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Reflections Podcasts
Rosemary Laxton • Meanwood Valley Baptist Church • Illustration • • 33 views • 13:35
Women’s Fall Kickoff
DeLena Beavers • Illustration • • 32 views • 32:33
Friday Evening Session
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Amanda Yates Garcia is a witch. No, she doesn’t wear a pointy black hat or ride a broom, but her business is booming in Southern California. She sells her magical services to clients struggling with heartache, aging, work stress, or other emotional problems. Her hour-long “elemental divination” sessions…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
An article in Journal of Community Health reported the findings of researchers who studied the pervasiveness of “short sleep duration,” which they defined as less than seven hours per night. In the abstract of the article the authors wrote, “In 2018, the highest levels of short sleep duration were found…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
A survey of 2,000 Americans conducted by One Poll found that most people struggle to find time for themselves. On average, Americans get 43 minutes of “me time” per day and their favorite places to spend that time are in their bedrooms, their backyards, or a local coffee shop. Three of four wish they…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
Researchers at Baylor University have found that workers that take a break in the mid-morning are usually more productive for the rest of the day. Over a five day work week, 95 people were surveyed about their workday habits and overall feelings of well-being. Workers who took a break before lunch were…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
In his book, Leading on Empty, Wayne Cordoro writes, “If we violate the Sabbath rest, something morphs in our soul. We start to get proud, edgy, anxious.”—Jim L. Wilson Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on empty : refilling your tank and renewing your passion. (Minneapolis, Minn: Bethany House, 2009), 126. Matthew…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
The Center for Disease Control has released new studies indicating a third of U.S. adults sleep less than seven hours a night. As a result, many of them report trouble concentrating, remembering, and driving. In one study, results indicated about 35 percent of people surveyed in 12 states reported they…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
In Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives, Richard Swenson writes: “While standing at the hospital bed of a dying man, a pastor interrupted his prayer to answer his cell phone. A youth pastor reported that he loved his job and tolerated long hours well-until…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 2 views
In Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives, Richard Swenson writes: “Everyone needs God time. Because He is not pushy about His agenda, God is too easy to forget. He just waits ... and waits. What does He think of "efficient" prayers? What happened to the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
In Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives, Richard Swenson writes: “At Sabbath time we suspend dominion work and instead worship the dominion-Maker. We cease reaping for our own cupboards and instead bring an offering to I1im. We rest not because we are…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
In Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives, Richard Swenson writes: “In 1879, Thomas Edison produced the first electric light. If the clock broke up the day, the light bulb broke up the night. Illuminati was flushed with its presumed victory over yet another…
Bible Study
Andrew Norvelle • Illustration • • 488 views
Culling the Army of God Purpose: To equip saints to be effective soldiers in the Lord's Army. Judges 7:2 And the Lord said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel claim glory for itself against Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 27 views
REST Tattoo’s owner shut his leash in the door so he could help his wife carry a load to the car. Forgetting the dog was there, the owner pulled into the road and started home with Tattoo trailing along behind. At first it was like going for a walk, but as the speed increased and the distance lengthened,…
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…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 10 views
The Christian life isn't a series of correspondence courses. A young man decided he wanted to be a boxer, so he decided to take private lessons. He found a boxing coach at a nearby gym who agreed to give him twenty-six weekly sessions. As part of his instruction, the young man was required to spar with…
Harry Swayne • Illustration • • 12 views
Farmers know that when it's time to train a young bull they yoke together the young one to a mature bull. The mature bull dwarfs the younger bull physically and experientially so the training requires the mature bull to carry most of the weight. Rookies don't pull their own weight either. They are there…
Rich DeRuiter • Illustration • • 81 views
There is a story that Hebrew families tell their children to help them understand the fourth commandment. The fourth commandment reads, "Six days you shall labor but on the seventh you shall rest." (Exodus 20:8-10; Deut 6:12-14) The story is called, "The Sweetest Sound." The main character in the story…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 16 views
Rest and relaxation doesn't seem to come as easily or naturally to Americans as it does to those in other nations. According to the 2006 World Almanac and Book of Facts: • a worker in Italy averages 42 vacation days per year. • a worker in France: 37 days • a worker in Germany: 35 days • a worker in…
Stephen Hustedde • Illustration • • 15 views
If you fill a bucket with a gallon of water and carry it on your head it quickly grows heavy and tiresome. In contrast, if you swim underwater you have many gallons of water on top of your head and the weight is not really burdensome. The environement that you are in alters your response to the burden.…
Illustration • • 21 views
The secret of the easy yoke is simple, actually. It is the intelligent, informed, unyielding resolve to live as Jesus lived in all aspects of his life, not just in the moment of specific choice or action. Source: Willard, Dallas; The Spirit of the Disciplines, p.10, 1988.
Illustration • • 19 views
The general human failing is to want what is right and important, but at the same time not to commit to the kind of life that will produce the action we know to be right and the condition we want to enjoy. This is the feature of human character that explains why the road to hell is paved with good intentions.…
Illustration • • 2 views
Our mistake is to think that following Jesus consists in loving our enemies, going the "second mile", turning the other cheek, suffering patiently and hopefully - while living the rest of our lives just as everyone around us does. This is like the aspiring young baseball players mentioned earlier. It's…
Illustration • • 1 view
And in this truth lies the secret of the easy yoke: the secret involves living as he lived in the entirety of his life - adopting his overall life-style. Following "in his steps" cannot be equated with behaving as he did when he was "on the spot." To live as Christ lived is to live as he did all his…
Illustration • • 19 views
"Christianity has not so much been tried and found wanting, as it has been found difficult and left untried." G.K Chesterton Source: Willard, Dallas: The Spirit of the Disciplines, p. 1, 1988.