Posted on 02/21/2018 5:20:30 AM PST by navysealdad
Rev. Billy Graham has died.
RIP
We’ve lost the greatest evangelist of the 20th century. A must see film of this Christian man is “Billy, The Early Years.” Without doubt God will rest his soul.
Give him a State funeral. He was a national treasure...but of course he is Gods treasure first.
The spiritual impact that Billy Graham had on our family from the time my siblings and I were children can’t be described in words. For some Christians, like myself, his passing is symbolic of the closing of the Age of Grace, meaning, the open door of the gospel being preached and the opportunity for the world to receive God’s Savior is almost shut and Jesus will return to claim His own. I love what his son said...
My father, Billy Graham was once asked, “Where is Heaven?” He said, “Heaven is where Jesus is and I am going to Him soon!” This morning, he departed this world into eternal life in Heaven, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ—the Savior of the world—whom he proclaimed for 80 years.” - Franklin Graham
The spiritual impact that Billy Graham had on our family from the time my siblings and I were children can’t be described in words. For some Christians, like myself, his passing is symbolic of the closing of the Age of Grace, meaning, the open door of the gospel being preached and the opportunity for the world to receive God’s Savior is almost shut and Jesus will return to claim His own. I love what his son said...
My father, Billy Graham was once asked, “Where is Heaven?” He said, “Heaven is where Jesus is and I am going to Him soon!” This morning, he departed this world into eternal life in Heaven, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ—the Savior of the world—whom he proclaimed for 80 years.” - Franklin Graham
RIP
may the lord give Billy a special room in his house
forever in peace
I would love to see that. A State Funeral for Billy Graham.
That’s not a bad thing to petition for on WH.gov.
It’s a great idea.
I can’t agree———a State Funeral should not be for religious leaders.
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a great man regardless of ones faith or religious denomination, or lack of same, as may be the case...
1. Graham has preached the Gospel to more people in live audiences than anyone else in history—nearly 215 million people in more than 185 countries and territories
2. After graduating from Sharon High School in May 1936, Graham attended Bob Jones College. After one semester, he found it too legalistic in both coursework and rules. He was almost expelled, but Bob Jones, Sr. warned him not to throw his life away: “At best, all you could amount to would be a poor country Baptist preacher somewhere out in the sticks…. You have a voice that pulls. God can use that voice of yours. He can use it mightily.”
3. Graham transferred from Bob Jones College to Florida Bible Institute. After graduating from the Bible college he earned his B.A. (1943) from Wheaton College in Illinois. In 1947, at age 30, he was hired as president of Northwestern Bible College in Minneapolis, Minnesota—at the time, the youngest person to serve as a sitting president of any U.S. college or university.
4. After a Los Angeles revival that included the conversion of Hollywood stars, Graham was surprised by a crowd of reporters and photographers. When Graham asked what caused the fuss, a reporter said, “You have just been kissed by William Randolph Hearst.” The powerful newspaper mogul had sent the message that his reporters were to “Puff Graham.” Within days, the crusade was being given extensive coverage by Hearst’s chain of papers, major national magazines, and wire services. Graham never met Hearst and no one is sure why the publisher took an interest in the evangelist. But as a result of the media coverage, Graham soon moved from a tent evangelist to a national figure.
5. Graham’s ministry was the subject of controversy in the mid-1950s because of his“cooperative evangelism.”Graham began accepting non-evangelical support and funding from liberal and mainline Protestant churches and denominations. This move necessitated that converts at his crusades would be recommended to attend conservative and nonconservative churches alike.
6. In 1955, Graham invited Martin Luther King, Jr. to join him in the pulpit at his 16-week revival in New York City, where 2.3 million gathered at Madison Square Garden, Yankee Stadium, and Times Square to hear them. In his autobiography, Graham says he and King developed a close friendship and that he was eventually one of the few people who referred to King as “Mike,” a nickname which King asked only his closest friends to call him. In 1963, Graham posted bail for King to be released from jail during the civil rights protests in Birmingham.
7. In the early 1980s, Graham said he planned to spend the rest of his life preaching the gospel and working for global nuclear disarmament. In an interview with Sojourners, Graham said, “Is a nuclear holocaust inevitable if the arms race is not stopped? Frankly, the answer is almost certainly yes.”
8. No other American has slept in the White House Lincoln Bedroom more than Graham, who was often referred to as the “pastor to the presidents.” Graham had a relationship or personal audience with every U.S. president from Truman to Obama. He was particularly close with Eisenhower who asked for Graham while on his deathbed, and Nixon. He presided over the graveside services for president Lyndon Johnson in 1973 and spoke at the funeral of president Richard Nixon in 1994. The only president that didn’t like Graham, as the evangelist frequently noted, was Truman. Truman called Graham a “counterfeit” and said “he was never a friend of mine when I was President.”
9. Graham was the recipient of many honors, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom (the nation’s highest civilian award), the Congressional Gold Medal, an Honorary Knighthood in Order of the British Empire, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was also the first non-musician to be inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. He received the honor in 1999 for providing a platform to many Christian artists who performed at Graham’s event
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/9-things-know-billy-graham/
Great post!
Rest in peace to a giant. Prayers and condolences to the Graham family.
Rev. Graham, RIP... your good work on earth is done.
Receive him in Your Heavenly embrace, O Lord...
Many good things have been said about Reverend Graham here. All I can add is DITTO!
R.I.P.
CGato
I remember reading several years ago, during the Reagan years it was discussed that Billy Graham should have a state funeral upon his passing.
I think there would be something fitting about that.
The left would throw an unbelievable fit. Not that Trump would let that stop him -- especially if he believed it was the right thing to do.
That would be fitting, we are going to have to suffer a state funeral for that rancid traitor McCain...let’s have one that truly befits Graham’s greatness and his import to the nation.
I imagine POTUS will be guided by what the family wishes.
Have always been worried about the day that this Christian lion would pass.
It seems that we are at an intersection of a sane and moral nation and one that is crossing into chaos and insanity. This is that time ...praying I make it out and get to where Billy Graham has gone, as well as everyone I hold dear.
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