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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 27 views
In The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes, “Brotherly forgiveness makes room for the forgiveness of Jesus to enter into their common life. Instead of seeing their neighbours as men who have injured them, they see them as men for whom Christ has won forgiveness on the cross. They meet on…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Broadcast TV is getting tougher for a Christian to watch. The Parents Television council found 76 incidents of full nudity on prime-time network TV in 2011, an increase of 407 percent from 2010. Using pixilation of the key body parts they are broadcasting fully naked characters. It is harder for families…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
A study at a Kansas University found almost no difference in the sex practices of atheists and highly religious people. Adultery, masturbation, and other sex acts are as prevalent among the religious as the irreligious. The only difference investigators found was that the religious feel guilty about…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 19 views
SANCTIFICATION In his book, "Counted Righteous in Christ: Should We Abandon the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness?", John Piper writes, "Our only hope of progress in gradual sanctification (growing in likeness to Jesus) is that we already have a right standing with God by faith alone. By this justification…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 23 views
TRANSFORMATION In his book, Satisfy your Soul, Bruce Demarest writes, “The goal of Christian spirituality is not information; it is transformation into the likeness of Christ.” --Satisfy your Soul, 96. Illustration by Jim L. Wilson Romans 12:1-2 (NKJV) “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies…
Jarred Edgecombe • Illustration • • 88 views
Survivor of accident recounts fateful day “I was going to ask him why he pushed me.” The push was a quick, forceful blow, Chris Grays recalled. Strong enough to make Grays, 24, stumble backward. It was like those typical, initial shoves to the chest men give just before they clench the fists and swing…
Jarred Edgecombe • Illustration • • 6 views
The action of repentance is always inward. The consequences of repentance are always outward.
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 2 views
TRANSFORMATION In his book, The Shape of Faith to Come, Brad Waggoner writes, “Preaching that fills the head with a lot of biblical facts is vastly different from preaching that focuses on putting truth into practice. We must call the people of God to action, and they must see that we are practicing…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 28 views
HOLINESS In his book Out of the Whirlwind, Mark Tabb writes, “Yet the bottom line is this: God’s promises have more to do with getting us ready for heaven than alleviating our suffering today. He does not care nearly as much about our comfort as he does our holiness and dependence upon him. Yes, God…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
I Don't Understand Some passages of scripture are easy to understand. Everyone knows what "Thou shall not commit Adultery" means, right? Well, almost everyone. But other passages make me scratch my head and ask, "What did He mean by that?" Though I can explain all the major interpretations of the book…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 27 views
TRANSFORMATION “We [churches] are in the business to do ministry to facilitate transformation …that is the only reason we exist.” —George Barna, 11-6-2000, Barna 2000-2001 Seminars, San Jose, California Illustration by Jim L. Wilson For more information on Barna’s seminars and other resources, go to…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Serial Killers What were your first thoughts when you heard that Andrew Cunanan, the alleged killer of fashion designer Gianni Versace and four others, shot himself on a houseboat in Florida? Perhaps, you like many Americans, breathed a sigh of relief. Though he was not found guilty of these crimes,…
Nick Jackson • Illustration • • 4 views
John Calvin Everything bad they [the ungodly] can seize hold of in our life is twisted maliciously against Christ and His teaching. The result is that by our fault God’s sacred name is exposed to insult. The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more intent we should be to avoid…
Stephen N. Rummage • Illustration • • 2 views
You and I are works of art, too, intended to display the glory of our Creator. (You are probably tempted to say, "Well, if I'm a work of art, it isn't going to be much of a display!") When a Southern sculptor was asked how he created his stone masterpiece of Robert E. Lee, he said, "I just got a big…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
CONVERSION In the 1970s, Khmer Rouge soldiers forced residents to dig their own graves before they were executed. As villagers called in desperation to various gods, one woman prayed to "the god who hung on a cross." As she cowered on the ground, waiting to be shot, a vision of a cross came, with a voice…
Jarred Edgecombe • Illustration • • 7 views
The one who prays for holiness will one day praise for happiness. – C.H. Spurgeon
Steven D Olsen • Illustration • • 172 views
Gold is purified faith is strengthened and demonstrated 1 Peter 1:6-7; Job 23:10; Malachi 3:3 Gold is purified under into a liqued in order to remove the impurities. Prov 25:4; 1 Peter 2:19-20; 4:12-19 Gold is chemically stable does not tarnish by the enviornment Romans 12:1-2 Gold is maliable roled…
Nick Jackson • Illustration • • 5 views
John Murray There must be a constant and increasing appreciation that though sin still remains it does not have the mastery. There is a total difference between surviving sin and reigning sin, the regenerate in conflict with sin and the unregenerate complacent to sin. It is one thing for sin to live…
Stephen Hustedde • Illustration • • 205 views
We come to Christ and yet we still sin. God loves us as we are, but His desire is to make us more like Jesus. Sin is like th cobwebs in the corners of our homes. By watchfulness we can keep the corners clean, but the webs keep showing up. The best way to deal with the cobwebs is to kill the spiders.…
Nick Jackson • Illustration • • 6 views
William S. Plummer Regeneration is an act of God’s Spirit. Sanctification is a work of God’s Spirit, consequent upon that act… In regeneration we become “newborn babes;” in sanctification we attain the stature of full grown men in Christ Jesus.
Stephen Hustedde • Illustration • • 8 views
A woman was going away to pick up some friends and return with them for her children to go out to dinner. She had left her children at home with the instructions that they were to be clean and dressed by the time she returned. She said to the children upon leaving, "Now here is plenty of soap and water…
Nick Jackson • Illustration • • 18 views
William S. Plummer Justification is an act of God complete at once and forever. Sanctification is a work of God begun in regeneration, conducted through life and completed at death. The former is equal and perfect in all; the latter is not equal in all, nor perfect in any till they lay aside the flesh.…
Nathan Kuperus • Illustration • • 26 views
A woman was asked by a co-worker, 'What is it like to be a Christian?' The co-worker replied, 'It is like being a pumpkin.' God picks you from the patch, brings you in, and washes all the dirt off of you. Then He cuts off the top and scoops out all the yucky stuff. He removes the seeds of doubt, hate,…
Brent Harris • Illustration • • 9 views
There was a very gracious lady who was mailing an old family Bible to her brother in another part of the country. "Is there anything breakable in here?" asked the postal clerk. The lady answered, "Only the Ten Commandments." Source: E-mail from Jill, January 14, 2006
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"human nature tends toward inertia in spiritual things and needs a prop, a stimulant of other persons to prod and encourage them to continue, and the convenience of methods which make it easy as possible to follow through." -- Dawson Trotman