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Reflections Podcasts
Rosemary Laxton • Meanwood Valley Baptist Church • Illustration • • 42 views • 15:55
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 66 views
God recently allowed me to see Jesus through the eyes of someone seeing Him for the first time. Having the advantage of knowing how the story ends, we can easily forget the cost of our redemption and the love of
our Savior.
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 22 views
The greatest evangelist of the Twentieth Century, without question, was Billy Graham. The greatest evangelist before him of the Nineteenth Century undoubtedly was Dwight L. Moody. Both shared a common trait. They were criticized because of a particular subject they preached about. When Billy Graham was…
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 33 views
An illustration from Dr. James Merritt
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 21 views
God snatches victory from the jaws of defeat in each of our lives!
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 13 views
In the olden times of imprisonment for debt, it would have been quite correct for you to step into the cell of a debtor and say to him, “I have freed you,” if you had paid his debts and obtained an order for his discharge. But he is still in prison! Yes, but you really liberated him as soon as you paid…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 26 views
I saw the other day a remarkable picture, which I shall use as an illustration of the way of salvation by faith in Jesus. An offender had committed a crime for which he must die, but it was in the olden time when churches were considered to be sanctuaries in which criminals might hide themselves and…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 13 views
You may have seen a deep mountain lake that has been filled to the brim by innumerable streamlets from all the hillsides round about. Here comes a torrent gushing down, and there trickles from the moss that has overgrown the rock a little drip, drip, drip, which falls perpetually. Great and small tributaries…
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 24 views
I will never forget Ted Stone
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 33 views
If your house were on fire, you would rejoice to hear that the fire engines were coming down the street. You would feel an absolute certainty that they were coming to you, because your house was in a blaze if no one’s else might be. If there were appointed today a commissioner for the relief of such…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 6 views
Who among us can tell all the perils of this mortal life? I remember reading a work in which there were collected together numerous instances of the simple means by which men have died, such as the swallowing of a fruit stone, or the sticking of a small bone in the throat, the breathing of some invisible…
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 • • 4 views
An unusual pair of glasses rescued from a landfill in New Zealand turned out to be more than 300 hundred years old and were worth more than the finders imagined. The Tip Shop is a store operated by the city council of Wellington and often auctions unusual items rescued from the trash. The glasses were…
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 • • 10 views
In the aftermath Natural Disasters, people often asked "where is God?" Many people think that God is absent or has left them because of the devastation. One response to that has to do with action rather than talking. The Southern Baptist Disaster Relief teams respond with urgency to the affected areas…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
A spokesperson for the Manitoba library in Canada said employees were surprised to find a magazine in the return slot that had been checked out in June 1975. The Winnipeg Public library said a 1975 issue of Car Craft Magazine had been placed in the return bin. The card inside revealed the magazine was…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
In Everyone’s Favorite Space Cowboy, Din Djarin, is fleeing from a post-imperial attack aimed at seizing from him the precious little asset known as “the Child,” who’s often colloquially referred to as “baby Yoda.” As the Mandalorian and his posse make their way to a secret hideout, they discover his…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet dissident who suffered in a gulag before fleeing to the United States knew that some pain—whether physical, mental, or emotional—can be severe and chronic. Christians know that avoiding suffering is impossible in a sinful world. We are reminded that it was the sufferings…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
When an elementary aged boy called 911, complaining that he was hungry and asking for a pizza, he got a surprise visit from local authorities. The unidentified boy called the Sanford, Florida 911 operator and asked if they could send a pizza over. The department sent three officers to the home instead…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
In the Disney movie “A wrinkle in time” a young boy and his sister are taken on a trip to save the father from the destruction of “The It.” Their guides fly them through the universe to a far away planet with beautiful landscapes such as they had never seen. As they move through the scenery they are…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 15 views
A life wracked with teenage angst and the horrors that await many in the trials of the modern American High School is the setting for the book, Thirteen Reasons Why, which has been made into a Netflix Series by the same name. Hannah Baker has done the unthinkable; she has ended her own life, rather than…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
A new initiative in Egypt allows residents to redeem their trash for extra cash. Many Egyptians stood in line in the capital city of Cairo carrying bags of old books, plastic water bottles, and other recyclable materials to exchange for extra money. The country was seeking a way to reduce huge piles…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
El Capitan is a legendary mountain in Yosemite National Park. It boasts a 3,000 foot vertical granite wall that attracts elite climbers from around the world. It was first climbed in 1958, and it took 46 days of climbing spread over 16 months. Today the average climber takes several days to complete…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
In the movie The Lion King, Simba, the baby lion, takes his friend Nala to the Elephant Graveyard. Although this was strictly forbidden by his father, Simba laughs at the face of danger in order to impress his friend. Once there, they are chased by the dangerous hyenas and eventually get cornered. In…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 14 views
Orlando was an 11-year-old Arizona boy who had spent years in a Mexican orphanage before winding up in foster care in Phoenix, AZ. When he joined Jodi Kacz’s reading intervention class the teacher took a shine to Orlando. Kacz had a heart problem that kept her from having her own children but when she…