the title of which was an ode to an album by Mylon LeFevre and Broken Heart . I still like to listen to the songs He Is Strong, I Will Rejoice, and Trains Up in the Sky. LOL
Posted on 07/01/2025 9:58:29 AM PDT by Towed_Jumper
Pioneering televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, one of the first preachers to bring his ministry to a massive TV audience before enduring a damaging sex scandal, died in Louisiana following a two-week hospitalization, a family representative said on Tuesday.
He was 90.
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May he rest in peace. Away from the damn idiots that want to run him down. He grew up in a rough time and place. Mickey Gilley and Jerry Lee Lewis or his cousins.
I just looked up his Wikipedia article. I did not know they were his cousins. May he rest in peace.
Condolences to family and friends of Jimmy Swaggart.
Is he traveling north or south?
In what way was Swaggert a heretic?
Dude loved hookers.
Swaggert once described the Catholic Church as “the whore of the Apocalypse” and as a false religion.
Well, Swaggert sure knew about whores, but didn’t know much about the Catholic Church, I’d reckon
He always had a beautiful voice and a good message. But he could not keep away from the prostitutes. They were his downfall.
From America’s Untold Stories:
The Wages of Sin - Who is Jimmy Swaggart?
https://www.youtube.com/live/QSwYOPUSZtk?si=EIt03V4IllGq3gFu
….stuff you won’t here elsewhere.
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The man was a con-man, a whore-monger, and an anti-Catholic. Despite that he was no doubt instrumental in bringing many to Christ as he understood him—though he also was probably instrumental with many more becoming disillusioned and abandoning Christ because of his bad example. It’s not for an imperfect person like me or anyone here to judge his soul; only God can do that. May he rest in peace.
He was his own worst enemy. A man who used Christ as means to make money.
He stands before his God, may the Lord have mercy on him.
No, he was.
Some would say (like the late R.C. Sproul), that his views deny the Trinity, or at least limited to “strictly to their being one in purpose, design and desire” (Swaggart's words). This varies with the traditional Christian teaching that the Trinity is also of one “substance.” Swaggart also held that God inhabits a “spirit body” with a specific location; orthodox Christianity insists that the deity is both omnipresent and a spirit.
Swaggart's sexual sins are (were), common to men and completely forgivable by God given true repentance. Those are not the issue. In my view it was his teaching doctrines as a "pastor" that vary from orthodox Christian that were the main issue.
I do wish God's peace upon his family given their personal loss.
I have never been able to wrap my mind around the concept that God is a spirit without a body. It appears to me in the Bible that God Himself thinks he has a body. He warned the Israelites, “I walk around your camp at night...” He told Moses if he were to look at God he would die, etc.
Great response !!!
the title of which was an ode to an album by Mylon LeFevre and Broken Heart . I still like to listen to the songs He Is Strong, I Will Rejoice, and Trains Up in the Sky. LOL
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