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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
Everyone who has heard the doctor say, “You have cancer,” has their own story to tell. Darla Jaye, a breast cancer survivor certainly has hers. Jaye says, “I remember going to my first radiation treatment and I was so scared that I was laying on the table before I had the first radiation, and tears were…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Run the Race is a new movie produced and presented by Tim Tebow, former NFL quarterback and now a professional baseball player. The drama is a realistic presentation of the difficulties of two brothers and their responses to it. The message is simple, “there are only two ways to run—to God or from God.”…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
In the motion picture, “Finding Dory,” Dory has short-term memory loss and becomes separated from her family. The entire movie focuses on Dory’s relentless pursuit to find her parents. In Dory’s pursuit, she begins to remember small bits about her home. Eventually, Dory finds her way back to the same…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
While America was celebrating its bicentennial in 1976, someone stole a special American flag from the Weston Observatory in Manchester, New Hampshire. The flag was hanging while the observatory was undergoing repairs, and an unknown person climbed up some scaffolding and took it. Many local citizens…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Donna Rice was the woman involved in the 1987 scandal that ended the presidential hopes of Gary Hart. Her testimony is one of biblical proportions. Growing up as a Christian, serving as a summer missionary, Donna admits that late in her college career she began to make little wrong turns and ended up…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 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…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 63 views
Ever hear the story of the Prodigal Pig? It goes like this: There was a man who had two son And loved them for they were his own. The younger said, “Dad, I want my estate, I think that I’m now fully grown.” The son left home, went far away, And spent all he had living high. A famine then hit and low…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 11 views
I met him when I was a youth pastor. He was a handsome boy with a gregarious personality, but I could tell something was not right. I knew it on one of the first youth trips I went on with him. I don’t remember a lot that happened, but I just remember that, when we got back pretty late and we were waiting…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 14 views
As I was preparing for this message I ran across these unanswered questions of Martina Phillips, a mother who has a wayward son whom she has not seen for 4 years: She has “how” questions: She asks: How does a parent, who has prayed daily, deal with the rebellion of a child? How does a loving parent accept…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 10 views
The flame in the eyes had been extinguished. The smirk had been humbled. The devil-may-care attitude had been replaced with soberness. His first few days of destitution were likely steamy with resentment. He was mad at everyone. Everyone was to blame. His friends shouldn’t have bailed out on him. And…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 7 views
As Brazilian jail cells go this one wasn’t too bad. There was a fan on the table. The twin beds each had a thin mattress and a pillow. There was a toilet and a sink. No, it wasn’t too bad. But, then again, I didn’t have to stay. Anibal did. He was there to stay. Even more striking than his name (pronounced…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Billionaire Warren Buffett is considered one of the most successful investors of our time. He recently surprised reporters when asked to describe the best advice he ever received. Rather than focus on ways of making money, Buffett said his father taught him the best way to live. He encouraged parents…
Harry Swayne • Illustration • • 17 views
Once upon a time there was a gardener who grew an enormous carrot. So he took it to his king and said, "My lord this is the greatest carrot I've ever grown or ever will grow. Therefore I want to present it to you as a token of my love and respect for you." The king was touched and discerned the man's…
Arie Poot • Illustration • • 20 views
Page 41 Almost from the moment I had ears to hear, I heard those voices, and they have stayed with me ever since. They have come to me through my parents, my friends, my teachers, and my colleagues, but, most of all, they have come and still come through the mass media that surround me. And they say:…
Illustration • • 15 views
by Dr. Paul Chappell “And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 15 views
LOST AND FOUND An English woman whose son was abducted 27 years ago has been reunited with him after he turned up on the Internet social network site, Facebook. Avril Grube said the last time she saw her son Gavin was when his father took the boy on a outing to the Zoo. Instead of going to the zoo, her…
Rich DeRuiter • Illustration • • 3 views
For years a grandmother had waited for years to have a new carpet. She wanted this white, shag carpet. Finally, finally she got it. They installed it and she watched the sunlight come in on it, and she was just thrilled. She invited all her neighbors and friends to come over to see and admire it. The…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
400 years after its first publication, the King James Bible influences more parts of America than we first think. Here are some of the ways it affects our daily language. “At their wit’s end,” Psalm 107:27 An escape “by the skin of my teeth,” Job 19:20 “Salt of the earth,” Matthew 5:13 “Riotous living,”…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 129 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 • • 7 views
SIN How far can one person fall? During the winter of 2008, Julian Carr made plans to fall 300 feet, land on his back, and walk away, or rather, ski away. The Salt Lake City resident plans to travel to Jackson, Wyoming for a planned ski jump, summersault, and free fall into a 10-foot snow pack with another…
Illustration • • 336 views
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…
Kathleen Boozer • Illustration • • 234 views
#1 — The Conflict In God’s FamilyPlease press the microphone to listen to the talk. Requires the free RealPlayer®. Installation instructions available. “The Conflict In God’s Family” — another look at the Biblical basis for understanding the plan of salvation as God’s provision for restoring peace in…
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…