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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 12 views
Malachi 3:3 says: 'He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.' This verse puzzled some women in a Bible study and they wondered what this statement meant about the character and nature of God. One of the women offered to find out the process of refining silver and get back to the group at their…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 664 views
Why you should remain a virgin until you are married Teens having sex. It's in the movies, on TV, and splattered on the pages of magazines. It seems that having sex makes many teens feel that they are mature, popular, normal, or loved. Teens often mistake sex for love - and fondling for affection. But…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 57 views
I have heard it said that the good sculptor, whenever he sees a suitable block of marble, firmly believes that there is a statue concealed within it. His business is but to take away the superfluous material, and so unveil the “thing of beauty” which shall be “a joy forever.” Believer, you are that block…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 73 views
Suppose you had been a pig all your life, and that you were suddenly made into a man. Well, now you are a man, you look through a telescope; swine cannot do that. You look through a microscope; I never knew a pig do that in my life. Swine do not talk, but you speak, you sing, you pray, you are quite…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 21 views
In the long line of portraits of the Doges in the palace at Venice one space is empty, and the semblance of a black curtain remains as a melancholy record of glory forfeited. Found guilty of treason against the state, Marino Falieri was beheaded and his image as far as possible blotted from remembrance.…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 20 views
There lived some few years ago in Perugia, in Italy, a man of the loosest morals and the worst conceivable disposition. He had given up all religion, he loathed God, and had arrived at such a desperate state of mind that he had conceived an affection for the devil, and endeavored to worship the evil…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Iceland’s Down’s syndrome population is decreasing and headed toward 100% elimination. Good news? Not exactly. Through medical advancement and prenatal screening, doctors are able to detect the likelihood of a fetus being born with Down’s. When faced with the decision as to whether keep the child or…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 14 views
A European Parliament committee has approved a resolution granting legal status to advance robots as “electronic persons,” with specific rights and obligations. The purpose of the resolution is aimed at protecting humans by keeping robots from achieving too much power as the science of artificial intelligence…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
A municipal road crew in Brazil are convinced they have discovered a manifestation of Jesus Christ inside a willow tree. When the crew sawed through the trunk of the tree a stain in the wood was shaped like a man in a loose-flowing gown. They, and many who have viewed the image say that it looks like…
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 • • 9 views
Former Ohio University basketball star D.J. Cooper received a two year suspension from European leagues because he failed a drug test. This wasn’t just any failure. The urine from Cooper, a healthy 28-year-old man, tested positive for pregnancy. The Week, August 16, 2019, p. 6 Interestingly, officials…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Shane Houston and a friend from New Hampshire were on a metal-detecting trip in New England and obtained permission to search the ground outside a church in Maine. Houston said they found several interesting items, but the most interesting discovery was a 222-year-old copper penny dating to the first…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Ashley Goette awoke in the night to find her husband, Andrew, gasping for air and suffering cardiac arrest. She performed CPR for 10 minutes until paramedics arrived and took Andrew to the hospital. The next day, after Andrew was out of danger, Ashley entered the hospital where she gave birth to their…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 40 views
Michael B. Jordon shares a name with one of the most famous basketball players of all time. Living with a famous name is not easy. “I hated my name. I wanted to change it,” Jordan, who is an accomplished actor says. “But it gave me a healthy chip on my shoulder. One of my goals is when people hear ‘Michael…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 97 views
In his book, Shaped by God, Max Lucado writes ”When God sets out to shape us in His image, he often uses the heat and pressure of our daily lives to temper us and craft us into beautiful instruments He can use.” Shaped by God, 175 James 1:2 (HCSB) “Consider it a great joy, my brothers, whenever you experience…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 17 views
In the book, Forgiveness and Health: Scientific Evidence and Theories Relating Forgiveness to Better Health, the authors write, “Research indicates forgiveness can promote resilience (Worthington, 2005) as well as physical and mental health (Thorensen, Harris, & Luskin, 2000) and, thus, forgiveness can…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 14 views
When Nomura Takuyuki accepted Christ, his family disowned him. His father kicked him out of the house and declared him a non-person. They were upset because as the oldest son it would fall to him to take care of the kamidana, a miniature household altar to worship ancestors. Nomura knew that as a Christian…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
According to a Gallup poll, the majority of Americans believe that God had a hand in the development of human kind. 42 percent believe in a direction creation of humans about 10,000 years ago. 31 percent believe that humans evolved but with God’s guidance. Only 19% believe that God played no role in…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 40 views
Scientists have recently increased the estimation of the size of our universe. From the previously estimated 200 billion galaxies researchers at The University of Nottingham, believe the figure is likely 10 times that. In their research, published in the October issue of The Astrophysical Journal, the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Scientists hope to use an array of giant telescopes in the New Mexico desert to create the most detailed map ever of a large portion of space. Instead of taking pictures, the antenna will capture an image of the radio waves from throughout the Milky Way and beyond. Researchers say the Very Large Array…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Emile Ratelband asked a court in Arnhem to shift his birth date from March 11, 1949, to March 11, 1969, saying that if people can change their gender, “why can’t I decide my own age?” Ratelband, A Dutch “positivity guru” is seeking to change his age from 69 to 49, arguing that he feels far younger than…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
A small study conducted by Johns Hopkins Medicine suggests that waking up several times during the night may be worse for your mood the next day than sleeping less than usual. Researchers found that the group whose sleep was interrupted had a 31 percent reduction in positive mood the following day, when…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
A kindergarten teacher in Rocklin, California taught her class about transgenderism. Parents took their complaints to the school board which held a discussion about the appropriateness of the lesson to kindergarteners. One parent said about a kindergarten age daughter, “She came home crying and shaking,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
Scientists are beginning to debate the necessity of giving robots rights. Denying the existence of a God in whose image man is made requires scientists to admit that consciousness is a result of completely material processes. Therefore, just as humans have rights because they are conscious beings, so…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 20 views
In the book, Forgiveness and Health: Scientific Evidence and Theories Relating Forgiveness to Better Health, the authors write, “Findings indicate that state forgiveness (i.e., forgiveness of a specific offense and offender) and trait forgivingness (i.e., a general disposition to forgive) are both inversely…