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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 8 views
Monday, August 20, 2007 FOOTBALL QUOTES Subject: FOOTBALL PHILOSOPHY At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any." Erik Russell / Georgia Southern. "Football is only a game. Spiritual things are eternal. Nevertheless, Beat Texas." Seen on a church sign in Arkansas prior…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 7 views
There is a father, and he thinks that to go to his work—such common work as his—cannot be especially pleasing in God’s sight. He means to serve God, and so he stops at home. He is upstairs in prayer when the factory bell is ringing and he ought to be there. He hears that there is a conference in the…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 21 views
A certain monk went to a monastery, determined to give himself up entirely to contemplation and meditation. When he reached the place he saw all the monks at work, tilling the ground, plowing, or trimming the vines round the monastery. He very solemnly observed as he entered, “Do not work for the food…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Friends and family welcomed Dave “Dinger” Bell back to dry ground when the former Royal Marine arrived in England after rowing across the Atlantic Ocean. Bell’s team believes he is one of the first people to row from New York to England unsupported. Bell reported that on the trip he was stung by a jellyfish,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Everyone who has heard the doctor say, “You have cancer,” has their own story to tell. Darla Jaye, a breast cancer survivor certainly has hers. Jaye says, “I remember going to my first radiation treatment and I was so scared that I was laying on the table before I had the first radiation, and tears were…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
When Lexi Longstreet of Junction City. Oregon heard that families with children fleeing wildfires had come to a high school in their area in search of necessities, she invited some friends to bring comfort and companionship to the children. Longstreet owns a party shop and took the role of Belle from…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
A hardhat that fell into the Mississippi River in 2015 was mailed back to its owner after it was found on a beach in Ireland. Liam McNamara, a member of a beachcombing group said he found the hat on a beach in Fanore, County Claire and used social media to track down the owner. The custom paint job in…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 476 views
In his book, A Shared Christian Life, Ben Witherington III wrote, “At the Billy Graham Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, there is a little garden with the tombstone of Ruth Bell Graham. The stone reads: ‘End of Construction—Thank you for your patience.’ To a real extent, we do need to see ourselves…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 17 views
An anonymous couple dropped a check for $500,000 into a Salvation Army kettle as the annual collection season began. A spokesperson for the local organization, Julie Borgen said the previous record for a single donation was $25,000, and typically a kettle takes in about $30 an hour. Borgen said the bell…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
A London-based diamond retailer launched a 1.14-carat diamond into the air attached to a weather balloon. The promotion announced that whoever found the diamond could keep it. Then things went a little haywire. It drifted off course and the tracking GPS system failed. For several months people carefully…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
In 1952, 14-year-old- Dave Bell bit into a candy bar, and found a twig inside. He wrote the Pearson Candy Company a letter seeking a replacement bar and included the twig as his proof. He received a letter from George Pearson, the son of one the company’s founders. Person apologized for the twig and…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
A painting that had been hanging on the wall of man’s home for more than ten years turned out to be worth a lot more that the $745 that he paid for it. Jamie MacLeod took the painting to be evaluated by the BBC television program, Antiques Roadshow, because he hoped to sell it and use the proceeds to…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
While shoppers rushed in and out of a Missouri department store the day after Thanksgiving, someone stopped at a Salvation Army Kettle long enough to drop in a big gift. When they counted the totals that night, officials discovered five checks for $10,000 each wrapped up inside one dollar bills, adding…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
One never knows when the opportunity to show character might present itself. In Washington State Liz and Mark Thompson discovered $20,000 in an armoire they purchased at an estate sale. Eight teenagers in Lindsborg, Kansas came across a purse on the side of a road and found it contained $7,700 in cash.…
Dan Hughes • Illustration • • 20 views
Published March 24, 2011 | Associated Press DURHAM, N.C. -- When Chad Holtz lost his old belief in hell, he also lost his job. The pastor of a rural United Methodist church in North Carolina wrote a note on his Facebook page supporting a new book by Rob Bell, a prominent young evangelical pastor and…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 8 views
It begins on Sunday night. Lights flash on as recruits are awakened by their instructor. Next to one ear, a machine gun filled with blanks is fired. A jet from a garden hose is flushing the other ear. An instructor shouts, “We have a mission to perform tonight. I want you to listen to every word.” The…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 35 views
One little boy defined Father’s Day like this: “Father’s Day is just like Mother’s Day, only you don’t spend as much on a present.” Come on, isn’t that true? Father’s Day is kind of the “left-over” holiday. It’s the one that we do just so the guys won’t feel bad. In fact Garrison Keillor writes that…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
A family-owned supply store in western Pennsylvania recently received an envelope filled with cash from an anonymous thief who confessed to stealing a hammer a decade ago, and seeking to make restitution. The unsigned letter dated December 6 read,” I knew it was wrong, but I did it anyway. Enclosed in…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
A church in Arkansas is bringing a new way of thinking to the holiday season by offering people a chance to give more and spend less. The Lakewood United Methodist church in North Little Rock sponsors a yearly alternative giving fair or marketplace where shoppers can discover that compassion, as opposed…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 31 views
That was the case with Sarah. You see, Sarah was rich – very, very rich. Not only was her income a thousand dollars a day, but she had inherited twenty million. That's not bad?especially in the late 1800s. By today's standards, she could have been a billionaire. She was well known in high society. Just…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
An unknown customer of Taco Bell received the morning’s bank deposit instead of the tacos he ordered. The customer has yet to return the $2000. --The Week, May 28, 2010, p. 4 Illustration by Jim L Wilson and Rodger Russell Psalm 11:7 (NIV) "For the LORD is righteous, he loves justice; upright men will…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
MIND All of us like to hang on to things that help us remember important moments in lie. We store pictures and letters in boxes, and might even keep a receipt form an important meeting or date. Digital technology has reduced the amount of space required to keep those memories safe. Now we use digital…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 32 views
Back in 2000, the FCA leaders of Pearl River Central High School in Carriere, Ms, were discussing plans for the remainder of the school year. "Everyone was writing down goals and plans when suddenly a teacher suggested we reach our school for Christ," said Cary-Anne Dell, a member of the FCA's leadership…
Wesley Crouch • Illustration • • 22 views
Does God Still Speak To His People? A young man had been to Wednesday night Bible Study. The Pastor had shared about listening to God and obeying the Lord’s voice. The young man couldn’t help but wonder, “Does God still speak to His people?” After service, he went out with some friends for coffee and…
Adam Carrigan • Illustration • • 4 views
What it took to get an 8th grade education in 1895... Remember when parents, grandparents and great-grandparents stated that they only had an 8th grade education? Well, check this out. Could any of us have passed the 8th grade in 1895? This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salina , Kansas…