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Jerry Falwell

Jerry Falwell


Jerry Lamon Falwell, Sr. was an American Baptist, televangelist, and a conservative commentator. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia. He founded Lynchburg Christian Academy (now Liberty Christian Academy) in 1967, Liberty University in 1971, and cofounded the Moral Majority in 19779.

Falwell led services at Thomas Road for many years. During his tenure, it changed affiliations from Baptist Bible Fellowship International, which has fundamentalist sympathies, to the traditional conservative Southern Baptist Convention, and Falwell himself ended his self-identification with fundamentalism in favor of evangelicalism.

In 1956, at age 22, Falwell founded the Thomas Road Baptist Church of Lynchburg, (TRBC) where he served as pastor. The Church went on to become a megachurch, and is now run by Jerry Falwell's son Jonathan Falwell, who serves in the same capacity as his father.

In 1971, Jerry Falwell founded Liberty University, a Christian liberal arts university in Lynchburg, Virginia. Liberty University has approximately 57,000 students of whom about 12,000 are residential students and 45,000 are enrolled online.
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Nothing of Eternal Value is ever accomplished apart from prayer.
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The Bible is a love story. Time and time again it illustrates how much God loves the world in spite of its sinful disobedience...The last book of the Bible, the Revelation of St John the Divine, creates a beautiful and yet terrifying picture of those last days when God will reveal Himself in judgment and in grace to all creation.
topics: faith , god , love , religion  
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During the last times, men will be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. When you think of our sports-driven society, and our media-driven society, and our leisure-driven society, then you understand we are living in the last days.
topics: Apathy , Sports  
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If you need a remote control for your television set, don't have children; the chances of your controlling anything else in life are remote.
topics: Children  
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You tell your children to clean their room, not because you cannot stand it any longer, or because you said to. Love teaches them that possessions are gifts from God that should be gratefully received and taken care of.
topics: Children , Gifts  
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If you think the sound of your children making noise troubles you, look out when they're deadly silent because that's when real trouble is brewing.
topics: Children  
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Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.
topics: Christians  
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Your words can make others love, or they can make them hate.
topics: Discretion  
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Your words can permanently influence a life.
topics: Discretion  
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We need to give our total focus to the business of reaching this world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and stop running down meaningless rabbit trails that get our focus off of our heavenly purpose.
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We can only change the world if we have a heart for the world and deliver the message for the world. We can only change the world if we evangelize the world.
topics: Evangelism , Change  
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AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
topics: Health , Tolerance  
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There's no need for the Church of Jesus Christ to be wasting its time gullibly falling for all of this global warming hocus pocus.
topics: Ignorance  
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We visit prisoners on death row, and some of them are saved, but we believe their sentences should be carried out because they have a debt to society.
topics: Justice  
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Whenever God has a great task, God raises up a man of equal greatness for that task.
topics: Leadership  
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If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.
topics: Life , Failure  
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Love is commitment; love is a relationship that never gives up.
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If your wife doesn't treat you as she should, be thankful, you might not like what you deserve.
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While I have no problem with the church adapting to the culture, we must ensure that we remain painstakingly true to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and that we remain obedient servants to His truths.
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The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
topics: Religion , Politics  
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