"Thank you - Jesus"

Woke this morning thanking Jesus in my sleep. A lot going on - in and around - my life. More than I can mention. Thankful for the hope I have in the future. Thankful for the blessing of Christianity in the present tense. Thankful He hears and answers my prayers. Thankful He gets me through the obstacles and afflictions in life.  Thankful to be healthy. Thankful He gives me what's needed to stay on the mark in a cold dark world. Thankful for a good Christian Blog site like this one (that now goes around the globe daily). Thankful He tears down racial divide. Thankful members of His International and omnipresent body are united in Him. So much to be thankful for. All I can say is,"Thank you - Jesus. "Thank you - Jesus. "Thank you - Jesus". PS...Thank you all around the globe for visiting the Churches on Trial. We appreciate it!

Christian Brothers and Sisters around the globe...

Do you have a testimony about what Jesus has done for you? Please share with us so we can share with others. This site goes around the Globe for the cause of Christ. God is behind this minstry 100%...with power. Let's glorify His holy name.

Another testimony for Christ...prompted by Brother Hubert Lindsey

This testimony was sent to the Churches on Trial Saturday by a dear sister in the Lord who was effected by Brother Lindsey's preaching. We encourage anyone touched by Brother Lindsey's ministry to bring forth their testimonies so they can be posted at this site for edification of other members of the body of Christ. May this beautiful Spirit led testimony bless you the reader, for the cause of Christ. At present all testimonies sent to this Blog are found at the Testimony label at the left side bar.

Rick Roehm
Author of the Churches on Trial


Abby B. testified:

I became acquainted with Hubert Lindsey about 20 years ago when my pastor gave one of his audio messages to our evangelism ministry. We were young and laughed at his style and bluntness, but the tape made a strong impression on all of us. Recently I was led to dig that message out of storage and listen again. I was struck by Mr. Lindsey's depth of understanding regarding Israel. In my search for more, I found Rick's blog.

No, Hubert Lindsey is not a "cult figure," as I saw that one man had dubbed him. But I'm at a loss to express just how much I've gained from listening to this man teach. Brother Lindsey's fearlessness before man, his lack of personal ambition, and his purity of heart were very valuable when it came to rightly dividing the scriptures. What believer in Christ would not want to hear the words of a man who would openly question any Church tradition that contradicted God's word? What sincere Christian would not want to listen to a man willing to be beaten to a pulp over and over by the radicals of his day as he preached the gospel to them? And what hungry soul would not want to hear the words of a man who led thousands of angry, rebellious youth into the Kingdom of God?.

And can I say a word about Brother Hubert's knowledge of scripture?. If we are going to claim that the Bible is the infallible word of God, we ought to know what it says. I don't know of anyone else in the world who memorized the entire New Testament; but Hubert did. You can downplay the importance of that all you want, but when Mr. Lindsey opened his mouth, out came the word of God. We are mostly unwilling to spend the time it takes for such endeavors, but he did it, and it reaped much fruit because the word of God does not return void. Lindsey took the time to study the Old Covenant with a former rabbi and teacher of theology, whom he led to Christ, so that he could better understand the New Covenant. I have personally gained a wealth of knowledge and understanding from his years of study.

Jesus Christ is our Lord and our everything. I wonder sometimes, how much could be gained for His kingdom, were a few others to be as willing to suffer as Hubert was? He was stabbed, shot, beaten many times ... spent long hours pouring over the scriptures. Hubert was willing to challenge the youth of his day with the depth of their depravity, so they could repent and come into the Kingdom of God.

Brothers and sisters, I urge you to listen to the valuable messages Brother Rick has posted. They are not always easy to understand, but those who are willing to listen carefully will be richly blessed.

In Christ,

Abby B.

Holy Hubert Lindsey...(photos) preaching the Open Air

I heard Brother Lindsey state many times that he had led "millions" to Christ from every walk of life. What a beautiful testimony! Since this Blog has been published I've had the marvellous privilege to personally converse with numerous people(from around the nation) who were affected or converted by Brother Lindsey's ministry for Christ. As a minister for Christ myself I've found it to be an honor and a very uplifting privilege to meet so many from around the world who have turned to Christ for personal Salvation. Glory!

These photos below were recently sent to me so I felt it appropriate to republish them in honor to Brother Lindsey's ministry for Christ. Thank you all for the uplifting testimonies that have sustained good Christian walks for so many years. Keep those testimonies coming in. The Churches on Trial Blog encourages all of you to share your testimonies for Christ as they bring honor the God of our Salvation. Your testimonies can be as effective for Christ as preached sermons. keep them coming!

