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Feb
22nd
2018

A powerful sun has set - In memory of Billy Graham · 5:47pm Feb 22nd, 2018

Growing up in a Lutheran household (Missouri Synod, not those other Lutherans), I grew accustomed to hearing the resonant tones of the Reverand Billy Graham in the background whenever he was on the radio. We both were raised on a dairy farm, but that's about as much as our lives were similar. He went on to graduate with a degree in anthropology and then to become the greatest preacher in our time, preaching the Gospel to millions. He ministered to presidents and peasants, traveled the world in person and across his radio and television appearances, spoke against racism, bigotry, hatred, and the darkness that lurks in the human soul, while showing the light of Christ, but I didn't realize until today that he gave a Ted Talk back in 1998. It makes perfect sense in retrospect. Technology progresses every day, but we continue to search for meaning in our lives. Here's his speech on where technology and the hearts of man meet:

Thank you, and God bless all of you.

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Eww, Missouri Synod. *shuns in ELCA*

I don't like how some of the media is treating him. He was a good man I find it sad he has so many people that hated him for no reason.

4803182 Heh. When I was growing up, I didn't even know there was a difference other than the ECLA put (shudder) sugar in their iced tea.
4803183 The internet is infested with trolls. I've used this phrase before: "Getting your news from Twitter is like getting your drinking water out of the septic tank."

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heh i don't go to twitter i was watching CNN and other new's

4803186 CNN? News? Don't get me started. Please.

Missouri Synod, not those other Lutherans

Eh? What be the difference? Types of Lutherans are, to put it simply, not something I know much of...

4803192 As all great philosophical questions, it can be answered in a bar:

Evens / odds.

He spread a message of integration, of non-bigotry (unless you were gay), of accepting peace and understanding that we are all brothers and sisters in humanity.

He was also one of the highest paid spokesmen alive, often filtering away money from those who sought blessings in dollars, he preyed on gullibility and hope, and took the bread from people's mouths, the shirts from their backs.

As I said, evens/odds.

98 Years is a good, long run (4 years longer than my father’s). And like my father, he expressed many of the good – and some of what we now consider the bad – ideas of his generation. Still, 98 years is a good run. My sympathies to those who loved him.

Even though I was raised Catholic I never heard much from him. I simply went to church like my parents told me even when I didn’t like it. But thanks to my grandma and my mom they were all I needed to help me appreciate the life God has given me even when I think it’s unfair. It may feel that way to me but I know God’s just trying to simply nudge me toward the life he knows I’ll love. My grandma recently passed last April so I know how much it hurts to lose such a beloved figure. I know you’ll be okay as long you have HIS teachings in your heart and you’ll never do wrong. God bless.

First, I do not knock your faith, and his influence on it. He sounds by all intents a major influence now, and then. I am glad you have and see him as a positive one.

This is however, my impression of the individual. (in song form)

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I live in NC, and he is just. I don't have a good impression of this individual.

Yes, he might have done some as you do list, but his negatives, oh boy, this guy feels to have played lip service to faith for things.

And what he's let happen if you have money, or turned a blind eye to for what his folks have done under the guise of faith and serving..

I saw him once at the Oakland Coliseum when I was a kid. My mom worked for him awhile when she got out of college 60 years ago.
A good man with flaws. Had a pretty good run.

He’s been around forever, but I was shocked, none the less.

Got to go paintballing with my youth group back in 2004 back when he was in town, dude was pretty cool and a good shoot with a pump .he took it easy the few rounds we got him to play and he was lobbing shot's from the back field and got like 6 people.

4803656 You sure you're not thinking of Franklin Graham, his son? Franklin would have been in his 50s at that time, where Billy would be around 85, with Parkinsons.

Growing up in a household where we devoutly avoided going to good old Saint Peter's of All Saints On The Hudson aside from Christmas and Easter Mass, christenings and baptisms and confirmations I must profess total ignorance and a kneejerk muzzlescrunch at the mention of Martin Luther (who is after all the Devil) and televangelists in general.
However, Mister Graham seems a decent lad, and I can't really knock on whomever served up the guiding light of God's Grace to a fellow Christian.
Even if he is Lutheran and therefore a heathen.

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Makes sense. Lutherans are Protestants.

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Might have been just know that the guy was visiting the youthgroup of the church I went to at the time he was pretty old and was a preacher visiting the church .

He will be missed.

Dan

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At least we've got beer and hymns events.
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I wonder how Martin Luther and Saint Olaf would have gotten along. Pen an angry polemic denouncing that crazy Northman or become BFFs and join him in a raucous Ein feste Burg duet?
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Brother Martin had college drinking buddies during his lawschool days long before he became a Professor at the Wittenberg University, so doubtless he could Um Ya Ya with the best of them.

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