Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks on September 5, 2009
In case you were wondering, the 90-year-old ailing evangelist Billy Graham may have trouble seeing, hearing and walking—but he doesn’t have a death wish. Nor is he depressed. So his daughter, Anne Graham Lotz, told Twin Cities radio station KTIS (which Billy Graham launched 60 years ago) in what seems like an answer to a question nobody asked.
“He struggles a little bit, I think, with a sense of purpose,” Lotz said.
On a positive note, she does add that he’s clear-minded, quick to pray about current events and deeply misses his late wife, Ruth Bell Graham who died in 2007.
Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks on February 16, 2009
It’s the end of the world as we know it. Or at least that’s what the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association will focus on in 2009.
“The Bible teaches that Jesus is coming again,” writes Billy Graham, “And I don’t see any other hope, because we’re heading toward a catastrophe in our world.”
Even Graham’s daughter, Anne Graham Lotz, is getting in on the act. She recently spoke at the National Religious Broadcasters convention: “I believe we’re living in the last generation before he comes back.”
No theological qualms with the BGEA’s focus (though perhaps with Lotz’ emphasis—how many preachers throughout history have said what she did?), but is it really news? Billy Graham has talked about the end times his entire career, including at least three books on the subject (World Aflame, 1965; Approaching Hoofbeats: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 1983; Storm Warning, 1992). The second coming of Christ is hardly new ground for Billy Graham.
