Posted on 04/17/2013 1:30:50 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
George Beverly Shea, whose booming baritone voice echoed through stadiums, squares and souls during a decades-long career with evangelist Billy Graham, died Tuesday. He was 104.
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Shea's rendition of "How Great Thou Art" came to define the faith of a Protestant generation that Graham helped bring to Jesus Christ. He performed live before an estimated 200 million people at crusades over the years —taking him from North Dakota to North Korea and beyond.
God bless him. He certainly lived his faith.
Wow 104!
And now reborn.
God Bless!
I visited the Billy Graham Library with my church group yesterday and we were told there Mr. Shea had been hospitalized.
We were all surprised that he was 104 years old. But now he is brand new and with the Lord and that is a wonderful thing indeed.
Your theology is seriously incorrect. His testimony is that he was "reborn" = spiritually regenerated about 90 years ago. I have his written personal testimony.
If one has not regenerated and received spiritual life before separation of one's soul and spirit from the body, one will never see eternal life with The God.
His new life in Christ is what Shea sang about!
Billy Graham’s Prayer For Our Nation:
‘Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, ‘Woe to those who call evil good,’ but that is exactly what we have done.
We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values.
We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.
We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.
We have killed our unborn and called it choice.
We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.
We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem.
We have abused power and called it politics.
We have coveted our neighbor’s possessions and called it ambition.
We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression.
We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from sin and set us free. Amen!’
Very needed prayer at this time of difficulties.
Oh Good Lord....you REALLY don’t know what was meant??
Mr. Shea was reborn many years ago, not now. A very confused person might think otherwise.
Wow! He had a great voice!
I have a George Beverly Shea piano book. It has pictures of him and Billy Graham when they were in their ‘prime.’ The songs are wonderful.
"How Great Thou Art" began life as "O Store Gud" (oh powerful God"), a poem written by Carl Gustav Boberg in the summer of 1885, after he experienced a thunderstorm in Mönsterås, Sweden. It was set to music three years later and translated into the English-language version we know today during the 1930's. However, it didn't become popular until George Beverly Shea began performing it at Billy Graham crusades.
The hymn had a tough time getting into the Methodist hymnal--the Methodist bigwigs were leery about including a song popular among the unwashed masses following Billy Graham. However, it has become one of the most popular hymns in the Methodist Church.
My theology is fine.
You are just hyperventilating as some people do when they think they can stroke their ego at the expense of another.
I suggest you breath deeply into a bag while reading post #4 by ruesrose, who had no problem understanding my meaning.
What you posted is obvious and is taken as a given here among friendly Christians. Is there something else I can help you with son?
Nope.
Yes, it’s almost as hard to speak the truth and be seen as acting proud as it is to be humble enough to admit being wrong, isn’t it?
I received email that you are a Troll.
The content of this thread shows that to be true.
Shame on you for Trolling in a memorial thread.
In fact, I rejoice with the soul and spirit of George Beverly Shea that he has been freed from a faltering, failing body to reside with the Lord until he be rejoined with his never-dying spiritual body at the time of Christ's coming return.
Doubtless there is but one rebirth, experienced at the moment that the new person, conceived by the entry of the Precious Seed, is born of the Spirit upon placing one's total, irrevocable trust in the faith of Christ; and that a new life is flowing from then on, of which the demise of the old body is merely a milestone in a perpetual walk with the Lord.
It might be that Brother Shea sang John Peterson's chorus a time or two, which reflect the gist:
New Life in Christ abundant and free!
What glories shine, what joys are mine,
What wondrous blessings I see!
My past with its sin, the searching and strife,
Forever gone -- There's a bright new dawn!
For in Christ I have found new life.
The "brand-newness" of this is at the moment of effective decision, as Graham would preach, not something originating after death.
This has nothing to do with ego or trolling for a fight, just saving truth -- which I think would be a fitting memorial to Bro. Shea's lifelong commitment to a godly example.
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