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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
In April of 2021, Lori Stephens saw some pictures from her family’s past vacations on a Florida Charter boat company’s Facebook page. As it turns out, she had lost a waterproof camera while paddle boarding in Florida. Seven years later, Dustin Molina, a Manatee Tour guide spotted the camera in the sound…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
An unidentified man was walking home in the early morning hours in Minneapolis. He was using the walking maps on Google maps when he misunderstood the directions for crossing the Stone Arch Bridge near Minneapolis’ downtown. He walked out on the frozen Mississippi river where he fell through ice into…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
Susi Huelsmeyer-Sinay made headlines when she saved a resident of Yellowstone National Park—a wandering llama. The llama, normally used for guided tours, escaped after a guide loosened its halter. Speaking of the llama, the guide said, “Ike slipped out of the halter completely…because he’s sneaky, and…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 18 views
Craig Groeschel, pastor of LifeChurch.tv says that “To reach people no one else is reaching, we have to do things no one else is doing.” —Jim L. Wilson and Doug Hixson —Charisma News, Craig Groeschel, August 29, 2015 Luke 19:10 (CSB) For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost.”
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Manuel Reija is a convenience store clerk in La Coruna, Spain. He found a lottery ticket on his counter and before throwing it away he checked the numbers. He discovered it was a $6.3 million winner. “I was standing up, but I had to sit down. I almost broke the chair, I was so flustered,” Reija told…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 15 views
When World War Two veteran Irving Mann received a letter saying that his dog tag had been found in a field in France, he didn’t believe it. Mann served with the 90th infantry in occupied France in 1944, and assumed his dog tag fell off while he was digging foxholes. Mann says he doubted the person who…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
In a newspaper column dealing with Faith and Values, author Jodi Detrick offers encouragement about the things or people in life that we may count as lost. She says the story of a wedding ring that was lost and then recovered over 50 years ago still inspires her. She tells how one of the men who worked…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
On December 28, 1996, Cho Shung-chul fell in a manhole in Seoul, Korea after a drinking binge. Knocked unconscious by the fall, he came to, disoriented. For the next eight days, Cho wandered through the city sewer system looking for a way out. He stayed alive by drinking sewer water and wrapping himself…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
Danielle Caroll lost her wedding ring at work while washing her hands with her young students. They were using “a slippery hand cleaner,” and she thinks the hand cleaner caused her ring to slip off her finger into the trash. When she realized she lost it, she searched in the trash, but it was gone. She…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
LOST Authorities in Australia say an elderly man set out to get a morning newspaper, and ended up driving 400 miles after he accidentally turned onto a major highway. 81 year-old Eric Steward drove for 9 hours before he stopped and asked for directions. Steward eventually approached a policeman at a…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 178 views
Christ sacrificed His earthly life for your eternal salvation. There once was a story about a little boy who built a sailboat. He had it all fixed up, tarred and painted. He took it to the lake and pushed it in hoping it would sail. Sure enough a wisp of breeze filled the little sail and it billowed…
Benjamin Kurz • Illustration • • 116 views
On Jesus way to Jerusalem (to die), He had to pass through the same desert in which He was tempted. Maybe Satan's temptations rang in His ears..."maybe there's another way..." Jesus last words to His disciples before coming this way was "we need to confront the gates of Hell." When Jesus entered Jerusalem,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 2 views
TARGETING In his book, "Reformission", Mark Driscoll writes, "Christians have fallen into the same trap, starting different services at their churches and hiring a pastor who is the same age as the group the services are supposed to be reaching. We must dig deeper into our understanding of the people…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 282 views
MISSION In his book, “An Unstoppable Force,” Erwin McManus writes, "The gospel flows best through the establishing of significant relationships that are authentic and healthy. When relationships become stagnant and the community of Christ closes itself to the outside world, the result is an institution…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
The Lost World What reason could motivate Americans to spend over Ninety Million dollars over one weekend? If you said "The Lost World," you are absolutely right. Finally, it appeared that we were waking up to the needs around us and compassionately giving so we can reach "The Lost World." I was thrilled…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 130 views
LOST AND FOUND As of July 1, 2003 a new lifesaving technology became available to millions of Americans. Personal locator beacons similar to beacons used by mariners and aviators, allow lost hikers, campers, and others to be tracked in an emergency when they carry the devices. When activated in an emergency,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 45 views
God's Desire Have you ever wondered what God wants from you? There are two references in the New Testament to God seeking something. In Luke 19:10 Jesus says, "For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost." (NASB) He said this right after his encounter with Zaccheus. Zaccheus was…
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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…
Steve Bramham • Illustration • • 951 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…