BILLY GRAHAM

BE MEEK—BE HAPPY – Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth. — Matthew 5:5 In His characteristic way Jesus was saying something quite shocking and revolutionary to His listener with these words, “Happy are the meek.” He was saying something quite the opposite of our modern concept of the way to …

BORN AGAIN – BILLY GRAHAM Clothe yourself with this new nature. — Ephesians 4:24 (TLB) In Texas they tell a story about a man who used to hitch his horse every morning in front of the saloon. One morning the saloonkeeper came out and found that the horse was hitched …

THE MYSTERY OF HEAVEN – BILLY GRAHAM I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. — Psalm 23:6 What will heaven be like? Just as there is a mystery to hell, so there is a mystery to heaven. Yet I believe the Bible teaches that heaven is …

THE GREATEST WORK OF CHRIST – BILLY GRAHAM For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. — Ephesians 6:12 Jesus worked all His life. But the greatest work that Jesus did was not in …

THE STRUGGLES OF LIFE – BILLY GRAHAM Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree … — 1 Peter 2:24 All life is a struggle—that is the nature of things. Even within our physical bodies, doctors tell us, a conflict for supremacy is going on. The …

THE SECRET OF SURRENDER – BILLY GRAHAM Just as you used to be slaves to all kinds of sin, so now you must let yourselves be slaves to all that is right and holy. — Romans 6:19 (TLB) We have heard the modern expression, “Don’t fight it—it’s bigger than both of us.” …

UNSPEAKABLE JOY – BILLY GRAHAM And the disciples were called Christians . . . — Acts 11:26 In the third century Cyprian, the Bishop of Carthage, wrote to his friend Donatus, “It is a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a …

THIS WORLD IS NOT OUR HOME 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) …

THREE KINDS OF PLEASURE The disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost. — Acts 13:52 The Bible speaks of three kinds of pleasure. There is lustful pleasure, the lust of the flesh, and Scripture says it is sinful and wrong. There is legitimate pleasure, which is not wrong, but we …

THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM – BILLY GRAHAM But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom . . . — 1 Corinthians 1:30 I believe we ought to get all the education we can, but we dare not make it our god. John Dewey once defined education as …