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Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 55 views
Perhaps there is nothing so heartrending as royalty despised. There is a story of an English king who was taken out by his cruel enemies to a ditch. They seated him on an anthill, telling him that was his throne, and then they washed his face in the filthiest puddle they could find. But think of the…
Easter
Lee E. Wonch • Tallin Church • Illustration • • 14 views
Puppets Roger and Stella discuss Palm Sunday.
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
On October 13, 2012 Los Angeles experienced a once in a lifetime opportunity. It was the space shuttle Endeavor transported southbound on Crenshaw Blvd and then eastbound on Martin Luther King Blvd. The crowds were enormous and people came from miles around. Many slept in their cars overnight to experience…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
A maximum security penitentiary in Louisiana has allowed the inmates to produce and perform a passion play called The Life of Jesus Christ. It has changed the atmosphere of the prison, once known as “America’s bloodiest prison.” Inmates are discovering the gospel message in the Life of Christ. This is…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 20 views
In 1993, Lt. Col. Gary Morsch joined the Army Reserves as a doctor to care not only for U.S. soldiers, but also for wounded civilians and prisoners of war. In 2005, as a part of the war in Iraq, he was called up to serve as the field doctor for a battalion near the Iranian border. He would take care…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
Palm Sunday On Palm Sunday the crowds cried out " "Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord," and on Good Friday they cried, "Let Him be crucified." How could they turn so fast? Some scholars suggest that the first crowd was primarily Gentile and the second one primarily Jewish, thus…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 35 views
A new study from the Barna organization indicates that as American society becomes more religiously diverse; there is more confusion over what the Easter holiday is all about. When asked what Easter meant to them personally, a majority of Americans said they believed there is a spiritual connection to…
Illustration • • 7 views
Former Miss USA Shanna Moakler, who is now the director of the Miss California USA pageant, spent the last few weeks in Las Vegas actively promoting her pageant princess, Carrie Prejean. But Moakler and her business partner, Keith Lewis, a strong activist against Proposition 8, were so infuriated over…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Worry I didn't sleep well all night. Our alarm clock broke a few weeks ago and we haven't gotten around to replacing it. "No big deal," I told Susan, "I'll just set the television to come on at 6:30 and it will wake us up." She agreed, and I congratulated myself on saving $5.99 for a new clock. The only…
Benjamin Kurz • Illustration • • 111 views
On Jesus way to Jerusalem (to die), He had to pass through the same desert in which He was tempted. Maybe Satan's temptations rang in His ears..."maybe there's another way..." Jesus last words to His disciples before coming this way was "we need to confront the gates of Hell." When Jesus entered Jerusalem,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 1,127 views
The Passover When a Jewish boy turned twelve, He was "a son of the law," taking on the full obligations of the law. If Jesus had lived within 20 miles of Jerusalem, it would have been His obligation to attend the Passover feast, but He didn't, He lived in Nazareth, about 60 miles from Jerusalem. But…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
Juan Zamora of Richland, Washington owed a bill he could not pay for a charge he did not make. After filling up with gasoline and charging the $26 to his PayPal debit card, he arrived home to a message on his answering machine. The message, from PayPal asked him to verify a gas purchase of $81,400,836,908…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 195 views
WORTH Do you like watching the Antique's Road Show? On those shows, an expert on antiques looks at a person's prize possession and places a monetary value upon it. The value varies based upon its condition, uniqueness or who owned it. But ultimately, value is determined by the amount someone is willing…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 17 views
Fickle What was the mood in the upper room at the Last Supper? When I close my eyes and try to imagine the evening, all I can see is da Vinci's painting. (Why did they all sit on the same side of the table?) My art critique aside, I would imagine it was a very serious evening. Jesus dramatically showed…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
VICARIOUS SUBSTITUTION Denival Santos, an unemployed baker’s assistant spent three months in prison posing as convicted robber Rene Coelho Honorato. Santos told police he had wrecked Honorato’s motorcycle and decided to impersonate him to cover the $275 dollars for repairs. While Santos sat in prison,…
Jeff Brown • Illustration • • 115 views
Biographical Sketch R. Albert Mohler, Jr. (born 1960) is an Southern Baptist, evangelical Calvinist. He presently serves as the ninth President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He has been a member of the board of James Dobson's Focus on the Family since August 31, 2004.[1]…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 3 views
Five years ago, chairs, iron bars, and fists flew on the roof of one of the most revered sites in Christianity, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. When the dust cleared, 7 Ethiopian Orthodox monks and 4 Egyptian (Coptic) monks had been injured. The fight started when an Egyptian monk decided…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 10 views
PAUSE FORA PROMISE Text: "For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you." Scripture: John 13:12-20 (RSV) by David Sorensen* 1 wo American planes were flying separate missions in Viet Nam protecting the border. As the two aircraft came within twenty miles of each other,…
Stephen Hustedde • Illustration • • 340 views
Daniel 9:24-27 “Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy place. “So you are to know and discern…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 7 views
| LAUGHTER,THE BEST MEDICINE | | ILLUSTRATION: MENHY SW6HS0N | The cardinal was approached one day in the cathedral by a very excited young curate. "Your Eminence," he cried, "a woman claims to have just seen a vision of the Saviour in the chapel behind the main altar. What should we do?" "Look busy,"…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 27 views
A SURGEON LOOKS AT THE CROSS An interview with James HyJand Jewell, Jr., M.D., F.A.C.S. of Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania by Mrs. Patricia A. Didden. In addition to other experience Dr. JeweJ] served from 1965 to 1967 as Assistant Resident and Chief Resident, Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University…
Rich DeRuiter • Illustration • • 19 views
Margaret Sangster Phippen wrote that in the mid 1950s her father, British minister W. E. Sangster, began to notice some uneasiness in his throat and a dragging in his leg. When he went to the doctor, he found that he had an incurable disease that caused progressive muscular atrophy. His muscles would…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 55 views
the pastor's story file a resource file for pastors/teachers/speakers THEME: Easter/Resurrection April / 1987 READY FOR RESURRECTION MORNING A true story is told about a distinguished man, the only white person buried in a Georgia cemetery reserved exclusively for blacks. He had lost his mother when…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 31 views
the pastor's story file a resource file for pastors/teachers/speakers THEME: Angels March / 1987 "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." Hebrews 13:2 IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE ANGELS Have you ever seen an angel? Dr. S. W. Mitchell thought he had. Dr.…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 96 views
the pastor's story file a resource file for pastors/teachers/speakers THEME: Forgiveness — II Number 18 — April / 1986 WORDS ON AN EPITAPH As Copernicus, the great astronomer, was dying, a copy of his great book, The Revolution of the Heavenly Bodies, was placed in his hands. But it was not his brilliant…