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Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 22 views
When they frightened this nation years ago with the rumor of an invasion by the French, the Russians, or somebody or other, what was the result? Everybody became warlike. Our young men joined rifle clubs and our elderly men furbished up their old blunderbusses. Everybody hastened to arm himself to protect…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 14 views
If you have visited the picture galleries at Versailles, where you see the wars of France from the earliest ages set forth in glowing colors upon the canvas, you cannot but have been struck with the pictures and interested in the terrible scenes. Upstairs in the same palace there is a vast collection…
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 9 views
Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. James 2:18b Recommended Reading James 2:14-18 Ask the average man or woman on the street what the prerequisite for a person to go to heaven is, and the response you are likely to receive is that he or she must "be a good…
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 16 views
BIBLE MEDITATION: “For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy.” Isaiah 57:15 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: “Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain” ( Exodus 20:7 ). We all know that profanity is one way that you can take God’s name in vain, but I’ll tell…
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 30 views
How’d You Live Your Dash? > > I read of a man who stood to speak > At the funeral of a friend > He referred to the dates on her tombstone > From the beginning...to the end. > > He noted that first came her date of birth > And spoke the following date with tears, > But he said what mattered most of all…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 11 views • unknown
5/2/2004 A 70-year-old grandfather was asked by his young grandson how things have changed since he was a kid. His reply is worth reading. "Well, let me think a minute. I was born before television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, Xerox, contact lenses, Frisbees and the pill. There weren't things…
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 11 views
HOW YOU START YOUR DAY TOMORROW. > > Michael is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood > and always has something positive to say: When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!" He was a natural motivator. > > If an employee…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 2 views
A certain boy has run away from home. Another boy remained at home. Is he therefore a better child? Listen! He had broken his leg, and could not get out of bed. That takes away all the credit of his staying at home. Some men cannot sin in a certain direction. They say to themselves, “What excellent fellows…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 18 views
When we intend to do Christian service tomorrow, and do it faithfully and well, yet we sin. There is a contract for certain steamers to carry Her Majesty’s mails, and they are bound to leave Liverpool at such a time and arrive at New York so long afterwards. Suppose they leave six hours after the time.…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 107 views
A man may fancy that he is prospering in business, and yet he may be going back in the world. If he does not face his books or take stock, he may be living in a fool’s paradise, spending largely when on the verge of bankruptcy. Many think well of themselves because they never think seriously. They do…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 22 views
Faith is like a metalworker who is about to prepare some work of fine art, such as smiths used to produce in the days of wrought iron. Faith, like a strong and vigorous smith, has love as its arm. Faith does not lift a finger without love. Faith believes and resolves, and then it proceeds to action,…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 28 views
I have seen in the army a number of veterans marching in front, an ornament and an honor to the whole company. Your short-service men come and go, but these tried men stick to the colors and are the backbone of the regiment. If a tough bit of fighting has to be done, you must rely upon such as these.…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 66 views
Fruit does not start from the tree perfectly ripe at once. First comes a flower, then a tiny formation that shows that the flower has set. Then a berry appears, but it is very sour. You may not gather it. Leave it alone a little while, and allow the sun to ripen it. By and by it fills out, and you have…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 19 views
Go into a telegraph office at any time, and you will see certain needles moving right and left with unceasing click. Electricity is a great mystery, and you cannot see or feel it, but the operator tells you that the electric current is moving along the wire. How does he know? “I know it by the needle.”…
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 240 views • unknown
THE STORY I was born in 1725, and I died 1807. The only godly influence in my life, as far back as I can remember, was my mother, whom I had for only seven years. When she left my life through death, I was virtually an orphan. My father remarried, sent me to a strict military school, where the severity…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 25 views
A 2017 study, conducted by Gallup, reported disengaged workers — those employees who are not really at work though they may be physically present — make up nearly 51% of the workforce, costing organizations between $450 and $550 billion annually in lost productivity. Effectively, this 51% of the workforce…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
In response to Taylor Swift’s contribution of over $30,000.00 to 18-year-old Vitoria Mario’s GoFundMe page, the grateful recipient said, "My goal is to create a charity that helps people like me.” https://people.com/music/taylor-swift-donates-tuition-18-year-old-university-dream/ 2 Corinthians 9:6 (CSB)…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 103 views
French researchers discovered that people imitate behaviors like laziness, impatience, and prudence from others, which suggest those attitudes have a strong social influence on people. Those traits influence the way people make decisions and often involve delay an action or effort based on taking risks.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
22-year-old Pedro Viloria was working at the McDonalds drive-thru in Doral, FL when he noticed that his customer—an off-duty policewoman with her two children in the backseat—had passed out at the wheel. When the car slowly rolled away with the children screaming, Viloria leapt through his window and…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
It has been said that your reactions are a better indicator of what you really believe than your actions. Franklin Graham, the son of evangelist Billy Graham and Fox News Channel host Greta Van Susteren recently found out how true that statement really is. Graham, Van Susteren, and a group of people…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Joel Salinas, MD, the Lulu P. and David J. Levidow Assistant Professor of Neurology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and member of the Department of Neurology’s Center for Cognitive Neurology says, “But today, right now, you can ask yourself if you truly have someone available to listen to you in a…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
A Russian nature reserve said a camera disguised as a piece of tree bark to get candid shots of animals in action, was accidentally destroyed by a woodpecker. In a social media post, Nizhne-Svirsky nature Reserve in Leningrad Oblast said the black woodpecker, nicknamed Zhelna, was hunting for insects…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
During the height of pandemic, Zohaib Begg undertook a mission to gather personal protective equipment for frontline workers. Then, the self-proclaimed “Chief Kindness Officer” decided he needed to do more to help his community so he contacted area business asking for help putting together boxes containing…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
The Golden Globe Awards, pandemic style in 2021 had the nominees at home watching the show and being filmed simultaneously. The twitterverse went crazy when it appeared that Al Pacino was sleeping (or looking down so it appeared that his eyes were closed) during his category-- Best Actor in a Television…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
A video recently emerged of a man sleeping behind the wheel of a Tesla that was apparently on “autopilot,” going down the Massachusetts Turnpike at 55 MPH. Where did the video originate? Dakota Randall, who was driving next to the Tesla, shot the video. Randall told the CBS Boston affiliate, “I thought…