«I am a Pastoral Counselor / Psychotherapist, a Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counseling and
ordained minister with graduate level training in marriage and family therapy and theology.
As
an ordained minister with 30 years of experience, I have provided healing and restoration to marriages, families and individuals struggling with a variety of issues.
I am an evangelist, a journalist and
an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God, Nigeria.
But others feel differently, including Barry Lynn, the executive director of the Americans United for Separation of Church and State as well as
an ordained minister with the Church of Christ.
I am
an ordained minister with a reach out ministry, Restoration Ministries Of Love.
- Dr. Barbara Williams - Skinner, lawyer,
ordained minister with a Doctorate of Ministry, and president of the Skinner Leadership Institute.
Phillips is the faith relations manager at ONE and
an ordained minister with the Evangelical Covenant Church.
Before joining the ATS staff in 1990, Aleshire,
an ordained minister with a Ph.D. in...
An ordained minister with four early Georgia pastorates behind him, Outler is a duly educated (Yale, Ph.D., 1938) professor of theology who taught at Duke and Yale before leaving his stamp and seal on Southern Methodist University.
Not exact matches
In particular, the movement of some LWF churches to break
with the Church's historic understanding of Scripture and natural law by blessing same - sex marriages and
ordaining homosexual
ministers has led to division within the Lutheran World Federation and strained relations
with ecumenical partners.
It requires
ordained ministers to renounce their long - established role as agents of the state
with the legal power to sign marriage certificates.
The issue of women in ministry had first been raised mainly but not solely in North America in the early «70s,
with questions concerning whether women could be
ordained as
ministers or elders.
He concludes that the reasons for priestsbeing required to give up all conjugal relations
with their wives on being
ordained was not the «cultural purity of the
minister of the altar, but rather the efficacy of mediatory prayer by the sacred
minister».
Mihee Kim - Kort is an
ordained Presbyterian (PCUSA)
minister, mother of three, and prolific writer, whose books include Making Paper Cranes, Streams Run Uphill, and Yoked (a book co-authored
with her husband about being a clergy couple).
The author sees the nature of the
ordained ministry in terms of functions, or what the
minister actually does, by examining the biblical bases and the historical development of ministry, and concludes that the church can only function
with competent professional leadership.
Our concern here is
with the
ordained minister.
An image could have been constructed in which the
ordained minister is shown in a private residence, seated beside the father,
with the rest of the family grouped around.
And indeed, as the Sunday schools developed, their administrators as well as teachers were laymen; and only on some special retreat did the teachers have direct contact
with the
ordained minister about the content of their task.
The non-Catholic Churches can still tolerate this withering of spiritual life longer than we can, because
with a married clergy, and only a few Religious Orders, the
ordained minister can retreat within his own hearth at home, and draw around him a congregation to his own way of thinking.
As Christian churches developed in America — and many more kinds of them
with the establishment first of religious toleration and then of religious freedom — the
ordained minister tended to become more dependent on his relations
with his local congregation than was true in Britain or on the Continent.
But to listen to Andrew Sparks, the spiritual leader of Avodat and an
ordained PCUSA
minister, the denomination has acted
with unprecedented faithfulness in supporting his congregation.
He's an
ordained Southern Baptist
minister and former president of the Conference of Southern Baptist Evangelists, a group
with about 100 members.
The decision to
ordain women as
ministers was made after years of study and discussion, and decades of experience
with women deacons and elders.
In the Catholic tradition an
ordained person is commonly known as a priest; in the Reformed communions he or she is called an elder or presbyter; in all Christian thought he or she has been known as a
minister,
with duties that are distinctively his or hers through having been «set apart» to act representatively for the wider ministry of all Christian people.
On the other hand, if a church or a pastor is in this situation, in ouir denomination, does that, then he or she has to answer for such, just like
with ordaining gay
ministers.
The complex and pressing demands made upon Protestantism by the rising industrial and urban society have brought
with them a renewed awareness of the role of the church as a
ministering body in which both lay and
ordained ministers are called as servants of the gospel, not only in the church but also in the world.
Since the practice of homosexuality is incompatible
with Christian teaching, self - avowed practicing homosexuals are not to be accepted as candidates,
ordained as
ministers, or appointed to serve in the United Methodist Church.
We are women and men, lay people and
ordained ministers, some
with and some without university training.
When Rick Jones, an
ordained minister and former cop, heard his boss talking about another
minister's homosexual activity
with an employee, he «got up and walked away,» the Los Angeles Times reported on its front page yesterday.
In recognition of his ecumenical work
with the Eastern Orthodox Church based on his common love and study of the Alexandrian Fathers Saints Athanasius and Cyril, the Patriarch of Alexandria, Nicholas VI, took the highly unusual step of bestowing upon Torrance, an
ordained minister of the Church of Scotland, the title of honorary protopresbyter, while Torrance was in Addis Ababa during his trip to Ethiopia as a guest of the Orthodox Church in 1973.
Ron Morris, a former SMU basketball star, is an
ordained Methodist
minister who has been
with the I Fellowship since 1956.
An
ordained minister and a deacon at the St. James Methodist Church down the block from the Senate House, Clegg has been involved
with feeding the poor and housing the homeless through churches and Family of Woodstock for most of his adult life.
Now, not only is the presiding officer of the county's governing body, the Suffolk Legislature, black — Mr. Gregory — but he sits on the 18 - member panel
with Dr. William Spencer, also an African - American and a physician (chief of otolaryngology at Huntington Hospital), professor of medicine at Stony Brook and an active
ordained minister, The legislature includes, too, a Latina, Monica Martinez.
She is an
ordained minister of World Congregational Fellowship Church and affiliated
with the International Metaphysical Ministry.
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Profile An
Ordained Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
with a zeal and passion for the spiritual...
Davis, CA About Blog Howard Chang is an
ordained minister who was diagnosed
with psoriasis and eczema over 35 years ago.On this blog, he serves up motivation and support for people living
with the condition.
Seattle Main Office (near Green Lake), 564 NE Ravenna Blvd Monday, Tuesday Shoreline Shoreline Free Methodist Church 510 NE 175th St Wednesday and Thursday For directions and special instructions, click here Experience and Specialties: Premarriage, remarriage and couple counseling, frequently using PREPARE / ENRICH Inventories, promoting Safe Haven in relationships, applying Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and the evidenced - based principles of John Gottman Anxiety, phobias, panic, grief, depression, anger management and behavioral responsibility, ethnicity in marriage and family, overwhelming life stress, self - esteem Adult survival of childhood trauma and addictions (including partners of sex addicts) Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)- Level 2 practitioner Clergy and cross-cultural mission / aid personnel and their families Spiritual direction and mentoring Consultation
with churches, mission agencies and service - oriented groups Mental health work in three states, since 1979 Congregational, intergenerational and multi-cultural ministry since 1982
Ordained minister - Presbyterian Church (USA)
Before being involved
with Imago, he was
ordained as
minister in the Dutch Reformed Church.