Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks on January 25, 2009
As a young man Billy Graham had quite the head of hair. A mane, as it were, which went gray and then pure white as he grew old, the proverbial lion in winter.
Author and pastor Dan Kimball, who has a stylish and gelled head of hair himself, noticed the wavy locks of the young evangelist on a visit to the Billy Graham Center Museum in Wheaton, Ill., and blogged about it.
Oh, Kimball talked about the importance of evangelism and some other stuff. But the hair, that’s pretty cool.
Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks on December 23, 2008
Pocket Guide to the Bible author Jason Boyett points to the recent Billy Graham Christmas Special and wonders about how they share the gospel:
“Surely somebody on Graham’s team saw the unintentional hilarity and/or ridiculousness and/or cheapening of the gospel that comes from putting this phrase on the television screen:
For a relationship with Jesus Christ: 1-800-631-7141″
He pokes fun at the wording and then finishes with the admission that Billy Graham and evangelical Christians have done good things, “but TV graphics like this one help explain why people think we’re weird.”
I think Boyett is taking it a bit far, but he does have a point.
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