{{Short description|American evangelist}} {{Infobox person |name = Micah Armstrong |image = Micah and Elizabeth Armstrong.JPG |image_size = |caption = Micah Armstrong (right), with his wife Elizabeth (left), at Florida Atlantic University in January 2007. |birth_name = |birth_date = |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |body_discovered = |death_cause = |resting_place = |resting_place_coordinates = |nationality = |citizenship = American |other_names = Brother Micah |known_for = Christian fundamentalist open-air preaching in U.S. college campuses |education = |alma_mater = |employer = |occupation = Preacher |years_active = |title = |networth = |height = |term = |predecessor = |successor = |party = |opponents = |boards = |spouse = Elizabeth Armstrong<ref name=AP/> |partner = |children = |parents = |relations = |callsign = |signature = |website = https://brothermicah.wordpress.com |footnotes = }}
[[File:Micah Armstrong.JPG|thumb|250px|Students confront Armstrong at Ohio University (2009)]]
'''Micah Armstrong''', also known as '''Brother Micah''', is an American Trinitarian Pentecostal<ref>{{Citation|last=Grant Edwards|title=Denton County Police Chief Harassing Open Air Street Preacher Taken From a Jesse Morrell Film|date=2018-07-07|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6eD9p1HbgY|access-date=2019-07-28}}</ref> evangelist who preaches publicly at universities.<ref name=AP>{{cite news | last = Reeves | first = Jay | title = Preacher stirs up college campuses | work = | pages = | language = | publisher = Associated Press | date = 2008-06-30 | url = http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700238474,00.html?pg=1 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100119063814/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700238474,00.html?pg=1 | url-status = dead | archive-date = January 19, 2010 | accessdate = 2008-11-09}}</ref> He began his campus ministries full-time in 2006, however he visited campuses in his spare time as early as 2004,<ref name=upress>[http://upressonline.com/2012/02/brother-micah-speaks-on-boca-campus/ Brother Micah speaks on Boca campus]</ref> with visits also possibly occurring as early as the mid-1990s.<ref name=youtube>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkbypEWJkVo/ A Blast From the Past for Brother Micah]</ref> Armstrong travels with his wife Elizabeth preaching in circuits mostly in the eastern and southern parts of the United States.<ref name=AP/><ref>[http://www.thedaonline.com/news/traveling-preacher-s-visit-to-wvu-ignites-controversy-1.526713 Traveling Preacher’s Visit to WVU Ignites Controversy] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120915093638/http://www.thedaonline.com/news/traveling-preacher-s-visit-to-wvu-ignites-controversy-1.526713 |date=2012-09-15 }}</ref><ref>Navera, Tristan. [http://www.thepost.ohiou.edu/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=28313&SectionID=1&SubSectionID=2&S=1 Preachers condemn supporters of Obama, music, Palmerfest], ''The Post''. Retrieved 2009-05-12.</ref> Armstrong uses outrageous statements to spark heated discussions. According to Jay Reeves of the Associated Press, Armstrong "holds a near mythic status on college campuses across the eastern United States".<ref name=AP/> On December 1, 2013, Jesse Morrell's OpenAirOutreach.com, published a documentary film on Armstrong's personal life and preaching.<ref name=youtube1>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQfZNl0ScuU Brother Micah | THE MOVIE | Open Air Preacher | Documentary Film by Jesse Morrell] Accessed 2014-07-21.</ref>
==Beliefs== Armstrong speaks out against sex outside of the biblical context of marriage,<ref>{{cite AV media |url-status = live |archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/6lT5ruEFtxc |archive-date = 2021-12-11| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lT5ruEFtxc |title = Man Strips in front of Fundamentalist Preacher! |website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> drugs, rock and roll, masturbation, smoking, and pornography.<ref name=upress/> He calls himself a "homophobe" and performs a song entitled, ''The Homo Song''.<ref>[http://www.eaglenews.org/ideal-religion-preaches-gospel-of-peace-and-love-not-fire-and-brimstone-1.2692823#.T0wyS_EdP-w Ideal religion preaches gospel of peace and love, not fire and brimstone]</ref> He refers to “real Muslims" as terrorists.<ref name=upress/> On the subject of women, Armstrong has said, "Women have two places: In front of the sink and behind the vacuum."<ref name=AP/> He believes one can lose their salvation and must work to maintain it by stopping sinning/repenting from sinning and trusting in Jesus Christ. In 2009, he debated Mike Sprott, a Baptist campus ministry leader and pastor, at the University of South Florida campus, on confrontational open air preaching and the message of repentance and holiness.<ref name=youtube4>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ovou2xzZe0 |title=(Part 1) Brother Micah Armstrong Debating Baptist Pastor Mike Sprott |website=www.youtube.com |access-date=2014-07-21}}</ref>
Armstrong's preaching is criticized within some Christian circles. Brother Micah and Sister Elizabeth frequently preach against homosexuality, masturbation, and premarital sex,<ref name = youtube5>{{cite AV media |url-status = live |archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/2swEcsZTxPc |archive-date = 2021-12-11| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2swEcsZTxPc |title = Brother Micah and Sister Elizabeth at UCF |website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> in a way that critics find confrontational. Armstrong calls male critics who challenge his preaching on homosexuality sodomites,<ref name =youtube7>{{cite AV media |url-status = live |archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/yJpiPjGsvyg |archive-date = 2021-12-11| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJpiPjGsvyg |title = Brother Micah at JMU |website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and has said that sorority girls put whorehouses out of business by giving away free sex.<ref name = youtube8>{{cite AV media |url-status = live |archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/YfOFAADk_k8 |archive-date = 2021-12-11| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfOFAADk_k8 |title = FGCU hit again by the lunatic preacher |website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Micah claims to be sinless (an unorthodox view called sinless perfectionism).<ref name = youtube6>{{cite AV media |url-status = live |archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/Har3rzxwaVc |archive-date = 2021-12-11| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Har3rzxwaVc |title = The Baptizing of Micah Armstrong |website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
He commonly toured with Brother Jed and Sister Cindy.
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