... out I was a Christian." Are you ashamed to mention Jesus’ name when you pray in public? Are you afraid you might offend Jews, secularists, atheists, and agnostics by praying in Jesus’ name? I, for one, am so very proud of Bishop William R. Cannon who had the inaugural prayer for Jimmy Carter. At the end of his prayer, he said, "All this we ask in the name of Jesus Christ, thy Son and our Savior. Amen." This was on national television and radio networks. Not only most of the nation but much of the world ...
... and overturns the tables. He runs them out of the temple angrily shouting: It is written that my house is a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers. Bishop William O’Cannon, residing bishop of the Georgia Conference, and one whom some of you may remembering as giving the invocation at Jimmy Carter’s inauguration, was visiting the campus of Emory University. As he was walking down the hallway he saw a janitor whom he knew peering into a classroom and over listening a lecture. The speaker ...
... We ought to seek every opportunity to share the message of grace in the name of Jesus, with the hope of transforming the world. United Methodist Bishop William R. Cannon was invited to give a prayer during the inauguration ceremony for president-elect Jimmy Carter. At the conclusion of his prayer, which was being nationally televised, Cannon closed his prayer by offering the prayer in the name of Jesus Christ. This action by the bishop outraged and offended people throughout the country, because he had used ...
