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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: Meet the New Boss

Also, note how French equates claims that Trump had extramarital encounters ten years before he ran for president with Bill Clinton’s having sex in the Oval Office as president with his college-age intern and before that sexually harassing Arkansas state employees when he was governor.

This guy is nothing but a sophist and a propagandist.

Tell us Rich Lowry WHO FUNDS NATIONAL REVIEW???

WHOSE MOUTHPIECE ARE YOU???


41 posted on 04/25/2019 3:29:36 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: Tell It Right
French wants to pretend that we overlooked John the Apostle on the ballot.

Interestingly, Jesus Christ Himself "overlooked John the Apostle on the ballot."

John was the most beloved of the Apostles. His faith was so genuine and strong that he was the only Apostle not to die a martyr's death.

And yet when Jesus Christ wanted one of His Apostles to become "the Rock upon which I will build My Church," he picked Simon Peter -- perhaps the most flawed, imperfect Apostle of them all.

42 posted on 04/25/2019 3:29:42 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: Meet the New Boss

French seems to dance around the question in a circular argument, aka begging the question. Let’s ask frankly: what happens when God enters into a willing life?

The person begins to stop sinning and begins to embrace righteousness, that’s what.

Could Franklin Graham use more finesse? I think he could, but God can use halting, imperfect people right where they are because He is the name above all names. There is no “HTRN Ministry Foundation” and I am just another voice in the wilderness at this time. This is according to His plan. Maybe the kinds of things I would want to say, people aren’t yet prepared to hear.


43 posted on 04/25/2019 3:30:24 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: Alberta's Child

I have heard a story that John survived a boiling-in-oil ordeal. Being a confessor might be harder than being a martyr — John had the tougher thing to go through.


44 posted on 04/25/2019 3:33:12 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: Ennis85

The lying media is still defending Bill Clinton, rapist.


45 posted on 04/25/2019 3:45:09 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: El Cid
>> The issue in 1998 was that he lied to a Grand Jury. Something that would have gotten a common citizen put into jail.

The way the Clintons’ handled the Pamela Jones cases is the blueprint for the other investigations - perjury, paying others to commit perjury, threatenging, smearing and intimidating witnesses,...

46 posted on 04/25/2019 3:47:24 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Ennis85

This French guy is an idiot.

As for: “His commitment to the Christian character of American public officials seems to depend largely on their partisan political identity.”

That’s due to how partisan politics has evolved. Who’s fault is it that Democrat liberalism has become so anti-Christ.


47 posted on 04/25/2019 3:55:42 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: MAGA_patriot

$130,000??

Are you referring to money paid to the slut? Mark Levin explained that has shut-up money, it was blackmail from democrats with the election to close to offer any defense.


48 posted on 04/25/2019 4:15:52 PM PDT by odawg
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To: Ennis85
then married a third woman, then had an affair with a porn star while that third wife was pregnant with his child.

Any proof of this?

I don't think Trump is guilty on this one because 1) he said so; 2) she's not exactly his type.

By the way, the reason Clinton got caught is because he actually broke the law.

49 posted on 04/25/2019 4:19:54 PM PDT by donna (Congestion Pricing = The new gated community. Only elites allowed in the city.)
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To: Ennis85

David French, nevertrumper extraordinaire. He still doesn’t get it that we didn’t e!ect Trump because of his morality, or lack of it, but because he was interested in draining the swamp, and cheesey as it may sound, MAGA. There is no such thing as an innocent man, for ALL have sinned and come short of the glory of God. But the Bible has shown over and over, that God uses imperfect people, to perform justice.


50 posted on 04/25/2019 4:24:54 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Ennis85

Barf alert is right.


51 posted on 04/25/2019 4:59:23 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Ennis85

And what Trump has done pales in comparison with the Clintons and their ilk.

Pedo Island anyone?

There’s a world of difference between garden variety adultery and child sex exploitation.


52 posted on 04/25/2019 5:00:50 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Tell It Right
Trump's no saint, or would even make a good Sunday school teacher. We elected him not for spiritual guidance, but to be our mercenary against the atheist hoards trying to overtake us. He's not our pastor, but the sentry outside our women's restrooms keeping out the men who Dims claim are all evil sex predators anyway. He's not our counselor, but our Charles Martel fighting back against the jihadist invaders.

WELL SAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

53 posted on 04/25/2019 5:03:16 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Ennis85

“”https://twitter.com/Franklin_Graham/status/1121070184922525701?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1121070184922525701&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalreview.com%2F2019%2F04%2Ffranklin-graham-and-the-high-cost-of-the-lost-evangelical-witness%2F “”

Really? That’s what he said? WOW - That’s really offensive!


54 posted on 04/25/2019 5:04:49 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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OMG the replies are brutal mostly millennials, this generation of millennials is LOST these parents should NEVER have sent them through the University System they are TOTALLY brainwashed with Liberal propaganda!!!!


55 posted on 04/25/2019 5:23:30 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: El Cid

its beyond me how he got elected ....
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Your memory needs a nudge - hint _Ross Perot
and Americans are stupid (and smart, all at the same time


56 posted on 04/25/2019 6:45:59 PM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To: Ennis85

Apparently, the “journalist” has no concept of the term, “redemption”, both for Trump and Franklin. Both led early lives that weren’t always the best. Both had come-to-Jesus moments. Both were redeemed, or so I believe.


57 posted on 04/25/2019 6:51:23 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Alberta's Child
"And yet when Jesus Christ wanted one of His Apostles to become "the Rock upon which I will build My Church," he picked Simon Peter -- perhaps the most flawed, imperfect Apostle of them all."

Peter is my favorite of the 12, largely because his imperfections and impulsiveness are easy to relate to.

So, did Jesus pick Simon to become the Rock (your capitalization)? Or did Jesus build the church on Simon's statement of faith "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God"? What is the Greek word used for "Peter", and what is the Greek word used for "rock"? Are they the same words, or was the Gospel written with two different words to show similar but different things, as Jesus Himself said two different things when he gave Simon the new name Peter while also saying "upon this rock I will build my church"?

58 posted on 04/25/2019 7:10:28 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

The President’s greatest sin in the eyes of Bush League Republicans is that he sides with the citizens and the rule of law.

We weren’t supposed to be able to elect a President who would stop the Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA)


59 posted on 04/25/2019 7:26:18 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Ennis85

David French should know better, that Franklin Graham is a symptom rather than a cause of division. The Leftist church has long condemned me for not embracing the latest apostasie masquerading as Gospel.


60 posted on 04/25/2019 7:34:49 PM PDT by jimfree (My18 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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