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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
France's national railway operator placed a $20.5 billion order for 2,000 new trains, only to discover that the locomotives were too wide to fit hundreds of stations. France must now spend $68 million to narrow train platforms.--Jim L Wilson and Rodger Russell. The week June 6, 2014 p. 6 Luke 14:28 (HCSB)…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 24 views
On the Mediterranean coast of Spain there is an almost finished 700-foot, 47-floor skyscraper. Only two months away from completion architects discovered a small flaw. The elevator only went to the 20th floor and there is no room in the plan for adding an elevator to service the final 17 floors. Some…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
A few years ago, Oil tycoon Eike Batista of Brazil predicted that he would become the world's richest man. Things didn’t turn out as he planned. Today he is bankrupt. Economist Miriam Leitao said that his "main error was to declare that he had what he didn't . . . He's always exaggerated the potential…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 37 views
In the French Alps, sits Le Chambon, a small village between the borders of Italy and Switzerland. Being Huguenots, the people of Le Chambon followed a long line of unswerving faithfulness to Christ, and with the spread of Nazi occupation they remained unmoved. The pastor in Le Chambon, André Trocmé,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
“Spanish architects building a 700-foot skyscraper on Spain’s Mediterranean coast discovered a bit of a design flaw: The 47-floor building’s elevator only goes to the 20th floor. What’s more, architects for the InTempo building didn’t realize their mistake until it was only two months away from completion.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
The way the laws regarding aid to the families of U.S. military veterans are structured, has added millions of dollars to the cost of the wars the country has fought. The law states that surviving spouses can qualify for lifetime benefits when troops have a service-related death. Children under the age…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
You may not know the value of something until it’s gone. British journalist Mark Hales recently learned that he could lose his home and be forced into bankruptcy over an incident with a rare Porsche race car. Hales arranged to drive an original Porsche 917 car against a vintage Ferrari as part of a magazine…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
In his book, We Are All Weird, Seth Godin writes, “RICH is my word for someone who can afford to make choices, who has enough resources to do more than merely survive. You don’t need a private plane to be rich, but you do need enough time and food and health and access to be able to interact with the…
Stefan Josi • Illustration • • 8 views
Breaking Away to Follow Christ A while back Will Willimon, Dean of the Chapel down at Duke University, got a call from an upset parent, a VERY upset parent. "I hold you personally responsible for this," he said. "Me?" Will asked. The father was hot, upset because his graduate school bound daughter had…
Stefan Josi • Illustration • • 181 views
Are You God's Wife? A little boy about 10 years old was standing before a shoe store on the roadway, barefooted, peering through the window, and shivering with cold. A lady approached the boy and said, "My little fellow, why are you looking so earnestly in that window?" "I was asking God to give me a…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
PLANNING Jon Bon Jovi says, “Map out your future, but do it in pencil.” —Reader’s Digest, September 2002, p. 73 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson James 4:13-15 NIV “Now listen, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.’ [14] Why,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 14 views
GUARANTEE When you buy anything from an appliance to a new car, you automatically expect a warranty to protect you from defects in workmanship. Until now, it has not been possible to get a money-back guarantee on your marriage, but times are changing! Pastor Rodney Smith of Anointed Believers Baptist…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
COST Americans just commemorated the first anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks. While we mourned the loss of life, and were energized by the demonstrations of patriotism, the cost of September 11th will be felt for a long time to come. New York City Comptroller William Thompson says,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 42 views
AMBITION Have you ever had your dreams shattered? Have you wondered where God was when life became too much to bear? Have you ever thought that if you had more in life you would get more out of life? In his book, Shattered Dreams, Larry Crabb wrote: "Satan's masterpiece is not the prostitute or the skid-row…
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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…
Elias Jinar • Illustration • • 26 views
"The Rabbit" "Now great multitudes accompanied him; and he turned and said to them, "If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after…
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…