Corrected post...
“My whole life has been to please the LORD and to honor Jesus, not to see me, not to think of me.”
I pray for many more like him.
BTW, Bill Graham didn’t die *today*. He died many years ago when he received Christ at the age of *sixteen*. Yesterday, he was raptured out of his body and ushered into the presence of Christ and the glories and pleasures of Heaven for evermore.
“Someday you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it. I shall be more alive than I am now. I will just have changed my address. I will have gone into the presence of God.” — Billy Graham
He is finally with his Lord.
“Someday you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it. I shall be more alive than I am now. I will just have changed my address. I will have gone into the presence of God.”
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
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/
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
Dear Friend,
My father, Billy Graham, went into the presence of the Lord on February 21, 2018.
The Bible tells us in Revelation 14:13: “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord … that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them” (NKJV).
Many have said that his death ends an era, but he would be the first to say that when God’s ambassadors die in Christ, the Lord raises up others, because the preaching of the Gospel will go forward until the end of the age. God’s blessing continues as He opens doors for the Gospel around the world. BGEA remains committed to preach the Word in season and out of season across the globe.
My siblings and I would appreciate your prayers in the days ahead as we honor a man who served the Lord with his life, loved his family, and was always grateful for God’s faithful people who supported him in the work of the ministry in Jesus’ Name.
As we lay to rest this very public ambassador, please pray with us that the testimony he leaves behind will touch many lives and point them to salvation in Jesus Christ. My father’s journey of faith on earth has ended. He has been reunited with my mother and has stepped into the eternal joy of Heaven in the presence of his Savior, in whom he placed his hope.
If you would like to know more about my father’s life, share a memory, or read public visitation details, please visit BillyGraham.org.
God bless you, and thank you for your prayers for our family and the staff of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
Sincerely,
Franklin Graham
Onward Christian Soldiers.
RIP