Billy Graham was an American evangelical Christian evangelist and an ordained Southern Baptist minister. Graham is best known for his evangelistic missions or “Crusades.” He believed God knew no borders or nationalities. Throughout his career, Graham preached to millions around the world. He met and prayed with every U. S. president from Dwight Eisenhower to Barack Obama.
Graham authored 34 books, including his memoir, Just As I Am. In 1983, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan. In 1996, Graham and his wife, Ruth, received the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest award Congress can bestow on a private citizen.
Graham married Wheaton College classmate Ruth Bell Graham in 1943. They had five children ( Ruth Graham, Gigi Graham Tchividjian, Anne Graham Lotz, Nelson, & Franklin Graham) and made their home in the mountains of North Carolina. They were married for 64 years before Ruth’s death in 2007. Graham died from natural causes on February 21, 2018, at his home in Montreat, North Carolina, at the age of 99.
He always has such a way of taking your innermost thoughts and helping to see them and you as Jesus sees you. This man was truly a blessing to this world, he will be missed.
Wonderful collection of 3 of his books, Peace With God; The Secret of Happiness and Answers to Life's Problems. Read this along with my Bible study in the morning hours and thoroughly enjoyed each book. As the last book is set in an "Anne Landers" way, of questions written in and asked in his newspaper column I found insightful meaning to a lot of his answers.