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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
Scientists constructed the “biosphere 2” to learn more about how our planet’s systems work. One of their discoveries was unexpected. They learned that trees grew quicker in the biosphere, but because there was no wind they would fall under their own weight before they could completely mature. Without…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
In Measure What Matters Most, John Doerr writes “Andy Grove was accustomed to having the last word, so let’s give it to him here. ‘Bad companies,’ Andy wrote, ‘are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great companies are improved by them.’ —Measure What Matters Most, 46. James 1:2–4 (CSB)…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
In New York, around 100 people gathered for a meeting wearing buttons “I believe.” This was not a religious gathering, it was a group of people that came together to talk about their belief that Sasquatch exists.—Jim L. Wilson http://news.yahoo.com/bigfoot-believers-gather-annual-retreat-170603512.html…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Many people who live along the Jersey shore took time to attend Easter sunrise services demonstrating their faith is still strong despite the storms they have endured. One pastor who lead a service said tragedy brings people together in ways they normally would not have. Though two iconic crosses in…
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…
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(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,"…
Rich DeRuiter • Illustration • • 177 views
A carrot, an egg, and a cup of coffee . . . You will never look at a cup of coffee the same way again. A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up; she was tired of fighting and struggling.…
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…
Byron Hand • Illustration • • 8 views
"Courage" Lord Moran shrewdly observed, "is a moral quality; it is not a gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit; an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times, by the power of the will. Courage is will…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
STRUGGLES The Philadelphia Foundation has awarded 7-year-old Alexandria Scott its “Philanthropist of the year” award. The young girl has raised more than $80,000 for cancer research selling cups of lemonade from a stand in her front yard. Alexandria only has strength to put up her stand a few times a…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
JOY In James 1:2-4, James wrote, "Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, [3] knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. [4] And let endurance have its perfect result, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing." Consider it all joy? You may…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 38 views
PERSEVERANCE The Energizer Bunny first appeared in commercials in October 1989. Two decades later, the pink bunny pounding on a drum, wearing sunglasses and flip-flops has kept “going and going and going.” The symbol of battery maker, Energizer Holdings has become so famous that “The Energizer Bunny”…
Stephen M. Hollingshead • Illustration • • 136 views
Authorized King James Version From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search "King James Version" redirects here. For other uses, see King James Version (disambiguation). Authorized Version The title page to the 1611 first edition of the Authorized Version Bible by Cornelius Boel shows…
George J Smoluk • Illustration • • 52 views
Preaching the Book God Wrote, Part 1 John MacArthur We believe in biblical inerrancy. So what? How does the truth of biblical inerrancy and the authority of God's written revelation affect what we preach and how we minister? There's little point in defending the inerrancy of Scripture if we're unwilling…
Jarred Edgecombe • Illustration • • 12 views
James 1:2-4 2 My family once lived next door to a woman in her eighties who was admittedly crusty and made a life out of being just a touch out-of-sorts about most things. It was her "gig," and we loved her for it. She claimed that her daily gin and cigarettes kept her fresh! Her sister, on the other…
Jarred Edgecombe • Illustration • • 46 views
Ten Scriptures to Pray for Those You Love 1. Pray that your loved ones would turn from their sin and receive Jesus as their Lord and Savior. If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9 2. Pray for your loved…
Steven D Olsen • Illustration • • 178 views
Gold is purified faith is strengthened and demonstrated 1 Peter 1:6-7; Job 23:10; Malachi 3:3 Gold is purified under into a liqued in order to remove the impurities. Prov 25:4; 1 Peter 2:19-20; 4:12-19 Gold is chemically stable does not tarnish by the enviornment Romans 12:1-2 Gold is maliable roled…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 13 views
The Bible describes several ways in which suffering can be used for our good, though I have included all of them under the overall benefit of “turning us to God”. For example, suffering can: 1) Refine our faith (I Peter 1:5-7) 2) Make us mature (James 1:2-4) 3) Allow an opportunity to display the works…
Rev. Gregory S. Byrd • Illustration • • 264 views
Living above the Line A Celebration of our Union with Christ Rev Greg Byrd Faith Temple Baptist Church Poetry Texas Living Above the Line Introduction Introduction Colossians 1:27 says Christ in you, the hope of Glory. In fact Christ in us is our only hope of eternal Glory, The union of the believer…
Rev. Gregory S. Byrd • Illustration • • 543 views
Union with Christ What does it mean to be “in Christ” or “united with Christ”? EXPLANATION AND SCRIPTURAL BASIS1 The subject is so frequently mentioned in Scripture and so wide-ranging in its application to our lives that it deserves treatment here. That is the concept of union with Christ. As we shall…
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 • • 8 views
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