Museum of The Bible Curator's New Research on Billy Graham

[Jerome]

Museum of the Bible curator Anthony Schmidt "disappointed" after examining Graham's Bible, but found something interesting when he analyzed the evangelist's sermon texts:

Billy Graham drew less from Old Testament as years went by, new exhibit shows

the handwritten notes in the margins of Graham’s New Testament were often “just short words” and what seemed like random underlining. “I was hoping it had something profound...There was nothing like that,” Schmidt said.

The sermon index Schmidt has created from the sermon records held at Wheaton College...was revelatory, however.

Schmidt found that 33 percent of the verses around which Graham built his sermons came from the Old Testament in the 1950s but that the percentage dropped in each following decade: 29.06 percent in the 1960s, 25 percent in the ’70s, 21.59 percent in the ’80s, 17.05 percent in the ’90s and 9.62 percent by the 2000s.

 

[Salty]

I would say that a higher % of my sermons come from the NT.

Now you could get more specific - are there any Books that Billy never used as a text?