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Little Ones Youth Night Scripture Set 1
Charity • Illustration • • 11 views • 0:59
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 14 views
Dylan Belscher noticed a dollar on the floor as he sat at the back of his English class at John F. Kennedy High School in Cheek¬towaga, New York. When the school day ended, Belscher wandered back to the classroom. The wrinkled old bill was still there. Even though he could easily have pocketed it without…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Timothy Payne, served in the 82nd Airborne for 11 years before he was medically retired due to injuries he sustained when he stepped on a 25-35 pound IED. Payne has turned his energy to athletics in an effort to stay motivated. He participated in the Chicago Marathon, New York City Marathon, L.A. Marathon…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 28 views
Results from a study by the national Association of Evangelicals show that a majority of evangelical leaders do not believe the Bible requires Christians to tithe. Fifty-eight percent of the respondents said they do not think giving 10 percent of their income is mandated by New Testament teaching, while…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
It may only be a turn of phrase, but Pittsburgh police Chief Nate Harper says surviving a tough year, and seeing a decrease in the number of murders in 2009 was due to good police work, and a little help from above. In an interview conducted at the beginning of the New Year, Chief Harper said the city…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
GENEROSITY The current recession has led many Americans to change the way they handle their money. One church in Texas is responded to the economic conditions by changing the way they collect the weekly offering. The Cross Timbers Community Church in Argyle has been telling needy members that if they…
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An IRS agent called Father O’Malley and asked, “Father O’Malley, is John Brown a member of your congregation?” Father O’Malley said, “Well, yes he is.” The IRS agent asked, “Did he give your church a gift of $20,000?” Father O’Malley replied, “No, but he will.”
Andy Rambo • Illustration • • 860 views
1828 Wesley’s Surpluses From the books alone John Wesley gave away between £30,000 and £40,000. He told Samuel Bradburn, one of his preachers, in 1787, that he never gave away anything less than £1,000 a year, and yet, when he died, his personal estate amounted to only a few pounds. When earning £30…
Robert Phillips • Illustration • • 13 views
Excuses? "It's impossible." All things are possible (Luke 18:27). "I'm too tired." I will give you rest (Matt. 11:28-30). "Nobody really loves me." I love you (John 3:16; 13:34). "I can't go on." My grace is sufficient" (2 Cor. 12:9; Ps. 91:15). "I can't figure things out." I will direct your steps (Prow…
Robert Phillips • Illustration • • 9 views
John Grisham's newest novel, The Street Lawyer, opens with a homeless man taking several lawyers hostage in their office. Wanting to determine how much each lawyer donated to the poor, the hungry, and the homeless, the man orders one of the lawyers to obtain the others' tax records for the previous year.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4,547 views
PROVIDENCE Cooling down after practice, Daniel had taken one last dive and his neck struck the bottom of the concrete pool. Daniel sustained damage to C-3, C-4, and C-5 vertebrae of his spine. Two fusion operations followed and the surgeon was successful in preventing paralysis, but Daniel's parents…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 31 views
GIVING Officials at the Louisiana Baptist Convention are used to receiving donations, but a recent gift was unexpected and extraordinary. A group of twenty men from the Island of Sumatra sent a gift of $854 to help those hit hard by Hurricane Katrina. The men experienced the tragedy of natural disaster…
Chad Oltman • Illustration • • 95 views
Lechem - Bread by Josa Bivin1 "For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world." John 6:33 When Richard and Lucinda (our volunteer workers) first came to Israel, they noticed plastic sacks containing pieces of bread hanging from the sides of the trash containers…
Steve Bramham • Illustration • • 950 views
A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 13 views
CHRISTIANITY & ETHICS Justice, Compassion, and Personal Responsibility by John Jefferson Davis u'- y i i ^r n one world, as in one state, when I am rich because you are poor, and I am poor because you are rich, the transfer of wealth from the rich to the poor JL is a matter of rights; it is not an appropriate…