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I like the fact that Savage is a bit of a wild card. He is brilliant and yet sometimes I can’t stand to listen to him
some days and turn him off. Of all the conservative talk show hosts Savage quotes and reads from the Bible more than anyone by far! He may be wacky at times but we definitely need his voice in the mix on the airwaves!

About three years back on a cool Autumn eve, I sat on my back porch and listened to Savage — an evening when it seemed two thirds of the show was his reading from the Old Testament. I kept expecting him to go to something else, but he kept reading section after section from Isaiah and Jeremiah. If I could have known he would fill up so much time with it, I would have recorded the full show and transcribed his commentary.

He was reading along, one or two verses at a time, stopping, and giving application of those verses. He wasn't teaching the direct doctrine of the verses, nor did he intend to. But his application was non the less very rich. If it hadn't been for his accent (and the commercials) the substance could have actually been taken for some out of a back woods revival meeting in the Smokey Mountains.

I didn't agree with every point he made, but then, I might not agree with every point made in a Smokey Mountain revival meeting. I was impressed with fact that he read those passages with great reverence. He never said anything that would bring any doubt as to the grand authority of those Scriptures, nor did any application he made contradict sound doctrine within them.

Actually, Savage, as crude as he can be, shows more respect for the Divine than does Rush Limbaugh. When using the name of God, no one is more arrogant and full of himself than Rush (” . . . with talent on loan from Gaaawwwd,” and all that nonsense).