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Pastor Jon • First United Methodist Church -- Rockville, Indiana • Illustration • • 18 views
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Leonard Durkin was suffering from heart failure. The Englishman was a huge Burger King fan and told his kin he wanted them to bury him with his usual order. He got his dying wish. On leaving the funeral the hearse carrying his corpse stopped at a Burger King drive-through, and a double bacon cheeseburger…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
An Arizona woman, Tina Hines went into cardiac arrest and appeared close to death. Her heart had to be restarted with a defibrillator five times. When she finally regained consciousness she asked for a pen and a piece of paper and wrote, “It’s real.” As she wrote she began pointing upward with tears…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Ben Bender is 93-years-old and has been playing golf for 65 years. At one point he got pretty good, as low as a 3-handicap. While playing his last round, he was on the third hole, when did something he had never done before. He made a hole-in-one. It was a crowning achievement. He played a few more holes…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Eban Alexander was just another neurosurgeon until bacterial meningitis put him in a coma. While in the hospital, Alexander was whisked to an otherworld of pink clouds, transparent angel-like beings, and lots of butterflies. Alexander is certain he encountered the divine and has written a book , Proof…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 243 views
Three Zen Buddhist monks stopped on their journey to rest. One of the monks saw a flag and said, "Oh, What a strong wind blowing!” The second monk argued that it was not the wind blowing but the flag flying. The third monk contended that neither the wind was blowing nor the flag flying, but their minds…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Nearly one hundred years ago, a well-known physicist envisioned a modern invention, and predicted the device would usher in a new era of technology. Speaking at a recent meeting, Seth Porges, technology editor for Popular Mechanics magazine revealed that Serbian born physicist Nicola Tesla predicted…
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Environmentalism should be regarded on the same level with religion "as the only compelling, value-based narrative available to humanity," according to a paper written two years ago to influence the future strategy of the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), the world's would-be environmental…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 463 views
Sometimes we can be so earthly minded that we are no heavenly good. There is an old legend of a swan and a crane. A beautiful swan alighted by the banks of the water in which a crane was wading about seeking snails. For a few moments the crane viewed the swan in stupid wonder and then inquired: “Where…
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Some parents in Frisco, Texas, are fuming because their public school district allowed Christian evangelists to provide Bibles to students on school grounds, which administrators say was done to stop even more proselytizing outside the schools. Frisco Independent Schools allowed Gideons International…
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From the Helm – Saturday, January 17, 2009 We arrived back in Mountain Home a week ago today. On the heals of such an adventure as our time in the Valley produced, my spirit was filled with peaceful excitement. God used the days in ways of which only He is capable. In the midst of all my strivings to…
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If Jesus dwell at the fountain of my life; if the currents of His life have displaced and superseded all self-currents; if implicit obedience to Him be the inspiration and force of every movement of my life, then He can safely commit the praying to my will, and pledge Himself, by an obligation as profound…
Rich DeRuiter • Illustration • • 6 views
Homecomings can be wonderful, emotionally rewarding experiences. About one memorable homecoming, Rev. Scott Grant writes: "A few years back I spent two months overseas. Experiencing a different culture was exhilarating at first but then became somewhat demanding. I began to yearn for home. After a long…
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The story is told of a man on an African safari deep in the jungle. The guide before him had a machete and was whacking away the tall weeds and thick underbrush. The traveler, wearied and hot, asked in frustration, “Where are we? Do you know where you are taking me? Where is the path?!” The seasoned…
David Melchior • Illustration • • 22 views
The word Father is used fifty-three times in John 13–17. Heaven is “My Father’s house,” according to the Son of God. It is “home” for God’s children! Some years ago, a London newspaper held a contest to determine the best definition of “home.” The winning entry was, “Home is the place where you are treated…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 96 views
HEAVEN Innate in every person is a desire to connect with God and a longing for heaven. The secular band Creed articulates that desire in the song "Higher," listen to the words: When dreaming I'm guided through another world Time and time again At sunrise I fight to stay asleep 'Cause I don't want to…
Jim Vance • Illustration • • 114 views
FINAL WORDS. Christ's Farewell to Those He Loved Part One Calming Troubled Hearts Don't you wish you could turn anxiety on and off like a faucet? Wouldn't it be great if you could worry from 9:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. and then shut it down so that you could get a good night's rest? Unfortunately, we cannot…
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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…
Stephen N. Rummage • Illustration • • 15 views
A foreman overseeing a demolition crew was asked by an observer if he had to hire highly skilled men to tear the building down. “Not really,” the foreman replied. “I just need strong men – men who can tear down in a matter of days something that took years to build.” It never takes as long to destroy…
Rev. Gregory S. Byrd • Illustration • • 19 views
Advent of Christ, the First A. Announced in the Old Testament by: Moses Deut. 18:18, 19 Samuel Acts 3:24 David Ps. 40:6–8; Heb. 10:5–8 Prophets Luke 24:26, 27 B. Prophecies fulfilled by his: Birth Is. 7:14; Matt. 1:23 Forerunner Mal. 3:1, 2; Matt. 3:1–3 Incarnation Is. 9:6 Time of arrival Dan. 9:24,…
Ralph Andrus • Illustration • • 18 views
Jose/ Bayly was a respected author and speaker on the subject of death. In this excerpt, he wrote of the difficulty we have when we try to understand the realities of the life to come. I cannot prove the existence of heaven. 1 accept its reality by faith, on the authority of Jesus Christ: "In My Father's…
Ralph Andrus • Illustration • • 82 views
EMERGENCY NUMBERS PRINT OUT AND KEEP IT WITH YOUR BIBLE. USE IN CASE OF EMERGENCY! HANDY REFERENCE LIST OF EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS When in sorrow.....................................call John 14 When men fail you.................................call Psalm 27 When you have sinned..............................call…
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…
Bob Pritchett • Illustration • • 132 views
How To Get Connected! JESUS TEACHES ABOUT THE VINE AND THE BRANCHES John 15:1-8 INTRODUCTION There’s a phrase that has become popular in pop culture today, Being in “the zone.” The zone refers to that state of mind when everything is clicking for you and you’re doing everything right. You can’t miss…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 32 views
the pastor's story file a resource file for pastors/teachers/speakers THEME: Hope September / 1988 Volume 4, Number 11 HOW IT WORKS Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards…