Preachers who influenced you the most?

[mfblume]

Originally Posted by CC1

I enjoyed MaHaney's ministry later in his life when I heard him than I did earlier. He rode that gang conversion testimony thing a decade or two too long. I was visiting a large UPC church not too many years before he died and he was the guest speaker. I was silently bemoaning to myself that I had picked a terrible day to be in town visiting but was pleasantly surprised at how good and deep the sermon was. After the service the pastors wife who I knew well saw me and I mentioned how much I had enjoyed the sermon. She grinned and said something like "yes, his ministry has grown and gotten a lot deeper than when you used to hear him years ago!".

I heard him when I was a teen in 77.

[CC1]

Originally Posted by mfblume

I heard him when I was a teen in 77.

That is within a year of when I first heard him also. That terstimony was very impressive the first 10 times I heard it but after that I could quote it verbatim! LOL. He rode that horse for many years and made a good living at it.

[mfblume]

Originally Posted by CC1

That is within a year of when I first heard him also. That terstimony was very impressive the first 10 times I heard it but after that I could quote it verbatim! LOL. He rode that horse for many years and made a good living at it.

I had him am at my high school that year.

[aegsm76]

Joel Holmes
Larry Booker
Tim Copeland
RD Whalen
Scott Graham
James Kilgore
NA Urshan
Daniel Davy
H Earl Wilson
Rex Johnson

[votivesoul]

Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple

You and I are a lot alike Bro. Its been rare that I have been influenced greatly by sermons tho thats part of the overall picture.

I was blessed to be able to meet Dave Huston on several occasions and he is a real pioneer of restoration to the New Testament Church.

As I reread my post, I realized I have to take the comment back a bit. There was a time, when I was about three months into the kingdom of God, at a family camp meeting in Shawano, WI, when whoever the preacher was--I don't recall the name--was speaking about how Habakkuk's short prayer of 30-some words caused God to move from Teman to Paran, and how a short prayer, said in faith could cause God to move, and how awesome it would be, if we all would just, by faith, give God our greatest need in a short prayer, and see God answer.

I received the word and went forward to the altar area, arms and hands raised high, earnestly praying these four words, "God, save my brothers!".

At the time, my two older brothers were lost, in sin, and both demon-possessed. I prayed that prayer as hard as I could, until, it was as if I could feel the spear-thrust the Lord experienced on the cross, in my own side.

I am happy to report that God saved both of my brothers, delivering them of their possession as they sat in the water, after having been immersed in the name of the Lord Jesus. They and their households are now in the faith, serving as ministers of the Gospel.

[votivesoul]

Forgot to add: 'In what way did they influence you?'

Originally Posted by votivesoul

The ones that come to mind:

Conquest Through Prayer by Denzil Holman
The Sons of Oil by David Huston
Magnificent Meekness by Morton Bustard
The Sin of Lying by B. E. Echols

Conquest Through Prayer came at a time when I was newly married, halfway through college, working hard at planting a church at the university through a campus ministry I had begun. The book really stirred me up to get off my butt and pray intercessionally. It was like every page I read caused the Spirit inside of me to move, as if I could literally feel it inside of my body.

The Sons of Oil is, in my opinion, hands down, the best book ever written on how God can heal wounded souls. It's a masterpiece. I've read it at least three times, and have given copies away more than once. It shaped the way I minister to those embittered souls, both within and without the church.

Magnificent Meekness stands out because of the overall point being made, that the humbling process of being broken down and failing is actually the operation of God to bring us to meekness and use us greatly. It was a turn around for me, when I was still semi-new in the Lord, to help me see something I had never considered: the devil wouldn't be attacking you so hard to try and hold you back and hold you down, if God wasn't about to empower you and your ministry for great things.

The Sin of Lying stands out for one reason alone: Chapter Two, Various Forms of Lying. He spends 60 pages giving descriptions of 64 different kinds of lying, repeatedly admonishing the reader how much God despises lying, and that all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire. It's fantastic, humbling and inspiring at the same time.

[mizpeh]

Originally Posted by votivesoul

As I reread my post, I realized I have to take the comment back a bit. There was a time, when I was about three months into the kingdom of God, at a family camp meeting in Shawano, WI, when whoever the preacher was--I don't recall the name--was speaking about how Habakkuk's short prayer of 30-some words caused God to move from Teman to Paran, and how a short prayer, said in faith could cause God to move, and how awesome it would be, if we all would just, by faith, give God our greatest need in a short prayer, and see God answer.

I received the word and went forward to the altar area, arms and hands raised high, earnestly praying these four words, "God, save my brothers!".

At the time, my two older brothers were lost, in sin, and both demon-possessed. I prayed that prayer as hard as I could, until, it was as if I could feel the spear-thrust the Lord experienced on the cross, in my own side.

I am happy to report that God saved both of my brothers, delivering them of their possession as they sat in the water, after having been immersed in the name of the Lord Jesus. They and their households are now in the faith, serving as ministers of the Gospel.

[CC1]

Originally Posted by aegsm76

Joel Holmes
Larry Booker
Tim Copeland
RD Whalen
Scott Graham
James Kilgore
NA Urshan
Daniel Davy
H Earl Wilson
Rex Johnson

Interesting different ends of the spectrum here with Larry Booker and Rex Johnson on the same list!

[aegsm76]

That's why I consider myself a moderate conservative!
I almost put Guy Roam one the list, as well.
Also, Jerry Jones.

[CC1]

Originally Posted by aegsm76

That's why I consider myself a moderate conservative!
I almost put Guy Roam one the list, as well.
Also, Jerry Jones.

It is pretty amazing that a man can own the Dallas Cowboys and be a Pentecostal preacher as well !!!