Sentences with phrase «man as a pastor»

What would you do if they came to you and said,» We want you to keep paying all our bills, but we want a different man as our pastor»?

We are seeing the substance of the man as a pastor and shepherd of the flock.

We have been blessed to have such a humble man as a pastor.

I just want to say how grateful I am to have heard Semety articulate the «men as head of household» and «women as submissive» and «men as pastors» and (clearly) «women not».

Not exact matches

From two guys who serve as volunteer campus pastors to a team of men who now care for the yard and landscaping so we could cancel the lawn contract, I am seeing that many people are hungry to offer themselves for the Kingdom.

If we are a Christian congregation we can elect a man of virtue as pastor but there is no need for any contest concerning leadership.

What would your views be about sexism say, if a female pastor or leader or any leader makle or female treated a man as if he had been opressive towards a woman with no evidence for that having happened?

Today the pastor and renowned author posted some interesting reflections on the connections and tensions between worship and social justice, using a story involving the man who betrayed Jesus to unto death as an example, on Twitter.

«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»),

Let's deconstruct this «apology»: He doesn't apologize as a human being, a man with a heart, but as a pastor, already positioning himself in a superior role over his victim.

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.

But, either way, the sarcastic shots at many men who honestly just want to see God work in the lives of people and who pour their lives into people as pastors and leaders is not constructive.

Besides Ez 34, as a point of evidence, I have also met so many men and women with «the heart of a pastor» encouraging, comforting, and working alongside of the forgotten societies: the homeless, the sick, the forgotten in nursing homes, the prisoners, the hungry and the needy....

Then instead of attacking all Catholics in all of the ranting, attack the men who have committed these crimes, the boy scout leaders, teachers, coaches, next door neighbors as well as the priests, pastors and deacons of whatever church they are part of.

He is as good a man as any, but he may be better suited for the stage or garnering publicity somewhere than being a pastor.

My experience as a pastor fades in comparison to such hardships endured by heroic men and women who have nothing but stones and fallen cinderblocks to hammer into gravel for concrete.

But this Jesus is only a human being, and (as Pastor Ennio Flores has well put it) if he is God it is only because he is the poorest of men.

The idea had been Martin Luther King's, at least officially, but Pastor Neuhaus was close to the arduous, difficult civil rights work being done in Bedford - Stuyvesant (the Movement was discovering that Northern neighborhoods had an entirely different, more hardened, multiethnic toughness than Southern cities) and it was my guess that Richard, as much as anybody, was the actual dynamo and idea man behind Clergy an

The idea had been Martin Luther King's, at least officially, but Pastor Neuhaus was close to the arduous, difficult civil rights work being done in Bedford - Stuyvesant (the Movement was discovering that Northern neighborhoods had an entirely different, more hardened, multiethnic toughness than Southern cities) and it was my guess that Richard, as much as anybody, was the actual dynamo and idea man behind Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, along with William Sloane Coffin, then the pastor of Riverside CPastor Neuhaus was close to the arduous, difficult civil rights work being done in Bedford - Stuyvesant (the Movement was discovering that Northern neighborhoods had an entirely different, more hardened, multiethnic toughness than Southern cities) and it was my guess that Richard, as much as anybody, was the actual dynamo and idea man behind Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, along with William Sloane Coffin, then the pastor of Riverside Cpastor of Riverside Church.

As I listened to the pastor recite the beautiful words with which he asked me if I would «take this man to be my beloved husband,» I realized something.

Country Parson offers us a more complete picture of Herbert the man — a pastor who sees his poetic talents as inseparable from his priestly vocation.

Gregory's approach to pastoral care of the rich has exceptional subtlety, hinging importantly upon the biblical paradigms of Nathan before David and of David's care for Saul.34 When pastors come before the wealthy as spiritual guides, they do well to remember what Nathan did in the case of the poor man whom the rich man had abused.

His father was a German Lutheran pastor who immigrated to this country and converted to the Baptist faith and the democratic polity as a young man.

If we are to move toward a more just placement system for women, there are three groups of persons who can play an important role in bringing about such change: the men who currently serve as senior pastors, the men and women who serve as denominational placement officers, and the clergywomen themselves.

