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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Matt Cobrink is 53-years-old and lives with his 88-year-old father Malcolm in Los Angeles. Matt recently flew to New York to meet Aaron Judge, his favorite baseball player Because of the trip, however, Cobrink had to be away from his father for almost week, something which had not happened for over 25…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 203 views
Alan Sorrentino, a 63 year-old resident of Rhode Island, had his house picketed by hundreds of people, and he even received death threats after writing an opinion piece to a small newspaper. In the letter, he stated in strong language that “yoga pants” were stupid, and that women should stop wearing…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
In Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love, Sue Johnson writes, “To reconnect, lovers have to be able to de-escalate the conflict and actively create a basic emotional safety.” —Jim L. Wilson Hold Me Tight, 122 Ephesians 4:26 (HCSB) Be angry and do not sin. Don’t let the sun go down…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 14 views
On an Air India flight the captain and his co-pilot had a difference of opinion. It grew into an argument that escalated to trading blows in the cockpit. The pilots agreed to stop fighting and complete the flight from Jaipur to Delhi to avoid inconveniencing passengers. It is wise for us to realize that…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 12 views
Tri Robinson tells of his own recognition of this in his own marriage. When I got home from [a] mountaintop weekend [that had changed my life, drawing me closer to Christ], I was excited to share with Nancy what had happened. This was the very thing that for many years she had desperately wanted and…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 13 views
In that, they remind me of the rest of the world. Boy, do we ever live in a complaining society. People complain about everything. For instance, the following are actual responses from comment cards given to staff members at the “Bridger Wilderness Area.” People wrote: Trails need to be wider so people…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
In Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives, Richard Swenson writes: “While standing at the hospital bed of a dying man, a pastor interrupted his prayer to answer his cell phone. A youth pastor reported that he loved his job and tolerated long hours well-until…
Dan Hughes • Illustration • • 4 views
By Lauren Green Published February 24, 2011 | FoxNews.com As a child in Egypt coming home from Sunday school, Khairy Gurgis remembers being taunted with verbal slurs, slapped or pelted with stones by Muslim kids. His crime: being a Christian. He also recalls vandals painting a big, red cross on the sides…
Dan Hughes • Illustration • • 26 views
December 13, 2010 Change usually happens slowly in the Church. But a review of the past year's research conducted by the Barna Group provides a time-lapse portrayal of how the religious environment in the U.S. is morphing into something new. Analyzing insights drawn from more than 5,000 non-proprietary…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
RECONCILIATION In the motion picture Bride Wars, Liv and Emma are best friends for life. Since they were young, each has dreamed of an ultimate wedding in New York’s Plaza Hotel, with each serving as the other’s Maid of Honor. Though their lives take different directions, the women stay close friends,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Tammy had a hard time finding the school building many mornings, resulting in truancy. Up until 10:00 pm, the night before graduation, it didn’t look like she’d graduate, but at the final hour, she turned in her missing assignments and graduated with her classmates. At her graduation, Ron was shocked…
Kenneth P. McCaulley • Illustration • • 10 views
Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert wrote: "In a study conducted by Sukhwinder Shergill and colleagues at University College London, pairs of volunteers were hooked up to a mechanical device that allowed each of them to exert pressure on the other volunteer's fingers. The researcher began the game by exerting…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 2 views
CONFLICT Fights and quarrels are deeply rooted in our human nature. Every now and then, I stick my head into the preschool room and watch our little one's play during Sunday School. One minute, two children will be sitting next to one another, content with their toys. The next, one of them will be trying…
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On January 12, 2007, at 7:51 a.m., world-renowned violin virtuoso Joshua Bell, dressed as a common street musician, played for forty-five minutes at the top of an indoor escalator system serving the L’Enfant Plaza subway station in Washington, DC. An artist who commands more than $1,000 a minute for…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 2 views
The reality is that conflict is present and can be both useful and debilitating. The following generalizations can be made about our current conflict and ways of coping with it: • Conflict is real, persistent, and sometimes mean. • Conflict can be normal, abnormal, or spiritual. • Conflict can escalate…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
REVENGE In the last few years, Hollywood movies have followed a rather precarious theme: revenge. In 2003, The Punisher debuted with a story of an ex-cop set out to punish those who murdered his family. That same year Man on fire broke the box offices with a tale of a man determined to make kidnappers…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 39 views
HARDSHIP/PERSEVERANCE I don't think it was the worst thing that could happen at a concert, but it wasn't good. On November 18, 1995, a string on Itzhak Perlman's violin snapped as he played at Avery Fisher Hall, at the Lincoln Center in New York. Really, the word snapped doesn't convey what happened…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 13 views
Escalators Anyone? Acts 14:22 The following was taken from registration sheets and comment cards returned to the staff of the Bridger Wilderness Area in Wyoming in 1996: 1. Trails need to be wider so people can walk holding hands. 2. Trails need to be reconstructed. Please avoid building trails that…
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By Greg Toppo, USA TODAY They weren't goths or loners. The two teenagers who killed 13 people and themselves at suburban Denver's Columbine High School 10 years ago next week weren't in the "Trenchcoat Mafia," disaffected videogamers who wore cowboy dusters. The killings ignited a national debate over…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 3 views
I remember seeing a television documentary that featured the story of two drivers in conflict. One man felt the other driver had cut him off. He tailgaited, then pulled alongside the other driver, and they made angry gestures toward each other. As his anger escalated, the first pulled out a semiautomatic…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 9 views
by John C. Maxwell Americans have a warped view of criticism. Unfortunately, most of us see criticism almost exclusively in a negative light. We dish it out tactlessly, use it to tear down rivals, and attack others with it even when we have no authority to do so. It certainly doesn't help that we are…
Thomas K Sugimura • Illustration • • 6 views
Comprehending Engineers A pastor, a doctor and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers. The engineer fumed, "What's with these guys? We must have been waiting for 15 minutes!" The doctor chimed in, "I don't know, but I've never seen such ineptitude!" The pastor said,…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 5 views
If we say a situation is hopeless, we are slamming the door in the face of God. Instead, we have to be like the little boy who stood so long at the top of the escalator, watching intently, until someone asked him what he was doing. He patiently replied, “I stuck my chewing gum on that black hand rail,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 27 views
LIFE In this email to his former pastor in California, a Naval Officer expresses what facing danger and death is teaching him about life. “Here in Norfolk, it was certainly a hollow feeling that we experienced when the Cole was attacked. Just two months prior to the attack, the Cole was at the next pier…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 46 views
MARRIAGE Studies are showing that being a good, supportive spouse is good for your health. “Men over 65 whose wives consider them a source of emotional strength usually live longer than less needed hubbies.” —Reader’s Digest, October 2002, p. 48 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson Galatians 5:13 NIV “You,…