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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 23 views
As 2016 wound down, scientists announced that the year was going to a little longer than most, one second longer to be exact. To make up for slowing in the Earth’s rotation countries using Coordinated Universal Time added the leap second during the countdown to 2017. The timing for the rest of the world…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 30 views
Are you too busy? Do you need more time to get everything done? NASA is planning to help you a little. They have announced an extension to the year. On New Year’s Eve, December 2016, a “leap second” will be added to the world’s official clocks at 11:59:59 effectively making this year 1 second longer…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
June 2015 was one second longer than usual because scientists added one leap second to keep the earth and atomic clocks in synch. Scientists say that leap seconds are not like a leap days, which come every four years. Leap seconds are not predictable because weather exerts a force on the Earth’s surface,…
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Dustan Ingenthron • Branson Bible Church • Illustration • • 38 views • unknown
# Philippians 3:17–21 ## Opening So far in this chapter Paul has warned against the Judaizers, and any who would place their confidence in who they are, or what they have done and not the finished work of Christ alone. By way of rebuking this idea, Paul gives his own longs list of “fleshly” qualifications…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 4 views
Maybe this story will show you what I mean. Imagine for a moment that you are on a cruise in the Carribean. (Kind of sounds good right now, given the temperatures we’ve been having around here!) All of sudden, in the middle of the night you hear a huge explosion. You leap up and get your clothes on as…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
A cow that miraculously escaped a slaughterhouse in 2006 has been granted yet another lease on life. The bovine captured international attention when she leaped a 5-foot fence at a great Falls Montana packing plant. She dodged cars, trains, and dogs, before swimming the Missouri river, and finally being…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 12 views
We are looking this morning at the second sign of the cross. Last week we spoke of Baptism. This week, we will talk about Communion. At least that’s what we Baptists call it. If you were from another denomination, you might call it “The Lord’s Table,” or “The Eucharist.” Regardless of the title, I bet…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
CREATION "Finding the remains of microbes or any other trace of life on another world would be the greatest discovery in history and would have profound implications for the human race. As physicist Philip Morrison (a founder of the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence radio-telescope project) said,…
Jarred Edgecombe • Illustration • • 3 views
Chiefs TE Gonzalez saves man's life in restaurant Monday, July 07, 2008 By DOUG TUCKER, AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A California man says Pro Bowl tight end Tony Gonzalez of the Kansas City Chiefs kept him from choking to death. "Tony saved my life. There's no doubt," Ken Hunter, a shipping company…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 111 views
What are the keys to attracting visitors and keeping them coming back? by Charles Arn I sat affixed in front of my TV. THE BORG had just captured my hero and brought him onboard. “You will be assimilated,” a hideous-looking Borg intoned, raising his tentacles to the temples of “Star Trek” ’s Captain…
Billy D Strayhorn • Illustration • • 61 views
"Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to you, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer." "Down By The Riverside" (Genesis 1:1-5, Mark 1:4-11) INTRODUCTION: In one of my favorite commentaries, the comic strip "Peanuts", Linus says to Charlie Brown: "I guess it's wrong always…
joe • Illustration • • 184 views
MOODY'S ANECDOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. RELATED IN HIS REVIVAL WORK BY THE GREAT EVANGELIST DWIGHT L. MOODY. FULLY ILLUSTRATED FROM GUSTAVE DORE REVISED EDITION. EDITED BY REV. J. B. McClure. CHICAGO: Rhodes & McClure Publishing Co. 1899 Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1896 by the Rhodes…
Stephen Hustedde • Illustration • • 336 views
Daniel 9:24-27 “Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy place. “So you are to know and discern…
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Science & technology Amazing £40,000 'dolphin boat' which can leap out of the water by LAURA ROBERTS - More by this author » Last updated at 23:00pm on 1st January 2007 Comments Comments (11) It looks like something from a James Bond film. Shaped exactly like a dolphin, this boat is the latest toy for…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 29 views
the pastor's story file a resource file for pastors/teachers/speakers THEME: Hope September / 1988 Volume 4, Number 11 HOW IT WORKS Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 15 views
To Illustrate •§• TEMPTATION TRIALS FAITH T he February 26,1974 edition of Insight told the story of Major William Martin, a British subject who is buried near Huelvo on the southern coast of Spain. Martin never knew the great contribution he made to the Allied success in the Second World War, especially…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 3 views
ADVERSITY Murphy's Law Goes to Church: —the year's lowest attendance will occur when the superintendent makes a visit —members living 15 miles away will be 15 minutes early and members living within two blocks away will be 15 minutes late —saying "let us pray" causes babies to cry —the shorter the agenda,…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 7 views
To Illustrate BLOOD'S PRICE" W hen I was five years old, before factory-installed seat belts and automobile air bags, my family was involved in a head-on collision with a drunk driver. After a visit to my grandparents' farm, we had been driving home at night on a two-lane country road. I was sitting…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 6 views
To Illustrate ••0 PROVIDENCE EVANGELISM NEEDS L ate one evening a professor sat at his desk working on the next day's lectures. He shuffled through the papers and mail placed there by his housekeeper. He began to throw them in the wastebasket when one magazine — not even addressed to him but delivered…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 10 views
to Illustrate... IDENTITY I n "A Portrait of America/' Newsweek (1/17/83) poked some fun at the national census: 'Give your name and age and business. Is your husband working now'? Do you rent or own the building? Did you ever milk a cow? This is strictly confidential—are you underweight or fat? Does…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 9 views
Heaven is out of this world George Sweeting | £ | | E | very year, the little town of Pacific Grove, CA, Witnesses one of nature's spectaculars. In the fall, great clouds of orange and black Monarch butterflies sweep down from the Canadian Rockies. Thay cluster on pine trees by the millions, to stay…
Leigh Johnson • Illustration • • 120 views
I. Introduction When God created the universe and all within it, God looked and saw that it was good. At some point, however, evil entered the world and corrupted it. People may have different understandings of how this happened, but I don’t think anyone would argue that the world as we know it is the…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 16 views
parables, etc. . he did not speak to them without a parable" Jesus Mark 4:34 RS.V. a monthly resource letter for pastors/teachers/speakers Volume 7, Number 9 November / 1987 SIFTING THE WHEAT FROM THE CHAFF Stories from the underground church in Russia never tail to jolt us awake. I came across another…
Jim Vance • Illustration • • 107 views
FINAL WORDS. Christ's Farewell to Those He Loved Part One Calming Troubled Hearts Don't you wish you could turn anxiety on and off like a faucet? Wouldn't it be great if you could worry from 9:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. and then shut it down so that you could get a good night's rest? Unfortunately, we cannot…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 11 views
a resource file for pastors/teachers/speakers Volume 1, Number 2 Summer / 1987 CXJT (H A BROKEN LIMB Actress Shirley MacLaine has written a book on her experiences with the occult world, entitled Out On A Limb. F. LaGard Smith, Professor of Law at Pepperdine University has written a Christian answer…