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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 43 views
Butterfly A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could, and it could…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 49 views
In early 2015, doctors diagnosed Mark Hall with kidney cancer. Before the news, he was on top of the world. His band, Casting Crowns had experienced great success in the recent months and years, his family was doing well, the accolades were stacking up, but none of that prepared him to hear those three…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 99 views
In his book, Shaped by God, Max Lucado writes ”When God sets out to shape us in His image, he often uses the heat and pressure of our daily lives to temper us and craft us into beautiful instruments He can use.” Shaped by God, 175 James 1:2 (HCSB) “Consider it a great joy, my brothers, whenever you experience…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 21 views
On February 3, 2013, 111.3 million people watched Super Bowl XLVII played between San Francisco 49er’s and Baltimore Ravens. It was a game of two half’s. The first half the 49er’s played very poorly and were completely dominated by the Baltimore Ravens and were behind 20-7. Then something happened after…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 27 views
In her book, ‘It’s No Secret, Revealing Divine Truths Every Woman Should Know’ Rachel Olsen offers hope to those who are experiencing the dark times in life. Olsen writes,”We may not be able to view the shore beyond the twenty-foot waves, but God hones in on our precise location on that deep, dark lake.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 108 views
A high school football team in California was forced to forfeit their game recently because they no longer had enough player to field a team. The Capistrano Valley Christian school team was leading the team from Hope Center by a score of 8 to 6. Two players were injured on one play, and those injuries…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 22 views
Sometimes in the midst of difficult times, we do well to stop and count our blessings. Rory Mcllroy was sailing along in the lead of the 2011 Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, Georgia. The Masters is one of, if not the most prestigious golf tournament in the world. Only 21 years old, Mcllroy had lead…
Jason W. Miller • Illustration • • 35 views
From the quiet town of Bradford to the heathen city of Rangoon, Burma, Ann Judson remained a tool in the master’s hands. God brought her through many personal trying times before He could use her. He allowed her to be raised in a good home where she could develop and grow into a woman fit for the master’s…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 984 views
Adversity comes to those who are making a difference for Christ. Missionary statesman Oswald Chambers once wrote, “Suffering is the heritage of the bad, of the penitent, and of the Son of God. Each one ends at the Cross. The bad thief is crucified, the penitent thief is crucified, and the Son of God…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
TRIALS In the movie, “August Rush,” Evan Taylor has been separated from his parents and was placed in an adoption agency. He had bounced around from home to home and believed that his parents were searching for him. When he ran away he was found by a ruthless cruel street man – Maxwell ‘Wizard’ Wallace…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 9,389 views
Where will your anchor be during the storms of life? Powerful storms were nothing new for the Sea of Galilee. Actually the Sea of Galilee is an inland lake about six miles wide and twelve miles long. The sea is positioned several hundred feet below the level of the Mediterranean Sea and is known for…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 3 views
Tragedies usually soften even the hardest of hearts. U.S. News and World Report reports that postwar Americans always cherished the expectation that their standard of living would improve with each generation. In polls at the onset of the Reagan era, two of every three respondents said they expected…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 19 views
Freddie Jackson, a heavy equipment operator for the Ocala Florida Public Works Sanitation Department had been praying for some extra money to take his wife on a vacation. When he found a wallet containing $500 in the back of his garbage truck, Jackson knew he had to do the right thing. Immediately he…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 34 views
For those who saw replays of the pitch, it is unforgettable. Pitching for the Giants and leading 3-1 in the bottom of the sixth inning, Dave Dravecky delivered his 69th pitch of the night. It was the last pitch he would ever make with that left arm. The bone broke in mid pitch and he fell to the ground…
Andrew H. Rogers • Illustration • • 160 views
Sometimes we wonder, 'What did I do to d eserve this?' or 'Why did God have to do this to me?' Here is a wonderful explanation! A daughter is telling her Mother how */everything is going wrong, she's failing algebra, her boyfriend broke up with her and her best friend is moving away. Meanwhile, her Mother…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 714 views
He deserves not the name of patient who is only willing to suffer as much as he thinks proper.—Thomas a Kempis I once heard a preacher explain how trials are like washing machines. You have to let the machine run its course in order for the clothes to be completely cleaned. No matter how badly you feel…
Brent Lewis • Illustration • • 5 views
"The God who ordains the end, ordains the means to the end." Warren Wiersbe
Stephen N. Rummage • Illustration • • 10 views
In 1998, after speaking at a Christian rally in New Delhi, India, Dr. P. P. Job received threats against his family. At the time, his son Michael was training at the university to be a medical missionary. One evening, a white Fiat with Delhi plates, traveling at a high speed, changed lanes, rammed into…
Illustration • • 19 views
(AP) DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. - On a chilly Easter night, two days after his son and four of his fellow soldiers were killed in Iraq, David Pautsch watched their remains arrive on a jumbo jet during a somber, half-hour ceremony. "You see these five caskets, flag-draped, it's sobering beyond belief,"…
Jerry Canupp • Illustration • • 36 views
Outside the city, in a marsh, near the river grew a reed. She had lived in the green and yellow marsh all of her life, and she was happy. When it rained, the young reed thanked God, she felt clean on the outside and on the inside. Within her, life surged and she grew strong. When the red sun beat on…
Stephen N. Rummage • Illustration • • 60 views
Billy Graham tells of a friend who went through the Great Depression, losing a job, a fortune, a wife, and a home. He was a believer in Jesus Christ, and he tenaciously held to his faith even though he was naturally depressed and cast down by circumstances. One day in the midst of his depression he stopped…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 61 views
On December 29, 1987, a Soviet cosmonaut returned to the earth after 326 days in orbit. He was in good health, which hasn't always been the case in record-breaking voyages. Five years earlier, touching down after 211 days in space, two cosmonauts suffered from dizziness, high pulse rates, and heart palpitations.…
Scott Cody • Illustration • • 20 views
Young people often grimace when they hear the word "test". To them, it means long hours of memorizing information that they feel is pretty worthless in real life. The benefit of getting an A or a B doesn't weigh as heavily in their minds as the sacrifice of time and effort in study. In their minds, it's…
Stephen N. Rummage • Illustration • • 37 views
We thank Him for sun, Do we thank Him for rain? We thank Him for joy, Do we thank Him for pain? We thank Him for gains, Do we thank Him for losses? We thank Him for blessings, Do we thank Him for crosses? Thanksgiving; Trials; Blessings Adrian Rogers, The Power of His Presence (Wheaton, IL: Crossway…
Michael March • Illustration • • 183 views
Po Bronson, in his book WHY DO I LOVE THESE PEOPLE? (Random House, 2005), tells a true story about a magnificent elm tree. The tree was planted in the first half of the 20th Century on a farm near Beulah, Michigan (USA). It grew to be a magnificent tree. In the 1950s, the family that owned the farm kept…