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Franklin Graham and the High Cost of the Lost Evangelical Witness (Barf Alert)
National Review ^ | April 25th 2019 | David French

Posted on 04/25/2019 2:44:58 PM PDT by Ennis85

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To: Ennis85

“Graham was wrong: Trump, it turns out, doesn’t just lie to mislead his family. He lies all the time to influence courts, Congress, and the American people.”

Okay, quote me one. Just one.

These leftwad coprophages keep accusing Trump of lying, but they never quote a lie.


21 posted on 04/25/2019 3:02:34 PM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: Ennis85

“David French” ... predictably anti-Trump.


22 posted on 04/25/2019 3:02:53 PM PDT by Theo (FReeping since 1998 ... drain the swamp.)
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To: Ennis85

“Scripture repeatedly warns that Christians should expect to be despised by the world”

Well, you despise Trump, so I guess that’s about right.


23 posted on 04/25/2019 3:04:05 PM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I’ll take a playboy over a boy who thinks he’s a playgirl any day of the week.


24 posted on 04/25/2019 3:04:26 PM PDT by JonPreston ( The GOPe is on board with the North American Union and the European Union.)
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To: Steve_Seattle

+1


25 posted on 04/25/2019 3:05:39 PM PDT by Guenevere
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I personally give Melania a lot of credit in bringing Trump along. I think she is truly a devout believer.


26 posted on 04/25/2019 3:06:03 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

You are right, throughout both the Old and New testaments, God repeatedly used flawed individuals to achieve His ends. Very few evangelicals are blind to Trump’s flaws, but - given the alternatives of Democratic Christian haters and feckless, spineless Republicans - Trump became their choice by default. I might have preferred a Mike Huckabee or even Ted Cruz, but they didn’t resonate with enough people.


27 posted on 04/25/2019 3:07:18 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

“We accept a flawed Trump”

What flaws? We’re all sinners, but how is Trump especially bad that you call him “flawed?”


29 posted on 04/25/2019 3:08:20 PM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Agree!


30 posted on 04/25/2019 3:09:47 PM PDT by Guenevere
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Great point.

He’s sowed his oats, hopefully asked forgiveness for his sins, and sees like a genuinely good and Christian man.

And America HAS acted like a playboy for a long time.

Good to have someone who went there but came out of it for the better.


31 posted on 04/25/2019 3:10:33 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

So do I


32 posted on 04/25/2019 3:12:56 PM PDT by Guenevere
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To: madprof98

Generally the Left loves to attack folks who try to urge us to seek the high moral road. Graham is a realist. He knows that no man is perfect and he doesn’t claim to be, but the media will single in on his belief in Christ, and that some things are just wrong, and trash him because of it. “Oh he’s narrow minded and judgemental.”

Trump on the other hand has not made any claims. He does ask us to support what is good for the nation. Even that becomes the focus of the Leftists and their media lap dogs.

Trump does not claim to be some level of Christian, as it relates to sin or him being a paragon of virtue. He does try to promote Christian support of doing the right thing.

I see Trump as me on that sort of thing. I’m far from perfect, but I do know what is right and wrong generally. So does Trump.

We are both sinners. We both throw ourselves on the Mercy of the court (God’s judgement), and try to do things that are good most of the time.

Let’s see the press and the Left claim that. LOL

Of course they would, but it would be a hoot hearing it. As if...


33 posted on 04/25/2019 3:13:08 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: dp0622

Well said


34 posted on 04/25/2019 3:13:57 PM PDT by Guenevere
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To: Ennis85

French and his globalist, anti-American, anti-US self-government neocon NeverTrump pals did everything they could to throw the 2016 election to Hillary.

Hillary who attacked and smeared Bill’s rape and sexual assault victims and committed numerous crimes from her barely-disguised bribe as cattle futures profits to mishandling US national secrets to destroying evidence to launching a coup against the Constitution with the rigging by her and the Obama administration law enforcement and intelligence agencies of the investigation of her and the framing of Donald Trump. Not to mention her gross incompetence and lies with respect to Benghazi and the illegal war against the Libyan regime and pretty much everything her withered hand touched.

French is a deeply dishonest and deeply disturbed person.

That National Review gives this poisonous fraud a platform makes them an enemy of all decent Americans.


35 posted on 04/25/2019 3:14:03 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: Meet the New Boss

Matt Walsh tweeted something similar. I get real tired of the “holier than thou” Walsh.


36 posted on 04/25/2019 3:20:37 PM PDT by dragonblustar (I love reading Trump tweets in the morning.)
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To: dp0622

Donald Trump had trouble at one point answering questions about the “ask forgiveness for sins” part — but both God and the devil are in the details. Donald Trump’s answer to that pointed to the Holy Communion. One could have a worse answer spiritually; the Holy Communion points to the Cross, Jesus’ once-for-all acts of forgiveness.

Believing in the Lord’s Prayer means, among other things, praying of the Father “Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us.” Forgiveness is a thing offered by God, but He insists that the favor be passed along to be valid. And Trump has forgiven a lot of people even while rebuking them for what they have been doing.

Donald Trump is still a diamond in the rough. We shouldn’t expect him even now to be the John Bunyan of this age. Neither does God. Perhaps this will be refined in Mike Pence.


37 posted on 04/25/2019 3:20:45 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I wish her own salvation story was better known. She had been a playgirl in her heyday. Then something happened.


38 posted on 04/25/2019 3:23:39 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Agree with all of it.


39 posted on 04/25/2019 3:23:52 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: dsc

When you said we are all sinners — that’s enough.


40 posted on 04/25/2019 3:24:57 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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