Sentences with phrase «of young pastors»

Thus, it seems like a lot of young pastors are what I call «aspirational charismatics.»

But what surprised me about many of these younger pastors was their complete lack of interest in seminary.

Not exact matches

Gibbs, a former pastor who talks to young audiences about bullying and life choices, says Shipp's opening doors for him has produced 90 percent of the 40 - plus engagements he has booked so far this year.

What it's about: A message - heavy morality tale starring Bing Crosby, «Going My Way» is about a popular youthful pastor giving a group of young kids direction in life while winning over the more conventional pastor who lead the parish before him.

Belmont RUF pastor, Kevin Twit, one of the key players both musically and creatively in the Indelible Grace movement, said young people have latched onto hymns because of the link they have with history.

«It's time to put the bed back in church and God back in the bed because God is the one that thought sex up,» says Ed Young, senior pastor of Fellowship Church.

These are younger, Internet - savvy pastors who represent diverse views across the spectrum of Southern Baptist Convention life.

Bishop Eddie Long, the Atlanta pastor who has received massive media attention since four young men accused him of sexual coercion last September, is entangled in a dispute with an entrepreneur over $ 1 million in investments that Long wants returned to his church members.

An American pastor who's amassed more than 50 million views on YouTube has visited London to tell young people about the dangers of drugs and crime.

One young adult pastor from Seattle area told me of a friend's lament that, when it comes to video games, «14 - year - olds are kicking our butt when we play online.»

When I was a young teenage Christian, I one day expressed some doctrinal doubts to my pastor, who in no uncertain terms informed me that doubt was of Satan and that there was never any reason to question God's Word.

I have two young kids and have always looked up to your dad as an example of the kind of pastor I would like to be.

To my shock (I was younger then), the majority of pastors who responded disagreed, and said that telling a story as if it were your own and using a substantial quote as if you'd written it were perfectly all right.

One thing is certain to a pastor: the only parishioners fighting the old battles are old themselves, their felt banners frayed and their guitar strings broken, while a young battalion is rising, with no animus against the atrophied adolescence of their parents, and only eager to engage a real spiritual combat in a culture of death.

• In anticipation of a directed study on suicide in the Bible, a young mother whose teen - aged son had killed himself a few years before spoke of her eagerness for such a course to her pastor.

A speaker, blogger and youth pastor, Brad is the coauthor of Growing Young, several Sticky Faith resources and Can I Ask That?

It doesn't matter what the problem or the argument, I am to blame or accused of lying regardless of what I say, I was accused of hurting the pastor's wife who is 30 years younger than I am.

As a young pastor I tried to maintain control of the congregation and each person in it.

My wife and have have a retired pastor friend who early on in his pastoral career, with the help of several new, young couples challenged the bullies in the church.

A bright young student raised in a tradition of conservative Evangelical pietism, Mouw recalls that his pastors «often viewed the intellectual life against the background of a cosmic spiritual battle in which the human intellect, especially as it aligns itself with the cause of the academy, is inevitably on the wrong side of the struggle.»

The pastor's statement to the young woman is, unfortunately, indicative of a widespread ignorance of biblical texts dealing both directly and indirectly with the subject of suicide.

As David Kinnaman explains in his enlightening book, You Lost Me, one of the top six responses among young adults is that they left the church because they didn't feel like their pastors, mentors, and friends took their questions about faith seriously.

A memorial service will be held to remember two sons of a West Sussex pastor and a young woman who were killed in a helicopter crash in the Grand Canyon.

A young seminarian could effectively caricature the preaching of his supervising pastor.

A year on from the tragic suicide of his youngest son, megachurch pastor Rick Warren speaks to Justin Brierley about the pain and purpose of Matthew's... More

«Anyone who does just a little digging on Bethke's YouTube channel or on Google will quickly learn that this young poet is a conservative Christian and member of the Mars Hill Church led by controversial pastor Mark Driscoll,» writes Patheos blogger Brian Kirk, a Missouri - based pastor.

Pastors and mentors will of course feel compelled to offer guidance and prayer as young adults navigate the tricky terrain of sexuality, but they should not be deceived into thinking that the all the questions about faith, science, technology, religious pluralism, politics, justice, equality, and ethics emerging from the Millennial generation are related to sex and can be solved by abstaining from it.

Long, senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Church in suburban Atlanta, was accused by four young men in September of using his spiritual authority to coerce them into sexual relationships.

One Sabbath service as the congregation in Newbury listened to the sermon of their pastor, the door burst open and in walked a young woman stark naked.

«Sneakers, mohawk, several tats...» Sounds like 80 % of the newly - minted youth pastors out there these days, young women included.

A memorial service will be held to remember two sons of a West Sussex pastor and a young woman who were... More

About 58 percent of young adults indicated they dropped out because of their church or pastor.

Evangelical leaders constantly warn that young people are deserting churches; pastors struggle to address changing views on homosexuality; and others wonder how evangelicals can remain relevant when a growing number of Americans refuse to identify with any religion.

Comedian Tripp Crosby got into his character of «Pastor Mark» — basically a take on the stereotypical young, cool evangelical pastor — to «interview» RobPastor Mark» — basically a take on the stereotypical young, cool evangelical pastor — to «interview» Robpastor — to «interview» Rob Bell.

Mark is an Assemblies of God pastor at National Community Church reaching a group of young professionals in the District of Columbia using movie theatres and a very well done «third place» called the Ebenezer Café.

Church members and older pastors think of youth ministry as «entry - level» work, which only encourages younger clergy to climb the ladder toward something worth their time.

While the country reels in horror at the lack of moral backbone from the power elite at PSU — putting their «image» above the safety of young boys — the pastor of this church allows himself to be pushed into an act of moral (and Christian) cowardice by the sinners in his midst.

In the past, the task of parsing verb forms and looking up vocabulary was too wide a ditch for many a seminarian and young pastor to get over.

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.

The pastor is a young guy, and besides everyone asking me to come 8 times, I probably would if the people who were nicd to use there, would have had the same demeanor during the rest of the week They're a cute little church w / maybe 200 each service (they have 2 morning services) I tried to have her go to VBS, but they wanted the parents to go to a Bible study instead of with them, so I bowed out of that one.

The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fulttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory with stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.

Just as touch bridged the gap for infidelity to poke its nasty head in the case of the pastor and young lady, there are countless other nonverbal factors that if not stewarded well, have the potential to lead to marital infidelity.

A moment of touch ended in devastation for this pastor's marriage and this young lady's reputation.

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.

To facilitate this kind of ministry to youth, a pastor might ask several families in which the parent or parents are especially gifted in relating to youths to form a cluster that can include several young people with the family groups.

David explains why in the first line of his book: he was the youngest megachurch pastor in history.

In view of the missionary pastor he was, Paul's intention, I can only assume, was to keep the young struggling church focused on its mission of proclamation and service.

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.

The gradual dilution of sustained religious catechism in churches and synagogues means that young people often make their first serious contact with the claims of religion not in the presence or a committed pastor, rabbi or parish priest, but in the...

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.