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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 10 views • unknown
From: Jim Meigs from FBC, Center Point, Alabama
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 33 views
Butterfly A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could, and it could…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 173 views
Old Hugh Latimer preached before Henry VIII. It was the custom of the court preacher to present the king with something on his birthday, and Latimer presented Henry VIII with a pocket handkerchief with this text in the corner: “God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers” (Heb 13:4)—a very…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 16 views
Let your petitions be large. Imitate the example of Alexander’s courtier, who when he was told he might have whatever he chose to ask as a reward for his valor, asked a sum of money so large that Alexander’s treasurer refused to pay it until he had first seen the monarch. When he saw the monarch, he…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 17 views
A truly good soldier of Jesus Christ knows nothing about difficulties except as things to be surmounted. If his Master bids him perform exploits too hard for him, he draws upon the resources of omnipotence, and achieves impossibilities. Wellington sent word to his troops one night, “Ciudad Rodrigo must…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 12 views
If this glory is to be had, do we not feel like the heroes in Bunyan’s picture? Before the dreamer there stood a fair palace, and he saw persons walking upon the top of it, clad in light and singing. Around the door stood armed men to keep back those who would enter. Then a brave man came up to one who…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 7 views
I would compare faith to an emperor who summoned his counselors and judged whether he should go to war by their opinion, but he did it in the following manner: if they warned him that it would be a very fearful war, if they said that the enemy’s cities would never be taken, that the armies on the other…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 14 views
If one had to be a soldier on the field of battle, it might be a very great assistance to one’s courage to stand side by side with the hero of a thousand fights who had always been victorious. If you had to journey tonight along some dark and lonely road, and an angel came from heaven to walk beside…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 3 views
Christians are soldiers. If our soldiers were to take it into their heads that they ought never to be seen, a pretty pass things would come to. What are soldiers worth when they shun parade and dread battle? We do not want men who must always be skulking behind a bush, and dare not show themselves to…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 9 views
It is wonderful what a difference love makes in the person who is possessed with it. A poor timid hen that will fly away from every passerby loves its offspring. When it has its chicks about it, it will fight like a very griffin for its young. And when the love of Christ comes into a timid believer,…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 10 views
A student at the university, hoping to gain a prize, uses his best endeavors, burns the midnight oil, and strains all his faculties that he may reach the mark that will ensure his passing the examinations. Even thus the Christian with a lively hope devotes himself to obtaining the blessings that God…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 40 views
You have sometimes seen a widely spreading oak tree cut down, and you have missed its grateful shadow. Yet afterwards you have discovered that many little trees, which would have been dwarfed beneath its shade, have grown more rapidly in its absence. In like manner, the removal of some eminent servant…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 22 views
He who stands in the thickest part of the battle shall have the highest glory at last. The old warriors would not stand and skirmish a little on the outside of the army, but would say, “To the center, men! To the center!” And they cut through thick and thin until they reached the place where the standard…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 17 views
If in reading the history of the first Christian centuries you are asked to point out the men to be envied for their joy, you would point to the believers in Jesus. There is a room in Rome that is filled with the busts of the emperors. They look like a collection of prizefighters and murderers, and scarcely…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 81 views
To me it is a solemn memory that I professed my faith openly in baptism. I vividly recall the scene. It was the third of May, and the weather was cold because of a keen wind. I see the broad river, and the crowds that lined the banks, and the company on the ferry boat. The word of the Lord was preached…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 20 views
It is no new thing for men to attempt to escape the army by pretending to be in bad health, but we must have none of this cowardly malingering in Christ’s army. We must be ready for anything and everything. We must compel ourselves to duty when it goes against the grain. When it is a clear duty, obedience…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
When the SpaceX capsule returned safely to earth in September 2021, returning four amateurs after a three-day journey in space, the group made history as the first space tourists. The four crew members included a billionaire who paid for the trip and his three guests who hoped to show that ordinary people…
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 • • 4 views
A surprised witness in Russia captured a video of three courageous people traveling down a local river on a chunk of ice. The video was filmed near Novokuznetsk, shows the trio standing on several pieces of ice floating down the river. The people appeared calm and did not seem to consider themselves…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
When three-year-old Lydia became afraid to go to daycare because she was being bullied, Batman came to her rescue. Lydia’s mother Erica became concerned because daughter kept coming home with from daycare with bruises on her face, and one day with a black eye that she would not talk about. Erica put…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
In the very beginning of the blockbuster hit, The Black Panther, King T’Challa (The Black Panther) is sitting on his shaping waiting to drop into battle. Knowing that a woman he liked would be down there, his wise general advised him, “Don’t Freeze.” T’Challa laughs and then responds, “I never freeze.”…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Mandy Gorton, the owner of Roots Café in Naples, New York received a card from one of her regular customers a couple of weeks after indoor dining was shut down due to COVID-19 restrictions. She said, “It was a beautiful card expressing their concern for us being able to survive the shutdown and their…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Sometimes we can be afraid of following Christ in the way we know is right. God has made us, the church, as his outpost in a dangerous world. If we fail to encounter our world, seeking only our safety, we miss the high mark set for us. At Penn State University there is an Outing Club. Students who join…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
In their book, No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention, Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer write, “Self-disclosure builds trust, seeking help boosts learning, admitting mistakes fosters forgiveness, and broadcasting failures encourages your people to act courageously.” —No Rules Rules, 123 James…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Officials in the state of Louisiana reported that a moon rock given to the state in 1972 was returned by a Florida man who purchased the plaque to use the wood to repair guns. The man said he frequently buys old plaques at garage sales to use the wood to repair the stocks of guns. He said he was looking…