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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 15 views
Devotional from David Jeremiah
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 6 views
I know an old friend who used to tell me that for 60 years he had never known a day’s illness. A splendid healthy old man he was, but about three months ago he took typhoid fever. I went to see him, and when he got better he came to see me. He said, “Well, sir, you see I am not the man I was, but I have…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 9 views
I remember a minister calling upon a poor old saint, and before coming away he said he hoped that the Divine Father would constantly visit the sick man. He replied, “I do not want you to ask that the Father should merely visit me, for these many months He has been abiding with me, and I have been abiding…
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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…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 35 views
~ D E A T H ~ WHAT A WONDERFUL WAY TO EXPLAIN IT A sick man turned to his doctor, as he was preparing to leave the examination room and said, "Doctor, I am afraid to die. Tell me what lies on the other side." Very quietly, the doctor said, "I don't know." "You don't know? You, a Christian man, do not…
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 27 views
The V formation formed by migrating geese can teach us many lessons when it comes to believers working together to reach common goals in the church.
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 64 views • unknown
THE IDEAL WIFE Always beautiful and cheerful. Could have married movie stars but wanted only you. Beauty that won’t run in a rainstorm. Never sick. Just allergic to jewelry and fur coats. Insists that moving furniture by herself is good for her figure. Expert in cooking, cleaning the house, fixing the…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 42 views
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…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 27 views
I will never forget Ted Stone
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 38 views
If a man is in business, it is not necessary that he should commit forgery in order to fail; he can fail by simply neglecting his business. If a man is sick, he need not commit suicide by taking poison; he can do it just as surely by neglecting to take proper medicines. So is it in the things of God.…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 27 views
Just as we sometimes see a strong and healthy person growing pale and wan, losing appetite and falling into sickness until he becomes a mere skeleton because a general sapping and undermining of the constitution has come upon him, so have I seen it with Christians. They do not lose life, but they do…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 5 views
When I was visiting one of our sick friends he uttered a sentence that stuck to me. He said, “I have had some education for heaven in attending the Metropolitan Tabernacle.” “How is that?” “Because I have been used to worship with a great company of godly people, used to join in the songs of great multitudes,…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 10 views
Sometimes, when a physician has a sick man before him—suppose it is on board ship—he may have to say to him, “I think I could cure your disease if I could get such-and-such a medicine. But, unfortunately, I do not have the drug within my reach.” Or the doctor might have to say to the sufferer, “I believe…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 22 views
There were two brothers, one of whom had been diligently attentive to his worldly business, to the neglect of true religion. He succeeded in accumulating considerable wealth. The other brother was diligent in the service of the Master, and had learned both to distribute to the poor and for conscience’s…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 374 views
A person talks to me about a certain medicine, how it is compounded, what it looks like, how many drops must be taken at a dose, and so on. Well, I do not care to hear all that, and I soon forget it. But he tells me that for many months he was bedridden, he was in sore distress and in great pain, and…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
7-year-old Connor Wheatley has a severe genetic disorder that requires him to make frequent trips to a medical specialist in New York. In order to cover some of the expenses, his family holds garage sales. They will make another trip soon and recently learned that the family’s airfare will be covered…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 15 views
Glen Campbell, who wrote the lyrics to the song ‘I’m Not Gonna Miss You’?” is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. On their anniversary, his wife Kim blogged, “Thirty-four years is a monumental testament to love, faith, selflessness, and commitment. “ I will always celebrate our family’s life and love…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
The owners of a Michigan butcher shop were horrified when they realized they had misplaced an envelope containing all the day’s receipts. Tim Sobie, owner of Sobie Meats said he and his wife were frantically searching for the misplaced deposit bag after they dropped it somewhere inside or outside the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 26 views
In his book Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God, Timothy Keller says, “Prayer is how God gives us so many of the unimaginable things he has for us. Indeed, prayer makes it safe for God to give us many of the things we most desire. It is the way we know God, the way we finally treat God as…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Theologian Wayne Gruden has announced that he has Parkinson’s and is at peace. He wrote that “he is experiencing diminished fine-motor control, and a neurologist confirmed the diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease.” Gruden hopes to finish two current writing projects and plans to keep teaching as long as…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 15 views
A group of friends hoping to cheer up a friend with cancer was disappointed when the Bible they had been sending around the country got lost in the mail. Friends of Jill Yeager purchased a pink Bible and sent it to friends around the country, asking them to pray for Jill and write an encouraging note…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 43 views
Before the end of the movie, “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,” the Dwarf king, Thorin Oakenshield, has a choice to make. Will he stay in the Lonely Mountain protected by its massive stones gates or will he lead his Dwarven troops into battle and help the Men and Elves overcome the orcs that…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Bloomfield Colorado police officer Carolyn Becker has a special connection to a young man she has never met and has found ways to go above and beyond the call of duty to help him. Becker had wanted to help someone by being a live organ donor. She inquired about one person, but was not a suitable match.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Residents of a Pennsylvania neighborhood decided to decorate a pothole in the road with a Christmas tree because they were tired of waiting for it to be repaired. Marietta Spak was getting Christmas decorations out of the attic and thought some of left over holiday items might look good in the pothole.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
I have a couple of riddles for you today. If someone tells you that they’re telling you the truth, should you believe them? Not necessarily, a liar wouldn’t mind lying straight to your face, while claiming to be truthful. Then if someone tells you they are lying, should you believe them? Of course, it…