I wonder why, if those questions WERE ASKED, Billy Graham's thoughts on President Bush weren't published...
He sure doesn't know much after several decades of reading the Bible.
Karina not only destroyed much of NO but spread many of the problems of NO all over the country. (who is this "prince of the air" anyway? George Bush?)
barbra ann
"God came back and restored to him all these things, but the cause of the thing in his life was not God, it was the Devil. I didn’t mention that yesterday, (To the 1,000 clergy gathered at the First Baptist Church there) because I don’t think this is the place to talk about Satan and the Devil, because I don’t know. The Devil might have had nothing to do with this; I don’t know. But God has allowed it, and there is a purpose that we won’t know maybe for years to come."
If a church, in front of 1,000 clergy, is not the place to talk about Satan, where is?
I know the church at which Graham spoke. It is an apostate church full of disciples of Rick Warren and his "feel good" "judge not" heretical new age gospel. It is run like a cult. As are all apostate churches. They hire consultants to tell them how to manage and grow their church. Their pastor's ambition is to be like Warren and have a church as big as his. The First Baptist Church of New Orleans has within the last decade experienced a split, because of the ambitions of their current pastor. The whole Word of God is not welcome there. And the Holy Spirit does not dwell there.
This reveals much about the kind of Christian Billy Graham is, that he would fellowship with the apostate. When the Bible clearly states that we should mark and separate from those who teach a false gospel.
But then, no one ever became rich and famous preaching the unadulterated Word of God. To become popular in the world, you have to tell them what they want to hear. Graham chooses to tickle the ears of the world, for popularities sake, rather than preach the whole Word of God. That's why the world loves him. And so does Satan, for not reminding the 1,000 clergy, while he had the perfect opportunity to, that Satan is alive and well in the world and current doing his evil deeds. Yes, Satan is thankful to Graham for not exposing him. But of course, if he did, Graham would not be nearly as famous as he is.
May God have mercy of him.
Bump for later.
From: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/322548p-275769c.html
The ex-President and New York's junior senator joined the crowd of 80,000 at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, and were greeted like soul mates.
Graham returned the favor, lavishing the Democratic power duo with praise.
"They're a great couple," he said. "I told an audience that I felt when he left the presidency he should be an evangelist because he has all the gifts and he'd leave his wife to run the country."
http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?Id=22820
Billy & Franklin Graham give spiritual
boost to New Orleans pastors & spouses
Mar 10, 2006
By Keith Manuel
Baptist Press
NEW ORLEANS (BP)--Billy and Franklin Graham were welcomed to the sanctuary of First Baptist Church in New Orleans by a standing ovation from pastors, spouses and special guests March 9 for a time of prayer for the Grahams’ March 11-12 “Celebration of Hope” in the hurricane-ravaged city.
The still strong voices of George Beverly Shea and Cliff Barrows led the group in worship. Barrows pointed out that the three men, Graham, Shea and Barrows, represent 267 years of collective ministry.
Franklin Graham stood behind the pulpit where his father preached in 1954 to lead a month-long crusade in New Orleans at the old Pelican Stadium. David Crosby, pastor of First Baptist New Orleans, pulled out a pen and invited Franklin to sign the pulpit that his father and the Graham team had signed in 1954.
Franklin Graham mentioned the historic nature of the Celebration of Hope. During the planning for the event, he said, “I never dreamed we would have Daddy, Uncle Cliff and Uncle Bev join us. It is such a blessing, such an honor to have them.”
The younger Graham, who peppered the meeting with self-deprecating humor, told the pastors that they would have to put up with his preaching on Saturday while they were saving the best for last at the two-day outreach, his father.
Billy Graham told the audience, “I am absolutely devastated by what I’ve felt and seen in the couple of days that I’ve been here. I don’t even know how to describe it. I haven’t even called my wife, because I don’t think I am emotionally capable of telling her what I’ve seen and heard since I’ve been here.
“The encouraging thing to me is the wonderful Christians I’ve met and the working together among the pastors,” Graham continued. “I want to thank you for the parts you are playing in this situation that the whole world is reading about and hearing about.
“Out of this disaster is going to grow a new New Orleans,” Graham said. “You [the pastors] are going to be the key to its progress because what is needed is a moral and spiritual renewal.”
Many people have asked him why the storm hit New Orleans to which Grahamn said he has replied, “I don’t know. I don’t know anyone who does know. I just know God allowed it. He didn’t send it, but He allowed it.”
Graham noted: “Jesus is no security against storms, but He is a perfect security in the storm.”
Franklin Graham, who has been in New Orleans five times since Hurricane Katrina, said a local mayor discussing the poor response by governmental and nonprofit agencies following the storm told him, “It was the churches that have saved our cities.”
A Marine who was in Falujah in Iraq and now is assigned to help a local parish told Franklin Graham of the difference between faith-based groups and other groups: “You have something that the others don’t have. It is the spiritual element. I don’t fully understand it, but when people have lost everything, there is a spiritual need in that person’s life and the other groups can’t give it.”
Franklin Graham emphasized that the goal of Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association is to support the work of the local churches. “Our prayer is that this weekend, hundreds, maybe thousands, will come to know Jesus Christ,” he said.
Local pastors and leaders responded with excitement to the Grahams. Warren J. Riley, superintendent of police for New Orleans and a member of Franklin Avenue Baptist Church, said, “The city needs prayer. Hopefully, it’s an awakening for many people in New Orleans. Perhaps they will become more spiritual, put God in their lives, and help turn New Orleans around.
“One lesson is to be learned,” Riley said: “Those people who did not have their lives right, spiritually, maybe [Katrina] will focus them on doing what is right, based on God’s Word.”
Jim Woodard, pastor of The Crossroads in the New Orleans-area Belle Chasse community, said, “I think this is an exciting opportunity. When we first started having meetings, my impression was we are so inundated as church members and leaders, do we really need to be sidelined or distracted with something like this?
“As the meetings progressed, I have become totally convinced that God is going to do something special this weekend in New Orleans, especially to bring us a message of hope and encouragement,” Woodard said. “I felt the Holy Spirit speak to me that this is the message we need right now and this is the man to bring it to us.”
Martha Bailey, a pastor’s wife from Covington, La., said, “I have been praying that we will see that God really does mean what He says when He said, ‘Call to me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things which you do not know.’ That is the Scripture that kept reverberating in my mind as we were in the worship service with the Grahams.”
First Baptist’s Crosby said, “I feel that God has displayed his favor to me in the most concrete way possible, by bringing Franklin and Billy Graham here. I don’t know of another thing that could have taken place that could have been more of an encouragement to me spiritually, and in every way, than for Billy Graham to say, ‘I have New Orleans on my heart and I want to come here.’”