Sentences with phrase «old pastor in»

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Then there was the pastor who demanded that the congregation «fill in the blanks» of a not - so - old song by a guy the minister described as the «dysfunctional poet savant Lil» Wayne.»

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.

CNN: Police arrest Georgia megachurch pastor after disturbance at home Megachurch pastor Creflo Dollar was arrested in suburban Atlanta for an alleged assault on his 15 - year - old daughter, police said Friday.

Me — «Pastor, if the rapture is Jesus returning for «His Church», which are Christians, and my three year old son is not yet a believer, so, if Jesus comes back for his church tonight, me and my wife will be taken and my son will awake up in the morning all alone.»

In the 1950s, J.D. Grey, a New Orleans pastor, said of Louie Newton, an older leader from Georgia, «Louie and his buddies have run this convention for too long, and I'm going to take it away from them»» which J.D. and his buddies did.

In a discussion group led by a pastor I once exclaimed: Oh, how I wish Jesus had lived growing old, we would have so many more of his wise stories going straight to the heart!

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.

American pastors Michael and Susan Thomas at the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in old - city Jerusalem wrote that their church bulletin board is covered with e-mail thoughts and prayers from all over the world sent in support of Jerusalem Christians.

Last Sunday, she instructed her 12 - year - old daughter never to speak to me again and in addition, one of the pastor's daughters instructed her two daughters (10 & 13 years old) not to talk to me!

The words of his Appeal to Europe are now engraved in the crypt, by the relics of St James: «I, Bishop of Rome and Pastor of the Universal Church, from Santiago, send to you, old Europe, a cry full of love: Come back and find yourself.

Surely the «pastor» would not want to damage anybody, the old» bull in the china shop» approach it would seem, is not obedience to Christ.

So here I am, a 45 - year old pastor and community organizer, with two masters degrees and a Ph.D., married to a highly successful social worker with a masters of her own, up to my neck in the process of filing for bankruptcy.

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.

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

But I believe he's been taught by his pastor father the old school teachings on tithing and other beliefs so much that he hasn't seen the truth in Scripture.

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.

Pastors who preach on a lectionary system can keep the textual notes for Pentecost 20, Series A, in a special file in their word processor and return to that file every third year to regain old knowledge and to put in new data.

It was an interview with Chet Lowe, an old friend of mine who now pastors in Calvary Chapel Ft. Lauderdale.

I write as a United Methodist pastor, currently a district superintendent, who had to deal with a recently disclosed, forty - year - old case of sexual misconduct in one of the churches in my district.

That kind of blows apart the old «sheep and shepherd» story that most Christians believe without question and which most pastors love to toss out at their «stupid sheep» languishing in the pews.

James Henry Harris is pastor of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Norfolk, Virginia, and adjunct assistant professor of philosophy at Old Dominion University.

The pastor was older in the lord and should have been afforded the respect that he sought improperly!

At Joe's first mass, Father Stock, his old parish pastor and a money - grubber, takes advantage of having two newly ordained celebrants in his parish to take up a special collection.

Our Father... and you do understand, God that I'm talking about only those believers in you that adhere to the very same doctrine that I do, preferably the ones that got saved in my church and were baptized by my pastor, but not the old pastor because he read the Amplified Bible, thats the our I'm talking about, God, certainly not those from the church down the street, and definitely not those other ones on the next block.

And in the growing suburbs of Nashville, where New South mobility is bringing lots of non-Methodists into an old traditional Methodist church, another pastor reported: «Every year I try to do, after I do the confirmation class for the kids, a series of four to five weeks on United Methodist beliefs.

With regards to creation / evolution, that isn't something that determines the validity of the Bible as many Christians, (even pastors / priests) believe in millions of years old earth.

It can't be true that for all pastors that are in that sutuation that they are grumpy old farts that don't get along with anybody.

Recently, a woman named Jules Woodson revealed that when she was a teenager and Savage was her 20 - year - old youth pastor at a church in Texas, he drove her to a secluded location and sexually assaulted her.

Some pastors and teachers say that we should not read Jesus back into the Old Testament, and other pastors and teachers claim the opposite, that we can not properly read the Old Testament unless we read them in light of Jesus Christ.

I remember sermons in my old church where the pastor said what a great deal tithing was in that God only asked for 10 %.

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.

Just when it appeared that the formalities were over, my old friend Pastor Mall came bustling in, apologized profusely, and sat down.

It's my old church in little elm and the pastor their couldn't write his own sermon if he tried.

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

In this particular time between the times, older pastors remember when they were called on more often to bless civic functions, when the public schools celebrated only Christmas, and when pastors were expected to join local civic organizations.

In his celebrated «Answer to an Inquiry of the Protestant Consistory of Brandenburg» (1919), the 33 - year - old pastor made it clear that he believed a new age in Western history was dawning, and that this age would be, in some sense, socialisIn his celebrated «Answer to an Inquiry of the Protestant Consistory of Brandenburg» (1919), the 33 - year - old pastor made it clear that he believed a new age in Western history was dawning, and that this age would be, in some sense, socialisin Western history was dawning, and that this age would be, in some sense, socialisin some sense, socialist.

Waiting in David's office is Jogindar, a 30 - year - old pastor who says he was tied upside down to a tree, beaten with sticks, and thrown into a pit.

When the 38 - year - old pastor was asked about it in an interview with NJ.com, he responded: «There's always going to be criticism from within that's going to be more frustrating, problematic, annoying than from outside.

The SBC conversation comes just days before The Civilitas Group, a year - old coalition of pastors, university presidents, journalists, and ministry leaders, will meet in Charleston to commemorate the shooting of nine members of «Mother Emmanuel» AME Church last year.

When 26 - year - old David Platt became senior pastor of The Church at Brook Hills in 2006, he was regarded as one of the youngest megachurch pastors in America.

When the 36 - year - old pastor and Radical book author became president of the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board (IMB) in 2014, the agency had about 5,000 missionaries.

Atlanta (CNN)- Telling thousands of parishioners that he should never have been arrested, Pastor Creflo Dollar said at his Sunday morning service he neither choked nor punched his 15 - year - old daughter, as she claimed in a report to police.

CNN: Creflo Dollar latest in long line of top pastors facing allegations of wrongdoing Atlanta area megachurch pastor Creflo Dollar said on Sunday that he neither choked nor punched his 15 - year - old daughter, as she claimed in a report to police on Friday.

Atlanta area megachurch pastor Creflo Dollar said on Sunday that he neither choked nor punched his 15 - year - old daughter, as she claimed in a report to police on Friday.

Chuwang told the local newspaper that while Plateau state officials say «relative peace» prevails, herdsmen attacks in the past eight months saw a pastor and his five year old son injured, four Christian women raped, 12 Christians injured and two communities displaced in attacks on 17 villages in the Barkin Ladi and Riyom Local Government Areas.

Thus, if a minister today is not in process of being ousted, is regarded by at least many of his people as a wonderful Christian, a helpful preacher, a diligent pastor, and so on, he may rest content in this kind of status even though privately he is disturbed at all the kids who drop out of church school, at the inattentiveness of the church to its neighborhood, at the virtual neglect of older people, and at the bourgeois aroma that infects everything.

All too frequently, however, seminary education in preaching consists of training under a speech teacher or exposure to the toothless reminiscences of a kindly old pastor re-activated from retirement.

«The African - American Christian community does not need to be concerned about losing people to Islam,» says Calvin O. Butts III, senior pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church and president of the College of Old Westbury in Long Island.

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.