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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
British officials are looking for the owner of a treasure trove of gold coins found hidden inside a piano. The owners took the piano to be tuned last year and found a bag containing gold coin minted between the mid-19th and the early 20th century. The piano was manufactured in 1906 and the first owners…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Caroline Rezac and her husband John were on vacation in Glacier National Park when their camera fell out of John’s pocket and disappeared down a stream. Three years later, a Montana photographer, who works for a newspaper, found the camera and suspected that the owner might be from the Lincoln area because…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
The amazing discovery of a 1880s era Winchester rifle has authorities in Nevada stumped. During an archaeological survey in late 2014, the rifle was discovered leaning against a tree. It blended in to its surrounding so well that officials say it is possible the .40-40 rifle had been there since the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Clarence Van Dyken remembers several things about 1959. Gas was twenty-five cents a gallon, and he earned $50 a week. That was also the year that he lost his wallet. As time passed, he never thought he would see it again, and life went on. Recently Van Dyken’s lost wallet was returned after the person…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Bob Russell’s 1967 Austin Healey 3000 was stolen from his Philadelphia area apartment 42 years ago. Since then, Russell has eyed every Healey that passed him wondering if it might be his old car. Several years ago, he started checking internet sits in hopes of one day finding the long lost car. Even…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
According to reports from the cell phone industry Americans lost nearly 30 billion dollars worth of mobile phone equipment in 2011 alone. The list of places phones were likely to disappear included coffee shops, workplaces, and restaurants. The security firm’s report concluded that the average American…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
An unidentified man was walking home in the early morning hours in Minneapolis. He was using the walking maps on Google maps when he misunderstood the directions for crossing the Stone Arch Bridge near Minneapolis’ downtown. He walked out on the frozen Mississippi river where he fell through ice into…
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Why do we do what we do? Sometimes we lose our sense of purpose. On a dangerous sea coast where shipwrecks often occur, there was once a crude little life-saving station. The building was just a hut, and there was only one boat, but the few devoted members kept a constant watch over the sea, and with…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 19 views
SOUL An Australian council gave an Irishman special permission to dig through a local garbage dump. The man is desperately trying to find a lottery ticket worth 1.5 million dollars ($700,000 US), that he says he accidentally threw out in an empty grocery bag. Newsagent Sue Virgin said the winning ticket…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN William Bailey panicked when he realized he had accidentally left a leather portfolio containing a Picasso print, and a painting by Sophie Matisse worth $6,000 in a New York subway station. Bailey, a framer and art instructor had been taking the portfolio downtown when he put it down…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
SIN How far can one person fall? During the winter of 2008, Julian Carr made plans to fall 300 feet, land on his back, and walk away, or rather, ski away. The Salt Lake City resident plans to travel to Jackson, Wyoming for a planned ski jump, summersault, and free fall into a 10-foot snow pack with another…
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John MacArthur Basisinformationen zur Bibel Christliche Literatur-Verbreitung Postfach 11 01 35 • 33661 Bielefeld Wenn nicht anders angegeben, sind die Bibelzitate der Schlachter 2000 entnommen. Abkürzungen weiterer Bibelausgaben: Elb.: Elberfelder Bibel, unrevidierte Fassung Lu 12: Lutherbibel von 1912…
Alan Bester • Illustration • • 11,855 views
A Catechism for the use of the people called Methodists (a) WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN? | 1 | What is a Christian? Christians are those who believe that God has revealed himself in Jesus Christ accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour, live in communion with God and in the power of the Holy Spirit, and…
Steve Bramham • Illustration • • 934 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…