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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 29 views
Jeni Stepien is a Pennsylvania schoolteacher who was recently married. The man who walked her down the aisle and gave her away had her dad’s heart. He received it as a heart donor recipient when Jeni’s father was murdered ten years ago. After Arthur Thomas received the heart in 2006, they kept in touch.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Alisdair Allen and Peter Warden made a shocking discovery about their iPhone. It seems that it has been gathering data and tracking their whereabouts wherever they go. The phone actually records various data points that are stored and used to trace the exact path a person takes whenever they are in possession…
Teh-En Kuo • Illustration • • 9 views
If you send a servant to make a fire for you, and he goes and lays some green wood together and puts a few coals underneath, this is not to make a fire for you. He must either get dry wood, or he must blow until it burns and is fit for use. So when your hearts are unfit, when they are like green wood,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 18 views
INVOLVEMENT Even the weakest person can find a way to participate in their favorite sports, but according to some heart specialists only the strongest can survive as spectators. Studies have shown that when a person becomes a spectator rather than participant, things begin to go wrong. A spectator’s…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Barry Kosmin is the co-author of the American Religious Identification Survey. He says that while 69% of Americans believe in a personal God, 30% make no such connection. Kosmin says, “This “piety gap” defines the primary sides in the culture wars. If a personal God says, ‘Thou shalt not’ or ‘Thou shalt’…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
HEART In 1991, a hiker discovered a body sticking out of the snow in the Austria Alps. The follow-up investigation revealed that the body was a man in his forties who perished on the mountain approximately 5,000 years ago. After the discovery, many theories were advanced about how the man, nicknamed…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
MIND/HEART A psychiatrist in England recently made an interesting revelation at a conference in Wales. Dr. Nick Warner revealed that a hymn penned in the mid 1800s is the most common theme heard in what he termed "musical hallucinations." We all have a tune that gets stuck in our heads, but in a musical…
Rich DeRuiter • Illustration • • 54 views
Two bachelors were talking one day, and their conversation drifted from politics to sports to cooking. One of them said, “I got a cookbook once, but I could never do anything with it.” The other one said, “Too much fancy work in it, huh?” You first one said, “Yeah, it sure was. Every one of the recipes…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 2 views
Hostility can harm the heart as much as smoking and high blood pressure do, Dr. Redford B. Williams, Jr., of Duke University believes. At an American Heart Association seminar, Williams described research on hostility as measured in the widely used Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. A Duke…
Stephen N. Rummage • Illustration • • 2 views
Soon after the Columbine High School massacre, Oprah Winfrey, during a TV interview, asked attorney Jerry Spence, "Do we need more gun control?' "We need more heart control" he replied. Focus on the Family February 2006 Page 29
Ralph Andrus • Illustration • • 38 views
The surgeon sat beside the boy's bed; the boy's parents sat across from him. "Tomorrow morning," the surgeon began, "I'll open up your heart..." "You'll find Jesus there," the boy interrupted. The surgeon looked up, annoyed. "I'll cut your heart open," he continued, "to see how much damage has been done..."…
Ralph Andrus • Illustration • • 9 views
One of the most powerful stories I have ever heard on the nature of the human heart is told by Malcolm Muggeridge. Working as a journalist in India, he left his residence one evening to go to a nearby river for a swim. As he entered the water, across the river he saw an Indian woman from the nearby village…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 28 views
When I Say Im A Christian (Poem) Woman; Heart; Chrisitan; Humility; Devotion; Perfection; Lost; Found; 'A woman's heart should be so hidden in Christ that a man should have to seek Him first to find her.' When I say... 'I am a Christian' I'm not shouting 'I'm clean livin'' I'm whispering 'I was lost,…
Ralph Andrus • Illustration • • 1 view
In the chemistry class we learned how acids act on different substances. In the course of our experiment the professor gave us a bit of gold and told us to dissolve it. We left it all night in the strongest acid we had, and tried combinations of acids, then finally told him we thought that gold could…
toughski • Illustration • • 3 views
(Thanks to Cybersalt for today's humor. KB) AFROPHOBIA: Fear of the return of the 70's hair styles. DEJA FLU: The feeling that one has had this cold before. HYPOCOINDRIA: Fear of not having correct change. HAIRPIECE SWIMPLEX: Rash caused by wearing a toupee in a pool. CELESTIAL SEASONINGS AFFECTIVE DISORDER:…
David Van Brakle • Illustration • • 30 views
Leader: Give me a pure heart - People: that I may see Thee, Leader: A humble heart - People: that I may hear Thee, Leader: A heart of love - People: that I may serve Thee, Leader: A heart of faith - People: that I may abide in Thee. (adapted from Dag Hammarskjold)
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Jesus prayed: forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. In the novel "The Great Hunger," a newcomer comes to a farm community. He refuses all friendship with his neighbors and puts out the no trespassing sign. One day a little child from the town climbs underneath his fence…
Illustration • • 9 views
Don't expect wisdom to come into your life like great chunks of rock on a conveyor belt. It isn't like that. It's not splashy and bold . . . nor is it dispensed like a prescription across a counter. Wisdom comes privately from God as a by-product of right decisions, godly reactions, and the application…
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Edward Gibbon, author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, has attributed the fall of the Empire to: 1. The rapid increase of divorce; the undermining of the dignity and sanctity of the home, which is the basis of human society. 2. Higher and higher taxes and the spending of public monies for…
Illustration • • 41 views
The Rich Man’s Reward There is an old story about a very wealthy man who died and went to heaven. An angel guided him on a tour of the celestial city. He came to a magnificent home. "Who lives there?" asked the wealthy man. "Oh," the angel answered, "on earth he was your gardener." The rich man got excited.…
Illustration • • 11 views
This is well-nigh the greatest of discoveries a man can make, that God is not confined in churches, but that the streets are sacred because His presence is there, that the market-place is one of His abiding places, and ought, therefore, to be a sanctuary. Any moment in any place, the veil can suddenly…
Illustration • • 18 views
A Man Fell into a Pit Once upon a time a man fell into a pit and couldn’t get himself out. A sensitive person came along and said, “I feel for you down there.” A practical person came along and said, “I knew you were going to fall in sooner or later.” A Pharisee said, “Only bad people fall into a pit.”…
Illustration • • 8 views
Dear Yahoo!: How many hours of TV does a person watch in a lifetime? Joey Chesterfield, Missouri Dear Joey: Not to be confused with the hours spent watching Lifetime, one figure we've seen bandied about is 150,000 hours. That's based on a 72-year life expectancy. We suspect that number might be a bit…