Who's your favorite Preacher

This is one guy who "walks the walk'. His is one ministry I support fully.

 

I am praying the fathers peace and strength be with you through this trying time. I too have gone through the same thing and know how difficult it is. I lost my family, my home, very nearly my freedom. I spent 4 years and thousands of dollars in a messy divorce and custody battle. But I determined from the start that I was going to take the high road. That I was going to stand on the promise that what God takes with one hand he gives back ten fold with the other. I put it all in his hands and went through some of the darkest days of my life. Finally I won custody of my daughter, something even my lawyer said was nearly impossible. I now am married to a Godly woman who helped me raise my daughter in a Christian home, I have a new son, a beautiful new home, and my career is at it's peak. PTL. So keep the faith brother and persevere. If God is for us who can be against us?
I would recommend a book by Oswald Chambers, My utmost for his Highest. It is a daily devotional that really helped me through some dark days. I see on the website that they even have it in phone apps now. It is very inspirational and uplifting. God bless.

My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers

 

I too am very disillusioned with what I call churchianity and christiandumb. I always felt like an outsider in mainstream churches. I didn't fit the mold. it took me a long time to realize that there is no mold. God made me, and he instilled in me the things that make me, me. He called me and wants me, not my imitation of what I think a christian is supposed to be. A lot of churches are cookie cutter molds and doggedly stick to denominational doctrine and man contrived ideals. They preach denominational dogma over biblical truth.
I love God but I hate religion. Even Christ was anti religion, he was opposed to and confronted the churchianity of his day. So don't be discouraged by institutionalized religion. Seek Gods presence and surround yourself with the word, and faithful believers and your walk will be straight and true.
It reminds me of a Mike Warnke bit. After he got saved he started to convert himself into a "Christian". He cut his hair, bought a "Pat Boone" suit and went out to start serving God. But he hit a brick wall every where he turned. After some months he was frustrated and came home. He talks about how when things are really good in our lives we pray those poetic King James prayers, "Oh Lord'eth, I come beforeth thee'eth and worshipeth youeth todayeth" But when things are bad we just hit our knees and cry out "GOD!!!". He says he didn't even wait until he was in the bedroom he hit his knees in the hallway and slid up to the bed and cried out "GOD!!! What are you doing wrong? Why aren't you helping me!!? And God said to him "Not me'eth, you'eth!"
He said he prayed "God I answered when you called, I am trying to serve you, what is wrong?" And God said "I don't know who you are. I called Mike Warnke, not Mike Warnke's impersonation of Pat Boone. I already have a Pat Boone, I need a Mike Warnke." He realized then that God calls us, just as we are, with all our baggage, all our faults, all our desires and preferences. That really helped me at that time to realize that myself. If you're biker trash, be biker trash for God. If you're a long haired rock and roller, be a long haired rock and roller for Christ.
Search the word with a prayerful heart and open mind. Accept what God teaches you and question everything man teaches you. Don't let religion come between you and God.
But don't "forsake the gathering of the saints". Like you said, iron sharpens iron. We need the support, the fellowship and the inspiration of fellow believers to become the best us we can be. God be with you on your journey. Fight the good fight, finish the race. God Bless.

 

If you ever find one please let me know. I have an old cassette tape collection of a lot of his work. I would love to find it in digital format. I couldn't find any of the old stuff on youtube. I think when he went through the controversy and persecution a lot of companies abandoned him and stopped selling his merchandise. It's true that Christians eat their own. I met him a few years ago at a local church. He is still funny and inspirational, but he has lost a lot of his early spark, he seemed to me to have some bitterness come through in his messages. But who could blame him after the way he was treated by the "Church". I never even delved into all the details. I don't care, his messages are a big part of what led me to salvation and sustained me in my early formative years. And if he embellished his testimony to make it more dramatic or funnier then what do I care? His messages resounded with tens of thousands of young Christians.

 

Thanks MG but I don't know what that is. I tried to download the files and got multi pop-up's and warning messages from my web security. It changed my home page and am still fighting glitches in my computer. I deleted all of it off my computer. May be why no one has been accessing them.

 

Awesome!! That works great. Too bad it's only 2 tracks tho. The best story on the album is the title Hey Doc. I've remembered that story all of my Christian life. Very moving and powerful. Circle the Wagons is great. "Shot by an arrow man!!" Love it!

Just started listening to it and realized it is the entire album. Fantastic. Mucho Gracias cdnboy!!!!

 

Darren Wigington or Voddie Baucham


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