The Reverend—and revered—Billy Graham was hospitalized over the weekend with internal bleeding. According to a spokesperson, the 88-year-old evangelist “has been resting comfortably throughout the day. He is fully conscious, alert, and visiting with members of his family.” His doctor reported that the bleeding has stopped.
Graham’s health, in general, continues to decline with multiple ailments, so perhaps this is good time, as someone has said, to “give flowers when people can still smell them.”
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August 21, 2007 at 21:34
This July on my vacation I had the privilege of visiting the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, N.C. If you get a chance, go! It was a great experience, but then Billy Graham is one of the great Christians of our time. The fact that he would deny this and MEAN it, is a testament to the Holy Spirit in him. Billy Graham is one of the most wonderful & winsome Christians of our time. A few ways he has touched my life: his newspaper column; the Cove; the BGEA website; his integration of services when few others would dare; his reaching out to Catholic leadership although a Southern Baptist (my husband’s mother, a devout Catholic, sat her six children in front of the tv to watch each Billy Graham special); his books; his lifestyle of integrity and purity; World Wide Pictures, his wife Ruth, his children, especially Anne Lotz & Franklin…and I will always be grateful for the way the Lord used him to remind us of our ultimate victory as Christians the after the evil attack on our nation on 9/11 (listen and/or read at): http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/billygraham911memorial.htm
I could go on, and on, and on… but I am just thankful the Lord has shared his servant Billy Graham with me.
August 21, 2007 at 22:40
God used Billy Graham in a phenomenal way to serve a generation who needed someone like him desperately. He approached his mission with humility and grace.
May God call others who can connect with this generation. May they take up the baton and share Christ with the same humility and grace.
August 22, 2007 at 20:05
I have been looking for a place to share how truly grateful I am for the ministry of Billy Graham. I pray for him , his family almost daily.
But I wanted to express deep appreciation for “Franklin” being there, perhaps the Lord will use him to continue the legacy of Billy; he too is a blessing. Billy Graham has touched my life in a way that has taught me faithfulness and Christian character, may every believer imitate the life of Christ flowing from him.
August 28, 2007 at 14:36
I have always been skeptical about Billy Graham, but there is something inarguably good about the man. The Wittenurg Door said it well in an updated comment from Screwtape concerning the greatest weapon ever put into service of Our Father Below, “spiritual warfare,” and its uses in luring televangelists into deceipt: We don’t yet know why it didn’t work on Billy Graham, but think it had to do with his abysmal lack of self love.”
He really stood out from the pack. In fact, he wasn’t even IN the pack. A devout and sincere Southern Baptist who stays married for life to a Presbyterian clearly knows what is of God from what is of the world. I wouldn’t have responded to an altar call at one of his revivals, but we are all better for those who did.