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64 thoughts on “Patriotic Themes”
First?
Finally, after almost a year, a first first! Moving to EST has had its benefits.
In light of this honor, I’ll send you a tailor-made Butt Cushion, stuffed with grade-A butt dust, gathered three times every Sunday.
Question: may I inquire as to your size? 😀
Shoot. Got up to go to the bathroom, and it cost me a first.
😛
What is a “Beggars meeting”?
They don’t really say, do they? If you were so inclined, you could listen to previous sermons and probably hear an explanation, but what a waste of time.
It’s just what they call their campmeeting.
It’s where the MOG begs for money, service and submission from the sheeple
That’s every church service, isn’t it? Every blog post and tweet?
I’m really unclear on that too. They have 9AM meetings on W-F, so you would think retirees, but that’s not normally a name for your senior saints group that is going to go over well with the people in that group, in most churches. I would’ve guessed VBS, but they got M-F 7PM services too.
I’ve never heard of a VBS in early May.
Yeah, that was another “can’t be VBS. I guess they expect working members to take 3 days off work & (home)school to attend morning services?
The featured speaker is Omar the Beggar, founder of the School for Panhandlers.
I count six different fonts with seven different sizes in 22 lines of text.
Not quite the busiest composition I’ve seen, but in the running.
Off hand I didn’t think this ad was so bad. But I thought it was for a Fourth of July service,….
May 5th – 10th…
The American Trinity: Father, Son and USA.
America, Praise Yah!
That is a short statement with ton of truth. Kind of reminds me of Ben Everson.
Nothing like monopolizing people’s time for three days. Both morning and evenings. I always disliked that when it came to these special meeting, you were shamed if you did not attend all the services. But it was exhausting to sit for hours at a time at these types of services.
Tink of how long people would have to be there: Morning starts with breakfast at 8:00 (presumably coffee and donuts) and lunch follows the morning service. So the first service is 2-3 hours.
The evening service would be just as long probably because more people could be there (the ones wi jobs could attend)
By the end of the meetings, everyone is exhausted…
The you were expected to be at Saturday soul winning and then “in your place” on Sunday morning for a rehash of how great things were.
George and Apple autocorrect got me today!
I would assume the morning services are at least 9-11 if not 9-12, and lunch another hour or 2. 8-1 (5 to maybe 6 hours) in the morning, evening service starts @ 7, and I doubt they are going less than 2 on that if they are going 2-3 for just the service in the AM.
We didn’t have Saturday soul-winning after out campmeetings, but the Sunday rehash….THAT, I could have done without.
My old church used to have an 8-day meeting in December, Sunday to Sunday. Morning and evening services every day except Monday and Saturday. I’m 37 now, and I don’t know how the adults had the energy to do that — we kids were fine. *gets a little nostalgic*
Jack Wood (Shady Acres Baptist in Houston) used to have a monthlong meeting every year.
How on earth to people have time to do their laundry with that kind of a schedule?
Real True PEOPLE don’t have trouble. Us lil’ ole wimmen-folk, why, we ain’t people, we’s jess put here on this earth to support the MAN-O-gi..Ah mean, the Important peopl… Ah mean the Menfolk, to go out and raise more mone–to and carry out the LAWD’s business. And iffen that business includes lots ‘n LOTS o’ conferin’ with teenage Jezebe– Ah means troubled young ladies, then thas jess our cross to bear, isn’t ladies? Isn’t it? ISN’T IT? AH SAID, ISN’T IT? 😛 😈 😥
Pass the flag relay pew running. Now that’s just awesome.
Ok I’m skipping through the first video, this just gets weirder and weirder. Does this song really go on for 15 minutes???
I think I would start running and screaming after about 2 minutes of that.
Have mercy!
Somebody please tune that piano before it’s too late! 😯
I think it may already be too late.
Heh, I know every person on there except Keith Woodby. One was an evangelist out of my old church.
Charlie Tenney and Jimmy Hood, though, are definitely two of the better preachers (and people) I met in fundamentalism.
But…but…there are no Doctors listed. How can this be real preaching??
