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Reflections Podcasts
Rosemary Laxton • Meanwood Valley Baptist Church • Illustration • • 56 views • 9:47
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 21 views
It is not possible that any sin should ever be forgiven to any man without shedding of blood. This has been known from the very first. As soon as man had sinned, God taught him that he needed a sacrifice. Adam and Eve, after they had sinned, tried to clothe themselves with fig leaves, but that was not…
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 10 views • unknown
A Revolutionary Response to God By the mercies of God . . . present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God. Romans 12:1 Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish astronomer, was the one who said the earth revolved around the sun, not vice versa. As revolutionary as the thoughts of Copernicus were…
Pastor Chad A. Miller • Grace Covenant Church • Illustration • • 131 views
Communion Order taken largely from a Communion Liturgy published by R. Kent Hughes. (Hughes, R. Kent. The Pastor's Book (pp. 447-449). Crossway.)
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 9 views
God could not accept any sacrifice that was touched with the golden tongs or that lay upon the brazen altar so long as those golden tongs and the brazen altar were imperfect. What was done to make them perfect? Why, they were sprinkled with blood; but they had to be sprinkled with blood ever so many…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 857 views
The emblem of the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society is an ox standing between a plough and an altar, with the motto, “Ready for either”—ready to spend and be spent in labor, or to be a sacrifice; whichever the Lord pleases. Spurgeon, C. (2014). Spurgeon Commentary: Philippians. (E. Ritzema,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
In Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek writes, “The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank. There are people with authority who are not leaders and there are people at the bottom rungs of an organization who most certainly…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 233 views
Middle school student Makenna Finnegan was running to set a new personal best time, when she stopped to help a struggling runner. Finnegan passed the other runner and noticed that she was holding her stomach and struggling to keep moving. Finnegan asked what was wrong and the girl said she had a bad…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Near the end of the film The Joy Luck Club, the protagonist, June, has a flashback to one of the last times she spoke to her mother before her mother’s death. In the flashback, June is upset that her mother just put her down in front of her childhood nemesis, Waverly. June deeply laments that her mother…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
In February 2018, Chloe Kim became the youngest female snowboarder to win gold at the Winter Olympics. She was the first to do a back-to-back 1080s in competition. Her story is more than Olympic gold but also of her family’s immigrant story. Her father, Jog Jin Kim, left his career to become her driver…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Khmer Rouge regime members, Khieu Samphan, 87, and Nuon Chea, 92, were tried and convicted of killing 1.7 million people. From 1975 to 1979 they worked to make Cambodia a communist state where food and money would be collected by the government and then redistributed to the public. They felt that they…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 113 views
Rogelio Garcia Jr., 25, is an engineer with a degree from MIT. "I am living the American dream. I love my job. I don't have to worry about making next month's rent," Rogelio told "20/20." His sister, Adriana, 24, drives a sports car and is in management for a rental car chain. They're typical American…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 29 views
God's Not Dead is a Christian film about faith and the limits one young man will go to defend his belief in God. Josh Wheaton, a freshman college student, enrolls in a philosophy class taught by professor Dr. Radisson, who demands that all his students must sign a declaration that "God is dead" to get…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Six-year-old Bridger Walker of Cheyenne, Wyoming, his sister, and a friend went into the friend’s backyard to play. The friend explained there was one “nice” dog and a “mean” dog in the yard. The “mean” dog ran at the children. According to Bridger’s account “I stepped to the side, in front of my sister…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
The plane that dropped 15 smokejumpers into one of the worst firefighting tragedies in U.S. history played a role in the memorial 70 years later. The C-47, now known as Miss Montana, dropped 13 wreaths, one for each firefighter killed in the fire that cause the Forest Service to rethink its fire training…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
It was dark and the borough of Queens, NY was beginning to wake at 5:30 in the morning. Suddenly, a mugger holding a knife jumped out and began to attack a woman. Close by, asleep on the sidewalk, Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax saw the attack. Without a thought for his personal safety, the homeless man ran to…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 25 views
In Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek writes, “Leadership is not a license to do less; it is a responsibility to do more. And that’s the trouble. Leadership takes work. It takes time and energy. The effects are not always easily measured and they are not always immediate. Leadership is always a commitment…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
When asked about his pledge to give away almost everything he owns, the 7th most wealthy person in the world said, “Over many decades I have accumulated an almost incomprehensible sum simply by doing what I love to do. I’ve made no sacrifice nor has my family. Compound interest, a long runway, wonderful…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
The customer was in a hurry. She failed to scratch off the last number—the million-dollar number and handed the lottery ticket to an employee to throw away for her. Ten days later, Abhi Shah, the son of the owner of the Lucky Stop convenience store in Southwick, Mass noticed the unscratched ticket in…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Lt. Col. Arnaud Beltrame, 45, made the extreme sacrifice when he gave his life that another might live. Radouane Lakdim, 26, a Moroccan-born French national went on a terror spree in the French city of Trèbes. Lakdim carjacked a car, killing one person in the process, and wounding another. He then tried…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 15 views
The anonymous buyer had no idea that Banksy had built a shredder into the frame of his 2006 painting, “Girl With a Balloon,” when she paid $1.37 million dollars for it. Instead of attempting to nullify the purchase with Sotherby’s, she decided to hold on to the “piece of art history.” In an ironic twist,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Prosecutors charged Aleksey Germash with “delaying or detaining mail” when they discovered 17,000 pieces of mail in his car, apartment and locker at work. His defense was that he “made sure to deliver the important mail.” —Jim L. Wilson http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/officials-postal-worker-hoarded-17k-pieces-mail-54622326…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 15 views
At his first press conference after being named head coach for the North Carolina Tar Heels, Coach Hubert Davis was asked, “Can you briefly talk about your faith and how that plays into your family and your job now?” He responded by saying, “Yeah, that's the most important thing to me. You know, my faith…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
Some criticize young children today as growing up rather selfish and inconsiderate of others. Not so for Jackson Champagne, an 8-year-old boy from Gambrills, Maryland. While out trick or treating on Halloween in 2019, the young boy came across an empty candy bowl at one of his stops. The doorbell camera…
Romans
Rev. Bruce Goettsche • Union Church of La Harpe Illinois • Illustration • • 428 views
Imagine going to Chicago on a business trip. You have a bunch of meetings and have plans to fly out right after your last meeting to meet your family in some great vacation spot. Your meetings run late and you know it is going to be a challenge to get to the airport and get checked in so you can make…