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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 6 views • unknown
I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes. Romans 1:16 Recommend Reading Romans 10:8-13 The word "salvation" appears 162 times in the Bible (NKJV). In both the Old and the New Testaments, it conveys the idea of being saved from a terrible…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 56 views • unknown
Devotional by David Jeremiah
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 14 views • unknown
Devotional from David Jeremiah
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Two Canadian researchers are sending a robot hitchhiking across Canada in order to gauge people’s feeling about them. Dr. David Harris Smith and Dr. Faulke Zeller built a device they call the HitchBOT and are hoping drivers will help it travel the 4,000 miles across Canada. The robot is a collection…
Pastor Brad Berglund • Illustration • • 109 views
Background: This is an excerpt from an unpublished book by Brad Berglund. It explores the Christian adage: Wise men still seek him. What would it be like if modern seekers were with the wise men when they worshiped Jesus? Brought-Low was a troubled man with a troubled past. His foolish deeds in his youthful…
Wesley Crouch • Illustration • • 73 views
· Moses stuttered. · David's armor didn't fit. · John Mark was rejected by Paul. · Timothy had ulcers. · Hosea's wife was a prostitute. · Amos' only training was in the school of fig-tree pruning. · Jacob was a pathological liar. · David had an affair. · Solomon was too rich. · Abraham was too old. ·…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
In Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: Unleash A Revolution In Your Life in Christ, Peter Scazzero writes, “Two-thirds of the psalms are laments, complaints to God. God grieves in Genesis for having created humanity (see Genesis 6:6). David wrote poetry after the death of Saul and his best friend, Jonathan,…
David Krueger • Illustration • • 129 views
I recently read a moving story that David Jeremiah wrote about the founder of World Vision, the international Christian relief agency. Bob Pierce had advanced leukemia, but he went to visit a colleague in Indonesia before he died. As they were walking through a small village, they came upon a young girl…
Dan Hughes • Illustration • • 16 views
By John Blake, CNN President Barack Obama was sharing a pulpit one day with a conservative Christian leader when a revealing exchange took place. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, a conservative Christian who has taken public stands against abortion and same-sex marriage, had joined Obama for an AIDS summit.…
Illustration • • 650 views
A Aaron, ' = "light bringer" Aharown {a-har-one'} 1) brother of Moses, a Levite and the first high priest Aaron Aaron {ah-ar-ohn'}= "light-bringer" 1) the brother of Moses, the first high priest of Israel and head of the whole priestly order ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------…
Russell Huff • Illustration • • 69 views
Born Twice? Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh,…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 6 views
Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman….He never owned a home. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family. He never went to college. He never put His foot inside a big city. He never traveled two hundred miles from the place He was born….when…
Samuel Valencia • Illustration • • 16 views
Gratitude As a Way of Life In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 1 Thessalonians 5:18 Recommended Reading Ephesians 5:18-20 When the American pilgrims celebrated three days of thanksgiving in 1621 they were doing what came naturally for them: honoring God in…
Jeff Brown • Illustration • • 6 views
Mapping the Terrain—The Church’s Prophetic Voice When many people hear the word “prophetic,” their minds immediately conjure up an image of some sage describing in exact detail events which are to happen in the future. Although the prophets in Scripture certainly could forecast events yet to come, the…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 8 views
On March 29, 1948, people who lived near Niagara Falls awoke to an eerie silence. The 500,000 tons of water that flow over Niagara Falls every minute had stopped—and it didn't start again for 30 hours. Heavy winds had blown tons of ice into the mouth of the Niagara River from Lake Erie and stopped the…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 10 views
The Law Of The Pocket If no one has come up with this spiritual law before, I’ll call it Jeremiah’s Law of the Pocket and introduce it right now: “Personal possessions expand to fill the empty space in all available pockets.” As I use the pocket as a metaphor for our lives, see if you don’t agree. It…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 106 views
His Hands Are Re-Forming The Potter’s skillful hands re-form as well as form us. Remember the potter from Jeremiah 18. When he saw that the vessel seemed marred, he squeezed the clay into a new lump and started to re-form it. Sometimes we think we’re unusable and even unredeemable. We’ve done something…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 16,049 views
Four observations David Jeremiah After years of watching Christians miss opportunities God has set before them, though, I can offer four observations about why we don’t walk through God’s open doors. First, opportunities are often disguised as problems. It was the brilliant cartoon philosopher Pogo who…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 3 views
Pockets Something in the 1700s, pockets as we know them today came into being. But they are very different from an early form of pocket that was a small bag, hung from one’s belt or even around one’s neck. But… Problem: Pockets hanging from the belt were an easy target for thieves. Solution: Hang pockets…
Jarred Edgecombe • Illustration • • 23 views
.'Proverbs 4:1-10 A few years ago, I began collecting memorable thoughts and quotes. My regret is that I didn't start earlier. I'd be willing to trade my stashes of WD-40 and duct tape for those message outlines, good jokes, and countless facts I've heard and forgotten along the way. Recently, I pulled…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 6 views
As the French novelist Victor Hugo wrote, “There are moments when, whatever the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.” David Jeremiah, Signs of Life, p. 120
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 18 views
NEW YEAR ABC News anchor Peter Jennings said, "It's not possible to simply celebrate this New Year's Eve, there's also a need to reflect." —USA Today, Dec. 28, 2001, p. 1 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson There is a need to reflect this year. Certainly we need to reflect upon the events of 9-11 that Jennings…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 20 views
Witnessing The story is told of a soldier who lay dying and the preacher who came to attend to him. “Can I help you in any way?” the young preacher asked. “I’m cold,” snapped the dying man. In silence the minister took off his overcoat and spread it over him. The dying man glared at him awhile. “My neck…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 4 views
I don’t know if this has ever crossed your mind, but I remember when I first began to understand the Gospel for myself. I grew up with God’s truth, but when I was a teenager I wrestled with certain aspects of it. I remember struggling to comprehend how one person could die for every other single person…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 18 views
God’s love reaches out and grabs us at Calvary—and there is enough grace at Calvary to cover every single person who has ever lived, is living now, or will ever live. Jesus died for everyone. Puritan writer Richard Baxter used to say, “If God had said there was mercy for Richard Baxter, I am so vile…