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Ephesians
Billy Graham Association
Says No More Crusades
A. P. Charlotte, N.C., - Though
long-assumed, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association has given its first official
word that the ailing evangelist would no longer hold crusades.
The association said in a news
release that Graham is enjoying quiet time at his home in Montreat, where he
turned 87 on Monday. His most recent crusade was in
"Ruth and I have enjoyed our
time together these last few months, and we both feel at peace about the
decision to have the New York meetings be our last," Graham said in the
release. "We know that God can still use us to reach people with the Gospel
message in other ways, and we look forward to seeing how he will do so."
The association said that while
the crusade phase of his evangelistic ministry may be over, Graham still finds
plenty to do.
He participated in the recent
groundbreaking and dedication ceremonies at the Billy Graham Evangelistic
Association headquarters in his hometown of
The Grahams offered their old home
as a shelter to a family from
Graham also has been working on a
book and "determining the best use of his remaining years," the
release said.
Graham suffers from fluid on the brain,
prostate cancer and Parkinson's disease. He uses a walker due to a pelvic
fracture and is largely confined to his home.
His wife, Ruth
If you check out the latest form
990 - 2002 for
Billy Graham Evangelist Organization available from Guide Star http://www.guidestar.org/search/ you will see that Billy Graham
is just as much of a crook as ever. At 87 years of age he is still receiving a
hundred percent salary
of $ 189, 385 and $ 233,979 for other allowances and is working
less than ten percent of the time! The same with Clifford B.
Barrows who is receiving $ 164,442. They both should have been put out
to pasture a long time ago and should have stopped taken a salary that they
have not earned!
And yes Billy used his
organization to support financially his children including $ 600,000 to
Franklin Graham, $ 210,000 to Ned Graham and $ 300,000 to Ann. Ned Graham who
was originally slated to take over Billy Graham Evangelist Organization instead
of Franklin received less money because he is the black sheep of the family.
What gave Billy Graham the right to take money donated to preach the gospel to
give to the support of his family especially Ned Graham? Nothing!
Graham didn't intend to endorse Clinton
Evangelist's praise for senator at crusade just that, son says
Rest easy, conservative Christians. That was no endorsement Billy Graham gave Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton
at his
Graham provoked more than 100 e-mails and calls of protest to the
ministry with his praise for
Franklin Graham, who heads the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association,
responded to concerned e-mailers and letter-writers with a statement saying,
"My father, of course, was joking."
"For a long time," Franklin Graham wrote, "my father
has refrained from endorsing political candidates and he certainly did not
intend for his comments to be an endorsement for Senator Hillary Clinton. While
his political views, as well as mine, are quite different than the
Franklin Graham also wrote that while Bill Clinton has the charisma,
personality and communication skills to preach, "... an evangelist has to
have the call of God, which President Clinton obviously does not have, and my
father understands that."
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/12030058.htm
That not to say that
politicians, or other high profile public figures, never say sorry. The
Whopper of the Century: Billy Graham
The reverend elaborates on his admiration of the Jewish people.
"I have never talked
publicly or privately about the Jewish people, including conversations with
President Nixon, except in the most positive terms."
—Rev. Billy Graham, in a May
1994 statement denying H.R. Haldeman's claim in his published diaries that
Graham carried on about "satanic Jews" in Nixon's presence. Quoted by
David Firestone in the March 17 New York Times.
"I go and I keep friends
with [Abe] Rosenthal at the New York Times and people of that sort, you know.
And all—I mean, not all the Jews, but a lot of the Jews are great friends of
mine, they swarm around me and are friendly to me because they know that I'm
friendly with Israel. But they don't know how I really feel about what they are
doing to this country. And I have no power, no way to handle them, but I would
stand up if under proper circumstances."
—Rev. Billy Graham, in a
transcript of an Oval Office conversation with Richard Nixon from 1972 recently
made public by the National Archives. Quoted in Firestone's March 17 story and
elsewhere. (Click here to read Graham's apology, and here to read Slate's David
Greenberg on Graham's remarks.)
Billy Graham Hypocrisy And Satanic Jews
Barbara Webb,
Administrative Services. Billy Graham Evangelistic Organization in response to
the reporting of Billy Graham's Hypocrisy And Satanic Jews on
Subject: Mr. Graham
Dear Friend:
Mr. Graham apologized in regard to the Nixon tapes which were recently broadcast. Although Mr. Graham had no memory of what he had said, he felt it was appropriate at this time to give an apology. He does not actually feel about Jewish people in the way the words were said. Mr. Graham has made many friends over the years among the Jewish leaders and rabbis and has a great respect for them.
Please pray for Mr. Graham and our Association--that we will be truly faithful and obedient to our Lord. May God bless you.
Sincerely,
A response
was sent to Barbara Webb on
Dear Barbara,
Thank you for your reply concerning Billy Graham's memory lapse!
