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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
One of the cities hit hard by a tornado outbreak in Spring 2012, was East Bernstadt, Kentucky. Five people were killed and more than 40 were injured when a twister swept through the area. Though everyone will remember the day, Jason Jackson says he will always look back on the way the Lord intervened…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 39 views
We recently had a group of our men who went deep sea fishing. Evidently, there had been some reports that, because of the unusual weather we had been having this year, there was a certain kind of fish that were being caught by the boatloads, literally. Now, I’m not much of a fisherman, but these guys…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 7 views
You wake in the morning and look over at your desk. There it is. It’s a bright pink and you know what’s on it. It’s sitting on top of the box you used to clean out your desk. That was a month ago, but the pain is just as fresh as if it had happened five minutes earlier. Beside the box is your Bible.…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 16 views
He was flushed with victory! It had been awesome! All day the false prophets had cut themselves and prayed to Baal trying to get their dead god to do something and all day long they had not even seen the white flicker of a spark. But then it was His turn. In quiet, confident tones he called on his God…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 3 views
I still remember being shocked to hear it. I was standing in the Doctor’s entrance to Mission Hospital in Asheville, NC. I was standing there with my buddy who also sold pharmaceuticals. We were there meeting the docs as they left from or arrived for their morning rounds. As they waited for the elevators,…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 9 views
I am an addict! I have discovered that I am addicted to my grandson. Every so often, I just have to get into that Camry and drive 16 hours so I can hold him while he drools on my shirt. I know it’s hard for you to understand, but it makes perfect sense to me. I just got back from one of those excursions.…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 14 views
SHE RARELY CRIED, BUT THIS ONE NIGHT WAS DIFFERENT. I HAD MADE A DEAL WITH MY DAUGHTER WHEN SHE WAS HEADING OFF TO COLLEGE THAT, I WOULD PAY HER SCHOOL BILL, ALL OF IT, IF SHE WOULD JUST FINISH PAYNG FOR HER CAR AND COVER THE INSURANCE BY GETTING A JOB. SEEMED LIKE A GOOD DEAL TO ME AND I WAS GOING TO…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
In “Giving & Receiving,” Bryan Catherman writes, “It is clear that God wants us to communicate with Him. He desires that we pray and ask him to meet our needs. He wants to provide for us. In order that we recognize his goodness, God directs us to ask and become keenly aware of him before he delivers…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Like most young couples, Rick and Karen were financially challenged. Actually, it was worse than that, they put everything they had, and then some, into a down payment for their starter home. They were in debt up to their eyeballs. Karen carefully kept the books down to the last penny, she had too. Their…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
At 64 years old, Robert was a confirmed bachelor if there ever was one. He’d learned to be content with his situation and never thought he’d find love and get married. One summer evening in 1988 he was enjoying a moment of solitude, reflecting upon his upcoming retirement and praying about his future.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Every day, come rain or shine, Bill hits the pavement and puts in three to five miles jogging. He’s was the picture of health up until the moment that he almost died. One morning, after his run, he started itching all over his body, was light-headed and had a growing sense of fatigue and dread. He lay…
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — A woman being driven around in a rented limousine pulled up at a coat store and announced she'd won the lottery and would pay for everyone's purchases, police said, but she ended up causing a riot when customers realized it was a hoax. Angry customers threw merchandise around and looted,…
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EASTON, Pa. — A man accused of driving drunk said Pennsylvania courts have no jurisdiction over him because he's his own country. After seeing the paperwork that 44-year-old Scott Allan Witmer filed with the court claiming sovereignty, a Northampton County judge said Tuesday he cannot be released from…
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When we discern that people are not going on spiritually and allow the discernment to turn to criticism, we block our way to God. God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede. Chambers, O. (1993, c1935). My utmost for his highest : Selections for the year (November…
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Access to the most powerful leader in the world—the President of the United States of America—is granted only to the few who have successfully passed through a series of detailed, cautious checkpoints. A Norway teen created quite a stir in the United States when he challenged the system, boldly dialing…
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Sermon for 3 Pentecost Matthew 7:21-29 God calls us to follow his will and build our house upon the rock of his truth and love rather than upon our own wisdom We might even begin to do God’s will and perform miracles, preached the truth and even cast out demons, but at that point have become false teachers…
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Perhaps I should say that I am not, at first glance, a person in any way cut out for prayer. I'm nervous, jumpy, easily distracted, and my mind tends to run in obsessive ruts--usually on subjects that are far removed from prayer. So at first, developing a prayer life sounded way too advanced and esoteric…
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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 • • 20 views
PRAYERLESSNESS Fidel Castro, the notorious Cuban dictator, recently offered to send monitors to supervise a new presidential election if asked by the United States. As generous as his offer was, I doubt that he will be getting a phone call anytime soon. A communist dictator probably doesn’t have any…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 2 views
Prayer When Herod's persecution broke out against the church, James was killed and Peter was thrown in jail in preparation to give him a fair trial before they killed him too. The night before Peter's trial, he slept, chained between two guards, when the Angel of the Lord appeared and awoke Peter. When…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 45 views
Ask Me "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." Matthew 7:7 In this verse, humility meets ingenuity and determination to create a winning formula for prayer. Asking takes great humility because when we ask, we are admitting that we need help.…
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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…
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,…
Leigh Johnson • Illustration • • 129 views
I. Introduction When God created the universe and all within it, God looked and saw that it was good. At some point, however, evil entered the world and corrupted it. People may have different understandings of how this happened, but I don’t think anyone would argue that the world as we know it is the…
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…