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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 33 views
Butterfly A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could, and it could…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 88 views
Had Abraham stopped in Ur of the Chaldees with his friends and rested there and enjoyed himself, where would his faith have been? He had God’s command to leave his country to go to a land that he had never seen, to sojourn there with God as a stranger, dwelling in tents, and in his obedience to that…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 26 views • unknown
Poem by Annie Johnson Flint
Poetry
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 30 views
We are to consider Him—consider Him in His person, consider Him in His performance, His work upon the cross. Someone has put it poetically: When the storm is raging high, When the tempest rends the sky, When my eyes with tears are dim, Then, my soul, consider Him. When my plans are in the dust, When…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 41 views
When a ship first leaves the stocks it is well for it to go on a trial trip, but to have a ship always being tried would be very absurd. It is time that it took voyages in earnest, and was registered in the merchant service; there will be trial enough in the actual execution of service. Some Christians,…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 221 views
There was a crest and motto that some of the old Reformers used to use, and that I commend to any of you who are under trial. It was an anvil with a number of hammers, all broken, lying around; and this was the motto when translated, “The anvil breaks many hammers.” And how does it do this? Not by striking:…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 62 views
You might be the possessor of a large estate, and an adversary might contest your right to it, and you might not be able to find your title deeds. The estate might be yours clearly enough, but those deeds of yours might be mislaid and locked up in a forgotten drawer, and perhaps you might be sorely put…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 60 views
The man that has seen affliction, when he is blessed of God, has the disposition to cheer those that are afflicted. I have heard speak of a lady who was out in the snow one night, and was so very cold that she cried out, “Oh, those poor people that have such a little money! How little fuel they have,…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 10 views
God sometimes gives His people fresh promises by faith just before a trial is about to come upon them. It was so with Elijah. God said to him, “Go to the Wadi Kerith; I have commanded the crows to sustain you there” (1 Kings 17:4). This was at the beginning of the famine. There he stayed, and God fulfilled…
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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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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 4 views
Turn to Acts 12, where you have the record of Peter lying asleep in the prison, watched by soldiers. And yet at the dead of night, an angel of the Lord came into the prison, smote Peter on the side, bade him bind on his sandals and gird himself, and follow him. Peter went through all the doors of the…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 60 views
One reason God has a poor people is so that He may display more the power of His comforting promises and the supports of the gospel. “There,” says the architect, “this building is strong.” Yes, but it must be tested: Let the wind blow against it. There is a lighthouse out at sea, but it is a calm night—I…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 20 views
A man goes to work to make money, and after toiling hard for it he gets it and it is a consolation to him. But it is not an everlasting consolation, for he may spend or he may lose all his money. He may invest it in some company (limited or unlimited) and very soon find it vanish or he may be compelled…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 557 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…
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Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 15 views
New evidence is sometimes brought into court that completely changes the aspect of the case. If you have been on a jury, you would not like to tell your fellow jurors how many times you have changed your mind while you have heard the evidence. If you have listened attentively, I expect you have had half…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
According to Open Doors, In 2020 there were: • Over 340 million Christians living in places where they might experience persecution and discrimination • 4,761 Christians martyred • 4,488 churches and other Christian buildings attacked • 4,277 believers detained without trial, arrested, sentenced or imprisoned.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Scientists constructed the “biosphere 2” to learn more about how our planet’s systems work. One of their discoveries was unexpected. They learned that trees grew quicker in the biosphere, but because there was no wind they would fall under their own weight before they could completely mature. Without…
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 9 views
That old oak in the forest is one of the noblest works of God. Look at it bursting into full leaf, bearing well its verdant honors, and making a picture worthy of the artist’s rarest skill. What are these dry pieces of wood that strew the ground beneath it? What are these large branches that rot under…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
In Measure What Matters Most, John Doerr writes “Andy Grove was accustomed to having the last word, so let’s give it to him here. ‘Bad companies,’ Andy wrote, ‘are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great companies are improved by them.’ —Measure What Matters Most, 46. James 1:2–4 (CSB)…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Dan Schoenthal dreamed of hiking the Appalachian Trail for years. When he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2015, his goal became more urgent. In 2020, Schoenthal hiked the first 300 miles of the 2200-mile trail just to see if he could do it. His goal is to finish his quest, six years after his…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Gosnell, The Trial of America’s biggest serial killer, is an independent film covering the trial and conviction of Kermit Gosnell, an American Physician, who owned and operated an abortion clinic for over three decades. Through an uphill battle, the film made its way to the public eye during the fall…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
One of the main responsibilities inherent in rearing children is protecting them from harm. In Oregon, a father was molesting his daughter. At a men’s accountability group in his church he confessed to a group and was willing “to repent of his sins.” A member of the group alerted police, who charged…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 44 views
In early 2015, doctors diagnosed Mark Hall with kidney cancer. Before the news, he was on top of the world. His band, Casting Crowns had experienced great success in the recent months and years, his family was doing well, the accolades were stacking up, but none of that prepared him to hear those three…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
The apostle Paul, in 1 Corinthians 6:1-8, informs us of the right way for Christians to settle disputes – that is actually better for us to suffer wrong, or be defrauded, rather than pursue litigation. Unfortunately, not everyone pays heed to that advice—Jim L. Wilson and Derick Wilson David Ostram,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
The Roxy 8 multiplex theater in Dickson, Tenn., has made the decision not to use profanity on their signs. When the movie Hellboy was showing at the theater they changed the sign to read Heckboy. The manager “Belinda Daniel, explained that the theater does not use “profanity” on signs. “We are located…