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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
When Clay Lein began studying electrical engineering in college, he decided that he didn’t need his faith in God anymore. He believed his training told him to be skeptical and to demand evidence. Without evidence, Clay knew could find no reason to include God in his busy life. He would go to church to…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 5 views
A preacher and a soap maker went for a walk together. The soap maker said, “What good is religion? Look at all the trouble and misery of the world! Still there, even after years—thousands of years—of teaching about goodness and truth and peace. Still there, after all the prayers and sermons and teachings.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
A study at a Kansas University found almost no difference in the sex practices of atheists and highly religious people. Adultery, masturbation, and other sex acts are as prevalent among the religious as the irreligious. The only difference investigators found was that the religious feel guilty about…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 7 views
When I was a child, my father was an all-consuming presence in my life. For one thing, I knew he loved me completely. I never had any doubt of that. In fact, I understood that he loved me too much to let me get away with anything. In fact, my dad didn’t even have to speak to me to correct me. Anybody…
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Genuine holiness brings indescribbale joy adn phenomenal power. Gary Frizzell, Return to Holiness, p. xi
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Matthew 21:12–13 Our minds should be focused on God and giving Him praise as we enter His house each week. Someone once wrote the following poem entitled "If You Want to Kill The Church": Never go to your church or meetings held there, If you do go, be late, it's no one's affair. If the weather is bad,…
Jeff Brown • Illustration • • 16 views
Feasting on Heaven for the Sake of Holiness 22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, 23 and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits…
Jarred Edgecombe • Illustration • • 40 views
"It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness." E.M. Bounds
Brent Lewis • Illustration • • 3 views
“If you’re God’s servant, doing God’s work, wherever you go is holy ground.” Warren Wiersbe
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Two mothers were talking about their sons. The first said, "My son is such a saint. He works hard, doesn't smoke, and he hasn't so much as looked at a woman in over two years." The other woman said, "Well, my son is a saint himself. Not only hasn't he not looked at a woman in over three years, but he…
Mark Martin • Illustration • • 300 views
OP IL: In the Presence of Holiness “In His powerful book The Holiness of God, R. C. Sproul observes that unbelievers often feel uneasy in the presence of an obedient Christian. The holiness of God reflected in a believer’s life makes the non-Christian uncomfortable. Sproul then shares this true incident…
Stephen N. Rummage • Illustration • • 2 views
You and I are works of art, too, intended to display the glory of our Creator. (You are probably tempted to say, "Well, if I'm a work of art, it isn't going to be much of a display!") When a Southern sculptor was asked how he created his stone masterpiece of Robert E. Lee, he said, "I just got a big…
Rich DeRuiter • Illustration • • 26 views
Kay Martin, a secretary to a New Zealand MP, got the fright of her life last year. According to the Auckland Sunday Star, she and a friend were chatting when they heard a chicken squawking. The bird sounded in some distress, so they went outside to investigate, thinking perhaps that it had escaped from…
Brent Lewis • Illustration • • 38 views
THE CHURCH IN AMERICA suffered a greater loss than she has since discovered when she rejected the example of good men and chose for her pattern the celebrity of the hour. Human greatness cannot be determined by popularity polls nor by the number of lines any man rates in the public press. It is altogether…
Jarred Edgecombe • Illustration • • 7 views
The one who prays for holiness will one day praise for happiness. – C.H. Spurgeon
Steven D Olsen • Illustration • • 172 views
Gold is purified faith is strengthened and demonstrated 1 Peter 1:6-7; Job 23:10; Malachi 3:3 Gold is purified under into a liqued in order to remove the impurities. Prov 25:4; 1 Peter 2:19-20; 4:12-19 Gold is chemically stable does not tarnish by the enviornment Romans 12:1-2 Gold is maliable roled…
Jerry Canupp • Illustration • • 289 views
A beggar lived near the king's palace. One day he saw a proclamation posted outside the palace gate. The king was giving a great dinner. Anyone dressed in royal garments was invited to the party. The beggar went on his way. He looked at the rags he was wearing and sighed. Surely only kings and their…
Bruce Goettsche • Illustration • • 21 views
Man sitting in restaurant talking with Jesus. Thinks he is good enough. Jesus asks for business card. Then asks who is best person you can think of (Mother Theresa) put her at top of card. Who is worst person? (Hitler) writes at bottom of card. Now . . . where are you. Now if we were to put that card…
Stephen Hustedde • Illustration • • 12 views
Martin Luther is reported to have said that the most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God. You couldn't make an omelet out of five good eggs and one rotten egg and expect…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 8 views
As Ravi Zacharias powerfully observes, God's sovereignty is not tyrannical when it is bounded by goodness. God's holiness is not tortuous when it is tempered by grace. God's omniscience is not taunting when it is coupled with mercy, and God's immutability is far from stifling when it is certain of good…
Nathan Kuperus • Illustration • • 4 views
She tells the comic-tragic stories of polar explorers who “despite the purity of their conceptions … manhauled their humanity to the poles.” The Franklin Expedition in 1845, with 138 officers and men, carried a “1,200 volume library, a hand-organ playing fifty tunes, china place settings for officers…
Rich DeRuiter • Illustration • • 39 views
There’s a story about two brothers who had terrorized the small town where they lived for decades. They were unfaithful to their wives, abusive to their children, and dishonest in business. They were loud, boisterous and just plain rude to nearly everyone. One day, out of the clear blue, the younger…
Matthew Martin • Illustration • • 7 views
A former missionary to the Asian country of Laos tells of a rather unique way the kings of Vietnam and Laos used to divide the people that lived near the border they shared. This was before there were strict national boundaries. For purposes of taxation, it was important to know who belonged where. So,…
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Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God (2 Corinthians 7:1). *** Recently there have been a lot of newspaper reports about dog food that somehow became contaminated with rat poison,…
Steve Hereford • Illustration • • 7 views
"What Is needed to-day is a Scriptural setting forth of the character of God-His absolute sovereignty, His ineffable holiness, His Inflexible justice, His unchanging veracity. What Is needed to-day Is a Scriptural setting forth of the condition of the natural man-his total depravity, his spiritual insensibility,…