demo onstage and had a few of the thousand people in the sanctuary come up to get their piece of the hero sandwich he'd constructed.

Price is surrounded by loved ones including a Pastor right now at home in Mt. Pleasant, Texas.

In this film, the pastor and a nun, played by Ingrid Bergman, attempt to save a run - down parochial school on the verge of being closed down.

@Steve: Have you talked to your pastor yet to confess your sin of constantly flaunting your blessedly perfect church in front of groups of people — mostly strangers to you — who've been hurt by their experiences in deceitful, toxic, dysfunctional, and / or spiritually - abusive churches?

So what does Terry Jones, pastor of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, hope to accomplish by calling for a «Burn a Quran Day» this Saturday, September 11, the ninth anniversary of the worst sneak attack on American soil in our 234 - year history?

This is all the more likely in light of the recent narrow acquittal by a church tribunal of a pastor on the charges that he violated church law by performing a wedding ceremony for two lesbian members of his Omaha, Nebraska, congregation.

Question is that while we are told that we should not to define Islam by the actions of a few where are the voices in the middle east when the people are chanting death to America over the pastor wanting to but.

Read a verse from Quran, in context of Quran Burning idea by that Pastor.

We have a large mega style church here in Lexington where the lead Pastor succumbed to his own Ego fanned by rapid growth in numbers and peer recognition of his amazing «success».

This guy had the amazing ability to psychologically transfer allegiance to Christ into allegiance to himself by developing the perception of being the infallible Oracle of Jesus in the eyes of his followers, Unfortunately for him, about 4 weeks ago he and his female worship pastor were forced to publicly confess a «long term» physical relationship.

The letter was also signed by Paul Barker from Quakers in Britain and Ali Johnson, an associate pastor at Swan Bank Methodist Church near Southampton.

I had to move on to an «open and affirming» congregation where I could be encouraged in my faith instead of steadily dealing with ignorant, hurtful comments made by selective - literalist pastors.

I don't think that she finds the fact that people in their 20's and 30's are going to churches led by male pastors disturbing: It's that they're attending churches where a female pastor would not even be an * option *.

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.

If that is what you are intending to say, are you suggesting that similar woudn't be happening in churches led by female pastors?

Until then, you are just another mo ron that has been duped by their pastor, preacher, religious figure, etc and believes in fairy tales still.

There was still silence when, at around the same time, the sons of pastor Alexander Pavenko of the charismatic Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord were murdered by separatists in the city of Slavyansk, when the priests of the Patriarchate of Kyev and the Muslim leaders were expelled from Crimea, and when Greek Catholic priests were tortured by the «Russian Orthodox Army.»

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.

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.

I've seen people coming to the polls with a list compiled by pastors to tell them who to vote for in each ward.

No one has power over truth absolute, constant GOD, but always under truth absolute, Ellah, Ellohim, Allah, constant GOD, proven by quantum physics, hindu ignorant posters spew their hinduism, absurdities in following of their hindu filthy desire's with changing winds to run their business of hinduism, denial of truth absolute GOD to attract humanity to hinduism, illegality without any truth, religion's are nothing but a business for hindu, criminal pastors seeking numbers and dollars by use of holy name of GOD like a hindu Pundit, criminal crook with his Pandora box, deserving not to have an audience, but to be in jail's for hinduism, criminality under cover of hinduism, corruption of truth absolute religions.

I worked in a small church in Kansas once, and after about 3 months I figured out that all the real major decisions, including if the pastor got paid that week, were not made by the elders, the board or congregational vote.

Yes, ironic... ironic that the fellow who is on the slow train to hell, who she was warned by the pastor not to get involved with because he was an atheist, the fellow who has never had anyone in the church leadership say more than a sentence to when he did go with her to church, is the minister behind the minister of coffee.

By the nature of the blog, and the fact that he pastor's a church, that gives in some authority in some peoples minds.

Here is the headline, pastors at a vast majority of church's do nt handle the finances... and oh, by the way, if all Christians are so corrupt, who pays for the billions of dollars in humaintarian aid through the Red Cross each year?

Granted they are being controlled via the chosen 144,000 in Brooklyn but what religion isn't being controlled by and handful of pastors?

In a discussion group led by a pastor I once exclaimed: Oh, how I wish Jesus had lived growing old, we would have so many more of his wise stories going straight to the heart!

Henry G. Brinton, a pastor at Fairfax Presbyterian Church in Virginia, writes that the Bible was used a weapon by both the North and the South.

As my friend Pastor Richard John Neuhaus has so eloquently put it, «the Holocaust is in modern consciousness the icon of barbarity by contrast with which civilization is defined.»

When we decided to leave that church, I was told by the pastor's wife that we could not be friends anymore because I wasn't committed to them, that I had been like a «live - in girlfriend» because I had been fellowshipping with them and had decided to leave them.

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.

I was told this by the church — but anger was generally expressed from the pastor in a more passive agressive way...

We returned and for a short time it seemed normal, but then strange things began to occur again behind thr scenes with one controlling narcissist woman whose family is friends with the pastor (so if she doesn't like you or feels threatened by you in any way plants bugs in his ear to affect leadership choices and assignments and negative treatment / assumptions about anyone she pleases).

In the other the pastor is scapegoated by the flock of wolves that he is attempting to lead.

By visiting the sick, organizing the church and developing an urban ministry, the pastor imbued the members of the congregation with a new sense of confidence in their value to one another and, in particular, to the neighborhood.

In speaking with a number of the pastors in the months since the lecture, I have found that by and large the earlier spirit of condemnation has been replaced by sincere concern and compassioIn speaking with a number of the pastors in the months since the lecture, I have found that by and large the earlier spirit of condemnation has been replaced by sincere concern and compassioin the months since the lecture, I have found that by and large the earlier spirit of condemnation has been replaced by sincere concern and compassion.

They were very welcoming but my daughter was «interrogated» by the pastor's wife — what kind of house do we stay in?

As they reflected on this finding, Hoge and Wenger «came to believe that the conflicts most often experienced by our participants are ones that could probably be resolved and in the process offer growth experiences for both pastor and congregation.»

Those Christians killing natives and mistreating them did so in part BECAUSE they were told it was okay by their pastors and priests, they were directly dehumanized from the pulpits that allowed their members to go about their murder and mistreatment without guilt or punishment.

But the pastor's vision prevailed, and «by 1998, the church was averaging 50 baptisms per year and 635 in attendance.»

If a gay person wants to get married in a church by a priest or pastor, the gay rights trumps the Christian doctrine.

By conceiving of collegiality in terms of «support groups,» the authors fail to appreciate the potential for strong forms of collegiality that have the character of friendship, in which fellow pastors share each other's lives and help shape each other's character.

To become a 7th Day Adventist pastor you first need an undergraduate degree in religion followed by a master's degree in «divinity» from one of the SDA universities and then a pastoral internship.

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 guyIn 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 guyin 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.