DEC Reviews
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Books: Billy by Sherwood Eliot Wirt & Just as I am by Billy Graham
Billy by Sherwood Eliot Wirt
Just as I am by Billy Graham
A review on the above
While browsing round a stall recently I spotted a book entitled 'Just as I am', an autobiography of Billy Graham with a picture of his smiling face on the cover. It took me back to the early 1950s when this remarkable man came to Britain and held crusades in places such as Harringay, Wembley, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Inverness to name but a few. I remember clearly the never-to-be-forgotten sight of hundreds of people going to commit their lives to Christ at the end of Billy's simple explanation of the gospel.
So I bought the book and found it fascinating. What stood out most clearly were the humility and honestly of the preacher. He recalls his boyhood, milking cows on his father's farm; he explains how he was called to preach and tells of the loyal team of those who joined him; we read of his courtship and marriage and of his children; we learn how the way opened for him to tell presidents and others in high places about the way of salvation, and how God opened doors for him to preach behind the Iron Curtain.
Now in his 80s and with a form of Parkinson's disease, which is limiting, his compulsion to preach the gospel is still as strong as ever.
That book was written by Billy Graham, so when my attention was later drawn to a book about him, written by someone else, I borrowed it from our church library. This is called simply "Billy" and is written by Sherwood Eliot Wirt, who has ministered and travelled with Billy Graham for nearly 40 years and knows him intimately, not just when he is in the public eye. Mr Wirt was originally a newspaper journalist but eventually became the founding editor of 'Decision', a monthly magazine which Billy Graham established in the 1960s and which is still in circulation today.
If you want a good and challenging read, I recommend both these books. They are an encouragement to Christians to be prepared to leave their comfort zones and spread the good news of Christ's self - sacrifice for us in a world where there is very little good news about.
'Just as I am' ISBN 0-551-03144-1'
Billy' ISBN 1-85078-274-1
Just as I am by Billy Graham
A review on the above
While browsing round a stall recently I spotted a book entitled 'Just as I am', an autobiography of Billy Graham with a picture of his smiling face on the cover. It took me back to the early 1950s when this remarkable man came to Britain and held crusades in places such as Harringay, Wembley, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Inverness to name but a few. I remember clearly the never-to-be-forgotten sight of hundreds of people going to commit their lives to Christ at the end of Billy's simple explanation of the gospel.
So I bought the book and found it fascinating. What stood out most clearly were the humility and honestly of the preacher. He recalls his boyhood, milking cows on his father's farm; he explains how he was called to preach and tells of the loyal team of those who joined him; we read of his courtship and marriage and of his children; we learn how the way opened for him to tell presidents and others in high places about the way of salvation, and how God opened doors for him to preach behind the Iron Curtain.
Now in his 80s and with a form of Parkinson's disease, which is limiting, his compulsion to preach the gospel is still as strong as ever.
That book was written by Billy Graham, so when my attention was later drawn to a book about him, written by someone else, I borrowed it from our church library. This is called simply "Billy" and is written by Sherwood Eliot Wirt, who has ministered and travelled with Billy Graham for nearly 40 years and knows him intimately, not just when he is in the public eye. Mr Wirt was originally a newspaper journalist but eventually became the founding editor of 'Decision', a monthly magazine which Billy Graham established in the 1960s and which is still in circulation today.
If you want a good and challenging read, I recommend both these books. They are an encouragement to Christians to be prepared to leave their comfort zones and spread the good news of Christ's self - sacrifice for us in a world where there is very little good news about.
'Just as I am' ISBN 0-551-03144-1'
Billy' ISBN 1-85078-274-1
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What I suggest is that each time we want to review a new item we start a new post ...
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What I suggest is that each time we want to review a new item we start a new post ...
Any queries let me know
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