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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 22 views
The greatest evangelist of the Twentieth Century, without question, was Billy Graham. The greatest evangelist before him of the Nineteenth Century undoubtedly was Dwight L. Moody. Both shared a common trait. They were criticized because of a particular subject they preached about. When Billy Graham was…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Toyota admitted that they made some misleading statements about unintended acceleration. The federal judge ordered the company to pay $1.2 billion federal fine for the settlement of the criminal investigation. The amount is the largest penalty for an automotive company, and the judge put the company…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 18 views
Amsterdam has such a big problem with bicycles being thrown into the city’s canals that it is a full time job fishing them out to redeem them. Every day a crew patrols the canals in a boat with a large claw attached. They dredge the bottom of the canal pulling in the bikes and other items that wind up…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
In 1967, Manhattan lawyer Ivan Schneider brought a Jaguar XKE convertible. Schneider says that car was one of the first and best looking luxury cars he ever owned, and it also the only one to be stolen. The car disappeared in March, 1968 and did not resurface until a routine export report check through…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Chuck and Elicia James decided it was time for their daughter to have a dog. Their beloved Reckless had disappeared over a year and a half ago during Hurricane Sandy. The whole family had been heartbroken. “It was like losing a family member,” commented Chuck. For their daughter’s 10th birthday they…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
There are a lot of ways to be saved, but there is only one way to salvation. Amy Stiner, 37, of Machias, Maine, who was five months pregnant, and her friend Melissa Moyer, 38, of Sunbury, Pa., became lost while hiking. The Maine Warden Service rescued them and returned them to their vehicle which they…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
After a stampede at an Ohio concert killed 11 people, a December, 1979 appearance by the rock group, The Who in Rhode Island was cancelled. 17-year-old Emery Lucier was so upset when he heard the news that he knocked over a chair in his high school classroom. Now 50, Lucier will have the opportunity…
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Sin may seem like a small pothole to you, but it creates a vast canyon between you and God. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell once said, “We have to start thinking of America as a family. We have to stop screeching at each other, stop hurting each other, and instead start caring for, sacrificing…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 154 views
Christ sacrificed His earthly life for your eternal salvation. There once was a story about a little boy who built a sailboat. He had it all fixed up, tarred and painted. He took it to the lake and pushed it in hoping it would sail. Sure enough a wisp of breeze filled the little sail and it billowed…
Andrew H. Rogers • Illustration • • 63 views
It was almost 1:00 in the morning when the phone rang. Dr. Leo Winters, the highly acclaimed Chicago surgeon, was abruptly awakened. There had been an accident and his skill hands were needed for immediate surgery. The quickest route happened to be through a rather tough area, but with time being a critical…
Michael McDonald • Illustration • • 16 views
New Life After the Shootings On December 9, 2007, a gunman entered New Life Church in Colorado Springs and started shooting. Here's what happened that day and in the days since. an interview with Brady Boyd by Phil and Pam Brown On Sunday morning Matthew Murray arrived at New Life Church in Colorado…
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Scientists are planning a ground-breaking research project to create synthetic human blood from embryonic stem cells. The results could provide an unlimited supply of blood for emergency transfusions, free of the risk of infection, it is being reported. The three-year project will be led by the Scottish…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Fifty years after he was named evil incarnate and 30 years after his death, Walter O’Malley’s private papers reveal that Brooklyn Dodger fans have been blaming the wrong man for their beloved team’s departure to Los Angeles. Fans accused Dodger owner O’Malley of being a traitor to his hometown of Brooklyn…
John Palmer • Illustration • • 88 views
man pardoned by then-Gov. Edwin Edwards after serving six years of a life sentence for his role in the 1973 killing of a Baton Rouge drugstore owner said Thursday he will appeal a state judge’s refusal to erase the murder conviction from his record. Forest Hammond said he first will file a motion asking…
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Archbishop Bishop Desomd Tutu has always said it like this: "I am simpky living out the victory God has already won."
Timothy C. Seal • Illustration • • 5 views
Background, Importance of “What is the background of the passage, the context of the verse in question? If you are dealing with Joshua and the battle of Jericho in Joshua 6, it will make a great deal of difference if you understand what blowing the shofarim meant when they blew those ram’s horns and…
Rick Balmer • Illustration • • 9 views
Come to the cross that stills stands And look at a gift given to you He died with a back covered in bands Through heavens gate he will allow you Come all to the standing cross A symbol of sin that is broken He gave us all a bridge to cross All this in the past was spoken Now come all to an empty grave…
Thomas Bevers • Illustration • • 5 views
In May 1924, a shocked nation learned two young men from Chicago, Richard Leopold and Nathan Loeb, had killed 14-year-old Bobbie Franks. What made the crime so shocking, and made Leopold and Loeb household names, was the reason for the killing. The two became obsessed with the idea of committing the…
Harry Swayne • Illustration • • 870 views
Pushing the Goat over the Cliff The background of redemption goes all the way back to ancient Israel as the nation observed the Day of Atonement, the most solemn day of the year, in which the high priest would offer atonement for the people’s sins for another year. According to Leviticus 16:8–26, the…
Justin Wood • Illustration • • 6 views
A missionary to Brazil served a native tribe in a remote part of the jungle. A contagious disease was ravaging the population. The missionary determined that the only hope was to take the tribe to a hospital in another part of the jungle for treatment. In order to reach the hospital it was necessary…
Stephen Hustedde • Illustration • • 23 views
Ephesians 1:7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace, (NASB) It doesn’t say out of His riches, but according to His riches. If Bill Gates were to leave a $5 tip for a waitress for a $25 meal, he would give out of his riches.…
Robby Roberson • Illustration • • 125 views
“Charles Finney was preaching in a great revival in Detroit. After the service one night a man said, ‘I want you to go home with me, Mr. Finney.’ Some who knew the man said to Finney, do not go.’ But he went. When they came to the man’s house, the man walked in last, locked the door and pulled a revolver…
Matthew Martin • Illustration • • 8 views
It is interesting to me the timing of God forbidding Adam & Eve to eat of the tree of life. It appears that up until their sin, they had access to this tree--the only exception placed on them was not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good & evil (see 2.16-17). In that way, I wonder if it isn't possible…
Robby Roberson • Illustration • • 46 views
Do You Want a Donut? There was a boy by the name of Steve who was attending Seminary in Utah. In Utah, Seminary classes are held as optional release-time curriculum. Brother Christianson taught Seminary at this particular school. He had an open-door policy and would take in any student that had been…
Stephen Hustedde • Illustration • • 8 views
Ephesians 1:7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace, (NASB) It doesn’t say out of His riches, but according to His riches. If Bill Gates were to leave a $5 tip for a waitress for a $25 meal, he would give out of his riches.…