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Rosemary Laxton • Meanwood Valley Baptist Church • Illustration • • 31 views • 7:12
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
In Season 9, episode 16 of Seinfeld, Elaine’s boyfriend David Puddy is a “Christian” and Elaine is an atheist. Throughout the episode, Elaine is frustrated with David, because of his apathy towards her spending an eternity in hell. In the final scene. David tells Elaine to steal the neighbor’s paper.…
Dan Hughes • Illustration • • 4 views
Published December 07, 2012 | LiveScience Three out of five scientists do not believe in God, but two out of five do, said John Donvan, opening a debate on the issue of science and religion Wednesday in New York City. The discussion pitted the perspectives from both sides against one another: Does science…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 5 views
I was talking this week to a discipleship student of mine. He gave his heart to Christ and became a full follower about a year and a half ago. We finished discipleship and now meet to discuss the Bible and any questions that he has. We, in fact hope to begin discipling someone else together very soon.…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 6 views
Well, you can really increase your desire for God in the same way you increase your hunger for “real” food. I remember my first encounter with weight watchers in my twenties. I had put on a little “wedding weight.” You know, you get married and in the first five years of marriage you gain about 20 pounds.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 79 views
Rudeness is like a contagious illness. It spreads quickly and virally, almost like the common cold says author Danny Wallace. Wallace researched the prevalence of rudeness in our online society and discovered a ridiculous amount of strange acts of revenge, from rubbing fries on a person’s windshield…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
DECEPTION At the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Chicago, thousands of scientists gathered to watch magicians perform and then chat about attention, memory, and perception. They were studying the way in which our minds are deceived. Learning this, they hope to better understand, diagnose,…
Jeff Brown • Illustration • • 18 views
Speak the Truth—Grow the Church 14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. 15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into…
Rich DeRuiter • Illustration • • 61 views
At the beginning of a New Year, a high school principal decided to post his teachers' New Year's resolutions on the bulletin board. As the teachers gathered around the bulletin board, a great commotion started. One of the teachers was complaining. "Why weren't my resolutions posted?" She was throwing…
Illustration • • 22 views
Three days ago Rick Warren proffered this question for me to mull over. "What is the mature church?" I knew immediately how I would respond. "The 'mature church' is the church filled with immaturity." Anywhere in the world, whether plant or animal, the clear delineation of "maturity" is the ability to…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 2 views
Salon.com reports that Americans spent $50.4 billion on lottery tickets. They further report that poor households spend a much greater portion of their income on lotteries—about 9 percent. While states continue to depend more on gambling income America’s couples continue to languish in poverty. Eleven…
Jim Vance • Illustration • • 328 views
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS by Dr. Erwin Lutzer Intro Thunder From Sinai Today many concepts about God abound, most of them individually conceived in our own minds according to our own liking. When people stop worshipping the true God, they do not stop worshipping; it is just that they change the object of…
Illustration • • 246 views
John MacArthur Basisinformationen zur Bibel Christliche Literatur-Verbreitung Postfach 11 01 35 • 33661 Bielefeld Wenn nicht anders angegeben, sind die Bibelzitate der Schlachter 2000 entnommen. Abkürzungen weiterer Bibelausgaben: Elb.: Elberfelder Bibel, unrevidierte Fassung Lu 12: Lutherbibel von 1912…
Alan Bester • Illustration • • 11,312 views
A Catechism for the use of the people called Methodists (a) WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN? | 1 | What is a Christian? Christians are those who believe that God has revealed himself in Jesus Christ accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour, live in communion with God and in the power of the Holy Spirit, and…
Kathleen Boozer • Illustration • • 191 views
#1 — The Conflict In God’s FamilyPlease press the microphone to listen to the talk. Requires the free RealPlayer®. Installation instructions available. “The Conflict In God’s Family” — another look at the Biblical basis for understanding the plan of salvation as God’s provision for restoring peace in…
Timothy C. Seal • Illustration • • 73 views
GOODNESS, THE DEFINITION “Goodness” is a rare word found only four times in the New Testament (and only in Paul).[1] Thus, from our common usage of the idea of goodness I see six aspects: I. GOODNESS MEANS USEFUL. The idea of “goodness” means that a thing fulfills its purpose or the expectations for…
Steve Bramham • Illustration • • 911 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 • • 17 views
For your Sermon Illustration FileIllustrations for Preachingby Clyde W. Chesnutt* Much of the following material is copyrighted and is presented here for oral communication only. Permission for reprinting must be secured from the publisher of the periodical from which the illustration is excerpted. ASH…