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Building Up One Another
Zach Broom • Illustration • • 62 views • 57:05
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
A former Wall Street executive and nurse started a movement to make sure everyone in the hospital in her community feels loved. Eileen Michaels had the idea originally, and asked people who lived around her to start writing cards for patients and then drop them off on her doorstep. Michaels said she…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
In a new study, Canine Cottages fitted four doggies with special heart rate monitors to track what gets their tales happily wagging the most when interacting with their owners. Based on the data, they found that a dogs' heart rate increases by 46 percent when hearing the words "I love you" from their…
Pastor Jon • First United Methodist Church -- Rockville, Indiana • Illustration • • 18 views
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Tim Tebow has been in the spotlight for many years because of his Christian faith. He shares his faith openly on television interviews and in locker rooms across the country. After the recent shooting at the Orlando nightclub, Pulse, (an openly gay night club) Tebow learned that his high school football…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
An article published by Lifeway Research states that fewer people may be calling themselves Christians in the future, and the trend may be a good thing. After reading the article written by Ed Stetzer, Greg Jao said he agrees with the prediction and says this is not bad because more people will be more…
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Dustan Ingenthron • Branson Bible Church • Illustration • • 526 views • unknown
# Philippians 1:3–8 ## Opening: Paul’s Thanksgiving As we move on this morning in our study of Paul’s letter to the Philippians, we find Paul following his normal pattern of thanksgiving and prayer. This week we will look at his statement of thanksgiving about the Philippians, and next week we will look…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
A taxi driver and self-proclaimed atheist who had once planned to sue to have a nativity scene removed from the courthouse lawn says his perspective has changed because of the love he and his wife were shown. Patrick Greene said he thought the placement of a nativity scene in front of the local courthouse…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Though they went to the Dallas Fort Worth area to compete against one another, five NASCAR drivers recently took time out to demonstrate the love of Jesus is a needy family in the area. After a recent batch of tornadoes littered the yard of an 83-year-old man named Jay with fallen branches and uprooted…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
LONELINESS There are times when a person can long for relationship to the point of being irrational. Such was the case of an Illinois man over the last two years. An online girlfriend convinced him she had been kidnapped and needed ransom money wired. After her release, she would join him. $200,000.00…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 29 views
If you give what you don’t need, it isn’t giving. In the latter part of the 17th century, German preacher August H. Francke founded an orphanage to care for the homeless children of Halle. One day when Francke desperately needed funds to carry on his work, a destitute Christian widow came to his door…
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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,"…
Craig Shannon • Illustration • • 25 views
Psalm 68:19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. (KJV). If your whole world seemed to fall apart suddenly, would you be able to count the many gifts and blessings you possessed? God's love and comfort. Matthew 11:28 Privelege of prayer. Free to all God's…
Jarred Edgecombe • Illustration • • 8 views
It’s the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it’s the little differences that make them interesting.
John Leffler • Illustration • • 5 views
John 13:35 Consider the story Dr. Harry Ironside told about a missionary in China who was translating the New Testament into the Chinese language. He was assisted by an eminent Chinese scholar, a Confucianist who had never before been exposed to Christianity. Week after week and month after month they…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 15 views
Look down at your shirt for a moment. Is there a little emblem on the pocket? Or perhaps you have a certain swoosh on your tennis shoes or distinctive rivets on your jeans. If you’re drinking coffee while reading this chapter, is there a green circle on the cup? If you’re sitting at the table, is Tony…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 21 views
In 1878, when William Booth's Salvation Army was beginning to make its mark, men and women from all over the world began to enlist. One man, who had once dreamed of becoming a bishop, crossed the Atlantic from America to England to enlist. Samuel Brengle left a fine pastorate to join Booth's Army. At…
Jarred Edgecombe • Illustration • • 15 views
The Eleventh Commandment One Saturday evening the saintly Samuel Rutherford was conducting family devotions in his Scottish home when there was a knock on the door. The stranger was warmly welcomed and invited to join the family circle. Questions from the Scottish catechism were being asked and answered.…
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Ten years ago, Kirsten and Lee Hildebrand thought they knew where their lives were headed. They had just settled into their first home in a suburban community, where Kirsten practiced labor and employment law and Lee was working on a doctorate in counseling psychology. But when the couple attended Eastbrook…
James H. Schafer • Illustration • • 1,833 views
John Newton CHOICE EXCERPTS I am not what I once was! In his old age, when he could no longer see to read, John Newton heard someone recite this text, "By the grace of God—I am what I am." He remained silent a short time and then, as if speaking to himself, he said: "I am not what I ought to be—ah, how…
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…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 106 views
RELATIONSHIPS Twenty-four year old Sky was a creative, artistic, intelligent thinker who majored in photography at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He had an introverted personality, and was wearing a polyester retro-artist suit, sporting extended sideburns when he was introduced at Graceland…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
SERVANTHOOD A new reality-based television program takes executive officers of companies and places them in lower level positions within their own companies. The role swapping gives the executive a look at what their employees go through each day, and has even helped the executives implement effective…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
IMITATION A new house paint marketed in Europe and Asia comes with a guarantee to stay clean for five years without washing or sandblasting. The secret behind this new paint is not as much a technological breakthrough as it is understanding God's grand design in nature. A German Botanist, Wilhelm Barthlott…
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A Aaron, ' = "light bringer" Aharown {a-har-one'} 1) brother of Moses, a Levite and the first high priest Aaron Aaron {ah-ar-ohn'}= "light-bringer" 1) the brother of Moses, the first high priest of Israel and head of the whole priestly order ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------…