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Dan Hendley • North Park Church • Illustration • • 27 views • unknown
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Dan Hendley • North Park Church • Illustration • • 33 views • 36:33
Rev. Michael K Boateng • Illustration • • 28 views
There is therefore no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus , who walk not after the flesh , but after the Spirit
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
While the whole world reels from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and many feel hopeless as a result, Queen Elizabeth issues her first ever Easter message in 2020, filled with hope for her subjects during this time of crisis. She reminds us that Easter is not cancelled this year but remains “a symbol…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
There is an interesting new sport in Russia—a slapping contest. Face slappers must stand opposite each other, separated only by a tall box, and slap each other in turn until one either faints or concedes. Unlike in boxing, competitors are not allowed to try to dodge the blow. Vasily Kamotsky, a 28-year-old…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
High school senior Kate Wynja won the Class A girls state golf tournament, but then realized she has submitted an incorrect scorecard. She accidentally credited herself with a 4 on the 18th hole, instead of a 5 and knew she had to report it. As a result, she was disqualified, and her team fell from first…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 14 views
In his book, Thanks: How Practicing Gratitude Can Make you Happier, Robert Emmons writes, “Hopelessness and despair can adversely impact the endocrine and immune systems, even hastening death. Conversely, being an optimist may help reduce your risk of dying from heart disease and other causes. A thirty-five-year…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
A British paintball company says they were surprised by the number of applicants for a job post they put up. The company is looking for a ‘bullet tester’ with a ‘relatively high pain threshold’ and has received about 10,000 applicants. They are looking for a person willing to be shot at to ensure that…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 15 views
In 1931, a young mother died suddenly. Her two children, ages seven and four, were sent to separate homes and raised apart. After 80 years, Doris Petre discovered that her older brother was alive and well, living in Brunswick, Maine. 80 years after the separation, Doris and Richard Watrous met each other…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
It has been a tough six months at Cornell University. Over that time, six students have taken their own lives. With the reputation of a “suicide school,” school and mental health officials have launched a massive effort to find the problem and stop it. --The Week March 26, 2010 p. 9. Illustration by…
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Scientists are planning a ground-breaking research project to create synthetic human blood from embryonic stem cells. The results could provide an unlimited supply of blood for emergency transfusions, free of the risk of infection, it is being reported. The three-year project will be led by the Scottish…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 31 views
I didn’t learn to ski till I was well into my 30's. The first time I ever went was the first time I took a group from Peace up to Winter Place in West Virginia. I was not that worried. I figured I could strap on a pair of skis and do just fine, so I didn’t bother to take a lesson. I mean if you don’t…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 2 views
And there really are many reactions to trouble. You’ve seen them. You’ve probably done them! When trouble comes, some people turn into great pretenders. They act as if nothing’s wrong. They may have just experienced devastation, but they are in denial. They’re kind of like a NC State Wolfpack team back…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 7 views
Contrast Dave’s reaction with that of a 14 year-old girl. Nancy Ortberg gave her story. It seems Nancy worked as a registered nurse for about ten years. One of her earliest patients was a young girl of about 14 who had been in a dirt bike accident. She met this young girl in the physical therapy department.…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 8 views
Warren Wiersbe says: “A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned.” What really separates the two? Well, the answer may lie in another saying most of us have heard: “Life is 2 percent what happens to…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 5 views
I recently entered a staff member’s office to find them distraught. They’d been working pretty hard on a project and even though they had given their all to it, they were still being pretty highly criticized. I could tell they were really discouraged, to the point that they really wanted to let loose…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 1 view
Several years ago in a message, I told you the story of how my dad shot my dog, Fido. I think a few of you may have heard that and thought that my Father somehow hated dogs. That is definitely not true. In fact, he’s got a real soft spot for them. When he used to live in rural Georgia, in fact, he had…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 91 views
Your emergency situation is often God’s testing time. The purposes of God often develop slowly because His grand designs are never hurried. The great New England preacher Phillips Brooks was noted for his poise and quiet manner. At times, however, even he suffered from moments of frustration and irritability.…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 714 views
He deserves not the name of patient who is only willing to suffer as much as he thinks proper.—Thomas a Kempis I once heard a preacher explain how trials are like washing machines. You have to let the machine run its course in order for the clothes to be completely cleaned. No matter how badly you feel…
FRANK ACEVEDO • Illustration • • 16 views
Temptation: A Biblical Overview Temptation: Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God cannot be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each one is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desires. Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin…
Robert Phillips • Illustration • • 22 views
During the second week of March, Bob Simmons, the head football coach at Oklahoma State University, could not be found. One rumor placed Simmons on a recruiting trip. Another rumor said that he was having a kidney transplant. Even the Oklahoma State Athletic Director did not know the coach's whereabouts.…
Jim Vance • Illustration • • 363 views
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS by Dr. Erwin Lutzer Intro Thunder From Sinai Today many concepts about God abound, most of them individually conceived in our own minds according to our own liking. When people stop worshipping the true God, they do not stop worshipping; it is just that they change the object of…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 13 views
The Bible describes several ways in which suffering can be used for our good, though I have included all of them under the overall benefit of “turning us to God”. For example, suffering can: 1) Refine our faith (I Peter 1:5-7) 2) Make us mature (James 1:2-4) 3) Allow an opportunity to display the works…
Rev. Gregory S. Byrd • Illustration • • 264 views
Living above the Line A Celebration of our Union with Christ Rev Greg Byrd Faith Temple Baptist Church Poetry Texas Living Above the Line Introduction Introduction Colossians 1:27 says Christ in you, the hope of Glory. In fact Christ in us is our only hope of eternal Glory, The union of the believer…
Debbie Milligan • Illustration • • 19 views
FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT SCRIPTURES Genesis 50:19-21 Numbers 6:24-26 12:3-7 Ruth 3:10-11 II Samuel 9:1-7 Psalm 1:3 Isaiah 3:10 27:6 32:16-18 Ezekiel 17:22-24 Hosea 6:1-3 14:4-8 Matthew 7:16-20 12:33 Luke 6:43-44 John 15:1-8 Acts