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Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 378 views
When John Philpot, the martyr, was addressing a young man about to die for Christ, he said to him, “Brother, you are a vessel in the great house of your Master, and this day he will scour you, scour you hard, but remember you will soon stand upon the shelf, shining bright and glorious.” Sometimes pains,…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 9 views
God could not accept any sacrifice that was touched with the golden tongs or that lay upon the brazen altar so long as those golden tongs and the brazen altar were imperfect. What was done to make them perfect? Why, they were sprinkled with blood; but they had to be sprinkled with blood ever so many…
Spurgeon Commentary
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…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
In June 2018, Anthony Bourdain, a celebrity chef, committed suicide. With his death, many other celebrities expressed their sadness and the full-range of his influence. Although the cause for his suicide is not clear, Bourdain is known to have battle many addictions, and many believed that the world…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Christians have been fighting pornography for a long time. Many times they have been ridiculed for their beliefs that pornography is evil. Now, non-Christians are discovering the harm it causes. Gail Dines is a self-described radical feminist who wants pornography stopped. She speaks with the fervor…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
In “A Life of Purity,” Dallas Bivins writes, “Jesus attacked the lustful thoughts of the head and heart, not the actions of the hand. The head and heart is where we begin to dehumanize another person into an object of sin. Whereas love accepts, heals, and respects, lust demands and controls. Lust is…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Apparently, in some states in the USA, it is still illegal to engage in unmarried sex . . . or fornication. The democratic led Virginia State Legislature recently repealed the “crime of fornication” in their state, a legal loophole still on the books that states only married couples could have sex. Currently…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 23 views
In some places, men are becoming more open about viewing highly explicit material in public. On buses, trains, subways, just about anywhere men are opening their cellphones and watching hard-core pornography. In England, a parliamentary committee recently concluded that porn is as damaging to society…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Ashwag Hajihamid is a young Yazidi woman who was abducted by ISIS and sold into slavery in Iraq back in 2014. She escaped Iraq and fled to Germany. All was well until one day in Germany when she encountered the man that had enslaved her. “I ran away from Iraq so I would not see that ugly face and forget…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 14 views
In, The Gospel Driven Life: Being Good News People in a Bad News World, Michael Horton, writes that society “. . . may not catechize us at gunpoint, but its relentless bombardment wears down our defenses.” The world has many allurements that can get Christians off course. We must learn to hold up Jesus…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Dayton Moore is the general manager of the Kansas City Royals. He is battling to educate his young players on the harm pornography does both to the players themselves and to the women they love. Surprisingly he is getting pushback, not from the team but from people in the porn industry, some sports journalists,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 15 views
In the movie, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings there is a classic scene where Frodo, Sam, Merry, Pippin, Legolas, Gimli, Boromir, Aragorn, and Gandalf the wizard are traveling through the Mines of Moria when they are suddenly attacked by a giant and maleficent beast known as a Balrag.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 17 views
Police in Connecticut say they were surprised when a man charged with stealing a television set twenty-seven years ago flew all the way from Florida and turned himself in. When 60-year-old Randy Iannacone heard that there was a warrant for his arrest, he immediately turned himself in. At the police station,…
Romans
Rev. Bruce Goettsche • Union Church of La Harpe Illinois • Illustration • • 428 views
Imagine going to Chicago on a business trip. You have a bunch of meetings and have plans to fly out right after your last meeting to meet your family in some great vacation spot. Your meetings run late and you know it is going to be a challenge to get to the airport and get checked in so you can make…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 2 views
It started simply for Danielle Shea, a Quinnipiac University student. When her tuition money from her parents arrived, she kept the money but dropped out of school. Her scheme worked until it was time for graduation. To keep her parents from discovering her dishonesty, she went a step further. She called…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 8 views
Broken cisterns are idols, God-substitutes. They are the spiritual hot dogs we ingest on the way to God’s banquet. They dull and eventually kill our appetite for the deep and nourishing richness of his holy fare. Like the Turkish delight the witch gives to Edmund in C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 97 views
How often have you been fooled into thinking that sin will make you satisfied? That whatever consequences come, they can’t compare to the happiness that sin promises. We become blinded in our sin sometimes, don’t we? There’s a scene in the book, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” where Edmund has…
Pastor Brad Berglund • Illustration • • 76 views
Background: This is an excerpt from an unpublished book by Brad Berglund. It explores the Christian adage: Wise men still seek him. What would it be like if modern seekers were with the wise men when they worshiped Jesus? Previously, Brought-Low had expressed his fears to a Pharisee in the temple (click…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
In an editorial in the weekly magazine, The Week, editor James Graff points to several recent studies that show parasites in our systems may provide evolutionary reasons for many human actions. For example, a microbe called Toxoplasma gondii, found in the brains of as many as 20% of Americans make us…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Donna Rice was the woman involved in the 1987 scandal that ended the presidential hopes of Gary Hart. Her testimony is one of biblical proportions. Growing up as a Christian, serving as a summer missionary, Donna admits that late in her college career she began to make little wrong turns and ended up…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Sexting is described as exchanging sexual communications over the internet or via cell phones. The ethical question this raises is sexting while involved in a relationship with another, cheating? --The Week, July 1-8, 2011 p. 17 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell There is no question how…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 25 views
In the fifth century, a monk named Telemachus wanted to live his life in pursuit of God, so he lived alone in the desert praying, fasting, and meditating. That was the custom, of his day. Truly spiritual people went out to be totally alone in the desert so that they could give themselves fully to God.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
In their book, Conquer Your Fear, Share Your Faith: An Evangelism Crash Course, Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort write, “We all know that it's wise to keep a check on our flesh for skin cancer. What may look small on the surface may be a network of death beneath the skin. The same applies spiritually. One…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Jerry Maestas drove his car for three days with a passenger, Amy Marquez, who had none of the signs of life. Finally, he drove her to an emergency room where she was pronounced dead. “I don’t know how he didn’t know” (she was dead) said police Lt. Christian Lopez. “There were flies all over.” --The Week,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
Technology has its good and bad sides. Technology has placed pornography at the fingertips of the young and old alike. On the other hand, some people are making good use of modern technology for spreading the Word of God and some humanitarian purposes. How it is used, is a matter of choice. --http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wardx278/1301_03/2008/09/technology_good_or_bad_by_nick.html…