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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 1,973 views
Happiness In Matthew 5, Jesus begins a sentence with the same words, “Blessed are...” eight different times. What does it mean to be blessed? It is a religious sounding word, isn’t it? It is pregnant with virtue–a stained glass sort of a word. The truth is, the Greek word simply means happy. In English,…
Gerry Heyboer • Illustration • • 549 views
\\ Restoring Joy to Your Life by Michael Zigarelli The quote is attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., a member of the U.S. Supreme Court for thirty years. At one point during his term, Justice Holmes was asked about his choice of career and whether he had considered other vocations. He responded…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 547 views
An online poll taken by a social networking and dating website recently asked 30,000 people from 15 different countries to rank the “funniest” and least funny nationalities. The global poll found Germans to be the least funny nationality while Americans and the Spanish were the funniest or best at making…
Jarred Edgecombe • Illustration • • 470 views
When Theodore Roosevelt went camping with his friend, naturalist William Beebe, they used to sit under the open sky at night and search for a tiny blob of light near the constellation Pegasus and chant together, “That is the Spiral Galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a…
Tim Campbell • Illustration • • 209 views
Lee Strobel Impressed by Impoverished Family's Example While working as a journalist for the Chicago Tribune, Lee Strobel was assigned to report on the struggles of an impoverished, inner-city family during the weeks leading up to Christmas. A devout atheist at the time, Strobel was mildly surprised…
Illustration • • 202 views
I believe that the real difference in the American church is not between conservatives and liberals, fundamentalists and charismatics, nor between Republicans and Democrats. The real difference is between the aware and the unaware. When somebody is aware of that love—the same love that the Father has…
"THE SECRETS OF YOUR HEART!
Rev. Dr. Johnson Mwara • Diaspora Community of Faith Church • Illustration • • 172 views • 1:02:28
Jarred Edgecombe • Illustration • • 116 views
"A genuine rival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light." Charles Spurgeon
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 110 views
In Character Forged from Conflict, Gary Preston writes about Gladys Aylward, a missionary to China during and after World War II: Gladys's ministry in China was chronicled in the film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness. She suffered terribly during her journey across the mountains of China in order to bring…
Illustration • • 103 views
"The Paradox of Our Time" The paradox of our time in history is that: We have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less. We buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have…
Dr. Whit Woodard • Illustration • • 98 views
In October, 1935, the African nation of Ethiopia was occupied by the fascist forces of Benito Mussolini. Ethiopia, traditionally a Coptic Christian culture, had over the centuries endured the brutal tyranny of Islam and other oppressors, and were now faced with another trial of significance. Their much…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 93 views
In The Simple Life, Vernard Eller delights himself in some of the great parables of Søren Kierkegaard. One of his favorites is the parable of the lighted carriage and starlit night. We could also call it the crisis of Christian Hedonism. It goes like this: When the prosperous man on a dark but starlit…
Reflections Podcasts
Rosemary Laxton • Meanwood Valley Baptist Church • Illustration • • 86 views • 19:36
Background to the nativity story. A Christmas meditation.
Illustration • • 81 views
Monsters, Inc. is a movie about a monster world that is fueled by fear, literally. The company motto is "We scare because we care." Each day, Mike, Sully, and the other monsters line up on the shop floor as a machine carries dozens of closet doors to individual scaring stations. A scream collection canister…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 78 views
“I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.” –Jim Carrey With a net worth in the vicinity of 150 million dollars, the funny man actor finds that fame and fortune is not the answer to life’s ills. A believer would agree…
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”Parish Change” A minister who had been with the same parish for many years, decided to leave and take a similar position in another church. Without telling anyone he had made this decision or writing a letter to the congregation, he waited until Sunday morning to announce his resignation in church.…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Faithlife Sermons • Illustration • • 58 views
In some of the houses not far from here, I noticed some linnets in cages, in which there were tufts of grass or small branches of trees as perches for the poor prisoners; yet they were singing away right merrily. I suppose that grass and those fragments of trees were meant to remind them, in this great,…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 57 views
This can be a hard lesson for some: Isak Dinsen wrote a wonderful story called Babette’s Feast. In a strict, dour community in Denmark, Babette worked as a cook. Her dream is to return to France where she was once a chef for nobility. Every year she buys a lottery ticket in hopes of striking it rich…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 51 views
Quaint, bizarre, eccentric, peculiar—those words describe a little, wiry coal miner named Billy Bray, of Cornwell, England. Before his conversion in November, 1832, Billy lived a vile life. After finding Christ, he became a flaming evangelist and lay preacher. On a mountain near his home lived a cluster…
Reflections Podcasts
Rosemary Laxton • Meanwood Valley Baptist Church • Illustration • • 46 views • 9:26
“God is creating a new humanity and something incredibly beautiful... Reach out and see the possibility of an amazing future.”
Todd Frusti • Illustration • • 40 views
In the area of St. Louis, MO two brothers were hunting one bright fall afternoon. This bright sunny fall afternoon would change the lives of their loved ones forever. One of the brothers caught his foot on something, tripped, and as he hit the ground his shotgun fired in the direction of his brother.…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Faithlife Sermons • Illustration • • 35 views
I remember hearing of a pious minister who was asked to speak one day upon the subject of joy in God. He stood up and said, “I am sorry that I have been requested to speak upon this topic; for the fact is, I am not walking in the light, but I am crying, ‘Restore to me the joy of your salvation’ (Psa…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 28 views
Happiness For years I’ve said that God isn’t as concerned with our happiness as He is our character. Though I’m not prepared to take that truism back, I do want to revisit it and think it through a little more. Certainly it wouldn’t be correct to say that God is more concerned with our happiness than…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 27 views
The HuffingtonPost.com quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson on the uselessness of anger. “For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.” Of course that is only the beginning of what you lose when you hold on to your anger, but it is a good reminder. --Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell The Week,…