I have an important question to which I would like to have an answer does Dr. Billy Graham at 84 years of age still take a 100 percent salary as a employee and chairman of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Organization and work less than 25 percent of time?
The sad part about Billy Graham's refusal to accept real responsibility is his use of the phrase "Although I have no memory of the occasion, I deeply regret comments I apparently made in an Oval Office conversation with President Nixon ... some 30 years ago." You will appreciate Bill Clinton the former President of United States and a great liar also used a similar phrase to avoid answering questions asked of him during the Monica Lewinsky scandal and would state " I don't recall." But God has a perfect memory and he recalls all things and so do others.
Graham's two
faced hypocrisy also came out in a 1989 when a Graham memo to Nixon was made
public. It took the form of a secret letter from Graham, dated
Graham lent
his imprimatur to this recommendation. Thus the preacher was advocating a
policy to the
This disclosure of Graham as an aspirant war criminal did not excite any commotion when it became public in 1989, twenty years after it was written.
Billy Graham
has raised up two sons Ned and Franklin who are as deceitful as their father.
Ned Graham, the son of Billy Graham, Southern Baptist minister, president East
Gates International, a group that distributes Bibles in
Grace
Community Church, Southern Baptist Convention, in Auburn,
Yet in a style reminiscent of Jimmy Swaggart, who refused to be defrocked by the Assembly of God denomination, Ned Graham left that congregation for another church.
Most of the staff and board members of East Gates International resigned amid controversies. East Gates, in Sumner, Wash., withdrew its membership in the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability after Ned replaced the board members with his sister Ruth Graham McIntyre, brother-in-law Stephan Tchividjian, and business leader Peter Lowe.
Graham's sister Gigi Tchividjian has joined the office staff and Ned Graham continues as East Gates president. The ECFA the self-policing organization Billy Graham helped start requires that a majority of board members not be related by blood or marriage, which is no longer the case for East Gates. Nepotism is alive and well in Evangelical ministries?
A December East Gates fund-raising letter included a note from his father saying that "Ruth and I are proud of and grateful to God for our son Ned." East Gates has distributed 2 million Bibles to Christians in China, Billy Graham said, encouraging Christians to "back this unique and effective ministry."
It is
interesting to see the most famous "evangelist" (some say) not being
able to educate his children, especially Ned. At the same time, having a bunch
of so-called Christians following the leadership of such wreckless person.
Franklin Graham wears jeans, boots, denim shirt, and leather jacket. He was a
teen rebel who drank, smoked, fought, and led police on high-speed chases. He
was kicked out of
Although Billy Graham encourages religious leaders to be open about their salaries and publish their finances none of the Grahams reveal their total compensation nor release their personal income tax as President Bush does and former President Clinton has done. It's the law of the land that all non profit chairman of corporations must reveal their total salary and that Billy, Ned and Franklin do not to their donors speak volumes of their hypocrisy?
Yes, Jesus told us to beware of hypocrites like Dr. Billy Graham.
Editor’s Note - Barbara Webb nor Billy Graham Evangelistic Organization did not reply about Billy Graham's salary nor other matters stated.
Billy Graham and Bishop
Pike And False Prophets
By
Wally Duncaster
In his 1959
Three times Pike
was brought up on heresy charges in the Episcopal Church. In an article in Look
magazine Pike stated that he did not believe the fundamentals of the faith. In
a pastoral letter that was to be read in all the Episcopal Churches of his
diocese, Pike stated that "religious myth is one of the avenues of faith
and has an important place in the communication of the Gospel." He spoke
of the "myth of the Garden of Eden." He said, "The virgin
birth... is a myth which churchmen should be free to accept or reject." In an article in Christian Century,
Three times Pike
was picked up by
http://cnview.com/on_line_resources/billy_grahams_disobedience.htm
JOHN WARWICK MONTGOMERY
is Professor of Law and Humanities at the University of Luton, England, and
Director of its Human Rights Centre. He annually conducts the University's
International Seminar in Jurisprudence and Human Rights in
Professor Montgomery
holds eight earned degrees besides, the LL.B.: the A.B. with distinction in
Philosophy (
Dr. Montgomery is
author of over one hundred scholarly journal articles and more than forty books
in English, French, Spanish and German. He is internationally regarded both as
a theologian (his debates with the late Bishop James Pike, death-of-God
advocate Thomas Altizer, and situation-ethicist Joseph Fletcher are historic)
and as a lawyer (barrister-at-law of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn,
England; member of the California, Virginia, Washington State, and District of
Columbia Bars and the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States). He is one
of only six persons to have received the Diploma of the International Institute
of Human Rights cum laude, and was the Institute's Director of Studies from 1979
to 1981.
http://www.id.ucsb.edu/FSCF/LIBRARY/MONTGOMERY/bio.html
NOW COMPARE HOW
JOHN W MONTGOMERY HANDLED A FALSE PROPHET SUCH AS BISHOP PIKE VERSUS BILLY
GRAHAM.
