Lon Allison shares the story of the man and his message of Jesus Christ with a whole new generation.
Leighton Ford and Jean Graham Ford..
Foreword by Dr.
Every stage of Graham\'s life is included, even the rough spots, with appreciation and a desire to answer the question: What can we learn from the life and ministry of Billy Graham? What is his legacy? What was his message and how might it still be relevant for today.
Allison retells the highlights of what has been, by any objective account, a fascinating life, and tells it is a way that resonates with the Graham legacy of serving God and seeking to spread the Good News.
But more than everything else, he was a friend of Jesus and passionately devoted to telling Jesus\'s story to everyone he possibly could in all the world." --Lon Allison, from the introduction Billy Graham said, "You have no idea how sick I get of the name Billy Graham, and how wonderful and thrilling the name Christ sounds to my ears." So, then, why another book about him? Lon Allison, an evangelist himself, and popular evangelical pastor in Wheaton, Illinois, has learned much from Billy.
He was the \'Pastor to Presidents\' and a spiritual guide to celebrities.
As I hope you will hear clearly in what follows, he touched people like me with very little religious background.
Billy impacted everyone from Catholics and Lutherans to Bible Church Evangelicals and Assembly of God Charismatics.
I also write for those who are broadly attached to the Christian faith, and for those who have had only a small or short brush with faith in their lives. "My prayer is that this book will be read by a generation that has never heard of Billy Graham....
Lon Allison shares the story of the man and his message of Jesus Christ with a whole new generation
