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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 150 views
> Children of God > > A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales. > > The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small. > > The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. > > Irritated,…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 55 views
CHURCH HUMOR Adam and Eve had an ideal marriage. He didn't have to hear about all the men she could have married, and she didn't have to hear about the way his mother cooked. ***** An elderly woman died last month. Having never married, she requested no male pallbearers. In her handwritten instructions…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 24 views
There is the story of a preacher who got up one Sunday and announced to his congregation: I have good news and bad news. The good news is, we have enough money to pay for our new building program. The bad news is, it's still in your pockets. ------------------------------------------------- While driving…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 8 views
KIDS IN CHURCH 3-year-old Reese: "Our Father, Who does art in heaven, Harold is His name. Amen." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A little boy was overheard praying: "Lord, if you can't make me a better boy, don't worry about it. I'm having a real good time like I am." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 49 views
> Why We Love Kids > >> > >>I was driving with my three young children one warm summer evening > >>when a > >>woman in the convertible ahead of us stood up and waved. She was > >>stark > >>naked! As I was reeling from the shock, I heard my five-year-old > >>shout from > >>the back seat, "Mom! That lady…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 19 views
Some of our teachers wanted us to learn the big doctrines first, and they did not like it because we could not at once see all the sublime truths of election and predestination. Certain of the old standards who are very orthodox expect all newborn babes to eat meat at once; as soon as ever a person is…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 13 views
You may see, if you go down the Kennington Park Road, a row of young trees planted by the road. How are they kept up while they are still slender? Why, small posts of dead timber hold them up. Even so, a dead Sunday school teacher may yet be useful to a really Christian child, and a dead deacon may be…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 128 views
People can tell lies when they hold their tongues. There was a little girl at school who always held her hand up when the boys and girls were asked to show that they knew the answer to any question that had been put to them. One afternoon she held her hand up when she did not know the answer, and a classmate…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 35 views
A part of salvation is to be delivered from selfishness, and I am selfish enough to desire to be delivered from selfishness. How can you be of any service to others if you are not saved yourself? A man is drowning. I am on London Bridge. If I spring from the parapet and can swim, I can save him. But…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
David Knowles must be a good teacher. The 77-year-old retired nurse was teaching CPR to fellow church members in southern England when he went into cardiac arrest. As he lay on the floor he gave further instruction to his trainees on how to help him before he lost consciousness. One class member, Karol…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Retired teacher Jennifer Daniel has been helping students at the C.A. Weis Elementary school for over ten years. She started partnering with the school the year her youngest daughter graduated from high school. Daniel got her church involved and they have impacted the lives of many children since. The…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Judith Toensing taught sixth grade in 1997. At the end of the school year she wrote on student Christian Gilmer’s report card. “Keep up the good work! Invite me to your Harvard graduation.” Christian just graduated from Harvard as a doctor of public health. She sent an invitation to Ms. Toensing who…
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 • • 5 views
In March, 2019 two doctors from a hospital in Papua New Guinea spoke at a church in the United States telling the congregation about a critical need for teachers in their school for missionary children. Though neither had ever been on a mission trip, except for a brief trip to Mexico or Canada, Kathy…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 14 views
When Chelsey Haley finished school and began teaching, she joined the Teach for America program to make a difference in a low-income school. She never expected to encounter a boy named Jerome, who made her question her motives and future as a teacher. She went to an elementary school in Louisiana, where…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
A Florida travel insurance company awarded a Georgia high school teacher $10,000 because she took time to read the fine print in a policy she purchased. A statement from the company said Donelan Andrews claimed the prize 23 hours after the contest began. The company said it launched the secret contest…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Parents often refer to the word, ”please” as the magic word, but now a school in North Carolina has banned teachers from using the word. Officials at Druid Hills Academy say the goal is make troubled children behave better. They say teachers have been trained to give concise, clear instructions in a…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
On April 4, 2020 Luciana Lira, a Connecticut school teacher spoke to Zully, a mother of one of her school children and learned that she had two medical issues. She was pregnant and about to give birth, and she had just tested positive for COVID-19. After hanging up the phone with Zully, she immediately…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
In higher education, online teachers typically prepare their videos a semester in advance of teaching a class using learning management systems. Grade school teachers did not have that luxury during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. Jamie Gordon, a third-grade teacher in Richmond, Virginia recently described…
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Dustan Ingenthron • Branson Bible Church • Illustration • • 38 views • unknown
# Philippians 3:17–21 ## Opening So far in this chapter Paul has warned against the Judaizers, and any who would place their confidence in who they are, or what they have done and not the finished work of Christ alone. By way of rebuking this idea, Paul gives his own longs list of “fleshly” qualifications…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
The French Teacher at Energy Institute High School does not know French. The Houston, Texas public school district hired him after they took disciplinary action against the former French teacher who had 25 years of experience. Students in the class say the new teacher speaks only one word of French,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 25 views
A college art teacher in Colombia didn’t want people to recognize her by name so she won the right to legally change her name. Her new name is ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. I am not sure how the new name is pronounced. Perhaps she has a nickname, Alphabet. One of the beautiful promises of Scripture is…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Damien was a 12-year-old with an autoimmune disease that was causing his kidneys to shut down. He lived in foster homes until the disease progressed to the point he had to be hospitalized. Without a stable home environment, and because a transplant involves a lot of loving care, Damien was ineligible…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Shannon Grimm, a Texas kindergarten teacher noticed that one of her students, Prisilla Perez, had become quiet and sad. Upon investigation, she discovered the little 5-year-old was struggling because her classmates thought her new haircut made her look like a boy. Shannon decided to help, so she had…
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…