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Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 32 views
Many years ago a captain was sent out in one of the government ships, the Thetis, to discover a shoal, a rock, or some other obstruction said to exist in the Mediterranean Sea. The captain was an old salt who knew little about navigation as a science and cared less for rules, books, theories, and so…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 13 views
You may have seen a deep mountain lake that has been filled to the brim by innumerable streamlets from all the hillsides round about. Here comes a torrent gushing down, and there trickles from the moss that has overgrown the rock a little drip, drip, drip, which falls perpetually. Great and small tributaries…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 7 views
There was a good old soul whose minister called to see her when she was dying. Among other things he said to her, “My sister, you are very weak; don’t you feel yourself sinking?” She looked at him, and gave no answer, but said, “Did I understand you, minister? Please tell me what you said—I hope you…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 76 views
If you were on board a vessel, and had lost your bearings, you would be glad enough to see a pilot in the offing. Here he is on board, and you say, “Pilot, do you know where we are?” “Yes,” says he, “of course I do. I can tell you within a yard.” “It is well, Mr. Pilot, but can you bring us to the port…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 25 views
The Lord Jesus Christ is to have the preeminence. I think that he will have the preeminence in the number of souls that will be saved as compared with those that will be lost, and that can scarcely be effected except by a lapse of time in which many will be brought to Christ. I look at it this way. As…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 218 views
Imagine a river, full of sandbanks, with a channel that twists and turns in a tortuous fashion. There is a vessel on it with an experienced pilot on board. Even he is very anxious, and is constantly heaving the lead and frequently going at half-speed or stopping altogether. Now if a steamer with a good…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
El Capitan is a legendary mountain in Yosemite National Park. It boasts a 3,000 foot vertical granite wall that attracts elite climbers from around the world. It was first climbed in 1958, and it took 46 days of climbing spread over 16 months. Today the average climber takes several days to complete…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Eight year old Steffan Williams was kayaking in the sea near a treacherous stretch of coastline when he spotted an elderly woman and two teens trapped on a rock. In a spot where the tide can trap unknowing tourists he took his rubber dinghy and towed them to shore. The next day he noticed two more teens…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 20 views
James warns his readers about being presumptuous about tomorrow. We don’t know that we will have a tomorrow. On April 14, 2018 astronomers in Arizona spotted a warehouse size asteroid headed toward a close encounter with our home planet. There was no time to prepare as the asteroid passed the earth the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 42 views
Gary Paxton wrote over 2,000 songs. The two best-known songs from the 1950’s were “Alley-Oop” and “Monster Mash.” All the time he was writing he struggled with a tumultuous personal life. He made and lost a fortune, overcame addiction, and was once gravely wounded when a disgruntled singer hired hit…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Singer, Chrissie Hynde, enjoyed the ultimate rock ‘n’ roll existence. She spent some of her early years on top of the music polls with the Pretenders. She lived the wild lifestyle with other rockers. When asked if she would do it all again she replied, “Definitely not.” She said, “I would get rid of…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Mindy Belz, writing in World Magazine says “Our present day ingratitude may have taken root during the 1950s, when we thanked ourselves for our new prosperity instead of God.” Somewhere along the way, our National day of Thanksgiving has changed. History teaches that we find Thanksgivings beginnings…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
The world will not overcome the church of Jesus Christ. The gates of Hades will not prevail against it. However; she is taking quite a beating in our western culture. According to a 2012 Gallup Poll only 44% of Americans say they have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in churches or organized…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 981 views
Adversity comes to those who are making a difference for Christ. Missionary statesman Oswald Chambers once wrote, “Suffering is the heritage of the bad, of the penitent, and of the Son of God. Each one ends at the Cross. The bad thief is crucified, the penitent thief is crucified, and the Son of God…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
After a devastating earthquake rocked the island of Haiti in 2010, many Haitians say they were awed by the power of the quake. They say it is a power greater than anything they see in voodoo. Other survivors are grateful for life, and want to trust their lives to the God who displayed his even more awesome…
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The Waco Tribune-Herald Series, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/March 3, 1993 By Mark England and Darlene McCormick /On Saturday, the Waco Tribune-Herald published the first story of an indepth series exposing the Branch Davidians and their leader, Vernon Howell. The series has become part of the unfolding…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 627 views
Studies show that four hundred years of silence exist between the Old Testament and the New Testament. After enduring four hundred years of prophetic silence, the world had come to the fullness of time. Although Galatians is not considered to be part of the Christmas story, it brings divine significance…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 10 views
A talent is only useful when used to glorify God. Unless you subscribe to The Atlanta Journal Constitution, you probably missed the story that was in the May 17, 1987 edition. A rock hound named Rob Cutshaw owns a little roadside shop outside Andrews, North Carolina. Like many in the trade, he hunts…
Brad Shockley • Illustration • • 32 views
In an interview H.B. London, Jr., did with Dr. Engstrom, he addressed the subject of change. Here is what the wise old man said: "I think that human kind is resistant to having things differently than they are presently. We like our comfort zones and we don't want our comfort zones changed too rapidly…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
REDEMPTION A judge in Miami Florida recently issued a ruling granting the United States Government the right to reclaim a piece of the moon returned to Earth by the crew of Apollo 17, and later stolen from the government of Honduras. The moon rock, about the size of a grape and encased in plastic was…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
MARY MAGDALENE/DA VINCI CODE In the lyrics to the 1971 Rock Opera "Jesus Christ Superstar", Tim Rice intimated that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were far more than just friends. Today, a runaway best-seller "The Da Vinci Code", goes much further than the Rock Opera. Though I haven't read the book, I have…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 27 views
TRANSFORMATION “We [churches] are in the business to do ministry to facilitate transformation …that is the only reason we exist.” —George Barna, 11-6-2000, Barna 2000-2001 Seminars, San Jose, California Illustration by Jim L. Wilson For more information on Barna’s seminars and other resources, go to…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 22 views
FOUNDATION During his sermon at the Washington National Cathedral on the National Day of Prayer and Remembrances for the victims of the terrorist bombings on the World Trade Center in New York, NY and on the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., Dr. Billy Graham drew a parallel between the destruction in New…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Spiritual Alignment Years ago we made an investment that's really paid off for us. No, we didn't buy IBM stock when it was cheap--we bought a lifetime alignment contract for the pickup. One hundred and thirty thousand miles later, it seems like a pretty good investment. Since the alignment is free, I…
Rich DeRuiter • Illustration • • 13 views
I remember an old story about a little boy who was out helping dad with the yard work. Dad asked him to pick up the rocks in a certain area of the yard. Dad looked over and saw him struggling to pull up a huge rock buried in the dirt. The little boy struggled and struggled while Dad watched. Finally,…