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Reflections Podcasts
Rosemary Laxton • Meanwood Valley Baptist Church • Illustration • • 53 views • 9:26
“God is creating a new humanity and something incredibly beautiful... Reach out and see the possibility of an amazing future.”
Reflections Podcasts
Rosemary Laxton • Meanwood Valley Baptist Church • Illustration • • 103 views • 19:36
Background to the nativity story. A Christmas meditation.
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 60 views
There is a measure of reason in appointing the age of twenty-one as the period of a man’s majority, for he is then mature and full grown. It would be unwise to make a person to be of age while only ten, eleven, or twelve; everybody would see that such boyish years would be unsuitable. On the other hand,…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 30 views
If your house were on fire, you would rejoice to hear that the fire engines were coming down the street. You would feel an absolute certainty that they were coming to you, because your house was in a blaze if no one’s else might be. If there were appointed today a commissioner for the relief of such…
Leadership
Pastor Sheree Harrington • Connections Church • Illustration • • 20 views • 25:51
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
In the book, The God Who Knows Your Name Max Lucado writes, “God’s nature would not hold him in heaven. It led him to earth. In God’s great gospel he not only sends, but he also becomes; he not only looks down, but he also lives among; he not only talks to us, but he also lives with us as one of us.”…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Instead of emphasizing the merry and bright upbeat Christmas celebrations, some churches are having Blue Christmas Services on the Winter Solstice (the darkest day of the year) for those in their community who find Christmas time difficult. "At its deepest level, I think the Christmas gospels tell the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
We live in an instant world where we expect to have real-time communication with others. However, technology does not always meet our expectations. On Feb. 14, 2019 users sent well over 150,000 text messages that did not arrive until early November of 2019 due to a problem with one of Syniverse’s servers.…
Advent 2014
Nicolai Pedersen • Refuge Christian Fellowship • Illustration • • 6 views • 36:42
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Jennifer Sinclair is the principal of a Nebraska public elementary school. This Christmas she decided all the references to Christmas must go. She banned all Christmas decorations, songs, and references. She even tossed out the candy canes, because she said their J shape honors Jesus. The principal told…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Residents of a Pennsylvania neighborhood decided to decorate a pothole in the road with a Christmas tree because they were tired of waiting for it to be repaired. Marietta Spak was getting Christmas decorations out of the attic and thought some of left over holiday items might look good in the pothole.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 43 views
Baby Hazel Grace was born at just the right minute on the right day to create a very special combination for her birthday. Hazel was born at 11 minutes past ten AM on December 13, 2014. The result is a unique numerical progression for her birth, 10:11 121314. Her parents Leisha and Shawn said they knew…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 19 views
According to "Santa's Relativistic Journey" for Santa Claus to be able “to deliver all his presents in one 12-hour night, he would have to travel at 76 percent the speed of light the entire time.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cinderellas-glass-slipper-wouldve-shattered_5681d41de4b06fa68880fcd6?utm_hp_ref=weird-news&ir=Weird+News§ion=weird-news…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
In the book Voices of the Faithful Beth Moore includes an interesting story about missionaries to rural China who every Christmas would make a manger and place a baby doll in it in lieu of having a Christmas tree. One day as the husband was explaining the manger to a visiting Chinese friend he meant…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
The preschool nativity play at a Tennessee church took a hilarious turn when a 2-year-old “sheep” kidnapped the baby Jesus from the manger. Tana Benson posted a video on social media showing her daughter take the baby Jesus out of the manger and dance across the stage with him. At the same time, the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
The Great Courses offers audio and video courses on a great variety of subjects. One that is offered, taught by Professor Bart D. Ehrman from the University of North Carolina, is all about Jesus, but named How Jesus Became God. The first lesson is “Jesus—The Man Who Became God.” The professor has it…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
A British senior citizen, 87-year-old Ron Goldspink, is suffering from an ear condition that causes him to hear “God Save the Queen” playing continuously in his head. Ron says he has heard a male choir sing the British national anthem hundreds of times a day for the past four months. “Sometimes it’s…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Christmas is full of traditions. One of the best I have read is from Iceland, where the traditional Christmas present is books. After receiving a book on Christmas Eve, Icelanders spend the rest of the night reading them. The book buying and selling season, spurred by the Christmas Eve tradition even…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
The United States Post Office decided to honor Christmas 2016 by releasing a brand new Forever stamp depicting Mary, Joseph, and the baby Jesus. The stamp features an image of the family silhouetted against a dawn sky. The baby Jesus is laying in a manger filled with straw while Mary kneels on the right…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Just before Christmas in 2015, Stephen Roseman posted a picture on Facebook of a dog with the caption "badly burned and disfigured trying to save his family from a house fire. One like=one prayer, one share=ten prayers." Thousands of users responded. The good news is that the dog is OK, but it was not…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
According to finder.com, Americans give $9.5 billion in unwanted Christmas gifts. All by accident right? Not exactly. “More than 1 in 10 Americans (12%) admitted they have deliberately bought someone a present they knew that person wouldn’t like.”—Jim L. Wilson https://www.finder.com/unwanted-gifts Deuteronomy…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Mila Kunis is a Jewish actor that has two children with Ashton Kutcher. She is determined that they will not grow up to be Hollywood brats. The two children, Wyatt 3, and baby Dimitri will not receive any Christmas presents this year. Last year Wyatt, only 2 at the time, received so much stuff that there…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
22% of consumers in the US will pay for their Christmas presents with credit, compared to 10% of Europeans. As you shop, remember that the joy of opening presents in December can quickly be replaced by the misery of opening bills in January.—Jim L. Wilson https://www.ing.com/Newsroom/All-news/The-truth-about-unwanted-Christmas-gifts.htm…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Officials with the Salvation Army in Florida said they found more gold coins among the donations they received. A report stated 2017 was the fourth consecutive year that someone dropped gold 1947 Mexican 50-peso coins into the kettle outside an store in Pompano Beach. A total of three coins were donated,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
70% of respondents to an ING survey “agree that Christmas is too focused on spending.” What would happen if people would focus on receiving instead of spending? No, I’m not talking about receiving Christmas gifts. I’m talking about receiving the greatest news ever announced—good news of great joy.—Jim…