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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 10 views • unknown
From: Jim Meigs from FBC, Center Point, Alabama
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 14 views
I once saw a colonel shooting at a target. There were two targets near each other, and he hit the center of one of them. The attendant called out, “Which target was that gentleman shooting at?” “The one on the left,” was the answer. “I thought so,” said the man, “for he hit the one on the right.” There…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 11 views • unknown
5/2/2004 A 70-year-old grandfather was asked by his young grandson how things have changed since he was a kid. His reply is worth reading. "Well, let me think a minute. I was born before television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, Xerox, contact lenses, Frisbees and the pill. There weren't things…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 24 views
There is the story of a preacher who got up one Sunday and announced to his congregation: I have good news and bad news. The good news is, we have enough money to pay for our new building program. The bad news is, it's still in your pockets. ------------------------------------------------- While driving…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 22 views
He who stands in the thickest part of the battle shall have the highest glory at last. The old warriors would not stand and skirmish a little on the outside of the army, but would say, “To the center, men! To the center!” And they cut through thick and thin until they reached the place where the standard…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 6 views
You may have seen a room hung round with mirrors, and when you stood in the midst you were reflected from every point. You were seen here, and seen there, and there again, and there again, and so every part of you was reflected. Just such is heaven: Jesus is the center, and all His saints like mirrors…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 18 views
In the center of my lawn, horseradish will sprout up. After the smallest shower of rain, it rises above the grass and proclaims its vitality. There was a garden there once, and this root maintains its old position. When the gardener cuts it down, it resolves to rise again. Now, if the gardener cannot…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 231 views • unknown
THE STORY I was born in 1725, and I died 1807. The only godly influence in my life, as far back as I can remember, was my mother, whom I had for only seven years. When she left my life through death, I was virtually an orphan. My father remarried, sent me to a strict military school, where the severity…
Jonathan Perez • Growth Track 3 (know your mission) • Illustration • • 8 views • 1:02:29
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
The tree selected to stand in New York’s Rockefeller Center for the 2020 Christmas season came with an unexpected guest. An employee of the company that secured and transported the tree spotted a little owl in the tree. He put it in a box and called his wife, who checked with a local wildlife center.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
The more we learn about our universe, the bigger we recognize it to be. Our Earth, once thought to be the center of the solar system, has become only a particle of dust in the great scheme of things. It’s a middling satellite of an insignificant star on an arm of a massive spiral inside a galaxy that’s…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Maga Denes, a psychiatrist who survived the holocaust says that Nazis forced her brother into the Danube River and then executed him. She describes the scene in an abortion clinic with the same force she saw in the killing fields of WW II. “I have seen brains spilled on sidewalks and crushed forever…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
A Boy Scout troop from Texas is helping residents of an assisted living center get closer to their visitors by providing a “hug booth.” The center in Webster, Texas had imposed strict safety measures to protect residents from coronavirus and the local troop 848 built a booth to meet the specifications…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
In the book, The God Who Knows Your Name Max Lucado writes, “On a trip to the United Kingdom, our family visited a castle. In the center of the garden sat a maze. Row after row of shoulder-high hedges, leading to one dead end after another. Successfully navigate the labyrinth and discover the door to…
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
Joel Salinas, MD, the Lulu P. and David J. Levidow Assistant Professor of Neurology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and member of the Department of Neurology’s Center for Cognitive Neurology says, “But today, right now, you can ask yourself if you truly have someone available to listen to you in a…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Painstakingly centered on the bricks of the entry into a parking garage in a Maldon, England are the words “NO ENRY.” The craftsman left out the “T” of the word entry. The Maldon District Council said the error would soon be corrected, but added, "If you're having a bad day... just know that someone…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Waste collection workers in Ohio were able to find and return $25,000 cash that a family accidentally threw away while helping their grandmother clean her home. Officials said they got a call from the family when they realized the money had accidentally been thrown in the trash just before the truck…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
A visitor at a Russian shopping center captured video of a sparrow that had found its way into a store and inside the deli case. The video, recorded at the Lenta shopping center in Tyumen, shows the bird sampling several of the salads and other foods inside the case. The bird seemed oblivious to anything…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Communities across the United Kingdom are being invited to adopt the famous red telephones boxes. British Telecommunications has initiated a program to convince local communities to adopt and use local red telephone boxes that are no longer needed. The growth in mobile phone usage has rendered the boxes…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
A crew assisting with the demolition of a 115- year- old church to make way for affordable housing found a previously unknown time capsule hidden by the cornerstone. The company Earthwise Architectural Salvage was removing stained glass windows and other valuable items before the structure was brought…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
For decades, astronomers have theorized that the center of galaxies, including our own, are filled with black holes. The gravity from these collapsed stars is so strong that even light cannot escape. Using x-ray observations, astronomers have found signs of a least a dozen black holes in the inner parts…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
One out of four Americans between 18 and 24 said they had considered suicide during the pandemic, according to a survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among respondents of all ages, 40 percent reported suffering from mental or behavioral health issues related to the pandemic, including…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Federal officials announced that a thirty-five-year effort to help the Interior Least Tern has brought the bird back from the brink of extinction. The bird survived a craze for its plumage early in the 20th century, and dam building projects along key river habitat during the mid and later part of the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Seattle residents knew Alan Naiman for his thriftiness. He patched his shoes with duct tape, buying food at the end of the day at the supermarket, and taking his friends to lunch at fast-food restaurants. Friends said Naiman was not married and had no children. Though he was intensely private, he stockpiled…