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Reflections Podcasts
Rosemary Laxton • Meanwood Valley Baptist Church • Illustration • • 66 views • 15:55


Reflections Podcasts
Rosemary Laxton • Meanwood Valley Baptist Church • Illustration • • 43 views • 9:45


Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 11 views
Turn to Acts 12, where you have the record of Peter lying asleep in the prison, watched by soldiers. And yet at the dead of night, an angel of the Lord came into the prison, smote Peter on the side, bade him bind on his sandals and gird himself, and follow him. Peter went through all the doors of the…


Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 10 views
Nobody, I suppose, teaches the young mother how to manage her first child, and yet somehow or other it is done, because she loves it. It is wonderful to me how a widow with quite a swarm of children somehow provides for them. I cannot tell how, but the love she bears them leads her to make exertions…


Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 20 views
I remember one who spoke on the missionary question one day saying, “The great question is not, ‘Will not the heathen be saved if we do not send them the gospel?’ but ‘are we saved ourselves if we do not send them the gospel?’ ” And so it is with regard to Christian gifts. It is not so much a question…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 240 views
Middle school student Makenna Finnegan was running to set a new personal best time, when she stopped to help a struggling runner. Finnegan passed the other runner and noticed that she was holding her stomach and struggling to keep moving. Finnegan asked what was wrong and the girl said she had a bad…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Doris and Fred Thomson are both 95 years old. The two police officers responding to an emergency from their home expected the worse. There was no real emergency, at least of the kind we normally think about. Fred and Doris just wanted someone to talk to. The British policemen brewed a pot of tea and…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Police in England received an interesting emergency call from Fred Thomson and his 95-year-old wife Doris who said they were lonely. Stu Ockwell and Andy Richardson were the officers who responded to the call. “What else could we do but make them a brew of tea and have a chat?” Thomson told the BBC that…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Sara Tucholsky was a college softball player who had never hit a home run in high school or college. During one of her last at bats of her career, she hit a home run over the centerfield fence, but during her run around the bases she missed first base. Realizing that she missed it, she turned back to…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Albert Lexie shined shoes for a living. Every Tuesday and Thursday for 32 years, he would leave home at 5:50 a.m. and make a three-bus trek to UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. There, he shined the shoes of staff and visitors and donated all of his tips to the hospital’s young patients. By the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Hundreds of unsuspecting people across the country were surprised when messengers gave them two bouquets of flowers, asking them to keep one and give the other bouquet to someone else. The flower giveaway was a campaign sponsored by the Society of American Florists called “Petal It Forward.” A spokesperson…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
Eight-year-old Cayden Taipalus was upset when he saw a friend denied a hot lunch at school because his account was overdue. When he got home that day, he told his mother how upset he was and that he had decided to do something to help his friend and others who were forced to go without a hot lunch. Cayden…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
The cell-phone video of a woman paying for diapers for a cash strapped young mother went viral after another shopper who witnessed the act of kindness and put it on his Facebook page. Carol Flynn had just paid for her purchase and was preparing to leave the store, when she overheard a young woman behind…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
A man eating in a Boston restaurant recently overheard a mother and daughter burst into tears when they got some bad news on their phone. He decided to help by paying for their meal, and asked the waiter to bring him their check and asked him not to tell. After he combined the two bills, the waiter said,…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 15 views
A Chinese woman has become somewhat of a local hero because of her efforts to find and care for babies she finds on the streets of her city. 88-year-old Lou Xiaoying, suffers from kidney failure, but takes time to rescue children, some of whom she finds in the trash. Since her husband passed away 17…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
A 66-year old woman in Houston discovered an old friend without a place to live, so she invited the homeless friend, Thomas Smith, to stay at her house with her and her 2 young granddaughters. During the night he was woken by a loud bang. He rushed to his friend’s bedroom and found her covered in debris.…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
Mr Densley, an 87-year-old man in Lincoln, California, passed out while mowing his lawn. When the neighbors saw it, they immediately dialed 911. No one could have predicted what would happen next. Not only did the Emergency Medical Technicians help him medically, but after he was stabilized, one of them,…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
Carl Babik got the surprise of his life when Police officer Joe Sparks knocked on his front door holding a pizza box. As it turned out, Babik was not in any trouble. Officer Sparks delivered the pizza after responding to an accident call of an injured pizza delivery driver. Sparks said, "Just figured…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 14 views
In an effort to allow a greater range of responses, Facebook has added new emojis for users in some countries to use. In Ireland and Spain, users can now use a throbbing heart for “love,” a fuming face for “anger,” a teary-eyed “Sad,” and others. Facebook calls the new symbols “Reactions” and modeled…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
A 4-year-old pre-K student in Oklahoma was forced to use his right hand while making his letters. The teacher sent a note home to the parents advising them of the reason. “There are numerous instances of left-handedness being associated with wickedness,” read the astounded parents. —Jim L. Wilson and…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 43 views
Clinebell & McKeever write, “. . . spiritual support can be crucial in enabling the renewal of purpose, direction, and a robust sense of mission. It can also help people find deeper meaning in the struggles in which they are engaging.” --Basic Types of Pastoral Care & Counseling, 97. 1 Thessalonians…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Sheriff’s deputies in one Georgia community are targeting driver in need of some holiday cheer and giving them $100 bills instead of traffic tickets. Monroe County Sheriff J.C. Bittick says an anonymous donor gave $5,400 to launch the goodwill drive, so his deputies are passing out the money instead…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Samantha Jackson and Farzin Yousefian were planning a lavish wedding in Toronto. When the Syrian refugee crisis hit, the couple canceled their plans and instead are using the money set aside for their big day to sponsor a Syrian refugee family’s resettlement in Canada. They still got married, in a small…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Swiss army helicopters crossed the border into France to scoop water from a lake to help thirsty cattle. The operation took people swimming and fishing in the lake completely by surprise. Even the authorities at the lake admitted they were shocked because no one had told them the Swiss were coming. The…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
Sometimes all it takes to love others is a listening ear and a compassionate heart. In December of 2004, a Tsunami hit the west coast of Indonesia. The massive Tsunami left almost 300,000 people dead. It was devastating. It altered the course of life for millions of people and left them to struggle to…