I was wondering about that too. Must be amateur hour. 🙄
Stony – You stole my thunder on that one. I applaud you…but don’t do it again 😉
When I attended Charity Baptist Bible School in Dayton back in the late 80s/early 90s, we’d take an occasional Saturday trip to Jimmy Hood’s mission in Columbus to help out and hone our preaching skills.
He was the most genuine, kind and caring soul in the entire field of funnymentalist preachers. He cared for this streep people in the city when no one else did. Preachers took cheap shots at him sometimes, but Jimmy just kept on loving people.
I have nothing but wonderful experiences around Jimmy Hood.
I’m guessing the title comes from the saying along the lines of “sharing the Gospel is one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.”
In about 15 minutes, the web will be overrun with commentary on how the country is heading straight to hell.
The fun combo of patriotism and national condemnation.
Here comes the judgment. Brace yourselves.
If you’re referring to all the clamour over the gay marriage and DOMA issues, I’ve already put my earplugs in.
I just wonder if this country’s going through a sea-change, rich and strange. 😕
14:40 “If you’re drunk on the Holy Ghost don’t forget to turn on your headlights as you leave.” No designated drivers 😉
Oh my. I actually went to Bible college with the pastor of this church.
This cannot be a real meeting, there are no “Doctors” on that list. 😉
Oh my…..I was THERE! (Shiver…)
To answer some questions, they call it a beggars meeting, well….because they can. The pastor wanted a different name for the meeting. (Fun fact: apparently the chick tract “Bad Bob” is based on his life.)
I was there on the Wednesday evening….. Never before have I wanted to walk out, or stand up and denounce a preacher so bad as the second sermon that night. Ironically, this gem did not make it to the youtubes, but the audio can be found at the link below. It was from a man named Mark McGaughey. Listen at your own risk.
Though, I do try to be fair… The first sermon that evening was very good. Topical in nature, but it lifted up Jesus, and it was an encouragement and challenge to me. I have a lot of respect for an old preacher that loves Christ so much he tears up. I don’t remember his name, but he was good.
Also, they had these older ladies with special needs that cme up from Tennessee to sing. One was mostly deaf, but man, the joy of The Lord was all over their faces, and it was so sweet, even if the twangy southern style usually isn’t my thing. It’s sad that all that was followed by something so sour…..
That was probably The Enlighteners. One is completely blind, and the other is about 90%. They’re allright — they can get a little whiny when they testify, but they’re also a lot more open and real about the suckiness of life than most fundies.
Yes! That’s the group. They didn’t do much testifying of the whiny sort, that I saw. But their spirit while singing was a blessing.
I went to the website. Scary.
I figured with AM services lasting from 9AM to lunch that the PM services would be at least 2 hours long!
With the AM services do they actually expect people to take off work & school on W-F just to make it out for their meetings?
Yep. For a lot of these meetings, working guys will take their vacation week off so they can make the morning meetings. I mean, I’ve done this before, but I loved campmeeting and always looked forward to being there.
Things have changed, and I wouldn’t do it now, but especially when I was a kid and teen, it was the highlight of the year. People in from out of town we saw only then, the general excitement, a little drama, snack bar….
On the flip side, I’ve heard so many bad messages, so many messages that had nothing to do with Christ. 🙁
That MP3 you linked us to is a recording of a fool. I am sincerely glad you enjoyed most of this meeting, but this guy… Terrible.
@Rob: Yeah, the service ended at maybe 9:45 I believe. It was a looooong night, especially putting up with that second “sermon”.
@John: You are a brave soul for sitting through that. I played the mp3 for my more fundy mother the next day, and she flat out said he was a hateful fool within five minutes. Unfortunately, the pastor that I am currently helping….loves the guy. Sigh….
He doesn’t sound much different than a ranting drunk. From the random changes in tone, to the rambling about getting into fights, to the rants about nuking ragheads, to finally busting into song. (Bonus for the completely off topic Facebook rant.) Next time he is around, check his “water” bottle.
I didn’t even notice if his points were alliterated; he was just too incoherent.
Also, amen, doesn’t he seem to have, amen, a verbal crutch, amen?
