Billy Graham

two from having a relationship with each other. The people who can be respectful of others opinions become successful and have more relationships. A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone. -Billy Graham. Respect for your family and friends is also a major form of respect any one can have. Respect for your family can create a person's character. It will also help form a good parenting potential when to that stage in life, and will teach them…

Televangelism refers to the use of the television for preachers and ministers to communicate their religious views to the masses. Using this method, the televangelists can reach not only their local congregation of worshipers, but all who have access to the network in which the sermons are shown. In the history of the Christian faith, ministers have always wished to reach an audience on a grander level. However, televisions haven’t always been available. Now, with televisions, computers and…

In 1951 the Board of Regents for the state of New York authorized a short, voluntary prayer for the recitation at the start of each school day at New Hyde Park Schools, in which the students mentioned their dependence upon God. However students could be excused from reciting the prayer if necessary. Steven Engel, a parent of two children in the New Hyde Park Schools, argued that the law violated the establishment clause of the first amendment, as made applicable to the states through the due…

Bishop Fulton Sheen made such a stirring speech that 10,000 people converted to Catholicism. Then Billy Graham got up and did some inspired preaching and 10,000 people converted to Protestantism, then to close the program, Pat Boone got up and sang "There's A Gold Mine In The Sky" and 20,000 Jews joined the Air Force!”(Charlie Dillon). School Ties Weakness…

During the course of the book, From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism, author Darren Dochuk argues that it is average people and groups that forged the connections between evangelical Christianity and modern politics in Southern California during the 1930s and the 1980s. With “Southern California [serving] as the lab for this endeavor, [with] its evangelical entrepreneurialism a catalyzing force” (113-14). The author declares…

Ethel Waters was an american singer and actress born on October 31, 1896 due to her mother being raped at the age of 13. She died on September 1, 1977 due of a kidney failure. She frequently played Jazz, Pop, and Big Band music on the Broadway stage and in concerts. Although she began her career in the 1920s Singing The Blues she didn’t blow up until years later. Waters grew up in poverty and married at the age of 12, while she was still attending school. At 13 she became a chambermaid in a…

The position paper on Spirit Baptism is very insightful and down to the point; in addition, Gordon L. Anderson’s article does an excellent job unpacking the missteps some Pentecostals have made in debating baptism in the Holy Spirit with those who disagree in the theological and scriptural teaching. Specifically, Anderson says, “These different positions have challenged Pentecostals, largely because they are based on biblical and experiential evidence that seems to be more coherent than that…

married. Scarred by his time in the camps, Zamperini suffered from alcoholism, severe hallucinations and dreams, and he and his wife came close to a divorce. As they were about to give up, Cynthia told Zamperini about an evangelist, Billy Graham, that is preaching nearby. Billy Graham's sermon introduced Zamperini to God and began his healing process. During Louis' time in the raft, he prayed to God saying that he would "dedicate his life to Him" if He let Zamperini live. Remembering this…

There were more than 140,000 American, European, and Australian prisoners in Japanese Prisoner Of War camps. Of these, one in three died from starvation, work, punishments, or from diseases. ("HistoryOnTheNet"). Louis Zamperini was a survivor of these dreadful camps. Zamperini signifies moral courage during his childhood and career in track, his time stranded in he Pacific ,in the POW camps, as well as his life after the war. Louis Zamperini was born on January 26th, 1917, in Olean, New York.…

example on US policy on apartheid and on conscientious objectors, while in 1957 the Reformed and Congregational churches joined to form the United Church of Christ. The churches were very much in unison in supporting the civil rights movement. Billy Graham was a global evangelist, drawing support from a wide spectrum of churches. But the pressure of the liberal campaign for the rights of homosexuals and, among Episcopalians, the right of women to be priests and bishops, was divisive and strained…