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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 9 views • unknown
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 • • 33 views
An illustration from Dr. James Merritt
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 6 views
Who among us can tell all the perils of this mortal life? I remember reading a work in which there were collected together numerous instances of the simple means by which men have died, such as the swallowing of a fruit stone, or the sticking of a small bone in the throat, the breathing of some invisible…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 29 views
When the prodigal is received and forgiven, he is not put at the end of the table, below the salt, or sent into the kitchen with the servants, as if his faults were forgiven but yet remembered. He is invited to the table, and he feasts there upon the best the house affords. The fatted calf is killed,…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 21 views
It is not possible that any sin should ever be forgiven to any man without shedding of blood. This has been known from the very first. As soon as man had sinned, God taught him that he needed a sacrifice. Adam and Eve, after they had sinned, tried to clothe themselves with fig leaves, but that was not…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 6 views
By the Holy Spirit’s application of our Lord’s merits believers are completely cleansed, and there remains neither spot nor wrinkle on their acceptance with Him. But though a man may be perfectly clean who leaves his bath, yet his feet may be soiled as he goes to his room and he needs again to wash them.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 24 views
A few years ago, the productivity expert, Merlin Mann, coined a phrase that is gaining traction more and more—“inbox zero.” It’s all about staying on top of your email inbox in order to reclaim your attention and retake control of your life. An inbox overflowing with unread messages is not only distracting…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
When Kim Phuc Phan Thai was a 9-year-old child her war planes dropped bombs and napalm on her village in Vietnam. A journalist snapped a picture of the girl, naked, running from the village, screaming in pain from the napalm burning her neck, back, and arms. You have probably seen the photo. It became…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Marjorie Saint was a young widow. Despite the pain of the loss of her husband, she took her son, Steve Saint, and moved to the mission field in South American in order to reach the secluded Waodani tribe. According to cultural anthropologists, the Waodani tribe was the most violent group of people ever…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Khmer Rouge regime members, Khieu Samphan, 87, and Nuon Chea, 92, were tried and convicted of killing 1.7 million people. From 1975 to 1979 they worked to make Cambodia a communist state where food and money would be collected by the government and then redistributed to the public. They felt that they…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Kim Hyon-hui was a young student in 1987 when the North Korean government took her out of school and trained her for a special mission. After months of training, agents gave her a time bomb shaped like a radio. Her mission; put the bomb aboard a South Korean Airliner headed for Seoul then leave the plane…
Funerals 2
Rick Goettsche • Union Church of La Harpe Illinois • Illustration • • 31 views
We are gathered here today to mourn the loss, but also to celebrate the life of Russell Bowen. Today we find comfort in knowing that God is with us as we grieve. In the Bible we read these words: We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 22 views
In Toughest people to love, Chuck DeGroat wrote, “In the upside-down economy of Jesus, those closest to the bottom are nearest to grace. Polished and put together, many of us live our lives without a real, palpable need for God.”—Jim L. Wilson Toughest people to love: how to understand, lead, and love…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 45 views
In the 1960’s, Simon and Garfunkel was one of the top recording artists. Then right at the top of their popularity they split up, going their separate musical ways. Now 45 years later we discover that Art Garfunkel has never forgiven Paul Simon for the breakup. Attributing the breakup to Simon’s unwillingness…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 2 views
In 1941, a ten-year-old boy and his friend went to Lamb’s Grill in Salt lake City for lunch. After the boys ate, they realized they couldn’t pay the bill which totaled $1, so they ran away. For the next 70 years, the guilt associated with that event haunted the man who is now in his eighties. Though…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Ron Webster was thinning his book collection when he discovered a text on human anthropology that he checked out of the Liverpool library in 1953. Webster, 91, took the book into the library and waited with the clerks for the library manager to arrive. The clerks calculated the 61-year fine to be $7,700.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 19 views
In 1998 Margot Riphagen hosted a party at her parents’ home in Portland, OR. After the party four rings were discovered missing. They included her mother’s wedding ring and her grandparents’ wedding bands. Fifteen years later the rings showed up in the mail along with an anonymous apology from the contrite…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 94 views
Simon Wiesenthal, an Austrian Jew spent four-and-a-half years in various Nazi concentration camps during WWII. Wiesenthal, one of the few to survive the atrocities of the Holocaust, recounts a harrowing story in his memoir, The Sunflower. While working to clear rubbish from a make-shift hospital, a nurse…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Missionaries in China had been training leaders for several weeks. Following a session on baptism, a fifteen-year-old girl felt led to submit to the ordinance. The girl’s father performed the baptism. Missionaries listened joyfully as the father asked his daughter the first of several questions: “Do…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Bobby Petrino was involved in a College Football scandal in April 2012, while he was the head coach at the University of Arkansas he had an affair with an employee. The University tried to erase the black eye by terminating Petrino. Eight months later, Western Kentucky University announced him as their…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
In 2011, Terry Francona was managing one of baseball’s top organizations, the Boston Red Sox. A year later, he was an analyst for ESPN’s coverage of Little League Baseball. When asked about the difference he said, “I was pretty beaten up last year, I don’t want to admit it, but it’s been healthy to take…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
After the Advertising Standards Authority in England ordered a Christian group in the town of Bath to stop advertising that “God can heal,” a group of believers in Parliament wrote the group asking them to prove that prayer does not work. In an attempt to overturn a ban on advertising claims about God’s…
The Rev. Canon Philip R. Taylor • Illustration • • 70 views
JESUS SAID…IN THE GOSPEL OF MARK A Christian Education Program for Men Lasting 6 Weeks Written and Presented by The Rev. Philip R. Taylor Meets each week for 1 ½ hours (Day & Time TBD) Objectives: 1. Listen to the voice of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark 2. Respond to the words of Jesus 3. Discover what…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 15 views
Pat Novak was a hospital chaplain intern who discovered the great power of God’s forgiving grace. He was making his rounds one summer morning when he was called to visit a patient admitted with an undiagnosed ailment. John was a man in his sixties who was not responding to treatment at all. His tests…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
The Advertising Standards Authority of the Brittish government told the a congregation based in Brad-on-Avon to stop placing claims that God can heal illnesses on their website and leaflets. The ASA determined the leaflet proclaiming “Need Healing? God can heal today!” was misleading. The group known…