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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 6 views
After reviewing acknowledgments of God from all 50 state constitutions, one is faced with the prospect that maybe, just maybe, the ACLU and the out-of-control federal courts are wrong!
"Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." - William Penn
Poetry
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 10 views • unknown
Our American Birthright One nation under God was their cry and declaration, Upon the law of Nature’s God they built a mighty Nation. For Unlike Mankind before them who had walked this earthen sod, These men would never question the Sovereignty of God. That all men were “created was a truth “self-evident,”…
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 9 views
One nation under God was their cry and declaration, Upon the law of Nature’s God they built a mighty Nation. For Unlike Mankind before them who had walked this earthen sod, These men would never question the Sovereignty of God. That all men were “created was a truth “self-evident,” To secure the rights…
Illustrations
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…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 8 views
I have read that, when the people of the State of Massachusetts wanted a set of laws, and they had not time to make them just then, they passed a resolution that they would be governed by the laws of God until they had time to make better ones. We may believe the doctrines revealed in the Word of God…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 26 views
If a hungry person were at your door and asked for bread, you would give it to him, whatever might be his character. You will also give your child food, whatever may be his behavior. You will not deny your child anything that is necessary for life; you will never proceed in any course of discipline against…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 37 views
In the night skies there had long been observed bright masses of light. The astronomers supposed them to be stores of unfashioned chaotic matter—until William Herschel’s telescope resolved them into distinct stars. What the telescope did for stars, the religion of Christ, when received into the heart,…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 38 views
An Englishman may happen to be in Spain—he wishes a thousand things were different from what they are, but he does not trouble himself much about them. He says, “If I were a Spaniard I would see what I could do to alter this government. But, being an Englishman, let the Spaniards see to their own matters.…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 32 views
Many years ago a captain was sent out in one of the government ships, the Thetis, to discover a shoal, a rock, or some other obstruction said to exist in the Mediterranean Sea. The captain was an old salt who knew little about navigation as a science and cared less for rules, books, theories, and so…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Authorities in Switzerland have announced plans to end the nation’s emergency stockpiling of coffee which has been in place for decades. Swiss land currently requires importers, roasters, and retailers to store bags of coffee beans in case of emergency. The system of emergency reserves was established…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Voters in the northwestern German town of Hilgermissen rejected the local council’s plan to name the streets of the city. The referendum failed by a margin of 60 percent to 40 percent. The council had proposed the change to make it easier to find their way around the municipality. 2200 people in the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Bruce Lorenz is believed to the North Dakota’s oldest mayor, and has been reelected to another term by a unanimous vote. Lorenz is 86 years old, and estimates that he has been mayor of the small town of Ruso for about 30 years. He admitted that he forgot about Election Day until his daughter reminded…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Dull, Scotland and Boring, Oregon are two communities united by unexciting names, have now joined with a third community Bland Shire, Australia as sister communities. Dull and Boring became sister communities in 2012 and then hosted the mayor of the region of Bland Shire to celebrate the third member…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Air Force veteran Bruce Rideout, 79, received a check from the U.S. Treasury. He doesn’t know why he received it and isn’t sure what to do with it. He doesn’t want to cash it, not because he is afraid that at some point the government will want it back, but because it is for only 2 cents. He has decided…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
The Chinese government is requiring all recipients of government payments to give up their worship of God. “The participants were ordered to remove crosses, religious symbols and images from the homes of people of faith who receive social welfare payments and replace them with portraits of Chairman Mao…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
One hundred and forty nine passengers were preparing to fly to London, when French authorities ordered the seizing of their jet. The jet, owned by Ryanair, was released because the company had ignored attempts to get them to repay funds the European Union had declared to be illegal subsidies. Authorities…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
A classic 1956 Chevrolet sedan that was originally used as a military staff car at an Army Depot was sold twice to help the Honor Flight organization which provides free transportation for veterans to visit military memorials in Washington DC. The government auctioned the Chevrolet 150 in 1964 and it…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
When Leah Sharibu, was 14 when Boko Haram terrorists kidnapped her along with over a hundred other students from her school in northeast Nigeria on Feb. 19, 2018. Sharibu is the only one of her classmates left in captivity under the Muslim terrorist group. The Nigerian government negotiated the freedom…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Currently scientific understanding suggests four basic forces govern daily activities, gravity electromagnetism, the strong force and the weak force. Finds from research at a laboratory near Chicago has uncovered the possibility of a new sub-atomic particle or new force, known as a muon. Researchers…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Actor Rob Gough paid $5.2 million for a piece of cardboard in January 2021. Well, that’s one way to put it. Another way is to say that he bought a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle rookie card in mint condition with a PSA 9 rating—1 of 6 known to be in existence. "I always dreamt of owning a 1952 Topps Mickey…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 28 views
In a country where Christians are coming under attack by some in our own governments, Adam Mabry a pastor in Boston says, “The world is desperate for a people who are secure enough in grace that they can flourish under Caesar, whoever he or she may be.” Jamie Dean, “Win, Lose, or Brawl,” World Magazine,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
WalletHub conducted a survey to see how Americans are coping with the Social Distancing mandates imposed on them by the government. They discovered that “36 million Americans use online shopping as their number one way to cope with social distancing.” My only question is what will their strategy be to…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
WalletHub conducted a survey to see how Americans are coping with the Social Distancing mandates imposed on them by the government. They discovered that “34 percent of Americans are most looking forward to seeing family once this is over, more than the amount that are most excited to see friends or go…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
In Thailand, government officials have set in motion an unusual plan to curb littering in the nations’ Khao Yai National Park. The country’s Environment minister posted an announcement on Facebook saying he intends to send the trash to the homes of tourists who litter in the park. “Your trash—we’ll send…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
During the summer of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, the United States unemployment rate rose, but did not surpass the 24.9 percent of the great depression. As it rose, some began making an argument that the federal government should create an employment guarantee? Insecure times cause people to long…