You are listening to Protestant Radio when

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AlegreFe said:
Anyway, I just think that everything should have its place including music. I don’t think that rock, punk, metal or any music like that should be in the same category as music or a song with a Christian message for Worshipping God. If such music does have a Christian message then it should only be for entertainment purposes but not for Worshipping God. Worship for me is very sacred and therefore should not have the sound of rock or punk to it.
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I agree with you 100% there. I don’t want to hear metal or punk for Mass.:eek: I just prefer listening to the harder stuff for entertainment. I used to listen to a lot of music in the past that was not exactly something with a positive message. Now I listen to Christian rock/punk instead of some of the secular music because the Christian music has decent lyrics as opposed to a lot of the secular music.
 
…ten different half-hour preachers give ten different interpretations on the same verse of the Bible.
…a message comes on the start of the program (the opinions expressed on this program do not represent the views and mission statement of this radio station) of any unorthodox preacher. The same message is removed for those preachers who proclaim nothing but the inspired, inerrant, Holy-Spirit-breathed word of God.

Joe
 
You hear Charles Stanley say “believe and be in” might sound too easy but…

Today I heard on my only available Christian station… “your loved ones can’t do anything for you once they’re in heaven”

I often find myself trying to add things to what they are saying or fill in what they leave out… sometimes I just have to turn the station but most of the time I just deal with it and try to get the most out of the moral lesson being discussed. When Stanley said “believe and be in” I had to turn the station.😃

SD
 
epower said:
It happens to all of us. We are listening to a religious broadcast which we think is Catholic, when all of a sudden you hear … … Are you Saved? … Do you have a personal relationship with Jesus? … the Word of God Alone … Sola Scriptura … Marian apparitions are demonic — Religious icons are demonic — Family Radio — The preacher spends two hours talking about two verses in the Bible.
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Well at least you have the common sense to know the difference. 👍
 
SD_Catholic said:
You hear Charles Stanley say “believe and be in” might sound too easy but…

Today I heard on my only available Christian station… “your loved ones can’t do anything for you once they’re in heaven”
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Yes, because we all know that those ‘up there’ are snobs; God wouldn’t allow them to hear a thing from here on Earth once they’ve arrived over there, thus Catholics are oh-so-wrong in trying to call on them for help. :rolleyes:
 
davy39 said:
Yes, I am. We are Montpelier, Oh, fifty miles straight west of Toledo, along the turnpike. And I do listen to the Ann Arbor station once in a while. A very good station. I am half-way between Toledo and Ft Wayne Ind, so we don’t have much of a choice in radio stations, so I listen to WEWN on shortwave most of the time.
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Hi, i’m JMartyr. I was just wondering if any1 here knows whether Charles Stanley is Catholic-friendly, as i personally enjoy listening 2 him speak and have found nothing in his sermons contrary 2 the Faith (so far)! To hear that he isn’t would crush me!

Thanks 4 the info in advance.👍
 
JMartyr said:
Hi, i’m JMartyr. I was just wondering if any1 here knows whether Charles Stanley is Catholic-friendly, as i personally enjoy listening 2 him speak and have found nothing in his sermons contrary 2 the Faith (so far)! To hear that he isn’t would crush me!

Thanks 4 the info in advance.👍
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You mean things like I mentioned a couple posts back?

SD
 
My absolute favorite thing about Protestant radio shows is when a pastor/preacher/speaker starts a prayer and then goes on and on in all sorts of meanderings and statements and personal opinions about various subjects so much for so long that you eventually forget that the whole convoluted thing is supposed to be a prayer, and only remember that it’s a prayer as he wraps up with “…In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.”

:bounce:
 
NPS said:
My absolute favorite thing about Protestant radio shows is when a pastor/preacher/speaker starts a prayer and then goes on and on in all sorts of meanderings and statements and personal opinions about various subjects so much for so long that you eventually forget that the whole convoluted thing is supposed to be a prayer, and only remember that it’s a prayer as he wraps up with “…In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.”