Never mind the water bottle, check him out for Jehovah-Juana and/or Friar Tuck Angels bearing beer.
Merica!
Hate, Hate, Hate. Time wasters. Confusers of children.
If I had been there I think I would have wanted to take a turn running around waving the Baptist Flag. For no particular reason other than that I never did that back when I was a fundy and I feel a bit left out.
Because America is God’s Chosen people. He fights for Truth, Justice and the American Way… Look, up in the sky! Or am I conflating unrelated Patriotic Christian memes again? 😯
Never mind, it’s just a bird. i know it’s bird, i got the evidence right here, next to my eye (it’s a wonder i’m not blind). 😛
I’m not seeing the point here. I looked on youtube and found nothing worth spending the hours required to view this “Beggars Meeting” and “KJV 1611” blah, blah, blah. Is this merely designed to incite a riot?
I thought that too. It must be revival-ish in overall approach. The purpose, however, isn’t revival, but just a rallying of evangelists and preachers to be part of something. Keeps them busy I guess.
I have gotten to the point where I literally wince in distress if we happen to sing a song that mentions revival.
Revival is such a strange concept. It’s this automatic assumption that we’ve all already gone to the dogs. It’s a yearning for the unattainable, this vague idea of “if only”. It’s even worse when they title something a revival meeting: I’m sorry, I didn’t know that we could schedule revivals! Heck, if we can schedule them, why have we been asking God to send one? Or is a revival meeting meant to ask for a revival? Or is it like, if you get a big enough tent with a certain number of people you automatically get a revival – like a quorum for voting?
ANYWAY. I don’t think patriotic meetings would work so well in Canada. Like, if my church put up a Canadian flag somewhere, we’d probably go, “Hmm, that’s cute” at best, or “But I thought we only put up banners if they were about Jesus or given to us by that nice young missionary couple in Senegal to show the continent of Africa” at worst.
Near every freeway offramp in my area has one or more REAL beggars working it. Were they invited?
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First?
Finally, after almost a year, a first first! Moving to EST has had its benefits.
In light of this honor, I’ll send you a tailor-made Butt Cushion, stuffed with grade-A butt dust, gathered three times every Sunday.
Question: may I inquire as to your size? 😀
Shoot. Got up to go to the bathroom, and it cost me a first.
😛
What is a “Beggars meeting”?
They don’t really say, do they? If you were so inclined, you could listen to previous sermons and probably hear an explanation, but what a waste of time.
It’s just what they call their campmeeting.
It’s where the MOG begs for money, service and submission from the sheeple
That’s every church service, isn’t it? Every blog post and tweet?
I’m really unclear on that too. They have 9AM meetings on W-F, so you would think retirees, but that’s not normally a name for your senior saints group that is going to go over well with the people in that group, in most churches. I would’ve guessed VBS, but they got M-F 7PM services too.
I’ve never heard of a VBS in early May.
Yeah, that was another “can’t be VBS. I guess they expect working members to take 3 days off work & (home)school to attend morning services?
The featured speaker is Omar the Beggar, founder of the School for Panhandlers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=xW1lWpru0Bg&NR=1
Their font runneth over.
nice one!
that is an expert level pun
I count six different fonts with seven different sizes in 22 lines of text.
Not quite the busiest composition I’ve seen, but in the running.
Off hand I didn’t think this ad was so bad. But I thought it was for a Fourth of July service,….
May 5th – 10th…
The American Trinity: Father, Son and USA.
America, Praise Yah!
That is a short statement with ton of truth. Kind of reminds me of Ben Everson.
Nothing like monopolizing people’s time for three days. Both morning and evenings. I always disliked that when it came to these special meeting, you were shamed if you did not attend all the services. But it was exhausting to sit for hours at a time at these types of services.
Tink of how long people would have to be there: Morning starts with breakfast at 8:00 (presumably coffee and donuts) and lunch follows the morning service. So the first service is 2-3 hours.
The evening service would be just as long probably because more people could be there (the ones wi jobs could attend)
By the end of the meetings, everyone is exhausted…
The you were expected to be at Saturday soul winning and then “in your place” on Sunday morning for a rehash of how great things were.
