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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 19 views
Look out America! There’s a new church movement rising across the country, and guess what they all have in common? They all don’t believe in God! Yes, the growth of atheist churches and even atheist mega-churches are becoming more and more popular as people want the warm feelings of a church experience…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 62 views
There is a new Guinness world record for the longest speech and not surprisingly, it is a sermon. Pastor Zach Zehnder of Mount Dora, Florida preached for two days five hours and eighteen minutes. Taking only rare bathroom breaks and with at least 10 people present at all times, the pastor preached from…
Chad Prigge • Illustration • • 94 views
Preaching with Integrity by Dr. Jerry Cramer Most Christians do not listen to sermons; they listen to their pastor. Do not think for a second that God's message is not affected by the messengers. The preacher is always the strongest source of persuasion. That is why God has chosen face-to-face preaching…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Dr. Cornelius Plantinga, a senior research fellow at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship says his studies have convinced him that worship services in many churches does not mention sin, which is a major part of the Gospel message. Plantinga says some more traditional churches still include confession…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 48 views
During a sermon about Christian unity, Florida pastor Zach Zehnder spoke about rules that tend to divide Christians — drinking, smoking, and getting tattoos. In an offhanded remark, he told his assembled congregants during a sermon that he would pay them to get tattoos of the church’s colorful cross…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Amazon is always searching for better and faster ways to deliver products to customers. Never satisfied with the status quo, Amazon has tried several alternatives to UPS and FedEx. The company has asked the Federal Aviation Administration for permission to deliver packages via aerial drones. Now in San…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 48 views
A Colorado pastor wrote a book describing how he has become disillusioned reading the social media messages of high-profile pastors he respected. Pastor Brady Boyd, says he fears the social media has simply became another venue for hype which is creating a church full of consumers. Boyd says the trend…
David Krueger • Illustration • • 8 views
Preachers have their own set of temptations! That fact can be illustrated by an event in the life of John Bunyan. Bunyan had preached an unusually anointed sermon. Immediately after the service, a layman jumped from his pew and raced to shake Bunyan’s hand exclaiming, “Bunyan, that was the most powerful…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 18 views
In The Church Awakening: An Urgent Call for Renewal, Charles Swindoll writes, “It is a house of prayer, not a house of business. It is a place of worship, not a place of entertainment. Jesus is our Savior whom we worship, not a brand to market.“ -The Church Awakening, Kindle Loc. 4019-20 Illustration…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 15 views
Billy Graham has made the list of the Top 10 Most Admired men in the World again. For the 56th time since he first appeared in 1955, the evangelist ranked among the ten most admired men on a list compiled by a USA Today/Gallup poll. Reverend Graham was tied in the voting for 2013 with presidential candidate…
David Krueger • Illustration • • 847 views
One day he rode his horse into Ancaster, Ontario, announcing he would preach. A crowd gathered, and Marks asked if anyone had a topic to suggest. A man mockingly said, "Nothing!" Marks began preaching on "nothing." God created the world from nothing, he said. He gave us laws in which there is nothing…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
In Integrity Is a Lost Art, Eric Herrstrom writes, “For the church to be believable, the message that leaders speak must line up with their behavior.” --Integrity Is a Lost Art (Kindle Location 259). Illustration by Jim L. Wilson Psalm 7:8 (AMP) The Lord judges the people; judge me, O Lord, and do me…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
In Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: Unleash A Revolution In Your Life in Christ, Peter Scazzero writes, “For years I learned from leaders and consultants around the country how to lead a large, growing church. None of the training I received concerned itself with knowing myself. The problem was that…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
In a twelve hour period, the father and son team of Jesse Shaffer and Jesse Shaffer Jr. rescued 120 people, from the flood in Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana resulting from Hurricane Isaac. They were able to access places using boats that traditional first responders couldn’t go with their trucks. As…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
In 2012, James Doggette celebrated his 101st birthday. If you ask the residents of his hometown of Beaumont, Texas they’ll say Doggette does not act his age, especially when he preaches. They say when he gets up to deliver God’s word, they often believe they are seeing a hearing a much younger man. Doggette…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 54 views
In The Church Awakening: An Urgent Call for Renewal, Charles Swindoll writes, “Even in a culture marked by postmodernism and addicted to consumerism, the church doesn’t need gimmicks to attract people. Instead it needs biblical truth taught in an interesting manner and lived out in unguarded authenticity—in…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
In The Church Awakening: An Urgent Call for Renewal, Charles Swindoll writes, “Entertaining churches with a shallow, superficial, feel-good message can never prepare you for the doctor’s report that reveals cancer. Or the call from the policeman who says your son was in a head-on collision. Or the day…
Tim Campbell • Illustration • • 23 views
A visitor to Ystad Sweden tells of the little church located there. It is not a particularly beautiful church, and is exceptional in no way except that when you go inside you notice there is a crucifix hanging on the wall opposite the pulpit. The figure of our Lord is life-sized and life-like even to…
Jason W. Miller • Illustration • • 216 views
A PREACHER’S PRAYER I do not ask that crowds so throng the temple that standing room be at a price; I only ask that as I voice the message, they may see Christ. I do not ask For churchly pomp or pageant, or music such as welth alone can buy; I only pray that as I voice the message, he may be nigh. I…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
In Why Johnny Can’t Preach: The Media Have Shaped the Messengers. T. David Gordon writes, “Every technological development has a cost that is well beyond what is expended in research and development. Every technological development has an opportunity cost because once we spend even part of our day using…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
A new business proposes to offer churches Image Advising services similar to the mystery or secret shopper services businesses use. Faith Perceptions states in their mission statement that churches, like businesses, rarely get a second chance to make a first impression. One experience can determine whether…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 15 views
In Forgotten God: Reversing our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit, Francis Chan writes, “The benchmark of success in church services has become more about attendance than the movement of the Holy Spirit. The ‘entertainment’ model of church was largely adopted in the 1980s and ‘90s, and while it alleviated…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
When a 4 year-old Ohio boy disappeared recently, his family feared the worse, but it turned out he didn’t want to miss church. Dillan McQueen had been seen playing outside of his house, then he left riding his bicycle toward church. Dillan had traveled almost half a mile and had crossed several major…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
How can two people see the same thing, be in the same situation, listen to the same sermon, belong to the same church, and see things entirely different. The answer is simple. We often see things as we choose to see them. Tom Vanderbilt explains “top down processing” in his book, Traffic; Why We Drive…
Bill Shewmaker • Illustration • • 11 views
"Think yourself empty; read yourself full; write yourself clear; pray yourself clean, and then enter the pulpit and let yourself go." W. H. Griffith Thomas