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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 35 views
A great many learned men are defending the gospel; no doubt it is a very proper and right thing to do. Yet I always notice that, when there are most books of that kind, it is because the gospel itself is not being preached. Suppose a number of persons were to take it into their heads that they had to…
Dan Hughes • Illustration • • 16 views
By John Blake, CNN President Barack Obama was sharing a pulpit one day with a conservative Christian leader when a revealing exchange took place. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, a conservative Christian who has taken public stands against abortion and same-sex marriage, had joined Obama for an AIDS summit.…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 5 views
Charles Colson tells of a frustrated prison psychiatrist who exclaimed, “I can cure a person’s madness, but not his badness.” The only way to make bad people good is to expose them to the gospel. Even Charles Darwin, the man who contributed so much to evolutionistic thinking, admitted this. He wrote…
Brad Shockley • Illustration • • 91 views
Ron and Karen Rohman preach the Gospel on the streets of downtown Portland, OR. They are jeered at by Christians and heathens alike. Here's their answer to those who say street preaching is so last century: "We simply argue that the cross be raised again, at the center of the market place as well as…
Jarred Edgecombe • Illustration • • 14 views
Wilberforce counseled his readers to "rise on the wings of contemplation, until the praises and censures of men die away upon the ear, and the still small voice of conscience is no longer drowned by the din of this nether world."---- Source: Amazing Grace in the Life of William Wilberforce by John Piper,…
Brad Shockley • Illustration • • 451 views
A “JESUS” film team was returning home from showing the film to a village of unreached people. They were tired, but happy for what God had done. It was late at night, as they drove along the isolated road in a rough area…a time when thieves were active. Suddenly on the darkened road, a red light flashed…
Timothy C. Seal • Illustration • • 17 views
“JESUS, THE SAME” Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.” Psalm 110:8 “Certain leaders in their young days have led their troops to battle, and by the loudness of their voice, and the strength of their…
Timothy C. Seal • Illustration • • 8 views
GOSPEL, PEOPLE COMMUNICATE “God has chosen people to communicate the gospel to other people. This is why when it comes to evangelism and missions, there must be purposeful intention. Edward Kimball sold shoes. But on Sunday he taught Sunday school. He was one of those meek and mild-mannered men who has…
Timothy C. Seal • Illustration • • 3 views
Gospel, Power of Then, again, I take it we have not men in our days who can preach like Paul—as to their faith. What did Paul do? He went to Philippi; did he know a soul there? Not one. He had his Master’s truth, and he believed in the power of it. He was unattended and devoid of pomp, or show, or parade,…
Steven Bradshaw • Illustration • • 11 views
There was a certain Professor of Religion named Dr. Christianson, a studious man who taught at a small college in the Western United States. Dr. Christianson taught the required survey course in Christianity at this particular institution. Every student was required to take this course his or her freshman…
Jacob Hantla • Illustration • • 6 views
When we live more aware of what we need to do than of what Christ has already done, we're drifting [from grace to self-effort]. Dave Harvey When Sinners Say "I Do" p. 146
Nick Jackson • Illustration • • 13 views
Stephen Brown: The problem [isn’t] that we made the gospel to good. The problem is that we didn’t make it good enough.
John Leffler • Illustration • • 861 views
North point’s invest-and-invite strategy has made it safe for hundreds of seasoned but scared believers to get back into the game. Instead of training our people in the art of personal evangelism, we instruct them to invest in the lives of unbelievers with the express purpose of inviting them to an event…
Stephen N. Rummage • Illustration • • 21 views
Ask any farmer to name the most important element in his ongoing success, and his answer will be one word: seed. Without quality, disease-free seed, harvested from proven plants year after year, the bearing of fruit will stop. That's why farmers don't hesitate to invest serious amounts of money and effort…
Harry Swayne • Illustration • • 8 views
I heard the story of a man, (an alcoholic, drug addict) a bum. He was saved but the hard life he had lived showed on his face. He saw a woman getting into a limousine and felt the need to witness to her. She was appalled at him. She said, "You should be ashamed of yourself". He said, "Mam, I’m am ashamed…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 15 views
Mark 16:15-16 Not only do I encourage our staff to share the good news of Christ, I regularly challenge the congregation to invite their friends, family, and coworkers to Fellowship. I promise our regular attendees that if they will invite someone to Fellowship, we will make sure that the moment their…
Rich DeRuiter • Illustration • • 15 views
Two brothers, John and Richard, lived in the same town — John with his 12-year-old cat, Richard with their 88-year-old mother. John’s whole life was his cat. He never went anywhere without her. One day he was faced with a terrible decision. He had to go to England on business for his company and he couldn’t…
Harry Swayne • Illustration • • 48 views
A water bearer in India had two large pots, each hung on each end of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, and while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water at the end of the long walk from the stream to the master’s house, the cracked…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 4 views
I don’t know if this has ever crossed your mind, but I remember when I first began to understand the Gospel for myself. I grew up with God’s truth, but when I was a teenager I wrestled with certain aspects of it. I remember struggling to comprehend how one person could die for every other single person…
Stephen N. Rummage • Illustration • • 21 views
1. Publicize the Gospel. Our Master’s marching orders when He left earth could not be more clear: “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature” (: Mark 16:15). To determine “how’s business,” think about these issues: With how many people have you shared the Gospel in the last six months?…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 5 views
Tongue-Tied Evangelism 2 Kings 7:9 Dr. Wilbur Smith was a renowned professor, researcher, and author whose lectures and books trained a generation of Christian workers. Near the end of his life, Dr. Smith published his memoirs, entitled Before I Forget, and he began in the preface of his book by sharing…
Harry Swayne • Illustration • • 6 views
This is a true story of something that happened just a few years ago at USC. There was a professor of philosophy there who was a deeply committed atheist. His primary goal for one required class was to spend the entire semester attempting to prove that God couldn’t exist. His students were always afraid…
Illustration • • 3 views
Evangelism An executive hirer, a "head-hunter" who goes out and hires corporation executives for other firms, once told me, "When I get an executive that I'm trying to hire for someone else, I like to disarm him. I offer him a drink, take my coat off, then my vest, undo my tie, throw up my feet and talk…
Illustration • • 11 views
This is well-nigh the greatest of discoveries a man can make, that God is not confined in churches, but that the streets are sacred because His presence is there, that the market-place is one of His abiding places, and ought, therefore, to be a sanctuary. Any moment in any place, the veil can suddenly…