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Dan Hughes • Illustration • • 7 views
Sherman's quote about Grant's commitment to a plan “The chief characteristic of your nature is the simple faith in success you have always manifested, which I can liken to nothing else than the faith a Christian has in the Savior. This faith gave you victory at Shiloh and Vicksburg. When you have completed…
Dan Hughes • Illustration • • 13 views
On the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, wtih little more than an hour of daylight remaining, Colonel Isaac E. Avery of hte 6th North Carolina was mortally wounded as he led a brigade up the slope of Cemetery Hill. As he lost consciousness he scrawled a final message: " Tell my father I died with…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 25 views
In the fifth century, a monk named Telemachus wanted to live his life in pursuit of God, so he lived alone in the desert praying, fasting, and meditating. That was the custom, of his day. Truly spiritual people went out to be totally alone in the desert so that they could give themselves fully to God.…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 3 views
I have a bike which is in the middle of the road price range. I didn’t buy it, actually, my brother-in-law, who is an avid biker bought it for me. It cost around $800.00. Now I know you immediately might think, “Well, I can go to Walmart and buy a bike for $49.95 any day of the week . . .” and you probably…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 4 views
“The playwright Thornton Wilder said it well: ‘I didn’t marry you because you were perfect. I didn’t even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 308 views
The brother of Ravi Zacharias said this: “Love is as much a question of the will as it is of the emotion. And if you WILL to love somebody, you can.” That was not just a meaningless statement for him. He actually experienced it. You see, Ravi’s brother married the woman arranged for him by his parents,…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 104 views
There are so many good ones. Lottie Moon was a Southern Baptist missionary in the late 1800's and early 1900's. When she returned to China as a missionary after her second furlough in 1904, her area of China was impoverished and undergoing a famine. She begged for more money to help, but the mission…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 92 views
Shortly after the turn of the century, Japan invaded, conquered, and occupied Korea. They overwhelmed the Koreans with a brutality that would sicken the strongest of stomachs. One group singled out for concentrated oppression was the Christians. When the Japanese army overpowered Korea one of the first…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 17 views
The motto of every Christian, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be "Devoted for Life." — Adoniram Judson As a young man, film director Robert Flaherty spent many months in the far north looking for iron, ore, and cod. He found none, but he did shoot 70,000 feet of film in his travels.…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 4 views
Maybe this story will show you what I mean. Imagine for a moment that you are on a cruise in the Carribean. (Kind of sounds good right now, given the temperatures we’ve been having around here!) All of sudden, in the middle of the night you hear a huge explosion. You leap up and get your clothes on as…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 15 views
Nathan Barlow was an unusual medical doctor who used his skills in Ethiopia for 60 years. He dedicated his life to helping people with mossy foot. Mossy foot is thought to be caused by barefoot contact with the red clay soil of the country and it is a debilitating condition [that] causes swelling and…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 13 views
One man, with a sanctified imagination, offered the following idea of what it is like to surrender your all to God: “I want this pearl, how much is it?” “Well,” the seller says, “it is very expensive.” But how much, we ask. Well, a very large amount. Do you think I could buy it? O, of course, everyone…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 11 views
We cannot grow as Christians until we fully commit our lives to Christ. “When I was a boy, my father, a baker, introduced me to the wonders of song,” tenor Luciano Pavarotti relates. “He urged me to work very hard to develop my voice. Arrigo Pola, a professional tenor in my hometown of Modena, Italy,…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 313 views
There were five of us traveling across the Sahel of Africa, just south of the Sahara Desert. We had started out in Niamey, Niger, and we were working our way toward the Dogon in Mali. We were traveling through Burkina Faso in a Toyota Land Cruiser. The air conditioning system was broken, and the temperature…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 179 views
C.T. Studd knew what priority was all about. He was the son of a wealthy planter, but when he was converted to Christ, he really sold out to Him. He held nothing back. He was one of the Cambridge Seven who volunteered to go to China at the plea of Hudson Taylor. When his wealthy father died, he inherited…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 3 views
A woman rushed up to famed violinist Fritz Kreisler after a concert and cried: “I’d give my life to play as beautifully as you do.” Kreisler replied, “I did.”
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 3 views
Are we presenting a bait-and-switch message? “Welcome, let us meet your felt needs: more meaning, joy, and family bonding. But after you’ve been here awhile, we ask you to pursue self-denial, sacrificial giving, and serious commitment.” - Alan Nelson, “Redirecting the Self-seeking” Leadership, Summer…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 2 views
It is this disruption that, especially if repeated more than once, breeds the “loss of commitment”. The man on the move is ordinarily is too much of a hurry to put down roots in any one place. Future Shock, Alvin Toffler, page 89
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 2 views
It doesn’t take much of a man to be a Christian; but it takes all there is of him. Giving With a Purpose, Wendell Winkler, page 8
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 2 views
“Anyway” People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 14 views
Be faithful in the small things for you never know when God will require more of you. As a nation, America has a rich history. This country was founded by men who believed God’s Word, many of whom were ostracized and even persecuted for their roll in founding America. Of the fifty-six men who signed…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 14 views
John the Baptist was unmoved by the world but tried to move the world by pointing others to Christ. The Danish philosopher, Kierkegaard, tells a parable of a theater where a variety show is proceeding. Each show is more fantastic than the last and is applauded by the audience. Suddenly the manager comes…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 29 views
Strength does not come from giving up but from holding on to Christ. Kim Linehan was a competitive swimmer in the late 70s and early 80s. She set the world record in the women's 1500-meter freestyle and was expected to win a gold medal at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow before the United States pulled out…
Brad Shockley • Illustration • • 149 views
Blest Be The Tie That Doesn't Cramp Pillow of Ages, Fluffed for Me I Surrender Some I'm Fairly Certain That My Redeemer Lives Sit Up, Sit Up For Jesus Take My Life and Let Me Be What An Acquaintance We Have In Jesus Where He Leads Me, I Will Consider Following He's Quite a Bit To Me Oh, How I Like Jesus…