A testimony of the Grace of God from Ireland

As all of you know this Blogsite, Brother Hubert Lindsey, and this writer all magnify the Grace of God above all things. We teach the victory of living under Grace and not the bondage of living under the Law. Recently I wrote and published a Blog at ChristianBlog.com titled,

Man struggled to keep the Law of Moses. Calvary took away that struggle

You may read it at the above link if you wish. It was a nice Blog that magnified the Grace of God. A dear sister in the Lord "Bethy" from Ireland was touched by the Blog and made the following comment. With her permission I felt the urgency to publish this beautiful comment that magnified a touch of God's Grace. So, I'm posting her comment at this Blog. May all of you be blessed by this beautiful testimony by Bethy, from Ireland.

When I waken in the morning I do not have to wonder how I will keep the law so as to keep close to Christ. I no longer have to fret over every thought in my head, and wonder if that thought is the one that will damn me forever.

I don't have to work at making myself acceptable to God, for through His Grace I am acceptable to Him in Christ. To me that is the big difference in living under the law and living under grace.
I look at my own life and realise that under the law I could never have become acceptable to this Holy and Merciful God. For the law only highlights my failings and my shortcomings.

May God bless you as you tell others of the Grace of God, for in understanding grace we can understand more our need for it.

Oh the love that
Drew salvation's plan,
Oh the grace that
Brought it down to man,
Oh the mighty gulf
That God did span
At calvary.

The more I understand His grace, the deeper I fall in Love with Him. The more I understand this grace, the more I cannot fathom Why he would love me as he does.. Yet he does and its all because of grace.

(Beth tiddles off singing Amazing grace how sweet the sound)

Our message is going around the World

Before Brother Lindsey died him and I conversed often. We discussed this Gospel and the depth of the knowledge that is behind this great teaching

As you know from reviewing our site the depth of knowledge we have about Christ has alot to do with our faith. At the Churches on Trial we put alot of good food on the table. I once asked Brother Lindsey what to do with all this knowledge. He responded, "Scatter it".

Little did either of us know that this great truth would be publicized around the globe just five years later. I have published much of this audio material but I have "alot more" to publish. Perhaps that will be my Winter Homework assignment for Christ.

I'd like to thank all of you for coming to our site via Internet. Brother Lindsey would be honored if he were still with us. I know Christ is honored. Spread this truth through Germany, Netherlands, Singapore, Canada, Taiwan, China, etc.

I Rick Roehm love all of you and appreciate you taking time to stop in and share the Christ of our Salvation. We do not do this work for Christ for a profit, we do it because we love Christ. Help us to scatter this material around the world as we take a stand for a Christ that not only died but who is risen and exalted at the right hand of Father. We stand for the holiness of God and right living in 2010.

May Christianity prevail in this cold dark world. More audios coming...but be sure to listen to all the audios/videos we already have posted here at the Churches on Trial, sermon.net/holy, Tangle, youtube, photobucket, and many others. All for the glory of Christ. We thank God for the ministry of Brother Hubert Lindsey left behind for us to carry on until we die or Christ returns in the Rapture.

With love,
Rick Roehm a sevant for Christ
PS...if your life was effected by this ministry or the ministry of Hubert Lindsey please send us your testimony and it will be posted on this site for the Glory of Christ. Christ is behind this ministry. People need to hear about it!

A families testimony of how Christ effected their lives by the ministry of Hubert Lindsey

Howard's testimony concerning Hubert:

First, I would like to give due respect to Rick Roehm for his Timothy-like faithfulness in his own ministry. Just as Paul committed his words to his faithful and beloved Timothy, knowing they would be honestly and diligently dispensed, so Rick has been faithful to dispense the words and works of the modern-day apostle, 'Holy' Hubert Lindsay, which so many of us were blessed to meet on our own paths to glory.

God will surely bless him for that.

We met Hubert in the 1980's and were blessed by his own personal ministry at that time. He spoke personally of some of the sufferings in his family (especially his wife) for Christ's sake. Compared to much of modern-day Pentecostal circles, his ministry and person were like meeting the first century apostles. After Paul's own words of being established in the gospel of grace, he helped tie up certain loose ends of doctrine and life that had plagued me for many years.

As Paul spoke of Timothy, though many seek their own, Hubert sought the things of Christ in his own life. He was that rarest breed of minister who held to the truth of the Pentecostal Reformation earmarked by such great ministers as DuPlessis, Wigglesworth, John G. Lake, Etter and many others in the great outpouring started at Azusa street.

Truly, Hubert sought to follow Paul as Paul followed Christ, and in hearing his messages, we were like the dead man who, cast upon Elisha's dead bones, was instantly brought back to life. I thank God for Hubert's obedience to his calling. In trying to distill my experiences of Hubert, in 56 years of evangelistic work, street ministries, missionary and church work, he is one of the very few people I had absolute confidence in.

