Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Franklin Graham does enjoy preaching. It just took him a while to figure...
...father's. the eyes are not so deep set; the jaw may not be quite so Rushmore ready. But the resemblance, if not deceiving, is striking. The voice, but for being perhaps a semiquaver deeper, is the very one that has moved millions. Yet evidence abounds of the Franklin Graham difference. In his office in Boone, North Carolina, are artifacts not associated with his father: the half-dozen military rifles mounted on the wall. A little way down the road stands his beloved Harley-Davidson Wide Glide. Hangared at a nearby airstrip is the six-seat twin-turboprop Mitsubishi plane...
...spiritual crisis, like that of many others, was resolved through Billy Graham. Billy and Ruth had not been overbearing about Franklin's religious life, but on his 22nd birthday in 1974, he recalls, his father confronted him, saying "You can't continue to play the middle ground. Either you're going to choose to follow and obey him or reject him." Feeling resentful, Franklin left shortly afterward to assist a Graham friend with a tour of the Holy Land. But several days later, in a hotel room in Jerusalem, he reread what might be called the New Testament's great...
...month after Franklin was born again, a Graham friend named Bob Pierce who ran an international-aid mission invited him on a remarkable two-month tour of the Far East that included China, Indonesia and India, with its "hundreds of millions of people," as Franklin writes, "locked in the darkness of Hinduism...bound by Satan's power." The combination of small planes and benighted heathens proved irresistible to a man whose maternal grandparents had been missionaries to China. Pierce died of leukemia three years later, and Franklin, who by then had graduated from college, married and become a father, took...
...medicine and other aid in global crisis zones, while preaching the gospel to its beneficiaries and anyone else in the area. With Franklin--often literally--in the cockpit, Samaritan's Purse parachuted into places like Bosnia, Haiti, Ethiopia and, immediately after the bombing, Oklahoma City. The second half of Graham's autobiography, Rebel with a Cause, recounts with obvious relish various acts of charitable and evangelical derring-do, from dodging P.L.O. cannon fire while aiding an evangelical church in Beirut to training chaplains for the right-wing contra insurrection during the Nicaraguan civil war to jockeying a disabled plane into...