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Summary
- Billy Graham preached that Christmas is God’s gift of his Son, a Saviour born to die for our sins and to come again as King.
- In a White House sermon of 16 December 1973, as his ministry printed it, he said the Christmas message “can be summed up in three words: cradle, cross and crown.”
- He taught that “Christmas, to have meaning, cannot be separated from the cross,” because the angel said, “he shall save his people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21).
- In Day by Day with Billy Graham (1976) he wrote, “Christmas is not a myth, not a tradition, not a dream. It is a glorious reality.”
- In his Christmas message A Star, A Song, and A Savior he wrote, “Christmas is a reminder from God Himself that we are not alone.”
- The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association keeps his Christmas messages online, from a sermon in Seoul in 1952 to a television special in 1996.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- The Holy Bible, King James Version (public domain), quoted from BibleGateway: Isaiah 2:4, 7:14, 64:1; Matthew 1:21, 1:23; Luke 2:11; John 1:14; 2 Corinthians 9:15. https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/King-James-Version-KJV-Bible/ Graham’s own Scripture quotations inside his words are as BGEA prints them.
- Billy Graham, “The Cradle, the Cross and the Crown”, Christmas message preached at the White House, Washington, D.C., 16 December 1973, as BGEA printed it (©1974 BGEA), Decision online. https://billygraham.org/decision-magazine/articles/billy-graham-the-cradle-the-cross-and-the-crown
- Billy Graham, “A Star, A Song, and A Savior” (©1969, 1993, revised 1999, BGEA; the page quotes it without a year, since the saved text carries the revisions), Decision online. https://billygraham.org/decision-magazine/articles/a-star-a-song-and-a-savior
- Billy Graham, Day by Day with Billy Graham (©1976 BGEA), readings for 22 December, “The Giver of the Gift”, and 24 December, “Christmas Is Not a Myth”. https://billygraham.org/devotions/the-giver-of-the-gift and https://billygraham.org/devotions/christmas-is-not-a-myth
- Billy Graham, “My Answer: Gift of Christ” (©2007 Billy Graham, Tribune Media Services), The Christian Post, 24 December 2007. https://www.christianpost.com/article/20071224/my-answer-gift-of-christ/
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, audio archive of Christmas sermons (1952–1983) and the 1996 Christmas special. https://billygraham.org/sermons/the-christ-of-christmas and https://billygraham.org/classics/look-back-at-billy-grahams-1996-christmas-special
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, “Billy Graham, Evangelist to the World, Dead at Age 99”, 21 February 2018. https://billygraham.org/articles/billy-graham-evangelist-to-the-world-dead-at-age-99
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