Description of Illustration: black and white illustrated banner, polka-dot elephant, giraffe, polar bears, teddy bears, wooden soldier, dolls, pot of ink, wreath, "Santa's Nice List", boys and girls to receive gifts on Christmas Day
Description of Illustration: the Saint carries the rock relic, St. Stephen was the first martyr of the Christian believers, he was the protomartyr, stoned by the Jews for his faith, Saul who later was converted to Paul bore witness and instrumentally agreed to his stoning in Acts 6-7
Description of Illustration: The Gospel of Matthew and The Gospel of Saint John speak to the church about things to come, landscape, symbol of Mary with almond halo, river, record keeping, St. John's Eagle carries a penner in his beak (scribe's tools)
Description of Illustration: angels, wings, pattern, mosaic, text "Peace on Earth, Goodwill Towards Men." clouds, heaven above, Christmas announcement or Christmas meassage
Description of Illustration: shepherds
watching over baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph, the ox and the ass, a crude shelter, angels and a village, old manuscript
Description of Illustration: shepherds watching their flocks at night, angel announcing the Savior's birth, sheep resting in a field where they are kept for sacrifice, landscape, giant halo, Advent, Christmas
Description of Illustration: person praying in the darkness, looking for The Light, hands praying, black and white illustration, rough edges, expressive lines
Description of Illustration: greyscales of revelers in the streets during Carnival or Mardi Gras long ago., European, celebration, during Lent, people in old-fashioned costumes, detailed drawings
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Clip Art Description: text, "Happy New Year" banners, one black and white, one silver and blue and the third in black and yellow
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Description of Photograph: Vintage photo, Marx Bros., multiple glasses, too many lenses, looking everywhere, difficulty focusing, too many points of view, sermon starter
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Description of Illuminated Scripture: baby leans on and looks at a world globe, speech bubbles, ding-bats, simple symbols, the baby thinking,
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| Someone needs a good wash... |
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| Someone call the Red Cross! |
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| Someone should pray... |
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| The keys to the problems... |
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| Portrait of the Widow of Nain. |
The widow of Nain's son (Luke 7:11-19) was the first person Jesus raised from the dead. It was after He and his disciples and a multitude following Him had left Capernaum and had entered the village of Nain, which lies on the lower slopes of the Little Hermon. When Jesus came to the gate of the city, "Behold, there was dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her."
Luke goes on to relate that Jesus had compassion upon her, as He always did upon women in distress. No one asked Him for help, but walking up to the widow Jesus said, "Weep not." Such words
were not a feeble effort to console her. They had a deeper meaning, as she was soon to learn.
He came and touched the bier of her son and spoke to him, "Young man, I say unto thee, Arise." And the young man who had been dead began to speak. Though Luke does not give us a definite
picture of the mother or express how she felt when her son was raised from the dead, the one graphic stroke is sufficient: Jesus "delivered him to his mother."
The most amazing phase of the healing of the widow of Nain's son is that all who had witnessed this miracle "glorified God" saying a great prophet had come among them. And they recognized that Jesus was a far greater prophet than had been Elijah, who had raised from the dead the son of the widow of Zarephath. Elijah had raised her son after he had gone into a room alone and prayed for the boy. But Jesus healed the son of the widow of Nain instantaneously as a bewildered crowd looked on.
