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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
In March of 2015, former presidential candidate Mitt Romney said he wouldn't have swapped Terrorist prisoners for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. "I don't think I would have made the trade," said Romney on NBC's "Today Show." Bergdahl was charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, about nine months…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 22 views
In Toughest people to love, Chuck DeGroat wrote, “In the upside-down economy of Jesus, those closest to the bottom are nearest to grace. Polished and put together, many of us live our lives without a real, palpable need for God.”—Jim L. Wilson Toughest people to love: how to understand, lead, and love…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 29 views
In The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes, “Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock. Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
In the NFL offseason two men in the Denver Broncos front office were convicted of DUI. Team president, John Elway suspended both of them, but he did not fire them. When asked why Tom Heckert and Matt Russell were not fired Elway replied, “Heck, I’ve made a lot of poor decisions too. I believe in second…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 24 views
Yusuf Alchagirov is an 80-year-old Russia shepherd. While picking raspberries in a field near the Russian border with Georgia he was confronted by a large bear. Yusuf and the bear had a tussle with the shepherd continually head butting the bear. Finally the bear tossed Alchagirov off a cliff. The shepherd…
Dan Hughes • Illustration • • 4 views
By Joshua Rhett Miller Published April 02, 2012 | FoxNews.com The end of the road is here for Rachel Veitch's beloved "Chariot." After 576,000 miles -- or more than a trip to the moon and back -- in the same 1964 Mercury Comet Caliente, the 93-year-old Orlando grandmother is stepping on the brakes due…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 8 views
I was talking this week to a discipleship student of mine. He gave his heart to Christ and became a full follower about a year and a half ago. We finished discipleship and now meet to discuss the Bible and any questions that he has. We, in fact hope to begin discipling someone else together very soon.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
P. J. O’Rourke is now living with the joys of raising a teenage daughter. Recently while she was complaining about life not being fair, O’Rourke said to her, “You’re cute. That’s not fair. You’re smart—that’s not fair. Your family’s well off—that’s not fair. You were born in the U.S.—that’s not fair.…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 3 views
And he wasn’t the first one. People do that all the time. You’ve probably tried to share Christ with a few of them. I still remember being out one day going door-to-door here in Wilson trying to witness. I ran into a couple of college students who actually took the time to talk to me. They were really…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 2 views
Yvonne Pointer was one of ten children born to "a wonderful mother and father," although she admits that she was the worst one of the kids. She was the girl who was always suspended, the one who wanted to try drugs, dropped out of school, and was pregnant at 16. She did everything my parents did not…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
The President’s recent visit to the homes of private individuals has a lot of people asking how they can get the attention of the President. John and Sandy Clubb of Beaverdale, Iowa received a presidential visit, and explained how it came about. They told reporters they got a phone call for White House…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
To get a Perfect Game, a pitcher must retire every batter he faces over nine innings with no hits, no walks, and no errors; 27 batters up and 27 outs. Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga had a perfect game in his hands June 2, 2010 until a bad call by an umpire took it away from him. On what should…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 9 views
I still remember hearing Bro. Bert Tippett preach a message on this passage of scripture many years ago now. Little did I know at the time that I would be privileged to have his son as my partner in ministry, nor did I know that I would be treated to a front row seat as this man of God showed all of…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 43 views
Tim Keller, pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian in Manhattan, shares the story of a woman in his congregation who was learning how the grace extended to us through Christ's work on the cross can actually be more challenging than religion. He writes: Some years ago I met with a woman who began coming to church…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 2 views
New York City’s oldest library says their ledgers show that if George Washington were alive today, he might owe a huge fine for overdue books. The library says Washington checked out the “Law of the Nations,” which deals with international relations, along with a volume containing transcripts of debates…
Mike Laurence • Illustration • • 8 views
Pandemic? Media coverage of the Swine Flu epidemic is about as extensive as fear of catching the disease, though cases worldwide are relatively few at this point and only beginning to present themselves. The media features images of pigs, shots of the Mexican military handing out surgical masks, empty…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Churches and businesses in Boise, Idaho plan to repeat an event from 2004 in which a nonprofit coalition teamed up to pay $7,500 in parking tickets, including one for a woman who cried as a pastor signed a check covering her $555 fine. They designed the event known as the Grace Gift parable to demonstrate…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
The government’s “Cash for Clunkers Program” means a lot of wasteful old vehicles will be taken off the roads. Sometimes these are cars with lots of miles, cracked glass, and mirrors held on with duct tape. There is another side of the story. All the cars that are traded in under the program must be…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 6 views
Were it not for God’s grace, we’d all be condemned to a life of sin. In the 1950s a psychologist, Stanton Samenow, and a psychiatrist, Samuel Yochelson, sharing the conventional wisdom that crime is caused by environment, set out to prove their point. They began a 17-year study involving thousands of…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Grace It would be presumptuous for me to think I could imagine what was going through Adam and Eve's minds as they stood over Abel's grave. After knowing innocence, in a way we've never known it, they felt the full weight of this terrible crime. In the same way a bright light is more intense in total…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
It may only be a turn of phrase, but Pittsburgh police Chief Nate Harper says surviving a tough year, and seeing a decrease in the number of murders in 2009 was due to good police work, and a little help from above. In an interview conducted at the beginning of the New Year, Chief Harper said the city…
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Charles Spurgeon and Joseph Parker both had churches in London in the 19th century. On one occasion, Parker commented on the poor condition of children admitted to Spurgeon's orphanage. It was reported to Spurgeon however, that Parker had criticized the orphanage itself. Spurgeon blasted Parker the next…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 1,541 views
Grace allows you to love God and do as you please. For when you love God, you will do as He pleases.—Augustine When Billy Graham was driving through a small southern town, he was stopped by a policeman and charged with speeding. Graham admitted his guilt, but was told by the officer that he would have…
Bradley Waldrop • Illustration • • 6 views
God’s love for us is like Teflon. Teflon is bonded to the material on which it is placed. Teflon protects and deflects danger. God’s love is so powerful that it has been added to us like Teflon to a frying pan.
Terry Cavanaugh • Illustration • • 2 views
Died At 64 of complications from diabetes, Jazz owner Larry Miller. A Salt Lake City car dealer, Miller bought the team in 1985 when it appeared the Jazz was on the verge of a move to Miami, and soon he became one of the NBA's more visible owners. "We can only wish that we leave this earth as gracefully…