The Life and Example of Billy Graham

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 With Billy Graham's increasingly frail health being in the news lately, I was reminiscing about the only time I ever heard him preach at a rally.

On the turf of the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, I watched as the white-haired evangelist, then 86, was helped from his walker to the pulpit and then, in a voice raspy with age, delivered a quintessential Gospel sermon.

His message was simply about the Cross. He talked about sin, he talked about repentance, he talked about forgiveness and grace and eternal life. And at the end of the evening, some 2,500 people streamed forward to find new hope through Jesus.

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