Sentences with phrase «office by a pastor»

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Washington (CNN)- Joel Osteen, the pastor of America's largest church, swung by the offices of CNN's Belief Blog on Tuesday.

A pastor friend of mine describes a church member walking into his office, hands trembling as he held a copy of Wright's Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church.

Secondly the Pastor and Deacon «Office» are distinguished by Scripture very clearly by those who follow God's Word.

«When a Minister, the Teaching Elder, is called by a congregation to labor as its Pastor, it belongs to the office... to feed the flock, by reading, expounding, and preaching the Word...»

Deprived of native sympathy for academics and of a sense of ease in dealing with them — indeed, inclined to view them with misgiving — these ecclesiastics did not by instinct address themselves to their institutions in their office as articulate exponents of their faith, nor as pastors, nor as prophets.

Besides, pastors tell me that needy strangers who drop by their offices rarely indicate a hankering for video rental or sightseeing, and they aren't into home decorating.

Whereas his predecessor, Benedict, came to the papacy by way of the scholarly library and high Vatican offices (Rosica called him «the Mozart of theologians») Francis «has a pastor's heart.»

Some old leaders died, others were turned out of office by the new pastor in an administrative transformation that paralleled simultaneous changes in program, worship, and pastoral style.

It met in the Vatican in 1869 - 1870, and its most notable decrees, later promulgated by the Pope, declared «that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when in discharge of the office of pastor and doctor of all Christians, by virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine of faith and morals to be held by the universal Church, by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, is possessed of that infallibility with which the Divine Redeemer willed that His Church should be possessed for defining doctrine regarding faith or morals; and that therefore such definitions of the Roman Pontiff are irreformable of themselves, and not from the consent of the Church»; and that the Roman Pontiff has «full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the universal Church, not only in things which belong to faith and morals, but also in those which relate to the discipline and government of the Church spread throughout the world.»

Letitia James, who was sworn in by the pastor of her Brooklyn church, also hit on those points, while highlighting the accomplishments of her office in the past four years.

The young philanthropist bemoaned the arrant neglect on the office of the number 2 citizen of Benue State by the Governor and observed that the only offence the deputy Governor committed was that he was an Idoma man and that was why Pastor Ortom decided to relinquish power to his fellow Tiv brother, Barrister Targema Takema who is not even the number 3 in the state hierarchy.

Court papers filed by the district attorney's office say that the letter was not written by the pastors to whom it was attributed.