“Billy Graham carried his message around the world, but his heart, like Franklin will tell you, was always in America”, Trump said. “My father’s greatest longing has been granted”.
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“Billy Graham’s faith and legacy touched millions around the world, including many here in Alaska. I would be nothing without Him.’ That is what made Billy Graham America’s pastor”. Franklin Graham said there was “no better place” than at his father’s funeral for viewers to convert to Christianity. The elder Graham died last week at age 99.
Galatians 6:14 reads, “May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which [a] the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world”.
“I believe, from Heaven’s perspective, that my father’s death is as significant as his life”.
The service concluded with the singing of another crusade hymn, To God be the glory and a benediction given by Rev George Battle.
Graham later attended Kennedy’s funeral in the Capitol rotunda, per the library. “His journey is complete”. He said, I’ll be more alive than I am now.
“I chased a lot of golf balls that day”, Pittenger said. No blame, no condemnation; just unconditional love.
“I think God gave us this day special”.
The 28,000-square-foot tent, built to withstand the wind gusting through Charlotte, harkens to the 1949 crusade in the “canvas cathedral” that shot Graham to national attention.
The funeral guest list featured well-known evangelicals as well as more than 100 global religious delegates.
Other esteemed guests at Rev.
Billy Graham was born the son of a North Carolina farmer. Dignitaries from more than 50 countries also were expected to attend.
Grammy-winning Christian recording artist Michael W. Smith, a personal favorite of Rev.
Daughter Anne Graham Lotz, founder of the nonprofit AnGeL Ministries, remembered her father’s probing questions during the family’s daily devotionals. Graham’s, performed “Above All”.
A steady stream of people from different spots around the globe passed through the Rotunda, a powerful testament to the lives impacted by Graham.
Following the funeral, Rev.
After the internment ceremony concluded, Graham’s family placed white roses on his casket.
BGEA officials said over 13,000 people paid their respects to Rev. Ford gestured to the Graham homestead, which had been moved to the library and stood behind the podium.
Graham’s impact was felt far beyond the USA and religious circles.
Graham is only the fourth private person to lie in honour since 1998. Only God does. And in Jesus Christ, God has answered the hard and final question of death with the gift of eternal life. Dr. ‘All of us children came to see the world and our father in heaven through my father’s eyes’. “It governed the way he lived and it governed the way he died”, Spartanburg Pastor Donald Wilton said as the funeral opened.
The service, scheduled to start at noon Friday, is to include performances by musicians who shared the stage with Graham at his crusades.
People I’ve spoken with in Charlotte this week can name the precise moment when they first witnessed Graham’s intense preaching on television or in person.
In keeping with Rev. “He must be buried in a simple casket”. His casket was made of pine by inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
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“He asked if they could make one for his mother and father”, BGEA spokesman Mark DeMoss said. A wooden cross was nailed on top.
