Christian Testimonies

Archives Billy Graham and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association - Historical Background This biography was prepared by the staff of the Billy Graham Center Archives at Wheaton College and is intended to provide a basic context for understanding the documents in BGEA and BGEA-related collections. For more detail on the early years of Graham's ministry, see "I Learned to Look Straight At Them": The Apprenticeship of Billy Graham, 1937-1949 William Franklin Graham, Jr., known as Billy Graham to most of the world, was born on November 7, 1918, near Charlotte, North Carolina, to William Franklin and Morrow Coffey Graham. Billy was the first of four children, followed by Catherine, Melvin, and Jean. In 1919 he was baptized by sprinkling at Chalmers Memorial Church. William Franklin, Sr., was a successful farmer and businessman and Billy had a normal childhood. Both parents were Christians and the family regularly attended the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. In 1

  C. H. Spurgeon's - Faith's Checkbook A Daily Devotional A Daily Devotional Preface A PROMISE from God may very instructively be compared to a check payable to order. It is given to the believer with the view of bestowing upon him some good thing. It is not meant that he should read it over comfortably, and then have done with it. No, he is to treat the promise as a reality, as a man treats a check. He is to take the promise, and endorse it with his own name by personally receiving it as true. He is by faith to accept it as his own. He sets to his seal that God is true, and true as to this particular word of promise. He goes further, and believes that he has the blessing in having the sure promise of it and therefore he puts his name to it to testify to the receipt of the blessing. This done, he must believingly present the promise to the Lord, as a man presents a check at the counter of the Bank. He must plead it by prayer, expecting to have it fulfilled. If he has c