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Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 36 views
If I were asked to visit you tomorrow evening, I am sure you would make some preparations for my call—even for one so commonplace as myself. You would prepare, because you would welcome me. If you expected the Queen to call, how excited you would be! What preparation good housewives would make for a…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 18 views
In the center of my lawn, horseradish will sprout up. After the smallest shower of rain, it rises above the grass and proclaims its vitality. There was a garden there once, and this root maintains its old position. When the gardener cuts it down, it resolves to rise again. Now, if the gardener cannot…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 10 views
See the sentry pace the rampart. He looks in one direction and he sees the brushwood stirred; he half thinks it is the foe, and suspects an ambush there. He looks to the front, across the sea—does he not discern a sail in the distance? The attack may be from the seaboard. He looks to the right, across…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 31 views
A child would generally stand on his feet in a gust of wind if he knew it was coming. But when the wind happens to come around a corner furiously, he may be taken off his feet. Mind you are well ballasted by prayer every morning before your vessel puts out to sea, or carrying the quantity of sail you…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 35 views
Years ago, when they dug into a disused pit in a village, they took up some old rags, and as a consequence nearly all the people in that village died of the plague. They did not know what was in the old rags buried in the pit. So we are afraid of the old rags of sin; we do not like digging them up. Spurgeon,…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 76 views
I remember talking once to a lady who assured me again and again that she prayed daily for me that I might be kept humble. I told her that I would pray the same prayer for her. When she said, “Oh, I am never tempted to be proud,” I replied, “Well, dear friend, I am afraid you are very far gone in that…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 21 views
In the long line of portraits of the Doges in the palace at Venice one space is empty, and the semblance of a black curtain remains as a melancholy record of glory forfeited. Found guilty of treason against the state, Marino Falieri was beheaded and his image as far as possible blotted from remembrance.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Jackie wore the same shirt to her company’s zoom meetings during the pandemic. She knew that someone would say something, but they didn’t—not even when she finally broke down and said something about it herself on her final day of work. No one had noticed. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/woman-hawaiian-shirt-264-times-zoom-meetings_n_60d387f0e4b06005129e14a9…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Jesse Johnson of the Las Cruces, NM Fire Department answered a call on March 28, 2021, to help an Albertson’s shopper. The shopper left the windows of his car down as he ran into the store to buy a few things. As he was driving away, he discovered that he had a few unwanted passengers aboard—there were…
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 • • 7 views
A mama bear and her cubs were perched atop a cinder block fence in Bradbury, California when the dogs that lived in the backyard responded by running toward the intruders and barking at them. The mama bear did what mama bears do, she started swatting at the dogs. Hailey Morinico, a teenage girl looked…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
The quick eye of a Goodwill worker in southern New Jersey turned up a valuable piece of U.S. history. The worker saw that a donated frame contained pages of an original newspaper from 1774 with the iconic “Unite or Die” design in the masthead. The pages from the “Pennsylvania Journal and the Weekly Advertiser”…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Nick Slatten was excited to tell his fiancée that he’d won $1,178,746.00 in the Tennessee Lottery, so he headed over to her work, taking the ticket with him. Afterward, he ran some errands but later discovered that he’d lost the ticket—so he retraced his steps, finding the ticket about an hour later…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 52 views
Maybe you’ve heard before that without a shepherd to follow, sheep will follow sheep, even if it kills them. That happened recently in Istanbul, Turkey. Following the sheep in front of them, one at a time, 1500 sheep jumped off a cliff. Where were the shepherds? They had left the flock to graze as they…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
An unnamed resident of Lake Worth Beach, Florida has an interesting 14-year-old pet parrot. His neighbors heard someone screeching from inside his house. “Let me out!” “Let me out!” the voice called. They did what any good citizen would do. They called 911. When four sheriff’s deputies arrived, they…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Signs around the Baunei on the island of Sardina warn tourists in Italian and English that they should not follow directions on Google Maps while on the island. Mayor Salvatore Corrias said they received 144 emergency calls over the past two years from drivers and hikers who got stranded or lost while…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Steel Lafferty was concentrating on his approach to the green when a 7-foot Alligator strolled in front of him. Lafferty didn’t notice. When asked about his steel nerves, Lafferty said, “I had to make par on the hole because we had a bet going and I was more worried about winning the bet than getting…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
As wildfires ravaged California in 2018, the city of Paradise was essentially destroyed. Amidst the fire and destruction, families fled their homes, leaving everything behind. The Copsey family was one of the many families that left as the fire raced toward their home. In their haste, they were unable…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Steve Montelongo was on his way home with his granddaughter when she spotted a car sinking into a canal in Modesto, Calif. As the girl alerted Montelongo, the 80-year-old quickly sprang into action and pulled the driver out of the car to safety. This is not the first time Montelongo has saved a life.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
After all their other efforts failed, National Grid announced they would bring a cannon to scare away hundreds of crows that have been hanging around an electrical substation in Massachusetts. The utility company said they were removing the birds because if one landed on the wrong piece of equipment,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Sri Lankan authorities reported workers digging a well in a man’s backyard unearthed what could be the world’s largest sapphire cluster. Local authorities said the person digging the well, alerted them about finding some rare stones before they stumbled on the huge specimen. They reported the cluster…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
A study from the University of Central Florida found that keeping a gratitude journal for two weeks decreased gossip in the workplace. The participants in the study spent a few minutes each day writing about people they were grateful for. Writing for Psychology Today, Christopher Bergland said, “After…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
A New York woman investigating a cold draft behind her bathroom mirror discovered an entire empty apartment behind the wall. Samantha Hartsoe said she removed the mirror and found a large square hole into a dark room. At first, Hartsoe was afraid to go in, but changed her mind. She said she could not,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Earlier this year in Cape Wrath, Scotland, Mark Elder was dragged off the fishing vessel North Star, pulled underwater and drowned. Although his fellow crewmen watched as he became tangled in a rope and was pulled off the ship, they were unable to locate and rescue him before he succumbed to the cold…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Officials with a railway company in India announced they are using the recorded sound of buzzing bees to keep elephants from wandering onto the tracks. The Northwest Frontier Railway installed the sound system in locations where there are a lot of elephants. Officials said villagers who spot elephants…