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Pastor Joker • Narrow Path Church • Illustration • • 35 views • 1:38
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 32 views
You who are parents know that you do not make your children offenders for a word. When they first learn to talk to you, they pronounce their words very imperfectly, and make many blunders. They break all the rules of grammar, and their prattle is often so indistinct that strangers who come to your house…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 46 views
I might illustrate the willfulness of many a supplication by that of a little boy who was very diligent in saying his prayers, but was at the same time disobedient, ill-tempered, and the pest of the house. His mother told him that she thought it was mere hypocrisy for him to pretend to pray. He replied,…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 82 views
We ought to pray with thanksgiving in its highest of all senses, by thanking God that we have the mercy which we seek. I wish we could learn this high virtue of faith. When I was conversing lately with our dear friend George Müller, he frequently astonished me with the way in which he mentioned that…
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 6 views
FIRST PERSON - Religiously correct prayer: The secular left goes berserk By R. Albert Mohler Jr. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--As expected, the inaugural ceremonies for President George W. Bush opened and closed with prayer. Unexpectedly, the prayers have ignited controversy and unleashed a firestorm of histrionics…
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 10 views
Here's a message that will bring you chills. Have you ever felt the urge to pray for someone and then just put it on a list and said, "I'll pray for them later?" Or has anyone ever called you and said, "I need you to pray for me, I have this need?" A missionary on furlough told this true story while…
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 5 views
This is a statement that was read over the PA system at the football game at Roane County High School, Kingston , Tennessee , by school Principal, Jody McLeod. "It has always been the custom at Roane County High School football games, to say a prayer and play the National Anthem, to honor God and Country."…
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 14 views • unknown
THE LORD'S PRAYER (Could be a skit for worship) Rather cleverly done. This is in two parts, The Prayer (in blue or black type) and GOD (in red type) in response. It is very, very good. ********** Our Father Who Art In Heaven. Yes? Don't interrupt me. I'm praying. But -- you called ME! Called you? No,…
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 57 views
CHURCH HUMOR Adam and Eve had an ideal marriage. He didn't have to hear about all the men she could have married, and she didn't have to hear about the way his mother cooked. ***** An elderly woman died last month. Having never married, she requested no male pallbearers. In her handwritten instructions…
Illustrations
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…
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 8 views
KIDS IN CHURCH 3-year-old Reese: "Our Father, Who does art in heaven, Harold is His name. Amen." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A little boy was overheard praying: "Lord, if you can't make me a better boy, don't worry about it. I'm having a real good time like I am." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 8 views
Comparing church activities to the game of football
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 5 views
> >> > > >This was written by a teen in Bagdad, Arizona. > >> > > > > >> > > >Now I sit me down in school > >> > > >Where praying is against the rule > >> > > >For this great nation under God > >> > > >Finds mention of Him very odd. > >> > > > > >> > > >If Scripture now the class recites, > >> > > >It…
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 13 views
Use your imagination and consider the situation as it developed in the U. of Kentucky and U. of Georgia football game as few years ago. Time was running out. Kentucky was leading, but Georgia had the ball as the final seconds ticked away. Georgia was in field goal distance for the accurate toe of their…
Quotes
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 11 views • unknown
From: Jim Meigs from FBC, Center Point, Alabama
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 8 views
EXPLANATION OF GOD:
(Written by an 8-year-old in California)
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 8 views • unknown
May God Bless You with unspeakable joy, not only in the world to come, but in this world also. May your path be bright and full of light everywhere you go. May God tell darkness that it must flee at your command. And, I pray your feet will never stumble out of God's plan. May the desires of your heart…
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 30 views
When I was a young Christian, during my teen years, I remember praying for the salvation of my parents. At the time I was also wrestling with the call to ministry, the call to preach. I tried in my prayers to bargain with God. I told him, “If you save my parents, then I will accept your call to preach.”…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 15 views • unknown
Devotional from David Jeremiah
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 24 views
From Max Lucado, "A Gentle Thunder"
Poetry
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 15 views
This poem was given to me, quoted to me actually while serving an interim at the Pritchard Memorial Baptist Church in Charlotte, NC. This dear elderly lady was a resident of a local nursing home during that time (c. 1978-1979). The pastor of the church and I visited with her and when she learned that I was preparing for a career in ministry, but attended a Methodist College (Wofford, Spartanburg, SC) she was greatly concerned that I do not leave the Baptist denomination to become a Methodist
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 182 views
Sunday is a comin’!
(by S.M. Lockridge)
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 14 views
"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…