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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 8 views
Monday, August 20, 2007 FOOTBALL QUOTES Subject: FOOTBALL PHILOSOPHY At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any." Erik Russell / Georgia Southern. "Football is only a game. Spiritual things are eternal. Nevertheless, Beat Texas." Seen on a church sign in Arkansas prior…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 49 views
The Moravian missionaries to Greenland thought they should first instruct the Greenlanders in the doctrine of the Trinity. So they preached away to them of the Godhead, but the Greenlanders did not care about it. One of them, while interpreting the third chapter of John, came across that blessed passage,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
In, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, Malcolm Gladwell writes, “. . .what actually matters are the hundreds of small things that the powerful do— or don’t do— to establish their legitimacy.” —Jim L. Wilson --David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 20 views
In, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, Malcolm Gladwell writes, “There’s no possibility of being pessimistic when people are dependent on you for their only optimism.” —Jim L. Wilson -- David and Goliath: Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, Kindle Loc 1537 Psalm…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 54 views
In, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, Malcolm Gladwell writes, “Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when the tough times start. Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough times and you discover they aren’t so tough…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 47 views
In Facing Your Giants, Max Lucado writes, “How long since you ran toward your challenge? We tend to retreat behind a desk of work or crawl into a nightclub of distraction or a bed of forbidden love. For a moment, a day, or a year, we feel safe, insulated, anesthetized, but then the work runs out, the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Entrepreneur Michael Gerbitz is working to overcoming terror and boycotts by offering a simple product everyone consumes--water. Gerbitz recently began marketing a new mineral water from Israel as part of a plan to support Israel and help victims of terror. He says the new product offers supporters of…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 34 views
God's Will Does knowing God's will impact what you do and don't do? There are some things that we know are God's will. We know God wants us to read our Bible, pray and attend Church. I don't have to pray about whether I should love my wife today or provide for my Children. Other things require a search…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 43 views
Possibilities “Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,” (Ephes. 3:20 NASB) In his book, Your God is Too Small, J. B. Phillips writes, “There are, for example, those who are considerably worried by the thought of God…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 25 views
Faith & Football "Wilson," Coach McCord would say, "lead us in prayer." It happened almost every game. Coach would finish his last minute pep talk then call on me to lead in prayer before we went out on the field to lose the game. (We were the absolute worst football team in the state of Texas.) I'd…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Job Driving up Hwy 1 from the hospital back to the office today, the sheer beauty of God's creation startled me. To the right, was the forested area of Monterey to the left was an amazing view of the Bay. For a split second, I didn't know whether to look to the left or the right. Finally, I decided to…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Accountability King David was a man of great contradictions. He was a hard working man who was equally comfortable playing a musical instrument or fighting in a war. He was a tender-hearted poet, with musical talents that could soothe the souls of his listeners. He was a "man after God's own heart"--…
Jarred Edgecombe • Illustration • • 24 views
Archeological finds back Biblical-tales HAZOR, Israel - A string of recent archeological discoveries have provided the first hard evidence for a number of Biblical figures and events, many of which had been widely dismissed as myths and moral tales. Individually, the discoveries are important. Together,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 75 views
GOD’S POWER In his book, Your God is Too Small, J. B. Phillips writes, “There are, for example, those who are considerably worried by the thought of God simultaneously hearing and answering the prayers and aspirations of people all over the world. That may be because their mental picture is of a harassed…
Michael McDonald • Illustration • • 16 views
New Life After the Shootings On December 9, 2007, a gunman entered New Life Church in Colorado Springs and started shooting. Here's what happened that day and in the days since. an interview with Brady Boyd by Phil and Pam Brown On Sunday morning Matthew Murray arrived at New Life Church in Colorado…
Stephen N. Rummage • Illustration • • 32 views
This secret has fueled the lives of God's workers on every generation. Thomas a Kempis, the medieval German monk, wrote, "O Lord, let that which seems naturally impossible to me become possible through Your grace." Commentator Matthew Henry said, "In all conflicts, let us remember that with God nothing…
Robert Long • Illustration • • 3,075 views
Chapter 5 4990 B.C. The Flood–1877 B.C. Joseph 148 Six thousand years had passed since the year of creation. Mankind had slowly multiplied on the earth. Because man had been created with a perfect body, he began with no inherent birth defects. Therefore, the Bible discloses that during this period of…
Calvin Habig • Illustration • • 5,921 views
At offering time introduce Highlights hidden picture What is the point? Sometimes the thing we are looking for is right in front of our faces. That was certainly the case in Acts 12. Back in Acts 7 we saw the first Christian martyr, Stephen. And then in Acts 8 & 9 we saw that a great persecution arose…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 5 views
| Laughter,the Best Medicine | At a boat-rental concession, the manager went to the lake's edge and yelled through his megaphone, "Number ninety-nine, come in, please. Your time is up." Several minutes passed, but the boat didn't return. "Boat number ninety-nine," he again hollered, "return to the…
Chad Oltman • Illustration • • 101 views
Changing Culture- Tim Keller Some seem to have risen to the challenge of effective ministry in a changing culture. Who can we learn from? I am actually a bit reluctant to lift anyone up high as a shining example—including Redeemer Presbyterian. Let me put it like this: John Stott at All Souls Church…
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…
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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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------…