Through My Fathers Eyes, Franklin Graham
Through My Fathers Eyes, Franklin Graham
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Through My Father's Eyes

Author: Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney

Narrator: Matt Baugher

Unabridged: 10 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 05/01/2018


Synopsis

USA Today Bestseller List.  Many have written about Billy Graham, the evangelist. This is the first book about Billy Graham, the father, written from the perspective of a son who knew him best.As a beloved evangelist and a respected man of God, Billy Graham’s stated purpose in life never wavered: to help people find a personal relationship with God through a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. This was a calling that only increased over time, and Billy embraced it fully throughout his active ministry and beyond. Yet Billy pursued his life’s work, as many men do, amid a similarly significant calling to be a loving husband and father.While most people knew Billy Graham as America’s pastor, Franklin Graham knew him in a different way, as a dad. And while present and future generations will come to their own conclusions about Billy Graham and the legacy that his commitment to Christ has left behind, no one can speak more insightfully or authoritatively on that subject than a son who grew up in the shadow of his father’s life and the examples of his father’s love.  This vulnerable book is a look at both Billy Graham the evangelist and Billy Graham the father, and the impact he had on a son who walked in his father’s steps while also becoming his own man, leading ministries around the world, all of it based on the foundational lessons his father taught him.“My father left behind a testimony to God,” says Franklin, “a legacy not buried in a grave but still pointing people to a heaven-bound destiny. The Lord will say to my father, and to all who served Him obediently, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant’ [Matthew 25:21].”

About Franklin Graham

Franklin Graham, president and CEO of Samaritan’s Purse, is also president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. The fourth of Billy and Ruth Bell Graham’s five children, Franklin is the author of several books, including the bestselling autobiography Rebel with a Cause and the 2013 release of Operation Christmas Child: A Story of Simple Gifts. He and his wife, Jane Austin, live in Boone, North Carolina, and have four children and twelve grandchildren.

About Donna Lee Toney

Donna Lee Toney, a colleague of Franklin Graham for more than thirty-seven years, has been involved in the ministries of Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and has been in literary collaboration with them since 1982, most recently on the release of the New York Times bestseller Where I Am and the bestselling The Reason for My Hope: Salvation with Billy Graham.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mary on May 15, 2018

This is a great book written by Franklin Graham for his father Billy Graham. It helped me get through a hard time since my husband died on December 15, 2017. I miss him so much but this story helped me greatly. It told the life story of Billy Graham and his loving wife Ruth who celebrated at least 50......more

Goodreads review by KM on January 01, 2025

It took me eight months to finish this book about Billy Graham, a legendary evangelist. In 2007, the Billy Graham Library (before his death at the age of 99) was dedicated in the presence of former president Jimmy Carter (who recently died at the age of 100). Carter also followed Jesus and taught Sund......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on November 11, 2018

Through My Father's Eyes is a memoir of Billy Graham written by author Franklin Graham. I wanted to read this book because Billy Graham is a Christian inspiration. Mr. Graham preached Jesus for seven decades. This book met my expectations because not only did the author speak of his earthly father he......more

Goodreads review by W. on June 02, 2018

Filled With Personal Insights about Billy Graham I read THROUGH MY FATHER’S EYES cover to cover and loved the details in this book. Franklin Graham tells numerous personal stories about his family, his father, Billy Graham, and his mother, Ruth Graham. I was fascinated with the details. For example, “......more

Goodreads review by Dottie on February 07, 2019

This is an excellent book about Billy Graham written from the perspective of his son and offering insights into how his father taught, mentored, guided and loved him over the years. Billy Graham’s utter dedication to doing the will of God and to preaching the good news of the Gospel is evident throu......more