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Pepitas de Fe
Pastor Azael Carcamo • Illustration • • 14 views
Lucas 2:10–11 (RVR60)
10Pero el ángel les dijo: No temáis; porque he aquí os doy nuevas de gran gozo, que será para todo el pueblo: 11que os ha nacido hoy, en la ciudad de David, un Salvador, que es CRISTO el Señor.
Advent 2014
Nicolai Pedersen • Refuge Christian Fellowship • Illustration • • 6 views • 36:42
Dr. Mark A. Barber • Illustration • • 13 views
This is a Confession to go with the Christmas Eve Communion Service
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
With every new administration, there is hope that change will make a difference, even if it simply means trying out a new strategy. At the beginning of this year as President Trump took office, he had great hope that his son-in-law Jared Kushner, himself a Jew, would be able broker peace in the Middle…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
70% of respondents to an ING survey “agree that Christmas is too focused on spending.” What would happen if people would focus on receiving instead of spending? No, I’m not talking about receiving Christmas gifts. I’m talking about receiving the greatest news ever announced—good news of great joy.—Jim…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
The United States Post Office decided to honor Christmas 2016 by releasing a brand new Forever stamp depicting Mary, Joseph, and the baby Jesus. The stamp features an image of the family silhouetted against a dawn sky. The baby Jesus is laying in a manger filled with straw while Mary kneels on the right…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 65 views
Researchers at Time Magazine searched American copyright records in the U. S. Copyright office for the number of times favorite Christmas songs have been recorded since 1978. The overwhelming choice as America’s favorite Christmas song is Silent Night. It has been recorded 733 times, almost twice as…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 25 views
In a popular Christmas story, the Grinch tries to stop people from celebrating Christmas by stealing the holiday because he didn’t understand what the season was really all about. The Christmas season can be expensive and stressful, but that does not explain why the first edition of the People app in…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 11 views
Hey, the shepherds didn’t sit on what they heard. They were not passive. They, in fact, did three things: They investigated. They went to Bethlehem on a baby-hunt. Now they didn’t have a star like the wisemen did, so they had to look. They evidently went from stable to stable, looking for a feeding trough…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 7 views
Did you ever miss a great party? Now, I’m not talking about getting drunk or anything like that, I’m talking about a great party with friends and good food and all the things that make a party, a party. Did you ever miss one of those? ME I did. It was my Senior year in High School. I was living in Deerfield…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 4 views
James Bakker discovered that. This is a picture of Jim Bakker, not the televangelist, the diplomat. He was the Secretary of State under Bush and Reagan. Jim is a lawyer form Houston, Texas, an Episcopalian who knew some things about the Bible. But by his own testimony, He said he never really paid much…
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…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 4 views
I ran across a video as I was looking through some illustrations for this message. It came from, of all places, the Chicago Bears website. It’s a clip from their rookie training camp. One of the videos shows Coach Lovie Smith’s orientation talk to the rookie class. Of course, the biggest thing on each…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 8 views
I used to be the Minister of Youth here at Peace, way back in the ‘90's. A lot of our current teens were not even born then, but that’s another story for another day. When I first came to this church, we were having a cycle of kids who were . . . shall we say - DIFFICULT. OK, some of them were pretty…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 15 views
Research from the London based theology think tank, Theos indicates Brittan is divided over the meaning of Christmas, but reveals some positive developments. The study which polled 1,000 British adults found just under half agreed with the statement that the birth of Jesus is “irrelevant” to their Christmas.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
A new poll suggests Americans have some definite preferences when it comes to celebrating Christmas, especially as far as music is concerned. Zogby International conducted an online poll to gauge the feelings of a representative group of Americans. Pollsters found Americans prefer the celebration of…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 27 views
Christ’s birth changed the world; now we must spread the word. President Ronald Reagan once commented on the earthly ministry of Christ: “Meaning no disrespect to the religious convictions of others, I still can't help wondering how we can explain away what to me is the greatest miracle of all and which…
Illustration • • 16 views
In 1957 Dr. Seuss released his latest children’s book entitled How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Not since Charles Dickens’ Scrooge had there been a Christmas character as dark and mean spirited as the Grinch, who swept into Whoville in the dark of the night and stole all the Christmas presents. To his…
John Fimple • Illustration • • 43 views
A Savior has Been Born Often we read the story of Jesus’ birth in Luke 2:8-15 and we read it so serenely, that “there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks.” We imagine a beautiful, pastoral picture of those who first heard that Jesus had been born. However,…
Alan Wilkerson • Illustration • • 23 views
Young 'forget Jesus at Christmas' Fewer than half of children aged seven to 11 think Christmas is about the birth of Jesus, a survey suggests. Some 44% thought it was about Jesus, while 29% said it was about thinking of other people, and 24% said it was about giving rather than receiving gifts. The survey…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 19 views
When he played quarterback for the University of Florida, Tim Tebow was famous for his football skills, and the unusual practice of writing Bible verses on his eye black on game day. Research found that the verses Tebow wore were searched millions of times on the Internet after the games. When Tebow…
Illustration • • 22 views
A woman was out Christmas shopping with her two children. After many hours of looking at row after row of toys and everything else imaginable, and after hours of hearing both her children asking for everything they saw on those many shelves, she finally made it to the elevator with her two kids. She…
Illustration • • 49 views
God's Plan for Older Men and Older Women Ttus 2:2‑3 Now obviously this morning is going to be addressed to older men and older women. · America is now the oldest society in the history of the world. There has never been a society with this percentage of older people. Material comfort, medical care and…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
The Patter of Little Feet Elizabeth had long since resigned herself to the fact that she would never hear the patter of little feet in the parsonage where she and her husband, Zechariah lived. Elizabeth was barren. Barren--the very word elicits thoughts of sand blowing across a desert wasteland. Zechariah…