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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
While the whole world reels from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and many feel hopeless as a result, Queen Elizabeth issues her first ever Easter message in 2020, filled with hope for her subjects during this time of crisis. She reminds us that Easter is not cancelled this year but remains “a symbol…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
While she and her neighbors stayed at home to social distance, a teenage girl decided to encourage her neighbors by singing to them on Easter. The teen’s mother helped her set up some speakers in their driveway so she could be heard by the neighbors. They posted a video of the event on social media afterwards,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Mila Kunis is a Jewish actor that has two children with Ashton Kutcher. She is determined that they will not grow up to be Hollywood brats. The two children, Wyatt 3, and baby Dimitri will not receive any Christmas presents this year. Last year Wyatt, only 2 at the time, received so much stuff that there…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 68 views
One day a man’s four-year-old daughter asked him why they celebrated Christmas. He didn’t have a good answer for her, so he went to the local book shop and bought a Children’s Bible and began reading it to her. They even memorized a Bible verse together. He never talked, though, about the cross and resurrection…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 23 views
A woman who wanted to help her church build a new building put a rare and valuable gift in the offering plate during a special Easter offering. The woman, who prefers to remain anonymous, gave an 1866 proof Liberty Head double eagle coin to the church to help finance the new building. Her church has…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Each spring, about 400 people arrive for spring training at the Texas Rangers facility in Surprise, Arizona. They include players, wives, coaches, and office staff. When the team arrives, Pastor Jason Griffin begins his role as Team Chaplain for spring training. Griffin also pastors a church in the area,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
A church in Southern California passed out Random Act of Kindness (RAK) cards and asked their members to perform random acts of kindness in the community and leave a RAK card with the name of the church. One church member tried this at a Starbucks drive through. Handing the RAK card to the Starbucks…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 21 views
In his weekly editorial for the magazine, The Week, William Falk tells about a show on the Food Network called Restaurant Impossible. In each episode of the program, chef and restaurateur Robert Irvine accepts an invitation to revive a dying family restaurant somewhere in Smalltown, America. Irvine critiques…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
“Workers at a Mississippi funeral home got a shock when a corpse started moving inside his body bag.” Walter Williams, 78, had been declared dead several hours earlier and morticians were about to start the embalming process. Then the coroner, Dexter Howard, noticed something not quite right. There was…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
In his book, The Insanity of God, Nik Ripken writes, “. . .people flocked to Christ in greater numbers during difficult days of persecution because that’s when they could recognize how God sustains and strengthens His followers through times of trouble.” —Jim L. Wilson Nik Ripken, and Gregg Lewis. Insanity…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Antonio Arias has a problem. Four years ago a hospital mistakenly declared him dead and a death certificate was filed that bears his name, Social Security number, and date of birth. Now no matter how much he persists, no government agency or bank will believe he is alive. His credit cards have all been…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Many people who live along the Jersey shore took time to attend Easter sunrise services demonstrating their faith is still strong despite the storms they have endured. One pastor who lead a service said tragedy brings people together in ways they normally would not have. Though two iconic crosses in…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Several pastor and Christian leaders had positive things to say about the TV miniseries, The Bible, which aired on History channel in March 2013. Expressing his views in writing, Franklin Graham said, it was fitting that the series aired during the month leading up to Easter, because it would remind…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
A three-year-old British toddler was doing something as harmless as hunting Easter eggs in Somersett, England. He found a brown one but was having some trouble getting it in his basket. When the adults examined his egg they discovered he had found an unexploded hand grenade from WW II. An army bomb squad…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 41 views
2045, The Year Man Becomes Immortal shouts the cover of Time magazine! Of course that is a couple thousand years late. Jesus already promised that those who believe in Him will never die. The Time article is about the Singularity movement. The Singularity moment is when computer intelligence passes human…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
Governor Rick Perry of Texas used the Easter weekend of 2001 to call people in his state to ask God for much needed rain. Since the beginning of the year, the Texas Forest Service has responded to more than 800 fires that have damaged some 5,000 structures and blackened more than 1.4 million acres. Dry…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
An Austrian woman recently had to convince the local electric company that she was still alive. The fifty-eight-year-old woman identified as Christine received a personally addressed letter from the electric provider stating they had heard of her passing through her bank. The woman wrote back by fax…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
“Can you be Christian and not believe in the resurrection?” shouts the headline in the Salt Lake Tribune. What a crazy question. You would think that when the journalist came up with that question, as soon as she began to research it among Christian clergy, she would have decided that it was a foolish…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 35 views
A new study from the Barna organization indicates that as American society becomes more religiously diverse; there is more confusion over what the Easter holiday is all about. When asked what Easter meant to them personally, a majority of Americans said they believed there is a spiritual connection to…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
HEAVEN Some people think they can crash any party. Michaele and Tareq Salahi crashed the White House state dinner given in honor of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in November 2009. The couple bluffed their way through security and even though they had no invitation they hobnobbed with the famous…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
A German broadcast corporation intentionally posted a hoax video of Michael Jackson on the Internet as an experiment aimed at showing how quickly misinformation and conspiracy theories spreads. The company RTL posted a video that purportedly showed Michael Jackson, who died over a month earlier, emerging…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
The Center for Public Christianity in Sydney, Australia conducted a poll about the holiday and tenants of the Christian Faith. The survey of 2,500 average Australian citizens turned up some surprising results. The survey found nearly half of the respondents believed Jesus Christ rose from the dead, though…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 32 views
RESURRECTION Who would you say is the most skilled lawyer of all times? According to the Guinness Book of Word Records, it is Sir Lionel Luckhoo, the winningness lawyer in the world with 245 straight murder acquittals. You would think that a lawyer with his track record would possess superior investigative…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 670 views
TREASURE A jobless man from Argentina who found $50,000 buried in trash is being sued by the woman who claims she lost the fortune. Recent economic problems in the country have forced thousands of Argentines to earn their living by collecting and selling street garbage such as cardboard. 46-year-old…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
RELIGION "At certain points in church history, Easter was a forty-day celebration. Forty days is too much for our busy culture, so we've shortened it to four Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday. But even this is becoming too much for the modern Christian, so we watch "The Robe"…