{"id":2170,"date":"2018-02-21T14:08:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T19:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/?p=2170"},"modified":"2018-02-21T14:08:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T19:08:51","slug":"billy-graham-americas-pastor-to-be-honored-in-new-book-by-lon-allison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/billy-graham-americas-pastor-to-be-honored-in-new-book-by-lon-allison\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Graham, “America’s Pastor,” to Be Honored in New Book by Lon Allison"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Immediate Release
\n<\/strong>February 21, 2018\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

On April 4, 2018 Paraclete Press will release\u00a0Billy Graham: An Ordinary Man and His Extraordinary God<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(ISBN\u00a0978-1640600874 \/ Hardcover \/ $21.99)\u00a0by Lon Allison, with a foreword by Dr. Leighton Ford and Jean Graham Ford (Billy\u2019s youngest sister).<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have no idea how sick I get of the name Billy Graham, and how wonderful and thrilling the name Christ sounds to my ears,\u201d Billy once said. So, why another book about him? Lon Allison, evangelist, pastor, and former director of The Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College, has learned much from Billy. Allison retells the highlights of a fascinating life, and in a way that resonates with Graham\u2019s desire to always be sharing the Good News. Every stage of Graham\u2019s life is included, even the rough spots, with appreciation and a desire to answer the question: What can we learn from the life and ministry of Billy Graham? What is his legacy? What was his message and how might it still be relevant for today?<\/p>\n

Lon Allison<\/strong>\u00a0has a gift for explaining how everyday people can connect personally with the God who loves them\u2014Lon\u00a0worked for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association for years, and served\u00a0as Executive Director of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College before becoming pastor at Wheaton Bible Church in Illinois in 2013. Lon has taught masters and doctoral evangelism courses at North Park Theological Seminary, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and Northern Seminary, and is a visiting professor at Wheaton College Graduate School. He maintains an active speaking schedule at churches and conferences around the world, and is the author of\u00a0Going Public with the Gospel<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0That the World May Believe<\/em>. He and his wife, Marie, have three grown children and live in West Chicago, Illinois.<\/p>\n

Originally planned for release in September, in anticipation of Graham\u2019s 100th<\/sup>\u00a0birthday, Paraclete is responding to Graham\u2019s recent passing and the urgent need for Graham\u2019s message of salvation for the nation and the world by moving publication up six months\u2014to the first week of Easter. We believe Billy would be pleased with the timing!<\/p>\n

To interview Lon Allison or to receive an Advance Review Copy, please contact Director of Marketing Laura McKendree at\u00a0800-451-5006 ext 316<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0lauram@paracletepress.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pastor Lon Allison at Wheaton Bible Church. | Jon Langham~for Wheaton Bible Church<\/p><\/div>\n

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For Immediate Release February 21, 2018\u00a0 On April 4, 2018 Paraclete Press will release\u00a0Billy Graham: An Ordinary Man and His Extraordinary God\u00a0(ISBN\u00a0978-1640600874 \/ Hardcover \/ $21.99)\u00a0by Lon Allison, with a foreword by Dr. Leighton Ford and Jean Graham Ford (Billy\u2019s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paraclete-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}