The years lay spread out before her, spacious untouched canvases on which she was presently going to paint the picture of her life. It was to be a very beautiful picture, she said to herself with an extraordinary feeling of proud confidence; not beau...
As a pastor, you get invited into the most poignant moments of people's lives. Whether it's a wedding or a funeral or a hospital visit, you get invited into the center of the event, whether or not you know the people.
The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.
I am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church.
There are pastors who won't go to people's sick beds. How can people of God turn their back on the sick, poor and hungry?
I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.
We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ with his outlook on life. Christian schools, Christian parents, and Christian pastors often have turned off young people at just this point. Becaus...
We so want to be right and so trust that our desire to be right is something that God would surely bless. Yet the desire to be right comes with a price: the fear of being wrong. And so, in a counter-intuitive way, this focus on being right seems to b...
I love you, but I hate your overeating" doesn’t help a marriage. It's not helpful because hatred is a powerful emotion (a posture, really) that is not easy to wield or maintain carefully. Hatred is more a bludgeon than a scalpel. Our ability to dis...
La poseuse de bombe présumée est décrite comme intelligente et douée mais d'un caractère têtu.
Most English houses, grand or small, nestle in an intimate pastoral setting.
Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
My dad's a pastor and a seminary professor; my mom, she has such great faith.
I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.
The demands of acceptance require us to maintain a relationship of honor and respect with those with whom we may ardently disagree. We accept the fact that our convictions on this matter differ, and those with whom we differ hold their convictions, a...
Many pastors have been reduced to secular "mentors" and "coaches" in exchange for authentic disciplers of men.
I can tell you 100 percent Pastor Jones will not burn the Quran tomorrow. There will be no Quran burning.
To be a prosperous pastor one needs: (1) a bible (2) a tailored suit; and (3) a few psychology books.
I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.
