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Christian Stuart Elder (December 6, 1968 – August 12, 2007) was an American racing driver. He raced in the Busch Series for Akins Motorsports for two years. His best finish of the year was 26th at Kentucky .
In Christianity, an elder is a person who is valued for wisdom and holds a position of responsibility and authority in a Christian group. In some Christian traditions (e.g., Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Methodism) an elder is an ordained person who serves a local church or churches and who has been ordained to a ministry of word, sacrament and order, filling the preaching ...
Christian was born on 9 November 1566, the second son of Duke William of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Dorothea of Denmark, was elected in 1597 as Coadjutor of the Prince-Bishopric of Minden and took office as the bishop himself in 1599.
Ground elder (Aegopodium podagraria), common edible garden perennial, widely considered a weed; Yellow elder (Tecoma stans), flowering perennial shrub in the trumpet vine family; Sambucus, also known as elder or elderberry, a genus of fast-growing shrubs or small trees; Marsh elder or Iva, a genus of wind-pollinated plants in the daisy family
The word presbyter etymologically derives from Greek πρεσβύτερος (presbyteros), the comparative form of πρέσβυς (presbys), "old man". [6] However, while the English word priest has presbyter as the etymological origin, [7] the distinctive Greek word (Greek ἱερεύς hiereus) for "priest" is never used for presbyteros/episkopos in the New Testament, except as being part of ...
There are a number of Christian inscriptions from the time of Christianization. St. Cuthbert's coffin, dated to 698, even has a runic monogram of Christ, and the Whitby II bone comb (7th century) has a pious plea for God's help, deus meus, god aluwaldo, helpæ Cy... "my God, almighty God, help Cy…".
Brenda Elder, English actress; Brian Elder, Michigan politician; Bruce Elder (disambiguation) Bryce Elder (born 1999), American baseball player; Callum Elder (born 1995), Australian professional footballer; Charles Elder (1821–1851), English painter; Chris Elder (born 1992), English rugby union player; Christian Elder (1968–2007), American ...
Some time in April 1829, Smith dictated a story of Alma the Elder, the former priest of a wicked king, who baptized his followers by immersion, "having authority from the Almighty God", and called his community of believers the "church of God, or the church of Christ". [8]