The sheer GRACE I feel enveloping me is beyond words! To say "I am thankful," doesn't begin to convey the truth about my true feelings of gratitude toward my Lord, and my God!
So I got up needing to hear that song "Why me Lord?" which never fails to bring tears to my eyes. I have it on CD with Cristy Lane. In searching it on YouTube, I was surprised and touched to learn of its true origin. Just how many, today, in our "sophisticated" entertainment industry, would humble themselves to relate such a powerful event in their lives?
Why Me Lord Story - Told and Sung By kris kristofferson
This is kris kristofferson telling the story of Why Me Lord, This is from the DVD Ralf Emery's Legends Vol. 2
Friday Church News Notes
Jul/22/10 08:21
July 23, 2010, Volume 11, Issue 30The Friday Church News Notes is designed for use in churches and is published by Way of Life Literature’s Fundamental Baptist Information Service. Unless otherwise stated, the Notes are written by David Cloud. Of necessity we quote from a wide variety of sources, but this does not imply an endorsement.
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- Robert Bratcher, chief translator for the Today’s English Version (Good News for Modern Man), died on July 11 at age 90. After earning a Th.D. in 1949 from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, he became a missionary to Brazil, representing the theological liberalism that was already deeply entrenched in the Convention. He taught at the SBC’s seminary in Rio de Janeiro and in 1957 became affiliated with the American Bible Society’s translation department.
As early as 1953, Bratcher denied the Divinity of Jesus Christ in a paper published by the Rio de Janiero seminary. During a question and answer session on October 13, 1970, at the First Baptist Church, Spartanburg, South Carolina, Bratcher was asked, “Is Jesus Christ God, or the same as God?” He replied, “Jesus is not the same personality as God” (Donald Clarke, Bible Version Manual, 1975, p. 98).
Bratcher also denied the infallible inspiration of Holy Scripture. On November 5, 1970, after a lecture at Furman University, Dr. Bratcher told the students. “IF WE BUILD OUR FAITH WHOLLY ON THE BIBLE, THEN WE ARE BUILDING OUR FAITH ON SHIFTING SAND” (The Greenville News, Greenville, South Carolina, Nov. 8, 1970). In 1981, Bratcher made the following statement at a Southern Baptist Life Commission seminar in Dallas, Texas: “ONLY WILLFUL IGNORANCE OR INTELLECTUAL DISHONESTY CAN ACCOUNT FOR THE CLAIM THAT THE BIBLE IS INERRANT AND INFALLIBLE ... To invest the Bible with the qualities of inerrancy and infallibility is to idolatrize it, to transform it into a false god” (The Baptist Courier, April 2, 1981).
Some claim that the Southern Baptist Convention has “been rescued from liberalism,” but it has never denounced Robert Bratcher and his vile Today’s English Version. It has been heavily promoted by the SBC, in spite of the fact that practically every passage dealing with the Divinity of Christ is corrupted and the Blood was largely removed in New Testament passages dealing with the Atonement, two mention only two of its gross errors.
Beware of the Southern Baptist Convention! Even its staunchest preachers are New Evangelical compromisers, and compromise is highly contagious. (For extensive documentation of Bratcher’s apostasy and of the corruption of the Today’s English Version see The Modern Bible Version Hall of Shame, which is available from Way of Life Literature in print and e-book formats.)
[If it be that any who read the above feel they need more faith, pray,
ask the Holy Spirit to guide you!]
Larry Gatlin- "Help Me"
Larry Gatlin sings "Help Me" at North Phoenix Baptist Church October 21, 1990
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