George and Apple autocorrect got me today!
I would assume the morning services are at least 9-11 if not 9-12, and lunch another hour or 2. 8-1 (5 to maybe 6 hours) in the morning, evening service starts @ 7, and I doubt they are going less than 2 on that if they are going 2-3 for just the service in the AM.
We didn’t have Saturday soul-winning after out campmeetings, but the Sunday rehash….THAT, I could have done without.
My old church used to have an 8-day meeting in December, Sunday to Sunday. Morning and evening services every day except Monday and Saturday. I’m 37 now, and I don’t know how the adults had the energy to do that — we kids were fine. *gets a little nostalgic*
Jack Wood (Shady Acres Baptist in Houston) used to have a monthlong meeting every year.
How on earth to people have time to do their laundry with that kind of a schedule?
Real True PEOPLE don’t have trouble. Us lil’ ole wimmen-folk, why, we ain’t people, we’s jess put here on this earth to support the MAN-O-gi..Ah mean, the Important peopl… Ah mean the Menfolk, to go out and raise more mone–to and carry out the LAWD’s business. And iffen that business includes lots ‘n LOTS o’ conferin’ with teenage Jezebe– Ah means troubled young ladies, then thas jess our cross to bear, isn’t ladies? Isn’t it? ISN’T IT? AH SAID, ISN’T IT? 😛 😈 😥
Pass the flag relay pew running. Now that’s just awesome.
Ok I’m skipping through the first video, this just gets weirder and weirder. Does this song really go on for 15 minutes???
I think I would start running and screaming after about 2 minutes of that.
Have mercy!
Somebody please tune that piano before it’s too late! 😯
I think it may already be too late.
Heh, I know every person on there except Keith Woodby. One was an evangelist out of my old church.
Charlie Tenney and Jimmy Hood, though, are definitely two of the better preachers (and people) I met in fundamentalism.
But…but…there are no Doctors listed. How can this be real preaching??
I was wondering about that too. Must be amateur hour. 🙄
Stony – You stole my thunder on that one. I applaud you…but don’t do it again 😉
When I attended Charity Baptist Bible School in Dayton back in the late 80s/early 90s, we’d take an occasional Saturday trip to Jimmy Hood’s mission in Columbus to help out and hone our preaching skills.
He was the most genuine, kind and caring soul in the entire field of funnymentalist preachers. He cared for this streep people in the city when no one else did. Preachers took cheap shots at him sometimes, but Jimmy just kept on loving people.
I have nothing but wonderful experiences around Jimmy Hood.
I’m guessing the title comes from the saying along the lines of “sharing the Gospel is one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.”
In about 15 minutes, the web will be overrun with commentary on how the country is heading straight to hell.
The fun combo of patriotism and national condemnation.
Here comes the judgment. Brace yourselves.
If you’re referring to all the clamour over the gay marriage and DOMA issues, I’ve already put my earplugs in.
I just wonder if this country’s going through a sea-change, rich and strange. 😕
14:40 “If you’re drunk on the Holy Ghost don’t forget to turn on your headlights as you leave.” No designated drivers 😉
Oh my. I actually went to Bible college with the pastor of this church.
This cannot be a real meeting, there are no “Doctors” on that list. 😉
Oh my…..I was THERE! (Shiver…)
To answer some questions, they call it a beggars meeting, well….because they can. The pastor wanted a different name for the meeting. (Fun fact: apparently the chick tract “Bad Bob” is based on his life.)
I was there on the Wednesday evening….. Never before have I wanted to walk out, or stand up and denounce a preacher so bad as the second sermon that night. Ironically, this gem did not make it to the youtubes, but the audio can be found at the link below. It was from a man named Mark McGaughey. Listen at your own risk.
http://www.victory-baptist.net/preaching/2013Beggars/MM050813PM.mp3
Though, I do try to be fair… The first sermon that evening was very good. Topical in nature, but it lifted up Jesus, and it was an encouragement and challenge to me. I have a lot of respect for an old preacher that loves Christ so much he tears up. I don’t remember his name, but he was good.
