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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 17 views
Rev. W. O. Taylor, 91, was the oldest man attending the Southern Baptist Convention a few years ago. At the annual free breakfast for retirees, Brother Taylor rose and recited his own alliterative version of the parable of the prodigal son, which he entitled "The Final Fixing of the Foolish Fugitive"
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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…
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 42 views • unknown
Pastors today are faced with more work, more problems, and more stress than any other time in the history of the church. This is taking a frightening toll on the ministry, shown by the statistics below: Pastors: · Fifteen hundred pastors leave the ministry each month due to moral failure, spiritual burnout…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 6 views
Who among us can tell all the perils of this mortal life? I remember reading a work in which there were collected together numerous instances of the simple means by which men have died, such as the swallowing of a fruit stone, or the sticking of a small bone in the throat, the breathing of some invisible…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 12 views
What strength holy living in his people gives to the preacher of the word of God! Imagine a man comes before you and says, “There is, somewhere about here, an invisible lake, containing the purest, coolest, and most refreshing water that you ever drank. You never saw water so pure and delicious.” We…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
In his book, Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It, Brian Dumaine quotes Bezos as saying, “The whole point of moving things forward,” says Bezos, “is that you run into problems, into failures, and you have to back up and do things again.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
In Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek writes, “Spencer Silver, the scientist who is partially credited with the creation of the Post-it, was working in his lab at the Minnesota-based company, actually trying to develop a very strong adhesive. Unfortunately, he wasn’t successful. What he accidentally made…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
Los Angeles will be home to the new Museum of Failure. The museum will feature more than 100 failed inventions. The goal is to help us “accept failure, learn from it, and truly achieve progress.” Failure is not the end. The Bible tells of men and women who failed before they succeeded. Peter denied Christ…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Officials at the Sierra Bible Camp in California confirmed that the camp was destroyed by the Dixie Fire in the summer of 2021. The camp averaged 2,200 visitors each summer and was founded in 1952. The camp advertised itself as a camp where youth could get to know more about the Savior and connect with…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
After the summit with President Trump failed to produce an agreement, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un blamed four of his top officials. It’s not good to be blamed for failure in North Korea. The North Korean leader had the officials executed. According to reports, the Dear Leader also demoted his right-hand…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
After the Cleveland Browns finished the 2017 NFL season with zero wins, some fans in the city organized what they called a “no victory” lap. The parade consisted of 80 vehicles making one lap around the stadium to make a statement creatively expressed their outrage over a season many wanted to forget.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
A new traveling museum recognizes more than one hundred failed inventions. The builders want to encourage humanity to “accept failure, learn from it, and truly achieve progress.” Some of the failed innovations are the Apple Newton, Google Glass, Harley Davidson Perfume, and the Kodak Digital Camera.—Jim…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Three American scientists, including one who initially flunked out of MIT, won the Nobel Prize in physics because they launched a whole new way of observing the cosmos. Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, and Kip Thorne were part of team of more than 1,000 astronomers who first observed gravitational waves in…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Samir Singh, the ultra marathon runner from India had set a huge goal for himself, but ended just short of his achieving his dream. Singh, who was called “The Faith Runner,” spent three months running between the slums and business district of Mumbai. He set a goal of running 10,000 km in 100 days when…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
George St. Pierre, aka GSP, is one of the most accomplished martial artists in Ultimate Fight Championship (UFC) history. He is a three-time former UFC Welterweight champion (2006, 2007, 2008), three-time Canadian Athlete of the Year (2008, 2009, 2010), consistently named as one of the best "pound-for-pound"…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
In their book, No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention, Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer write, “Self-disclosure builds trust, seeking help boosts learning, admitting mistakes fosters forgiveness, and broadcasting failures encourages your people to act courageously.” —No Rules Rules, 123 James…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Nassau County, New York District Attorney Madeline Singas announced that a 25-year-old man from the area is facing jail time because he tried to forge his death certificate to avoid serving another jail sentence. The prosecutor said he might have been successful if not for the typos in the document.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Leonard Durkin was suffering from heart failure. The Englishman was a huge Burger King fan and told his kin he wanted them to bury him with his usual order. He got his dying wish. On leaving the funeral the hearse carrying his corpse stopped at a Burger King drive-through, and a double bacon cheeseburger…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Former Ohio University basketball star D.J. Cooper received a two year suspension from European leagues because he failed a drug test. This wasn’t just any failure. The urine from Cooper, a healthy 28-year-old man, tested positive for pregnancy. The Week, August 16, 2019, p. 6 Interestingly, officials…
Romans
Rev. Bruce Goettsche • Union Church of La Harpe Illinois • Illustration • • 442 views
Imagine going to Chicago on a business trip. You have a bunch of meetings and have plans to fly out right after your last meeting to meet your family in some great vacation spot. Your meetings run late and you know it is going to be a challenge to get to the airport and get checked in so you can make…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
In 2009, Cassandra Phillips launched a one-day conference celebrating failure in high tech world of Silicon Valley. The conference was successful for four years, and now Phillips says her conference isn’t needed any more because failure has become so common in high-tech ventures. In fact, according to…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Paul David Tripp’s life changed big time in 2014. He went into a hospital for a checkup but ended up hospitalized with kidney failure. Over the next few months, he endured six surgeries and lived with excruciating pain and perpetual fatigue. Out of the experienced he shared his experience and offers…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
In Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, Eric Metaxas writes, “Actions must follow what one believed, else one could not claim to believe it.” —Jim L. Wilson Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, 240. Joshua 1:8 (HCSB) This book of instruction must not depart from your mouth; you are…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
After Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, the Island suffered from major power outages. One report said “The Electric Power Authority said it dispatched crews to investigate why a key 230-kilovolt line that connects the Island's northern and southern regions had failed for the second time in a week.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
In a lonely hospital room where doctors were testing him for a possible heart attack, Bernie received a visit from a local pastor. Before the pastor left the room, Bernie repented of his sins and professed faith in Jesus Christ. Bernie Carbo was Major League Baseball’s rookie of the year in 1970. He…