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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 32 views
These are great....and should be everywhere...Some new billboards are getting attention in Cleveland. Some reported seeing one or two messages, but the newspaper listed all of them. Here's a list of all variations of the "God Speaks" billboards. The billboards are a simple black background with white…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 17 views
Technology provides ways to keep track of tasks, but some people still cling to old fashioned ways. One of those people is 24-year-old Claira Hart, who uses an online project management app to communicate with coworkers across the country, but prefers a pen and paper to keep track of her to-do list.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
In Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge the authors write about the importance of anticipating the ways external forces can shape a company’s future. They use a hypothetical planning session of fifteen executives of a major airline at the turn of the millennium doing long-range planning until the year…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
When Mark Eklund was in junior high school, Helen Mrosla was his math teacher. One Friday she sensed that the students were frustrated with themselves and edgy with one another. To get a handle on this she asked them to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
In a recent survey of 2000 Moms and their children, the kids listed the following as something a “Cool Mom” will not do: • “Using their home nickname in front of their friends (42%),” • “Shouting their name at a sports game or other event (40%),” • “And dancing in public (40%).” In short, the kids say…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
A 1,400 square-foot home in New York state is billed as the first 3D printed home in the United States. The three-bedroom, 2 bath home with detached garage is listed at just under $300,000. It was built by a company called SQ4D and used a massive 3D printer on site to create each piece of the home using…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
The music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra has put together a playlist to help animals at a local shelter. Yannick Nezet-Seguin said he was inspired watching the reactions of his cats, and wanted to use music to create a soothing atmosphere for the animals at the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
Workers renovating a café In England made a discovery that may change the way the café does business. While pulling apart a section of ceiling, workers found a menu from the restaurant that occupied the building in 1913. The menu from the Yamen Café and Tea Rooms was dated January 1913. Workers also…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
The so-called experts, whoever they are, gave us a list of things that are good for us. Things like organic foods, saunas, full-fat dairy, to-do lists, leg exercises, and turmeric. One thing that is good for us that is even more surprising than the above is holding hands. The University of Colorado tells…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
John Kellett, who is known as Baltimore’s Mr. Trash, was awarded a world record from Guinness World Record for clearing 63.3 tons of garbage in one month. Kellett designed and built a solar and hydro powered trash interceptor that removes debris from the city’s Jones Falls River. In April 2017, Kellett…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
In the movie Courageous, Javier Martinez, a Hispanic construction worker, gets laid off from his work, leaving his family under a tight financial strain. In an early move scene, Javier arrives home; his wife is in the kitchen with only rice and beans to feed her family; he gives the last dollars he had…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Six-year-old Daphne Kenny found a surprise in the cereal aisle that made her trip to grocery extra special. While she, her sister, and mother were shopping Daphne pulled a piece of paper from the shelf beside a box of cereal. Her mother thought it might be someone’s grocery list, but it turned out to…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
Branko Lustig was a 10-year-old prisoner at Auschwitz when Nazi guards ordered him to stand in the front row at a hanging. Seven inmates were brought to the gallows and, as Branko watched, just moments before the bench was kicked out from under them, the inmates shouted in Yiddish, “Remember how we died!…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
What would you do if you found $52,000, and one knows you have it, but you know who lost it? When a couple in New York found a hunk of rusted metal in their shrubbery they assumed that it was an abandoned cable box. Taking it out and getting it open they discovered $52,000 in cash and Jewelry. It also…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
In the “Me-too” era, even cultural liberals are beginning to realize the problems inherent in the sexual revolution. Lisa Miller in NYMag.com said “For all its liberating upsides, the sexual revolution has an anything goes ethos which gave the elites and the circles orbiting them intellectual permission…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
July 24, 2010 in Spearfish, South Dakota a small engine plane crashed and killed one person. The pilot and his wife were flying into the small airport from Montana. Upon his approach to the airport, he reported by radio that everything seemed to be normal until he began to make his final descent to enter…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
The Nashoba Brook Bakery in Concord, Massachusetts received an official warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. "Your Nashoba Granola label lists ingredient 'Love.' Ingredients required to be declared on the label or labeling of food must be listed by their common or usual name. 'Love'…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Jim McElwain, the former coach of the Florida Gators football team accepted a low offer for his home in Gainesville because he thought it would help a family in need. McElwain left his position with Florida and took a job with the Michigan Wolverines. He had not listed his house for sale, when the low…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
A new study from the University of Vermont suggests eating hot peppers can help you live longer. In the study, researchers looked at the health and diet data of more than 16,000 Americans for nearly 19 years. They discovered that “those who regularly ate hot peppers were 13 percent less likely to die…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
In the annual Gallup poll regarding how honest and ethical most Americans rate different professions the clergy doesn’t come out looking very good. Only 42% of Americans view the clergy as high or very high in honesty and ethics. It has been declining every year since 2009. One reason for the decline…
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Dustan Ingenthron • Branson Bible Church • Illustration • • 43 views • unknown
# Philippians 3:17–21 ## Opening So far in this chapter Paul has warned against the Judaizers, and any who would place their confidence in who they are, or what they have done and not the finished work of Christ alone. By way of rebuking this idea, Paul gives his own longs list of “fleshly” qualifications…
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Dustan Ingenthron • Branson Bible Church • Illustration • • 407 views • 39:24
# Philippians 1:3–8 ## Opening: Paul’s Thanksgiving As we move on this morning in our study of Paul’s letter to the Philippians, we find Paul following his normal pattern of thanksgiving and prayer. This week we will look at his statement of thanksgiving about the Philippians, and next week we will look…
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Dustan Ingenthron • Branson Bible Church • Illustration • • 133 views • 42:59
# Philippians Lesson 1 ## Intro to the Study of Philippians I’ve been given the privilege of teaching the opening weeks of this study through the book of Philippians. Before we get to the text of Philippians I am going to take a few minutes to refresh your memory of the background of the Philippian churches…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 29 views
Since 2011, there have been 64,000 Australians report that “Jedi,” is their religion when taking the census. It all began as a joke to get Jedi listed as a recognized religion, but the atheists are not laughing. They are upset because “it makes Australia look more religious than it is.”—Jim L. Wilson…