... trying to get up his courage to share his faith with a young shoe clerk in Holton’s shoe store had any idea that his actions would one day touch millions of lives through Dwight L. Moody, Frederick Meyer, Wilbur Chapman, Billy Sunday, Mordecai Hamm, Billy Graham, and anyone who has been touched by Graham’s ministry? You and I think too small. God has imagined greater things for your life and mine than we can ever envision if we will but trust Him. God’s timetable is not like our timetable. God’s ...
2. A Shoe Clerk Named Moody
Matthew 21:1-11
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Brett Blair
... to preach on college campuses. Meyer led J. Wilbur Chapman to the Lord on those campuses. Chapman while working with the YMCA arranged for Billy Sunday to come to Charlotte, North Carolina to attend revival meetings. Community leaders in Charlotte, seeing the success of the revivals, scheduled another revival with Mordecai Hamm. Under Hamm's preaching in these revivals Billy Graham gave his heart to Jesus Christ. That's how Graham became a Christian, and Billy Graham has preached to more people than any man ...
... lady said. There’s no problem of communication here. “You shall be my witnesses.” It’s as straight-forward as that. So nail it down. To witness is the calling of every Christian. How many of you know the name Billy Graham? All right, how many of you know the name J. Wilbur Chapman? I don’t see any hands this time. Well, listen to this. A Sunday school teacher, Mr. Kimball, whose name is remembered only in forgotten books, led a Boston shoe clerk named Dwight L. Moody to give his life to Christ in ...
... saying to you. Third (and perhaps related to what we just said), look for angels in the form of loved ones who have died - Billy Graham's story of Dr. Mitchell has too many parallels from too many sources - believers as well as non-believers - to be totally dismissed. Fourth, look ... , Parsons Technologies, 1994 6. Time, p. 59 7. Words & Music by Brown Bannister, Gary Chapman, Amy Grant, and Michael W. Smith 8. The Pastor's Story File, Oct. 1991, p. 5 9. pp. 14-15 10. Eileen Elias Freeman, Touched ...
... to Christ. Wilbur Chapman became a YMCA worker and picked up a former baseball player to do evangelistic work. That player was named Billy Sunday. At a revival in Charlotte, North Carolina, Sunday so excited a group of local men that they engaged Mordecai Hamm to come to their town. In a revival with Mordecai Hamm, a young man heard the gospel and yielded his life to Christ. His name was Billy Graham. How many lives have been touched by that man? All of us are what we are because our lives have been touched ...
... but this was her way of loving God. She typed portions of the Bible as well as some of the books of Billy Graham and other Christian witnesses. The woman’s attitude was extraordinary. She saw her sickness as a prerequisite, not a detriment, for the ... ? 1. John W. Perritt, Quote. 2. “Unconditional Love,” Jennie Todd, Upper Room, January/February 1993, p. 26. 3. Annie Chapman, Smart Women Keep it Simple (Minneapolis: Bethany House Publishers, 1992), pp. 151-152. 4. Ron DelBene, from the Heart (Nashville ...
... THERE IS ONE MORE WE NEED TO REMEMBER THIS DAY. IT IS THE LAMB HIMSELF ” THE LAMB SLAIN BEFORE THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE WORLD. J. Wilbur Chapman used to tell a story of a soldier who was mortally wounded. His buddy Jim stayed by him through his long and lonely illness to the ... ., 1990. 4. Lockyer, Herbert, LAST WORDS OF SAINTS AND SINNERS (Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 1969) cited in Billy Graham, FACING DEATH (Waco: Word Books, 1987), pp. 260-261. 5. Rev. D. F. Sebastian, SEBASTIAN'S SERMONS (Orlando: ...