Sentences with phrase «year as a pastor»

I have logged almost 40 years as a pastor / missionary.

During my five years as a pastor, I adopted and leaned heavily upon the Mechanical - linear model.

My grandmother - in - law has spent some 30 years as pastor of various United Methodist churches in South Carolina.

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.

During my 11 years as a pastor, he shaped my communication style more than anyone.

Recently I celebrated 15 years as pastor of a congregation in East Texas of under 200 members with about half of them present for Sunday worship.

It was the year he was turning 60, celebrating the 40th anniversary of his ordination and marking 15 years as pastor of his congregation.

* * * * * In my first year as a pastor, our church -LSB-...]

In my first year as a pastor, our church was struggling to raise attendance, and decided part of our problem was that the community was not aware of our presence.

The fact that he was surprised by his loss of religious employment bears witness to how out of touch with reality his years as a pastor have made him.

I always regret the way I treated my wife for all those years as a pastor and as a seminary student and during my years of depression.

After college, I spent five years as a pastor before enrolling in a leading Christian seminary to get a four - year Master's degree in Bible and Theology.

In my years as a pastor I have witnessed marriage vows made and betrayed.

Beyond that, I have spent over twenty years as a pastor privileged to share in the deepest secrets and internal traumas of very real human beings.

I don't even make it on there despite 25 years as pastor and missionary.

Throughout my years as a pastor, I have frequently heard people incorrectly say, «Blessed are the peacekeepers.

Recently unearthed online rants from Driscoll's early days as a pastor give us a glimpse of the inner thoughts of a man who throughout his 18 years as a pastor routinely characterizes all the things he detested most in the world as feminine or gay.

But I've got friends who have been here for 10 years as pastors and missionaries and still have to go back to their country of citizenship... I mean they're volunteering, leading movements, pastoring churches — much less someone fleeing persecution or poverty or war.

Spent years as a pastor frustrating myself with programs.

I've learned in my years as a pastor not to schedule anything that would compete with the rhythms of Holy Week.

I left the United Methodist Church 2 1/2 years ago, after 20 years in pastoral ministry and 44 years as pastor's kid, pastor's wife, and member.

Not exact matches

After serving as a senior pastor for 15 years, he left the ministry for corporate America, joining Anadarko, an oil and gas company, as HR manager.

A second court session has been held in Iran as two pastors and a deacon continue their appeal against six - year sentences for political charges.

As a female pastor for 14 years I've been discouraged by the growing trend of 20 - 30's who are going in huge numbers to churches that do not allow female pastors.

As a pastor (with 9 years of professional post-graduate study), it is hard not to be incensed at speculative op - ed pieces like this.

It isn't always so easy to rebrand oneself when you have a 10 year work history as a pastor of a small church, a worthless Th.M degree, mountains of student loan debt, and a family to feed.

I decided to take this job because I've seen through my own pain and experiences this last year that we as pastors and leaders are living «between the dreaming and the coming true» (credit goes to Robert Benson for that phrase).

As a working pastor in the south going up for her ordination endorsement this year there a moments when I think that I'll find such relief once I'm finished with my examinations... until I remember all the stories of the «stained glass ceiling» that I've heard from my fully ordained clergy - sisters... and I realize the hard work is just going to begin next year.

Many years ago I was added to the listserve for a group of Evangelical pastors, though not a pastor myself, and one day one of them asked the group about using stories or quotes in sermons without telling their people they were using them, that is, presenting the stories as their own stories and the quotes as their own creation.

As a pastor I've been getting help for years, from a psychiatrist, from a clinical pastoral course I took years ago, from small groups over the years, from dear friends who are honest enough to speak into my life, from my medical doctor, from the elders in my church, from my wife (mostly) from an adult children for alcoholics group I started only because there was nothing in place in my community.

Just a few years ago, I listened to a sermon where the pastor put the word «consent» in air quotes: «The world says that as long as there's «consent,» it's alright, but we know better than that, don't we?»

the scriptures do not claim as you state «infallible word of God» ------ Well, this is something I've been hearing for years, in church from pastors and in person from christians.

Persecution was most intense during the Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1976), years when Christian faith could become a death warrant, as it was for Chinese pastor Wang Zhiming, executed in 1973.

Anyway, trying to communicate this, and the other issues, to my then pastor was also fraught with problems as he seemed too preoccupied with how my leaving was making him feel than with the years of rejection I described which led to me leaving, I say leaving but I only moved to a church up the road (I had been in the first church for over 20 years but couldn't bear it any longer, which was a sad outcome).

But according to Garlow, the senior pastor at Skyline Wesleyan Church in La Mesa, California, the conviction that «our nation, economically and morally, is in such a condition that America as we have known it for its 200 - plus years is on the verge of disappearing» was enough of an impetus to break the rules.

He served as pastor of the Hollywood United Methodist Church for eleven years and was the first Mexican - American District Superintendent in the denomination.

Hybels announced in October that he would be stepping down as lead pastor later this year.

A couple of years after I accepted my best position as minister, serving as pastor of a church in St. Anne, Illinois, my parents came from Mexico for a visit, During their stay my father, who had recently turned 80, suffered a minor stroke that paralyzed the left side of his body.

The small town church where I serve as Executive Pastor will turn 12 years old this year.

But in a remarkably fast fall from grace, Driscoll resigned Tuesday as pastor of Mars Hill Church, a congregation he founded 18 years ago and turned into a force in the mostly secular Pacific Northwest.

One year while serving as pastor of a congregation just outside Indianapolis, I met with a two - member worship committee to plan Holy Week and Easter services.

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For 17 years, after a mid-life call to ministry, she answered to Pastor Diana in two churches where she served as Associate Pastor.

This could be one of the reasons for why pastors have deep personal friendships — the spirituality of Protestant ecclesiology largely sees personal / dyadic friendships as preferrential — and for years upon years, spirituality focused on sermons, quiet times, Bible studies, etc. in the church.

One of the more surprising discoveries for me as a newly ordained pastor (11 years ago) occurred when I went to my first pastors conference.

This is, I think, one of the most important lessons I've learned over the years as a person, and it's being a pastor that help me learn it: I will either love and be loved completely, or I won't at all.

By the way, I'm not a pastor; although, I have served at times over the years as an elder.

A few years ago, when I was serving as a preaching pastor at NYC's Redeemer Presbyterian Church, I gave a sermon on racial diversity.

But, I have a big kicker for you, I am a Pastor and have been pastoring for six years, I'm also 4th generation owner of a business that has allowed me to pay for all of the ministry and pay for staff as well.

Jackson served on staff of University Christian Church (UCC) in Cincinnati for nearly 19 years, and served as the congregation's Lead Pastor from 1996 - 2013.