these 5 suggestions to be successful: 1. Stay Low Key. Slumlords don’t want to be high profile. Too much attention to you might draw attention to your other "activities". You don’t want to appear on TBN or reach megachurch status. If you are the pastor‚ don’t be too charismatic. 2. Buy Properties in High Profile Neighborhoods. When you are in the slumlord business‚ time is your friend. Buy nice properties and rent them out at full cost to nice tenants. As the quality of the rentals go down‚ you
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Only a handful of small‚ faithful evangelical churches exist in the Warsaw area. These churches (especially the church leaders) are longing for deeper Bible knowledge. I will teach alongside Dr. Mike Peterson‚ Pastor of Berean Baptist Church in Otwock‚ Poland. We will be training pastors and laymen from surrounding churches. In two years‚ Dr. Mike Petersen and I will start Bible training in the Petersen’s home‚ while we lay the foundation of a Bible school next to the Berean Baptist Church in Otwock
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Book by Pastor Ralph Mosgrove Expands the Christian Concept of Gratitude Through his book‚ the author delivers a model sermon on expressing gratitude through actions. Thanksgiving and Christmas are great occasions for people to not only count their blessings but also reflect on gratitude. Some people think it is not enough to know what to be thankful for but also know how to become more grateful towards others. Is saying ‘thank you’ enough when expressing gratitude? Pastor and educator Ralph Mosgrove
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they blend tobacco‚ it’s like the way chefs use spices.” Cigars are a passion and hobby for Setter‚ and strongly wishes that one day he can educate others about the true meaning behind cigars. By the end of this interview‚ I learned more about my pastor than most people would have known. His story is not like most people’s; and he has definitely had a rollercoaster ride throughout his life. From going through a conversion experience‚ to raising a child’s life‚ and doing many extraordinary things
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bus for a white male. Ultimately‚ the Supreme Court directed Montgomery to unify their buses‚ in this occurrence arose a pastor named Martin Luther King Jr as the prominent leader of this boycott in which it further lead to his rise with many other non violent American civil rights movements. Some historians would argue that it was Martin Luther King Jr’s background as a pastor that made him the powerful and successful leader he was and not just this event specifically but because of the way he could
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Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s documentary “Jesus Camp” is an eye-opening display of the intense power which can be directly associated with the belief of a deity‚ or some form of higher power. Following Pentecostal children’s pastor Becky Fischer and her unsettling children’s camp “Kids on Fire”‚ viewers are shown a series of clips demonstrating their deep-seated religious conviction. Among the various dialogue and imagery portrayed throughout Jesus Camp‚ the direct correlation between such a film
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on January 15‚ 1929. He was first named Michael‚ after his father and they both changed their names to Martin when the boy was still young. He was the second child of Martin Luther King Sr. (1899-1984)‚ a pastor‚ and Alberta Williams King (1904-1974)‚ a former schoolteacher. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta‚ Georgia. He grew up in the city’s Sweet Auburn neighborhood‚ which was the home to some of the most conspicuous and rich African Americans
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Most people have differing opinions on what an outlier would look like but the author‚ Malcolm Gladwell‚ of the book‚ Outliers‚ The Story of Success‚ defines it by the book. It says‚ “Something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body. A statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample.” Gladwell uses this definition as a baseline for the rest of his intriguing book. Gladwell gives us plenty of examples of known outliers
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Boston Latin School‚ where his name was posthumously added to its Hall of Fame‚ and graduated from Harvard in 1678 at age 15. After completing his post-graduate work‚ he joined his father as assistant pastor of Boston’s original North Church.[1] In 1685 Mather assumed full responsibilities as pastor at the Church. Cotton Mather wrote more than 450 books and pamphlets‚ and his ubiquitous literary works made him one of the most influential religious leaders in America. Mather set the moral tone in the
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Martin Luther King Martin Luther King was the son of a pastor and grew up in a religious family during segregation times. He attended segregated public schools in Georgia and graduated from high school at the age of fifteen. He also studied at Crozer Theological Seminary‚ the same place where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class. Later on Martin Luther King pursued to become a pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Alabama. From there he became involved in a bus
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