Topics: Christianity, Evangelism Do Not Compromise By Billy Graham September 29 Man kneeling with arm outstretched Out of his glorious, unlimited resources he will give you the mighty inner strengthening of his Holy Spirit. —Ephesians 3:16 (TLB) Horace Pitkin, the son of a wealthy merchant, was converted and went to China as a missionary. He wrote to his friends in …
Read More »
Topics: Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit By Billy Graham • September 27 Your body is the home of the Holy Spirit . . . —1 Corinthians 6:19 (TLB) Who is the Holy Spirit? He is God, just as God the Father and God the Son are also God. We speak of them as the Trinity. You ask me to explain …
Read More »
Topics: Evangelism You Can Preach! By Billy Graham September 26 And the Good News about the Kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world . . . —Matthew 24:14 (TLB) We are stewards of the Gospel. The power to proclaim the greatest news in heaven or on earth was not given to the angels. It was given to redeemed men. …
Read More »
Topic:Our Present Sufferings READ THE SCRIPTURE: ROMANS 8:18-25 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. Romans 8:18 The theme of that verse and the next nine verses is that incomparable glory lies ahead — glory beyond description, greater than anything you can compare it with on earth. A …
Read More »
Topics: Sin Symptoms of Guilt By Billy Graham September 25 Cleanse me from this guilt. Let me be pure again. —Psalm 51:2 (TLB) Guilt is a prominent word among psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and ministers too. The dictionary calls guilt “the act or state of having done a wrong or committed an offense.” The symptoms of guilt are many, but the root …
Read More »
Topics: Hope A Living Presence By Billy Graham September 24 A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel. —Luke 2:32 If we could look through mighty telescopes or listen to electronic soundings, we could hear and see the metallic stars which both Russia and America have put into space in the past years. None of …
Read More »
Topics: Pride We Must Decrease By Billy Graham August 23 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. —Lamentations 3:40 Our modern philosophy of self-reliance and self-sufficiency has caused many to believe that we can make the grade without God. “Religion,” they argue, “may be all right for certain emotional people, but you can’t beat …
Read More »
Topics: Death God Provides By Billy Graham August 22 For we know that when this tent we live in now is taken down-when we die and leave these bodies-we will have wonderful new bodies in heaven, homes that will be ours forevermore, made for us by God himself, and not by human hands. —2 Corinthians 5:1 (TLB) Death, to the …
Read More »
Topics: God The Mysteries of God By Billy Graham September 21 Since earliest times men have seen the earth and sky and all God made, and have known of his existence and great eternal power . . . —Romans 1:20 (TLB) If you try to rationalize God exhaustively, you will fail. There are mysteries about God that we will never …
Read More »
Topics: Grace Do You Surrender? By Billy Graham September 20 Man standing alone in field It is God himself who has made us what we are and given us new lives from Christ Jesus; and long ages ago he planned that we should spend these lives in helping others. —Ephesians 2:10 (TLB) Happiness and all of the unlimited benefits which …
Read More »
