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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
A Bride in the UK ended up shaming a wedding guest on the Facebook Group, “That’s It, I’m Wedding Shaming.” Apparently, the guest ignored the unwritten etiquette that only the Bride wears white, on this very special day. The unimpressed Bride got her sweet, but brutal revenge by posting the following…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Jesus said the second greatest commandment, after loving God, is to love others as ourselves. Philosophy professor Costica Bradatan said that goes against human predisposition. What is natural for us is seeking to survive and reproduce. “For that purpose, we assert ourselves, relentlessly, savagely,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
In Bellevue, Washington, an arsonist burned down a mosque. Those who attended the Islamic Center of the Eastside were left without anywhere to pray. The Bellevue Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints offered space, free of charge in their Mormon church building that is right next door…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 73 views
Speaking to a group of church leaders, author, filmmaker, and pastor Erwin McManus reminded them that the Bible remains relevant when reaching out to younger generations. The statistics concerning Bible engagement among the Millennial generation, born between 1981 and 2000, are not encouraging. Bible…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 15 views
The movie Argo is set in November 1979 Iran and depicts a mob of angry locals outside the gate of the United States embassy. Tempers erupted. Cries of angry voices blared. Sounds of breaking chains and windows reverberated through the embassy compound. Finally the Iranians rushed into the building. That…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
In the Netherlands a 16-year-old girl forgot to check “private” on a Facebook invitation to a birthday party. Three thousand people showed up. Sometimes it seems like the church has set its privacy settings too stringent, and no unexpected guests ever shows up. --Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell The…
Scott Cody • Illustration • • 17 views
"Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed any one, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices." -Clarence Darrow
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
In Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives, Richard Swenson writes: “Boundaries are about establishing a perimeter around the personal and private spaces of our lives and not letting the world come crashing in uninvited. This is not an issue of selfishness…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
In “Adopted for Life,” Russell Moore writes, “As soon as you peer into the truth of the one aspect, you fall headlong into the truth of the other, and vice versa. That’s because it’s the way the gospel is. Jesus reconciles us to God and to each other. As we love our God, we love our neighbor; as we love…
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by Dr. Paul Chappell “That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus. For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.” Philemon 6–7 Whenever there is…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 346 views
Not committing all means not committing at all. A certain man lived in Haiti and wanted to sell his house for $2,000. Another man wanted very badly to buy it, but because he was poor, he could not afford the full price. After much bargaining, the owner agreed to sell the house for half the original price…
SteveF • Illustration • • 10 views
Oct 19 2008 Bothwell Message: “A Tax ‘Trap' for Jesus…And?” Matthew 22:15-22 Last Week’s Election Turnout This past Wednesday an article appeared in The Niagara Falls Review by Corey Larocque. It was titled: Voter turnout part of worldwide slide, Brock professor says - Citizens in democracies taking…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 8 views
James 2:1-13 This passage in James always makes me smile. I find it funny that James, the brother of Christ, would be advising others not to show favoritism. He probably spent years watching Jesus being treated as the favorite before he wrote this. Sibling rivalry is always difficult, but when your older…
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Ten years ago, Kirsten and Lee Hildebrand thought they knew where their lives were headed. They had just settled into their first home in a suburban community, where Kirsten practiced labor and employment law and Lee was working on a doctorate in counseling psychology. But when the couple attended Eastbrook…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 67 views
Quaint, bizarre, eccentric, peculiar—those words describe a little, wiry coal miner named Billy Bray, of Cornwell, England. Before his conversion in November, 1832, Billy lived a vile life. After finding Christ, he became a flaming evangelist and lay preacher. On a mountain near his home lived a cluster…
Sunnyland Slim • Illustration • • 965 views
"Man rises superior to every terror of nature as soon as he is able to give it a form, and can make it a definite object...He tears away the masks from the spectres which terrified his childhood, and they suprise him with his own image, for they are merely his own imaginations." --Schiller We stand together…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 21 views
RESOLUTIONS According to Greg Helmstetter, CEO of myGoals.com. “This year, a marked drop in job-related goals shows that people are starting to focus more on other areas of their lives such as family, getting organized, and fixing up the house. That's good news for everybody.” Among the most popular…
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Scripture Prayers Concerning Revival The following are Scripture prayers that you can use to plead with God for revival. These requests are based on the Word of God and are the revealed will of God for the church. Plead these Scripture prayers with confidence and persistence. As always, begin by praying…
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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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------…
F J van Eeden • Illustration • • 36 views
RONDEBOSCH 23 Julie 2006 NEHEMIA 5:9 “ Dit is nie ‘n goeie ding wat julle besig is om te doen nie. Julle moet tog eerbied vir ons God hê in julle optrede, en nie ons vyande, die heidene, minagting vir ons laat kry nie.” NEH 6:15 “Ek het nie so gemaak nie uit eerbied vir God.” NUWE INLEIDING: Elke land…
Jim Vance • Illustration • • 188 views
3 John Piper Desiring God Minneapolis, Minnesota 4 For Your Joy FOR YOUR JOY Published by Desiring God © 2005 Desiring God International Standard Book Number: 0-9773286-0-0 Edited for Desiring God Cover design by Edd Blott All scripture quotations are taken from: The Holy Bible: English Standard Version,…
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John MacArthur Basisinformationen zur Bibel Christliche Literatur-Verbreitung Postfach 11 01 35 • 33661 Bielefeld Wenn nicht anders angegeben, sind die Bibelzitate der Schlachter 2000 entnommen. Abkürzungen weiterer Bibelausgaben: Elb.: Elberfelder Bibel, unrevidierte Fassung Lu 12: Lutherbibel von 1912…
Leigh Johnson • Illustration • • 121 views
I. Introduction When God created the universe and all within it, God looked and saw that it was good. At some point, however, evil entered the world and corrupted it. People may have different understandings of how this happened, but I don’t think anyone would argue that the world as we know it is the…
Steve Bramham • Illustration • • 934 views
A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…
Michael Isaacs • Illustration • • 76 views
CHARACTERISTICS OF GOD’S GREAT SALVATION 1. Granted on God’s Terms “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him.” John 6:44 2. Reflects God’s Name “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul, and with all your mind, This is the greatest and most important…