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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 7 views
Hell or Parental Responsibility What does God say to a little fellow growing up in a home? He says, “Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord” ( Col. 3:20 ). But wait a minute—what if his parents don’t tell him to do the right things and don’t bring him up the…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 10 views
A Revolutionary Response to God By the mercies of God . . . present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God. Romans 12:1 Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish astronomer, was the one who said the earth revolved around the sun, not vice versa. As revolutionary as the thoughts of Copernicus were…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 179 views
When you can't trace God's hand, you can trust God's heart.
Charles Spurgeon
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 37 views
In the night skies there had long been observed bright masses of light. The astronomers supposed them to be stores of unfashioned chaotic matter—until William Herschel’s telescope resolved them into distinct stars. What the telescope did for stars, the religion of Christ, when received into the heart,…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 225 views
Galatians 6:1 does not mean that we are to spy out our brother’s faults. There is a story of John Wesley going several times to a certain town where he thought that there was a band of earnest Christian people. But he was met by a brother who told him how dead they all were, what little life there was…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 42 views
I have heard of a man who had a dream in which he thought he stood at the gates of heaven, and his wife with him. She went in, but the porter shut him out, saying, “The other day you said to your wife, ‘You may go to church and pray for us both.’ Now she shall go to heaven for you both, and you must…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 12 views
If I send a petition to a man’s door, and then having earnestly asked, or pretended to ask earnestly, I am utterly careless about the answer, I have not treated the man respectfully. If that person should send me a letter in return to my request, and I should not even take the trouble to open it, how…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 12 views
A nurse on the pediatric ward, before listening to the little ones chests, would plug the stethoscope into their ears and let them listen to their own hearts.
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 17 views
God's missing and they think we did it!
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 9 views
Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. James 2:18b Recommended Reading James 2:14-18 Ask the average man or woman on the street what the prerequisite for a person to go to heaven is, and the response you are likely to receive is that he or she must "be a good…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 45 views
Summer is a time for family vacations. I hope none of you have the same experience as the lady in this story.
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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 • • 14 views
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,…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 27 views
I will never forget Ted Stone
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Tyler Pence won the 2021 Quad Cities Marathon with a time of just over 2 hours and 15 minutes. He is the first U.S. runner to win in the past 20 years. However, there is more to the story. The Quad-City Times reported, “Pence’s win came after Elijah Mwangangi Saolo, and Luke Kibet diverted from the course…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Mateusz Fijalkowski, 23 decided it was time to end it all. He attempted to drown himself in a Virginia swimming pool. Police officers rescued him but Fialkowski is suing the officers, not for saving him, but for not saving him soon enough. He is grateful to police officers who rescued him after he tried…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
In the early morning hours of Sunday, November 12, 2007, Marquise Goodwin, wide-receiver of the San Francisco 49ers expected to deliver his son. Instead, his son was delivered stillborn, and what was supposed to be a joyous occasion was marked with sadness. Of course, no one expected him to play in that…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
During a Junior Varsity baseball game, Jake Maser tried to stretach a hit to left center field into a triple. Coach John Suk, the third base coach, seeing the throw coming and the play at third was going to be close, gave Maser the sign to slide. Maser slid but his cleat became stuck, and he suffered…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
If you’ve ever thrown a party you know that few guests stick around to clean up afterward. That’s what makes the Senegal and Japan fans at the 2018 World Cup so unusual. Both teams were underdogs, and both won their matches. As you can imagine, their fans were in no hurry to leave so they could celebrate.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
In Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek writes, “James Sinegal, of Costco, believed he had a greater responsibility to the people who worked for his company than to those who simply profited from their labor. A leader of Marines is taught to put the Marines in their charge before themselves. Every CEO of Southwest…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
The social media network, Facebook has announced that they have developed new tools to help charities raise money, help mark people safe during a crisis, and seek or send help during a crisis. The company made the announcement during a forum designed to show off the tools they are creating to enable…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
The way a single mother from South Carolina used her tax refund inspired thousands of people across the country. Christian Knaack used social media to share the way she decided to use the money she received. Knaack said she received a $5,600 refund and decided to pay her rent for a year. She said that…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 17 views
Technology provides ways to keep track of tasks, but some people still cling to old fashioned ways. One of those people is 24-year-old Claira Hart, who uses an online project management app to communicate with coworkers across the country, but prefers a pen and paper to keep track of her to-do list.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
A Pennsylvania college student got a reminder about taking out the trash when his mother sent him a care package at school. Connor Cox told a local TV station that his mother mailed two boxes to him. The first contained food and other goodies and the second was filled with garbage. When Cox called his…