{"id":40973,"date":"2013-11-10T00:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T00:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/billy_grahams_birthday_sermon_calls_for_a_spiritual_awakening_as_evangelist\/"},"modified":"2013-11-10T00:00:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T00:00:02","slug":"billy_grahams_birthday_sermon_calls_for_a_spiritual_awakening_as_evangelist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40973","title":{"rendered":"Billy Graham&#39;s Birthday Sermon Calls For &#39;A Spiritual Awakening&#39; As Evangelist Turns 95"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He screened his last sermon, a 30-minute short film called &#8220;The Cross &#8211; Billy Graham&#8217;s Message To America,&#8221; to the assembled crowd, as his waning strength has made it difficult for him to preach from behind a lectern.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our country is in great need of a spiritual awakening. There have been times that I have wept as I have gone from city to city and I have seen how far people have wandered from God,&#8221; he said. &#8220;With all my heart, I want to leave you with the truth&#8211; that God loves you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Focusing on Christ&#8217;s sacrifice on the cross, the film was filmed over the course of last year, partly at Graham&#8217;s home in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/11\/08\/billy-graham-birthday-sermon_n_4240415.html\">Read it all and watch the whole video also<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He screened his last sermon, a 30-minute short film called &#8220;The Cross &#8211; Billy Graham&#8217;s Message To America,&#8221; to the assembled crowd, as his waning strength has made it difficult for him to preach from behind a lectern. &#8220;Our country<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40973\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,50,42,209,419,435,154,184,439,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-evangelicals","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-preaching-homiletics","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}