Franklin, Bessie and Will’s Picks—April 2025

April 19, 2025


Each month, Franklin Graham and Will Graham pick a book based on its inspirational message, while Bessie picks a book for children to enjoy.


Franklin’s Pick: Incomparable: 50 Days with Jesus by Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth

Whatever you think about Jesus, He is more.

Incomparably more.

Get to know this Jesus by joining beloved author and Bible teacher Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth on a fifty-day journey, inspired by J. Oswald Sanders’ classic volume, The Incomparable Christ, to explore His one-of-a-kind story. From heaven to earth. From birth to death. From resurrection to right this minute. From before time to all time.

In these meditations, you’ll spend time reflecting on the person of Christ—His humanity, divinity, childhood, adulthood, and more. You’ll consider the work and words of Christ. And you’ll contemplate His preexistence, prayer life, majestic silence, anguish, atoning work, post-resurrection ministry, and promised second coming.

Find in Jesus—fully God and fully Man—everything you will ever need. He alone is able to save you to the end and understands you to the core. Able to forgive and befriend you, challenge and change you.

This book can be used at any time of the year but serves as an ideal devotional companion for the season leading up to and immediately following Easter.

As you walk through these days, you will be reminded that there is no one else like Jesus. He is quite simply . . . Incomparable.


Bessie’s Pick: Easter is Coming by Tama Fortner, Illustrated by Wazza Pink

Mommy and her little ones are settling in for story time, and this time it’s the biblical story of Easter that she’s telling. As the youngsters hear God’s tale unfold with its sometimes somber notes about sin and death, they are softly and continually reminded, “But Easter is coming!” By the end of the book, the anticipation has built and the children can celebrate the ending and the glory of Easter Sunday.

In a time when children’s Easter excitement often focuses on only egg hunts and candy, this book offers a different—and true—reason for joy and expectancy. It’s designed to be read and reread on the days leading up to Easter, telling the greatest story and building a sense of anticipation and celebration in little hearts.


Will’s Pick: The Leader’s Devotional: 90 Days of Biblical Wisdom for Honoring God in All You Do by David Green with Bill High

If we desire to honor God in all we do, we need to be in his Book every day. Through the Bible, God offers us so much more wisdom for living and leading–and for every domain of life–than anything this world can ever give us.

That’s why Hobby Lobby founder and CEO David Green wrote The Leader’s Devotional. By sharing the biblical principles that are the foundation of his life and leadership, he challenges and encourages each of us to seek God’s guidance for our lives, for our families, and for our organizations.

With Scripture, reflection questions, and a short prayer, each devotional hits on a topic that is close to the heart. Do you want to live and work according to God’s plans, hear what he’s saying to you, and put it into practice? Then this is the devotional for you.


Stop by Ruth’s Attic bookstore in the Billy Graham Library to purchase your copy of these featured books and more. Not in Charlotte? Call (704) 401-3242 or email ralibrary@bgea.org to place your order. Orders can be shipped within the U.S. or curbside pickup is available in Charlotte, N.C., at the Billy Graham Library.

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