John W. Montgomery
actions with Bishop Pike were different as seen from the book " The Strader
Affair."
Chapter 21
"For False
Christ's And False Prophets Will Rise
"For false
Christ's and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to
deceive, if possible, even the elect. (Matthew 24:24)
In the early Seventies, during the
"God is dead" movement, Dr. John W. Montgomery came into prominence.
He was and is a renowned Biblical scholar with numerous degrees and an obvious
brilliant mind, and a "who's who"
in
Ironically, later
on Bishop Pike died on a trip to a desert where he actually got lost. Amazing!
Dr. Montgomery, a brilliant Christian man of unusual intelligence and knowledge
of the Bible, matched by few in our lifetime, was vicious and even to the point
of cruel, when he debated Bishop Pike in an open forum. Later,
His critics were
upset and protested at how he destroyed Bishop Pike during the debate. Even
though God's word states that they should be destroyed:
He shall strike the
earth with the rod of His mouth, And
with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked. Isaiah 11:4
But there were also
false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among
you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who
bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. 2 Peter 2:1
I was to have the
privilege of meeting Dr. John Montgomery when he came to our university for a
week of Evangelism. It was sponsored by the university's Inter-Varsity
Christian Fellowship club where I was on the executive committee. I
personally asked John the following
question, "As a Christian how could you do what you did to Bishop
Pike?" He answered, "Easily, and I would gladly do it again to anyone
who was a false prophet and had hurt and deceived so many people."
Well, these are my
sentiments exactly about deceived Jim Bakker, Henry J. Lyons and Billy Graham who called themselves--a Man of God. A real
Man of God doesn't lie, steal, is not cowardly or fearful, because he is
truthful, bold and full of courage. These things are done by those who belong
to the other family and not to God's family.
Those who walk in
the flesh will demonstrate the works of the flesh adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,
idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish
ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and
the like. Those who practice such things will not inherit the
Modernists and
apostates with whom Billy Graham has fellowshipped, and used in his crusades:
Henry Van Dusen
Union Theological Seminary
Bishop James Pike,
episcopal bishop
John Sutherland
Bonnell
Robert McCracken,
Minister of
Dr. Geoffrey
Fisher, Archbishop of
Dr. Fred Townley
Lord, British Methodist
Dr. Bertram
Simpson, Bishop of Southwark
Dr. E.A. Payne,
General Secretary of British Baptist
Bishop Gerald
Kennedy, Methodist
Dr. Jesse Baird
Dr. Stanley E.
Jones
Dr. Martin Luther
King, Modernist in theology.
The Lord Jesus
said, 'If ye love Me, keep My commandments'. (John 14:15). God has said, 'To
the law and to the testimony if they speak not according to this word, it is
because there is no light in them'. (Isa 8:20). We ask every reader to study
the following Scriptures and then compare their commands to the practices of
Dr. Billy Graham.
Ephesians 5:11
And have no
fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
Corinthians 6:14-18
Be ye not unequally
yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with
unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord
hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
And what agreement hath the
2 John 1:9-11
Whosoever
transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that
abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. If
there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your
house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker
of his evil deeds.
2 Thessalonians 3:6
Now we command you,
brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves
from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which
he received of us.
Hosea 4:17
Ephraim is joined
to idols: let him alone.
2 Peter 2:1-2
But there were
false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers
among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord
that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall
follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil
spoken of.
1 Timothy 6:3-5
If any man teach
otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus
Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; He is proud,
knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof
cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, Perverse disputings of men of
corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness:
from such withdraw thyself.
Romans 16:17
Now I beseech you,
brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine
which ye have learned; and avoid them.
Revelation 18:4
And I heard another
voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers
of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
Matthew 7:15-16
Beware of false
prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening
wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or
figs of thistles?
2 Chronicles 19:2
And Jehu the son of
Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest
thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath
upon thee from before the LORD.
THESE ARE THE
COMMANDS OF GOD!
“My health is
excellent!''
Rev Billy Graham
hosted a 4 day crusade in
Everyone is pleased
to hear of Rev. Graham's "excellent health." I suspect his claim to
"excellent health" was a show of personal courage. Unfortunately he
misled the public in its perception of Parkinson's Disease portraying it as a
benign disease of the elderly. Hasn't he heard of Michael J. Fox and the fact
that there are significant numbers of people who are diagnosed with Parkinson's
before age 50? While no one would expect him to turn his interview into a Parkinson's
fund raiser, he could have asked the audience/congregation to pray for those
who suffer from devastating, incurable diseases. It was a missed opportunity to
encourage christians to be aware of the needs of the sick in their communities
and to support funding of medical research.
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