Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Testament has less to say about the trials of being son and heir, but it does include a figure who would one day be of interest to William Franklin Graham III. That is of course the prodigal son, who, responding to pressures that have gone unrecorded, abandoned the straight and narrow and squandered his money before seeing the error of his ways and throwing himself on his father's mercy, and God's. He once was lost, and then was found...
...Franklin Graham, lost once but now found, talks about his birthright with some humor, a jokiness that belies the fact that there have been times when the divine plan for him was hard to divine. "If I had understood the messages people were sending me on the day I was born," he says, "I might just have crawled right back in where I'd come from and taken a rain check...
...thundering out of the evangelical South, resounding through the nation and around the world in one mammoth revival meeting after another. A Catholic fan wrote the father: "I'll bet that your new boy will be a Catholic some day, maybe priest, bishop, or cardinal, possibly Pope." But little Franklin's father was already the Protestant Pope, a man who would soon be hailed by admirers as the greatest evangelist since the Apostle Paul...
...before his flight from God, fueled by a fear that God would not accept his foibles, gave way to the fear of the emptiness without Him; years before he realized he could embrace his father's calling and yet remain himself. "I've lived with this all my life," Franklin says patiently today. "I cannot be him." But he can inherit his kingdom, although not without a struggle of a different sort. The events that have led him finally to sit at his father's right hand constitute a story of human frailty and redemption, of the burden of being...
...works hard for a miracle, and a small one occurs. Over eight days of crusading in Australia, Franklin Graham eventually posts an audience turnout to establish him in the ranks of the big-time preachers: 114,000 people, the largest numbers of his career. But the response in Sydney could actually be more significant. The crowds may be modest, but over three days, 1,555 out of 25,000 who attended have answered the invitation, coming forward to profess their relationship with the risen Christ. The actual ratio is 6.1%, a better record than Billy's over three previous Australian...