Sentences with phrase «old pastor of»

However, church members who gathered outside NorthPointe Baptist Church after the discovery Thursday afternoon said the 29 - year - old pastor of the church had been killed and his 67 - year - old ministry assistant wounded, CNN affiliate WFAA reported.

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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.»

CNN: U.S. Protestant pastor reject evolution, split on Earth's age America's Protestant pastors overwhelmingly reject the theory of evolution and are evenly split on whether the earth is 6,000 years old, according to a survey released Monday by the Southern Baptist Convention.

A pastor from Mexico has been accused of murdering his 12 year old lover after she ended their two - year affair.

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.

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.»

«Rev» Wallace Charles Smith is a bigot, just like the old white segregationist Pastors of the Jim Crow south.

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!

«Rev» William Charles Smith is a bigot, just like the old white segregationist Pastors of the Jim Crow south.

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.

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.

But allegations of sexual abuse related to BJU and the school's response have been ongoing at least since 2010, when former board member and former Trinity Baptist Church pastor Chuck Phelps was accused of helping to «cover up repeated instances of sexual abuse committed more than a decade earlier by an older male parishioner against his step - daughter.»

This weekend, activist and author Lisa Sharon Harper caught wind of a 3 - year - old post on desiringgod.com by pastor and writer John Piper.

My father is a wonderful pastor of the old ways.

Unfortunately, my Baptist pastor father used to answer issues regarding the Bible I thought were questionable with the old «you're questioning the Bible, therefore God» to which I would reply «no, I'm questioning your interpretation of the Bible».

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.

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.

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.

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.

This is a picture of my old Pastor, he has me blocked on Facebook.

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

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.

Then came the upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s, and along with it a series of pastors who didn't know the old ways.

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.

If I send out a profile of a pastor who is mediocre along with a picture of him with his family, and he is 35 years old, has a cute wife and two beautiful children, I guarantee he will be interviewed if not called.

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.

As the wife of Saeed Abedini, the 33 - year - old Iranian - American pastor imprisoned for more than 250 days, testifies before the United Nations's Human Rights Council today, the White House has issued its strongest statement yet advocating for Abedini's release.

The 60 - year - old tax break excludes the rental value of a pastor's home from their taxable income.

As a 33 - year old pastor, he embodies the concerns of a younger generation of leaders.

Some of the children only heard the word «Bon» and began to chant it, until the bewildered, frustrated old pastor left.

Pastors of an older generation might be scandalised at the admission, but 34 - year - old Smith is at the forefront of a new wave of young church leaders who have grown up alongside a digital revolution where it's ok to be human.

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, socialist.

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.

You know — one of those old county pastors who would make a fool of himself defending Christ against a highly educated liberable, say a Jim Wallis, on a national TV program.

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.

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.

As I debated the lesbian pastor of a NYC church on the Bob Larson radio broadcast, she finally stated that her Bible ignores the writtings of Paul & different parts of the old testament including proverbs.

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.

It requires courage for any pastor of an old - line congregation to preach prophetically.