Also, they had these older ladies with special needs that cme up from Tennessee to sing. One was mostly deaf, but man, the joy of The Lord was all over their faces, and it was so sweet, even if the twangy southern style usually isn’t my thing. It’s sad that all that was followed by something so sour…..
That was probably The Enlighteners. One is completely blind, and the other is about 90%. They’re allright — they can get a little whiny when they testify, but they’re also a lot more open and real about the suckiness of life than most fundies.
Yes! That’s the group. They didn’t do much testifying of the whiny sort, that I saw. But their spirit while singing was a blessing.
I went to the website. Scary.
I figured with AM services lasting from 9AM to lunch that the PM services would be at least 2 hours long!
With the AM services do they actually expect people to take off work & school on W-F just to make it out for their meetings?
Yep. For a lot of these meetings, working guys will take their vacation week off so they can make the morning meetings. I mean, I’ve done this before, but I loved campmeeting and always looked forward to being there.
Things have changed, and I wouldn’t do it now, but especially when I was a kid and teen, it was the highlight of the year. People in from out of town we saw only then, the general excitement, a little drama, snack bar….
On the flip side, I’ve heard so many bad messages, so many messages that had nothing to do with Christ. 🙁
That MP3 you linked us to is a recording of a fool. I am sincerely glad you enjoyed most of this meeting, but this guy… Terrible.
@Rob: Yeah, the service ended at maybe 9:45 I believe. It was a looooong night, especially putting up with that second “sermon”.
@John: You are a brave soul for sitting through that. I played the mp3 for my more fundy mother the next day, and she flat out said he was a hateful fool within five minutes. Unfortunately, the pastor that I am currently helping….loves the guy. Sigh….
He doesn’t sound much different than a ranting drunk. From the random changes in tone, to the rambling about getting into fights, to the rants about nuking ragheads, to finally busting into song. (Bonus for the completely off topic Facebook rant.) Next time he is around, check his “water” bottle.
I didn’t even notice if his points were alliterated; he was just too incoherent.
Also, amen, doesn’t he seem to have, amen, a verbal crutch, amen?
Never mind the water bottle, check him out for Jehovah-Juana and/or Friar Tuck Angels bearing beer.
Merica!
Hate, Hate, Hate. Time wasters. Confusers of children.
If I had been there I think I would have wanted to take a turn running around waving the Baptist Flag. For no particular reason other than that I never did that back when I was a fundy and I feel a bit left out.
Because America is God’s Chosen people. He fights for Truth, Justice and the American Way… Look, up in the sky! Or am I conflating unrelated Patriotic Christian memes again? 😯
Never mind, it’s just a bird. i know it’s bird, i got the evidence right here, next to my eye (it’s a wonder i’m not blind). 😛
I’m not seeing the point here. I looked on youtube and found nothing worth spending the hours required to view this “Beggars Meeting” and “KJV 1611” blah, blah, blah. Is this merely designed to incite a riot?
I thought that too. It must be revival-ish in overall approach. The purpose, however, isn’t revival, but just a rallying of evangelists and preachers to be part of something. Keeps them busy I guess.
I have gotten to the point where I literally wince in distress if we happen to sing a song that mentions revival.
Revival is such a strange concept. It’s this automatic assumption that we’ve all already gone to the dogs. It’s a yearning for the unattainable, this vague idea of “if only”. It’s even worse when they title something a revival meeting: I’m sorry, I didn’t know that we could schedule revivals! Heck, if we can schedule them, why have we been asking God to send one? Or is a revival meeting meant to ask for a revival? Or is it like, if you get a big enough tent with a certain number of people you automatically get a revival – like a quorum for voting?
ANYWAY. I don’t think patriotic meetings would work so well in Canada. Like, if my church put up a Canadian flag somewhere, we’d probably go, “Hmm, that’s cute” at best, or “But I thought we only put up banners if they were about Jesus or given to us by that nice young missionary couple in Senegal to show the continent of Africa” at worst.
Near every freeway offramp in my area has one or more REAL beggars working it. Were they invited?