While there are still a few sound churches left…
was raised in church, and I mean Sunday school, church, Sun night, Wednesday dinner and church, ALL the vacation bible schools Mom could find, went to Christian school (well, after getting kicked off cheerleading in public school for talking too much…) and a Christian college. I was OVE…
was raised in church, and I mean Sunday school, church, Sun night, Wednesday dinner and church, ALL the vacation bible schools Mom could find, went to Christian school (well, after getting kicked off cheerleading in public school for talking too much…) and a Christian college. I was OVER it by the time I left for college. I did have a relationship with God, but wanted NO part of any church. I felt that with all the teaching I’d heard, I should’ve been ordained!
Fast forward to one night, in the wee hours, I was nursing my newborn and a preacher came on TV. Tv preachers, IMO, were THE WORST. (My parents also played tv preachers while getting ready for church, so …) I was too tired to get up and change channels though this guy had on an awful polyester suit, a fat tie and was very … firm? No nonsense? I was turned off at his outward appearance at the get-go. The furthest thing from Joel Osteen…He answered a lifelong question I’d had, and backed up his answer VERY well, scripturally. I’d asked a couple of other pastors the same questions and gotten “meh” answers—- weak ones. SO, I was kind of hooked. Each night feeding my daughter he “happened to” be on tv. I learned SO much from him, 100% sound scripture, and he knew the bible front and back, in all 3 original languages, which frequently changes meaning of verses we all think we know. Anyway, I’ve been watching him for 31 years! Some weeks, I watch 4-5x. I have never, ever heard him say a word that wasn’t backed up, and on occasion he’s said something that made me
think, “Nope. That can’t be right. I have NEVER heard any other preacher say that”, it turns out that if I put it on the backburner and pray abt it, I usually find a passage to back it up; it always turns out to be true, or if I look it up elsewhere, in history books or I even used a NASA site one time to confirm a weird meteor story that he was talking abt which did pertain to a verse, oddly. It was a fact.
SO, he’s dead now but his sermons live on, and they are 98% straight word with 2% commentary. That’s the way I like it bc I don’t have to worry whether it’s some guy’s spin and whether it stands up to the scrutiny of scripture, you know? You’ll laugh when you see him, but he has taught me more over the years than alllll that church-going in my youth.
Dr. Arnold Murray, (senior is preferable but his son is coming into his own).
Like vaccine truth, you may have preconceived ideas abt his authenticity. He knows his stuff. He’s taken plenty of flak, but it’s bc he’s right over the target.
I’d never heard of him, but now I’m curious and will have to search for video of him! So many churches have taken the wide easy path and either teach outright falsehoods or such a watered down lukewarm milktoast version of Christianity... I’m happy you found a good Bible teacher, even if he’s on TV. I attend my local church and like my pastor’s messages, but I must admit I learn much more from John MacArthur’s Bible Commentary (also an expository pastor) and Todd Friel of Wretched.org.
While there are still a few sound churches left…
was raised in church, and I mean Sunday school, church, Sun night, Wednesday dinner and church, ALL the vacation bible schools Mom could find, went to Christian school (well, after getting kicked off cheerleading in public school for talking too much…) and a Christian college. I was OVER it by the time I left for college. I did have a relationship with God, but wanted NO part of any church. I felt that with all the teaching I’d heard, I should’ve been ordained!
Fast forward to one night, in the wee hours, I was nursing my newborn and a preacher came on TV. Tv preachers, IMO, were THE WORST. (My parents also played tv preachers while getting ready for church, so …) I was too tired to get up and change channels though this guy had on an awful polyester suit, a fat tie and was very … firm? No nonsense? I was turned off at his outward appearance at the get-go. The furthest thing from Joel Osteen…He answered a lifelong question I’d had, and backed up his answer VERY well, scripturally. I’d asked a couple of other pastors the same questions and gotten “meh” answers—- weak ones. SO, I was kind of hooked. Each night feeding my daughter he “happened to” be on tv. I learned SO much from him, 100% sound scripture, and he knew the bible front and back, in all 3 original languages, which frequently changes meaning of verses we all think we know. Anyway, I’ve been watching him for 31 years! Some weeks, I watch 4-5x. I have never, ever heard him say a word that wasn’t backed up, and on occasion he’s said something that made me
think, “Nope. That can’t be right. I have NEVER heard any other preacher say that”, it turns out that if I put it on the backburner and pray abt it, I usually find a passage to back it up; it always turns out to be true, or if I look it up elsewhere, in history books or I even used a NASA site one time to confirm a weird meteor story that he was talking abt which did pertain to a verse, oddly. It was a fact.
SO, he’s dead now but his sermons live on, and they are 98% straight word with 2% commentary. That’s the way I like it bc I don’t have to worry whether it’s some guy’s spin and whether it stands up to the scrutiny of scripture, you know? You’ll laugh when you see him, but he has taught me more over the years than alllll that church-going in my youth.
Dr. Arnold Murray, (senior is preferable but his son is coming into his own).
Like vaccine truth, you may have preconceived ideas abt his authenticity. He knows his stuff. He’s taken plenty of flak, but it’s bc he’s right over the target.
I’d never heard of him, but now I’m curious and will have to search for video of him! So many churches have taken the wide easy path and either teach outright falsehoods or such a watered down lukewarm milktoast version of Christianity... I’m happy you found a good Bible teacher, even if he’s on TV. I attend my local church and like my pastor’s messages, but I must admit I learn much more from John MacArthur’s Bible Commentary (also an expository pastor) and Todd Friel of Wretched.org.
Glad to see birds of a feather in both scripture-loving and vaccine detesting!