Billy Graham used this Bible during countless hours of sermon preparation and preaching. Graham said of the relationship between the Scriptures and his messages, “Effective preaching must be biblical preaching, whether it is exposition of a single word in the Bible, a text, or a chapter. The Word is what the Spirit uses.”
Billy Graham and President George W. Bush at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., January 21, 2005, for a prayer service. The service was held as part of President Bush’s inauguration to a second term in office. President Bush sent Mr. Graham a letter following the service. The note read, “Dear Billy, Thanks so much …
Jerry Richardson, former NFL player and Carolina Panthers’ founder, gifted this autographed helmet to Billy Graham. The two have shared a friendship for forty years. In September of 1996, Billy Graham, 77, preached at the Panthers stadium in Charlotte, drawing more than 330,000 over the four-day Crusade.
The 1969 Graham Family Christmas card, and the family’s 1976 brass Christmas ornament. The photo on the 1969 Graham family Christmas card was taken at the Grahams’ home in Montreat, North Carolina, and features (from left) Ned, Franklin, Ruth (Bunny), Anne, Ruth, and Billy.
This decision card documented the personal commitment to Christ that Billy Graham made 80 years ago on November 1, 1934, just days before his 16th birthday, at a Mordecai Ham revival in Charlotte, North Carolina. During Ham’s invitation on the last verse of the final hymn of the night, Billy went forward and dedicated his …
These guns belonged to two gang members who came to Christ after hearing Billy Graham’s message at the 1957 New York Crusade. The men turned the guns in following the crusade.
This framed cross was made from the sawdust on the floor of the tent during Billy Graham’s Los Angeles Crusade, held September through November 1949. That crusade pushed Graham into the spotlight when newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst made it a front-page story in the Los Angeles Times.
Ruth Bell Graham handmade her own dress, as well as her trousseau, for her August 13, 1943 wedding to Billy Graham. She filled this scrapbook with memorabilia from their wedding and honeymoon to Boone, North Carolina, including a handful of rice thrown by guests, and a piece of the cereal box from their first breakfast …
Billy Graham wore these boots when he visited U.S. troops in Korea, Christmas 1952. They were issued to him by the military, given that temperatures in the region often dropped below zero. Billy Graham said of visit, “I wept more in Korea than in all the past several years put together. These experiences changed my …
A Pocket Index of Bible references, given to Billy Graham by his father, William Franklin Graham, Sr., on September 8, 1936, on the first day of classes at Bob Jones College, Cleveland Tennessee. Inscription reads, “Billy Graham, Jr. Presented to me by my loving father, on September 8, 1936, first day I entered Bob Jones …