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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 9 views
Reasons to Assemble Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. Hebrews 10:25 Recommended Reading Acts2:42-47 It is said that one Sunday, King Louis XIV of France arrived at his chapel for…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
How much time do you spend connected to the Internet? When the Pew Research Center researched this issue, they found that 44% of American adults, aged 18-49 years old are almost always online. -- https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/03/26/about-three-in-ten-u-s-adults-say-they-are-almost-constantly-online/.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
In his book, Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It, Brian Dumaine writes, “Counterfeiting has gotten so bad that for the first time in its 2018 financial filings, Amazon mentioned that it had become a significant issue on its site.” --Bezonomics,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Dr. Carolina Osorio, a psychiatrist at Loma Linda Behavioral Health Institute, says, “Loneliness can be toxic to the body. We see this in our elderly patients, but we know it can impact anyone who is disconnected from the people around them.” https://news.llu.edu/health-wellness/dealing-with-mental-health-impact-of-social-distancing…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
MENTORING Discipleship needs the kind patterning that can only happen in healthy and authentic Christian relationships. Jim Wilder wisely observes, “Who we love has far more impact on character than what we believe.” — Jim Wilson and Jon R. Pennington --Jim Wilder, Renovated: God, Dallas Willard, and…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
During a resurgence of the pandemic after Christmas 2020, an Oregon insurance organization encouraged weary health care workers and supported local restaurants at the same time. The insurance fund SAIF used a wellness grant to fund hot, individually wrapped meals from some of the city’s favorite restaurants…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Lifeway conducted a survey about gratitude a few years ago. Despite recent cultural shifts, most Americans are still thankful to God for their many blessings. Shockingly, 14% of those along northeastern coast were grateful ultimately to themselves. Nationwide, however, even 25% of “those with no religious…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
In his book Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God, Timothy Keller says, “It is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul’s prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances.” — Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God by Timothy Keller, p. 19-20 1 Thessalonians…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
ENCOURAGEMENT Delta Airlines posted a photo of a note left in one of its aircraft by the pilot who dropped it off for storage a year earlier. The airline said, when First officer Chris Dennis took the plane to Victorville, California for storage, he had heard rumors of a two-week shutdown. He left a…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Maike Luhmann, a psychologist at the University of Cologne in Germany says, “As long as we then do what we should do — reconnect with people — then loneliness is a good thing. It signals that we need to do something about our social connections. This is a sign from our psychological systems that there’s…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Public schools in San Diego have instituted new “equitable grading practices,” with grades no longer affected by homework, tests, attendance or other “factors that directly measure students’ knowledge.” District official Richard Barrera explained, “If we’re actually going to be an antiracist school district,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Psychology researchers Melissa Cyders, Christiana Prestigiacomo, and Melissa Liu polled 500 Americans to see how they were coping with the COVID-19 pandemic and commented on the most effective ways people are coping with the pandemic. “The most effective coping strategies included problem-solving, exercising,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Bob Bement has enjoyed working with wood for a long time. He has made toys, shelves, and more. During the coronavirus pandemic, Bement focused on chairs, especially small chairs that could be used by children. He learned about the need when he decided to donate a couple of small chairs to a nearby women’s…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Based on a recent decision by Illinois’ Governor Pritzker, which remarkably Mayor Lightfoot verbally opposed, indoor restaurant service is again being suspended in the city of Chicago as a way of attempting to combat the deteriorating Coronavirus statistics. Many of the restaurants which are still open,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
When people watch an episode of America’s Funniest Home Videos, in general they have some idea of what to expect. There will certainly be lots of falling, people doing things ridiculous things, and many cute animal videos. Some of the segments will spark laughter, and others will elicit groans of mental…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 15 views
In 1947 the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists from Chicago began sounding an alarm about the amount of time the world has left on their representative 24-hour “Doomsday Clock.” In January of 2020 they changed their estimate of the time left from using minutes as the measurement to seconds. Mary Robinson,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Manuel Torres was fired from his job with the Lee County Sheriff’s Department because he refused to be alone with a woman who was not his wife—in this case, a female deputy who his superiors ordered him to train. –Jim L. Wilson https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/08/22/court-will-decide-if-sheriffs-deputy-can-be-fired-refusing-work-alone-with-woman/…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Craig Smith has a passion for movies, and a recent feature on a nationwide has helped him live out a true movie-type happy ending. Smith used a big portion of his savings to renovate a former firehouse into a two-screen movie theater, which is the only theater in Kingston, Washington. Smith found running…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
When someone stole a brand new $3500 air conditioner from Akron Alliance Fellowship Church in Akron Ohio, church officials posted "Whoever stole our AC Unit: Keep it. It's hot where you're going" on their marquee sign. When interviewed about the sign, Pastor Gus Brown, told reporters "Staying on this…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Apparently, in some states in the USA, it is still illegal to engage in unmarried sex . . . or fornication. The democratic led Virginia State Legislature recently repealed the “crime of fornication” in their state, a legal loophole still on the books that states only married couples could have sex. Currently…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
In Peter Jackson’s rendition of Tolkien’s, The Hobbit, one of the early scenes gives a homey picture of life. Bilbo Baggins, a middle-aged bachelor hobbit, sits down alone one evening at his table in his comfortable home of Bag End. Bilbo loves all trappings of his agrarian civilization. His well-appointed…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 120 views
“When Donald Nicholl was dying of cancer he quoted the words of a Russian poet, that gratitude (if not the highest) is the purest form of love, for when you are full of gratitude there is no room for anything else—recrimination or desire for revenge or self-pity. He began to record his gratitude for…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
I am not sure how it all began, but in recent years there has been a sharp rise in the use of “Emotional Support Animals.” Individuals suffering from all kinds of emotional and psychological ailments, find comfort and relief from stress and anxiety in owning companionship animals of various kinds. It…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Dr. Joshua Brown, a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Indiana University and his colleague, Dr. Joel Wong, an associate professor of counseling psychology at Indiana University set out to answer one question. How can they help clients derive the greatest possible benefit from treatment…