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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 27 views
In the first eight months of 2016, 73 people around the world have died while taking “extreme selfies.” The new activity of seeing how you can take pictures of yourself with a smart phone has proved dangerous to many. Most deaths came from people who fell from buildings or mountains while attempting…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
New Orleans pastor, Kenneth Green was preaching at his church, Greater Saint Mary Baptist Church in the Algiers community. In his Sunday morning sermon Pastor Green declared “If the Lord called me now I’m ready to go.” According to a congregant present at the time, he then wiped his face, took a swallow…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 14 views
The California legislature has passed, and the governor has signed an “End of life Act” legalizing assisted suicide. On the same day it was signed the Southern Medical Journal published a study connecting physician-assisted suicide with an increase in overall suicide rates. Since assisted suicide became…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
A German undertaker received the shock of his life when a coffin lid at his funeral parlor slid open and the supposedly dead woman inside asked, “Where am I?” The man passed out in shock. The 92-year-old woman had been pronounced dead just hours earlier after staff at her retirement home found her unresponsive,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 14 views
Kanye West is among those who want to be frozen after death so he can be thawed in the future when regenerative advances will allow him to live again. The Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona will keep his corpse on ice for $233,000 dollars. The interesting thing here is his stated…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 28 views
A Russian man who was declared dead after he drank too much vodka at a party woke up to find himself in a morgue. A police spokesman said the man screamed when he regained consciousness in the mortuary freezer attracting the attention of staff. After he was released he quickly returned to the party,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
It just looked like a mutt wandering the streets. Further research found that it was a rare South African Mastiff stolen from his yard in Beaverdam, Virginia. What looked like a lonely mutt was actually a pure bred dog worth over $10,000. His owner was ecstatic to get him back. —Jim L. Wilson and Rodger…
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In an attempt to make their neighborhood a safer place to live, Bradley and Penny Mason purchased a vacant house adjacent to their home because they feared it was a fire hazard. As it turns out, they were right. As they were at the county courthouse signing the deed, the house caught fire. A neighbor…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 29 views
In The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes, “Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock. Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Cancer is on the verge of overtaking heart disease as the No. 1 cause of death. Heart disease and cancer are primarily diseases of aging. As we continue to make progress on treating heart disease the reason for death has shifted. Fewer people succumbing to heart disease means more people living long…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
In her mostly positive review of the movie heaven is for real Sophia Lee gives one warning. “One issue with the over emphasis on a wondrous heaven is the risk of negating the reality of a terrible hell–and the one and only way to heaven. Without clarity in the Gospel and the assurance of salvation, the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Great Britain is debating the legalization of Euthanasia. Professor Theo Boer of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, once a prominent supporter of euthanasia, has changed his mind after seeing its implementation in the Netherlands. He thought the practice would be rare, used only as a last resort.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
Two recent news stories remind me that love can be fickle. When a newlywed wife called 911to report her husband missing during their Florida honeymoon, police told her that he had been arrested for attempting to hire a prostitute. A Washington state family returned home to find a burglar in their home.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
A death simulator called Xinglai is open in China. When you “die,” you lay down on a conveyer belt through a dark tunnel that simulates cremation and then being “reborn” out the other side through a latex womb. The experience “gives you the chance to calm down, give in to some deeper thoughts, and think…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Graham Greene, British writer said, “A treasure is to be valued for its own sake and not for what it will buy.” This is what Jesus had in mind when he told us to store up treasures in heaven. You won’t buy stuff with your treasure in heaven, you will value it for its own sake.--Jim L. Wilson and Rodger…
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Pastor and author John Ortberg has written a new book to help people understand the only part of the human being that is eternal, the soul. In the book, he equates the soul to the king on a chessboard. He explains, saying “The king is the most limited of chess pieces; it can only move one square at a…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 48 views
The staff at a funeral home in Mississippi says Walter Williams woke up and surprised them. Authorities say the local coroner examined Williams about 9 PM and pronounced him dead because he had no pulse. When William’s body was taken to a local funeral home later than night, workers were getting ready…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
About 37,000 Americans end their own lives each year. This is more than die each year in car crashes. Safety improvements have cut the death toll of car crashes by 25% but suicides have kept rising. No government safety program can stop the devastation of a life hungry for meaning or lost in depression…
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Stephen Fiorella is a 19-year-old University of Iowa student who tried to use a stolen ID to get into the Union Bar in Iowa City, Iowa. The false ID didn’t fool the bouncer for a minute, mainly because Stephen tried to use the bouncer’s own driver’s license. The bouncer had reported it stolen along with…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 26 views
In 2013, Bernadette Tenegra, huddled with her family in their shanty, praying they would survive Typhoon Haiyan. Most of her family survived, the home didn’t. They Typhoon swamped the home with incredible speed, and swept the family away. Her husband and one of her daughters scrambled to safety, but…
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ETERNITY Ray Kurzweil is described as a futurist and inventor. At age 65 his goal is to live long enough that he will still be alive when the contents of our brains will be able to be downloaded to a computer. Then he can upload his intelligence, experience, and identity to the internet allowing him…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
Nik Wallenda from the high flying Wallenda family recently crossed a high wire across a canyon near the Grand Canyon. He made the crossing without a tether or safety net. Last year he was the first person to walk over the brink of Niagara Falls on a high wire. When asked about the danger he faced Wallenda’s…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
While advertising paints the picture of a perfect Christmas of looking outside and finding a new car in the driveway with a bow on top, the reality is likely somewhat different. For most families, a more realistic scene is a room littered with paper and empty boxes. Many people struggle finding the perfect…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
Imagine the surprise, actually the terror, when people attending the funeral of Dama Zanthe, a 34-year-old Zimbabwean, were filing by the casket and he began moving. “I feel better now,” said Zanthe. While Zanthe experienced resuscitation, Jesus indeed resurrected from the dead.-- Jim L. Wilson and Rodger…
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How long is eternity? Residents of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan have discovered that it is not as long as they thought. In 1984 the city built a memorial as a tribute to Soviet soldiers who died during World War II. Part of the memorial was an eternal flame. When the city failed to pay its gas bill the local…