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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 32 views • unknown
These are great....and should be everywhere...Some new billboards are getting attention in Cleveland. Some reported seeing one or two messages, but the newspaper listed all of them. Here's a list of all variations of the "God Speaks" billboards. The billboards are a simple black background with white…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 8 views
Comparing church activities to the game of football
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 74 views
In January 2000, leaders in Charlotte, North Carolina, invited their favorite son, Billy Graham, to a luncheon in his honor. Billy initially hesitated to accept the invitation because he struggles with Parkinson's disease. But the Charlotte leaders said, "We don’t expect a major address. Just come and…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 177 views
The story of the painting, The Last Supper, is >> > > > > > extremely interesting and instructive. The two >> > > > > > incidents connected with it afford a most convincing >> > > > > > lesson on the effects of right thinking or wrong >> > > > > > thinking in the life of a boy or girl, or of a man >>…
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…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 19 views • unknown
Very moving story
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 16 views
An officer in India had tamed a leopard. From the time when it was quite a kitten he had brought it up, until it went about the house like a cat, and everybody played with it. But he was sitting in his chair one day asleep, and the leopard licked his hand—licked it in all innocence. But as he licked,…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 51 views
A switchman on the railway does not turn the switch the right way, and one train crashes into another, and a hundred lives are lost. He may say to himself, “What a crime I committed by my carelessness,” and everybody denounces him for it. But suppose he forgot to turn the switch, and by a sort of miracle…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 13 views
Men will do far more from love than we might dare to ask as a matter of duty. Napoleon’s soldiers frequently achieved exploits under the influence of fervid attachment for him that no law could have required them to attempt. Had there been cold-blooded orders issued by some domineering officer who said,…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 23 views
We little know how much preservation from falling we owe to our losses and crosses. The story of Sir James Thornhill painting the inside of the cupola of St. Paul’s is probably well known to you. When he had finished one of the compartments, he was stepping backward that he might get a full view of it…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 38 views
It was said of the Persians that, whenever they went to battle, you could hear the sticks of the captains who were beating the soldiers to make them fight, but they won no victories. Look, on the other hand, at the brave Spartan. He was glad at the very thought of fighting; he lived in it. He was a born…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 92 views
To have the form of godliness without the power of it is to lack constancy in your religion. It is a very hot and thirsty day, and you are riding on a camel. Suddenly there rises before you a beautiful scene. Just a little way from you are brooks of water flowing between beds of osiers and banks of reeds…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 37 views
A swift young man, out of the ranks of the victors, runs with all speed to the city, rushes through the gate, into the marketplace, and proclaims to the assembled people the welcome news: “Our country is victorious; our commander is crowned with laurels.” That young man is the forerunner of the victorious…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 560 views
The ship may not need an anchor in calm waters; when upon a broad ocean a little drifting may not be a very serious matter. But there are conditions of weather in which an anchor becomes altogether essential. When a gale is rushing toward the shore, blowing great guns, and the vessel cannot hold her…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 32 views
Many years ago a captain was sent out in one of the government ships, the Thetis, to discover a shoal, a rock, or some other obstruction said to exist in the Mediterranean Sea. The captain was an old salt who knew little about navigation as a science and cared less for rules, books, theories, and so…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Animal rescuers rushed to a Singapore home after a woman called them because she thought she heard a cobra hissing in her bathroom. When the woman called the emergency number, she sent the team a recording of the noise she heard, which they believed could be the sound of a deadly black spitting cobra,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
While a North Dakota farmer was harvesting his wheat and canola, the combine he was using caught fire. Lane Unhjem went into cardiac arrest and was rushed to the hospital. While he was recovering, 60 neighboring farmers showed up at his place, determined not to let his crops go to waste. With 11 combines,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Many people like to start the day with a hot shower or a cup of coffee. A survey conducted by One Poll, found many Americans report they no longer have a set morning routine and as a result they experience feelings of confusion each day, and 81 percent say they feel “off.” The company that commissioned…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Sisters Susan and Kim Churchwell were worried when they discovered that their 8-year-old emu had escaped by unlatching a gate. They asked neighbors to watch for the big flightless bird. The next day a neighbor reported seeing a large bird running through the sprinkler in their yard, so the family rushed…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Melissa and Gene Work were rushing to finish required yard work to avoid a fine from their homeowner’s association when Gene had a heart attack and collapsed. His wife called paramedics who rushed him t the hospital for care. On the way, the man kept asking his wife to keep the grass from dying and the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Evidence from a study conducted at Ohio State University suggests the best way to discover a person’s true nature is to put them in a time-critical situation. Researchers found that an individual’s traits become more noticeable when they are forced to make a quick decision. Results of the study revealed…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
An enterprising youngster from Minnesota was looking to get some candy. He wanted candy, and he wanted it now. So this 4-year-old boy took his great-grandpa’s SUV and took a joyride to the store. Sebastian Swenson backed the car out of a driveway and drove 1½ miles down a four-lane road at 15 mph during…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Transportation Safety Authority officials said the amount of money left behind by travelers as they hurry through screening checkpoints continues to add up. In 2018, the dimes, quarters, nickels and pennies totaled almost one million dollars. The unclaimed money is currently deposited into a special…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
States are approving new forms of gambling. Lotteries turned out not to provide enough state revenue. The next step is legalizing online sports gambling. Since New Jersey approved this form of gambling, hotlines for gambling addicts in the state have received 21 percent more calls involving sports betting.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Richard Mayer was a brand new police recruit working at his very first shift. He and his partner took a lunch break at the local Chick-fil-A. A young mother in the restaurant, Melanie Hasse, rushed up to the officers and said her 15-month-old daughter was choking on a piece of apple. Mayer jumped to…