“I’m still a paper boy delivering news,” Charles Stanley remarked with a chuckle. “Your work ethic has always been extraordinary you work as hard as you can possibly work, and then you trust God to honor that.”
“Your confidence and faith in God was not passive,” Andy Stanley told his dad in a 2020 interview discussing his upbringing. He delivered newspapers in his town of Danville, Virginia, until heading to college. “The first thing I did was make sure I tithe,” he said. In his mid-teens, Stanley borrowed $125 from the bank to buy a daily paper route where he could earn $16-$20 a week. “I was often scared walking alone in the dark, but that’s when I learned to talk to God before the sun rose.” “It was a long route, and I had a lot of papers,” he reflected at his 80th birthday gathering. At the age of 13 in 1945, Stanley became a newspaper delivery boy, working Mondays and Thursdays to earn a weekly wage of $4. His dad died when he was nine months old, and his mother worked at a textile mill to support them making $9.10 a week. Stanley grew up in poverty during the Great Depression. I came to know him as a spiritual grandfather of sorts: he discipled my dad in the 1970s, led my mom to faith in Christ in 1980, and personally encouraged me at critical points in my own journey for over three decades. My family was one of those immigrant families who found a home at his church, which means Stanley’s influence played an integral role in shaping our trajectory. This thriving church community incorporates members from over 100 nations who experience a wide range of socio-economic realities. Stanley’s appeal to diverse audiences was reflected not only in his global footprint, but also-perhaps most so-in the diversity of his local congregation at First Baptist Atlanta. He authored more than 70 books and his sermons have been heard in over 127 languages internationally through radio, shortwave, television, and solar-powered audio devices. His ministry spanned 65 years, growing from humble origins to a worldwide reach. On Tuesday at the age of 90, he entered Heaven-a place he often described as his final and permanent home. Stanley pastored First Baptist Church of Atlanta for over 50 years and founded the global broadcasting organization In Touch Ministries.
Stanley had the unflinching zeal of Billy Sunday and the neighborly compassion of Mister Rogers.Ī shy, small-town boy from Dry Fork, Virginia became one of the most prolific broadcast preachers around the world. Once we identified the top preachers, we then used playlists to capture their best sermons in a simple click and scroll interface (there is a clickable downward arrow after the first four sermons of each preacher).Charles F. We examined their YouTube channels and the number of views their sermons have received. John MacArthur and Billy Graham were the top two with about 100,000 Google searches a year. Specifically, we looked at how often people searched for preachers and their sermons (ex: “Tim Keller Sermons”). We used multiple sources like Time Magazine and NewsMax. #1 Rankings of the most influential pastors in America. Our research process used three sets of data, via a Venn diagram, to single out the cream of the crop. We have compiled the greatest sermons ever preached and created a simple way for you to have access to all of them.
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