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Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 9 views
A couple of weeks ago, I decided it was time to replace my laptop. I had been using my current church computer for almost 8 years, and it had slowed down so much that I had been using my personal laptop for the last 2 or 3 years, so I decided to take the plunge. I prayed about it and was determined to…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 4 views
A couple of weeks ago, I decided it was time to replace my laptop. I had been using my current church computer for almost 8 years, and it had slowed down so much that I had been using my personal laptop for the last 2 or 3 years, so I decided to take the plunge. I prayed about it and was determined to…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 3 views
And yet we seem to worship everything, but Him. That’s the thing. We were created to be worshipers and all of us are really good at worship. We attribute worth to something in our lives for it is that which gives our life meaning. We can give worth to our looks, to our money, to our homes, to our families,…
Jeff Brown • Illustration • • 2 views
Sinful Confidence 4 Do not trust in deceptive words and say, “This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD!” . . . 9 Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known, 10 and then come and stand before…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 11 views
Four royal brothers each decided to master a special ability. Time went by, and the brothers met to reveal what they had learned. “I have mastered a science,” said the first, “by which I can take but a bone of some creature and create the flesh that goes with it.” “I,” said the second, “know how to grow…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 3 views
As we’ve already said, our culture takes the opposite approach. We don’t want to destroy the power of money, we worship it. Mark Twain said, “Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money.”
Chad Oltman • Illustration • • 63 views
Talking About Idolatry in a Postmodern Age by: Tim Keller article url: http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/articles.php?a=2 IDOLATRY IN THE BIBLE When I first began reading through the Bible I looked for some unifying themes. I concluded that there are many and that if we make just one theme the theme…
Timothy C. Seal • Illustration • • 4 views
Idolatry “. . . but mark whenever we make a golden calf to worship sooner or latter it will come to this,-we shall get our golden calf ground up and put into our water for us to drink, and then we shall have to say, “He hath made me drunken with wormwood.” Never a man makes an idol for himself to worship…
Bruce Meyer • Illustration • • 9 views
"Suffering is equally necessary for us because it strips away the pretense that life is reasonable and good, a pretense that keeps us looking in all the wrong places for the satisfaction of our souls." Source: Dan Allender, The Wounded Heart, p. 196.
Jeffrey Seavey • Illustration • • 11 views
Guyana Woman Accused As Vampire Lynched Apr 30 10:10 PM US/Eastern | GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - A crowd of Guyanese villagers lynched an elderly woman they accused of being an evil spirit who drinks the blood of human babies, police said Monday. Authorities in the South American country said the woman…
Illustration • • 18 views
By Zeus! After a break of 16 centuries, Greek pagans are worshipping the ancient gods again - despite furious opposition from the Orthodox church. Helena Smith asks them why they're so keen to revive the old religion Thursday February 1, 2007 The Guardian Photograph: AP It was high noon when Doreta Peppa,…
Pastor Stephen Young • Illustration • • 7 views
The Christian position is clear that sin is not exclusively or primarily something in society. ---- Source: Paul C. Vitz, Psychology as Religion: The Cult of Self Worship, second edition, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1994, p.126-127, added 23rd May 2007
John Leffler • Illustration • • 13 views
Rest and relaxation doesn't seem to come as easily or naturally to Americans as it does to those in other nations. According to the 2006 World Almanac and Book of Facts: • a worker in Italy averages 42 vacation days per year. • a worker in France: 37 days • a worker in Germany: 35 days • a worker in…