The classic pastor's greeting line, «We're just one big happy family» ranks right up there with «I haven't got a racist bone in my body,» «I don't like yes - men,» and «We've got to get together for lunch — real soon» as classic patent insincerities.

He took a job as maintenance man at Pastor Joseph's church and a year later the Taylors secured a scholarship for Innocent to study on a university course of his choice.

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There are three other members of the professional staff: a young man called two years prior as associate pastor, administrative assistant and a 30 - hour - per - week director of music.

So also, the concept of the man as the head of the household carried over into the idea that the pastor was the head of the church, especially since early churches often met in houses.

And as a pastor, as a bible teacher, I think God make men masculine... Men are made for combat, men are made for conflict, men are made for dominion.&raqmen masculine... Men are made for combat, men are made for conflict, men are made for dominion.&raqMen are made for combat, men are made for conflict, men are made for dominion.&raqmen are made for conflict, men are made for dominion.&raqmen are made for dominion.»

As a Christian Pastor I have no problem denouncing this mans acts and his supposed faith.

Fox acquaints his readers with the Niebuhr who was a preacher, perhaps pre-eminently a preacher; the Niebuhr who was pastor as well as professor to generations of seminary students; the Niebuhr who was (as a Jewish friend of mine put it beautifully) «a holy man.»

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.

Set parallel in time, place and theme to Gilead, her prizewinning novel of 2004, Marilynne Robinson's new novel, Home, takes the reader inside the home of retired Presbyterian pastor Robert Boughton for another perspective on Jack Boughton, the black sheep of the family, who left Gilead as a young man after fathering a child.

Just as he got there, a second man lashed out with his fist, and gave the pastor another blow on his left cheek.

He would gain the right to use a pastor's pulpit and then denounce that pastor before his congregation as an unconverted man.

On a personal note, I am very happy to write because we as a family have much to thank Dr. Abraham for - a man who as a pastor to us lived out the principles that he teaches as a theological ethicist.

A man commits adultery and loses his job as a pastor, and almost loses his wife, but then gets to go on a speaking tour around the country helping others in the same situation.

Woman should not be a pastor as she doesn't have spiritual authority over man.

I certainly hope for the Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, as I would hope for myself and others with me, if found out to be of Christian faith and a modern order, not unlike the Christians who walked with Jesus as a man and Pastor who, as it were, was finally offered up as a sacrificial offering to God upon a cross after being found guilty of offending the then Church of Israel who then proposed his death sentance to be carried out by a Roman Court, though he was innocent of the charges.

As the elderly pastor and young Dietrich ascended the stairs of the multi-storied building where the boys were, the children dropped rubbish on the two men below.

I listened as each of those men — pastors!

I maybe wasn't as clear in the «text» portion of this post as I should have been, but the video portion of the post shows how a particular female pastor is leading her church in a way that brings men back to church, and raises them up to be godly husbands, fathers, and church leaders.

you all blame the pastor === stupid move === the young men were just as bad they knew what they were doing == they had a choice and they had there mouths open == they could have said no they were all above 16 == they knew the difference == they could have said NO and walked away.

I do nt know whats worse the fact that a white man could be accused of the same thing this man is accused of and we as blacks would be screaming bloody murder or the fact that he marched against gay marriages, and took personal shots at other pastor and then he gets exposed 4 what he really is and that ironically is everything he preached and marched against sad

When the doors to the Sistine Chapel are closed and the secret deliberations begin, the 117 men in the 2013 papal conclave will not only be selecting a pope as the new bishop of Rome, but also as the pastor of the 1,195,671,000 - member global communion.

Men often feel threatened by the intellectual and authority roles of these women and by their ability as pastors, and therefore are reluctant to initiate or share a close relationship.

Our pastor is a very funny man and likes to have a good time, but admitted that he probably wouldn't have acted the same way in the presence of other church members as he did with us.

«I want to be a pastor, powerful with men, preaching to them Christ as the man in whom their affections and energies can find the satisfaction for which mankind is groaning.»

I Timothy 5:8 is a favorite of anti-SAHD pastors to toss out and use as biblical justification for why men MUST be the breadwinner and leave the responsibilities of full time child - rearing and running a household to their wives.