Ministries (Page 275)
The Struggles of Life
The Struggles of Life By Billy Graham • September 2, 2016 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 bacteria in our bloodstream are waging a constant war against alien germs. The red corpuscles fight the white corpuscles constantly in an effort to maintain…
Verse of the Day – Psalms 46:10 KJV
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
The First Missionary
The First MissionaryBy Billy Graham • September 1, 2016 Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. —Matthew 4:19 Jesus Himself was the first missionary! He did not sit by passively and let those who happened to be interested in His teaching come to Him. He went out where the sick, the sorrowing, and the sad were, and expounded His message of joy, healing, and salvation. Even at a tender age, He went to the Temple and “taught”…
Verse of the Day – Hebrews 12:14 KJV
“Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:”
Hope Beyond Death
Hope Beyond Death By Billy Graham • August 31, 2016 The righteous hath hope in his death. —Proverbs 14:32 We don’t like to talk about death; it’s the forbidden subject of our generation. Yet it’s real for all of us. Sometimes on television I see motion pictures featuring actors who are no longer living. They seem very much alive in the picture, but they are dead. Some of them were my personal friends. Death is real, and when we die,…
Verse of the Day – Psalms 119:143 KJV
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
Make Room in your Heart
Make Room in Your HeartBy Billy Graham • August 30, 2016 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven . . . —Matthew 5:43–45 When H. G.…
Verse of the Day – Psalms 55:22 KJV
“Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.”
Just as I am
Just As I AmBy Billy Graham • August 29, 2016 You are living a brand new kind of life . . . more and more like Christ who created this new life within you. —Colossians 3:10 (TLB) A long-haired blonde from a southern university seemed to be enjoying a satisfactory student career when her grades began to slip. “Life had become one long case of the blahs,” she confessed later. “I wasn’t walking around with a steady load of blues,…
Verse of the Day – 1 Corinthians 3:16 KJV
“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”
Grace and Peace
Grace and Peace – By Billy Graham • August 28, 2016 Unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. —Ephesians 4:7 The Christian life is never spoken of in the Bible as a bed of roses. It is uphill, because society is coming one way and the Christian is going the opposite way. But Jesus said that in the midst of your problems, in the midst of your difficulties, He will…
Verse of the Day – Psalms 27:7-8 KJV
“Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me. When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek.”