Topics: God’s Love A God of Justice By Billy Graham December 19 What joy there is for anyone whose sins are no longer counted against him by the Lord. —Romans 4:8 (TLB) A number of years ago I was stopped for driving too fast in a speed zone, and in the courtroom I pleaded guilty. The judge was not only …
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Topics: Jesus Christ The Prince of Peace By Billy Graham December 17 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. —Proverbs 10:12 To hate, to discriminate against those who look different, who talk different, who have different national backgrounds, or who act differently from the dominant group, is a universal trait of human nature. I say that there is …
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Topics: Death, Salvation Not Too Young By Billy Graham December 15 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers . . . —1 Timothy 4:12 Lord Chesterton once said, “I believe in bedside repentance, but I do not want to depend upon it.” During a serious illness a person’s mind does not function normally. …
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Topics: Prayer He Hears You By Billy Graham December 14 If we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us. —1 John 5:14 God has said, “If my people . . . pray . . . then will I hear from heaven.” Before three thousand people were brought into the Church on the day of Pentecost, the disciples …
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Topics: God’s Love, Sin What God Has Done By Billy Graham December 13 With everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy redeemer. —Isaiah 54:8 If God is all-powerful and all-loving, it would seem inconsistent with His nature to allow anyone to be lost. Here again we rationalize because we do not understand the nature of …
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Topics: Love Loving One Another By Billy Graham December 12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men . . . —1 Thessalonians 3:12 One of the growing psychological problems facing people today is loneliness. One of the greatest ministries that a person can have today is just being a …
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Topics: God, Lifestyle What Is Idolatry? By Billy Graham December 11 Whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father . . . —Matthew 10:33 What is idolatry? Idolatry is anything that comes between us and God. Joshua told his people that their nation would be destroyed if they persisted in idolatry, and their souls …
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Topics: Love Steadfast Love By Billy Graham December 10 Your steadfast love, O Lord, is as great as all the heavens . . . —Psalm 36:5 (TLB) Young people talk a lot about love. Most of their songs are about love. . . . “The supreme happiness of life,” Victor Hugo said long ago, “is the conviction that we are …
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Topics: Bible, Truth Word Made Flesh By Billy Graham December 9 The Word was made flesh . . . full of grace and truth. —John 1:14 On the cover of your Bible and my Bible appear the words “Holy Bible.” Do you know why the Bible is called holy? Why should it be called holy when so much lust and …
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Topics: Grace The Throne of Grace By Billy Graham December 8 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace . . . —Hebrews 4:16 Praying is simply a two-way conversation between you and God. Thousands of people pray only when they are under great stress, or in danger, overcome by uncertainty. I have been in airplanes when an …
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