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God's General: Billy Graham

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From Samuel Godwin-Oburoh E.O.  An excerpt from Wikipedia   Billy Graham  (November 7, 1918- February 21, 2018) Billy Graham, one of my spiritual fathers, started from humble beginnings;  raised on a family dairy farm with his two younger sisters and younger brother.  He started to read books from an early age and loved to read novels for boys, especially  Tarzan . Like Tarzan, he would hang on the trees and gave the popular  Tarzan yell , scaring both horses and drivers. According to his father, that yelling had led him to become a minister. Billy  Graham had been turned down for membership in a local youth group for being "too worldly,"  when Albert McMakin, who worked on the Graham farm, persuaded him to go and see the evangelist  Mordecai Ham.  According to his autobiography, Graham was converted in 1934, at age 16 during a series of revival meetings in Charlotte led by Ham. Billy Graham preached his first sermon in 1937 at Bostwick Baptist Church,

The Potter, The Refiner

The Potter, The Refiner Album  Track one: My Father, My Maker  Track two: What Is Life Track three: The Sojourner

WHAT DOES BIBLE SAY ABOUT JUDGING OTHERS?

Many people have said we shouldn't judge, it's a sin to judge. And they quote Matthew 7:1-2, which says "Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. For you will be treated as you treat others. The standard you use in judging is the standard by which you will be judged." This has a cross-reference in Leviticus 19:15, "Do not twist justice in legal matters by favouring the poor or being partial to the rich and powerful. Always judge people fairly." So Matthew 7:1-2 is saying that we should judge fairly. In the King James Version; "Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: BUT IN RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALT THOU JUDGE THY NEIGHBOUR" (Lev. 19:15). Luke 6:37 NLT Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn others, or it will all come back against you. Forgive others, and you will be forgiven. Judging unfairly is a sin. In the church, you'