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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 20 views • unknown
THE MIDDLE C OF LIFE You and I need a middle C. Haven't you had enough change in your life? Relationships change. Health changes. The weather changes. But the Yahweh who ruled the earth last night is the same Yahweh who rules it today. Same convictions. Same plan. Same mood. Same love. He never changes.…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 8 views
If a discovery is made in science or machinery, it is complicated at first, for the very reason that it is imperfect. But all improvements are in the direction of simplicity. It is just the same with spiritual teachings: When we get at reality, we cut off superfluity. Spurgeon, C. (2014). Spurgeon Commentary:…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 32 views
Many years ago a captain was sent out in one of the government ships, the Thetis, to discover a shoal, a rock, or some other obstruction said to exist in the Mediterranean Sea. The captain was an old salt who knew little about navigation as a science and cared less for rules, books, theories, and so…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
A couple hiking in northeastern France found an unusual artifact, carrier pigeon message dating from 110 years earlier. Jade Halaoui said he and a friend were hiking in the Ingersheim when they spotted a tiny aluminum cylinder on the ground. They dug it up and found a small piece of paper inside with…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Scientists constructed the “biosphere 2” to learn more about how our planet’s systems work. One of their discoveries was unexpected. They learned that trees grew quicker in the biosphere, but because there was no wind they would fall under their own weight before they could completely mature. Without…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
Workers renovating a café In England made a discovery that may change the way the café does business. While pulling apart a section of ceiling, workers found a menu from the restaurant that occupied the building in 1913. The menu from the Yamen Café and Tea Rooms was dated January 1913. Workers also…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Currently scientific understanding suggests four basic forces govern daily activities, gravity electromagnetism, the strong force and the weak force. Finds from research at a laboratory near Chicago has uncovered the possibility of a new sub-atomic particle or new force, known as a muon. Researchers…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
A New York woman investigating a cold draft behind her bathroom mirror discovered an entire empty apartment behind the wall. Samantha Hartsoe said she removed the mirror and found a large square hole into a dark room. At first, Hartsoe was afraid to go in, but changed her mind. She said she could not,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
A crew assisting with the demolition of a 115- year- old church to make way for affordable housing found a previously unknown time capsule hidden by the cornerstone. The company Earthwise Architectural Salvage was removing stained glass windows and other valuable items before the structure was brought…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
The prevalent theory about planets is that they neatly spin through space chained to their suns. Now scientist suspect that there may be many free-floating planets roaming the galaxy. Astronomers now say they think they have detected a roaming planet roughly the size of Earth. The planet was discovered…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Shane Houston and a friend from New Hampshire were on a metal-detecting trip in New England and obtained permission to search the ground outside a church in Maine. Houston said they found several interesting items, but the most interesting discovery was a 222-year-old copper penny dating to the first…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
Frenchman Jean-Jacques Savin, who spent four months in a barrel with six square meters of living space, offered some unique advice to those who were confined to their homes by coronavirus. The former French paratrooper shared who he avoided cabin fever on his trans-Atlantic voyage. Savin suggested working…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
A British man who started to build a deck in yard during coronavirus lockdown made an unexpected discovery while digging. The man found someone had buried an entire car in the yard years earlier. John Brayshaw bought the home six months earlier and was digging post panels for a deck, when he found the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
As part of a multi-million-dollar roof restoration project at an English Manor house, workers lifted had to remove the floorboard of the attic for the first time in centuries. Archaeologists expected to find a few coins, bits of paper, and other debris that had fallen through the cracks. Instead, they…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
One of the many amazing discoveries made by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is pale gray and white ridges which appear to be dunes on the surface of the dwarf planet Pluto. The dunes were discovered in photographs taken in 2015, and a British team announced their findings after studying them for the past…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
An old painting hanging in the kitchen of an elderly French woman made her a multimillionaire. The women did not think the painting was worth much, but when an auctioneer saw it, he suggested she bring it to experts for an evaluation. The painting turned out to be a rare masterpiece from 13th-century…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
What would you do if you discovered the bank had deposited $120,000 in your account by mistake? Robert and Tiffany Williams from Pennsylvania made such a discovery. Admitting later that is probably wasn’t the best thing to do; they went on a wild spending spree. They bought an SUV, a race car, a four-wheeler,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
While the whole world reels from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and many feel hopeless as a result, Queen Elizabeth issues her first ever Easter message in 2020, filled with hope for her subjects during this time of crisis. She reminds us that Easter is not cancelled this year but remains “a symbol…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Scientists hope to use an array of giant telescopes in the New Mexico desert to create the most detailed map ever of a large portion of space. Instead of taking pictures, the antenna will capture an image of the radio waves from throughout the Milky Way and beyond. Researchers say the Very Large Array…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Officials at a Missouri Museum said they have found something unusual in a classic Van Gogh painting. Mary Schafer from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City said she was examining the painting and found the remains of a grasshopper embedded in the paint. Schafer said the insect is missing its…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
In the continual search of the heavens, astronomers believe they may have discovered a long-hypothesized ninth large planet lurking somewhere far beyond Pluto. This planet, if it exists, would be a massive large planet. Scientists believe it is there because of the clustered orbits of three smaller dwarf…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 38 views
When we think about precious stones or minerals, diamonds or gold come to mind, not pearls. Most people are unaware of the high value that a rare or valuable pearl can reach. In 2006, a Filipino angler made an amazing discovery in the sea off the coast of the Palawan Island, in the Philippines. He discovered…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
South African officials made a gruesome discovery. They found the remains of three men along with a high-powered rifle, an axe, and some shoes and clothing. It appears that the three had slipped into an animal reserve to poach rhinos when instead they were eaten by a pride of lions. Jesus warned us that…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Researchers have confirmed that the seventh planet from the sun literally stinks. They said they had wondered about the clouds that make up the planet Uranus for a long time. After observing the way sunlight bounced off the planet’s atmosphere, researchers confirmed that the gas in the cloud tops is…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
A mouse caused a delay and lot of inconvenience for passengers aboard a British Airways flight from London to San Francisco. The rodent was spotted scurrying under a door aboard the flight just as passengers were buckling in for departure. The airline forced everyone to switch planes which delayed the…