:bounce:
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“In Jesus’ name we pray.” It’s very much the Protestant equivalent of the Catholic “through Christ our Lord.” Not that there’s anything wrong with that. 🙂
 
patrick457 said:
“In Jesus’ name we pray.” It’s very much the Protestant equivalent of the Catholic “through Christ our Lord.” Not that there’s anything wrong with that. 🙂
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It’s not the ending that’s the issue - rather the fact that the prayers are so long winded and convoluted, and so mixed up with sermonising, that the hearer forgets that it even IS a prayer until reminded by those words.

I’m ADD so I imagine my private prayers sometimes get a bit like that too 😊
 
LilyM said:
It’s not the ending that’s the issue - rather the fact that the prayers are so long winded and convoluted, and so mixed up with sermonising, that the hearer forgets that it even IS a prayer until reminded by those words.
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I know that - however, my point is, I’ve heard a few say that Catholics do not pray in Jesus’ name because their prayers does not end in that exact same formula. :rolleyes:

Something just struck me - anti-Catholics oft accuse us of breaking Matthew 6:7-8 by praying litanies or the rosary, with its repetitiveness. But by doing this type of long-winded sermon-meandering-personal interpretation-prayer, wouldn’t these people be also guilty of the same thing anti-Catholics say we do*?

“And when you pray, do not babble repetitiously like the gentiles, because they think that by their many words they will be heard. So do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.”
I’m ADD so I imagine my private prayers sometimes get a bit like that too 😊
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Forgive my stupid ignorance, but what is ADD? :confused:
  • That is, if they do it on purpose. Not doing so would be another matter, I think.
 
LilyM said:
It’s not the ending that’s the issue - rather the fact that the prayers are so long winded and convoluted, and so mixed up with sermonising, that the hearer forgets that it even IS a prayer until reminded by those words.

I’m ADD so I imagine my private prayers sometimes get a bit like that too 😊
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My own prayers, too, are quite unfocused and meandering.

But you’ve hit on it for me, Lil. A lot of it is the sermonizing mixed in with it all that cracks me up.

So many times it sounds like they’ve forgotten they are praying, or are just using the “prayer” to tell others listening their opinion about something.

It’s like…"Who are we talking to again? Oh, yeah, God!

I’m not even knocking it, really. Just saying that it cracks me up.

It’s so…American. So human. I can’t help but get a kick out of it.

👍 :hug1:
 
patrick457 said:
Something just struck me - anti-Catholics oft accuse us of breaking Matthew 6:7-8 by praying litanies or the rosary, with its repetitiveness. But by doing this type of long-winded sermon-meandering-personal interpretation-prayer, wouldn’t these people be also guilty of the same thing anti-Catholics say we do*?

“And when you pray, do not babble repetitiously like the gentiles, because they think that by their many words they will be heard. So do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.”
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Patrick—
Right on. I’ve been saying for years that those sorts of prayers fits into that scenario described in Matthew. He tells us to not stand on street corners and babble on and on for show.

That surely fits a lot of those sorts of prayers way more than me saying my rosary in my room before going to bed.

The problem is with the bad translation of the greek in Matthew. The word some translate as “vain repetition” should be translated as “babbling” or “empty phrasing”. Nowadays you see a lot of Protestant bibles changing from “vain repetition” to “babbling” or “because of their many words”.
 
“…brought to you by Tony Alamo ministries.”

Which killed me, because for 10 minutes before that statement, the guy on the station was actually sounding pretty good.

Regardless, this is the formula I’ve seen for most bad Christian stations.

Lame Intro that could have been done better with 20 minutes spent in Garageband
forced witty banter
book plug/asking for ca$h
preach, preach, preach, hellfire, hellfire brimstone, illustration, illustration, ramble, ramble, ramble, subtle anti-catholic quip, close
really bad PSA
welcome back/wash, rinse and repeat until close
 
JMartyr said:
Well, that can be understood in a broad sense. I mean, has he challenged uniquely Catholic/Orthodox doctrines/practices?
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Well I guess I didn’t hear him actually say, “I’m right about this and the CC is wrong”… but isn’t saying , “believe and be in” and then doing a hour long sermon on why belief in God is all that is needed to get to heaven contrary to Catholic doctrine?

SD
 
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