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Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 93 views
I have heard of a fine gentleman in London, dressed in all his best, walking out in the park. He had a poor old father who lived in the country, and who came up dressed in his rustic clothes to see his son. As the son was not at home when the father reached the house, he went into the park to find him.…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 24 views
In the dark and dreadful night, the destroying angel is let loose, with noiseless wings, and with a sharp sword that never misses its mark. He is speeding from house to house throughout all the land of Egypt, and from the firstborn of Pharaoh upon the throne to the firstborn of the slave woman behind…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 25 views
The servant in your house, however diligent, is not your heir; for a servant to claim to be the heir would not be tolerated for a moment in a court of law. The servant may be able truthfully to say, “I have been in my master’s house these many years, neither have I transgressed at any time his commandments;…
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 61 views
~~~ Here's to Mom! ~~~ My mother taught me IRONY - "Keep laughing and I'll give you something to cry about." My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE WHAT I HAVE - "It's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick." My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE - "If you're going to kill each other…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 39 views
If I am a child of God, I learn to trust my Father. I do not know a more delightful act of childhood than trustfulness in a parent. And how often if we trust God we shall be rewarded! Yesterday, I received a note from one of the trustees of the orphanage to say that the running account was so low that,…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 6 views
I know an old friend who used to tell me that for 60 years he had never known a day’s illness. A splendid healthy old man he was, but about three months ago he took typhoid fever. I went to see him, and when he got better he came to see me. He said, “Well, sir, you see I am not the man I was, but I have…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 7 views
Christ has gone to heaven to put in an appearance on our behalf. As in a court of law, when a man appears by his attorney, or legal representative, he is in the court, even though he may be miles away. So are we, today, in possession of our eternal inheritance through Him, who has put in an appearance…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 65 views
There was once a square piece of paper put up into George Whitefield’s pulpit, by way of a notice, to this effect: “A young man who has lately inherited a large fortune requests the prayers of the congregation.” Right well was the prayer asked, for when we go up the hill we need prayer that we may be…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 36 views
Trusting to our own judgment often means following our own whims. But faith seeks direction from infallible wisdom, and so it is led in a right way. God knows your capacity better than you do; ask Him to choose your inheritance for you. If the flowers were to revolt against the gardener, and each one…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 22 views
There were two brothers, one of whom had been diligently attentive to his worldly business, to the neglect of true religion. He succeeded in accumulating considerable wealth. The other brother was diligent in the service of the Master, and had learned both to distribute to the poor and for conscience’s…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 62 views
In some of the houses not far from here, I noticed some linnets in cages, in which there were tufts of grass or small branches of trees as perches for the poor prisoners; yet they were singing away right merrily. I suppose that grass and those fragments of trees were meant to remind them, in this great,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Some families pass down jewelry, watches, and riches of many kinds. A Michigan family has a unique heirloom that is handed down through the generations. It is a 141-year-old fruitcake. Fidelia Ford baked the cake in 1878. Her tradition was baking a fruit cake and letting it age for a year before serving…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
A 13-year-old boy who was abandoned by his previous adoptive family found a new forever home with a very understanding parent. Tony Mutabazi had been in the foster care system since the age of two, and was adopted the first time at the age of 4. Seven years later he was left at a hospital and his parents…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 17 views
Rick Deschamps, general manager of an electronics-processing firm in Ontario tells about a female employee who came running up to him with a cashbox. “I found $10,000.00,” the employee said. They opened the cashbox and found bundles of $50 bills that amounted to more than $75,000 American dollars. Don’t…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 46 views
When a person dies there are laws covering how their property is passed on to relatives. The growing use of social media has made some issues of inheritance more confusing. Companies like Google and Facebook contend laws approved decades ago that prevent them from releasing electronic memories unless…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 14 views
When Chelsey Haley finished school and began teaching, she joined the Teach for America program to make a difference in a low-income school. She never expected to encounter a boy named Jerome, who made her question her motives and future as a teacher. She went to an elementary school in Louisiana, where…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
For years a priceless vase sat in a French family’s attic, hidden in a shoebox. The family had received the heirloom as part of an inheritance, but stashed the boxes in the attic planning to deal with them later. When the owner opened the box, they were stunned by the shades of green, blue, yellow, and…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 26 views
Russell Moore and his wife adopted two sons from Russia and when the legal process was finally over and they went to pick them up from the orphanage the transition proved to be harder than they had expected. Their new sons had never been outside. They had never even ridden in a car. As they pulled away…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
In “Adopted for Life,” Russell Moore writes, “As soon as you peer into the truth of the one aspect, you fall headlong into the truth of the other, and vice versa. That’s because it’s the way the gospel is. Jesus reconciles us to God and to each other. As we love our God, we love our neighbor; as we love…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
A New Zealand couple found a massive potato weighing more than 17 pounds when they cleared out the vegetable garden at the end of the season. Colin and Donna Craig-Brown said they were not sure what they had found under a few inches of dirt. The Craig-Browns think the potato might have been growing in…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
A researcher at the Oxford Library in Britain uncovered a fragment of lost wisdom from a 12th century French poem in the binding of another book. Tamara Atkins was researching the reuse of book during the 12th century when she found a fragment from a poem, entitled, “Siege d’Orange” The poem tells the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
An employee of a North Carolina thrift store found a 146-year-old marriage certificate hidden in the frame of an 1899 print of a painting depicting a small girl and a dog. When she found the certificate Pam Phelps knew she needed to try to locate relatives of the couple. The certificate, dated 1865,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Nadine Kaslow, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University provides some guidance on coping with COVID-19 pandemic stress to the readers of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She says, “During these warm, spring days, just being outside can be a pleasant experience. Consider planting…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
During the summer of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, the United States unemployment rate rose, but did not surpass the 24.9 percent of the great depression. As it rose, some began making an argument that the federal government should create an employment guarantee? Insecure times cause people to long…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
There is a masked crusader on the streets of Santiago, Chile, this summer. But rather than fighting criminals, Solidarity Batman delivers hot meals. It is a challenging time in Chile. Unemployment has reached a record 12 percent. Recently, an unidentified man has been donning a full Batman suit, plus…