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Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 7 views
Ishmael, the son of Hagar, had his water in a bottle, and he might have laughed at Isaac because Isaac had no bottle. Here was the difference between them: Isaac lived by the well. Now, some of us have little enough in this world; we have no bottle of water, and no stock in hand. But then we live by…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 40 views
Often when I have been traveling on the Continent I have been obliged to put up at a hotel that was full, where the room was so inconvenient that it scarcely furnished any accommodation at all. But we have said, “Oh, never mind; we are off in the morning! What does it matter for one night?” So, as we…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 9 views
Some people are always fretting and fuming; they appear to have been born in stormy weather, and to be perpetually agitated in mind so that they cannot rest. Only the other day, a gardener I knew of was complaining greatly of the heavy rain, which had done some damage to the garden where he was working.…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 12 views
If you go to the top of some mountains such as Snowdon or the Rigi, you will find it all solid and firm enough. But there are some people who want to get a little higher than the mountain, so the people there build a rickety old stage and charge you fourpence or sixpence to go to the top of it. When…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 20 views
He who would be a great artist must not follow low models. The artist must have a perfect model to copy; if he does not reach to it, he will reach far further than if he had an inferior model to work by. When a man once realizes his own ideal, it is all over with him. A great painter once had finished…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 42 views • unknown
Pastors today are faced with more work, more problems, and more stress than any other time in the history of the church. This is taking a frightening toll on the ministry, shown by the statistics below: Pastors: · Fifteen hundred pastors leave the ministry each month due to moral failure, spiritual burnout…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 30 views
When I go to bed at night and say to myself, “Did I lock the door?” I am not content to lie there and say, “I hope and trust that I did.” There may be a thief in the garden, so it will not be safe for me to “hope and trust” that all doors and windows are properly fastened. We like to be sure about these…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 20 views
Many are a great deal worried by curiosity. A servant was passing through a street with a dish that was curiously covered. There met him a fellow who said, “I am most anxious to know what your lord has put in that dish, for he has so carefully covered it.” But the servant said, “Therefore you should…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 36 views
When a man has been drowning, I have heard that his sensations have often been very pleasant. But when the circulation of the blood commences again, pain begins at once. And the more pain he suffers, the more surely is he being restored to life. It is just so with the spiritual blood that is circulating…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 38 views
An Englishman may happen to be in Spain—he wishes a thousand things were different from what they are, but he does not trouble himself much about them. He says, “If I were a Spaniard I would see what I could do to alter this government. But, being an Englishman, let the Spaniards see to their own matters.…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 16 views
An officer in India had tamed a leopard. From the time when it was quite a kitten he had brought it up, until it went about the house like a cat, and everybody played with it. But he was sitting in his chair one day asleep, and the leopard licked his hand—licked it in all innocence. But as he licked,…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 14 views
Gregory Nazianzen, a foremost father of the Christian Church, rejoiced that he was well versed in the Athenian philosophy. Why do you think he rejoiced in that? Because he had to give it all up when he became a Christian, and, said he, “I thank God that I had a philosophy to throw away.” He counted it…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 37 views
In the olden time when the gospel was preached in Persia, Hamedatha, a courtier of the king, having embraced the faith, was stripped of all his offices, driven from the palace, and compelled to feed camels. This he did with great content. The king passing by one day saw his former favorite at his ignoble…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 14 views
You say that he is “a rewarder of those who seek him”; do you despise the reward? Are you content with having made a profession of religion? Some professing Christians remind me of the reply of the child who was asked at the Sunday school about her father, who never went to any place of worship. “Is…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 21 views
How many Christians are like the miser who never feels sure about the safety of his money, even though he has locked up the iron safe, and secured the room in which he keeps it, and locked up the house, and bolted and barred every door! In the dead of night, he thinks he hears a footstep, and tremblingly…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 3 views
I remember well going to speak to the minister and telling him that I hoped I had found the Savior, and begging him to ask me such questions as he thought fit to test me. The true pilgrim never wishes to enter the house Beautiful if he does not have a right to be there; he is afraid that he may be guilty…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
In his book Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God, Timothy Keller says, “It is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul’s prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances.” — Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God by Timothy Keller, p. 19-20 1 Thessalonians…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
In Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen, Donald Miller writes, “In 2013, the soap company Dove released a series of short films featuring women who were the subjects of an FBI-trained forensic artist. Without actually seeing the women, the artist would draw each woman…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
A unique piece of art at a Florida gallery recently sold for $120,000. The work entitled, THE COMEDIAN, by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan consisted of a banana duct taped to a wall. The founder of the gallery, Emmanuel Perrotin said the artist designed the piece to make the viewer consider how objects…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
A survey by the Gallup organization found that 86 percent of Americans are satisfied with the way things are going in their personal lives. More than half of the people who responded reported they were “very satisfied” with their life. The organization said the latest results are consistent with numbers…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
When psychotherapist Andrey Zhelvetro has a troubled patient, he has an unusual cure. He buries them alive. He puts them in coffins and buries them in shallow graves in the woods. They have a rubber pipe that runs to the surface so they can breathe. After two hours, he digs them up. Patients come out…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
The most popular college class in America today is at Yale University. Psych 157: Psychology and the Good Life is attracting 1200 students per semester. According to the professor, today’s college students are not happy, and she thinks the unhappiness extends far beyond college students. “Students are…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
In THANKS! How Practicing Gratitude Can Make You Happier, Robert A. Emmons, Ph.D. writes, “It is also easy to see how gratitude can have a difficult time surviving in a culture that celebrates consumption. But in gratitude we recognize that we are not ultimately producers and consumers but, above all,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 60 views
In THANKS! How Practicing Gratitude Can Make You Happier, Robert A. Emmons, Ph.D. writes, “Gratitude is the realization that we have everything that we need, at the moment.” —Jim L. Wilson —THANKS!, 137 Philippians 4:11 (HCSB) “I don’t say this out of need, for I have learned to be content in whatever…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 40 views
Do you want to conquer envy and covetousness? According to a study from Denmark’s Happiness Research Institute, maybe you could give up Facebook. The study found that people who gave up Facebook for just one week reported suffering less envy and being “more satisfied with their lives” than those who…