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Some Preachers, Long Gone, Keep Preaching from Beyond the Grave

Pastors' messages continue through TV, radio, and the Internet, even as some listeners probably don't even know they're gone.

Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service | posted 4/23/2009 10:20AM

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"A Christian with a witness in his heart is never at the mercy of a man with an argument in his mouth," he said in the trademark deep voice that has been heard on TV and radio for 22 years. "Learn ...

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Doug B

Posted: May 05, 2009 3:10 PM

All of the teachers...preachers of the Bible are dead. They have not changed with the socially acceptable or religious correct... The truth does not change. These preachers.....caught the spirit of what Christ taught. That is what they taught. Although dead...in the physical sense....very much alive in the spiritual sense. The great ministers who have been with us since the radio and transcriptions began their broadcasts... They are proven...tested..tried and true.. God speaks to us in unusual ways. I have had several friends who were converted listening to Vernon McGee. (after his physical death. His words are recorded....and he has nothing other to gain.) I only wish the new ministers would be tried by fire...before they preach their own gospel. You shall know them by their fruit. They have no reason to try to be culturally accepted. The contaminated contemporary Christian music and words.... are for a temporary time. Not for eternity.

Pearl

Posted: May 04, 2009 10:34 AM


Gilbert Patterson of Memphis, Tenn. is still on Television and now on the internet. His preaching and teaching has been a blessing to many around the world. I am less pained when these servants of God die. To know that their teaching lives on is a trememdous blessing.

James T

Posted: April 27, 2009 2:05 PM

There are others, of course. Oliver B. Greene of the Gospel Hour can still be heard on the radio nearly 33 years after his death, and Lester Roloff can still be heard over 25 years after his homegoing. Fundamentalism keeps hanging on to the old timers--I hope that a new generation will stop hanging on to the past and to the dead traditions that make them seem irrelevant to believers and non-believers today.

radios

Posted: April 25, 2009 11:57 AM


Lester Roloff died in about 1982 but is still on the air. I hated part of his radical fundamentalism, but for several years I worked at a station that played his half-hour show and I learned a great deal. Our local Catholic radio station (part of EWTN) plays Bishop Sheen. He still sound good (and I'm not Catholic.)

H. D. Schmidt

Posted: April 25, 2009 10:01 AM

However the praise for James Dobson, if my information is correct he is the only one that also became a fiery politician of the ones mentioned in this article! There is nothing that goes more against the Gospel of Hope when especially Church Leaders become partisan as they stand behind the pulpits. No wonder as reported that Christianity by and large, is presently truly on the run in America; yes on the run dowards, right? Oh yes, lofty and expensive places with ever more wordly like music to reach out to the whole wide world trying to convince them of he love of God! Yes, to convert that same hungry for food people, and along with now America the Nation under God with its ever more inhumane and horrendous war machinery, in full violation of the US Constitution and with great support even from pulpits, sending bullets instead of food. Yes, with a Commander in Chief like most recently that of George W. the most war hungry Christian President ever. Ron Pual was treated like an eveil man!

arnold

Posted: April 24, 2009 10:27 PM


I must say the preachers of yesterday make those reveal those today to be so shallow. The Mcgees and Boice and M. L. Jones make the writers today look like midgets.

Salero21

Posted: April 24, 2009 2:08 PM


Good preachers, I do listen to some of them occassionally. However I am more impressed with the ones that also speak beyond the grave. The writers of the Scriptures. On which all those who followed have -must rely on. Because what they wrote, was that on which God himself laid the foundation of our Faith. With the additional attributes that they did indeed paid a price beyond measure.

Ralph Puccini

Posted: April 24, 2009 8:53 AM


3 great preachers/teachers. Adrian Rogers is the only one I did NOT know had gone on to be with the Lord! May their timeless messages go on!

John D'Elia

Posted: April 24, 2009 3:19 AM

It's interesting to see how the internet and other broadcast media are perpetuating the ministries of teachers/preachers who have died. It's not new, though. After Dallas Seminary took over Bibliotheca Sacra in 1934, it published no fewer than nine articles by C.I. Scofield, who had been dead since 1921. The practice of keeping a ministry alive after the death of the principal figure is an old and honored one. Only the technology has changed.

Wendell Franklin Wentz

Posted: April 23, 2009 11:22 PM


Each week I listen to the Old Fashion Revival Hour with Charles E. Fuller, and the broadcasts are from the 1950s and an hour long. The same progam is broadcasted every day for a week, and another program comes on the following week. I found the site on the Internet, and the singing is great. I recall hearing some of these broadcasts from the 1950's. -Wendell Franklin Wentz

Will A

Posted: April 23, 2009 10:18 PM

Television, radio, the internet, and other means of mass communication could be such powerful tools for spreading the Gospel. It's a shame they've been misused by so many huckster preachers (and I'm not referring to the men mentioned in this article)simply out to get rich.These crooks have so tainted the use of mass media for this purpose that now many people just tune anybody preaching on TV out. That's a shame.

Clarence Cossey

Posted: April 23, 2009 9:49 PM


Maybe this is a parallel to republishing books written by men of great faith and influence. If the message is true and worthwhile, why not keep sharing.

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