{"id":68454,"date":"2018-02-22T08:30:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T13:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68454"},"modified":"2018-02-22T07:13:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T12:13:49","slug":"kim-lawton-blog-remembering-evangelist-billy-graham-billy-graham-an-american-phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68454","title":{"rendered":"(Kim Lawton Blog) Remembering Evangelist Billy Graham&#8211;Billy Graham: &#8220;An American Phenomenon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAWTON: In 2002, Graham released a book titled \u201cHeaven, the Final Journey.\u201d Heaven was a subject he preached about frequently during his career. Talk show host Dick Cavett once asked Graham what he thought heaven would be like.<\/p>\n<p>GRAHAM, on \u201cThe Dick Cavett Show\u201d:  Heaven is going to be where Christ is. Now I don\u2019t know whether that\u2019s a planet or whether that\u2019s a star or whether it\u2019s on this earth or where it\u2019s going to be. But it\u2019s going to be where Christ is and the Bible says, \u201cto be absent from the bodies, present with the Lord.\u201d And if I died right now, Dick, I know that I\u2019m going to go immediately into the presence of God.<\/p>\n<p>DICK CAVETT, on \u201cThe Dick Cavett Show\u201d: You do?<\/p>\n<p>GRAHAM, on \u201cThe Dick Cavett Show\u201d: I know that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimlawtonmedia.com\/blogs\/2018\/2\/21\/remembering-evangelist-billy-graham\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAWTON: In 2002, Graham released a book titled \u201cHeaven, the Final Journey.\u201d Heaven was a subject he preached about frequently during his career. Talk show host Dick Cavett once asked Graham what he thought heaven would be like. GRAHAM, on<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68454\">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":[209,186,419,440,439,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-church-history","category-evangelicals","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-preaching-homiletics","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68454","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=68454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68455,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68454\/revisions\/68455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}