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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 20 views
With tensions high between the United States and North Korea, Christians in South Korea went on the offensive, using prayer and Scripture to reach believers in the North. For the last thirty years, a Christian human rights group has sent hundreds of bright orange balloons into North Korean airspace every…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 15 views
A group of friends hoping to cheer up a friend with cancer was disappointed when the Bible they had been sending around the country got lost in the mail. Friends of Jill Yeager purchased a pink Bible and sent it to friends around the country, asking them to pray for Jill and write an encouraging note…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
Michel Flamant, a French baker, and Isaac Wenrich, a youth league baseball coach have something in common. Both of them had their lives saved in the same week by non-professional and unlikely people. Flamant had collapsed on the floor of his bakery when the room filled with carbon monoxide gas from a…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Fifty years ago Paula Pierce of Hampton Beach, N. H. stood with her father on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean. Her dad put a message in a Coke bottle and tossed it into the surf. The note said, “Return to 419 Ocean Boulevard and receive a $150 reward.” One half century later, Clint Buffington, beach…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
A lot of research is going into understanding who is using Apple’s new iPad computer. One of the surprising finding indicates the demographics for the computer platform are expanding beyond an urban, liberal, and fairly non-religious base. For the first time, a Bible has broken into the top 10 highest…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
When her son Cole was in the hospital with cancer, Mary Esther Elam needed a way to pass the time. Some friends urged her to journal, so she bought a journaling Bible. As she studied and prayed each day, Elam drew illustrations along with her notes on the page. She began sharing them on social media…
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Some parents in Frisco, Texas, are fuming because their public school district allowed Christian evangelists to provide Bibles to students on school grounds, which administrators say was done to stop even more proselytizing outside the schools. Frisco Independent Schools allowed Gideons International…
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Coggins, Richard J. "Do We Still Need Deutero-Isaiah?" Journal for the Study of the Old Testament no. 81 (December 1998): 77-92. Do We Still Need Deutero-Isaiah? 1. An Obsolescent Term? To speak of 'Deutero-Isaiah' has become one of the 'assured results of scholarship'. Should we continue to do so? Any…
Nathan Parker • Illustration • • 72 views
Unknown Author These are more effective than 911 When - You are sad, phone John 14 You have sinned, phone Psalm 51 You are facing danger, phone Psalm 91 People have failed you, phone Psalm 27 It feels as though God is far from you, phone Psalm 139 Your faith needs stimulation, phone Hebrews 11 You are…
Jeff Brown • Illustration • • 10 views
The Holy Torment of Preaching 13 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” 14 But how are they to call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? 15 And how are they to…
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17 Reasons to Keep Your Morale Up When Numbers Are Down One of the biggest emotional struggles in ministry through the years has involved numbers. If our attendance averages year-to-date were higher than the previous year’s, we feel encouraged. But if they slipped below the previous year’s levels, a…
Ralph Andrus • Illustration • • 79 views
EMERGENCY NUMBERS PRINT OUT AND KEEP IT WITH YOUR BIBLE. USE IN CASE OF EMERGENCY! HANDY REFERENCE LIST OF EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS When in sorrow.....................................call John 14 When men fail you.................................call Psalm 27 When you have sinned..............................call…
Steve Bramham • Illustration • • 930 views
A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…