Cliff Barrows Archives ⋆ Diana Leagh Matthews

My Tribute to Billy Graham

February 24, 2018 Leave a comment

<img width="284" height="280" src="https://i0.wp.com/dianaleaghmatthews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/billy-graham3.jpg?resize=284%2C280&ssl=1" class="alignleft wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" data-attachment-id="9064" data-permalink="https://dianaleaghmatthews.com/billy-graham/billy-graham3/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/dianaleaghmatthews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/billy-graham3.jpg?fit=284%2C356&ssl=1" data-orig-size="284,356" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="billy graham3" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="<p>Billy Graham </p> " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/dianaleaghmatthews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/billy-graham3.jpg?fit=239%2C300&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/dianaleaghmatthews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/billy-graham3.jpg?fit=284%2C356&ssl=1" />

Rain beat down on us that spring evening in 1987, but we did not care. We opened our umbrellas and held them high. Nothing would deter us from having the opportunity to sit in the choir bleachers at Williams Brice Stadium for those eight evenings Billy Graham was holding his crusades. We arrived early each evening, as Cliff Barrow […]

Behind the Hymn Sunday: To God Be the Glory

January 11, 2015 Leave a comment

<img width="102" height="170" src="https://i0.wp.com/dianaleaghmatthews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Fanny-Crosby.jpg?resize=102%2C170&ssl=1" class="alignleft wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="1704" data-permalink="https://dianaleaghmatthews.com/to-god-be-the-glory/fanny-crosby-2/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/dianaleaghmatthews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Fanny-Crosby.jpg?fit=102%2C170&ssl=1" data-orig-size="102,170" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}" data-image-title="Fanny Crosby" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="<p>Fanny Crosby</p> " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/dianaleaghmatthews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Fanny-Crosby.jpg?fit=102%2C170&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/dianaleaghmatthews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Fanny-Crosby.jpg?fit=102%2C170&ssl=1" />

To God Be the Glory was written by Fanny Crosby around 1875. She originally titled the hymn “Praise for Redemption.” William Doane composed the music to go with Fanny Crosby’s lyrics. The hymn first appeared in the Brightest and Best Hymnal, which was compiled by William Doane and Robert Lowry in 1875. The song was not much a big […]

Behind the Song Sunday: How Great Thou Art

July 20, 2014 Leave a comment

<img width="400" height="280" src="https://i0.wp.com/dianaleaghmatthews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/joy.jpg?resize=400%2C280&ssl=1" class="alignleft wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="3204" data-permalink="https://dianaleaghmatthews.com/change-only-comes-with-gods-help/joy/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/dianaleaghmatthews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/joy.jpg?fit=653%2C490&ssl=1" data-orig-size="653,490" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"3.5","credit":"","camera":"Canon PowerShot Pro1","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1114715387","copyright":"","focal_length":"38.03125","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0.008","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="joy" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="<p>But ALL things are possible with God, even healing…in His Timing and Will</p> " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/dianaleaghmatthews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/joy.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/dianaleaghmatthews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/joy.jpg?fit=653%2C490&ssl=1" />

Today How Great Thou Art is a staple in the protestant church and often requested for funerals. The song did not gain popularity until after celebrating its fiftieth birthday. Cliff Barrows, the song leader for the Billy Graham crusades brought How Great Thou Art to international fame in the 1940s and 1950s during the London Crusades. The text was written […]

Who Will You Serve?

February 4, 2012 One comment

<img width="259" height="195" src="https://i0.wp.com/dianaleaghmatthews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/imagesca24194q1.jpg?resize=259%2C195&ssl=1" class="alignleft wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="33" data-permalink="https://dianaleaghmatthews.com/who-will-you-serve/imagesca24194q/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/dianaleaghmatthews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/imagesca24194q1.jpg?fit=259%2C195&ssl=1" data-orig-size="259,195" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}" data-image-title="imagesCA24194Q" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="<p>I’d Rather Have Jesus</p> " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/dianaleaghmatthews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/imagesca24194q1.jpg?fit=259%2C195&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/dianaleaghmatthews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/imagesca24194q1.jpg?fit=259%2C195&ssl=1" />

Can you imagine living to be 103? What would you do if you had that long to live? On Wednesday {February 1}, George Beverly Shea celebrated his 103 birthday. He has lived an extraordinary life serving God with Dr. Billy Graham Cliff Barrows. This team has ministered around the world for over half a century. God has blessed all three […]

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