The Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham

During the first few nights, critics and supporters alike noticed a disturbing trend: the audiences looked more like a cross sec ...

dreams of conducting joint evangelistic crusades. But the union was not to be. King’s approach was too political for Billy’s tas ...

LEADERSHIP LESSONS | The Growing Edge Applying the Principles Today, commentators often lament the way polls, not leaders, set t ...

to those who waver or disagree. Second, we will be blindsided by unexpected reactions. Billy was sensitive to others’ viewpoints ...

versial issues. In Eyewitness to Power, he cites both Abraham Lin- coln and Franklin Roosevelt. “Lincoln decided in the summer o ...

Use Natural Forces Often it’s not arguments but positive natural dynamics that break down barriers and bring understanding to pe ...

After King’s death, Billy continued his efforts for racial justice. For instance, when in the late 1960s he met with black leade ...

Points to Ponder BILLY GRAHAM: The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying not, “What a lovely sermon!” but ...

Pa rt Four Growing Through Fire and Ice Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. RUTH GRAHAM Over the years, any leader ou ...

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CHAPTER 10 Summoning Courage Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others. ...

Early in his ministry he was leading a service when, in the middle of it, he was told a pastor had called to warn him a man was ...

Billy deferred the question to Dr. Alexandr Haraszti, a Hun- garian Baptist who won Billy’s trust when they ministered together ...

but not your last one. If you accept the invitation, all the other satellite countries will fall in line. These things are inter ...

He did not know that about fifty protesters had been marching around the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College carrying signs l ...

■ ■ ■ It was a harrowing experience to face so much withering criti- cism. And in America, he learned that the media had isolate ...

there toward more religious freedom. And perhaps he saw it before many of us, because it takes a man of God to sense the early m ...

LEADERSHIP LESSONS | Courage Applying the Principles Leadership and fear—the two seem opposites. A leader steps out boldly, “fea ...

self criticized. He felt angry. “If they don’t like it, let them get up on the platform!” he thought. “I didn’t ask to do this.” ...

If that sounds over-the-top—admittedly, Reynolds served in the Marine Corps and competed in rodeo bull-riding through age fifty- ...