Sentences with phrase «day as pastor»

Believe me, I would've continued until my dying day as pastor of this church, but it was becoming more evident to me that I wasn't fitting.

I have so much hope these days as a pastor that people genuinely desire deep and meaningful friendship.

David Mercer, In my days as pastor, I went to so many conferences and seminars where I was told to never let them see me sweat.

Recently unearthed online rants from Driscoll's early days as a pastor give us a glimpse of the inner thoughts of a man who throughout his 18 years as a pastor routinely characterizes all the things he detested most in the world as feminine or gay.

This week, several bloggers have uncovered some of Driscoll's online rants from his early days as a pastor.

I have to face this insecurity and reach out a lot more these days as a pastor's wife!

Not exact matches

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.

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.

I will admit even as a pastor during this election season I have often ended my days disheartened and discouraged for our present and ever mindful about our future.

These days most seminarians do not serve as student - pastors, but Efird began working as a pastor when he was an undergraduate.

In those days, an older pastor was often seen as a better representative of the tradition.

The secret call as always remains important, but in the conception of the ministry that is emerging out of the Biblical and systematic theology of the day and out of the personal reflections of young people and their pastors, the divine action whereby men are chosen for their station and calling is less spiritualistically understood than was the case for the past hundred years.

Then one day, a pastor took the stage at my church and shared a story I'd heard zillions of times, but was about to hear again as if for the first time.

As an aside, my pastor's wife, who is from Barbados, talked about Pentacostalism in Barbados the other day.

As the wife of Saeed Abedini, the 33 - year - old Iranian - American pastor imprisoned for more than 250 days, testifies before the United Nations's Human Rights Council today, the White House has issued its strongest statement yet advocating for Abedini's release.

Then I served the church as a pastor for about 30 years, studying the bible and theology day in and day out.

The heroes of modern - day evangelicalism, from scholars like N.T. Wright to pastors like Rob Bell, are passionately and unapologetically contextual textualists, working diligently with a host of ancient literary and archaeological sources to make sense of biblical texts as they would have been understood in their day.

It wasn't until I moved into the manse as an assistant pastor of an independent middle - of - the - road charismatic church that I joined the senior ministers in discovering the healing effects of red wine after a long hard day.

As I sat in a seedy tavern with your mother and your pastor the other day, they both agreed that you were nuts.

As Christians celebrate Good Friday, Pastor Kerry Shook explores how Jesus spent his last days on Earth.

In his first major interview as senior pastor in Costa Mesa, Brodersen says his relationship with Smith goes back to the early days of the Calvary Chapel movement, when Brodersen was a new disciple and manager of a surf shop.

Just a friendly update from California that I have now spent my fifth day working on contacting all of the big free speech legal advocates in Canada and the United States (and those important organizations in Europe as well) about this story and the entire issue of Free Speech (which these public figure pastors in the U.S. who are nationally known want to silence).

Baptist pastor and theologian Val J. Sauer describes «biblical eschatology» as dealing with «God's final acts toward his creation, the last days, the promise of the future, and the hope which grows Out of this promise.»

The challenge of our day is for the pastor to see his job as enabler and to begin to train laymen for the more challenging task of community mental health workers.

(CNN)- It has been more than 1,000 days since a Christian pastor was thrown into an Iranian jail for leaving Islam and sentenced to death for, as the U.S. State Department put it, «simply following his faith.»

I can't remember where I heard it, but the other day I chanced upon an audio clip of a few pastors discussing that Christians often view God's omniscience of their souls as a warm fuzzy sort of thing.

The priest or pastor is sometimes confused today as to what constitutes his real role, for it seems so much more limited than it was in an earlier day when he was a «father - in - god» to his flock in every possible way.

As one former pastor told me, these groups aren't the sensation they once were because in his words «you can find juicier stories on the internet these days».

His last day as CLC senior pastor will be in April.

In our day also, there is an awakening beginning to happen as some churches and pastors realize that the sole source of authority for all that they say and do is the Word of God; not popular opinion and community surveys.

I'm humbled — I don't see myself as a very faithful pastor sometimes, and have often wondered whether I even belong in the ministry, but I'm still here, some days for the better, some days for the worse.

With regard to public services there was a good deal of flexibility: «Holy days such as Sunday shall be observed and as many others as the respective pastors have been accustomed to observe... Some sing Mass in German, some in Latin, either of which is permissible.»

The challenge of our day, however, is for the pastor to see his job as enabler and to begin to train laymen for the more challenging task of community mental health workers.

The decision came a day after Parker met with Houston pastors (including Chris Seay, who wrote about the subpoenas for Leadership Journal), as well as clergy leaders from across the country who have defended the subpoenaed pastors» religious freedom.

Now, Driscoll has often referred to these as his «angry young prophet days,» and says he hopes to move to a more fatherly role as he continues as a pastor and leader in evangelical Christianity.

For where Professor Mike Ocquaye is traversing in recent times, if I don't awake him from his sycophantic venture, he will end up not only as a DISHONEST HISTORIAN, but his Maker will tell him,» YOU WERE AN IRRELEVANT AND A WORTHLESS PASTOR» on the day of judgement.

A close relative who spoke with our correspondent disclosed that Pastor Osara had called Eunice on that fateful day demanding for their mother's house rent fee, but her phone went off during the conversation, which the Pastor took as an insult.

Sheriff's decision came just few days after the Chairman of the party's Caretaker Committee, Sen Ahmed Makarfi announced Pastor Osagie Ize - Iyamu as the party's flag bearer for the September 10, governorship election in the state.

A longstanding friend of the Bruderhof, Maurice was well acquainted with my late father, Pastor Johann Christoph Arnold, and on one occasion arranged for him to say an opening prayer on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives and serve as guest chaplain for the day.

«Days later, a female serving Nigerian Air Force officer reported that her relative whom she identified as Mr. Andrew Anthony, a pastor of a church was killed during the raid and that he was not a militant.

When we left the church, bubbles blown and people cheering we were about to drive off when I was told the pastor would not allow balloons to be all over the parking lot / grounds (church was next day) so we couldn't release all the balloons as we sped away.

Synopsis: Beautiful but pious sisters Martine (Birgitte Federspiel) and Philippa (Bodil Kjer) grow to spinsterhood under the wrathful eye of their strict pastor father on the forbidding and desolate coast of Jutland, until one day, Philippa's former suitor sends a Parisian refugee named Babette (Stéphane Audran) to serve as the family cook.

Raised as a Pastor's kid and my father doing exorcisms since I could remember, well this reminded me of the few stories that he would not be open to share; after begging my Father he would say «no, you won't be able to sleep again for days».

Recently, more than a dozen community members — from pastors to police officers — shared an opportunity to shadow one of the districts educational leaders as their schools principal for a day.»