Well Done, Thou Good And Faithful Servant-Billy Graham

His wife Ruth, although married for almost 64 years to the world’s most famous Baptist preacher, remained a lifelong Presbyterian.

Long before he was famous, Billy Graham went to school at Wheaton College.

In fact, Graham was already the subject of a rare and precious honor, a Trump Tweet that does not appear, on the surface, to be either an attack on his enemies or bare-faced self-aggrandizement.

Graham’s message was not complex or unique, yet he preached with a conviction that won over audiences worldwide.

“Billy Graham navigated a century of turbulent conflict and change with the message of the Gospel and a zeal that made him one of the great Christian presences in American history”, Chaput said in a statement.

His son Franklin Graham confirmed his father’s death and said, “He departed this world into eternal life in Heaven”.

Rev. Graham – who preferred to be called Mr.

Throughout his long career, Graham prayed with USA presidents Harry Truman through Barack Obama. In 1957, he filled New York’s Madison Square Garden for 16 consecutive weeks.

Through the BGEA, he started his weekly radio program, “Hour of Decision”, newspaper columns, magazines, television programs and more. He was the author of 31 books, most of which have been translated into several languages. He was routinely named to Gallup’s “Ten Most Admired Men in the World”, along with Pope John Paul II.

Graham returned to preach a crusade at Legion Field in Birmingham in 1972.

“Some think in terms of extreme fundamentalism”, he said. “I want him to say to me, ‘Well done, thou good and faithful servant'”. “The people of western Europe were so oppressed, suppressed, that they were not even allowed to speak what they thought was the truth”, he said. “It was everywhere and everyone was excited that he was going to come”, he said.

“I do believe he was a man timely born, and he answered the call very well”, Johnson said. Graham was in this effort are mixed.

He said he saw Graham just a few months ago in Montreat, N.C. Billy Graham loved the Lord with all of his heart and demonstrated this through his ministry.

Graham’s links to Presbyterianism are tangential but important.

Stunningly successful months-long revivals in London (1954) and NY (1957), triumphant tours of the Continent and the Far East, the founding of Christianity Today magazine (1956), the launching of nationwide television broadcasts on ABC (1957), and a public friendship with President Dwight Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon firmly established him as the acknowledged standard-bearer for evangelical Christianity. God’s blessing continues as He opens doors for the Gospel around the world. Field representative with Youth for Christ, 1945-49. People have come from near and far, one from as far away as Egypt.

Among the many awards Rev.

That was not the first time Graham dedicated a major sports venue in Charlotte.

He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, in 1983, and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1996.

So where does the on-screen friendship between Queen Elizabeth and late Reverend Billy Graham fall? Graham was to be buried alongside her on the library grounds.

He has three daughters, two sons, 19 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren.