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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 38 views • unknown
SHARING YOUR FAITH IS NOT HARD Typically, a person wants to tell everyone about a gift he or she received. Yet many people treat salvation like it's some kind of secret. They know what a wonderful thing they have but they're reluctant to tell others. * Sharing is called many things. The Bible calls sharing…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 15 views
Aley Meyer’s ultrasound picture of her unborn child contained an image that appears to be an image of Jesus on the cross. She did not notice until a week after she had the procedure when some friends showed her the picture at her baby shower. She said the picture has a lot of detail and when she magnified…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Federal and local authorities responded to the need when excessive amounts of lead were discovered in the drinking water in Flint Michigan. They were a joined by Baptists from the area. Most residents were only able to one case of water per day, but many families need more due to cooking and drinking.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
When Youth Pastor Stephen Spencer asked the youth group to write down their life goals, he had no idea how significant the words would be. During a regular Friday evening meeting, Spencer challenged the young people to write down three life goals. He joined in the activity and wrote his goals on a yellow…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
A church in downtown Detroit is working to encourage the renewal of the area by introducing a spiritual component. ST. John’s Episcopal Church is located next door to Comerica Park and has a prime location, so they installed a wooden prayer wall, 9 feet high. The church says the wall is a way for them…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
When her son Cole was in the hospital with cancer, Mary Esther Elam needed a way to pass the time. Some friends urged her to journal, so she bought a journaling Bible. As she studied and prayed each day, Elam drew illustrations along with her notes on the page. She began sharing them on social media…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
Penn Jillette of the magician duo of Penn and Teller is an atheist with a word to believers. “I’ve always said that I don’t respect people who don’t proselytize, I don’t respect that at all. How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize? I mean if I believed, beyond the shadow of a doubt,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
When 19-year-old Josh Lewis went out to deliver a pizza to a hospital emergency room team, he never dreamed he would soon become a patient, but that’s what happened. While delivering the pizza, an assailant stabbed him and stole his Jeep Cherokee. While recovering from a collapsed lung and torn muscles…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
As Intervarsity Christian Fellowship students head back to school on more than 100 campuses, they are asking fellow students about their bucket list to delve into other’s deeper motivations. When the topic turns to conversations about spiritual topics, interested students can be invited to learn more…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 18 views
Walmart told one of their greeters to stop telling customers to “have a blessed day” after someone complained. However, hundreds of other customers showed enough support to get the store to change the decision. The manager of the store admitted that he told James Phillips to stop the greeting, but said…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Piedmont High School in Alabama had a long tradition of allowing public prayers before sporting events. After receiving a complaint from a local resident, the school announced that the practice would have to stop. The school said fans and players could still pray on their own, but the sound system could…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
For the last 55 years, University of Illinois students have given of their time during the holidays to sing a holiday song for anyone who calls. The students in the Snyder Hall dorm host their “Dial-a-carol” program every year as a way to help students relive stress and blow off steam between finals…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
There is an interesting debate occurring in France. The French government owns all church building built before 1905. There are thousands of government-owned church buildings that are standing empty and unused. “Only 6 percent of French people attend Mass every Sunday, and rural churches are ‘falling…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 2 views
Fethullah Uzumcuoglu and Esra Polat celebrated their wedding day in an unusual way. At the reception in the southern Turkish city of Kilis near the Syrian border they hosted 4,000 Syrian refugees. They took the money they had received as wedding gifts, borrowed a food truck from a local charity, and…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 241 views
The Sonic restaurant in Raymore, Missouri hopes to give their customers a little something extra by including verses from the Bible with their food. The store used to print the verses on customer’s receipts, but a recent software upgrade eliminated that possibility. In order to continue the tradition,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
Pastor Eric Dammann, recently used a personal illustration to demonstrate that God can even use a person’s mistakes by telling about an event more than a dozen years ago when he was a youth worker. He punched a smart alec teenager in the chest, knocking him to the ground. He then said to the child he’d…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Reverend Wena Parry a minister in Great Britain says she was told that stickers saying “Christ Must be Saviour” and “Christ For me” could be regarded as modifications and might void her insurance policy. Parry though she was being treated unfairly and was concerned that someone in the company had something…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 17 views
Faith Comes By Hearing, based in New Mexico says they have now released a new app for Roku systems that will make Scripture available to at least 10 million additional people in the United States in 750 different languages. Roku is a set-top device created in 2008 will allows users to integrate their…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 46 views
The grandson of evangelist Billy Graham gave an update on his grandfather’s condition, and relayed an important message during a meeting of Christian Broadcast professionals. Will Graham told the crowd that his grandfather is in condition that is natural for someone who is 95 years old. Billy Graham…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
The American Bible Society has released their fifth annual State of the Bible report, which contains several assumptions that Americans have about the Bible. Among other things, it shows that a majority (72%) of Americans were not aware that many languages still do not have a Bible translation. Linguists…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 187 views
NFL Quarterback Tim Tebow got a lot of playing time during the 2015 pre-season, but in the end, he was cut from the Philadelphia Eagles rooster. Coach Chip Kelly said he did was not sure the quarterback was good enough to retain for the regular season. When a reporter caught up with Tebow later, he did…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Bubba Watson won the Master’s Golf tournament twice. The prestige of winning the coveted green jacket given to the tournament champion makes Watson one of the world’s premier golfers. How does Watson view himself? His self-description on Twitter reads simply, “Christian. Husband. Daddy. Pro-golfer.”…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Those who are looking for just the right place to live should read the result of a study conducted by a British team. The study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology has mapped the United States by rating personality and temperament on a state-by-state basis. The study that involved…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 20 views
In, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, Malcolm Gladwell writes, “There’s no possibility of being pessimistic when people are dependent on you for their only optimism.” —Jim L. Wilson -- David and Goliath: Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, Kindle Loc 1537 Psalm…