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2/21/2018

Billy Graham Passes Away

Filed under: General — Dana @ 6:44 am



[guest post by Dana]

Billy Graham has passed away at 99 years old. Once, when asked if he feared death, Graham said, “No! I look forward to death, with great anticipation. I’m looking forward to seeing God face to face.” And now he is face to face with God for eternity. He is also reunited with his wife Ruth, to whom he was married for 64 years. Over many decades, Graham reached untold millions through his evangelistic work as he shared the Gospel throughout the world. His confidence and assurance in the redemptive power of Christ was unwavering.

Graham also understood that as a believer, he was a pilgrim passing through in this life on his way to eternal life with the Lord:

Some day you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it! I shall be alive more than I am now! I will just have changed my address. I will have gone into the presence of God.

Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his faithful servants. Psalm 116:15

Indeed.

–Dana

14 Responses to “Billy Graham Passes Away”

  1. What an incredible life.

    Dana (023079)

  2. Dana, would you do me the favor of removing any rude posts about Dr. Graham for a day, given his demise? Hopefully I am wrong, and people will be fine. But a stroll through the oceans of some people’s souls would scarce get one’s feet wet (to misquote National Lampoon).

    Simon Jester (c8876d)

  3. A warrior for the best of all.
    RIP, Mr. Graham.

    mga (b1dd2d)

  4. May we all reach his age.

    nk (dbc370)

  5. What an eternal legacy he leaves. Amazing.

    marci (98fec4)

  6. Imagine for the first time Billy Graham will get to watch the game on Sunday, the way the Lord intended.

    papertiger (c8116c)

  7. In reading about his interactions with people, it’s significant to note that Graham apparently was unmoved by whether an individual he was advising or praying with was famous, a president, a sovereign, or a glamorous star. To him they were all just people in need of saving grace.

    Dana (023079)

  8. “The ground is level at the foot of the cross.”

    vanB (011fb1)

  9. Did some political campaigns in North Carolina and had the great privilege of meeting him several different time. Always charming, gracious and one of the few people who literally exuded goodness. RIP reverend – may we all be blessed with sharing your attitude about our own inevitable meeting with the Almighty.

    Bill Saracino (ad0096)

  10. Rev. Graham had neutral pressure hydrocephalus, which, I believe, fills the vacuoles of the brain with fluid and creates enormous pressure inside the cranium. It makes for extreme pain and destroys body movement, the spinal cord etc. Almost no treatment possible. He himself said that it was the most horrible disease any human being can have.

    Usually, people die of this right away. He had it for quite awhile. That’s a lot of pain.

    felipe (5b25e2)

  11. Being spiritual advisor to the Presidents wasn’t enough pressure?

    Billy Graham bailed Martin Luther King Jr. out of jail in the 1960s when King was arrested in demonstrations. Sort of hard for Bull Conner to say no to Billy Graham. Sends a message. When the President couldn’t do it himself.

    Burnishes up the resume.

    papertiger (c8116c)

  12. It’s not a recent Fox thing Beldar

    https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/1834276

    Ben burn (b3d5ab)

  13. Sorry wrong thread

    Ben burn (b3d5ab)

  14. From Teen Vogue on Billy Graham”s death: Graham suggested that LGBTQ relationships are a “sinister form of perversion,” famously declaring in 1973: “Let me say this loud and clear! We traffic in homosexuality at the peril of our spiritual welfare.” Throughout his preaching career, he remained strictly opposed to same-sex marriage and actively campaigned for an amendment that banned same-sex marriage in North Carolina in 2012. At the time, Graham wrote that “At 93, I never thought we would have to debate the definition of marriage.” I”ve often though Uranus is a signifier of the LGBTQ community, and Graham”s Uranus aspects would support his obstinate stance. With regards to Franklin Graham, I”d say that apple didn”t fall far from the tree, although he has taken it to a greater extreme.

    Saverio (55c527)


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