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Jesus Is Our Comforter
Jesus Is Our Comforter By Billy Graham • January 28, 2017 . . . our Lord Jesus Christ . . . which hath loved us . . . comfort your hearts . . . —2 Thessalonians 2:16,17 Christ is the answer to sorrow. When Harry Lauder, the great Scottish comedian, received word that his son had been killed in France, he said, “In a time like this, there are three courses open to man: He may give way to despair…
Victory Over Death
Victory Over Death By Billy Graham • January 21, 2017 O death, where is thy sting? . . . —1 Corinthians 15:55 Death is the most democratic experience in life for we all participate in it. We think of its happening only to other people. We don’t like to grow old and we don’t like to die. The Bible teaches that death is an enemy of man and God. But it also teaches that this enemy, death, will ultimately be…
Not Too Young
Not Too Young By Billy Graham • December 15, 2016 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers . . . —1 Timothy 4:12 Lord Chesterton once said, “I believe in bedside repentance, but I do not want to depend upon it.” During a serious illness a person’s mind does not function normally. Getting right with God is something one should do in the bloom of health. However, as far as the Lord is…
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,…
Letters from Roscoe – The Aha! Moment
Wow! Did you read today’s Daily Devotional from Billy Graham ‘God Provides’? In it, Dr. Graham explains how we exchange our bodies (currently just a tent) for a permanent house in heaven. But the big statement that made me go ‘Wow!’ is this one: “Do you think that God, who has provided so amply for living, has made no provision for dying?” If you have ever questioned your own presence here in the world, and the presence of a God and…
God Provides
God Provides By Billy Graham • August 22, 2016 For we know that when this tent we live in now is taken down-when we die and leave these bodies-we will have wonderful new bodies in heaven, homes that will be ours forevermore, made for us by God himself, and not by human hands. —2 Corinthians 5:1 (TLB) Death, to the Christian, is the exchanging of a tent for a building. Here we are as pilgrims or gypsies, living in a…
Daily Devotional – The End of Life
The End of Life By Billy Graham • July 26, 2016 . . . willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. —2 Corinthians 5:8 A little boy was riding alone on a train on a hot day when the travelers were extremely uncomfortable; and the scenery was not too interesting as they passed through the desert of Arizona. A lady sitting beside the boy asked him, “Are you tired of the long…
Daily Devotional – The Collision of God and Sin
The Collision of God and Sin – From Utmost.org April 6, 2016 …who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree… —1 Peter 2:24 The Cross of Christ is the revealed truth of God’s judgment on sin. Never associate the idea of martyrdom with the Cross of Christ. It was the supreme triumph, and it shook the very foundations of hell. There is nothing in time or eternity more absolutely certain and irrefutable than what Jesus Christ…