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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 24 views
I will never forget Ted Stone
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 88 views
Had Abraham stopped in Ur of the Chaldees with his friends and rested there and enjoyed himself, where would his faith have been? He had God’s command to leave his country to go to a land that he had never seen, to sojourn there with God as a stranger, dwelling in tents, and in his obedience to that…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 62 views
You have seen a noble fountain in a city adorning a public square. See how the water leaps into the air; then it falls into a circular basin that fills and pours out its fullness into another lower down, and this again floods a third. Hear the merry splash as the waters fall in showers and cataracts…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 23 views
If Niagara could suddenly be made to leap upward instead of forever dashing downward from its rocky height, it would not be such a miracle as to change the perverse will and the raging passions of men. To wash the Ethiopian white, or remove the leopard’s spots, is proverbially a difficulty, yet these…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
During the height of pandemic, Zohaib Begg undertook a mission to gather personal protective equipment for frontline workers. Then, the self-proclaimed “Chief Kindness Officer” decided he needed to do more to help his community so he contacted area business asking for help putting together boxes containing…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
NFL referee Sarah Thomas said her biggest achievement in 2020 was not reaching the milestone of becoming the first woman to officiate the Super Bowl, but rather the growth she saw because of her faith. During an interview, Thomas said in the height of the pandemic in June 2020, she was out of control,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Clemency, a film that won the 2019 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for drama is about death row, dealing with some of the social issues involved. When the priest quotes Romans 8:38-39 for comfort, he omits the most important phrase, the last one. Romans 8:38–39 (CSB) For I am persuaded that neither death nor…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 29 views
Caelie Wilkes admits she was proud of one of her plants, calling it “a beautiful succulent,” and the “perfect plant.” The 24-year-old California woman watered it according to a meticulous schedule for two years. She was so proud of it that when she found a really cute vase she decided it would be the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 52 views
In the novel Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff, the main character is treated horribly as a young boy by the Earnshaw family. As he grows older, he plots revenge on those who treated him cruelly and their children--to the point where his vengeance consumes his every thought and action. Isabella, one of the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
In Fort Worth, Texas a man drove his car into the church, chased down the pastor and beat him to death with an electric guitar. A maintenance worker who tried to help the pastor was injured and hospitalized. The police used a Taser on the suspect, put him in the back of the patrol car, then was pronounced…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Climate researchers, looking over ten years of data from a NASA spacecraft, say they have evidence the sky is falling. The tops of clouds decreased by an average of one percent between March 2000 and February 2010. The global average decreased by a distance of 100 to 130 feet. The most surprising factor…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
During the height of the Cold War, farmers in Soviet Estonia decided to use their assigned duties to send special messages to one of their communist allies. When Soviet authorities ordered the farmers to send potatoes to Cuba, the workers decided to include some messages as well. Hans Uba, who worked…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
Filipino designer Herbert Chavez loves Superman. When he was a young man, he saw Superman lift a stack of cars on the movie screen. As he grew older, he began collecting Superman memorabilia. His house is filled with cups, bedspreads, actions figures, and life-size Superman statues. Now the 35-year-old…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 5 views
I have never been the same since sitting at the feet of Richard Wurmbrand. It was literally at his feet. He took off his shoes and sat in a chair on the slightly raised platform at Grace Baptist Church in south Minneapolis. (I learned later it had to do with damage to his feet during the torture he had…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 35 views
DREAMS The creator of Veggie Tales, Phil Vischer, recently told a crowd of Christian journalists the Lord used bankruptcy to humble him to pursue God rather than a dream. At the Evangelical Press Association’s opening banquet, Vischer explained that he found himself facing a God he had never heard about…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
TEAMWORK In his book, What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures, Malcolm Gladwell writes, “But the link between, say, IQ and job performance is distinctly underwhelming. On a scale where 0.1 or below means virtually no correlation and 0.7 or above implies a strong correlation (your height, for example,…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 3 views
And yet we seem to worship everything, but Him. That’s the thing. We were created to be worshipers and all of us are really good at worship. We attribute worth to something in our lives for it is that which gives our life meaning. We can give worth to our looks, to our money, to our homes, to our families,…
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Garfield Heights Police Department Ohio police found their jobs made a little bit easier Monday after a chase ended with a suspect unwittingly fleeing straight into a prison. Ricky Flowers, 20, was stopped by police while driving with a suspended license, but fled the scene and led officers on a high-speed…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 4 views
McCauley Caulkin captured our hearts with his portrayal of Kevin in the Home Alone series. You remember the movie. When he first realizes he’s been left behind he dances around the house until something frightens him then he runs and hides under the bed. But, finally, as he gets more accustomed to being…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 131 views
One of the most moving and incredible accounts of suffering filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions is found in Sergei Kourdakov’s autobiography, The Persecutor. Kourdakov was commissioned by the Russian secret police to raid prayer gatherings and persecute believers with extraordinary brutality.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
The Financial Times has warned that the world’s supply of diamonds is running out? The World’s largest diamond producer, DeBeers, will cut production beginning in 2011 from 48 million carats to about 40 million. --The Week, May 7, 2010 p.38. Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell There is no…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
FUTURE What if you looked into the future and caught a glimpse of yourself like you would be then? This is the premise of the television drama, Flash Forward. The whole world passes out for 2 minutes and 17 seconds during which they see themselves exactly seven months into the future. --World, October…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 18 views
The attempts to climb Mount Everest were all failures until Sir Edmund Hillary finally climbed to the top in 1953. Between 1920 and 1952, seven major expeditions had failed to reach the summit. In 1924, the famous mountaineer George Leigh-Mallory had perished in the attempt. In 1952, a team of Swiss…
Wesley Crouch • Illustration • • 82 views
Prevailing Prayer by D. L. Moody PREFATORY NOTE The two first and essential means of grace are the Word of God and Prayer. By these come conversion; for we are born again by the Word of God, which lives and abides forever; and whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. By these also…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 54 views
Derek Redmond was prepared for the 400m semifinal race at the Olympics in Barcelona in 1992. He felt he was in the best shape of his life. Despite eight operations on his Achilles tendons over the past 4 years, he felt very confident. His father Jim, sitting in the stands, also had high hopes. Jim and…