Even right now, in viewing television and listening to a number of ministries, when my soul feels plagued or vexed, I go and listen to Hubert's messages to restore my Christian balance and lift myself up in the Spirit above the false and shoddy teachings which have crept in and overtaken the Pentecostal Reformation.

Lee's Testimony of Hubert:

Hubert seemed a funny man, but a dear brother in the Lord when I first met him. I thought him a bit peculiar, but loved him as my brother--just as I felt he loved me in the Lord. I was very young in the Lord then, and had little knowledge of true doctrine, nor did I have any idea how great a part Hubert would play in God's formation of truth in my own soul.

As someone saved outside the church, I had little knowledge of the religious (as opposed to spiritual) aspects which creep in and defile even the most well-spoken-of Christian circles. As my eyes became opened to these, I found the messages of Hubert to be a great blessing in one particular way.

I began to have a great hunger to know the great themes of the Bible. To know its truths and its purpose: to know God's plan and His carrying out of it and how it all would come about. God blessed this and encouraged me to study His word, and as I did, I became more and more free of the dictates of men and more and more conscious of what God really said. One of my most profound discoveries was that very often the things which even the best-intentioned and devout of us label 'good' are actually quite evil, while the things we label evil simply by appearance (God judges by the heart) may be God's actual will. The trouble is with most of us, is that we forget to ask God's opinion about which is which, and just presume to assume.

Some might take Hubert's screaming as an example. You listen to his messages and you might think he was crazy. But once you get past the shouting and listen to the words, you begin to see the sense of what he had to say, and that his shouting was often a means of dealing with our own deafness of soul and hardness of heart.

God has fulfilled the desire of my heart which He used Hubert to help give birth to. I now have an understanding of scripture which I have had people who have asked preachers for 60 years about certain things tell me they could never get an answer to. Why? Because I am some great prodigy of God? No. Because I simply got hungry and asked as a child, and Jesus never turns away a hungry soul. He sent Hubert because He knew I was hungry, but I didn't know for what until Hubert showed up! Thank You, Jesus!

I have learned to be like Hubert in this one thing: Ask (and keep on asking) and it shall be given unto you...the Greek has the connotation of persistence and diligence, for "he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that DILIGENTLY SEEK HIM".

Behold not men's faces. Only seek God and He will satisfy your hungry soul and exalt His work in your life.

Real life, real people, real Christianity

There are numerous people across the nation who was affected by Hubert Lindsey’s ministry for Christ. In 2002… a dear brother in Nashville, Tennessee by the name of John Alvarez told me while riding in his vehicle at work one day he was listening to one of Brother Lindsey’s audio teaching (we're attempting to post). John stepped out of the vehicle to speak with a gentleman about something work related and the gentleman overheard an audio playing in John’s audio player. The gentleman asked John who the preacher was and John replied, “Hubert Lindsey”. The gentleman responded, “Holy Hubert? I remember him preaching on campus in 1969 when I was attending college at Berkeley”. That gentleman remembered Hubert Lindsey and his Gospel message for Christ for almost 40 years! Amazing You can go anywhere in the U.S. and meet people that knew Brother Lindsey and his commitment to the cause of Christ! Hearts were changed by Brother Lindsey's ministry for Christ! Lives were changed by the power of the Gospel! Hubert’s preaching impacted people for the cause of Christ for 72 years!

Since then this writer has become acquainted with people from every corner of the United States. That includes people from the East Coast to the West Coast from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada who were made conscious to Christ through Brother Lindsey’s endeavors to preach Christ. I personally recall a couple… in Odessa TX. I became acquainted with by the name of Howard and Lee Mills. They met Hubert and his wife Phoebe in the 70’s when Hubert was traveling from Berkeley to Dallas. Hubert gave the Mills’ family one of his preaching tapes that he had recorded in the earlier part of his ministry. In 2005 the Mills family contacted this writer from the Internet to obtain Hubert’s complete set of audio teachings. The Mills’ received Brother Lindsey’s teaching audios however; they still had the old original cassette that Brother Lindsey recorded and left with them while passing through Odessa in the 70’s. I was so blessed by that occurrence.

There are many factors that made Brother Lindsey’s ministry so affective for Christ but the one that sticks out most is the fact that Hubert was in the ministry for the cause of Christ and nothing else. Hubert wasn’t in it for personal gain, or for the money, for the glory, or for a worldly position. Hubert was in it to get men to Christ and that’s all. He was in it to teach men the truth about Christ…and for no other reason!

A testimony of how Hubert Lindsey's ministry effected a former Catholic in Detroit

Looking back 22 years ago to 1988, being a 19 year old young man. I shall never forget meeting Brother Hubert Lindsey. From an infant I was raised in the Roman Catholic tradition into my teen years. I don't ever remember missing a mass except for being on vacation. Even then we often made it because of my mothers devotion to the church. Confession, Catechism, First Communion, the Rosary were all part of my experience.

