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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 10 views • unknown
From: Jim Meigs from FBC, Center Point, Alabama
Matt Neace • Illustration • • 8 views
Brittney Hanvey says she doesn't quite know what made her pull over to the side of the road to offer a homeless man a biscuit. But that seemingly small act set off a chain of events that helped transform a life. Hanvey, a member of First Baptist Church, Montgomery, Ala., is a pharmaceutical sales representative,…
Wesley Crouch • Illustration • • 12 views
Prayer and Blessing a method Entering Go to a quiet place, if possible. You can sit, stand, or walk, but keep your back straight so your breathing is not constricted. If you are sitting or standing, you may shut your eyes, although, if sitting, you might fall asleep. If you keep your eyes open or are…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 11 views
Theologian Hans Kung wrote On Being a Christian, a 602-page theology of the Christian life, without a word about prayer. He was asked why, and he answered, in effect, “I forgot.” There was the publisher’s deadline, and the harassment he was receiving from the Vatican, and he overlooked prayer. Precisely.…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 27 views
G. K. Chesterton said the unbeliever is like a man born upside down, standing on his head, his feet “dancing upward in idle ecstasies, while his brain is in the abyss.” Christianity sets a man right side up. His head is placed in heaven, where it belongs, and his feet on the earth, where they belong.…
Wesley Crouch • Illustration • • 2 views
Osama prayers Lt. Gordon Klingenschmitt is a Navy chaplain who went on an 18-day hunger strike recently to protest Navy guidelines that encourage "inclusive" prayers at public events. At those events, the Navy wants inclusive, non-denominational prayers. What they really mean when they say inclusive,…
Wesley Crouch • Illustration • • 22 views
Does God Still Speak To His People? A young man had been to Wednesday night Bible Study. The Pastor had shared about listening to God and obeying the Lord’s voice. The young man couldn’t help but wonder, “Does God still speak to His people?” After service, he went out with some friends for coffee and…
Wesley Crouch • Illustration • • 2 views
A Child's Prayer The minister's six-year-old daughter had been so naughty during the week that her mother decided to give her the worst kind of punishment. She told her she couldn't go to the Sunday School Picnic on Saturday. When the day came, her mother felt she had been too harsh and changed her mind.…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 104 views
The story of the Moravian Brethren is a similar one. When the Christians of various and disparate traditions—Roman Catholic, Calvinist, Lutheran, Anabaptist, and many others—gathered together on the Von Zinzendorf estate in Moravia, in the early 1700s, they saw themselves as pilgrims in spiritual unity.…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 9 views
Franklin and Phileda Nelson served in the country of Burma as missionaries in the 1940's for 8 ½ years before the government made all missionaries leave. While they were in Burma, they worked among remote tribes and knew what it was to desperately depend on God. Franklin, reflecting on his time in Burma,…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 6 views
One spring day in 1993, I was so discouraged I didn’t know how I could go on with my work. I prayed with my wife over my anguish and went outside for a long walk, hoping that the physical activity would renew my spirits. It didn’t. I walked back into the house and heard the telephone ringing; the last…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 5 views
EAST INDIAN EVANGELIST K. P. Yohannan says he will never forget one of his first prayer meetings in an American church. He had come to the United States eager to meet some of its spiritual giants and leaders. One man in particular held his interest, a preacher known even in India for his powerful sermons…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 4 views
Rousseau thought this way: I bless God for his gifts, but I do not pray to him. Why should I ask him to change for me the course of things, to work miracles on my behalf? I who ought to love above all the order established by his wisdom and maintained by his providence. In a similar vein, Immanuel Kant…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 15 views
Bob Bakke, of National Prayer Advance, tells of churches of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and their experience of this kind of prayer. After the first Great Awakening, three churches in this community covenanted to follow the pattern suggested by Edwards. In each congregation, cell groups would meet weekly…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 12 views
D.J. Barnhouse gives this ill. We will suppose the case of a man who loves violin music. He has the means to buy for himself a very fine violin, and he also purchases the very best radio obtainable. He builds up a library of the great musical scores, so that he is able to take any piece that is announced…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 10 views
I first began to understand this the summer between my ninth- and tenth-grade years. My next-door neighbor was two years ahead of me in school and a bright and argumentative nonbeliever. Many warm evenings we would argue about the existence of God until late at night. To a stalemate. It was so clear…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 9 views
We tend to want our prayers to be therapeutic, to leave us relaxed. More often than we wish, God would have them leave us stirred up. No wonder we get bored with prayer! No wonder we experience prayer in the same way director Billy Wilder said he experienced a film once. “The film started at 8 P.M. I…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 19 views
God is like a good father. Or like a good friend. Dr. Leslie Weatherhead liked to tell the story of an old Scot who was quite ill and near death. His pastor came to call on him one morning. When he entered the bedroom and sat down beside him, he noticed another chair opposite him, placed next to the…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 4 views
The disappointment and exhaustion of ecclesiastical exertions—of endless meetings and gatherings and committees and programs—can dull our appetite for God. Quietly, imperceptibly, we begin to expect less of him, and end up being satisfied with that. Perhaps at the beginning of our ministry we wondered,…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 4,795 views
GEORGE MUELLER, the great Victorian Christian and social reformer, tells a story of persistent prayer in his diary: In November 1844, I began to pray for the conversion of five individuals. I prayed every day without a single intermission, whether sick or in health, on the land, on the sea, and whatever…
Ron Jones • Illustration • • 15 views
Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but, that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and…
Wesley Crouch • Illustration • • 21 views
The Lady and the Heathen... There’s a little old Christian lady living next door to an atheist. Every morning the lady comes out onto her front porch and shouts “Praise the Lord!” The atheist yells back, “There is no God”. However, she did this every morning with the same result. As time went on the…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 6 views
He was called “Praying Hyde.” A missionary to India at the turn of the century, many people thought John Hyde was always intensely serious because of his reputation for being able to pray and see incredible answers to prayer. They thought that such a prayer-warrior could have no capacity for celebration.…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 11 views
Owens recounts how she decided that after she had laid out her requests before God in her evening prayers, she would then listen for God to say something back to her. She waited in the darkness for something to come, but heard nothing. Finally, tired and dissatisfied, she went to sleep. The night passed,…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 5 views
But there may be a deeper meaning to our thirst and fatigue. John Sanford paints a picture of this in his description of an old well that stood outside the front door of a family farmhouse in New Hampshire. The water from the well was remarkably pure and cold. No matter how hot the summer or how severe…