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This is my review for the book Billy The Untold Story of a Young Billy Graham and the Test of Faith that Almost Changed Everything by William Paul McKay and Ken Abraham (for product info., you can go here: http://www.thomasnelson.com/consumer/product_detail.asp?sku=0849920671):

If I were to describe the book with one word, it would be: Interesting! Before reading it, I was somewhat worried that this book would be a boring biography. But it wasn't! There is quite a bit of dialogue which keeps it entertaining. I finished it in four days; it’s a 272 page book! There was a lot of information about Billy Graham that I had never known. Its main "topic" or "theme" is the fact that when Charles (Chuck) Templeton and Billy Graham, who were both young evangelists and very good friends, struggled with doubts/a test of faith, one of them became an agnostic and the other continued to be an effective evangelist. It also shares the life of Billy Graham from his days as a young man on a dairy farm, to a college student, and on to an evangelist. He was told many times that he would not amount to anything great, that he was a failure, and that he did not have the talent necessary to preach. God gave him every ability he needed. It also shows how so many decisions led up to what he was eventually able to do. He could have become a farmer or a military chaplain. Instead, he became an evangelist.

~Alyssa 

Note: Of course, everything he was able to do was because of God, not because of him. All the thousands that came to hear his preaching and received Jesus into their hearts...Billy Graham did not have the power to make them come or to save them. God did. God is the One Who changes hearts and Who saves.