From the years of five to eleven years old I can remember having a heightened awareness and sensitivity to right and wrong. And often turned to the Rosary for intercession with God. I guess it is hard for me to relate to those who were raised in and are embittered with the Catholic Church. Maybe because I don't ever recall having a hurtful experience there. In my teen years I still attended mass faithfully but that innocence, devotion and purpose left me for a life that reflected anything but Godliness and purity. Looking back now, I should have been ashamed to even mention the name of Jesus.

Then around the years of 18 or 19 yrs old I cannot describe how or why I had a desire to know the Holy Bible and it's Author. It was not a crisis but more of a curiosity. The crisis would come later. I only remember trying to read the Bible once before as a child. It seemed like a foreign language so I put it down as quick as I picked it up. But now years later I would touch it again. The difference was, I prayed this time. I distinctly remember saying,"God I don't know anything about it, help me to know it and don't let me be deceived". I had not been exposed to any other church or even heard the Gospel preached. But God would soon answer my prayer. Looking back I can see clearly how it was all orchestrated by God. I didn't realize it but the crisis was on its way.

One night around midnight it began. Turning the radio dial I heard a gruff voice of an older man, he was bawling someone out for some kind of immorality. I couldn't change the dial. It was a live call-in program, people would call in with Bible questions he would answer them and preach. His voice was rough and distinct, he was stern and intolerant of evil. He was as direct as anyone I ever heard yet there was a tenderness about him, almost as if I could actually see the tears flowing. I continued to listed for the next month every Sunday around midnight. Every time I listened I felt like I was the one he was bawling out. This is what brought the crisis about. He helped me to see the sinner I was, the righteous man I was not and the child of God I could be by Grace. For the first time I saw Jesus presented in the Gospel and it was becoming clear. He regularly gave out his phone number and the address of the church with an invitation.So I finally decided to Pay Brother Lindsey a visit.

If I had been expecting to see a powerful looking man, extremely handsome with eloquent speech or refined in appearance I was in for a shock. He was about five foot eight, slender build, thinning red hair with freckles and blind. I wasn't disappointed , I wasn't looking for a man I was looking for God. Brother Lindsey helped me to meet Him. I now realize the lack of whom he was helped him to win multitudes of people to Christ around the world. He had a way of magnifying Christ and a reliance on the Holy Spirit. His ministry was marked by an undeniable demonstration of the Spirit and Power. He was a simple man who put on no airs. He would sit with the poor or the wealthy. There was no respect of persons.

He began preaching during the Great Depression at 15 years old. He traveled this country and witnessed the kind of revivals we read about, experienced many healing's, divine judgments and multitudes were saved as a result of the Holy Spirit moving through him.I began attending the church in a borrowed warehouse with around 60 people in attendance. It had been recently formed from a living room meeting. He had a traveling ministry for many years and now settled down just outside Detroit to teach and preach out the last years of his ministry. It became more of a shaking than a settling because as usual the Holy Spirit was present in his ministry. His method was, go where the Spirit lead and get the Word out.

If you study past revivals or awakenings you will see the similarities in Brother Lindsey's ministry. During great awakenings religious leaders have often ignorantly opposed a key figure that God sends and Brother Hubert was that key man in Detroit. I was amazed at the number of pastors that opposed his message of Entire Sanctification and Holiness. If you do your homework you will see revivals didn't come without this kind of preaching. I am amazed at how far the word spread from Detroit and the ways God used to get it out. 22 years later I am still meeting people from all over who were effected from those few years in Detroit.

Some people even advised him not to stay in Detroit. This is one person who is glad he did. I finally understood the Gospel of Christ and was immediately converted, Jesus really got a hold of me. Nothing other than my address was the same. Every one I knew thought I was crazy, I knew I wasn't. For the first time all my sins were gone and I knew it, there was not a person I didn't love or couldn't. Sounds strange but I even felt some sympathy for the devil. Things were falling off me left and right. By the outward appearance I was losing everything. But the more I lost the more I gained. I lost the girl I loved but God's love intensified, I lost my friends but I found Brothers and Sisters in the Lord, I lost hobbies that I had given myself to but my hands didn't become idle in the ministry. Like Paul said "I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ"

I was drawn to Brother Lindsey's love and devotion to God and had the opportunity to get to know this simple man. Because of his blindness he needed assistance where ever he went. I counted it an honor to take him for a drive, to a restaurant or to a garage sale. He liked to be around people. He visited my home on occasion to a picnic or to talk with my parents and encourage them.

I cherish the times we gathered our chairs around him to listen. I met Brother Lindsey in the last years of his ministry, he will always hold a place dear in my heart because God used him to answer that first prayer. I look forward to see him again, to thank him for sacrificing to get the word to me.

Still His,
Brother Jim Denton