Sentences with phrase «young minister»

These trends will leave out young ministers who long to serve the church but do not wish to compete for a few choice appointments.

After completing theological school, most young ministers have to struggle to make their new knowledge relevant to the ordinary folk who constitute the church.

I think it would be good if we had young ministers come visit us more often.

Once the youngest MP in Parliament, and then then youngest minister in government, Smith's rise through the ranks has come to an end at the equally young age of 31.

Charles Goff, a superb pastoral preacher, once told a group of young ministers of which I was a part, «Talk as you think you'd like to have someone talk to you when things were going badly.»

If we were to listen in on the luncheon conversation of three young ministers as they discuss on a Monday their experiences of the preceding Sunday, we would hear something like this:

I bet many young ministers preparing sermons on these texts are more embarrassed by the word about the kingdom of heaven than they are by those promising possession of the land.

As the dawn of the electric age threatens a centuries - old legend in a small English town, a progressive young minister finds himself at odds with a fiery candlemaker.

Most of the seminaries, if not all, teach young ministers how to conduct public worship, but the ministers less often teach their people how to worship when they get to church.

When I saw that excellent and realistic film, A Time for Burning, about a Lutheran church in Nebraska which tried to face up to its interracial obligations under the leadership of an able and courageous young minister, I welcomed the realistic descriptions and portrayals of conflict all through.

On one side of me was an affable young minister of the Church of God.

Young ministers sometimes leave seminary with heads full of facts about religion, but their hearts are strangely cool because they have not found a growing faith into which their knowledge can be integrated.

«How,» the harassed young minister asks himself, «can I do all these things and still find time to prepare inspiring sermons, minister to a host of sick and disturbed persons, keep «spiritually ready» through reading and prayer, and still be a reasonably adequate husband and father?»

I actually tell younger ministers not to write.

James PurnellThe youngest minister in the cabinet when he joined in 2007, he was at one time second favourite to be Labour's next leader.

Matthew Tawo Mbu was Federal Minister of Labour from 1953 - 54, being Nigeria's youngest minister ever at the age of 23.

young minister waiting for her Boaz, but in the mean time I live, laugh, and learn.

Hans Matheson is young minister David Richmond and Samantha Barks is skeptic Emily Barstow in «The Christmas Candle.»

The whole reshuffle is seen as an effort by Prime Minister David Cameron to bring in more women and younger ministers in his government ahead of next year's parliamentary elections.

From his experiences at the Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies, he observes that many younger ministers are disillusioned with preaching because they are not aware of alternatives to the ineffective, homiletical monologue.

When David Richmond (Hans Matheson), a progressive young minister, arrives in Gladbury, the villagers discover a new formula for miracles: good deeds and acts of kindness.

Azari - Jahromi, Iran's youngest minister and known as an innovator, said in a tweet in February that his ministry's Post Bank had been working with local experts on an experimental cryptocurrency model that would be presented to the country's banks for review and possible approval.

He also became the youngest minister in B.C. history when he was appointed to cabinet in 2008.

One of the more outspoken alcoholics I interviewed told of a young minister who apparently tried to use the AA group as a means of obtaining members for his church.

«As a young minister in one such church, I was told that I could do anything I wanted as long as no one ever saw me as the leader.

Even if a lecturing or writing parson made a lot of house calls himself, he feared that young ministers would not do so; and in a nice way he tried to enlist them into this faithful activity through testimonial forms of exhortation.

The chances are that the young minister had a couple of good friends while in seminary, not counting his wife.

Vaughn, who helped coin the term megachurch to define churches with 2,000 or more weekly attendance, said that in 26 years of researching megachurches he has not seen such a young minister named senior pastor of such a large church.

It also appears within the young minister as a conflict within himself as preacher and teacher.

The younger minister feels most acutely this changed relationship between speaker and hearer because of the nature of his own seminary education.

As a rule, younger ministers are keenly aware of the factors discussed above, and their preaching reflects it.

In fact, it just may be the case that the turning of some young ministers from the pulpit is strange and indirect testimony to the truth about Christian preaching: it is demanding, exhausting, painful, and for all involved, creates a crisis, a moment of truth, a decision situation of immense consequence.

The problem for the young ministers, first of all, was to establish some kind of communication with East Harlem, to overcome the cultural barriers and get to know people at the level of our common humanity where the genuine religious issues arise.

The late Halford E. Luccock once told of a young minister to whom a parishioner commented: «Brother Conway, you seem to be preaching to the moon.»

The notes are primarily a record of the experiences of a young minister, and they will have interest primarily to other young ministers...

But the passage of 50 years has not diminished the message Reinhold Niebuhr addressed to the young ministers who he felt might read his diary in the midst of their busy days.

The young minister's video was made for her congregation at Hayling Island Baptist Church and, using a series of simple cardboard statements, movingly describes her feelings.

Perhaps better known is the Iona Community, where on an island off the coast of Scotland a group consisting half of theological students or young ministers and half of artisans live and work together during the summer months, leading a life of discipline and prayer as they jointly rebuild the ruined medieval abbey.

Six months after he died in 1843 a young minister travelled to St Peter's Church, Dundee to inquire what M'Cheyne's secret had been.

Preach with Conviction I think it was Goethe who said, after hearing a young minister, «When I go to hear a preacher preach, I may not agree with what he says, but I want him to believe it.»

I had a professor once who told us of his struggles in the church when he was a young minister back in the day, and he was forced to wear certain clothes and behave a certain way.

And actors Dave Hayes as the pastor, Lisa Vitrano as his long suffering wife, Aaron Moss as the young minister, Steve Jakiel as the elder, and Victoria Perez as the congregant with big concerns will get you thinking.

Mr Lammy, our youngest minister at 35, is a friend of Barack Obama.

Now she stood by Sir George, the youngest minister in the coalition government.

What's a preacher to do when his wife steals his congregation and falls in love with a younger minister?