Billy Graham state-of-the-art archive opens Monday
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🗓️ 4 November 2022
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A new research facility opening Monday gathers the full documentary record of Billy Graham’s life and work in Charlotte, North Carolina. David Bruce, who served as executive assistant to the famous evangelist, has overseen the project. He noted that “Mr. Graham wouldn’t have approved of any of this unless it could be used to further the gospel” and “I hope that people see the work of God in his life, and then all the history he touched, and it can encourage people to reflect on the living, breathing Word of God.”
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| 0:35.8 | Today is Friday, November the 4th, 2020, and this is the Daily Article Podcast. |
| 0:41.9 | Today's article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum. |
| 0:48.0 | In Philippians 118, we read, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice. A new research facility has gathered the full |
| 0:57.9 | documentary record of Billy Graham's life and work in one place. According to Christianity |
| 1:03.5 | Today, which he founded in 1956, archives that had been loaned to Wheaton College will be combined |
| 1:09.9 | with hundreds and hundreds of boxes |
| 1:12.3 | that remain at Graham's home office in Montreat, North Carolina, and additional material from his ministry's former offices in Minneapolis and in storage in Charlotte. |
| 1:22.9 | This state-of-the-art archive is located across the road from the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, |
| 1:29.0 | North Carolina. It comprises 30,000 square feet at a cost of $12 million and opens on Monday, Dr. Graham's |
| 1:37.6 | birthday. David Bruce, who served as executive assistant to the famous evangelist, has overseen the project. He notes that its purpose |
| 1:46.1 | is not nostalgia or history for history's sake. Mr. Graham wouldn't have approved of any of this |
| 1:52.9 | unless it could be used to further the gospel, he said. And I hope that people will see the work of God in his |
| 2:00.2 | life, and then all the history he touched, |
| 2:03.0 | and it can encourage people to reflect on the living, breathing, word of God. |
| 2:09.0 | Years ago, a wise mentor in one of the churches I pastored said, |
| 2:13.5 | Our problem is that we have all of the Jesus we want, not all of the Jesus we need, but all of the Jesus we want. |
| 2:21.1 | He was speaking for more people than our congregation. Billy Graham knew how much he needed Jesus. |
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