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Reflections Podcasts
Rosemary Laxton • Meanwood Valley Baptist Church • Illustration • • 30 views • 6:53
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 16 views
BIBLE MEDITATION: “For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy.” Isaiah 57:15 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: “Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain” ( Exodus 20:7 ). We all know that profanity is one way that you can take God’s name in vain, but I’ll tell…
Pepitas de Fe
Pastor Azael Carcamo • Illustration • • 18 views
Efesios 5:18 (RVR60)
18No os embriaguéis con vino, en lo cual hay disolución; antes bien sed llenos del Espíritu,
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
While some found the emergence of billions of cicadas in the spring and summer of 2021 annoying, David Rothenberg, a professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, used the opportunity for man and nature to work together. While the insects swarmed all around, Rothenberg…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
A New Jersey man who cleans homes to supplement his income shared the story of how he accidentally went to a townhouse and left it spotless. Louis Angelino said he often cleans homes for friends to make extra money and was schedule to clean the home for his friend Mark. He arrived and found the key in…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
When the pandemic began, many experts predicted it would have a negative impact on relationships and lead to more break ups and divorces. Susan Albers, a psychologist with the Cleveland Clinic said the actual results have been more mixed. Albers said for couples experiencing a lot of tension before the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
A Taiwanese man who happened to get one of the first PlayStation 5 consoles was forced to sell the device when his wife learned he had lied to her, saying the device was an air purifier. The buyer, Jim Wu talked about his experience on social media. Wu said he arranged to meet the seller in purchase…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
An unnamed man in England was ready to propose to his girlfriend. He lit hundreds of tea-light candles in his apartment, poured two glasses of wine, then went to fetch his girlfriend so he could wow her with a proposal. When the couple returned to the apartment, they found it engulfed in flames. The…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Amusement park owners in Japan are taking a possibly impossible step in social distancing. All customers should maintain social distance, keep conversations to a minimum, and keep the mouths closed while on park thrill rides. That is the hard part. One of the rides travels at 112 mph, another is the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Pope Francis called on the world’s Catholics to make better use of their time. His challenge to the faithful was to “give up insulting people on social media for Lent and pray instead of wasting time with ‘useless words, gossip, rumors, tittle-tattle.’” The Week, March 6, 2020 p. 6 The rest of us could…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
On leap day 2020, twenty-nine couples tied the knot at two twenty-nine p.m. in Hell, Michigan, a small town 20 miles outside Ann Arbor. The Rev. Yvonne Williams officiated the mass ceremony. The ceremony was short and sweet, less than 10 minutes, and was held outside the town’s chapel. Couples had to…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Joshua Rogers tells about the time he, his wife, and their two young daughters were listening to Disney songs. The next song was a sentimental love song "I See the Light" from “Tangled.” Joshua walked over to his wife, who was in the kitchen, took her in his arms and started dancing with her slowly.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Joshua Rogers remembers what he felt like when his parents divorced. He said it felt like a death, his parents had died. He became an orphan of sorts -- a little less loved. https://apple.news/A5VVtNcGwSwWvjHVljWnxmg Parents can never forget the ways their relationship with their spouse affects the children.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
We have all heard the saying, “If momma ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.” Well new research reported in the New York Times indicates what makes momma happy. The paper reported that their research shows “the happiest of all wives in America are religious conservatives, followed by their religious progressive…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Communities across the United Kingdom are being invited to adopt the famous red telephones boxes. British Telecommunications has initiated a program to convince local communities to adopt and use local red telephone boxes that are no longer needed. The growth in mobile phone usage has rendered the boxes…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Over the last ten years the average price of Super bowl advertisements has doubled. Commercial time for Super Bowl LIII (53) sold for an average of $5.25 million for a 30 second ad, roughly $175,000 per second. If every 30 seconds is that valuable, then each day is potentially worth slightly more than…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
When a Michigan couple learned that they broke the law when they married two years earlier, they asked a judge to void the first marriage and then marry them again. Philip Timmer and Trish Stewart were both divorced with children from previous marriage when they met in 2010. They married in 2016, but…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
Writing to business executives, Peter Drucker says, “. . . only constant efforts at managing time can prevent drifting [into wasting time]. Systematic time management is therefore the next step. One has to find the nonproductive, time-wasting activities and get rid of them if one possibly can” —Jim L.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 41 views
When Isabel Larios was stuck in LA traffic after an accident on her way to work, she made the most of it. Instead of complaining, she got out of the cab of her food truck and opened up for the other motorists waiting for the road to clear. National Public Radio reported that she “served eggs, burritos…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
A little girl who lost her stuffed lion on a hike received it back after a community effort to locate her. Hiker Holly Spaman encountered the girl, Audrianna Flores and her family as they descended from a hike to No Name Lake in Oregon. The girl told Spaman that her stuffed lion had fallen out of her…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 15 views
“As a personal commodity, money is extremely elastic, in that you can theoretically accumulate an infinite amount of it, and your income fluctuates at different points in your life. Time, by contrast, is intrinsically inelastic: You cannot accumulate more of it, and you’ve never had any less of it. You…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
As state governments begin to legalize the use of recreational marijuana, Christians are asking questions about its use. Now that it is legal, is it ok for a Christian to use? World Magazine tackles the question with a side bar entitled “Thinking Biblically about Recreational Marijuana.” Along with pointing…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
One of the five myths of marriage discussed in a Washington Post article on marriage is that marital affairs are the main cause of divorce. As bad as an affair is for a marriage, destroying the foundation of trust, the affair is typically a result rather than the cause of a disintegrating marriage. “In…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 15 views
When we take marriage vows we intend for them to be forever. Sometimes they don’t last quite that long. For one couple in Tennessee it didn’t even last overnight. Kate Prichard and James Burton ended up drinking a little too much after their nuptials and at the motel got into a fierce argument. Kate…