Sentences with phrase «good old pastor»

Not exact matches

However, in my personal life, I'm more than willing to tell my friends, family, my old pastor (who is intelligent, well spoken, and respectful, which makes for engaging conversations) or the random evangelists handing out pamphlets on the street what I think.

However, many of those were older, more traditional churches led by entrenched, autocratic pastors well into their 60s and composed of a congregation and worship style that was far from contemporary.

I am 60 years old, grew up in a very legalistic cultic church, been part of several church leaderships, served as pastor of a start up church, read and went to many, many, many church growth conferences, wanted to reach the lost, always trying to find the best structures, the best form of church, and what type of bells and whistles will attract people to church.

Meanwhile, the slightly - older - than - middle - age grandmother who doesn't play the piano so well — or the forester who loves to study the Bible but can't make it every Sunday — or the welder and his wife, who homeschools their 3 children with the desire to minister to their kids and their friends but can't because they ticked off the pastor's wife on the last trip — they'll just sit and wait, or wonder if they should leave and re-enter.

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

If Ray was in crisis, good old solid Ray, what about us younger and less - experienced pastors?

With these pastors, priest, popes, and elders all lying to the people, misleading the flocks, as was prophesied they would in Ezekiel 20, Malachi 2, Jeremiah 23:1 - 5, we are all a lost generation of pestilence, greed, and poverty, and this is not old people, as taught to us in Isaiah 43:11,13 - 19; that this book gives us the past, present, and future of what is going on, then, and now, it's juxtapose, meaning one must «compare» what is going on today with what went on long ago, for it has not changed any, not a bit from how people went astray then, full of pride, and are doing the same thing now, calling it good, or right, prophesied in Malachi 3:13 - 15.

Many churches in the Yungan area are removing crosses from their buildings, and local police have cracked down on local gatherings: detaining a local pastor, as well as believers as young as 3 years old for singing in a park.

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

Well, pastor — DARLING...; I'm a Born Again believer, and lifelong outdoorsman / sportsman and have fired guns since I was old enough to pick one up.

Who he is: Jeremiah is the senior pastor at Shadow Mountain Community Church, a 105 - year - old Southern Baptist congregation in California, where he succeeded best - selling author Tim LaHaye.

As the news spread on Saturday, Christians around the world were gripped by the suicide of 27 - year - old Matthew Warren, son of Rick Warren, a beloved megachurch pastor and best - selling author of «The Purpose Driven Life.»

ok well in the bible it is against divorce also but god forgives to but it is still wrong and yes i am from nc and i do live in catawba country where this took place but i do nt have to sit around and watch people make out with each other and u know lesbians and gays should read the bible more pentcosal think the same way about that it is wrong for a man and man to be togather and a woman and woman to be togather and some of you people are just plan stupid and i think that some of you just need to think it is god place to judge this pastor and it might be old fashion but back in the ol days we did nt have all this volice and all these crimes but look now there is alot of crime and volice and all we are doing is mad that a pastor said how he felt about gays and lesbiens

The older concept, that the «good believer» is only a follower, and supports the pastor at every turn, simply created non-thinking folks.

I have seen too much: — an arrogant pastor that told me to leave the grounds and slammed the church door behind him; another that told me «all bisexuals are promiscuous» and thought this was not bigotry nor prejudice; — a young well - meaning pastor that was my bodyguard once, and never returned to feed the poor in their tent - villages; — a wonderful older brother that helped feed the poor but was scolded by his church too many times for being corrupted by his friendship with me; — an elder with weight identity issues that had medical intervention who talked down to me since I had gender identity issues and medical intervention (I laughed during the meeting because the hypocrisy was amazing...); — an elder that was like Jesus without condemnation towards me, and amazing... but we had to meet in my home far away from his rejecting church.

As for the dire warnings listed above: Our beautiful, strong, loving marriage is in it's 25th year; our children all survived cosleeping (our littlest, 14 months, is still safely and contentedly sleeping in our bed); my breasts are, well, normal except for being a couple of cup sizes larger at the moment since I'm breastfeeding, lol; our children are, in order, a 24 yr old pastor (our firstborn son mentioned in the story above who is expecting his first son!)

Send a «I miss you» text too soon, ask him to go away for the weekend within only the first couple Dear Pastor, I am a 41 - year - old man, and this Christmas was the best I had for a long time.

Moving between their worlds, Christian and Jewish, African - American and white, impoverished and well - to - do, Albom observes how these very different men employ faith similarly in fighting for survival: the older, suburban rabbi embracing it as death approaches; the younger, inner - city pastor relying on it to keep himself and his church afloat.

That's not good enough for the pastor, who reportedly says he plans to hire someone to shoot it, and who scolded a 70 - year - old woman who showed up to feed it.

And what I love about our asst. pastor — he came into a very reserved, well - off, community (with alot of older people) who were probably shocked at his longer hair and relaxed jeans.