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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 57 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 • • 68 views
God recently allowed me to see Jesus through the eyes of someone seeing Him for the first time. Having the advantage of knowing how the story ends, we can easily forget the cost of our redemption and the love of
our Savior.
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 7 views
A minister was one day going to preach. His attention was arrested by a woman standing at her door, who, upon seeing him, came up to him with the greatest anxiety, and said, “Oh sir, have you any keys about you? I have broken the key of my drawers, and there are some things that I must get.” He said,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
FOOLISHNESS 25-year-old Param Sharma was arrested for “reckless driving” because he was in the back seat of his Tesla, without another person in the driver’s seat, as his Tesla was in either “Autopilot,” or “Full Self-Driving” mode. Apparently, the arrest has not changed Sharma’s resolve to be a backseat…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 15 views
Airport administration officials in Moscow say an intoxicated, forty year old man drove his car into the airport terminal departure gate. Video footage shows the car drive past a check-in desk and into a departure gate before going back outside to a railway terminal. As you might expect, authorities…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
When police arrested 45-year-old Nicole Mintner in Florida for driving under the influence she had an interesting defense. She demanded that police release her on the grounds that “Jesus drank wine and so did I.” Nicole later confessed to having also taken Xanax, an anti-anxiety medication not mentioned…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
When Fairfield, CA police responded to a report of an automobile crash they arrested the impaired driver. But the story doesn’t end there. It was Mother’s Day and the driver was in the process of delivering flowers. So, the officers made the rest of the deliveries that the driver could not make. https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/fairfield-police-deliver-mothers-day-flowers-after-driver-arrested-for-dui/2540322/…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
He’s at it again. In 2014, authorities arrested Michael Reed for destroying the Ten Commandments monument at the Oklahoma statehouse. This time, he rammed his automobile in a similar monument at the Arkansas statehouse as he shouted “freedom.”—Jim L. Wilson https://www.nbcnews.com/video/arkansas-ten-commandments-monument-destroyed-by-driver-978408003900…
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 • • 7 views
Akitoshi Okamoto, a 71-year-old Japanese man, was arrested recently for apparently calling a phone company 24,000 times to complain. He was taken into custody for inundating KDDI Corporation’s customer service department with toll-free phone calls over an eight-day period. Apparently, he wanted an apology…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
According to Open Doors, In 2020 there were: • Over 340 million Christians living in places where they might experience persecution and discrimination • 4,761 Christians martyred • 4,488 churches and other Christian buildings attacked • 4,277 believers detained without trial, arrested, sentenced or imprisoned.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
When he didn’t get the sauce with his Chicken McNuggets, Robert Golwitzer allegedly called McDonalds to threaten to blow the place up. The satisfaction he might have felt was short-lived however, because the Ankeny, Iowa police arrested him for the bomb threat. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bomb-threat-mcdonalds_n_60da2b7be4b09ead19f713ce…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Georgia authorities suspended two police officers after they used a coin toss to decide whether to arrest a 24-year-old driver they stopped for speeding. The Police dash cam captured the entire incident on video. The driver told them that she was running late and the officers discussed whether they should…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
While a North Dakota farmer was harvesting his wheat and canola, the combine he was using caught fire. Lane Unhjem went into cardiac arrest and was rushed to the hospital. While he was recovering, 60 neighboring farmers showed up at his place, determined not to let his crops go to waste. With 11 combines,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
In June 2009, Asia Bibi and her family were the only Christians living in her small village in eastern Pakistan. Her Muslim neighbors were upset at having to share the village well with non-Muslims and demanded she convert to Islam. She responded, “I believe in my religion and in Jesus Christ, who died…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Authorities arrested Eva, a Slovakian woman after she played the same opera song on repeat for 16 years. They charged her with harassment and malicious persecution for forcing neighbors to listen to Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata repeatedly. Neighbors said the woman began playing the song to drown out…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Mateusz Fijalkowski, 23 decided it was time to end it all. He attempted to drown himself in a Virginia swimming pool. Police officers rescued him but Fialkowski is suing the officers, not for saving him, but for not saving him soon enough. He is grateful to police officers who rescued him after he tried…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Some teachers believe they can teach anyone anything. But the truth is the student must have certain qualifications as well. For example, in Washington State police arrested the driver of a Buick for driving 109 mph on the interstate. The Buick had hit two other cars, then left the interstate and drove…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
At the end of World War II, some 50 European Jews decided to take an eye for an eye. These young men and women had seen the Nazis slaughter their families and communities and were “consumed with hatred.” Led by the charismatic partisan, Abba Kovner and calling themselves the avengers, the group plotted…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
The police department in Depew, New York put up a joking social media post saying that they had arrested winter. After much of the state experienced wintry weather and power outages caused by high winds, the department said they had taken action and that any more snow winter produced would be held against…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
An Arizona woman, Tina Hines went into cardiac arrest and appeared close to death. Her heart had to be restarted with a defibrillator five times. When she finally regained consciousness she asked for a pen and a piece of paper and wrote, “It’s real.” As she wrote she began pointing upward with tears…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Pennsylvania police said a very obvious clue led to the arrest of a man charged with stealing a pot of meatballs. They found the man with red sauce smeared on his face and clothes. Authorities in Luzerne County charged Leahman Glenn Robert Potter with burglary, criminal trespass and theft by unlawful…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Andrew Brunson, a Presbyterian Elder had been serving as the Pastor of a small congregation in Turkey since the 1990’s. After an unsuccessful coup in Turkey, Pastor Brunson was arrested in October 2016 as one of the conspirators. The US government was finally able to secure his release in October 2018.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Danielle Reno said she only got out of her car for a minute to pick up her daughter, but when she did, someone jumped into her car and drove away. Reno said she filed a police report but decide to do some detective work on her own. The thief had also taken her credit and debit cards because her wallet…
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…