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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 19 views • unknown
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 20 views
If some influential and powerful person should say to you, “I live to promote your interest. Wherever I go and whatever I do, whatever I seek and whatever I obtain, I live for you,” it would show great friendship, and excite in us great expectations. Would it not? Yet here is the Lord Jesus declaring…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Bill Scott spends hours on his ham radio every dy. He has a small black portable unit that he takes with him walks, vacations, and to social gatherings. Scott said he has heard check ins from every part of the world and even the International Space Station. When Scott got a call from one of his radio…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Paul O’Sullivan said one night he was randomly searching for people with the same name on a social media site. He sent friend requests to the people he found and most accepted. As they began seeing information from the other people, they discovered several of them were musicians, so they decided to form…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
When the Houston Texans and Kansas City Chiefs met in the NFL playoffs in January 2020, the game became an opportunity for the teams’ mascots to renew their friendship. Dan Meers has performed as the Chief’s mascot K.C. Wolf for 30 years. Over the years he made hundreds of appearances and gave many school…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
A friendship that brought together a family from Newfoundland and the Canary Island began with a message in a bottle and a tragic accident. Patrick Dennis originally found the bottle on the shore of Tenerife Island off the coast of Africa in 2002. He made an attempt to contact the 5-year-old girl from…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
On ABC’s television show “The Good Doctor” Dr. Shaun Murphy is a medical resident with Autism. Murphy is very smart and can see medical procedures in his mind before they ever begin. However, he does struggle with social interaction, struggling with how to deal with emotions. In season one Murphy made…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
In 1974, 11-year-old Tina Green slipped a note into an old bottle and threw it into Lake Michigan from the lighthouse at Old Mission. She was spending the summer with her grandparents and wondered who might find the treasure she put in the lake. 45 years later, Tina Green-Allera had forgotten about the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Samsung has released a new dating app that helps people find matches by looking at the insides of the person’s refrigerator. The Refrigerdating app designed for use with the company’s Family Hub Refrigerator allows singles to learn about potential mates based on what they keep inside the appliance. The…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Software engineer, Jackie Luo writing at Vox.com, shares the easiest way to make or lose friends. “What a lot of people don’t appear to understand is that the single easiest way to make friends is to show up when it matters — and the single easiest way to lose friends is to, well, not.” That may be an…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
A study conducted by Pew Research found only 31 percent of Americans say they know all or most of their neighbors. The number is slightly higher for those living in rural areas where 40% say they know the majority of their neighbors. Since rural people tend to live further from their neighbors, one insight…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
The chef for the Norwegian Olympic Team said he had to work hard to come up with things he could make with eggs after the team made a typo in their food order. Chef Tore Ovrebo said the eggs were more a misunderstanding than something they needed because of 1,500, they ordered 15,000. Ovrebo said the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
A Massachusetts woman has a new outlook on life after receiving a kidney donation from a complete stranger. Nicole Baltzer had never imagined being a living donor before she read a story about a single mother with Lupus who needed a new kidney to survive. Baltzer said when she read about the other woman;…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine studying 1,787 adults ages 19 to 32 discovered a connection between time spent on social media and loneliness. Users who spend more than two hours daily on sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram are more than twice as likely…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Delta Airlines is testing a kiosk that scans the faces of passengers when they check their baggage. The machine allows passengers to bypass check-in agents because it matches the scanned picture with the image on their passports. The airline said the machines could allow them to move twice as many passengers…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
When Houston police officers reached the scene of Miguel Chavez duct-taped to a yield sign, they almost used a tazer on another man who approached the scene with a knife. The man with the knife, told the officers that was trying to help his friend, who was in this predicament due to losing a bet over…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
In his book Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God, Timothy Keller says, “The famous statement of Jesus to the church in Laodicea—“ Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me” (Rev 3: 20)—is often…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Six-year-old Bridger Walker of Cheyenne, Wyoming, his sister, and a friend went into the friend’s backyard to play. The friend explained there was one “nice” dog and a “mean” dog in the yard. The “mean” dog ran at the children. According to Bridger’s account “I stepped to the side, in front of my sister…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Jeff Gebhart, 47, of Kansas City has offered to pay anyone who can find him a girlfriend a bonus. She must take a survey, no word as to what is in the survey that Jeff approves. She must agree to date him exclusively for one year. And what would that recommending person receive from Jeff? $25,000 is…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Chris Mazdzer won a silver medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics. His medal was in the luge competition and is the first luge medal for an American man in the history of the Olympic Games. Before the Games, Mazdzer’s world ranking was sliding as he was struggling in some kind of rut. Just a few weeks before…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 48 views
Would you agree that a lot of people ask how people how they are doing, but really don’t want to know the answer? Emily Cummins recommends using body language to show that you really care when you ask someone how he/she is doing. Building meaningful relationships takes time, investment, and intentionality.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
A new scientific study shows how much sleep people need and how the brain suffers with too little or too much sleep. The study focused on real life conditions in participants’ lives for a three-day-period. Analyzing the data from 132,000 nights of sleep found the idea amount of sleep is between 7 and…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 36 views
When Warren Haynes was twelve years old, his 70-year-old neighbor Connie Roberts invited him have breakfast with her, followed by going to Sunday School at her local church. Haynes accepted her invitation and began a long-time friendship with her, and a lifelong friendship with Jesus Christ. Discipleship…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
An article on loneliness in USA Today gives the following prescription for overcoming persistent loneliness. “Pick up the phone and call someone. Go outside and take a walk. Spend more time interacting with others in person vs. on social media. There is no one answer — it can be complicated to address…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
In an effort to allow a greater range of responses, Facebook has added new emojis for users in some countries to use. In Ireland and Spain, users can now use a throbbing heart for “love,” a fuming face for “anger,” a teary-eyed “Sad,” and others. Facebook calls the new symbols “Reactions” and modeled…