Billy Graham Library

Welcome.

Welcome to the Billy Graham Library and to a live podcast.

with my daughter, Sissy, that I'm very proud of for her podcast, Fearless.

And for the book signing, Stan Stedding.

And welcome to the fearless podcast.

We of course are not in studio today.

We're here at the Billy Graham library for a very special day of my book signing for stand steady.

And having my dad here is a great surprise.

Humble, unassuming, not a polished intellectual, but used mightily of the Lord.

I came across a picture just this week of the opening of the Billy Graham Library, which was established in his honor in 2007.

And the photo caught my attention because it showed Billy Graham at the podium at the front and then a number of people seated behind him on the platform.

And I thought I saw in the picture, and I looked it up afterward, I thought I saw in the picture George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton.

Or the

Billy Graham Library.

Yes, of course.

And you'll keep saying to people, I'm here for Philip Abner's childhood home.

Now, if this sounds a little bit cryptic, maybe if I share with you some of the details of the Friday event, it'll become a little more clear.

So let me just tell you that on Friday, I went down to the Billy Graham Library here in Charlotte, where I live, to... attend one of their leadership luncheons.

They have these luncheons every once in a while.

I'm not exactly sure how often, a couple, three times a year, it seems to me, though.

And all of that, he says, is due to God.

I thank God for second chances.

He said at the Billy Graham library on Friday, I know that this could sound like a cliche.

He said at the King's college and he echoed it again on Friday, but the only difference between bitter and better is one letter.

Do you, oh, with all the chews?

I, all the chews, which, and, and I told, I told, uh, Franklin's kids is that the, you know, when I die I want that chair to go to the Billy Graham Library, 'cause it's a great chair.

Yes.

It's a great chair.

I want you to tour the library with Heidi." And I said, "Sure.

[laughs] I would love to do that." And so I made my way over, about a 40-minute drive to the library, and I toured, walked with Heidi through the Billy Graham Library.

I don't tell this story a lot, but walked through the Billy Graham Library with Heidi.

And, um, as we, uh, as we concluded, we sat down to eat lunch, and I was...

They s- Heidi's a little, tiny woman, and they set my big old self beside her in a booth.

you.

I had the opportunity to meet Louie years later at the end of his life when he came to the Billy Graham Library.

And I had never met someone so full of joy.

He had been set free from bitterness, anger, and addiction.