https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2018/02/the-death-of-billy-graham-shows-the-methods-of-the-spiritual-and-the-unspiritual/ Bleak Theology: Hopeful Science Wed, 28 Feb 2018 10:55:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2018/02/the-death-of-billy-graham-shows-the-methods-of-the-spiritual-and-the-unspiritual/comment-page-1/#comment-8033 Wed, 21 Feb 2018 22:06:29 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=18534#comment-8033 When I heard this news on the radio this morning (parked outside work and gathering my things) I was surprised to hear many negative things said about what appears to have been a decent bloke (they were quotes, not the host’s own expressed opinion) but I guess those that hate the light are inclined to such things. Graham was no great theologian but he took the great commission seriously and that was his great act of obedience. No doubt he was not perfect but that’s the whole point of the message. A man went today home to bask in the love of Him that first loved him.

]]> https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2018/02/the-death-of-billy-graham-shows-the-methods-of-the-spiritual-and-the-unspiritual/comment-page-1/#comment-8032 Wed, 21 Feb 2018 20:42:56 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=18534#comment-8032 By any measure I can think of to define a “life well lived”, Pastor Graham filled it. Influence. A good marriage. A passionate career. Children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren. A long life, passing in peace in his own home. He was blessed. I want to be sorry that he is gone, but I am not. This ends an era – but brother Billy is rejoicing now, beginning to reap the eternal rewards now that the temporal have passed. I feel … respect.

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