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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 295 views • unknown
Getting into fights A young couple drove several miles down a country road, not saying a word. An earlier discussion had led to an argument, and neither wanted to concede their position. As they passed a barnyard of mules and pigs, the husband sarcastically asked, "Are they relatives of yours?" "Yes,"…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 171 views • unknown
The story of the painting, The Last Supper, is >> > > > > > extremely interesting and instructive. The two >> > > > > > incidents connected with it afford a most convincing >> > > > > > lesson on the effects of right thinking or wrong >> > > > > > thinking in the life of a boy or girl, or of a man >>…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 13 views • unknown
"Only Your Dyin' Will Tell" I began by quoting the words of John Lennon in his song "Imagine." Let me end by quoting the words of a song made famous by another rock group, this one called Blood, Sweat and Tears. In the 60s they wrote a song called "And When I Die" that hit the top of the charts. The…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 11 views • unknown
Leave Judging to the Judge Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. 1 Corinthians 4:5a Recommended Reading Matthew 7:1-6 In a 1993 Christianity Today article (April 5, p. 17), Stephen…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 20 views • unknown
THE MIDDLE C OF LIFE You and I need a middle C. Haven't you had enough change in your life? Relationships change. Health changes. The weather changes. But the Yahweh who ruled the earth last night is the same Yahweh who rules it today. Same convictions. Same plan. Same mood. Same love. He never changes.…
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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…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 41 views • unknown
HOPE ---------- by Max Lucado The scene recorded in Luke 24:13-24 fascinates me-two sincere disciples walking along the dusty road to Emmaus telling how the last nail has been driven in Israel's coffin. God, in disguise, listens patiently, his wounded hands buried deeply in his robe. He must have been…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 11 views • unknown
5/2/2004 A 70-year-old grandfather was asked by his young grandson how things have changed since he was a kid. His reply is worth reading. "Well, let me think a minute. I was born before television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, Xerox, contact lenses, Frisbees and the pill. There weren't things…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 231 views • unknown
THE STORY I was born in 1725, and I died 1807. The only godly influence in my life, as far back as I can remember, was my mother, whom I had for only seven years. When she left my life through death, I was virtually an orphan. My father remarried, sent me to a strict military school, where the severity…
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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…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 19 views • unknown
Very moving story
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 42 views
I remember reading, in Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, the story of a man of God who was bound to a stake to die for Christ. There he was, calm and quiet, till his legs had been burned away, and the bystanders looked to see his helpless body drop from the chains. He was black as coal, and not a feature could…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 23 views
In a case that I remember the husband lived all his life indifferent to divine things, while the wife was an earnest Christian woman and saw all her children grow up in the ways of the Lord. The father lived unregenerate and died without giving any testimony of a change of heart. When our sister speaks…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 32 views
When I first began to preach, I am afraid that I used to say a great many strange things—which, of course, I do not do now. But having, on a certain occasion, said something rather striking and perhaps not quite wise, there was an excellent Christian man who wanted to set me right. He did not come and…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
Branko Lustig was a 10-year-old prisoner at Auschwitz when Nazi guards ordered him to stand in the front row at a hanging. Seven inmates were brought to the gallows and, as Branko watched, just moments before the bench was kicked out from under them, the inmates shouted in Yiddish, “Remember how we died!…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
In Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek writes, “Integrity is when our words and deeds are consistent with our intentions.” --Leaders Eat Last, 188. Colossians 3:23 (CSB) Whatever you do, do it from the heart, as something done for the Lord and not for people,
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
When Tim Tebow was a quarterback with the New York Jets, they had a play that featured a curse word. In the huddle Tebow refused say it. When the offensive coordinator called for that play Tebow avoided using the word. According to Nick Mangold, a former Jets player, Tebow would go through the whole…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
In Measure What Matters Most, John Doerr writes “Andy Grove was accustomed to having the last word, so let’s give it to him here. ‘Bad companies,’ Andy wrote, ‘are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great companies are improved by them.’ —Measure What Matters Most, 46. James 1:2–4 (CSB)…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Over the last 42 years, Bernie Carroll has earned the title of “Britain’s Angriest Man.” What did he do to earn it? He has been sending opinionated letters to his local newspaper every day. He originally focused his letters on the Liverpool city council. Over the years he expanded his rantings to topics…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
One thing is certain, unless the Lord returns each one of us has death in our future. One South Korean mortuary is offering people the chance to experience a taste of what their own death might be like. The mortuary invites the public to dress in shrouds, write their last testaments, and lie in closed…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Joshua Rogers tells about the time he, his wife, and their two young daughters were listening to Disney songs. The next song was a sentimental love song "I See the Light" from “Tangled.” Joshua walked over to his wife, who was in the kitchen, took her in his arms and started dancing with her slowly.…
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Dustan Ingenthron • Branson Bible Church • Illustration • • 398 views • 39:24
# Philippians 1:3–8 ## Opening: Paul’s Thanksgiving As we move on this morning in our study of Paul’s letter to the Philippians, we find Paul following his normal pattern of thanksgiving and prayer. This week we will look at his statement of thanksgiving about the Philippians, and next week we will look…
We are all in this together
Gavin Preller • Berea Christian Tabernacle • Illustration • • 19 views
Good morning Brothers and Sisters Our Scripture reading this morning is from 1 John 1 vs 7 "If we walk in the light as He is in the light then We have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin" Cleaning and sanitising have become buzzwords in South Africa and…
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Dustan Ingenthron • Branson Bible Church • Illustration • • 38 views • unknown
# Philippians 3:17–21 ## Opening So far in this chapter Paul has warned against the Judaizers, and any who would place their confidence in who they are, or what they have done and not the finished work of Christ alone. By way of rebuking this idea, Paul gives his own longs list of “fleshly” qualifications…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Steve Jobs was a visionary that launched the age of the personal computer. Before him, computers were unaffordable and enormous—occupying the space of an entire room. Under Jobs' guidance, Apple pioneered revolutionary technologies, including the mouse, the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad. In July 2012,…