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Building Up One Another
Zach Broom • Illustration • • 56 views • 57:05
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
The CBS Drama Blue Bloods includes in almost every episode a Sunday Dinner where four generations of the family get together to reconnect and process their lives. A rare event these days. Certainly, the four generations part, but also the sitting down and talking about life over a meal. Busy schedules…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
When Tim Tebow was a quarterback with the New York Jets, they had a play that featured a curse word. In the huddle Tebow refused say it. When the offensive coordinator called for that play Tebow avoided using the word. According to Nick Mangold, a former Jets player, Tebow would go through the whole…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
In The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business, Erin Meyer writes, “When interacting with someone from another culture, try to watch more, listen more, and speak less. Listen before you speak and learn before you act.” —Jim L. Wilson The Culture Map, 28. James 1:19 (CSB)…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
A video recently emerged of a man sleeping behind the wheel of a Tesla that was apparently on “autopilot,” going down the Massachusetts Turnpike at 55 MPH. Where did the video originate? Dakota Randall, who was driving next to the Tesla, shot the video. Randall told the CBS Boston affiliate, “I thought…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Nina Harris told her husband Allan exactly what she wanted for Valentine’s Day. “I would like some tulips,” she said. Allan was not listening, at least that is what Nina says. When she finished her first cup of coffee on St. Valentine’s Day, Allan gave her the Valentine’s Day gift he thought she ordered.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
A Utah high school teacher plans to be married soon. Instead of the usual gifts of stemware, crock pots, and blenders, Rickee Stewart asked guest to give shoes and backpacks for students at her school. While working at a food pantry set up by the school, Stewart discovered the depth of the need, and…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
For sixteen years Paul and Robin Pennington have been working to engage the local church to understand the need to care for orphans. They know from personal experience how important adoption is and how difficult it can be. “They have become convinced that when Christians love fatherless children, it’s…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 64 views
A famous comedian has a comic routine where he talks about sitting in first class on an airplane while watching other people go by to coach. He makes a comment about how whenever he sees a soldier get on the plane he thinks to himself “it would be the right thing to do...if I gave him my seat.” He then…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 29 views
Since 2011, there have been 64,000 Australians report that “Jedi,” is their religion when taking the census. It all began as a joke to get Jedi listed as a recognized religion, but the atheists are not laughing. They are upset because “it makes Australia look more religious than it is.”—Jim L. Wilson…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Police in England received an interesting emergency call from Fred Thomson and his 95-year-old wife Doris who said they were lonely. Stu Ockwell and Andy Richardson were the officers who responded to the call. “What else could we do but make them a brew of tea and have a chat?” Thomson told the BBC that…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
A 2008 study reveals that 49% of American workers are not satisfied with their job. Why? Do you think it is because it is too demanding? Or maybe because of too little pay? No—the reason is their perception that their boss doesn’t listen to their ideas. –Jim L. Wilson and Joe Lam http://www.cbsnews.com/news/survey-more-americans-unhappy-at-work/…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life conducted a survey that states 78% of the adults in America classify themselves as Christian (this includes Protestant, Catholics, Mormons, etc). Only 5.8% of those adults claim religion is "somewhat important or very important" in their lives. That is a scary statistic!…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
A study of the amount of chicken meat in chicken nuggets was published in the American Journal of Medicine. The nuggets are less than 50 percent meat. The rest is fat, blood veins, bone fragments and various other chicken parts. Does that disgust you? Christians disgust others when their lives are less…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
What would it be like to live like Jesus? Literally, I mean. What would it be like to follow the law? To abide by both the Old Testament rules and the New Testament principles? Two authors did just that. AJ Jacobs, a cultural Jew, lived for a year according to the standards of the Bible. He wrote about…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
Antonius Hart Sr. and his son Antonius Hart Jr. drove away from the Pirtle’s Chicken restaurant without realizing the server forgot to add the wings they ordered. When they returned and complained the restaurant offered them replacement wings but that did not satisfy them--they demanded extra chicken…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
A Chinese woman has become somewhat of a local hero because of her efforts to find and care for babies she finds on the streets of her city. 88-year-old Lou Xiaoying, suffers from kidney failure, but takes time to rescue children, some of whom she finds in the trash. Since her husband passed away 17…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Using foul language on the job could keep you from getting a raise or promotion, according to CareerBuilder, who surveyed employers and asked them how they responded when an employee cursed while on the clock. Sixty-four percent said they would think less of an employee who repeatedly used foul language…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
The earthquake in Haiti took place months ago, but the need for shelter is huge as many people still live in tents. A church in Pennsylvania is taking positive steps to meet the need by providing a more permanent solution. The GT church is working to provide 15 by 18 foot shelters that can house 24 orphans…
Bible Study
Andrew Norvelle • Illustration • • 455 views
Culling the Army of God Purpose: To equip saints to be effective soldiers in the Lord's Army. Judges 7:2 And the Lord said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel claim glory for itself against Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
In the motion picture, Hotel For Dogs, Andi and Bruce are a teenage brother and sister in search of a family. They have had several sets of foster parents since their parents died, but few families want the responsibility of caring for a set of teenage children. The kid’s saving grace becomes their shared…
Illustration • • 17 views
(AP) DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. - On a chilly Easter night, two days after his son and four of his fellow soldiers were killed in Iraq, David Pautsch watched their remains arrive on a jumbo jet during a somber, half-hour ceremony. "You see these five caskets, flag-draped, it's sobering beyond belief,"…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 1,818 views
TONGUE, SPEECH A Malaysian court has ruled that using derogatory and vulgar language about your superiors at work is acceptable, as long as you do it behind their backs. The Industrial Court ruled in the case of a secretary who was fired because she sent e-mail from the office computer to several friends,…
Rich DeRuiter • Illustration • • 12 views
After spending three and a half hours enduring the long lines, surly clerks and insane regulations at the Department of Motor Vehicles, a man stopped at a toy store to pick up a gift for his son. He brought his selection — a baseball bat — to the cash register. "Cash or charge?" the clerk asked. "Cash,"…
Kevin Scruggs • Illustration • • 11 views
One morning Genghis Khan, the great king and warrior, rode out into the woods to have a day's sport. Many of his friends were with him. They rode out gayly, carrying their bows and arrows. Behind them came the servants with the hounds. It was a merry hunting party. The woods rang with their shouts and…