Beck Medical Issues
October 8th, 2010Serious This Time
The news says Glenn Beck is having weird and scary medical problems.
I am putting him on the prayer list, and I hope you will do the same. I am not a Beck supporter, because I think he is basically an embarrassment time bomb waiting to go off on the GOP, but his medical issues sound very bad, and his work affects a lot of Christians. And he has already faced very trying problems in the form of alcoholism. He shouldn’t have to go through a second trial this severe.
I would also pray he becomes a Christian and receives the baptism with the Holy Spirit, so he will become what God really wants him to be.
October 8th, 2010 at 1:49 PM
You must not watch his show much recently because all he’s been talking about for the past six months is about the American people returning to the values and Christianity the country was founded on.
He professes to be a born again Christian and gives his conversion the credit for delivering him from his Alcoholism.
I don’t know, I might be wrong or just fooled but I like the guy and think that he is sincere in his beliefs and mainly speaks the truth…something that makes all liberals and many fake conservatives uneasy if not crazy.
Give him a listen for longer than five minutes…he’s scaring the heck out of me with historical information and the people surrounding the President today and I’ve looked into some of it and it’s true but you never hear it in school or in the newspapers.
October 8th, 2010 at 1:52 PM
Beck is a Mormon, not a Christian. Mormons claim to be Christians, but they reject salvation by faith.
October 8th, 2010 at 1:54 PM
Useful Wikipedia quotation: “Beck announced to Chris Wallace on the August 29, 2010 edition of Fox News Sunday: ‘Look, I’m Mormon, and most Christians don’t recognize me as a Christian.'”
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For a Mormon to claim to be a Christian is like me claiming to be a Jew. In fact, my beliefs are probably more compatible with Judaism than Mormonism is with Christianity, since my beliefs don’t expressly negate the essential beliefs of Judaism.
October 8th, 2010 at 2:53 PM
This just in from Heather:
Penelope isn’t going home today. Urologists have been called in & now they want us to start using catheters’ on her. She has to have more tests done. Please pray that the Lord will heal this problem. The urologists say that children who have Spina Bifida usually have nerve damage causing their bladders not to empty. They don’t know that Penelope has this, but will be testing for it. She will have to be cathed every four hours for the rest of her life. We are devastated.
Steve will probably post this later in a major way.
Please pray for my brother and his wife. He has much more going wrong, I think his body is shutting down and it is time to go home to God.
October 9th, 2010 at 12:41 AM
OK Steve…you got me.
I remember now hearing the Mormon thing in the past and forgot, and I have two uncles who got zombie-ized by the Mormons while they were in the Army in the 1950’s/60’s so I have some very personal, intimate experience with the Mormon cult when they try to pray for your salvation in absentia…
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…but Beck doesn’t specifically profess on his radio and TV shows that his listeners should all run out to Utah to the Temple and have another wedding and buy wierd underwear and start listening to giant Salimanders laying in dry gulches in the middle of the Desert.
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I find his basic character and faith to be genuine and thus getting into the argument about Pentacostal versus Baptist versus Methodist versus Catholic versus Judism is more than most average people can handle.
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Is he going to hell for becoming religious and innocently chosing the wrong religion?
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I can’t speak to that.
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I have my own personal take on religion here in Eastern Tennessee right now and I don’t need Glenn Beck or the Pope or Billy Graham to bless my activities because they are my own ideas based on the King James Bible, carefully formulated through a lifetime of participation and non-participation in “organized” religion over the past 51 years and they keep me grounded for the time being.
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At least he (Beck) isn’t drawing pentagrams on the granite steps of the Lincoln Memorial and spreading ox blood around with petrified rooster feet and smearing his body with feces while worshiping the Federal Reserve and Calvin Klein and the ghost of Christopher Walken (chuckle).
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JFK freaked out everyone in the south when he was elected to the Presidency in the early 1960’s because he was Catholic.
Mitt Romney died a slow death more recently because of his affiliation with Mormanism.
Yet instead of a Mormon today we suffer under the rule of a neutered whimp of a pseudo Christian/Muslim/Agnostic/Atheist as president.
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Wouldn’t a mormon be better than an Atheist?
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And in pursuit of perfection I say baby steps to remedy the situation are the best we’re going to accomplish since America and Americans has/have been by and large asking for this situation to descend on us and our country for over 100 years now through ignorance and complacency.
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Between you and me, I’d like to call a truce on the subject.
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I happen to like Beck and enjoy the product he purveys, but I won’t implicity do anything he says to do or not do, and I suggest that you do the same, and then let’s go cook some pork and Key lime Pie and get on with life.
You know?
October 9th, 2010 at 5:56 AM
It is my fervent hope that Glenn Beck overcomes the medical problems that may be upon him. His values are solid and his work has been outstanding. However, his work is not done.
October 9th, 2010 at 9:30 AM
Mormons get a very odd look when you tell them you hope they get saved, that what they are doing is not Christianity. I wouldn’t tell them that except they insist on coming to the door.
October 9th, 2010 at 7:47 PM
I’m not claiming Glenn Beck hates God or isn’t religious. I’m just noting that he would benefit from a real relationship with the Holy Spirit, instead of the substitute he is getting from Mormonism.
November 1st, 2010 at 3:10 PM
Funny you should say that about Glenn Beck. My husband and I were just talking about him, and he said the same thing. That man is bound to embarrass whoever embraces him as a leader. I don’t have television, or even the patience to watch streaming video very often, so the only time I’ve ever seen him (as opposed to reading what he says and what people say about him) was some video he did of himself after a surgery or something.
Googling it, I see that that was nearly 3 years ago. That was the first time I’d ever seen him. Like any tv personality, he is an attention-seeker. America is in big trouble if this guy is the best opinion-maker we can find. Not that he’s wrong most of the time. He’s not often wrong, from what I can tell, but spiritually, he can be very easily deceived. It’s just a matter of time.
November 1st, 2010 at 3:26 PM
You mean his famous hemorrhoid video. I will never get over that.