Sentences with phrase «pastor friend of»

A pastor friend of mine had attended Schuller's Institute for Successful Church Leadership in Garden Grove, California, and while he was generally positive about his experience there, he reported two emphases that bothered me: (1) Schuller avoids preaching on anything that is controversial, and (2) Schuller says, «Don't let laypeople get too involved in decision - making in the congregation.»

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.

When I suggested doing something similar on Sunday morning to a pastor friend of mine, he immediately balked.

I just found out that a dear pastor friend of mine died in December without ever succeeding in scaling that wall, much less, tearing it down.

We had a pastor friend of ours praying for me.

Another pastor friend of mine planted a church several years ago.

True story from a pastor friend of mine: apparently the day after his paternal great - grandfather's death, the local priest dropped by Granddad's house... and the first words out of said priest's mouth were, «how much money did he leave to the church?»

Eventually, a pastor friend of mine told me a secret for speeding up my language research.

I have been recruiting pastor friends of all types to come over to Europe and help plant churches here.

Not exact matches

«People who speculate like that don't have any context of what it means to have a pastor or a friend and Justin made his own calls.

I lost three months of sleep over this with my first novel (The Almost True Story Of Ryan Fisher) because in the middle of writing it, Ted Haggard, my senior pastor and friend — he even officiated my wedding — had a story break that made it into national headlineof sleep over this with my first novel (The Almost True Story Of Ryan Fisher) because in the middle of writing it, Ted Haggard, my senior pastor and friend — he even officiated my wedding — had a story break that made it into national headlineOf Ryan Fisher) because in the middle of writing it, Ted Haggard, my senior pastor and friend — he even officiated my wedding — had a story break that made it into national headlineof writing it, Ted Haggard, my senior pastor and friend — he even officiated my wedding — had a story break that made it into national headlines.

Don't miss read this note, the issue of female pastors is not out of date — I have several female pastor friends who struggle for acceptance in the church at large.

A lot of my friends are pastors in churches.

He bought Christmas presents for his family and friends back home, including the wife of Martin Niemöller, a fellow Confessing Church pastor being held in a concentration camp.

Kings, dukes, burghers, copyists, pastors, poets, cousins, lawyers, friends, and rivals march through Geck's account to create a vibrant picture of the great university city during one of its internationally known fairs.

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.»

Several pastor friends and I were in the office of a colleague one day, getting ready for the big funeral of one of our state denominational leaders.

But his voice softens as he speaks of those close to him who have been deported: an associate pastor's wife, a friend from Sacramento, California, a well - known congregant - the list seems committed to memory.

As my friend Pastor Richard John Neuhaus has so eloquently put it, «the Holocaust is in modern consciousness the icon of barbarity by contrast with which civilization is defined.»

So how does being the pastor of Mars Hill one of the «fastest growing churches in America» sit with this «it's really about what works for me and my friends» approach?

Both of those pastors were / are personal friends and I heard most of the details.

I have been a friend of pastors for many years.

I recommend every pastor to get copies into the hands of every congregation member, which is verbatim my words to a pastor, who is a close friend in Christ, only 2 days ago.

A friend of mine, John Allen Turner, he's a pastor.

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.

My friend wasn't there, and I shared my testimony (which includes the dream the Lord gave me) with another man, who unknown to me, whispered in the ear of the new pastor that I was talking about a «mystical experience.»

Our friend set up a phone meeting with the lead pastor and asked questions about the vision and mission of the church.

Afterwards we talked with our friend about this, and he said the pastor was even more of a bully when not on the platform, as we noted in what he said to us when we left church.

Come Sunday places the audience in the shoes of Carlton's friends and colleagues who are distraught at how their pastor, who used to preach the gospel to thousands on Christian TV, now seemingly denies Christ's own teaching.

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.

It's less usual for these suits to happen in religious contexts, but it happened to a friend of mine, Julie Anne Smith, who along with four others were sued by their former pastor for defamation of character for $ 500,000.

I heard from more than a dozen mainline pastors who were receptive and appreciative of the critique and eager to continue the conversation.I also heard from my friend, Aric Clark, a Presbyterian pastor and one of the creative minds behind the blog Two Friars and a Fool.

As I was standing at the exit door of the church, a couple of courageous friends were willing to «go there» with me, gently challenging me to recognize the bitterness I'd been cultivating toward a couple of former pastors.

Some of their girl friends actually attend the same church service where the pastors» wives are sitting just a few rows away.

What Pastor Shroyer doesn't do is recognize that in a very small way, this false accusation against her is a bit like the «batshit crazy» one that her friend's ex-wife has been tagged with secretly for a number of years.

At the same breakfast, Obama spoke of spending time every morning in «Scripture and devotion» and dropped the names of «friends like Joel Hunter or T.D. Jakes,» both well - known pastors of evangelical megachurches.

Although words appear to be the currency of our age, the primary language of our brains is pictures: you just saw «pictures» of your best friend, pastor and a table tennis table — rather than those things spelt out as words in our mind.

Then with the hand of your pastor or your friends, sometimes both, at your back your face breaks the surface of the water and you breathe in new life.

SAVANNAH, Georgia (CNN)-- The Food Network announced Friday that it will not renew the contract of Paula Deen after she admitted using a racial epithet — but a black pastor who is friends with the celebrity chef said she «can't be a racist.»

A year ago a friend asked me to attend church with her and I opened myself to the possibility of trusting a pastor and church family again.

last month our pastor apologized to the congregation at least 5 times for going to a certain restaurant (with a bar) to listen to a friend of his play in a band.

House speaker Paul Ryan said: «Here lies America's pastor,» gesturing to Mr Graham's casket under the eye of the dome, surrounded by family, friends, politicians and a ring of paintings of the nation's founders.

I'm a pastor, so as I prepare for a sermon, I will put together a group of friends to help me figure out what still needs tweaking and what stands strong within my talk.

A mormon friend of mine told me that Romney dontated about 30 hours per week for the 5 years he was the pastor of his church and another 30 hours per week for nine years as the pastors regional leader.

I've had many pastor friends, most of whom were not my pastor and most of whom did not live where I lived.

when my friend karl called me to co-lead pastor with him instead of be an associate, it freaked me out.

With a number of fellow pastors who became lifelong friends, Rauschenbusch studied, read, talked, debated and plumbed the new social theories of the day, especially those of the non-Marxist socialists whom John C. Cort has recently traced in Christian Socialism (Orbis, 1988) The pastors wove these theories together with biblical themes to form» «Christian Sociology,» a hermeneutic of social history that allowed them to see the power of God's kingdom being actualized through the democratization of the economic system (see James T. Johnson, editor, The Bible in American Law, Politics and Rhetoric [Scholars Press, 1985]-RRB- They pledged themselves to new efforts to make the spirit of Christianity the core of social renewal at a time when agricultural - village life was breaking down and urban - cosmopolitan patterns were not yet fully formed.

But while the doctor and the pastor and your friend know of no change to speak of, yet the talk asks you whether under the pressure of the unchanged monotony an infinite change is taking place.

You write that 80 percent of pastors (and 84 percent of their spouses) are discouraged in their ministry roles, that 40 percent say they have seriously considered leaving the pastorate in the past three months, and that 70 percent say they don't have a single close friend.

Both my pastor and my best girl friend in high school told me that in Genesis — when Isaac chose Jacob as his favored son and commanded him not to marry a Canaanite woman — we see evidence of God's desire to protect a certain racial order.