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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 188 views
Even after playing his first baseball game with Arizona Fall League, former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow took time to pray for and talk to a fan who suffered a seizure. Brandon Berry had the seizure after sitting in near 100-degree heat for a long time. Another man, Daniel Kelly, said he met Berry early…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Jugal Kishore, 25, was going to be married to his beloved. They were about to exchange vows when he was struck by an apparent epileptic seizure. He was rushed to the hospital. The 23-year-old bride was furious that she had not been told of Kishore’s medical condition. She asked a member of her brother-in-laws…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Dogs are often called man’s best friend, but for three-year-old Brianna Lynch, her Great Dane is more than a friend, he is a protector. Brianna suffers from epilepsy. Her family says the best medicine she has is Brianna’s dog, Charlie. The Great Dane has never been trained as a detection dog, but he…
SteveF • Illustration • • 12 views
Patricia Fortini Brown, in Venice and Antiquity, notes that the ancient Greeks distinguished two kinds of time, "kairos (opportunity or the propitious moment) and chronos (eternal or ongoing time). While the first ... offers hope, the second extends a warning." Kairos is the time of cleverness, chronos…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Advanced Reservations Required I was shocked by the news that "Flo-Jo," Florence Griffith Joyner died of a heart seizure on September 21, 1998 at the age of 38. Just ten years before, at the 1988 Olympic Games at Seoul, Korea, she won the gold medal in the 100 and 200 meter race and in the 4x100 meter…
Robert Phillips • Illustration • • 13 views
An ethics professor at Princeton Seminary asked for volunteers for an extra assignment. At 2:00, 15 students gathered at Speer Library. There he divided the group of 15 into three groups of five each. He gave the first group of five envelopes telling them to proceed immediately across the campus to…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 4 views
“We adults forget what we do to children’s imaginations when we go through one of our national seizures on an issue. A dozen years ago, Hollywood fell in love with the environmental issue and put enviro messages in all their shows. The messages made their way into the funnies and magazines, and parents…
Scott Cody • Illustration • • 228 views
In 1975, a child named Raymond Dunn, Jr., was born in the state of New York. The Associated Press (AP) reported that at his birth, a skull fracture and oxygen deprivation caused severe retardation. As the child grew up, the family discovered that he had other impairments. His twisted body suffered up…
Joshua Gilliam • Illustration • • 57 views
The Barmen Declaration, 1934, was a call to resistance against the theological claims of the Nazi state. Almost immediately after Hitler's seizure of power in 1933, Protestant Christians faced pressure to "aryanize" the Church, expel Jewish Christians from the ordained ministry and adopt the Nazi "Führer…
David Van Brakle • Illustration • • 546 views
Here’s a brief drama/skit, reproduced with permission. See http://www.fea.net/bobsnook; e-mail: bobsnook@fea.net. JUDGE: (enters wearing black robe, crosses to podium, pounds gavel) This court is now in session. Anyone having business before this court, draw near and be heard. WIDOW: (enters carrying…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 46 views
parables, etc. ".. . he did not speak to them without a parable" Jesus Mark 4:34 R.S.V. monthly resource letter for pastors/teachers/speakers Volume 6, Number 3 May / 1986 HOPE Several years ago a school teacher assigned to visit children in a large city hospital received a routine call requesting that…