Word: pastoring
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...participants to more than 50. At St. Andrew Lutheran Church in Eden Prairie, Minn., attendance at career sessions has more than doubled in the past year. "If I were a country preacher, I'd be out riding around on the combine, talking about the price of corn," says pastor Rod Anderson. "But I have a congregation full of middle-management and technology professionals, and they are experiencing the pain of downsizing." Roughly a quarter of all churches offer job programs--mostly small, informal groups that meet once or twice a month and limit their religious content to an opening...
...jealous that one day while he was on the phone in the other room, I moved down the couch - he could see me from where he stood - and tried to pee on top of Lindsey in her carrier. This story humiliated me every time he told it, to the pastor of our church, to our neighbor Mrs. Stead, who was a therapist and whose take on it he wanted to hear, and to everyone who ever said "Susie has a lot of spunk...
LaHaye learned how to talk to people as a pastor. In his first two decades after graduating from Bob Jones University in 1950, he ministered in Minneapolis, Minn., and then San Diego. In 1974 he founded an Evangelical church in El Cajon, Calif., that today claims 3,500 worshippers each Sunday. As a pastor in turbulent California during the '60s, LaHaye saw all manner of good people get into trouble with drugs and sex and sin. He felt that fragile humans needed to be filled with the protective Holy Spirit early, and his churches quickly led to schools (his Christian...
...hard to imagine a less likely fiction impresario than LaHaye, a retired Evangelical pastor who turned 76 in April. He didn't seriously contemplate writing a novel until his 60s--and then found he wasn't good at it (he hands over his notes for each book to Jenkins, 52, also a born-again Christian, who has written more than 80 novels). Instead, LaHaye has spent most of his life spreading his view of Christ and fighting for conservative principles, often through nonfiction. Very often--LaHaye has had 51 nonfiction books published, an eclectic mix of theology (for example...
These words have a slightly rehearsed quality--as a pastor and book-tour veteran, LaHaye has had to tell the same stories many, many times. But he tells them with sincerity. LaHaye doesn't have the stage presence required of a great preacher, but he knows how to show his heart one-on-one. Left Behind, which is published by the Christian press Tyndale House, has brought LaHaye and Jenkins something like $50 million apiece, and LaHaye recently signed a separate $42 million deal with Bantam Dell for a new series about an evangelical Indiana Jones. LaHaye neglected to tell...