The Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham

LEADERSHIP LESSONS | Optimism Applying the Principles Military historian John Keegan, in his book The First World War, comments ...

and raises our capacities. The old adages have turned out to be based on chemistry and physiology as well as faith. Respond with ...

Does death win it all? Is life meaningless? Or is there hope? Each of us must choose the math of subtraction—of reducing despair ...

saddle and propped him upright so he could lead his troops into the fray. Seeing their leader before them, the Spanish soldiers ...

going beyond simply wringing his hands. He has spoken out with a call to embrace hope, quoting noted physicians who prescribe ho ...

old hymn “How Firm a Foundation”: “We all watched in horror as planes crashed into the steel and glass of the World Trade Cen- t ...

CHAPTER 7 Mobilizing Money If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost any other are ...

What were his financial expectations? “Billy is a realist,” Graeme told us. “He has seen the economy go both ways. He has a grea ...

Graeme’s descriptions of Billy’s attitude toward his own finances echoed the observation from his brother. ■ ■ ■ Mel Graham bega ...

We’d heard Billy was uncomfortable being seen in fancy cars. Melvin told us stories of his refusing gift cars and about his sim- ...

he thought his greatest contribution to the organization was writ- ing his regular letters to his supporters. We were a bit jarr ...

We thought about how over the years this must have included tension points, then remembered a story John Corts, former BGEA pres ...

■ ■ ■ Sterling Huston, who serves as director of North American min- istries for the BGEA, had his first experience with Billy G ...

he gave away royalties to his books. That added greatly to his financial credibility.” We asked Sterling about Billy’s financial ...

Billy had always been concerned that he do nothing to cause the media to attack his financial integrity. Despite his efforts, an ...

out of proportion and were frustrated that the huge slush fund newspaper headlines were corrected later by small paragraphs buri ...

Jesus, it’s said, spoke far more about money than about sex, violence, or heaven and hell. The subject is obviously important. L ...

Similar missions. Essentially the same theology. Yet dramati- cally different approaches to money. Actually, Billy Graham and hi ...

Ken Taylor, a friend of Billy’s and founder and chairman of Tyndale House Publishers, has also given away many millions; to econ ...

then World Vision, was chair of his very first citywide meetings in Grand Rapids in 1947. “In 1948 he came to our city to raise ...