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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
A winter storm that stranded a group of soldiers became an opportunity for an Oklahoma community to show kindness. Hundreds of soldiers returning from holiday break were stuck at the Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City because the road to their base in Lawton, 80 miles away, was impassible. When…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
An Illinois serviceman trying to get home for Memorial Day was finally able to get home to see his family thanks to the help of a stranger. Keaton Tilson was given leave at the last minute and got stuck in Dallas trying to fly stand-by to get home in time for Memorial Day. When Josh Rainey heard Tilson’s…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 2 views
When members of the YouTube comedy group, Whatever, met a Czech national named Jaroslav in New York City, they knew they needed to do more than include him in a film. Jaroslav didn’t speak much English, but explained that he had come to the United States a few months earlier in hopes of finding work.…
Illustration • • 18 views
All We Have, All We Need Jesus we all have; He is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence! -- Vance Havner, Leadership, Vol. 3, no. 3.
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 9 views
It was my freshman year in college. It was Christmas 1977. I was at FWBBC in Nashville Tn, and my family lived near Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. With the speed limit at 55, that meant it took about 18 hours to drive home. And there was one more problem: I didn’t have a car. That meant I had to hitch a ride. I…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 33 views
By college, Michelle [Akers] had become an All-American soccer star, earning ESPN's woman athlete of the year in 1985—the same year the United States formed its first women's national team, with Michelle a starter. 3. In 1991 the U.S. team won the first-ever Women's World Cup and Michelle scored 10 goals…
SteveF • Illustration • • 469 views
A Three-starnd Cord Matthew 18:15-20 A cord of three strands is not quickly broken (Ecclesiastes 4:9-12). That makes sense, doesn’t it? We have probably all at one time braided three strands of something together and then been amazed at the strength that it took to separate them. It is the principle…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 26 views
HUMOR FOR LEXOPHILES (LOVERS OF WORDS): I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me. Police were called to a day care where a 3-yr-old was resisting a rest. Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now. The roundest knight at King Arthur's round…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 100 views
RELATIONSHIPS Twenty-four year old Sky was a creative, artistic, intelligent thinker who majored in photography at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He had an introverted personality, and was wearing a polyester retro-artist suit, sporting extended sideburns when he was introduced at Graceland…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4,531 views
PROVIDENCE Cooling down after practice, Daniel had taken one last dive and his neck struck the bottom of the concrete pool. Daniel sustained damage to C-3, C-4, and C-5 vertebrae of his spine. Two fusion operations followed and the surgeon was successful in preventing paralysis, but Daniel's parents…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 46 views
parables, etc. ".. . he did not speak to them without a parable" Jesus Mark 4:34 R.S.V. monthly resource letter for pastors/teachers/speakers Volume 6, Number 3 May / 1986 HOPE Several years ago a school teacher assigned to visit children in a large city hospital received a routine call requesting that…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 31 views
parables, etc. ". . . he did not speak to them without a parable" Jesus Mark 4:34 R.S.V. - a monthly resource letter for pastors/teachers/speakers Volume 6, Number 10 December / 1986 SEASON'S GREETINGS- The church choir director was being driven out of his mind at the rehearsals for the Christmas Choral…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 25,209 views
My reflections {Geo Knox},usually weekly, will focus on the Lord's Supper with occasional comments on other topics, such as books I am reading, or thoughts inspired by something I have read. HOW MUCH DID JESUS WEIGH? How much do you think Jesus weighed? I imagine him as being about 5' 10" and maybe 142…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 27 views
parables, etc. ". . . he did not speak to them without a parable" Jesus Mark 4:34 R.S.V. a monthly resource letter for pastors/teachers/speakers Volume 6, Number 11 January / 1987 THINGS THAT CHANGE US FOR GOOD At a recent preaching seminar I heard Ian Pitt-Wattson tell the following true story which…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 31 views
the pastor's story file a resource file for pastors/teachers/speakers THEME: Angels March / 1987 "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." Hebrews 13:2 IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE ANGELS Have you ever seen an angel? Dr. S. W. Mitchell thought he had. Dr.…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 10 views
XFS3O the pastor's story file a resource file for pastors/teachers/speakers THEME: Mother Number 19 — May / 1986 MOTHER I think it was a girlish hand, Unlined, well-tended, when it held At first, my clinging baby hand In gentle grasps by love impelled. I think it was a youthful face That bent above me…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 55 views
the pastor's story file a resource file for pastors/teachers/speakers THEME: Easter/Resurrection April / 1987 READY FOR RESURRECTION MORNING A true story is told about a distinguished man, the only white person buried in a Georgia cemetery reserved exclusively for blacks. He had lost his mother when…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 46 views
JF-3S-/ the pastor's story file a resource file for pastors/teachers/speakers THEME: COMMUNICATION Number 4 — February / 1985 EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION STRATEGY As the mother said goodbye to her son who was returning to school after spring vacation, she reminded him to write often. Another woman standing…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 95 views
the pastor's story file a resource file for pastors/teachers/speakers THEME: Forgiveness — II Number 18 — April / 1986 WORDS ON AN EPITAPH As Copernicus, the great astronomer, was dying, a copy of his great book, The Revolution of the Heavenly Bodies, was placed in his hands. But it was not his brilliant…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 19 views
If-468 the pastor's story file a resource file for pastors/ teachers/speakers THEME: GIFTS, UNIQUENESS Number 12 — October / 1985 ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE They may not sparkle, shine or glitter; They may not even be well-dressed; They may be shy and be disabled, But for His purpose they are blessed.…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 29 views
the pastor's story file a resource file for pastors/teachers/speakers THEME: Hope September / 1988 Volume 4, Number 11 HOW IT WORKS Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards…
Chad Oltman • Illustration • • 75 views
Lechem - Bread by Josa Bivin1 "For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world." John 6:33 When Richard and Lucinda (our volunteer workers) first came to Israel, they noticed plastic sacks containing pieces of bread hanging from the sides of the trash containers…
joe • Illustration • • 184 views
MOODY'S ANECDOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. RELATED IN HIS REVIVAL WORK BY THE GREAT EVANGELIST DWIGHT L. MOODY. FULLY ILLUSTRATED FROM GUSTAVE DORE REVISED EDITION. EDITED BY REV. J. B. McClure. CHICAGO: Rhodes & McClure Publishing Co. 1899 Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1896 by the Rhodes…
Illustration • • 47 views
The Project Gutenberg EBook of On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin #3 in our series by Charles Darwin Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook. This header…
WillEarl • Illustration • • 442 views
able border=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing: 1.5pt'> ! The Two Babylons or The Papal Worship Proved to be the Worship of Nimrod and His Wife By the Late Rev. Alexander Hislop First published as a pamphlet in 1853--greatly expanded in 1858 Contents Introduction Chapter…