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Homer Rodeheaver was an unexceptional trombonist. But he had an ear for great songs and a knack for promoting them.

How a towheaded kid from North Carolina became God’s best salesman.

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Founder of Light Records arranged for Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington, and Elvis Presley; scored “The Blob”; developed folk musicals; discovered Andraé Crouch; and believed any style could glorify God.

I remember as a young boy, sitting in the living room with my parents and occasionally when my grandparents would visit, we would all listen to a Billy Graham crusade

That he gave his son, his only son, to die upon a cross. god took your sins and your sins and your sins and my sins and laid them on christ. (toby mac) jesus was always shocking people with how far he was willing to go with his love, and i think thats what billy graham understood well. he loved well whether he agreed with people or not. (cliff barrows) he would never hesitate whether it was a single person or just a small group or whether it was a large group he was always ready to share his fai...

Trying to make the world a better place. (howard jones) billy and martin were friends, and a lot of whites damned billy for that. (billy graham) we demanded integration almost from the beginning of our meetings in the south. now today, its almt possible for the present generation to understand what things were in those days and what it took to be that way... how many threatening letters we got, and how many threats against my family as a result of the stand that we took at that time. billys firs...

Walked through from cell to cell, and the only way you could talk to them was through a little hole where you passed food through in this cold, dank, prison, concrete floor, billy graham sat there and spent about ten minutes leading that man to christ. he took longer with that man on death row that day than he had taken almost to speak. (cliff barrows) he would be visitingheattlefields and oftentimes the hospitals, and i remember one time there was a soldier theyd brought in. he was in a stryker...

And had to do something about it. i said, "no more of this." and i went to the head usher and asked him if he would remove the ropes, and he said, "no," he wouldnt. (cliff barrows) billy got up from the platform, and he walked down past the ushers and took the ropes down himself. (billy graham) and i remember that the head usher resigned, and there was quite a little flak about that. (narrator) in a 1956 article published in life magazine he wrote, "it is not sufficient to urge people to love th...

(cliff barrows) bill said, "i will go anywhere at any time at any cost "to preach the gospel." god took him at his word, and bill took god at his word. [narrator] not only was billy graham willing to go anywhere, he was also willing to use every effective communications tool available. no matter what your race, whatever color of the skin, god loves you. [narrator] on june 1st, 1957 , when viewers tuned in to abc they saw something on their small television screens they had never seen before, the...